Female breast cancer in Vietnam: a comparison across Asian specific regions

Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed malignancies and the leading cause of cancer death of women over the world. A large number of females with breast cancer in Vietnam and other Southeast Asian(SEA) countries present at an early age with more aggressive tumors compared with women in Australia. Despite experiencing a low incidence rate, the increasing incidence rate among SEA countries exceeds that of the Westernized world. Changes in reproductive factors, environmental exposures, and lifestyle are the possible causes of this trend. However, limited evidence shows that these factors are associated with breast cancer in the Vietnamese population. Breast cancer incidence rates within Vietnam are not uniform and appear to be dependent on geographic location. Findings from this review have important implications for breast cancer control and treatment in Vietnam. A good understanding of the morphology of the breast and the type and nature of breast cancers presenting in Vietnam is required to facilitate the introduction of an effective national breast screening program.

Distributional Effects of Transport Taxes： An Incidence Analysis

Wider use of economic instruments in the field of environmental and energy policy provides several benefits. These instruments not only create market-based incentives for environmentally friendly behaviors but also represent effective opportunities to collect revenues. In this context, energy and transport-related taxes play a major role, even if their extensive use has raised several concerns over equity issues. The main objective of the paper is to investigate the redistributive burden of existing transport taxes on Italian households. An incidence analysis is carried out on a sample of more than 23,000 Italian families for the year 2009. Some alternative policy options are also analyzed to provide some suggestions on how to countervail the potential negative regressive effects that might arise. We find that vehicle ownership taxes, if properly set, can represent a promising opportunity to blend together budget and equity needs. To obtain a better indication of the progressivity or regressivity of certain policy designs, we rely on some summary indexes, such as the Kakwani measure of progressivity and the Reynolds-Smolensky measure of redistributive capacity of a tax.

Primary study on respiration type of lingwu Changzao （Ziziphus. jujube Mill）

Lingwu Changzao （Ziziphus. jujube Mill） is a Ningxia local variety, it has a good table quality despite its short postharvest life. The respiration rate, the weight change of single fruit during growth development and the losing water of postharvest of fruit were studied. The results showed that the curve of fruit growth development was a double sigmoid characteristic. When the surface colour of fruit changed form jade-green to alizarin crimson, the respiration rate tended to fall during a entire growth development of fruit, which showed a fluctuation phenomenon. The respiration rate descended when the surface color changed from coloring to baby red, but after a crimson stage the respiration rate recurred to its original downtrend. With increasing of single fruit weight, phenomenon of respiration climacteric has not happened and the respiration rate curve showed a concavity characteristic at some stages. As a result, there was not a phenomenon of respiration climacteric with a double sigmoid growth development curve characteristic of fruit.

RF system of HIRFL-CSRe

The operational frequency range of RF system at HIRFL-CSRe (cooling storage experimental ring) is 0.5-2 MHz, and it works in fundamental and second harmonic. It includes five sections: ferrite ring loaded RF cavity, RF generator, low-level system, computer system and cavity cooling. The cavity is based on the coaxial resonator type which is short at the terminal with one gap and loaded with domestic ferrite rings. The RF generator is designed in a push-pull mode. The low-level control system is based on PID, DSP, FPGA and DDS9854+USB interface and has three feedback loops. This RF system is designed independently and manufactured domestically. For the first time, it realized the pulse modulation, variable harmonic and CW operational modes. The maximum output power is up to 70 kW and the 10 kV RF voltage is used to capture the irradiative beam and decelerate the beam from 400 to 30 MeV/u.

Multifunctional radio-frequency generator for cold atom experiments

We present a low cost radio-frequency （RF） generator suitable for experiments with cold atoms. The RF source achieves a sub-hertz frequency with tunable resolution from 0 MHz to 400 MHz and a maximum output power of 33 dBm. Based on a direct digital synthesizer （DDS） chip, we implement a ramping capability for frequency, ampli- tude and phase. The system can also operate as an arbitrary waveform generator. By measuring the stability in a dura- tion of 600 s, we fred the presented device performs comparably as Agilent33522A in terms of short-term stability. Due to its excellent performance, the RF generator has been already applied to cold atom trapping experiments.