BACKGROUND Xerostomia, a subjective sense of dry mouth, is not generally regarded a disease despite its high prevalence among the elderly, and therefore continues to impair affected patients' quality of life. In traditional Korean medicine, 'Yin-Deficiency' has been implicated in the pathogenesis of xerostomia among the elderly. Yukmijihwang-tang is a famous herbal prescription used to relieve ...

A licensed obstetrician and gynecologist, Pearl Tang worked to improve the health of women and children in Maricopa County, Arizona, during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her work with the Maricopa County Health Department ranged from immunizations to preventing cervical cancer. Tang obtained federal grants and community support to establish various child and maternal health clinics ...

Acknowledgements The author is very grateful to Northland Advanced Transportation System Research Laboratory (NATSRL) for supporting this project. The author would like to thank Dr. Taek Kwon for his very valuable suggestions and discussions. The author also thanks to Dr. Eil Kwon for his discussion and review of the project.

Human schistosomiasis is widespread in tropical and subtropical environments. In this study, a novel open cell with liquid medium perfusion system for electrorotation measurement to detect the viability of schistosomal eggs is proposed. With no solid top or bottom surface, the liquid medium perfusion system solves some of the problems of conventional electrorotation testing systems. This kind o...

Three species of genus Ascaphium are recorded from China, including Ascaphium longlingense He, Tang & Li, sp. nov. and A. ingentis He, Tang & Li, sp. nov. from Yunnan Province. The male of Ascaphium alticola Löbl is discovered and described for the first time. A key to Ascaphium species of China is provided.

Introduction Qing fei tang, which is used for various respiratory diseases, is useful for reducing relapse of aspiration pneumonia and bronchopneumonia in stroke, but the effect remains unknown in Parkinsonian’s syndrome. We report two cases of Japanese patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and relapsing aspiration pneumonia and bronchopneumonia, which was successfully prevented by qing ...

In [3], Tang presented two password guessing attacks such as off-line and undetectable on-line dictionary attacks against password-based group Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocols by Byun and Lee [2]. In this paper, we present countermeasures for two attacks by Tang.

BACKGROUND Functional dyspepsia (FD) is characterized by a high prevalence rate and no standard conventional treatments. Alternative therapies, such as herbal formulas, are widely used to treat FD. However, there are inadequate evidences regarding the safety and efficacy of these formulas. Moreover, the mechanisms by which herbal formulas act in the gastrointestinal tract are controversial. In ...