Received 1/22/2007; revised 2/8/2007; accepted 2/9/2007. For correspondence or reprints contact: Wan-Yu Lin, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, 160 Section 3, Taichung Harbor Road, Taichung 407, Taiwan. Tel: (886)4-23741349, Fax: (886)4-23741348, E-mail: [email protected] We present an asymptomatic 51-year-old man who underwent a FDG-PET scan as a part of...

Received 4/5/2006; revised 6/20/2006; accepted 6/23/2006. For correspondence or reprints contact: Ren-Shyan Liu, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 201 Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 112, Taiwan. Tel: (886)2-28757301 ext. 299, Fax: (886)2-28749431, E-mail: [email protected] Tuberculosis of the central nervous system accounts for about 5% of extrapulmonar...

We explored the relationship between organizational culture and deployment of software process improvement (SPI) approaches using a competing values framework. Our results indicated that the organizational culture had an influence on SPI deployment, primarily made possible by a hierarchic culture with its emphasis on procedures, order, and stability. Clan culture, with its emphasis on human dev...

Received 4/4/2001; revised 5/1/2001; accepted 5/9/2001. For correspondence or reprints contact: Chia-Hung Kao, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, China Medical College Hospital, 2, Yuh-Der Road, Taichung 404, Taiwan. Tel: (886)4-22052121 ext. 1424/4002, Fax: (886)4-22023442 E-mail: [email protected] Positron emission tomography (PET) with fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) is a nonin...

Received 10/12/2006; revised 11/15/2006; accepted 11/16/2006. For correspondence or reprints contact: Shin-Cheh Chen, M.D., Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 5 Fu-Shin Street, Kueishan, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan. Tel: (886)3-3281200 ext. 2620, Fax: (886)3-2110052, E-mail: [email protected] Immunocompromised patients undergoing long-term steroid therapy may be afflicted ...

This paper studies companies that have a controlling shareholder. In particular, it examines the relationship between firm performance and its controlling shareholder’s personal loan. We present a model to identify two effects of a personal loan that is secured by stocks. The loan can be beneficial ex ante, because it relaxes the wealth constraint of controlling shareholders and allows firms to...

Received 6/8/2004; revised 8/10/2004; accepted 8/15/2004. For correspondence and reprints contact: Shiou-Chi Cherng, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, 325 Section 2, Cheng-Kung Road, Neihu, Taipei 114, Taiwan. Tel: (886)2-87927121, Fax: (886)2-87927217, E-mail: [email protected] We present a case of Gorham’s disease of the skull by using Tc-MDP bone SPECT-...

1 reinnervation of transplanted islets under the kidney capsule 2 3 Jyuhn-Huarng Juang, Shih-Jung Peng, Chien-Hung Kuo, and Shiue-Cheng Tang 4 5 Running title: 3D imaging of islet graft sympathetic reinnervation 6 7 1 Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung 8 Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan 33302, Taiwan 9 2 Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, C...

Received 7/11/2002; revised 8/21/2002; accepted 8/28/2002. For correspondence or reprints contact: Por-Jau Huang, M.D., Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital. 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan Tel: (886) 2-23123456 ext. 5031, Fax: (886)2-23957855, E-mail: porjau @ ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw A 52-year-old man with normal atrioventricular (AV...

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF AMINOACYLHISTIDINE DIPEPTIDASE FROM VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS REVEAL A NEW ARCHITECTURE OF M20 METALLOPEPTIDASES Chin-Yuan Chang, Yin-Cheng Hsieh, Ting-Yi Wang, Yi-Chin Chen, Yu-Kuo Wang, Ting-Wei Chiang , Yi-Ju Chen, Cheng-Hsiang Chang, Chun-Jung Chen*, and Tung-Kung Wu* Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsi...