BACKGROUND Bilirubin-related neurotoxicity is an important clinical issue in very low birthweight (VLBW) infants, and the existing literature is inconsistent. OBJECTIVE To analyze the relationship between maximal serum unconjugated bilirubin levels (SBL) and neurodevelopmental outcome at 2-year corrected age in VLBW infants. METHODS Phototherapy was initiated in all infants born before 33 w...

OBJECTIVE Agonists of α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) have been developed as potential therapeutic drugs for neuropsychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a noninvasive brain imaging technique to measure receptor occupancy in the living human brain. Although much effort has been expended to create specific PET radiol...

Creating realistic artificially-intelligent characters is seen as one of the major challenges of the commercial games industry. Historically, character behavior has been specified using simple finite state machines and, more recently, by AI scripting languages. These languages are relatively “simple”, in part because the language has to serve three user communities: game designers, game program...

I have been working in VR and interactive 3D for a long time. I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with many of the people that are directly responsible for creating the magic in the world that we live in today. These are the people that started with a virtual blank page and created their own reality. Their vision defined a vector into their future that we have had the privilege of ex...

a Office of Research and Development, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 University Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC b Department of Biobusiness Management, National Chiayi University, 580 Shinmin Road, Chiayi, Taiwan, ROC c Institute of Industrial Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China d Graduate Institute of Technology Management, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 University Road, Hsinc...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To investigate sleep EEG changes in adolescents across 7 nights of sleep restriction to 5 h time in bed [TIB]) and 3 recovery nights of 9 h TIB. METHODS A parallel-group design, quasi-laboratory study was conducted in a boarding school. Fifty-five healthy adolescents (25 males, age = 15-19 y) who reported habitual TIBs of approximately 6 h on week nights (group average) but e...