kawasaki disease (kd) is an acute vasculitis syndrome of unknown etiology. it occurs in infants and young children, affecting mainly small and medium-sized arteries, particularly the coronary arteries. generalized microvasculitis occurs in the first 10 days, and the inflammation persists in the walls of medium and small arteries, especially the coronary arteries, and changes to coronary artery ...

background: tuberculosis (tb) is a pandemic disease. it is the second leading cause of death from infectious diseases after human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) in the world . the main objective of this paper was to determine and compare the epidemiology of tb incidence rate and its trend changes during 1990-2010 in six who regions regarding age, gender and income levels. methods: the average ann...

In mobile robotics, pure geometric representations may not be well suited for navigation in large scale environments. New models combine topological and metrical information to give compact and eecient representations. In this paper, we brieey remind the outlines of the construction of our Vorono-like graph and give further details about its implementation in a real environment. Several trials ...

By electrically segmenting, and series-connecting an InP ridge laser, we have demonstrated 12-stage lasers with 409% differential efficiency and 2.6mA threshold, as well as 3-stage lasers with 51ohm input impedance and 126% differential efficiency.

Organic conductors exhibit unusual physical properties due to the critical nature of valence electrons fluctuating under localizing and delocalizing regime. Recently, we discovered that an organic superconductor, α-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 [BEDTTTF: bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene], induces optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) along with charge-ordering driven by the repulsive electron-electron ...

A new noninvasive method for determining the surface electrostatic potential and surface charge density of microscopic particles using second harmonic generation (SHG) is described. The surface electrostatic properties of 1.05 μm polystyrene sulfate spheres in aqueous solution and that of 0.22 μm oil droplets in aqueous emulsions are obtained. Comparisons of the surface potentials obtained from...

We study the effective second-harmonic generation (SHG) susceptibility in graded metallic films by invoking the local field effects exactly, and further numerically demonstrate that the graded metallic films can serve as a novel optical material for producing a broad structure in both the linear and SHG response and an enhancement in the SHG signal. ocis: 160.4330, 310.6860, 160.4670, 160.4760.

This study constructs a panel threshold regression model to explore the price impact of foreign institutional herding of firms listed in the Taiwan Stock Exchange during January 2000 to June 2008. Our panel threshold model is constructed to explore the price impact of foreign institutional investors’ herding in the Taiwan stock market after controlling the firm size. By examining the presence o...