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General Surgery
Clinical surgery in China has developed by leaps and bounds during the last 30 years from a poverty-tricken base to great successes in many aspects. This section on General Surgery provides an introduction to ...
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Applications of Photoacoustic Microscopy in Dynamic Analyses of Integrated Circuits
Recently, photoacoustic (PA) and thermal wave techniques have been applied successfully to study the semiconductor materials and devices, especially applied to study the surface and subsurface features of inte...
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Determination of mercury in environmental and biological samples by cold vapour atomic absorption spectrometry
A continuously operating monitoring method for total mercury at sub-ng/ml level in environmental and biological samples by cold vapour atomic-absorption spectrometry with NaBH4 as a reductant was developed. The m...
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Transition metal 1,2-bidentate thiolates as building blocks and their construction into cluster complexes
Simple fragments of transition metal 1,2-bidentate thiolates, the so-called building blocks of the general compositions ML3, ML2, ML, M(O)L2, ML2L′, MLL′, etc. have been proposed to constitute the di-, tri- and t...
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Effect of casein and soy protein isolate on vitamin B6 nutritional status in rats
Two experiments were conducted to test the effect of casein and soy protein isolate (SPI) on the nutritional status of vitamin B6 in rats. Adult Long-Evans rats were fed with a casein or SPI diet at a 40% protein...
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Late Cenozoic magnetostratigraphy (11 – 0 Ma) of the Dongshanding and Wangjiashan sections in the Longzhong Basin, western China
A paleomagnetic study of the 510-m-thick Wangjiashan section of Late Miocene and Pliocene terrestrial sediments reveals a fairly complete reversal record with ages from 11 to 1.8 Ma. The magnetostratigraphy of...
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Study on tidal gravity observations obtained at stations Zhongshan and Changcheng, Antarctic
Based on the international tidal gravity reference values at station Wuhan, the tidal gravity parameters, including the amplitude factors and phase differences are determined accurately by using the observatio...
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Chicken Deoxyribonuclease: Purification, Characterization, Gene Cloning and Gene Expression
Chicken DNase was purified to apparent homogeneity from the pancreas extract. It showed two isoforms, A and B forms, on cation-exchange chromatography. On SDS-PAGE it was a 30-kDa protein. When analyzed on an ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Authentication of 3-D Polygonal Meshes
Designing a powerful fragile watermarking technique for authenticating 3-D polygonal meshes is a very difficult task. Yeo and Yeung [17] were first to propose a fragile watermarking method to perform authentic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Load Balancing Design Issues on Prefetch-Based DSM Systems
In recent years, the cluster computing technology has become a cost-effective computing infrastructure, because it aggregates resources of computational power, communication and storage. It is also considered ...
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Possible Role of Triacylglycerol-Rich Lipoproteins in the Down-Regulation of Adipose Obese mRNA Expression in Rats Re-Fed a High-Fat Diet
The large amount of absorbed dietary lipid after feeding a high-fat diet is mainly transported as triacylglycerol (TG)-rich lipoproteins (TRL) in the post-prandial blood and is subsequently distributed to peri...
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Clinical Experience with Bausch & Lomb Technolas-217 Excimer Laser
We retrospectively followed up 177 eyes of 90 myopic patients who had received laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) using Bausch & Lomb Technolas-217 laser. All patients underwent comprehensive preoperative ophth...
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Critical Content of MgO in Spheroidisers
Magnesium oxide in spheroidiser is harmful to the production of ductile iron for decreasing active magnesium content. To obtain quality ductile iron, the effects of magnesium oxide content in spheroidisers on ...
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Establishment of the Comprehensive Evaluation System of Cold Stam** Die Quality
A comprehensive evaluation system of die quality, a multiplayer hierarchical amendment index system according to the characteristics of cold stam** die production, an evaluation standard referring to the tec...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Joint Screening Halftoning and Visual Cryptography for Image Protection
Since digital right management of digital media data has received considerable attention recently, protection of halftone image documents becomes another important topic. Image-based visual cryptography is fou...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Deterministic Extractors for Independent-Symbol Sources
In this paper, we consider the task of deterministically extracting randomness from sources consisting of a sequence of n independent symbols from {0,1} d . The only randomness g...
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Aqueous Based Single Wafer Cleaning Process Development and Integration into 65nm Process Flow using Metal Hard Mask
As the industry develops processes for the 65 and 45 nm technology nodes, post etch/ash cleaning faces new challenges with far more stringent requirements on surface cleanliness and materials loss. The introdu...
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Molecular analysis of early rice stamen development using organ-specific gene expression profiling
Elucidating the regulatory mechanisms of plant organ formation is an important component of plant developmental biology and will be useful for crop improvement applications. Plant organ formation, or organogen...
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Pressure Fluctuations Beneath Spatial Hydraulic Jumps
This article deals with statistical analysis of pressure fluctuations at the bottom of spatial hydraulic jumps with abrupt lateral expansions. The effects of the channel expansion ratio and inflow condition on...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Real-Time Embedded Software Design for Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems
Currently available application frameworks that target at the automatic design of real-time embedded software are poor in integrating functional and non-functional requirements for mobile and ubiquitous system...
