A Retrospective Study of the Effect of Spinopelvic Parameters on Fatty Infiltration in Paraspinal Muscles in Patients With Lumbar Spondylolisthesis

Jia-Chen Yang,Jia-Yu Chen,Yin Ding,Yong-Jie Yin,Zhi-Ping Huang,Xiu-Hua Wu,Zu-Cheng Huang,Yi-Kai Li,Qing-An Zhu 대한척추신경외과학회 2024 Neurospine Vol.21 No.1

Objective: The effect on fat infiltration (FI) of paraspinal muscles in degenerative lumbar spinal diseases has been demonstrated except for spinopelvic parameters. The present study is to identify the effect of spinopelvic parameters on FI of paraspinal muscle (PSM) and psoas major muscle (PMM) in patients with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis. Methods: A single-center, retrospective cross-sectional study of 160 patients with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis (DLS) and lumbar stenosis (LSS) who had lateral full-spine x-ray and lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging was conducted. PSM and PMM FIs were defined as the ratio of fat to its muscle cross-sectional area. The FIs were compared among patients with different pelvic tilt (PT) and pelvic incidence (PI), respectively. Results: The PSM FI correlated significantly with pelvic parameters in DLS patients, but not in LSS patients. The PSM FI in pelvic retroversion (PT > 25°) was 0.54 ± 0.13, which was significantly higher in DLS patients than in normal pelvis (0.41 ± 0.14) and pelvic anteversion (PT < 5°) (0.34 ± 0.12). The PSM FI of DLS patients with large PI ( > 60°) was 0.50 ± 0.13, which was higher than those with small ( < 45°) and normal PI (0.37 ± 0.11 and 0.36 ± 0.13). However, the PSM FI of LSS patients didn’t change significantly with PT or PI. Moreover, the PMM FI was about 0.10–0.15, which was significantly lower than the PSM FI, and changed with PT and PI in a similar way of PSM FI with much less in magnitude. Conclusion: FI of the PSMs increased with greater pelvic retroversion or larger pelvic incidence in DLS patients, but not in LSS patients.

Nocturnal Light Pulses Lower Carbon Dioxide Production Rate without Affecting Feed Intake in Geese

Huang, De-Jia,Yang, Shyi-Kuen Asian Australasian Association of Animal Productio 2016 Animal Bioscience Vol.29 No.3

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of nocturnal light pulses (NLPs) on the feed intake and metabolic rate in geese. Fourteen adult Chinese geese were penned individually, and randomly assigned to either the C (control) or NLP group. The C group was exposed to a 12L:12D photoperiod (12 h light and 12 h darkness per day), whereas the NLP group was exposed to a 12L:12D photoperiod inserted by 15-min lighting at 2-h intervals in the scotophase. The weight of the feed was automatically recorded at 1-min intervals for 1 wk. The fasting carbon dioxide production rate ($CO_2$ PR) was recorded at 1-min intervals for 1 d. The results revealed that neither the daily feed intake nor the feed intakes during both the daytime and nighttime were affected by photoperiodic regimen, and the feed intake during the daytime did not differ from that during the nighttime. The photoperiodic treatment did not affect the time distribution of feed intake. However, NLPs lowered (p<0.05) the mean and minimal $CO_2$ PR during both the daytime and nighttime. Both the mean and minimal $CO_2$ PR during the daytime were significantly higher (p<0.05) than those during the nighttime. We concluded that NLPs lowered metabolic rate of the geese, but did not affect the feed intake; both the mean and minimal $CO_2$ PR were higher during the daytime than during the nighttime.

Indirect Estimation Based Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Solar Sail Station-Keeping

Jia Huang,Yuliang Bai,James D. Biggs,Naigang Cui 한국항공우주학회 2021 International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sc Vol.22 No.6

This paper presents an indirect estimation based active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) for solar sail station-keeping. In contrast to previous applications of ADRC to spacecraft station-keeping the proposed approach estimates the deviation of the orbit state from the reference orbit, instead of estimating the orbit state directly. Since the deviation of the orbit state varies more slowly than the state itself, the indirect estimation significantly improves the estimation accuracy and hence the station-keeping performance. Moreover, this approach enables a large control time step which is two orders of magnitude larger than those in previous applications. This is beneficial to the implementation of attitude control and power consumption in practice. In addition, errors in the optical properties of the solar sail are taken into account which is a major challenge for solar sail station-keeping that has not been considered in previous station-keeping control design. The simulation results show that the presented ADRC station-keeping is robust to errors in these optical properties.

