Recent political developments on Taiwan seem to suggest that the issues of ethnic identity
and the island’s future relationship with China are divisive and polarized. Employing the …

Political tolerance is a significant issue for democracies under external threats. When
imposed dangers are felt by citizens of the polity, competitors for political power are likely to …

The influence of the training, experience, and credentials of testing personnel in the
increasingly complex laboratory is a significant concern. A retrospective study compared the …

As staunch believers of the ”greater Chinese nationalism,” many mainlanders in Taiwan have
iden4fied themselves as ”Chinese” in both an ethnic and political sense. They have also …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the inter-rater reliability between dental
hygiene students and a supervising dentist using the Mallampati classification to evaluate and …

… This study investigates the historically used API Class G cement at 16 lbm/gal and Class B
… Laboratory test samples for this manufacturer's API Class B cement and API Class G cement …

Inhalants are the 4th most commonly abused drugs after alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana.
Although inhalants are often referred as Gateway Drugs this hypothesis is less examined. …

Alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) 1 is likely to be an important target for anticancer
treatment as ∼10% of cancers depend on this telomere maintenance mechanism for …

Study Design Literature review. Objective Atlantoaxial dislocation (AAD) is a rare and potentially
fatal disturbance to the normal occipital-cervical anatomy that affects some populations …

Specialized oxygen-sensing cells in the nervous system generate rapid behavioural responses
to oxygen. We show here that the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans exhibits a strong …