日本疯牛病

Japanese officials are struggling to prevent the spread of mad cow disease. Japan's first case of mad cow disease was reported in September. The Agriculture Ministry (农业部) confirmed last month that a second cow was infected (感染). Japan is the only country in Asia where mad cow disease is known to have spread.     

AIDS

Scientists are searching for the cause of a new disease,acquired im-mune deficiency syndrome.AIDS destroys the immune system of thebody.It leaves a person open to attack by deadly infection.It can alsocause serious harm to the brain and nervous system.     

测一测：你喜欢受到关注吗？

Are you an attention seeker？ Are you the kind of person who loves attention at work？ Or do you prefer to remain anonymous？ Do our quiz and find out whether you are an attention seeker or not,1. Work is an opportunity to： a） Progress in the profession of my choice. b） Show everyone what a great and fantastic person I am.     

生命的断想

I've learned…That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.I've learned…That when you are in love, it shows.I've learned…That just one person saying to me, "you've made my day !"makes my day.I've learned…That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.I've learned…That being kind is more important than being right.I've learned…That you should never refuse a gift from a child.I've learned…That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.I've learned…That sometimes what a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.I've learned…That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.     

Making Friends

Everyone needs friends. They are a basic source of happiness and hope in our lives. However, the ability to make friends varies from person to person. To some people, making friends is easy, and to others it's very difficult. We all have the ability to make friends. Unfortunately, many people never reach their potential(潜能). Making friends is a skill, and     

人为什么打鼾?

It's happened to all of us: sleeplessly tossing and turning while the person next door snorts(喷鼻息) his way through the night. Why is it a perfectly normal, healthy person will make such an awful noise? Dr. Neil B. Kavey, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, offers some clues.     

Language Teacher’s Information Literacy in the ICT context

With the rapid development of Information and Communication Technology(ICT),the modern information and communica tion media have been changing the rationale of learning and teaching.Under such circumstances,a person’s,especially an educator’s in formation literacy plays an important role in their personal and professional development.This essay discusses the influence of the new challenge on EFL(English as a foreign language) teachers’professional development.EFL teachers should be fully empowered to be infor mation literate language educators in the curriculum innovation of TEFL(teaching English as a foreign language).It is suggested that EFL teachers’awareness,attitudes,and personal needs should be taken into account in the process of integrating ICT into their professional practice and self-development.     

Does Regional Difference Account for the Formation of Prototype?

The study of categorization and prototype has been an interesting subject for the scholars in psycholinguistics. They have done different studies to investigate the reasons for the formation of the prototype in people‘s mind. Some scholars believe that cultural factors play an important role in the formation of prototype. This paper is intended to look into the categorization of the fruits in China, and the researcher hopes to get the factors which may to some extent influence their idea of typicality. The researcher believes that the regions where a person grows up in may have a subtle effect on his or her idea of typicality of certain items.     

Kidney function change after transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with diabetes and/or hypertension

Aortic stenosis(AS)is a progressive heart valve disease occurring predominantly in older patients.According to a survey in a western country,the prevalence of AS is nearly 6.4%in patients over 75 years old(Carabello and Paulus,2009).Transcatheter aortic valve replacement(TAVR)is an alternative method for AS patients.Previous studies have described how up to 66%of TAVR patients have concomitant baseline kidney dysfunction(Ferro et al.,2015;Gargiulo et al.,2015).The majority of patients can benefit from the TAVR procedure with the recovery of kidney function.     

Digging into the Culture Background of the Target Language——Prerequisite of learning a foreign language

The term, culture shock, was introduced for the first time in 1958 to describe the anxiety produced when a person moves to a completely new environ- ment. This term expresses the lack of direction, the feeling of not knowing what to do or how to do things in a new environment, and not knowing what is appro- priate or inappropriate. The feeling of culture shock generally sets in after the first few weeks of coming to a new place. "Coming to America is like jumping into cold water," says an inte…     

小铜币,大意义

Mahatma Gandhi注1,honored as "the father of India," was a very special person. Once,Gandhi was on an 1)expedition to collect 2)funds from various cities and villages for an organization to help the poor.He went to several places and finally reached Orissa注2.     

