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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: A CT liver image diagnostic classification system which will automatically find, extract the CT liver boundary and further classify liver diseases is presented and shown to be efficient and very effective.
Abstract: Computed tomography (CT) images have been widely used for liver disease diagnosis. Designing and developing computer-assisted image processing techniques to help doctors improve their diagnosis has received considerable interests over the past years. In this paper, a CT liver image diagnostic classification system is presented which will automatically find, extract the CT liver boundary and further classify liver diseases. The system comprises a detect-before-extract (DBE) system which automatically finds the liver boundary and a neural network liver classifier which uses specially designed feature descriptors to distinguish normal liver, two types of liver tumors, hepatoma and hemageoma. The DBE system applies the concept of the normalized fractional Brownian motion model to find an initial liver boundary and then uses a deformable contour model to precisely delineate the liver boundary. The neural network is included to classify liver tumors into hepatoma and hemageoma. It is implemented by a modified probabilistic neural network (PNN) [MPNN] in conjunction with feature descriptors which are generated by fractal feature information and the gray-level co-occurrence matrix. The proposed system was evaluated by 30 liver cases and shown to be efficient and very effective.
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01 Feb 2010TL;DR: A network DEA model is discussed which distributes the system inefficiency to its component processes and is applied to assess the impact of information technology (IT) on firm performance in a banking industry.
Abstract: A recent development in DEA (data envelopment analysis) examines the internal structure of a system so that more information regarding sources that cause inefficiency can be obtained. This paper discusses a network DEA model which distributes the system inefficiency to its component processes. The model is applied to assess the impact of information technology (IT) on firm performance in a banking industry. The results show that the impact of IT on firm performance operates indirectly through fund collection. The impact increases when the IT budget is shared with the profit generation process.
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TL;DR: In this article, a set of experiments was designed and performed to fully characterize the sensitivity of surface morphology and mechanical behavior of silicon samples produced with different DRIE operating conditions, and the data was then fitted to response surfaces to model the dependence of response variables on dry processing conditions.
Abstract: The ability to predict and control the influence of process parameters during silicon etching is vital for the success of most MEMS devices. In the case of deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) of silicon substrates, experimental results indicate that etch performance as well as surface morphology and post-etch mechanical behavior have a strong dependence on processing parameters. In order to understand the influence of these parameters, a set of experiments was designed and performed to fully characterize the sensitivity of surface morphology and mechanical behavior of silicon samples produced with different DRIE operating conditions. The designed experiment involved a matrix of 55 silicon wafers with radius hub flexure (RHF) specimens which were etched 10 min under varying DRIE processing conditions. Data collected by interferometry, atomic force microscopy (AFM), profilometry, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), was used to determine the response of etching performance to operating conditions. The data collected for fracture strength was analyzed and modeled by finite element computation. The data was then fitted to response surfaces to model the dependence of response variables on dry processing conditions.
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National Institutes of Health1, National Health Research Institutes2, Seoul National University3, National University of Singapore4, Yeshiva University5, Tianjin Medical University6, Fudan University7, University of Hong Kong8, Vanderbilt University9, Kyungpook National University10, Academia Sinica11, Korea University12, Nanjing Medical University13, Westat14, Kindai University15, Chonnam National University16, National Yang-Ming University17, Yale University18, China Medical University (PRC)19, Peking Union Medical College20, Agency for Science, Technology and Research21, Anhui Medical University22, Chang Gung University23, Huazhong University of Science and Technology24, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center25, National Taiwan University26, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention27, Kaohsiung Medical University28, National Cheng Kung University29, National Cancer Research Institute30, China Medical University (Taiwan)31, Utrecht University32, Memorial Hospital of South Bend33
TL;DR: It is observed that there is no evidence of association for lung cancer at 15q25 in never-smoking women in Asia, providing strong evidence that this locus is not associated with lung cancer independent of smoking.
Abstract: To identify common genetic variants that contribute to lung cancer susceptibility, we conducted a multistage genome-wide association study of lung cancer in Asian women who never smoked. We scanned 5,510 never-smoking female lung cancer cases and 4,544 controls drawn from 14 studies from mainland China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. We genotyped the most promising variants (associated at P < 5 × 10(-6)) in an additional 1,099 cases and 2,913 controls. We identified three new susceptibility loci at 10q25.2 (rs7086803, P = 3.54 × 10(-18)), 6q22.2 (rs9387478, P = 4.14 × 10(-10)) and 6p21.32 (rs2395185, P = 9.51 × 10(-9)). We also confirmed associations reported for loci at 5p15.33 and 3q28 and a recently reported finding at 17q24.3. We observed no evidence of association for lung cancer at 15q25 in never-smoking women in Asia, providing strong evidence that this locus is not associated with lung cancer independent of smoking.
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TL;DR: In this article, the influence of surface carbon-oxygen complexes on the performance of electrochemical capacitors fabricated with the carbon fabric was explored. But the performance was limited to 1 M within a potential range of and 0.6 V.
Abstract: Nitric acid oxidation of activated carbon fabric in combination with calcination in at different temperatures was conducted to explore the influence of surface carbon-oxygen complexes on the performance of electrochemical capacitors fabricated with the carbon fabric. The performance of the capacitors was tested in 1 M within a potential range of and 0.6 V. The specific capacitance of the carbon was found to increase upon oxidation. Surface complex analysis using temperature programmed desorption showed that the double-layer capacitance was enhanced due to the presence of CO-desorbing complexes while -desorbing complexes exhibited a negative effect. The micropore resistance for ion migration was low for these carbons. The electrical connection resistance between the fabric and the backing plate as well as that between the carbon fibers accounted for the major proportion of the overall resistance and was shown to increase due to oxidation. A capacitance increase of more than 40% has been achieved, without increasing IR drop, by nitric acid oxidation followed by 450°C calcination that was shown to remove the majority of the -desorbing complexes while retaining the CO-desorbing complexes. © 2002 The Electrochemical Society. All rights reserved.
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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 |