Zunjian Bian 1,2, Biao Cao 1,†, Hua Li 1,†, Yongming Du 1,*, Lisheng Song 3, Wenjie Fan 4, Qing Xiao 1,† and Qinhuo Liu 1,* ID 1 State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10010, China; [email protected] (Z.B.); [email protected] (B.C.); [email protected] (H.L.); [email protected] (Q.X.) 2 College of Resources...

a National Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China b Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China c Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska, NE 68583–0726, USA d Biology Department, San Diego State University, CA 92182–4614, USA e Institute of Agricultura...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to screen for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in southwestern China and understand the prevalence and risk factors of ROP, which may provide evidence useful in the prevention and treatment of ROP. MATERIAL/METHODS 1864 preterm infants (gestational age of <37 weeks and birth weight of ≤2500 g) underwent ROP screening from January 2009 to November 2012 in S...

Arsenic exposure from burning coal with high arsenic contents occurs in southwest Guizhou, China. Coal in this region contains extremely high concentrations of inorganic arsenic. Arsenic exposure from coal-burning is much higher than exposure from arsenic-contaminated water in other areas of China. The current status and prevention strategies for arsenic poisoning from burning high-arsenic coal...

X iv :1 40 3. 57 53 v1 [ cs .A I] 2 3 M ar 2 01 4 D-CFPR: D numbers extended consistent fuzzy preference relations Xinyang Deng, Felix T.S. Chan, Rehan Sadiq, Sankaran Mahadevan, Yong Deng School of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China School of En...

Porcine torovirus (PToV) was detected from intestinal samples of piglets with diarrhea from 20 farms in southwest China. The total prevalence of PToV was 45% (9 out of 20 farms); it was the first detection of PToV in China, and also the study analyzed the phylogenetic relationships between the Chinese PToV and PToV reference strains as well as other representative toroviruses. Genetic and phylo...

This article explores an epidemic of love-suicide in a Lahu community of southwest China in the 1950s. Suicide’s rarity and the methodological constraints of ethnographic fieldwork have severely hampered attempts to understand suicide cross-culturally. Using qualitative and quantitative research methods in a longitudinal fieldwork study provides insights regarding the patterns of suicide in a m...

Two new species of the genus Cyana Walker, 1854 are described: triapotamia sp. n. (northern Myanmar: Kachin State, and Southwest China: Yunnan) meiomena (Southwest Yunnan, Northern Vietnam). Both belong to divakara (Moore, [1866]) complex within dohertyi (Elwes, 1890) group. Adults, male female genitalia other similar illustrated.

A drought index analytical method based on a relative moisture index was used to evaluate meteorological data between 1958 and 2012 and study the temporal variation, spatial distribution, and sub-regional evolution characteristics of spring drought in Southwest China. The results showed a decreasing frequency of spring drought in the West Sichuan Plateau, Southwest Sichuan Upland, and Yunnan Pl...

BACKGROUND Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common reproductive endocrinological disease with heterogeneous phenotype. Obesity contributes to the increased prevalence and severity of PCOS. Whether the intakes of major nutrients are higher in Chinese PCOS patients is still unknown. OBJECTIVES To study the intakes of total energy, protein, fat and carbohydrate in Southwest Chinese PCOS pat...