Augmented marked graphs were first introduced in 1997 (Chu & Xie, 1997). They are not well known as compared to other sub-classes of Petri nets such as free-choice nets (Desel & Esparza, 1995), and the properties of augmented marked graphs are not studied extensively. However, augmented marked graphs possess a structure which is desirable for modelling shared resources, and for this reason, the...

Acknowledgements: We are particularly indebted for the expert technical assistance we received from Dr. Elwood K. Walls who generously assisted us in developing our in vivo infiltration technique. Several others also supported us in various aspects of this work: Katherine Beck, Vincent Traverso, Ashley Orchard and Crissanka Christadoss provided very useful assistance with data collection. Huiqi...

Contemporary social and medical changes – such as the rising divorce rates and rates of subsequent remarriage, the introduction of new fertility techniques and rising longevity – trigger public debates about kinship, nature and culture. At the same time, ‘ the master narrative ’ telling how kinship declined in the course of modernization has been largely rejected by historians. Now, however, ‘ ...

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) ...

this paper explores the developing of how designers can search for inspiration source which provided in the form of traditional elements and archetypes and also their role on idea generation in design from building to urban measure. in order to clarify of this, current study focuses on the far-east region as an ancient part of the world in which there is a huge number of symbols like well known...

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...

Cheung Sha Wan Dermatological Clinic, 3/F, West Kowloon Health Centre, Cheung Sha Wan Government Offices, 303 Cheung Sha Wan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) is a rare metabolic disorder due to an inherited or acquired deficiency in uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase, the fifth enzyme in the haem synthesis pathway. We report a 57-year-old gentleman who presented with three mon...

Various results show the ‘formal equivalence’ of kin and group selectionist methodologies, but this does not preclude there being a real and useful distinction between kin and group selection processes. I distinguish individualand population-centred approaches to drawing such a distinction, and I proceed to develop the latter. On the account I advance, the differences between kin and group sele...