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Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-eso-10.1177_23969873221115268 for Long-term mortality rates of young stroke in Taiwan: A decade-long epidemiology population-based study by Yu-ying Wu, Po-Yuan Chen, Cheng-Chun Wu, Han-Jung Chen, Cheng-Loong Liang, Yi-Che Lee, Chi-Wei Lin, Chao-Ming Hung, I-Fan Lin and Hao-Kuang Wang in European Stroke Journal

Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) is a modern light source with 3 GeV electron energy and low emittance. The bunch length is about 3 mm at designed beam current of 500 mA and operating gap voltage of 3.2 MV. The short bunch length results in short Touschek lifetime and high parasitic loss of insertion device (ID). Some of the undulators are operated in vacuum at TPS, therefore the head load become an important issue. To install higher harmonic cavity is a solution for improving the Touschek lifetime and the heat load by lengthening the bunch length. The effect of installing 3rd harmonic cavity for TPS is investigated. The expected maximum elongation factor for bunch lengthening, as well as the effect on the Touschek lifetime and heat load of ID are presented in this paper., Proceedings of the 7th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2016, Busan, Korea

Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) is a 3GeV synchrotron accelerator and is built next to the present Taiwan Light Source (TLS) [1]. The stability of electron beam is pro-vided by Low-level RF control system for keeping Gap voltage and phase to be constant[2]. The Gap voltage for accelerating electron beam is provided by KEKB super-conducting cavity. During routine operation of the super-conducting cavity, water cooling system is necessary for stabilize the accessory components of the cavity to avoid damage or abnormal of the system. This article would introduce the realization and integration of the water quality monitoring and cooling system for TPS supercon-ducting cavity input coupler and high order mode damper (CPL/HOM). Brief description is shown in first section. The detail architecture and function of the designed signal monitoring system will be discussed in 2nd section. The 3rd section will have further description of interlocks for system protection. The final section would summarize the water quality monitoring and cooling system in this article., Proceedings of the 7th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2016, Busan, Korea

The analog Low Level Radio Frequency (LLRF) system is used at Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) RF system. It is composed of three feedback loops to control the amplitude and phase of accelerating field and the frequency of RF cavity. Instability of electron beam and accelerating field due to the bandwidth of LLRF system were observed during the TPS commissioning. This effect was studied and the results will be presented in this paper., Proceedings of the 7th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2016, Busan, Korea

The RF electronic system at NSRRC was made fully in house by the RF group from design through construction to completion. The first RF electronic system includes an analogue LLRF system, a step motor, and an ARC module of a Petra cavity. It was successfully integrated with a 100-kW RF transmitter, high-power RF transfer system, and a cooling system and applied to the booster of TPS. Two duplicated RF electronic system were then applied to the storage ring but integrated with the 300-KW transmitters. With these RF systems, the TPS storage ring achieved beam current 100 mA on 2015 March 26., Proceedings of the 6th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA

"The Application of Biofluid Mechanics: Boundary Effects on Phoretic Motions of Colloidal Spheres" focuses on the phoretic motion behavior of various micron- to nanometer-size particles. The content of this book is divided into two parts: one on the concentration gradient-driven diffusiophoresis and osmophoresis, and one on thermocapillary motion and thermophoretic motion driven by temperature gradient. Diffusiophoresis and osmophoresis are mainly used in biomedical engineering applications, such as drug delivery, purification, and the description of the behavior of the immune system; thermocapillary motion and thermophoretic motion are applied in the field of semiconductors, as well as in suspended impurities removal. The book also provides a variety of computer programming source codes compiled using Fortran for researchers' future applications. This book is intended for chemical engineers, biomedical engineers and scientists, biophysicists, and fundamental chemotaxis researchers. Dr. Po-Yuan Chen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Science and Technology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.

Phenethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC), an effective anticancer and chemopreventive agent, has been reported to inhibit cancer cell growth through cell-cycle arrest and induction of apoptotic events in various human cancer cells models. However, whether PEITC inhibits human oral squamous cell carcinoma HSC-3 cell growth and its underlying mechanisms is still not well elucidated. In the present study, we evaluated the inhibitory effects of PEITC in HSC-3 cells and examined PEITC-modulated cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis. The contrast-phase and flow cytometric assays were used for examining cell morphological changes and viability, respectively. The changes of cell-cycle and apoptosis-associated protein levels were determined utilizing Western blotting in HSC-3 cells after exposure to PEITC. Our results indicated that PEITC effectively inhibited the HSC-3 cells' growth and caused apoptosis. PEITC induced G(0)/G(1) phase arrest through the effects of associated protein such as p53, p21, p17, CDK2 and cyclin E, and it triggered apoptosis through promotion of Bax and Bid expression and reduction of Bcl-2, leading to decrease the levels of mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨ(m)), and followed the releases of cytochrome c, AIF and Endo G then for causing apoptosis in HSC-3 cells. These results suggest that PEITC could be an antitumor compound for oral cancer therapy.