Dan Shen and Lu-Shen-Wan, traditional Chinese medicines used as remedies for heart diseases, demonstrate digoxin-like immunoreactivity. The digoxin-like immunoreactive components of Lu-Shen-Wan show approximately 55% protein binding, while Dan Shen demonstrates concentration-dependent protein binding (68% bound at lower concentrations but only 25% bound at higher concentrations). Because Dan Sh...

In an article of Cao-Shen-Zhu [C-S-Z], they proved that a complete, immersed, stable minimal hypersurface M of R with n ≥ 3 must have only one end. When n = 2, it was proved independently by do Carmo-Peng [dC-P] and FischerColbrie-Schoen [FC-S] that a complete, immersed, oriented stable minimal surface in R must be a plane. Later Gulliver [G] and Fischer-Colbrie [FC] proved that if a complete, ...

Introduction My initial appreciation of the role of the heart, in this instance the valves of the heart, in mental-emotional illness occurred in medical school, since in biomedicine at that time the prolapse of the mitral valve was associated with panic attacks and phobias. Therefore it was a simple cognitive step from that information to identifying other aspects of Heart function, the orifice...

Seven species of the genus Triomicrus Sharp are recognized in southern China, six of them are described as new: T. acutus  and T. nanlingensis Shen & Yin, sp. n. (Guangdong), T. pinnatus Shen & Yin, sp. n. (Guangdong and Hunan), T. cochlis Shen & Yin, sp. n. (Guangdong, Hunan and Guangxi), and T. cavus Shen & Yin, sp. n. and T. longus Shen & Yin, sp. n. (Guangxi). A key for the identification o...

Traditional Chinese medicine formulates treatment according to body constitution (BC) differentiation. Different constitutions have specific metabolic characteristics and different susceptibility to certain diseases. This study aimed to assess the characteristic genes of gan-shen Yin deficiency constitution in different diseases. Fifty primary liver cancer (PLC) patients, 94 hypertension (HBP) ...

DAN BATTEY is an associate professor in the Department Learning and Teaching at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Graduate School of Education, 10 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901; email: [email protected]. His research interests include understanding mathematics education as a racialized space, classroom relational interactions, and professional development that int...

References: [1] Wen Shen, On the Shape of Avalanches, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 339(2008), 828-838. [2] Debora Amadori and Wen Shen, Global Existence of large BV solutions for a Model of Granular Flow, To appear in Communications in Partial Differential Equations. [3] Debora Amadori and Wen Shen, The Slow Erosion Limit for a Model of Granular Flow, preprint 2008. Available online: www.math.psu.edu/...

BACKGROUND The pivot is critical to rotors postulated to maintain atrial fibrillation (AF). We reasoned that wavefronts circling the pivot should broaden the amplitude distribution of bipolar electrograms because of directional information encoded in these signals. We aimed to determine whether Shannon entropy (ShEn), a measure of signal amplitude distribution, could differentiate the pivot fro...