Chern insulators are band insulators which exhibit a gap in the bulk and gapless excitations in the edge. Detection of Chern insulators is a serious challenge in cold atoms since the Hall transport measurements are technically unrealistic for neutral atoms. By establishing a natural correspondence between the time-reversal invariant topological insulator and the quantum anomalous Hall system, w...

Two new Stenus species of the cirrus group collected from Zhejiang Province, East China, are described, S. wuyanlingus Liu, Tang & Luo, sp. n., S. yuyimingi Liu, Tang & Luo, sp. n. and a new distributional locality for S. ovalis Tang, Li & Zhao, 2005 was discovered. The diagnostic characters of the new species are illustrated, and a key to species of the group from Zhejiang Province is provided.

WENG-SHENG KUO B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Chung-Cheng Institute of Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C (1981) M.S. Nuclear Engineering, National Tsing-Hwa University, Taiwan, R.O.C. (1986) SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR ENGINEERING IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREES OF NUCLEAR ENGINEER and MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NUCLEAR ENGINEERING at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOL...

Fernando M.V. Ramos∗, Fei Song∗†, Pablo Rodriguez‡, Richard Gibbens∗, Jon Crowcroft∗, Ian H. White∗ ∗University of Cambridge †Beijing Jiaotong University ‡Telefonica Research, Barcelona

This study was carried out to evaluate the clinical efficacy of Xiong-gui-jiao-ai-tang (Kyuki-kyogai-to), a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, in the treatment of threatened abortion in early pregnancy. We enrolled 72 women diagnosed with threatened abortion at Osaka Medical College Hospital and assigned them at random to the following two groups: a group of 36 women who received Xiong-gui-ji...

Boolean Function and Block Cipher A Note on Semi-bent and Hyper-bent Boolean Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chunming Tang, Yu Lou, Yanfeng Qi, Maozhi Xu, and Baoan Guo New Construction of Differentially 4-Uniform Bijections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Claude Carlet, Deng Tang, Xiaohu Tang, and Qunying Liao Automatic Security Evaluation of Block Ciphers with S-bP Structures Again...

Like medieval European literature, written poetry in Tang-dynasty .China was always produced, and almost always circulated and received, by means of handwritten manuscripts. Yet while scholars of medieval European literature have devoted considerable attention to the issues at stake when approaching texts produced before the age of print, research on Tang poetry, whether in Asia or the West, ha...

Aim Although stroke is among the leading causes of death and long-term disability, there are few effective treatments for limiting the severity of neurological sequelae. We evaluated the effects of 29 medicinal herbs listed in the Pung chapter of the 17th century Korean medical text Dongui Bogam on stroke symptoms in a mouse model of cerebral ischemia. Methods Focal cerebral ischemia was indu...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult-onset neurodegenerative disease characterized by the selective loss of motor neurons. There is no effective treatment or drug against ALS, and the precise mechanisms leading to the selective loss of motor neurons are still unknown. We investigated the effect of a Chinese prescription, Wen-Pi-Tang, on the ALS model mouse SOD1(G93A). Although the or...