BACKGROUND Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has circulated in China and caused yearly outbreak. To understand the transmission of the disease and to assess the spatial variation in cases reported, we examined age-specific transmission characteristics and reporting rates of HFMD for 31 provinces in mainland China. METHODS We first analyzed incidence spatial patterns and age-specific inciden...

Saccharum spontaneum is the most variable wild relative of sugarcane with potential for use in sugarcane improvement programs. In order to help preserve and exploit this species, 152 accessions from eight major geographical regions in China, including Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Fujian, and Jiangxi provinces, were investigated by analyzing 20 simple sequence repeats (S...

In the conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) internal sub-processes of the production units are ignored. The current paper develops a network-DEA super-efficiency model to compare the performance of efficient network systems. A new ranking method is developed by aggregating the computed super-efficiency scores with a J-divergence measure. The proposed approach is then applied to evaluate...

OBJECTIVES We examined the level of agreement between biomedical and self-reported measurements of hypertension and diabetes in a Chinese national community sample, and explored associations of the agreement and possible contextual effects among provinces and geographic regions in China. DESIGN Secondary analysis of a cohort sample. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Community samples were drawn from...

L ike it or not, health care is a provincial responsibility. The health care machine that runs well or doesn’t quite run, depending on your region, is a machine designed for and based on local concerns. Patient demographics and needs differ among provinces in some ways, and it is the legal right of the province to determine priorities, especially in these days of cost-containment measures. The ...

This monograph provides a systematic analysis of interprovincial migration in China and regional population dynamics since the 1950s. Data were obtained from the 1% sample survey of 1987. Chapters are devoted to an examination of the main features of population distribution and spatial differences of major demographic indicators, the causes and selectivity of migration, and the structure of m...

manufacture of coke, refined petroleum products and nuclear fuel is one of the isic (international standard industrial classification of all economic activities, rev.2) that produced 8.5 percent of industry value-added in iran in 2007. isfahan, tehran, khuzestan, hormozgan, and markazi provinces accounted for 90 percent of the value added in this sector. to determine competitive advantage in th...

We seek to test whether innovation, measured by the number of accepted patents improves or worsens environment in China. hypothesize existence an inverse U-shaped curve, which differs industry and provincial level development. In that context, we for a quadratic relationship between CO2 emissions per capita 30 provinces 32 economic sectors use novel fixed effect panel data quantile (FEQR) regre...