Blood pressure was measured in the north and in the south of the People's Republic of China in 1002 men and 1006 women. The 24-hour urinary excretion of sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and creatinine was measured, and the relationship between urinary cations and blood pressure was studied. Blood pressure and 24-hour sodium excretion were higher in northern China than in southern China. W...

It is believed that Greater India migrated from the southern hemisphere, collided with Gondwanaland, Angaraland and Cathaysia, thereby closing an intervening oceanic Tethys along the Indus-Yarlung-Tsangpo Suture Zone (IYTSZ).The suture zone is placed along the Chaman Fault in the Baluchistan-Afghanistan area in the west, and the Indus-Yarlung-Tsangpo in the north, whereas along the east from Th...

3 Juan Peng, Yingying Deng, Fangyao Chen, Xiaomei Zhang, Xiaoyan Wang, Ying 4 Zhou, Hongzhen Zhou*, Binghui Qiu* 5 Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangdong 510515, China 6 Department of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, 7 Guangdong 510515, China 8 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 9 Southern Medical University,...

The small, basically Oriental family Opisotretidae is rediagnosed, reclassified, and shown to comprise the following seven genera, all keyed: Carlotretus Hoffman, 1980, with two species, including Carlotretus triramus sp. n. from southern China; Corypholophus Attems, 1938, with two species, one in Vietnam, the other in the Ryukyus, Japan; Martensodesmus Golovatch, 1987, with eight species, all ...

Xi Zhang 1,2, Jie Li 1,3,*, Li Qin 1,3 and Chong Shen 3,4 1 National Key Laboratory for Electronic Measurement Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China; [email protected] (X.Z.); [email protected] (L.Q.) 2 School of Computer Science and Control Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China 3 School of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China, Tai...

Land surface phenology is a highly sensitive and simple indicator of vegetation dynamics and climate change. However, few studies on spatiotemporal distribution patterns and trends in land surface phenology across different climate and vegetation types in China have been conducted since 2000, a period during which China has experienced remarkably strong El Niño events. In addition, even fewer s...

The air quality modeling system Regional Atmospheric Modeling System-Community Multi-scale Air Quality (RAMS-CMAQ) was applied to analyze temporospatial variations in wet acid deposition over East Asia in 2005, and model results obtained on a monthly basis were evaluated against extensive observations, including precipitation amounts at 704 stations and SO4(2-), NO3-, and NH4+ concentrations in...

Three species of the genus Amphiesma Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854 have long been confused in the literature, with each other and with other species of the genus. Amphiesma khasiense (Boulenger, 1890) has been considered to inhabit a large geographical region, extending from north-eastern India, east to Vietnam and southern Thailand. Amphiesma boulengeri (Gressitt, 1937) has been regarded as ...

Department of Oncology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China; Department of Cell Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China and State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Jiangsu Key Laborat...