china, having been a super power and its challenges

China: the next environmental super power?

Corresponding author: Tel: +46 31 773 3614 Fax: +46 31 82 50 04 E-mail: [email protected] BACKGROUND: Damp conditions indoors favour the growth of microorganisms, and these contain several agents that may cause inflammation when inhaled. Moulds contain a polyglucose in their cell wall, defined as (1 ® 3)b -D-glucan, exhibiting effects on inflammatory cells. Aim: The aim of the present st...

Patients' attitudes toward having been forcibly medicated.

Forced antipsychotic medication procedures are generally perceived to be clinically necessary options, albelt violations of individuals' bodies and autonomy. Previous studies have explored forcibly medicated patients' attitudes concerning these procedures, but as patients were interviewed while still in the hospital, this may have affected their responses. We interviewed consecutively forcibly ...

Pension Reform in China: Its Progress and Challenges

A Super-Integrable Hierarchy and Its Super-Hamiltonian Structure

It has been an important and interesting topic in soliton theory for searching for new Lax integrable or Liouville integrable systems as many as possible such that they are associated with certain evolution equations with physical meaning. The simple and efficient method to obtain continuous or discrete integrable systems was proposed Tu. Ma developed it and called it Tu scheme. By taking advan...

Advances and Challenges in Super-Resolution Advances and Challenges in Super-Resolution

Super-resolution reconstruction produces one or a set of high-resolution images from a sequence of low-resolution frames. This paper reviews a variety of super-resolution methods proposed in the last twenty years, and provides some insight to, and a summary of, our recent contributions to the general super-resolution problem. In the process, a detailed study of several very important aspects of...

Caspian Sea and its Ecological Challenges

Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on the earth. Since the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991 and discovering large oil and gas fields, some issues such as political, economic and environmental events, made the Caspian Sea important. The ecology of the Sea are being endangered due to several issues such as petroleum extraction, river and sea pollutions, water level rise, biological...