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... clubs Shows Activities "In Gerrard Street People Play Mahjong for Unbelievable, Terrifying Sums of Money. It's ...
2004 - Gale Group | TDA
Han Zhang, Yi Peng, Chunliu Li, Hong Lan, Guoqiang Xing, Zhu Chen, Bo Zhang,
... MCI is lacking. Recent studies suggest that playing mahjong may improve attention and memory in elderly people. ... First Nursing Home of Nanchong were randomized into mahjong and control groups (N = 28, each group). Subjects in the mahjong group played mahjong three times a week for 12 weeks, while ... and then at 6 and 12 weeks after mahjong administration. Results: There were no baseline differences in ... and FAQ scores, however, improved significantly in the mahjong group but not in the control group after ...
Tópico(s): Art Therapy and Mental Health
2020 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Neurology
Jessica Berens, John Coleman, Malcolm Brown, William Kay, Barbara Hall, Jan Collie, Chris Ryder, Rob Hughes, John Peter, Liz Sly, George Jones Political Correspondent, Eric Dymock, Dr Margaret White, Patrick Bishop, Graham Rose, Hugh G ApSimon, Mark Lawson, John Kerr, Colin New, Nick Pitt, John Huxley Industrial Editor, Henry Porter, Dalbert Hallenstein, Mark Hosenball, Jancis Robinson, John Westwell, John Best, Patrick Stoddart, Mario Modiano, Iain Johnstone, John Newell, Robert Hewison, Mazeer Mahmood, Mick Brown, Molly Keane, Keith Botsford, David Dougill, Roger Eglin Business News Editor, Cliff Temple, Sick Gadaffi, Sarah Helm, Gerry Woolf, Rodney Lord, David Cairns, Peter Kemp, Norman Harris, Anne Jacobs, Almerigo Grilz, Toby Moore, David Connett, Andre Previn, Jola Smith, Stephen Lawson, Roger Thurow, Michael Cecil, Alice Moro, George Perry, Byron Rogers, Robin Marlar, Jeremy Bruce-Watt, John Sheppard, Christine Toomey, Bernard Cafferty, Brian Moynahan, Roy Strong, Amit Roy, Nigella Lawson, Jill Joliffe, Fancis Robinson, George Collins, Andrea Waind, John Craig, Tim Rayment, Mazher Mahmood, Brian Jackman, Ted Dexter, Nick Gilbert, William Clark, John Hopkins, Askold Krushelnycky, Liz Jobey, Kristina De La Motta, Robert Lacey, Eric Marsden, J Nairn, Simon Freeman, Stephen Pile, D Kenny, Peter Roberts, Daniel Kirk, Richard Cook, Diana Wright, Stephen Jones, Brian Deer, Norman Lebrecht, Mrs Annie Thomson, Stephen Aris, Roger Boyes, John Whitmore, Dilys Powell, Brough Scott, Deyan Sudjic, Oliver Gillie, Richard Woods, Max Prangnell, Maurice Chittenden, Tim Brown, Dudley Doust, Barrie Penrose, Tim Blackstone, Philip Beresford, Godfrey Smith, Gay Biddlecombe, Sarah Anderson, Annabel Walker, Brian Glanville, John Carey, Bill Martin, Tim McGirk, Benny Green, David Sinclair, Michael Roberts, Alec Stout, Andy Coghlan, Ian Williams, Douglas Bell, Hugh Davis, Anthony Blunt, Peter Jenkins, Marina Vaizey, Margaret Park, George Jones, Tony Hetherington, Sir Kenneth Cork, Jon Connell, Leslie Geddes-Brown, Boris Schapiro,
... McConville/Quartet Books £14.95 pp288 Crime The Mahjong Spies Private Advertisers Multiple Classified Advertising Items Fairshare ...
1986 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA
Yoichiro Tamori, Carl Uli Bialucha, Aiguo Tian, Mihoko Kajita, Yi‐Chun Huang, Mark Norman, Nicholas Harrison, Joanna Poulton, Kenzo Ivanovitch, Lena Disch, Tao Liu, Wu‐Min Deng, Yasuyuki Fujita,
... competition. Using biochemical immunoprecipitation methods, we first identified Mahjong as a novel binding partner of Lgl in both flies and mammals. In Drosophila, Mahjong is an essential gene, but zygotic mahjong mutants (mahj−/−) do not have obvious patterning defects ... disc epithelium. Importantly, comparable phenomena also occur in Mahjong-knockdown mammalian cells; Mahjong-knockdown Madin-Darby canine kidney epithelial cells undergo ... type wing disc epithelium. These data indicate that Mahjong interacts with Lgl biochemically and genetically and that ...
