OBJECTIVE To study major etiological factors for esophageal cancer in upper gastrointestinal cancer high risk areas in China. METHODS Five areas with high incidences of esophageal and gastric cancer with good quality cancer registration data were selected for the study: Cixian, Shexian from Hebei Province, Linxian from Henan Province, Feicheng from Shandong Province and Zhuanghe from Liaoning...

the colourful interference of diatom shells (bottom panel). More than a hundred years on, and with the use of modern illumination and photography, Möller's original preparations reveal why they may have fascinated many a dinner party. Imagine a dinner party where the host, instead of serving dessert, invites you to take a look down the microscope in the drawing room. And instead of a digestive ...

Social media plays an important role in today’s world and provides an efficient way for business to interact and communicate with their customers. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the English written online reviews of some three to five-star hotels in four big cities in China: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. 58 three to five-star hotels were selected through TripAdvisor inclu...

Web-mapping services, like Google Maps, allow natural language queries, like “Hotels Freiburg”. These queries are interpreted as “Hotels in Freiburg” or “Hotels near Freiburg”. In this thesis, we introduce the two new spatial relation “between” and the compass directions, allowing queries like “Gas stations between Freiburg and Stuttgart” or “Hotels north of Freiburg”. To achieve this, we analy...

We are what we eat. Our everyday food choices affect our long-term and short-term health. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a dietary-aware dining table that can track what and how much we eat. To enable automated food tracking, the dining table is augmented with two layers of weighting and RFID sensor surfaces to detect and recognize multiple, concurrent person-object interaction...

We continue the popular theme of offline security by considering how computer security might be applied to the challenges presented in running a secret society. We discuss membership testing problems and solutions, set in the context of security authentication protocols, and present new building blocks which could be used to generate secret society protocols more robustly and generically, inclu...

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). CHI’13, April 27 – May 2, 2013, Paris, France. ACM 978-1-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/XX. Abstract Large-scale interactive surfaces are nearly ubiquitous in research labs and showrooms around the world today. However, unlike other recent interaction technologies such as smartphones, they have not yet found their way into people’s everyday lives. Possible reasons incl...

the present study aims to evaluate and rank marketing appropriate strategies so as to capture sustainable competitive advantage in 3 to5-star private hotels of mazandaran province. due to a comprehensive overview of literature related to marketing strategies, the features and capabilities available in the non-governmental hotels and a conceptual model based on 3and 5-star indicators (capabiliti...

This paper is about automatic tagging of urban areas considering its constituent Points of Interest. First, our approach geographically clusters places that offer similar services in the same generic category (e.g. Food & Dining; Entertainment & Arts) in order to identify specialized zones in the urban context. Then, these places are analysed and tagged from available information sources on the...