Background: In certain conditions, there is a need for a specific and improved measure of cardiac performance.  Routine methods for assessing left ventricular (LV) function are based on image-analysis or right heart monitoring which do not allow evaluation of ventriculo-arterial interaction. Chen et al presented a noninvasive method allowing measurement of end-systolic pressure–volume relation ...

Gastric cancer accounts for approximately 8% of new cancers worldwide (Jemal et al., 2011). Early diagnosis and accurate preoperative staging are critical for improving outcomes, and this includes the identification of the tumor location, depth of invasion, lymph node status, and the presence of metastasis (Monig et al., 2002; Chen et al., 2007; Makino et al., 2011). Current methods for the det...

Chaos has been extensively studied by scientists, physicists and mathematicians for more than three decades. Recently, this study has evolved from the traditional trend of understanding and analyzing chaos to the new intention of controlling and utilizing it, especially within the engineering community [Chen & Dong, 1998; Wang & Chen, 2000; Lü et al., 2002c]. Lorenz found the first canonical ch...

Introduction Stature reconstruction is important as it provides a forensic anthropological estimate of the height of a person in the living state – playing a vital role in identification of individual. Height estimation by measurement of various long bones has been attempted by several workers with variable degree of success. Each worker has derived his own formula for calculating the stature f...

Anne Chao and Liza Levina reflect on an “extraordinarily brilliant student”.

TO THE EDITOR: Chen et al. (1) recently published in the Journal of Applied Physiology a modeling study of lung inflation effects on stretch and stress of an alveolar septum separating aerated and flooded alveoli (1). Chen et al. base their model on two images from an experimental study by Jahar Bhattacharya, David Lederer, and me (3). Chen et al.’s fundamental analysis is sound, a natural exte...

This paper deals with construction of confidence intervals for process capability index using bootstrap method (proposed by Chen and Pearn in Qual Reliab Eng Int 13(6):355–360, 1997) by applying simulation technique. It is assumed that the quality characteristic follows type-II generalized log-logistic distribution introduced by Rosaiah et al. in Int J Agric Stat Sci 4(2):283–292, (2008). Discu...

Five species of Taiwanomyrme Tsuneki, 1993 are reviewed; two of them, T. latisquamula Tu, Lelej et Chen, sp. nov. (China: Guizhou) and T. impressoides Tu, Lelej et Chen, sp. nov. (China: Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan), are described and illustrated. Smicromyrme taiwanus Tsuneki, 1993 is proposed as a new synonym for Taiwanomyrme friekae (Zavattari, 1913). A key to males and females of Taiwanomyrme an...

The radial basis function (RBF) network is a popular artificial neural network (ANN) architecture that has found wide-ranging applications in many diverse fields of engineering, see for example, (Chen et al., 1990; Leonard & Kramer, 1991; Chen et al., 1993; Caiti & Parisini, 1994; Gorinevsky et al., 1996; Cha & Kassam, 1996; Rosenblum & Davis, 1996; Refaee et al., 1999; Muraki et al., 2001; Muk...