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National Cheng Kung University
Education•Tainan City, Taiwan•
About: National Cheng Kung University is a education organization based out in Tainan City, Taiwan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Thin film. The organization has 49723 authors who have published 69799 publications receiving 1437420 citations. The organization is also known as: NCKU.
Topics: Population, Thin film, Microstructure, Dielectric, Heat transfer
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TL;DR: Early postnatal dexamethasone therapy should not be recommended for the routine prevention or treatment of chronic lung disease, because it leads to substantial adverse effects on neuromotor and cognitive function at school age.
Abstract: background We studied the outcomes at school age in children who had participated in a doubleblind, placebo-controlled trial of early postnatal dexamethasone therapy (initiated within 12 hours after birth) for the prevention of chronic lung disease of prematurity. methods Of the 262 children included in the initial study, 159 lived to school age. Of these children, 146 (72 in the dexamethasone group and 74 in the control group) were included in our study. All the infants had had severe respiratory distress syndrome requiring mechanical ventilation shortly after birth. In the dexamethasone group, 0.25 mg of dexamethasone per kilogram of body weight was given intravenously every 12 hours for one week, and then the dose was tapered. We evaluated the children’s growth, neurologic and motor function, cognition, and school performance. results Children in the dexamethasone group were significantly shorter than the controls (P=0.03 for boys, P=0.01 for girls, and P=0.03 for all children) and had a significantly smaller head circumference (P=0.04). Children in the dexamethasone group had significantly poorer motor skills (P<0.001), motor coordination (P<0.001), and visual– motor integration (P=0.02). As compared with the controls, children in the dexamethasone group also had significantly lower full IQ scores (mean [±SD], 78.2±15.0 vs. 84.4±12.6; P=0.008), verbal IQ scores (84.1±13.2 vs. 88.4±11.8, P=0.04), and performance IQ scores (76.5±14.6 vs. 84.5±12.7, P=0.001). The frequency of clinically significant disabilities was higher among children in the dexamethasone group than among controls (28 of 72 [39 percent] vs. 16 of 74 [22 percent], P=0.04). conclusions Early postnatal dexamethasone therapy should not be recommended for the routine prevention or treatment of chronic lung disease, because it leads to substantial adverse effects on neuromotor and cognitive function at school age.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the theory of consumption values to determine the influence factors on consumer choice behavior regarding green products, and examine whether there are significant differences in consumption values and choice behavior between consumers with different outlooks on environmental concerns.
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TL;DR: A distinctive form of K. pneumoniae infection, often causing liver abscess, was identified, almost exclusively in Taiwan.
Abstract: We initiated a worldwide collaborative study, including 455 episodes of bacteremia, to elucidate the clinical patterns of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Historically, community-acquired pneumonia has been consistently associated with K. pneumoniae. Only four cases of community-acquired bacteremic K. pneumoniae pneumonia were seen in the 2-year study period in the United States, Argentina, Europe, or Australia; none were in alcoholics. In contrast, 53 cases of bacteremic K. pneumoniae pneumonia were observed in South Africa and Taiwan, where an association with alcoholism persisted (p=0.007). Twenty-five cases of a distinctive syndrome consisting of K. pneumoniae bacteremia in conjunction with community-acquired liver abscess, meningitis, or endophthalmitis were observed. A distinctive form of K. pneumoniae infection, often causing liver abscess, was identified, almost exclusively in Taiwan.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of uncertainties in the effective dynamic viscosity and thermal conductivity of nanofluid on laminar natural convection heat transfer in a square enclosure was identified.
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TL;DR: This review summarizes the history and strategies of microalgal mitigation of CO₂ emissions, photobioreactor systems used to cultivate microalgae for CO⁂ fixation, current microAlgal harvesting methods, as well as applications of valuable by-products.
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Yi Chen | 217 | 4342 | 293080 |
Yang Yang | 164 | 2704 | 144071 |
R. E. Hughes | 154 | 1312 | 110970 |
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis | 152 | 1854 | 113022 |
Thomas J. Smith | 140 | 1775 | 113919 |
Hui Li | 135 | 2982 | 105903 |
Gerald M. Reaven | 133 | 799 | 80351 |
Chi-Huey Wong | 129 | 1220 | 66349 |
Joseph P. Vacanti | 119 | 441 | 50739 |
Kai Nan An | 109 | 953 | 51638 |
Ding-Shinn Chen | 104 | 774 | 46068 |
James D. Neaton | 101 | 331 | 64719 |
David C. Christiani | 100 | 1052 | 55399 |
Jo Shu Chang | 99 | 639 | 37487 |
Yu Shyr | 98 | 542 | 39527 |