Tópico(s): Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
2010 - Public Library of Science | PLoS Biology
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... Chris Patten on a walkabout among the prostitutes, mahjong and massage parlours as he samples the sleazy ...
1992 - Gale Group | TDA
Sheung‐Tak Cheng, Alfred Chan, Edwin C. S. Yu,
... To explore the effect of an activity treatment—mahjong—on the cognitive functioning of persons with mild- ... were able to play, yet not having played mahjong for the past six months. They were randomly ... follow-up. Results Regardless of frequency of playing, mahjong produced consistent gains across all cognitive performance measures. ... MMSE (around 0.6). The effects lasted after mahjong had been withdrawn for a month, suggesting that ... effect once an initial threshold is attained. Conclusion Mahjong is a viable treatment option for dementia. Because ...
Tópico(s): Child Therapy and Development
2006 - Wiley | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
J. G. SWIFT MAC NEILL., W. T. CRANFIELD, Director., FRED. C. LINFIELD. House of Commons, Jan. 22., A. E. C. MYERS, Lieut.-Colonel., JAMES CRICHTON-BROWNE. Crindau, Dumfries., By CALLISTHENES., EUSTACE PERCY., AUGUSTINE BIRRELL., HARRY FOSTER.,
... Grave Decision. Engineers And Joint Action. Companies Firm., Mahjong. An Echo From China., Engineering In 1923. Review ...
1924 - Gale Group | TDA
William W.N. Tsang, G.C. Wong, Kelly L. Gao,
... is known to slow down the degeneration. Playing mahjong involves lots of eye-hand coordination. The objective was to investigate the relationship between playing mahjong and eye-hand coordination in older adults using ... 2) toward a moving visual target. [Results] The mahjong players demonstrated significantly better end-point accuracy when ... non-dominant hands toward a moving target. [Conclusion] Mahjong players have better eye-hand coordination than non-players. Playing mahjong could usefully be introduced to older adults as ...
Tópico(s): Children's Physical and Motor Development
2016 - Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia | Journal of Physical Therapy Science
Sheung‐Tak Cheng, Pizza Ka Yee Chow, You‐Qiang Song, Edwin C. S. Yu, Alfred Chan, Tatia M.C. Lee, John Lam,
To examine the effects of cognitive stimulation (mahjong) and physical exercise (tai chi [TC]) on cognitive performance in persons with dementia.Cluster-randomized open-label controlled design.Nursing homes.One hundred ... group activities.Homes were randomized into three conditions (mahjong, TC, and simple handicrafts [control]). Activities were conducted ... treat analyses were performed using mixed-effects regression. Mahjong's effect varied by time for MMSE, delayed ... typical pattern was that control participants deteriorated while mahjong and TC participants maintained their abilities over time, ...
Tópico(s): Frailty in Older Adults
2013 - Elsevier BV | American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Sheung‐Tak Cheng, Pizza Ka Yee Chow, Edwin C. S. Yu, Alfred Chan,
... symptoms were randomized by home into three conditions—mahjong (a.k.a. mah-jongg), tai chi, and ... chi participants whose scores remained relatively unchanged, the mahjong group reported a drop of 3.25 points ( ... reason for depression to return to baseline. Conclusions Mahjong can lower depressive symptoms in those with mild ... symptoms were randomized by home into three conditions—mahjong (a.k.a. mah-jongg), tai chi, and ... chi participants whose scores remained relatively unchanged, the mahjong group reported a drop of 3.25 points ( ...
Tópico(s): Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
2012 - Elsevier BV | American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Jin Wang, Nan Liu, Xiaoguang Zhao,
... explore the association of participation in cards or mahjong with cognitive function in older adults. A total ... according to the frequency of playing cards or mahjong into the "regularly" (R) group, "occasionally" (O) group, ... old. Regression analysis indicated that playing cards or mahjong, together with age, educational level, sex, marital status, ... is an association between participation in cards or mahjong and cognitive function in the population of Chinese ...
Tópico(s): Physical Activity and Health
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Gang Tian, Jingliang Shuai, Rui Li, Tong Zhou, Yan Shi, Gang Cheng, Yan Yan,
... the associations between the frequency of playing cards/mahjong and the incidence of dementia. Results: A total ... with participants who rarely or never played cards/mahjong, participants who played cards/mahjong almost every day had a significantly lower risk ... 66, 0.41-0.92]. Conclusions: Playing cards/mahjong in the elderly may contribute to reducing the ...