The Gaze Theory

Gaze describes the relationship of the subject with the power and desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.The gaze can be motivated by the subject’ s desire to control the object it sees,and an object that can likewise capture and hold the subject’ s eye.The term ’ gaze’ is often defined as looking long and intently with affection at a subject.A person who determines a sense of themselves as an individual element in the world makes up the idea of the gaze.The concept of the gaze is also a central part of theories looking within modernity.     

The Actor

Acting is such an over-crowded profession that the only advice thatshould be given to a young person thinking of going on the stage is‘Don't!’But it is useless to try to discourage someone who feels that he must act,although the chances of his becoming famous are small.The normal     

A systematic review： How to choose appropriate health-related quality of life （HRQOL） measures in routine general practice？

INTRODUCTION The ultimate goal of health care is to maintain or improve the quality of life of people. Health is an important determinant of a person’s quality of life although it is not the only one. Other factors such as culture, religion, environment, education and finance can also affect quality of life but they are often be- yond the scope of health care. Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is the main concern of health care professionals and is becoming an important health out…     

Case Report:Pulmonary actinomycosis:a case undergoing resection through video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS)

Actinomycosis is an uncommon disease, which is usually manifested as cervicofacial infection and related to poor oral hygiene or compromised immune function. Pulmonary actinomycosis is rare, but its diagnosis is changing due to its variable presentation and the similarity in appearance to other intrapulmonary diseases. Here we report an 80-year-old man with a solitary pulmonary nodule over the left upper lobe. Pulmonary neoplasm was highly suspected in this patient and thus resection of the mass was undertaken through video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS). Histopathological examination demonstrated this patient had an Actinomyeces infection. While the application of VATS in patients with pulmonary actinomycosis has rarely been reported in literature, we conclude that VATS is valuable for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with undetermined pulmonary nodule(s).     

A non-canonical example to support P is not equal to NP

The more unambiguous statement of the P versus NP problem and the judgement of its hardness, are the key ways to find the full proof of the P versus NP problem. There are two sub-problems in the P versus NP problem. The first is the classifications of different mathematical problems (languages), and the second is the distinction between a non-deterministic Turing machine (NTM) and a deterministic Turing machine (DTM). The process of an NTM can be a power set of the corresponding DTM, which proves that the states of an NTM can be a power set of the corresponding DTM. If combining this viewpoint with Cantor’s theorem, it is shown that an NTM is not equipotent to a DTM. This means that "generating the power set P(A) of a set A" is a non-canonical example to support that P is not equal to NP.     

Values Accepted by Youth

Values may be considered as generalized beliefs about what is or is not desirable and also as motives. The strength of a person＇s values may affect how much effort a person puts into an activity, how long a person persists at an activity, the way situations are construed, the affective responses that occur when an activity is undertaken unsuccessfully. Schwartz and Bilsky （1987, 1990） proposed that there are ten motivational types of values that could be derived from the three universal human requirements. Schwartz and Bilsky also specified sets of dynamic relation between the value types. The values that were incorporated into the value types were from the Schwartz Value Survey that contained 56 values covering a wide range of content. The value types proposed by Schwartz （1992）were： power, achievement, hedonism, stimulation, self-direction, universalism, benevolence, conformity, tradition and security. The results of the research that I am presenting refer to relations between value types preferred and accepted by young people and goals life, a temporal orientation, worries, some of personality traits.     

Association of Graves’ disease and Graves’ ophthalmopathy with the polymorphisms in promoter and exon 1 of cytotoxic T lymphocyte associated antigen-4 gene

INTRODUCTION Graves’ disease (GD) is an autoimmune diseasecharacterized clinically by hyperthyroidism, diffusegoiter, Graves’ ophthalmopathy (GO) and the pres-ence of TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) receptorautoantibodies. GD is a multifactorial disease thadevelops as the result of a complex interaction be-tween genetic susceptibility genes and environmentafactors. Multiple genetic factors are believed to in-fluence the autoimmunity evident in GD, but a firmgenetic basis for GD …     

环球简讯(英文)

WHO Clarifies Smallpox[[医]天花] RecommendationThe World Health Organization is considering allowing a genetic modification of the deadly smallpox virus to be made for research purposes. A WHO spokesman says that though a decision has been made, the controversial policy still needs to pass through a review process.