Much has been written on the legitimacy and extent to which the gospel can challenge different cultures especially vis-à-vis the current growth of Islam. There are many who have chosen to live “incarnationally” within a culture while at the same time resisting its ungodliness. While there are different approaches that missiologists, Bible scholars, and theologians may take in respect to culture...

Searching for sustainable regional trade agreements (RTAs) for East Asia, we quantitatively evaluated the likely impact of proposed East Asian RTA strategies─(i) the AFTA (a being-leftalone strategy), (ii) an ASEAN Hub RTA (a hub-and-spoke type of overlapping RTA strategy), (iii) the AFTA vs a China-Japan-Korea RTA (a duplicating or competing RTA strategy), (iv) an ASEAN+3 RTA (an expansionary ...

BACKGROUND Visual inspection for tongue analysis is a diagnostic method in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Owing to the variations in tongue features, such as color, texture, coating, and shape, it is difficult to precisely extract the tongue region in images. This study aims to quantitatively evaluate tongue diagnosis via automatic tongue segmentation. METHODS Experiments were conducted ...

Department of Acupuncture and Massage, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Medical College, Dongguan, China Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Futian TCM Hospital, Shenzhen, China Department of Rehabilitation, The ...

FOLLOWING the development of the globalized economy, it was inevitable that relevant private law rules would be harmonized and unified. This kind of harmonization and unification is both a global and a regional endeavor. In Asia (especially in East Asia) there is a private initiative by scholars trying to harmonize rules of contract law, and the aim is to create a model law called Principles of...

After treptomycin, which heralded the era of antibacterial chemotherapy for tuberculosis (TB), many important advances have made available treatment regimens that are almost 100 per cent curative. Randomised clinical trials by the Tuberculosis Research Centre, in Chennai and British Medical Research Council in East Africa and in the Far East have helped to establish many of the principles of an...

BACKGROUND This paper aims to investigate the development trend of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospitals in China and explore their medical service innovations, with special reference to the changing co-existence with western medicine (WM) at TCM hospitals. METHODS Quantitative data at macro level was collected from official databases of China Health Statistical Yearbook and Extracts o...

Introduction Ticks and tick-borne diseases are of major significance both as factors directly influencing human health and also as factors reducing potential protein production in many countries where they dramatically reduce the health of domestic stock (13, 39, 47). In some areas, such as Europe, North America and Africa, the significance of ticks is well known and a great deal of effort has ...

Searching for sustainable regional trade agreements (RTAs) for East Asia, we quantitatively evaluated the likely impact of proposed East Asian RTA strategies─(i) the AFTA (a being-leftalone strategy), (ii) an ASEAN Hub RTA (a hub-and-spoke type of overlapping RTA strategy), (iii) the AFTA vs a China-Japan-Korea RTA (a duplicating or competing RTA strategy), (iv) an ASEAN+3 RTA (an expansionary ...

Counterfeit medicines are a global public health risk. We assess counterfeit reports involving the legitimate supply chain using 2009-2011 data from the Pharmaceutical Security Institute Counterfeit Incident System (PSI CIS) database that uses both open and nonpublic data sources. Of the 1,510 identified CIS reports involving counterfeits, 27.6% reported China as the source country of the incid...