Ethnobotanical study on medicinal plants used by Li people in Ledong, Hainan Island, China by Weijuan Huang, Ping Li, Yujing Liu, Wen Huang, Yan Ju, Jianjun Wang, Chia B. Ntumwel, Chunlin Long

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"News you don't believe": audience perspectives on fake news by Nielsen, R, Graves, L

“…On the basis of focus group discussions and survey data from the first half of 2017 from the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Finland, we find that: <br> <ul><li>People see the difference between 'fake news' and news as one of degree rather than a clear distinction; </li> <li>When asked to provide examples of 'fake news', people identify poor journalism, propaganda (including both lying politicians and hyperpartisan content), and some kinds of advertising more frequently than false information designed to masquerade as news reports; </li> <li>'Fake news' is experienced as a problem driven by a combination of some news media who publish it, some politicians who contribute to it, and some platforms that help distribute it; </li> <li>People are aware of the 'fake news' discussion and see “fake news” in part as a politicized buzzword used by politicians and others to criticize news media and platform companies; </li> <li>The 'fake news' discussion plays out against a backdrop of low trust in news media, politicians, and platforms alike—a generalized scepticism toward most of the actors that dominate the contemporary information environment; </li> <li>Most people identify individual news media that they consider consistently reliable sources and would turn to for verified information, but they disagree as to which and very few sources are seen as reliable by all. …”

Effects of Facial Expression and Facial Gender on Judgment of Trustworthiness: The Modulating Effect of Cooperative and Competitive Settings by Yan Dong, Yi Liu, Yanfei Jia, Yongna Li, Chen Li

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Interactive Exploration of Hainan Li Brocade Pattern into Leather Design by Ting HU, Xue LI, Jun LIU, Keyi DING, Hualin CHEN

“…The brocade of the Li nationality is not only the cold clothing of the Li people, but also the special bearing and symbol of the visual language of the Li nationality, which conveys the development course, artistic thought and aesthetic concept of the Li nationality. …”
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Eliciting Depression Patients&rsquo; Preferences for Medication Management: A Protocol for Discrete Choice Experiment by Xie P, Li HQ, Peng WL, Yang H

“…Peng Xie,1,&ast; Hui-Qin Li,1,&ast; Wan-Lin Peng,2 Hao Yang3 1People’s Hospital of Deyang City, Deyang City, Sichuan, 618000, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Nursing, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, People’s Republic of China; 3West China Hospital, Sichuan University/West China School of Nursing, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Hui-Qin Li, People’s Hospital of Deyang City, Deyang City, Sichuan, 618000, People’s Republic of China, Tel + 86-0838-2208091, Email 874184073@qq.comIntroduction: Depression threatens people’s lives and imposes huge economic burden. …”
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The analyses of risk factors for COPD in the Li&nbsp;ethnic group in Hainan, People&rsquo;s Republic of&nbsp;China by Ding YP, Xu JX, Yao JJ, Chen Y, He P, Ouyang YH, Niu H, Tian ZJ, Sun P

“…Yipeng Ding,1,* Junxu Xu,2,* Jinjian Yao,1 Yu Chen,2 Ping He,1 Yanhong Ouyang,1 Huan Niu,1 Zhongjie Tian,1 Pei Sun1 1Department of Emergency, People&rsquo;s Hospital of Hainan Province, 2Department of Respiratory, The Third People&rsquo;s Hospital of Haikou, Haikou, Hainan, People&rsquo;s Republic of China *These authors contributed equally to&nbsp;this work Objective: To study the risk factors for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Li population in Hainan province, People&rsquo;s Republic of China.Methods: Li people above 40 years of age from Hainan were chosen by stratified random cluster sampling between 2012 and 2014. …”
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Isolated compounds from Dracaena angustifolia Roxb and acarbose synergistically/additively inhibit α-glucosidase and α-amylase: an in vitro study by Jiling Yi, Ting Zhao, Yuanlin Zhang, Yanxing Tan, Xiao Han, Yulin Tang, Guangying Chen

“…Abstract Background As a traditional herbal medicine, Dracaena angustifolia Roxb has been used as an anti-inflammatory agent by the Li people in Hainan, China. In preliminary phytochemical studies conducted in our lab, its fractions were found to inhibit α-glucosidase in vitro, indicating a potential for alleviating glucose dysregulation. …”
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Molecular Spectrum, Ethnic and Geographical Distribution of Thalassemia in the Southern Area of Hainan, China by Ying Yu, Chunjiao Lu, Ying Gao, Cuiyun Li, Dongxue Li, Jie Wang, Jie Wang, Hui Wei, Zhaohui Lu, Zhaohui Lu, Guoling You, Guoling You

“…The α-thalassemia genotypes were most commonly found in the Li people, who accounted for 73.5% of α-thalassemia carriers. …”
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Association of plasma apolipoprotein CIII, high sensitivity C-reactive protein and tumor necrosis factor-α contributes to the clinical features of coronary heart disease in Li and... by Lin Chen, Minzeng Sun, Hui Liu, Lihui Ma, Tiansong Wang, Peiqiong Li, Mingqin Lin, Haifeng Lin, Penghuan Chang, Yueli Liu

“…Identical patterns were obtained in the Li and Han groups (16.46 ± 6.08 mg/dL vs. 11.72 ± 5.16 mg/dL; 15.71 ± 5.52 pg/mL vs. 9.74 ± 4.31 pg/mL; 8.21 ± 7.09 mg/L vs. 2.15 ± 1.51 mg/L in Li people; 17.05 ± 5.90 mg/dL vs. 10.07 ± 4.63 mg/dL; 18.59 ± 6.73 pg/mL vs. 9.23 ± 3.38 pg/mL; 10.75 ± 7.44 mg/L vs. 2.12 ± 1.63 mg/L in Han people; P < 0.01). …”
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Multiple founding paternal lineages inferred from the newly-developed 639-plex Y-SNP panel suggested the complex admixture and migration history of Chinese people by Guanglin He, Mengge Wang, Lei Miao, Jing Chen, Jie Zhao, Qiuxia Sun, Shuhan Duan, Zhiyong Wang, Xiaofei Xu, Yuntao Sun, Yan Liu, Jing Liu, Zheng Wang, Lanhai Wei, Chao Liu, Jian Ye, Le Wang

“…Phylogenetic topology inferred from the BEAST and Network relationships reconstructed from the popART further showed the founding lineages from culturally/linguistically diverse populations, such as C2a/C2b was dominant in Mongolian people and O1a/O1b was dominant in island Li people. We also identified many lineages shared by more than two ethnolinguistically different populations with a high proportion, suggesting their extensive admixture and migration history. …”
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The complete chloroplast genome of Arcangelisia gusanlung H.S.Lo (Menispermaceae), an important traditional medicine from South China by Guihua Wen, Sheng Chen, Lingling Fan, Lei Zeng, Bingqiang Xu

“…Arcangelisia gusanlung H.S.Lo is widely used as a folk medicine by the Dai and Li peoples. Here, we report the first complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence for this species based on Illumina paired-end sequencing data. …”
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