Recently, emphasis has been placed on improving and expanding research in disaster response and the treatment of disaster-stricken populations. However, research in these settings presents unique ethical challenges with which the scientific and biomedical ethics communities continue to struggle. At the core of the controversy is the question of how best to balance the critical need for research...

In the first half of the year 2003, the whole world was seriously panicked by SARS, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes. Taiwan was also heavily stricken. While the public in Taiwan was run over by the fear of this unprecedented disaster, the key factors contributing to the ineffective control of the epidemic was identified to be a series of fault decisions made by the panic-stricken officia...

Climate change-induced drought poses a serious negative impact on global crop production and food security. The Huang Huai Hai (HHH) Plain, one of the most important grain areas in China, is heavenly stricken by drought. Motivated formulating risk prevention strategies that adapt to climate change HHH therefore, present study aims quantitatively evaluate winter wheat under multiple scenarios us...

Abstract The examination of poverty-causing factors and their mechanisms action in poverty-stricken villages is an important topic associated with poverty reduction issues. Although the individual or background effects multilevel influencing have been considered some previous studies, spatial these are rarely involved. By considering nested geographic administrative features integrating detecti...

The borderline of Iran with Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey had been considered a malaria free region. However, in 1991, after the independence of the southern countries of the former Soviet Union, a new threat of malaria importation emerged from those countries into Iran, which was affected by serious epidemics of Plasmodium vivax malaria. Various factors can affect malaria resurgence in this r...

RECENTLY a number of epidemiologic studies1-6 have been published concerning the possible causes of the relative immunity of various classes and groups of non-American men against overt coronary artery disease. Since a low-fat intake was thought to be a trait common to all of these groups, it was concluded that this dietary habit was chiefly responsible for the observed relative infrequency of ...

or city is assigned to a recipient area, in the 1950s as part of its efforts to develop the minority-inhabited border areas, and this practice was first formalized by the central government in 1979 (Qian et al. 2012). Since then, this strategy has also been used to undertake major infrastructure construction projects (such as the Three Gorges Dam in 1992) and disaster relief and recovery (such ...