Y Zhu, S R Yang, P P Wang*, S Savas, T Wish, J Zhao, R Green, M Woods, Z Sun, B Roebothan, J Squires, S Buehler, E Dicks, J Zhao, J R Mclaughlin, P S Parfrey and P T Campbell Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tian...

Objective: To observe the concentration of serum homocysteine in intellectuals and the related influential factors. Methods: The concentrations serum homocysteine and saliva cortisol were measured in 138 intellectuals from three cities, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Chengdu in China. All the subjects had senior titles of technical post, aged 40-69 years. Results: The mean value of serum homocysteine c...

Qi Wang, a head nurse works in Nursing, Department of Tianjin Medical University Cancer Hospital. She once worked as a head nurse in the operating theater (OR) of the hospital and as a board of director served for the OR Committee in Tianjin Nursing Association. In 1990, she studied oncology nursing in Royal Marsden Hospital in London, Britain, for a year. In 2004-2008, she served as a board me...

4 Xishan Lu, Yi Shi, Feng Gao, Haixia Xiao, Ming Wang, Jianxun Qi and George 5 F Gao 6 7 College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China 8 CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of 9 Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 10 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese A...

Translational medicine is a new medical model which focus on overcoming the serious imbalance among the basic research, its clinical and public health application. Its core is to establish effective ties among basic medical researchers, public health workers and doctors who know the needs of patients, particularly translating the molecular medical research results to suitable disease prevention...

Concentrations of 13 perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) were quantified in 79 surface soil samples from 17 coastal cities in three provinces and one municipality along the Bohai and Yellow Seas. The ∑PFASs concentrations ranged from less than limitation of quantification (LOQ) to 13.97 ng/g dry weight (dw), with a mean of 0.98 ng/g dw. The highest concentration was observed along the Xiaoqing Ri...

Takayoshi Kobayashi,1,2,3,4 Juan Du,1,2 Wei Feng,5 Katsumi Yoshino,6 Sergei Tretiak,7 Avadh Saxena,7 and Alan R. Bishop7 1Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry and Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan 2JST, ICORP, Ultrashort Pulse Laser Project, , 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan 3Department of El...

Feng Qi Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin City 300160, China Correspondence should be addressed to Feng Qi, [email protected], [email protected] Received 28 July 2009; Accepted 16 January 2010 Academic Editor: László Losonczi Copyright q 2010 Feng Qi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, ...

Strategic spatial planning, which is taken as an effective and competitive way for the governors of the city to improve the development and management level of a city, has been blooming in recent years all over the world. In the context of globalization and informatization, strategic spatial planning must transfer its focus on three different levels: global, regional and urban. Internal and ext...