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Meeting the Challenge of Diabetes in China

China’s estimated 114 million people with diabetes pose a massive challenge for China’s health policy-makers who have significantly extended health insurance coverage over the past decade. What China is doing now, what it has achieved, and what remains to be done should be of interest to health policy-makers, worldwide. We identify the challenges posed by China’s two pr...

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exhibited their new instruments in 1400 booths. Of the 900 papers presented at the conference, the following from the symposium on 'Process analysers' dealt with automated stream analysis for process control. Gibbon and Hackett [1] described the use of automated research-quality gas chromatographs to analyse the effluents from bench-scale coal gasification or liquefaction equipment. The high sp...

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Type of your presentation 1) Invited lecture 2) Poster presentation 3) Workshop / Symposium 4) Others (Please explain specifically below () Title of your presentation Cell type-specific inhibitory inputs to dendritic and somatic compartments of parvalbumin-expressing neocortical interneuron. 1. Summary of your presentation (Include what you learned from discussions with audience) Par...

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