The Current Status of Physical Therapy in China

The current health system in China has evolved by embracing both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. China is the only country in the world where the number of doctors is larger than the number of nurses but education programmes for other health professions like physical therapy have been slow to develop. In the case of physical therapy it was not until China won the bid for the Olympic Games that permission to establish the first physical therapy programme was granted. Since then China has undergone a period of rapid economic growth enabling many people to have a higher standard of living and improved health, but at the same time the country is faced with massive urbanization, industrialization, increasing environmental health threats, increased health disparities and an aging population. With the support of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, an increased investment by the Government in public health and rehabilitation and engagement of international education experts, entry-level education programmes for physical therapy have started to develop and there are now nine which are modeled, at least to some extent, on the World Confederation for Physical Therapy's international guidelines. The paper explores the development of physical therapy education in China and discusses possible options for the way forward so that as the demand for physical therapy to service 1.4 billion people grows, the profession is prepared and the standards expected of the entrylevel physical therapist will not be compromised.

Acute ascites as a clinical manifestation of dengue: A case report

Rationale:Dengue is an important tropical disease that can cause acute hemorrhagic fever.Other atypical clinical presentations of dengue also can occur,and acute ascites is one of them.Patients'concern:A 47-year-old male patient was referred to the physician with acute abdominal extension for 2 days.He revealed a history of fatigue and right upper abdominal pain in the past 4 days.Diagnosis:Dengue-induced acute ascites.Intervention:Standard fluid replacement therapy.Outcome:The clinical finding of the patient returned to normal within 5 days.Lesson:Since dengue has been expanding its endemic area at present,an atypical clinical presentation is possible and should not be ignored in the process of diagnosis.In addition,the clinical presentation of acute distention of abdomen with abnormal petechiae is a good diagnostic implication for dengue-induced ascites.

自然资源保护和经济持续发展的必要生态条件(英文)

本文系统而扼要地论述了在自然资源保护和经济持续发展中,生态学方面的先决条件。人类活动造成了环境的日益恶化,并威胁着生物圈。第三世界国家必须发展经济,否则,贫穷、饥饿和疾病将危及整个民族的生存,现行的环境持续发展的概念也许只是掩饰矛盾而并不现实。因此必须用新的战略决策使经济增长居于稳定的生态环境之中。如果把生态学原理、方法和现有的知识有效地贯彻到经济计划中,经济的持续发展就会变成现实。发展中国家试图取得经济的持续发展,必须注意以下10个必要生态条件:1.信息的传播。信息传播包括环境科学专业化训练、公众环境知识教育及有关发展计划和决策的生态学概念的诸多内容。应让决策者了解生态学理论基础;2.讲习生态系统知识。制定经济发展计划时必须认清生态系统内部、生态系统之间的相互作用,建立生态系统的概念模型以说明生态系统各组分之间的相互依赖关系;3.必须认识到生态、经济、政治和社会系统间的相互联系,人类及其社会系统是关键所在;4.设计生态系统的经济模型,为决策者提供自然资源的有关信息;5.使自然资源从消耗性利用向非消耗性利用转变;6.加强和下放权力,强制执行环境政策和法规;7.简化有关环境法规,开明地应用环境评价方法。政策与法规不应当超出政府的能力范围,并考虑?

My China Story

MY China story,about the profound influence China has had on my life from childhood through to the present,is a long one that I hope will continue far into the future.I spent a great deal of my boyhood,more than 65 years ago,leafing through all kinds of books,admittedly drawn more to their vivid illustrations than texts.They included travel literature encompassing works by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel on Insulinde,the Latin name for what we call today Indonesia.Wonderstruck at their exotic images,especially of volcanoes,I vowed to see these distant outposts for myself.My dream was to venture beyond Southeast Asia to East Asia as a whole-to Japan and,of course,to China.

晚期糖化终产物与慢性疾病

大多数慢性疾病（ChD）病人承受增强的急性期反应（APR）和慢性期反应（CPR），增强的炎症反应和过度炎症反应，以及与组织内增多的晚期糖化终产物（advanced glycation end products AGE）和晚期脂质过氧化终产物（advanced lipoxidation end products ALE）沉积有强烈相关陛的代谢综合征的折磨。随着糖化血红蛋白（HbAlc）及其在糖尿病和各种年龄相关疾病中作用的发现，

Flux blended synthesis of novel Y2O3：Eu^3＋ sensing arrays for highly sensitive dual mode detection of LFPs on versatile surfaces

In the present communication,various fluxes blended Y2 O3：Eu3＋（5 mol%） nanopowders（NPs） were successfully fabricated by solution combustion method.PXRD pattern confirms body-centered cubic structure of the prepared samples.Energy band gap（Eg） of the fabricated products was estimated and is found to be in the range of 3.13-3.32 eV.Photoluminescence（PL） emission spectra exhibit sharp and intense peaks at ～579,592,614,657,704 nm corresponding to 5 D0→7 FJ（J = 0,1,2,3 and 4） transitions of Eu3＋ ions.Significance of fluxes for enhancing the PL emissions was extensively studied.Photometric studies of the prepared samples are located in pure red region.Optimized NPs were explored as a novel sensing agent for visualization of latent fingerprints（LFPs） on various surfaces including porous,semiporous and non-porous surfaces followed by powder dusting technique.Various experiments including aging,temperature,scratching and aquatic fresh water treatment tests were performed to evaluate applicability of the fabricated NPs.Visualized LFPs exhibit well defined ridge details including most authenticated sweat pores are also revealed with high sensitivity,selectivity,little background hindrance and less toxicity.Aforementioned results evidence that the method and fabricated NPs can be considered to be simple,rapid and economical and provide novel sensing platform for LFPs visualization in prospective forensic applications.

