A novel approach in discovering significant interactions from TCM patient...
The efficacy of a traditional Chinese medicine medication derives from the complex interactions of herbs or Chinese Materia Medica in a formula. The aim of this paper is to propose a new approach to...
View ArticleArchitectural Coexistence: Twins, Logs and the Ecology of Things
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View Article(In Press) Study on thermal insulation properties of aluminised aramid fabrics
In order to prevent or minimise skin burn damage resulting from high temperature, a kind of thermal insulation composite fabric, the surface of which is aluminised, was developed. In this study, the...
View ArticleGating communities: an introduction
This issue of Home Cultures presents papers originally delivered at the "Symbols of Division and Markers of [Dis]order: Gated Communities as Fortified Spaces in a Neo-colonial World" panel at the...
View ArticleTowards the development of new energy performance indicators for the external...
This paper assesses nine types of dynamic and equivalent U-factors for their ability to predict the relative energy performance of different types of external walls, with varying levels of insulation,...
View ArticleRe-interpreting customary practice as a framework for development: lessons of...
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View ArticleScience teacher education partnerships with schools (STEPS): Partnerships in...
This paper reports on the STEPS project which addressed international concerns about primary teachers' lack of confidence to teach science, and on-going questions about the effectiveness of teacher...
View ArticleVisualising Ethnography: Ethnography's Role in Art and Visual Cultures
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View ArticleTherapeutic uses of somatostatin and its analogues: Current view and...
Somatostatin is an endogeneous cyclic tetradecapeptide hormone that exerts multiple biological activities via five ubiquitously distributed receptor subtypes. Classified as a broad inhibitory...
View ArticleNoise-induced synchronization in multitrophic chaotic ecological systems
Noise-induced synchronization is an unexpected phenomenon which we show here to have biological relevance for multitrophic ecological systems. We focus on two uncoupled Hastings–Powell systems having...
View Article(In Press) Modified strong tracking unscented Kalman filter for nonlinear...
This paper presents a modified strong tracking unscented Kalman filter (MSTUKF) to address the performance degradation and divergence of the unscented Kalman filter because of process model...
View ArticlePressure: The political economy of air
Pressure is a typical symptom of city living. The cultural permutations of the concept of a continuous force applied to a body can be followed in the range of explanatory metaphors that use it. Terms...
View ArticleThe 'problem' of the office: Governmentality and the strategy of efficiency
The office is a ubiquitous feature of daily life. This paper examines a particularly important period in its history: the early decades of the twentieth century. Our contemporary conceptions of the...
View ArticleApplication of genetic algorithm for discovery of core effective formulae in...
Research on core and effective formulae (CEF) does not only summarize traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment experience, it also helps to reveal the underlying knowledge in the formulation of a...
View Article(In Press) Micro- and nanostructured surfaces for selective solar absorption
Efficient absorption of solar radiation is desired for the renewable energy sector, such as solar thermophotovoltaics and solar thermal applications. In order to minimize thermal re-radiation,...
View ArticleGanoderma Lucidum (Reishi mushroom) for cancer treatment [Intervention Review...
Ganoderma lucidum is a natural medicine that is widely used and recommended by Asian physicians and naturopaths for its supporting effects on immune system. Laboratory research and a handful of...
View ArticleMolecular pathways for cancer chemoprevention by dietary phytochemicals
Interest in dietary phytochemicals for potential cancer chemoprevention has increased substantially. Screening dietary compounds for chemopreventive activity however, requires a systematic and...
View ArticleModelling seasonal influenza in Israel
Mathematical modeling approaches are used to study the epidemic dynamics of seasonal influenza in Israel. The recent availability of highly resolved ten year timeseries of influenza cases provides an...
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