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China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Dept. Endocrinology, Beijing, China The Xijing Hospital affiliated to 4th Military Medical University, Dept. Endocrinology, Xi'an, China The Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Dept. Endocrinology, Nanjing, China The Beijing Tongren Hospital, Dept. Endocrinology, Beijing, China The Wuhan Union Hospital, Dept. Endocrinology, Wuhan, China The Shanghai Changzheng Hospital...

Inclusion of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) in the Stockholm Convention because of its exemptions, has resulted in increased annual production of PFOS-containing chemicals in China to accommodate domestic and overseas demands. Accordingly, concern about environmental contamination with perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), such as PFOS, has arisen. However, little information is available on the s...

Low-carbon public passenger transport is an important part of low carbon city. The CO2 emissions of public passenger transport in Tianjin from 1995 to 2010 are estimated with IPCC CO2 counting method, which shows that the total CO2 emissions of Tianjin public passenger transport have gradually become stable at 1,425.1 thousand tons. And then the CO2 emissions of the buses, taxies, and rail tran...

Tianjin Chinese has one of the more complex tone sandhi systems in Northern Chinese dialects. Due to its close contact with Standard Chinese, many of its tone sandhi patterns are also variable. This article first reports a detailed acoustic study of tone sandhi patterns in both real lexical items and novel words in Tianjin. The data were collected from 48 speakers of Tianjin, who were instructe...

BACKGROUND Control groups in previous case-control studies of vaccine-preventable diseases have included people immune to disease. This study examines risk factors for measles acquisition among adults 20 to 49 years of age in Tianjin, China, and compares findings using measles IgG antibody-negative controls to all controls, both IgG-negative and IgG-positive. METHODS Measles cases were sample...

Urban problems—such as resources depletion, environment pollution and waste generation—usually occur during rapid urbanisation processes, especially in mega-urban agglomerations. Finding solutions to sustainable urban development is a global research interest, and urban metabolism is an effective approach to analysing the socio-economic system and ecosystem. In this study, three cities in the J...

King Sum Luk, Christina Ip, Meng–Qi GONG, Sunny Hei WONG, William KK Wu, Mei DONG, Guang–Ping LI, Ka Pang Chan, Yi–Mei DU, Tong LIU, Martin CS Wong, David Shu Cheong Hui, Gary Tse, International Health Informatics Study (IHIS) Network 1 Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 2 Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Facu...

from April, 2009 to March, 2011 in China Maoti Wei, Zhong qiang Yan, Chunrong Wang, Wei Liu, Wuchun Cao Department of Epidemiology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China. Tianjin Key Laboratory for Prevention and control of Occupational and Environmental Hazard, Department of Epidemiology, Logistic University of CPAPF, Tianjin, China. Department of Clinical Microbio...

1Section of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; 3Human Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 4Human Genetic Center, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX; 5Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of ...