INTRODUCTION Road traffic can play an important role in strengthening regional economic activities, especially at high altitude, and it is necessary to know important traffic-related information. Although previous studies reported on road traffic in China, there has been little research on high-altitude road traffic to date. METHOD The annual official census of road traffic safety from 2006 t...

Silicic volcanic rocks are associated with most, if not all, continental ×ood basalt provinces and volcanic rifted margins, where they can form substantial parts of the eruptive stratigraphy and have eruptive volumes >104 km3. Poor preservation of silicic volcanic rocks following kilometer-scale uplift and denudation of the volcanic rifted margins, however, can result in only deeper level struc...

Kimberlite and lamproite magmas sample diamonds deep in the mantle and depending on the rapidity of ascent and emplacement, bring them to the surface in various states of preservation. Economic diamond deposits are usually hosted in primary kimberlite and lamproite diatremes that intrude Archean crustal provinces. Placer deposits of diamonds that are sourced in kimberlite from Archean crustal p...

This paper measures education inequality between the coastal and inland provinces and compares it with rural-urban educational inequality in China using Gini education coefficients and decomposition analysis. The main finding of the paper is that disparities in access to education between rural and urban areas rather than between coastal and inland provinces are the major cause of educational i...

Background HIV prevalence differs substantially between South Africa's provinces, but the factors accounting for this difference are poorly understood. Objectives To estimate HIV prevalence and incidence trends by province, and to identify the epidemiological factors that account for most of the variation between provinces. Methods A mathematical model of the South African HIV epidemic was ...

OBJECTIVES Cervical cancer is increasing but underestimated in developing countries. We calculated the observed and expected incidence of cervical cancer in Lusaka and Southern and Western provinces of Zambia. METHODS/MATERIALS Data for 2007 to 2012 were obtained for the 3 provinces. Data included age, residence, year of diagnosis, marital status, occupation, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV...

PURPOSE China's Ministry of Health has enacted Rural Primary Health Care Program (2001-2010) (HCP) guidelines to improve the quality of people's health. However, the program's success in Western China remains unevaluated. Thus, this study aims to begin to fill that gap by analyzing the provision and utilization of Rural Primary Health Care (RPHC) in Western China. METHODS A cross-sectional st...

Background The distribution of postgraduate medical training (residency) positions in Canada is administered by medical schools and universities in conjunction with individual provinces. In Atlantic Canada, the Maritime provinces are considered a single unit under Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia (NS), although distributed medical undergraduate education through Dalhousie and Sherbrooke has ...