Hypohalous acids are generated by activated leucocytes, via the formation of H2O2 and the release of peroxidase enzymes (myeloperoxidase and eosinophil peroxidase). These species are important bactericidal agents, but HOCI ...

Hysteria was once a serious psychological syndrome, but nowadays in the West, this disease category is never used. TCM literature available in English, however, often mentions hysteria and a number of other obsolete ...

This paper represents a companion piece or supplement to Dancing in the Contact Zone. In that paper I introduced Ibu Sawitri, her dance, and my experience of our embodied cultural encounter.¹ The first part of this paper ...

In the post-genomics era, proteomics has become a central branch in life sciences. An understanding of biological functions will not only rely on protein identification, but also on protein quantification in a living ...

Technologies that are being developed according to the needs of a particular society depend largely on the level of skills, available materials, economy, requirements and cultural traits of that society. If such technologies ...

This chapter examines the idea of the city as "ideal' cityscape. The argument is developed through case study material on cinema and tourism, collected in Hong Kong from 2000 to 2004, with the major focus on Hong Kong ...