Tópico(s): Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
2022 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Bloody Mahjong is a kind of mahjong. It is very popular in China in recent years. It not only has the characteristics of mahjong's conventional state space, huge hidden information, complicated ... DenseNet model. DenseNet is used to extract the Mahjong situation features. The learned features are used as ...
Tópico(s): Video Analysis and Summarization
2021 - Institution of Engineering and Technology | CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology
... method for constructing artificial intelligence (AI) player of Mahjong, which is a multiplayer imperfect information game. Since ... huge, constructing an expert-level AI player of Mahjong is challenging. We define multiple Markov decision processes (MDPs) as abstractions of Mahjong to construct effective search trees. We also introduce two methods of inferring state values of the Mahjong using these MDPs. We evaluated the effectiveness of ...
Tópico(s): Sports Analytics and Performance
2020 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Games
Hiroshi Satō, Tomohiro Shirakawa, Akitoshi Hagihara, Kento Maeda,
... an optimal strategy. In this study, we took mahjong as an example of complicated games with imperfect ... a new method to classify opponents' strategies in mahjong by analyzing play records of mahjong called 'Haihu' statistically. We find that the advanced mahjong players' behaviors are classified into four patterns. We ...
Tópico(s): Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
2015 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Parallel Emergent and Distributed Systems
Sheung‐Tak Cheng, Pizza Ka Yee Chow, You‐Qiang Song, Edwin C. S. Yu, John Lam,
... Background: To examine the effects of complex cognitive (mahjong) and physical (Tai Chi) activities on dementia severity ... were randomized by nursing home into three conditions: mahjong, Tai Chi, and simple handicrafts (control). Activities were ... cognitive and functional components of the CDR, but mahjong had a significant interaction with time on the ... a slower rate of global deterioration in the mahjong group as compared with the control group. Conclusions: Mahjong led to a gradual improvement in global functioning ...
Tópico(s): Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
2014 - Cambridge University Press | International Psychogeriatrics
Ming Ding, Hui Ouyang, Caiyun Zhang, Lijun Jiang, Runsen Zhuang, Xiaomei Dong, Xiongfei Chen, Hongmei Yang, Qian Tao,
... present study aimed to examine the relationship between mahjong playing, leisure physical activity, and mild cognitive impairment ( ... group). The regression results showed that years of mahjong playing (odds ratio = 0.595, 95% confidence interval [ ... a series of covariates. Leisure physical activity and mahjong playing interacted with each other and produced combined ...
Tópico(s): Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
2021 - Human Kinetics | Journal of Aging and Physical Activity
Jane Kimm Lii Teh, Nai Peng Tey,
... examined three types of leisure activities (playing cards/mahjong, watching TV/listening to the radio, and participation ... 2011 showed that respondents who frequently played cards/mahjong at baseline were less likely to feel persistent ... of 2011. Hence, active participation in playing cards/mahjong and TV/radio entertainment can be effective treatment ... nation's culture and heritage, such as playing mahjong, may be used as an intervention strategy to ...
Tópico(s): Physical Activity and Health
2019 - Elsevier BV | SSM - Population Health
Tian Tan, Yue Li, Jingling Xue,
... site abstraction to model heap objects. We present MAHJONG, a novel heap abstraction that is specifically developed ... that are created by the allocation-site abstraction, MAHJONG enables an allocation-site-based points-to analysis ... nearly the same precision for type-dependent clients. MAHJONG is simple conceptually, efficient, and drops easily on ... analyses and three widely used type-dependent clients. MAHJONG is expected to provide significant benefits for many ...
Tópico(s): Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
2017 - Association for Computing Machinery | ACM SIGPLAN Notices
... 16Tamori Y. et al.Involvement of Lgl and Mahjong/VprBP in cell competition.PLoS Biol. 2010; 8: ... 16Tamori Y. et al.Involvement of Lgl and Mahjong/VprBP in cell competition.PLoS Biol. 2010; 8: ... 16Tamori Y. et al.Involvement of Lgl and Mahjong/VprBP in cell competition.PLoS Biol. 2010; 8: ... 16Tamori Y. et al.Involvement of Lgl and Mahjong/VprBP in cell competition.PLoS Biol. 2010; 8: ...
