- Chinese history and philosophy
- Japanese History and Culture
- Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
- Marine and environmental studies
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Language and cultural evolution
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Political Systems and Governance
- Taxation and Legal Issues
- Dental Health and Care Utilization
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Medieval and Classical Philosophy
- Legal and Constitutional Studies
- Theatre and Performance Studies
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Dental Education, Practice, Research
- Space Exploration and Technology
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Gut microbiota and health
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
Washington University in St. Louis
2021-2023
University of California, San Diego
2011-2022
Georgia Institute of Technology
2022
Yale University
2021-2022
University of California San Diego Medical Center
2013
California University of Pennsylvania
2002
In the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps aesthetic semantic meanings associated with in Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings five long narratives: Marriage Bonds to Awaken World, Dream Red Chamber, A Country Codger's Words Exposure, Flowers Mirror, Tale Heroic Lovers. Epstein argues that authors these novels manipulated gendered terms...
Radiotherapy and lymphadenectomy have been associated with improved survival in population-based studies of endometrial cancer, which is contrast findings from randomized trials meta-analyses. The primary study aim was to estimate the cause-specific effects adjuvant radiotherapy on competing causes mortality.We analyzed Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results (SEER) data 1988 2006. sample comprised 58172 patients stage I II adenocarcinoma. Patients were risk stratified by stage, grade, age....
Evaluating the availability of dentists to provide dental care services children is important for identifying interventions improving access.To assess in US by public insurance participation, rural-urban setting, and dentist taxonomy (general, pediatric, or specialized).This cross-sectional study analyzed from matching 3 data sets: 2020 National Plan Provider Enumeration System, 2019-2020 State Board Dentistry information acquired each state, 2019 InsureKidsNow.org database. Data on active...
Background Foeniculum vulgare , F . commonly known as fennel, is believed to be one of the world’s oldest medicinal herbs and has been exploited by people for centuries a nutritional aid digestive disorders. In many southeast Asian countries, it ingested an after-meal snack, mukhvas, due its breath-freshening properties. used in some such Iran, complementary alternative treatment inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Methods This study investigated effects fennel seed extract on intestinal...
Acknowledgments Prologue Part I. Mudan Ting: Introduction to ting 1. The girl's protrait 2. lover's dream 3. emperor's promise II. Taohua Shan: shan 4. prostitute's fan 5. actor's stage 6. throne Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.
Persons with HIV (PWH) have both more frequent depression and higher levels of plasma inflammatory biomarkers compared to persons without (PWoH). Inflammation depressive symptoms are linked, including in PWH; however, it is unclear whether these associations differ by serostatus biological sex.
In this article, I argue for a reading of the long fiction Plum in Golden Vase that does not simply excavate text facts but instead considers genres Ming imaginative literature as theories social hierarchy. The novel’s sui generis form can be understood, argue, socially symbolic act, particularly relating to trafficking human beings and especially women. places at very core society radical transactability Finally, interpret seventeenth- century debates about text—namely, how rehabilitate...
This paper concerns the third of four stories in Zhaoshi bei (The Cup that Reflects World), "Zou Annan yüma huan xingrong" (whose title Patrick Hanan has rendered "On a Journey to Vietnam Jade Horse Miniature is Exchanged for Crimson Velvet"). Written by an author who identifies himself only as Zhuoyuan ting zhu, or The Master Pavilion, and dating most likely from 1660s, story begins with poem which suggests subject story. final couplet reads:
Abstract Seventeenth-century Chinese literature thematizes market segmentation, the idea that functionally similar but different objects can be produced for and marketed to ranks of people. A 1671 collection classical essays, Xianqing ouji 閑情偶寄 by Li Yu 李漁 (1611–80), has generally been understood most influential lifestyle guides, containing essays about theater, everyday life, material culture. This article argues price quality differentiation when it comes a variety consumer goods forms...