Evaluation of Protective Immune Response Induced by a DNA Vaccine Encoding GRA8 against Acute Toxoplasmosis in a Murine Model

Jia-Qi Chu,Shuai Huang,Xuan-Yan Fan,Wei Ye,Rui Huang,Shi-Cai Ye,Cai-Yuan Yu,Wei-Yun Wu,Yu Zhou,Wei Zhou,Young-Ha Lee,Juan-Hua Quan 대한기생충학열대의학회 2018 The Korean Journal of Parasitology Vol.56 No.4

曉瑩 『羅湖野錄』中所保存佚文及其評說-以「禪本草」、「炮炙論」為中心

Huang Jing Jia 중국학연구회 2018 중국학연구 Vol.- No.86

The Zen Notes-"Luo Hu Ye Lu"(羅湖野錄)written by Xiao Ying, this book contains the " Chan Ben Cao "(禪本草)made by Hui Ri Wen Ya and the " Pao Zhi Lun "(炮炙論)made by Zhan Tang Wen Zhun. These two articles are not included in other documents in the Song Dynasty. They are two essays recorded in the "Luo Hu Ye Lu". The former imitates the style of " Chan Ben Cao " and uses the "Zen" metaphor to explain the efficacy of meditation. The latter imitates the method of concocting medicine, and explains the practice method and the second method of using Zen as medicine. This research focuses on revising the content of anecdotes “Chan Ben Cao” and “Pao Zhi Lun” collected in Zen Note - Luo Hu Ye Lu, and conduct textual research on the versions spread. Then discusses Xiao Ying's comments at the end of the transcript, in order to understand the literature value and creative meaning of the two articles. This two-character style is humorous and must be read in a coherent way to understand the meditation meaning of the echo. Xiao Ying inherits from Zong Gao, and Zong Gao had studied from Zhan Tang Wen Zhun . Therefore, Xiao Ying's " Luo Hu Ye Lu " contains these two essays. On the one hand, it has its own source of learning, and on the other hand, it also preserves important Zen literature for the Song Dynasty. 宋代曉瑩所作禪林筆記『羅湖野錄』中,記錄許多禪門遺行逸事,具有補充史傳記錄的史料價值。其中載錄了慧日文雅所作「禪本草」和湛堂文準所作「炮炙論」全文,此二文不見載於宋代其他文獻,是『羅湖野錄』所輯錄的兩篇佚文。前者仿『本草』體例,以「禪」喻藥,說明禪修之功效;後者仿炮製之法,說明此一味禪藥之修練方法和次第。本文主要從『羅湖野錄』之後,考察「禪本草」、「炮炙論」的文本流傳和變化歷程,「禪本草」在明代『韋弦佩』、『佛祖綱目』中尚存全本,至袁中道效顰而作「禪門本草補」,其後『五朝小說』、『重校說郛』便誤將「禪門本草補」混淆為「禪本草」了。所幸清代『禪苑蒙求拾遺』中仍保存完整的「禪本草」全文。「炮炙論」的部分,今可見之版本從『羅湖野錄』,到明代的『佛祖綱目』、『韋弦佩』皆有收錄,三者內容一致並無任何變動。其次,曉瑩在抄錄二文之末加上個人的評說意見,此二文以本草的體例來表述禪修的功效和方法,以及炮製禪方的步驟,文字風格詼諧,必須連貫來讀,方能理解其中隱含呼應的禪思脈絡。曉瑩嗣法於宗杲,而宗杲曾從學於文準,因此,曉瑩『羅湖野錄』收錄這兩篇佚文,一方面有其學法淵源,一方面也為宋代禪門保存了重要的論禪文獻。

Spectroscopic Determination of the Species Fractions and the Power Profiles of the Diagnostic Neutral Beam on the HT-7 Tokamak

Jia Fu,Yuejiang Shi,Yingying Li,Fudi Wang,Sheng Liu,Jian Zhang,Jun Li,Yiyyun Huang,Yuanlai Xie,Zhimin Liu,Chundong Hu,Chundong Hu,DNB Team,William Rowan,He Huang 한국물리학회 2011 THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY Vol.58 No.5

A diagnostic neutral beam (DNB) has been installed on the HT-7 tokamak for the measurement of charge exchange recombination spectroscopy (CXRS). The H_α-light Doppler shift spectroscopy from the drifted duct is measured to determine the components of the neutral beam. The fractions of neutral beam species are investigated under a wide range of arc voltages and extraction high voltages of the beam aimed to the optimized species fractions for the CXRS applications. A magnet ring is used to improve the magnetic property of the ion source. The result shows that the full-energy component fractions increase from 19 to 25 percent with optimization of the beam operation, but with a dramatic increase of the water component. There are nine optical fiber channels observing one section of the beam simultaneously for this spectroscopy, which provides information of the power profiles of the beam. The full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the beam profile is 8 cm, as measured by using the spectroscopy.