Tópico(s): Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
2017 - Elsevier BV | Trends in cancer
In this article I examine high-stakes mahjong in Taiwan as a ritual mode of male agency fraught with political significance. I show how men divine fate by conjuring estranged game ... values and patterns of citizenship. By further situating mahjong within a socially and politically encompassing play-ritual framework, I argue that mahjong mimesis generalizes a pathos of "sympathetic agonism" that ...
Tópico(s): Diversity and Impact of Dance
2007 - George Washington University | Anthropological Quarterly
Mahjong is the quintessential Chinese game. It is played with 144 tiles and each game has 16 ... These deficiencies are overcome by the Anti-swindle Mahjong Leisure System (AMLPS) which uses mature RFID technology and employs ontology to capture Mahjong playing knowledge from a focus group. Unlike current non-IT-based Mahjong systems, AMLPS has computing capabilities which make it ... proven to be unique in the field of Mahjong games; it has two patents registered with Taiwan' ...
Tópico(s): Digital Rights Management and Security
2013 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Hanna Wirman, Olli Tapio Leino,
... case study of variations in the game of Mahjong differing from each other in terms of the ... play. It argues that while the variations in Mahjong can be described as sitting together in a ... practices that are not reducible to the “transmedial Mahjong” but whose understanding nevertheless necessitates knowledge of the rules and conventions of Mahjong. This not only casts critical light on how ...
Tópico(s): Cinema and Media Studies
2017 - SAGE Publishing | Games and Culture
... literature related to “empty-nest elderly”, “cognitive function”, “mahjong”, and “Chinese square dance” in the Elsevier, Web ... delaying cognitive decline. Mental activities, such as playing mahjong, and physical activities, such as the Chinese square ... health personnel and related professionals may consider using mahjong and Chinese square dance to promote psychological health ...
Tópico(s): Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
2019 - De Gruyter | Frontiers of Nursing
Research Article| February 01 2006 Mahjong Politics in Contemporary China: Civility, Chineseness, and Mass Culture Paul E. Festa Paul E. Festa Search for other works by this ... MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul E. Festa; Mahjong Politics in Contemporary China: Civility, Chineseness, and Mass ...
Tópico(s): Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
2006 - Duke University Press | positions asia critique
... discourse surrounding the popular Chinese table game of mahjong in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, using it ... and Republican periods. After analyzing the connection between mahjong; its forerunner, madiao; and their antithesis, weiqi (go), it traces the changing position of mahjong in Chinese society from a game seemingly loathed ... in the late Qing and Republican periods, as mahjong moved from a visibly male activity to one ... in the twentieth century. The article argues that mahjong has been uniquely resistant to regulation and control. ...
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
2016 - University of Hawaii Press | Cross-currents
Qichao Wang, Yang Zhou, Dongyi Zhu, Yongming Li,
... efficient algorithmic approach to compute deficiency number of Mahjong configuration is designed, i.e., the number of ... number of computation branches is only 7.784. Mahjong is a traditional Chinese tile-based game with ... in many different countries. An important issue on Mahjong topic is how many tiles the player needs ... plays a significant role in AI development for Mahjong game. However, deficiency number cannot be easily computed ...
Tópico(s): Gambling Behavior and Treatments
2022 - Elsevier BV | Entertainment Computing
Xiaodi Wu, Yu Qi, Xinyun Zhu, Kedi Xu, Junming Zhu, Jianmin Zhang, Yueming Wang,
... use of BCIs. We designed a brain-controlled mahjong game with AI augmentation. As the user plays ... from the candidates rather than from all the mahjong tiles in hand. This design enables the mahjong game with easy control, thus improving the user ... can fluently control the system to play the mahjong game.
Tópico(s): Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
2022 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
Travis J. Cossairt, W. Tandy Grubbs,
... described whereby introductory chemistry knowledge is tested using mahjong solitaire game play. Several tile sets and board ... recognize weak and strong acids and bases. Chemical Mahjong is intended for introductory chemistry students. Adobe Flash ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Learning in Education
2011 - American Chemical Society | Journal of Chemical Education
Xin Liu, Ye Ruan, Limei Huang, Yanfei Guo, Shuangyuan Sun, Hao Chen, Junling Gao, Yan Shi, Qianyi Xiao,
... Background Cognitive leisure activity, such as reading, playing mahjong or cards and computer use, is common among ... every year from 2015 to 2018. Reading, playing mahjong or cards and computer use were measured by ...
Tópico(s): Technology Use by Older Adults
2021 - BioMed Central | BMC Geriatrics