The world has a shortage of financial assets. Asset supply is having a hard time keeping up with the global demand for store of value and collateral by households, corporations, governments, insurance companies, and financial intermediaries more broadly. These shortages have been a perennial problem in emerging markets, where many of their economic perils and idiosyncrasies stem from this featu...

Why Does Qigong Have a Curative Effect? Traditional Chinese medicine holds that disease occurs when there is stagnation of qi, which will be cured when the circulation of qi and blood is improved. Qigong is a therapy effective for treating stagnation of qi and promoting the circulation of qi and blood. Qigong therapy can be divided into two main categories: self-treatment, i.e. the practice of ...

Stagnation of Qi and Blood are basic clinical patterns of Oriental Medicine, but their origin from splits in consciousness is rarely considered clinically significant. This article suggests that the root of stagnation lies in the mind’s attempt to control existential anxiety through strategies of energy containment which give rise to psychosomatic compartmentalization. The author then goes on t...

DNS and laboratory experiments show that the spatial distribution of straining stagnation points in homogeneous isotropic 3D turbulence has a fractal structure with dimension D(s)=2. In kinematic simulations the exponent gamma in Richardson's law and the fractal dimension D(s) are related by gamma=6/D(s). The Richardson constant is found to be an increasing function of the number density of str...

This study aims to present an overview of the evolutionary policy process in reforming the health care system in Taiwan, through dissecting the forces of knowledge, social-cultural context, economic resources and political system. We further identify factors, which had a significant impact on health care reform policies in Taiwan through illustrative policy examples. One of the most illuminatin...