Badong Chen 1,*, Jianji Wang 1, Haiquan Zhao 2 and Jose C. Principe 1,3 1 School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; [email protected] (J.W.); [email protected] (J.C.P.) 2 School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China; [email protected] 3 Department of Electrical and Computer Eng...

Meizhu Li, Qi Zhang, Qi Liu, 3 and Yong Deng 4, 5, ∗ School of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical...

Xian Jian , Man Jiang , Zuowan Zhou *, Mingli Yang **, Jun Lu , Shuchun Hu , Yong Wang , David Hui c a Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610031, China b Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China c Department of Mechan...

L. Hu, M. Liang, A. Mouraux, R.G. Wise, Y. Hu, G.D. Iannetti 4 5 Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (Ministry of Education) and School of Psychology, 6 Southwest University, Chongqing, China; 7 Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, UK; 8 Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; 9 Institute ...

BACKGROUND Paragonimiasis infection has no specific symptoms or typical radiologic findings, leading to the possibility of misdiagnosis. Thus, the objective of this study was to analyze clinical and radiological features, and treatment outcome of paragonimiasis in children in Southwest China to improve the awareness of this disease. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the records of children ...

Subtropical China harbours the world's most diverse temperate flora, but little is known about the roles of geographical and eco-climatic factors underlying the region's exceptionally high levels of species diversity and endemism. Here we address this key question by investigating the spatio-temporal and ecological processes of divergence within the Dysosma versipellis-pleiantha species complex...

From winter 2009 to spring 2010, due to decreasing precipitation and high temperature, Southwest China experienced the worst meteorological drought in 60 years. The drought has impacted large areas of Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi and Sichuan provinces. In this paper, climate data (precipitation and temperature) and SPOT VGT Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data were combined with land ...

BACKGROUND With rapid urbanization in the past decades, diet diversity continues to increase in China. The present cross-sectional study aims to explore the association between dietary diversity and nutritional status among adults in southwest China. METHODS This study used data from 2011-2012 National Nutritional Survey in Yunnan Province, southwest China (N = 1105).Data of three consecutive...

Masami Akai, Meigen Liu, Zong-Yao Wu and Tiecheng Guo From the Department of Rehabilitation for Movement Functions, Research Institute, National Rehabilitation Center, Tokorozawa, Japan, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing,...

The Chinese Seed Systems Project started in January 2000 in Southwest China. It is co-funded by IDRC (International Development Research Centre, Canada) and Ford Foundation, and is carried out by the Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) of the China Academy of Science (CAS), in collaboration with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) and with academic supervisio...