This paper presents the findings of a follow-up survey conducted in two rural counties of Guizhou Province, PRC where a programme to prevent disabilities amongst leprosy affected people had been conducted. An initial 3-year programme had been conducted. One year after the final evaluation of the programme, a team was deployed to conduct a survey in the area. The objective of the survey was to e...

Cysticercosis is an important parasitic zoonosis, caused by the infection of Cysticercus cellulosae, the larval stage of Taenia solium. This disease is a serious public health problem in pigs and human beings in many developing areas worldwide. Practical, rapid, and efficient pre-mortem diagnostic methods therefore are of great significance. The cysticercus antigens and immunodiagnosis methods ...

OBJECTIVES To assess oral health outcomes of a school-based oral health education (OHE) programme on children, mothers and schoolteachers in China, and to evaluate the methods applied and materials used. DESIGN The WHO Health Promoting Schools Project applied to primary schoolchildren in 3 experimental and 3 control schools in Hongshan District, Wuhan City, Central China, with a 3-year follow...

1 Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, Republic of China. 2 MesoPhase Technologies, Inc., Tainan County 744, Taiwan, Republic of China. 3 Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan, Republic of China. 4 Department of Life Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan, Republic of China. 5 Division of...

College of Life Sciences, China West Normal University, Nanchong City 637009, People’s Republic of China; Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation (Ministry of Education), People’s Republic of China. Nanchong Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Nanchong City 637000, People’s Republic of China. Beijing IPE Bio-technology Co., Ltd, Beijing City 100085, People’s Republic o...

World Health Organization has recommended all countries to introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) in routine immunization schedule, especially those countries with higher rate of mortality in children. However, Islamic Republic of Iran and more than 50 other countries including Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Cabo V...

Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, People’s Republic of China (L.J., Y.L., H.S., Y.H., W.G., H.M., S.L., Y.F., C.Z.); National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Beijing 100081, People’s Republic of China (L.J., Y.F., C.Z.); Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Beijing 100850, People’s Republic of C...

People’s Republic of China has a long history of accounting and accounting reforms. This study focuses on “whether China should continue its IFRS-based domestic accounting standards or full convergence with the IFRS is more appropriate”? Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are applied to answer the research question of this work. Binary choice model has been used in the statistical ana...

Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China Brain Research Center, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China Department of Automatic Control, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China Institute of Electrical Control Engineering, National Chiao Tung ...

Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (CLK, WHL, CFL) Department of Pathology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (WYL) Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (JFL) National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwa...