There have been many productive methods developed so far for optimization of multiple response surface (MRS) problems. This paper tends to review the most seminal approaches in MRS and discuss the strength and weakness of each of the approaches through existing aspects in MRS. A numerical example is included to compare results by different methods. Finally some of the prominent areas for future...

The motivation for this work is to propose a first thorough review of dough rheological models used in numerical applications. Although many models have been developed to describe dough rheological characteristics, few of them are employed by researchers in numerical applications. This article reviews them in detail and attempts to provide new insight into the use of dough rheological models.

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We present the Jinan Chinese Learner Corpus, a large collection of L2 Chinese texts produced by learners that can be used for educational tasks. The present work introduces the data and provides a detailed description. Currently, the corpus contains approximately 6 million Chinese characters written by students from over 50 different L1 backgrounds. This is a large-scale corpus of learner Chine...

INSEPTEMBER 2007, we published the article ‘‘Chinese Nutrition Educational Materials for Renal Patients’’ in the Journal of Renal Nutrition, which featured the 8 nutrition handouts in Chinese that we developed for the renal program at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Since then, we have received numerous requests from dietitians and nephrologists to share our Chinese ...

Tradition Medicines as the name implies have been a cultural age long healing remedy practiced over the year and improved by casual and unformulated experiments, or in some case are totally forgotten with the passing away of the partition in cases where record have not been kept especially skin and bone related cancers with the use of traditional herbal formula and cultural approaches that need...

Procambarus clarkii crayfish has been developed as an excellent animal model to study the characteristics and pathogenesis of white spot syndrome virus and the host defense mechanisms of crustacean. However, due to pathogen infections of crayfish in Chinese farms, research based on this model has been slowed down. Using triplex polymerase chain reaction, we found the virulence Aeromonas hydroph...

Virology is a growing field within Australia. Increased funding is being allocated to discovering how viruses interact with their host/vectors(s) and to the development of better treatments and vaccines. There have been many recent exciting new developments in Australian virology. Space limitations mean that we can only highlight a small number of these achievements in this brief overview of th...

Many Chinese doctors are familiar with and have experiences in treating stroke with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), such as herb medicines, acupuncture, massage and moxibustion. Although TCM has been performed in China in stroke prevention and treatment for more then 3,000 years, the efficacy and safety of these strategies need to be measured by the standards of evidence-based medicine. To ...