Lee‐Ming Chuang, Shang‐Wen Tsai, B Huang, T Y Tai
AIMS: To establish the status of diabetes control in Asia, the Diabcare-Asia 198 study collected data from 230 diabetes centres in Bangladesh, People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam from March to December 1...
Yuan-Li Tsai, Dat P. Ha, He Zhao, Anthony J. Carlos et al.
The discovery that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) luminal chaperones such as GRP78/BiP can escape to the cell surface upon ER stress where they regulate cell signaling, proliferation, apoptosis, and immunity represents a paradigm shift. Toward deciphering the mechanisms, we report here that, upon ER str...
Graeme Blair, Jeremy M. Weinstein, Fotini Christia, Eric Arias et al.
Is it possible to reduce crime without exacerbating adversarial relationships between police and citizens? Community policing is a celebrated reform with that aim, which is now adopted on six continents. However, the evidence base is limited, studying reform components in isolation in a limited set ...
Fyezah Jehan, Sunil Sazawal, Abdullah H Baqui, Muhammad Imran Nisar et al.
Importance: Worldwide, preterm birth (PTB) is the single largest cause of deaths in the perinatal and neonatal period and is associated with increased morbidity in young children. The cause of PTB is multifactorial, and the development of generalizable biological models may enable early detection an...
Matthew H.E.M. Browning, Dexter H. Locke, Cecil C. Konijnendijk, S.M. Labib et al.
The 3-30-300 rule offers benchmarks for cities to promote equitable nature access. It dictates that individuals should see three trees from their dwelling, have 30% tree canopy in their neighborhood, and live within 300 meters of a high-quality green space. Implementing this demands thorough measure...
Tie Jun Cui, Shuang Zhang, Andrea Alù, Martin Wegener et al.
Artículo escrito por un elevado número de autores, solo se referencian el que aparece en primer lugar, el nombre del grupo de colaboración, si le hubiere, y los autores pertenecientes a la UAM
Chien‐Shun Chiou, Tsai‐Ling Lauderdale, Dac Cam Phung, Haruo Watanabe et al.
We characterized Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolates from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Vietnam to investigate their genetic relatedness and antimicrobial resistance. The isolates from Bangladesh and Vietnam were genetically closely related but were distant from those from Indonesia and ...
Md Zohurul Islam, Yutaka Kitamura, Mito Kokawa, K. Monalisa et al.
The aim of this study was to produce concentrated orange juice (OJ) powders by the application of two new techniques, namely micro-wet milling (MWM) and vacuum spray drying (VSD) process. MWM produced OJ with smaller particle sizes (55.0±1.05μm) than conventional methods and increased the nutritiona...
Chun Fa Huang, Ya Wen Chen, Ching‐Yao Yang, Keh‐Sung Tsai et al.
Arsenic is a naturally occurring toxic metalloid of global concern. Many studies have indicated a dose-response relationship between accumulative arsenic exposure and the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in arseniasis-endemic areas in Taiwan and Bangladesh, where arsenic exposure occurs through ...
Shih‐Tzer Tsai, Faruque Pathan, Linong Ji, Vincent Tok Fai Yeung et al.
BACKGROUND: The First Basal Insulin Evaluation (FINE) Asia study is a multinational, prospective, observational study of insulin-naïve Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients in Asia, uncontrolled (A1c ≥ 8%) on oral hypoglycemic agents, designed to evaluate the impact of basal insulin initiation. M...
Feng-Ming Tsai, Tat‐Dat Bui, Ming‐Lang Tseng, Ming K. Lim et al.
This study contributes to building a valid hierarchical sustainable solid waste management (SSWM) attribute set with qualitative information, which is a complicated and ambiguous problem with uncertainties. Few studies have provided qualitative information and have addressed the interrelationships a...
Mahfuzur Rahman, Che Ruhana Isa, Teng‐Tsai Tu, Moniruzzaman Sarker et al.
Abstract Despite the impressive growth of socially responsible investment (SRI) Sukuk (Islamic bond) over the last five years, a handful of comprehensive research is documented in literature. Hence, the aim of this study is to systematically explore and cluster the SRI Sukuk literature to offer comp...
I.-J. Wang, Ching‐Hui Tsai, Chi‐Hung Chen, Kuan‐Yen Tung et al.
Incense burning is a popular practice in many family homes and temples. However, little is known about the effects of indoor incense burning and genetic polymorphisms on asthma. This study evaluated the effects of indoor incense burning and glutathione S-transferase (GST) genetic polymorphisms on as...
Jasmine M Blake, Eric Rubenstein, Peng-Chou Tsai, Hafizur Rahman et al.
Low- and middle-income countries often have limited resources, underdeveloped health systems and scarce knowledge of autism spectrum disorder. The objectives of this preliminary study were to develop and adapt intervention materials and to train a native clinician to implement a community-based pare...
Siew Eng Choon, Peter van de Kerkhof, Jóhann E. Guðjónsson, Claudia de la Cruz et al.
Importance: Generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) lacks internationally accepted definitions and diagnostic criteria, impeding timely diagnosis and treatment and hindering cross-regional clinical and epidemiological study comparisons. Objective: To develop an international consensus definition and di...