BRAIN POTENTIALS OF ONLINE CONTENT EMOTIONALITY ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Yujing Huang,Jia Jin,Hao Ding,Yizhou Shao,Bonai Fan,Qingguo Ma 글로벌지식마케팅경영학회 2018 Global Marketing Conference Vol.2018 No.07

Introduction Current research investigated whether emotionality of content would facilitate the possibility to share information on social media by using event-related potentials. Theoretical development Emotionality is an excitatory state which evokes autonomic nervous system. Previous studies suggested that stimuli with high emotionality elicited increased P100/P200 amplitudes relative to stimuli with low emotionality (Huang & Luo, 2006). Research design We tested the purpose in an affective priming paradigm in which participants were exposed to online content (i.e. the prime stimulus) followed by a stimulus (i.e. the target stimuli) from International Affective Picture System. Participants were required to judge whether the target was neutral white picture. Next, a nine-point Likert scale was followed to assess the level of emotionality for online content. Result and conclusion We observed a congruency effect in the priming effect. More importantly, early brain potentials P100/P200 were higher when participants were exposed to online content with more possibility to share than online content with less possibility to share. This finding could be explained by the response level account theory (Fazio, 2001). This study provides an insight to neural mechanism underlying emotionality of online content.

MLH1 Polymorphisms and Cancer risk: a Meta-analysis Based on 33 Case-control Studies

Xu, Jia-Li,Yin, Zhi-Qiang,Huang, Ming-De,Wang, Xie-Feng,Gao, Wen,Liu, Ling-Xiang,Wang, Rong-Sheng,Huang, Pu-Wen,Yin, Yong-Mei,Liu, Ping,Shu, Yong-Qian Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2012 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.13 No.3

Objective: Cumulative evidence suggests that MLH1, the key component in the mismatch pathway, plays an important role in human cancers. Two potential functional polymorphisms (-93G>A and I219V) of MLH1 have been implicated in cancer risk. The aim of this meta-analysis was to summarize the evidence for associations. Methods: Eligible studies were identified by searching the electronic literature PubMed, ScienceDirect and Embase databases for relevant reports and bibliographies. Studies were included if of case-control design investigating MLH1 polymorphisms (-93G>A and I219V) and cancer risk with sufficient raw data for analysis. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were used to evaluate the strength of associations. Results: Our meta-analysis from 33 published case-control studies showed the variant A allele of -93G>A polymorphism to be associated with increased risk in all genetic models (AA vs. GG: OR = 1.22, 95% CI: 1.03-1.44), especially among non-Asians (AA vs. GG: OR = 1.28, 95% CI: 1.04-1.58). For the I219V polymorphism, however, there was no main effect associated with overall cancer risk in any genetic model. Conclusions: The meta-analysis suggested that the MLH1 -93G>A polymorphism may be a biomarker of cancer susceptibility. Large sample association studies and assessment of gene-to-gene as well as gene-to-environment interactions are required to confirm these findings.

Research on the Interaction of Home- Kindergarten under the Background of “Internet +” : Focused on the “Wei Ke Zhang Tong”APP

Chen Huang Jia,Pan Younghwan 한국서비스디자인학회 2021 한국서비스디자인학회 학술대회자료집 Vol.2021 No.-

Negative effects on medical students’ scores for clinical performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan: a comparative study

Eunice Jia-Shiow Yuan,Shiau-Shian Huang,Chia-An Hsu,Jiing-Feng Lirng,Tzu-Hao Li,Chia-Chang Huang,Ying-Ying Yang,Chung-Pin Li,Chen-Huan Chen 한국보건의료인국가시험원 2023 보건의료교육평가 Vol.20 No.-

Purpose Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has heavily impacted medical clinical education in Taiwan. Medical curricula have been altered to minimize exposure and limit transmission. This study investigated the effect of COVID-19 on Taiwanese medical students’ clinical performance using online standardized evaluation systems and explored the factors influencing medical education during the pandemic. Methods Medical students were scored from 0 to 100 based on their clinical performance from 1/1/2018 to 6/31/2021. The students were placed into pre-COVID-19 (before 2/1/2020) and midst-COVID-19 (on and after 2/1/2020) groups. Each group was further categorized into COVID-19-affected specialties (pulmonary, infectious, and emergency medicine) and other specialties. Generalized estimating equations (GEEs) were used to compare and examine the effects of relevant variables on student performance. Results In total, 16,944 clinical scores were obtained for COVID-19-affected specialties and other specialties. For the COVID-19-affected specialties, the midst-COVID-19 score (88.51–3.52) was significantly lower than the pre-COVID-19 score (90.14–3.55) (P<0.0001). For the other specialties, the midst-COVID-19 score (88.32–3.68) was also significantly lower than the pre-COVID-19 score (90.06–3.58) (P<0.0001). There were 1,322 students (837 males and 485 females). Male students had significantly lower scores than female students (89.33–3.68 vs. 89.99–3.66, P=0.0017). GEE analysis revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic (unstandardized beta coefficient=-1.99, standard error [SE]=0.13, P<0.0001), COVID-19-affected specialties (B=0.26, SE=0.11, P=0.0184), female students (B=1.10, SE=0.20, P<0.0001), and female attending physicians (B=-0.19, SE=0.08, P=0.0145) were independently associated with students’ scores. Conclusion COVID-19 negatively impacted medical students' clinical performance, regardless of their specialty. Female students outperformed male students, irrespective of the pandemic.