Retracted: Effect of Paris polyphylla extract on seconddegree burns in rats

This article previously published in Volume 15 Issue 10 of this journal in October 2016 has beenretracted in line with the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE,http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines)Retracted: Ma Z, Yin W, Hu G, Zhu Z, Huang Z. Effect of Paris polyphylla extract on second-degree burns in rats. Trop J Pharm Res 2016; 15(10):2131-2135 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tjpr.v15i10.11From the EditorOur attention was drawn to the falsification of the data published in this article which was confirmed.The corresponding author, Zhi-jian Huang, failed to respond to communication in this respect.26 January 201

Ultrafast femtosecond relaxation processes in luminescent and nonluminescent conducting polymers

Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation '97, 1997, San Diego, CA, United StatesJiandong D. Huang, Sergey V. Frolov, Z. Valy Vardeny, W. Chen, Thomas J. Barton, R. Sugimoto, Masanori Ozaki, and Katsumi Yoshino "Ultrafast femtosecond relaxation processes in luminescent and nonluminescent conducting polymers", Proc. SPIE 3145, Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers, (1 December 1997). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.28415

Huang Zongxi: Making it Safe Not to be Servile

Integrity is often conceived as a heroic ideal: the person of integrity sticks to what they believe is right, regardless of the consequences. In this article, I defend a conception of ordinary integrity, for people who either do not desire or are unable to be moral martyrs. Drawing on the writings of seventeenth century thinker Huang Zongxi, I propose refocussing attention away from an abstract ideal of integrity, to instead consider the institutional conditions whereby it is made safe not to be servile

Extending the gaia methodology for the design and development of agent-based software systems

Over the past decade, agent-based computing has emerged as a new and popular paradigm for design, implementation and analysis of distributed information systems. In this paper, the participant researchers in Health Care Computing Group at University of Westminster concentrate on the agent-oriented methodology for the analysis and design of agentbased systems and identify how methodology can support both the levels of "agent structure" and of "agent society" in the agent-oriented software design and development process. The research reported here takes one leading agent-oriented methodology-Gaia, and then extended it by the creation of innovative design tools which aimed at better supporting application to real-world domains. In discussion section, agent-oriented methodology and AUML approaches are compared and evaluated in great detail; the strengths and weaknesses of the current agent-oriented methodology are explored and discussed; the importance of effectively using methodology to improve agents and their productivity potential also is emphasized. Finally, we draw conclusions from the work presented and the experience gained in this research and look into the future possible improvements on agent-oriented software engineering in the agent technology research field

Nonlinear dance motion analysis and motion editing using Hilbert-Huang transform

Human motions (especially dance motions) are very noisy, and it is hard to analyze and edit the motions. To resolve this problem, we propose a new method to decompose and modify the motions using the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT). First, HHT decomposes a chromatic signal into "monochromatic" signals that are the so-called Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) using an Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) [6]. After applying the Hilbert Transform to each IMF, the instantaneous frequencies of the "monochromatic" signals can be obtained. The HHT has the advantage to analyze non-stationary and nonlinear signals such as human-joint-motions over FFT or Wavelet transform. In the present paper, we propose a new framework to analyze and extract some new features from a famous Japanese threesome pop singer group called "Perfume", and compare it with Waltz and Salsa dance. Using the EMD, their dance motions can be decomposed into motion (choreographic) primitives or IMFs. Therefore we can scale, combine, subtract, exchange, and modify those IMFs, and can blend them into new dance motions self-consistently. Our analysis and framework can lead to a motion editing and blending method to create a new dance motion from different dance motions.Comment: 6 pages, 10 figures, Computer Graphics International 2017, Conference short pape

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Human Capital and Economic Development 1992-93

Human Capital and Economic Development is the twenty-ninth Annual Public Lecture Series organized by the Department of Economics at Western Michigan University. This year\u27s series, which aims to explore the role of Human Capital in Economic Development from the national and international dimensions, is co-directed by Professors Sisay Asefa and Wei-Chiao Huang of the WMU Economics Department, and is co-sponsored by the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. All lectures are open to the public and no admission is charged. A question and answer session will follow each lecture