Background and objective. Beta-blocker overdose may result in intractable cardiovascular collapse despite conventional antidotal treatments. High dose insulin/glucose (ING), and more recently intravenous lipid emulsion (ILE), have been proposed as potentially beneficial therapies in beta blocker intoxication. We compare efficacy of the novel antidotes ING, with ILE, in a rabbit model of combine...

ing/instantiating an existing model/meta-model. This approach is called the paradigmbased approach.

This dissertation consists of three essays on credit risk models and their Bayesian estimation. In each essay, defaults or default correlation models are built under one of two main streams in credit risk model study: the structural and the intensity models. The first essay studies the usefulness and methods to combine multiple securities information in a single firm asset process and to estima...

Swearwords influence social evaluation of a speaker in variety ways depending on context (Jay & Janschewitz (2008), The pragmatics swearing. Journal Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, 4(2), 267–288). Little attention has been paid to the role linguistic variation perceptions swearing, however. This paper presents two experiments that test sociolinguistic Experiment 1 is variant ...

Michel de Montaigne, the great French humanist and inventor of the personal essay, suffered from frequent and severe renal colic. He wrote about his illness in his travel journal and in his last and greatest essay, "Of Experience." In his illness narratives, Montaigne integrated disease and suffering into his life and art. He humanized rather than conquered his disease. A mature humanism replac...

Choosing appropriate models is crucial in analyzing complex physical phenomena, especial ly when supercomput ing resources and complex par t ia l dif ferential equations are involved. This paper presents an approach to fo rmula t ing mathemat ica l models guided by the structure of a domain theory and the gross behavior of a physical problem. The approach is mot ivated by the observation that m...

This essay focuses on the current state of cross-strait relations and whether issue may evolve from friction to war. In 2022, after Russia declared war Ukraine, world is again in shadow war, have been a powder keg international community. Taiwan, as country with its legislature, political party complete system, but not recognized by It has long at odds PRC, which claimed Taiwan part own. Since ...