BACKGROUND In this study, exposure refers to survivors who suffered from life-changing situations, such as personal injuries, the deaths or injury of family members, relatives or friends or the loss of or damage to personal or family property, as a result of the earthquake. The mediating effect of risk perception on the exposure and psychological health in survivors from the Longmen Shan Fault ...

Author details Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, 6, West Section, Chia-Pu Road, Pu-Tz City 613Chia-Yi Hsien, Taiwan. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, No. 123, DAPI Rd. Niaosng Dist., Kaohsiung City 83301, Taiwan. Chang Gung University, 259 Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan. Po-Cheng Orthopedic Insti...

The Lie-Group Shooting Method for Nonlinear Two-Point Boundary Value Problems Exhibiting Multiple Solutions Chein-Shan Liu1 Summary The present paper provides a Lie-group shooting method for the numerical solutions of second-order nonlinear boundary value problems exhibiting multiple solutions. It aims to find all solutions as easy as possible. The boundary conditions considered are classified ...

By Shan Zhao, M.S. Washington State University August 2006 Chair: Jon D. Johnson Hybrid poplars are the result of interspecific crosses in the Populus genus and are genetically predisposed to grow faster and have wider adaptability than either parent species. They have been widely adopted for use in short rotation plantations in the Pacific Northwest for chips to make paper and for solid wood p...

In recent decades, one after another, masterpieces of the southern Chinese theatrical genre chuanqi 傳奇 have been staged in productions that are more ambitious than stringing together the separate scenes that have been preserved in the Kunqu 崑曲 performance repertoire. These include Tang Xianzu’s 湯顯祖 (1550–1616) Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting 牡丹亭), Kong Shangren’s 孔尚任 (1648–1718) Peach Blossom Fan (T...