A Note on Moments of Dividends

We reconsider a formula for arbitrary moments of expected discounted dividend payments in a spectrally negative Lévy risk model that was obtained in Renaud and Zhou （2007, [4]） and in Kyprianou and Palmowski （2007, [3]） and extend the result to stationary Markov processes that are skip-free upwards.

Reflections on the Past and Future of Integrative Medicine from a Lifelong Student of the Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine

This issue of the Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine includes a discussion of integrative medicine （IM） from various perspectives. Dr. Andrew Weil provides a comprehensive overview of the field from the US and Western perspectives; doctors Dobos and Tao delineate those aspects of Western IM which relate directly to Traditional Chinese Medicine （TCM）;

Isogeometric Analysis of a Phase Field Model for Darcy Flows with Discontinuous Data

The authors consider a phase field model for Darcy flows with discontinuous data in porous media; specifically,they adopt the Hele-Shaw-Cahn-Hillard equations of[Lee,Lowengrub,Goodman,Physics of Fluids,2002] to model flows in the Hele-Shaw cell through a phase field formulation which incorporates discontinuities of physical data,namely density and viscosity,across interfaces. For the spatial approximation of the problem,the authors use NURBS—based isogeometric analysis in the framework of the Galerkin method,a computational framework which is particularly advantageous for the solution of high order partial differential equations and phase field problems which exhibit sharp but smooth interfaces. In this paper,the authors verify through numerical tests the sharp interface limit of the phase field model which in fact leads to an internal discontinuity interface problem; finally,they show the efficiency of isogeometric analysis for the numerical approximation of the model by solving a benchmark problem,the so-called"rising bubble" problem.

Relapse of prostate cancer from the viewpoint of total gland volume kinetics theory

In many cases of prostate cancer, changes of prostate volume were measured very frequently after castration by means of transrectal ultrasound. For short-term observations, a factor called as ＂reduction time （tau [τ]）,＂ which means the time required for the volume of ＂effective portion＂ （volume responded to castration） to be reduced to one-tenth of its original value, correlated very well with patients＇ prognosis. For long-term observations for relapse, changes of prostate volume could be divided clearly into two types, namely, ＂metastatic progressive type＂ with metastasis without volume increase and ＂local progressive type＂ with remarkable volume increase without metastasis. ＂τ＂ in the ＂local progressive type＂ was far shorter than that in the ＂metastatic progressive type.＂ Much longer survival was obtained when the patient belonged to the ＂local progressive type＂ than to the ＂metastatic progressive type.＂ Thus, ＂τ＂ was the most important and the most reliable factor to predict the prognosis. Based upon these observations, a schematic analysis of prostate cancer relapse was shown.

History and conservation of wild and cultivated plant diversity in Uganda： forest species and banana varieties as case studies

The history of wild and cultivated plant diversity in Uganda is reviewed,taking forest species and bananas as examples. Palynological research into past human influences on forests is reassessed. The evidence suggests that crops were first introduced into the country at about 1,000 BCE,farming communities practicing slash and burn agriculture started to significantly influence the floristic composition of forests during the 1st millennium BCE and there was a major episode of forest reduction at about 1,000 CE related to socio-economic change. Bananas were probably introduced in the early centuries CE. The colonial era from 1894 saw the introduction of new concepts of land ownership and the establishment of forest reserves and agricultural stations. Forests and banana diversity are currently under threat,Uganda having a very high rate of deforestation and endemic banana varieties proving susceptible to introduced pests and diseases. It is suggested that,under these circumstances,conservationists take an opportunistic approach to field engagement,making use of favourable local conditions as they arise. Partnerships should be sought with elements of society concerned with sustainable use,provision of ecosystem services and cultural survival to widen the social base of plant conservation. International organisations involved in conservation of plant genetic resources and wild plant species should collaborate with one another to develop the conceptual basis of plant conservation,to make it more relevant to countries like Uganda.

THE RULE OF LAW： A THEME IN FIVE VARIATIONS

这篇文章由区分术语的五个不同意思打开法律的规则的概念。这些是：(1 ) 实际智慧的规则，(2 ) 法律的规则，(3 ) 由法律统治，(4 ) 法律的规则作为立宪政治的一个原则，并且(5 ) 法律的规则作为一种力量大楼技术。它建议除非打算被使用的详细规格被澄清，这个概念的讨论是可能的比光产生更多的热。

Corrigendum to ＂Relapse of prostate cancer from the viewpoint of total gland volume kinetics theory＂ by Hiroki Watanabe

In published paper by Watanabe, the Figure 3 on page 905 is incorrect, because of a mistake on computer processing. The correct Figure 3 is as follows.