We report a Legendre pseudospectral modeling of silver sphere arrays illuminated by light waves. A special feature of the present computation is that the dispersive nature of silver is described by a Drude-Lorentz model with model parameters obtained by fitting the frequency-domain complex-valued dielectric constants measured experimentally. Numerical validations are conducted based on solving ...

Erratum to “Validation of a novel claims-based stroke severity index in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage” [J Epidemiol 27 (1) (2017) 24e29] Ling-Chien Hung a, , Sheng-Feng Sung a, , Cheng-Yang Hsieh b, , Ya-Han Hu , Huey-Juan Lin , Yu-Wei Chen e, , Yea-Huei Kao Yang , Sue-Jane Lin h a Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chiayi Christian Hos...

1 Department of Mechanical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Mechanical and Precision Engineering, National Kaoshiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaoshiung 807, Taiwan 2 Department of Dentistry, Chang Yin dental clinic, No.46-1, Yangming St., Banqiao City, Taipei County 220, Taiwan 3 Research Center for Biomedical Devices and Prototyping Production, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 110...

Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan. Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China. Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipe...

results strong participation was associated with a younger age, higher educational level, higher incomes, previous history of cancer, previous family history of cancer, one or two prior mammographies, more correct recognitions of mammography, recall rate, and breast cancer risk. if the false-positive result occurred, 83.9%, 81.9% and 77.3% of the women agreed or strongly agreed to participate i...

Yi-Ting Wang, Pan-Hsien Kuo, Chien-Hao Chiang, Jhe-Ruei Liang, Yun-Ru Chen , Shuying Wang**, James C. K. Shen, and Hanna S. Yuan From the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, the Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu 30013, Taiwan, the Department of Life Sciences, Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-...

background: there is an upward trend for parents to resort to assisted reproductive technology (art) treatment due to delayed childbirth or birth difficulties. objective: this study investigates the pregnancy health and birth outcomes of women who underwent art and analyzes the factors that influence birth weight to become<10 percentile when undergoing art. materials and methods: this study ana...

this study investigated the effectiveness of explicit pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of requests by college-level english as foreign language (efl) learners in taiwan. the goal was to determine first whether the use of explicit pragmatic instruction had a positive effect on efl learners’ pragmatic competence. second, the relative effectiveness of presenting pragmatics through two deli...

1Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Science, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 2Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan 3Department of Science Education, Affiliated Dongyang Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Dongyang, Zhejiang, China 4Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto Universit...

Wei-Sheng Chung1,2,3; Cheng-Li Lin4; Yung-Fu Chen3; Wu-Huei Hsu2; Chia-Hung Kao2,5* 1Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Executive Yuan, Taichung, Taiwan; 2Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; 3Department of Healthcare Administration, Central Taiwan ...