Trade-offs/synergistic relationship between water ecosystem services and urbanization in the Yellow River Basin urban agglomeration by WAN Shilong, YANG Hainan, MA Li, YE Lufeng, ZHANG Zilong

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Structural Significance of the Mid-level Décollement Within the Western Sichuan Fold-And-Thrust Belt (WSFTB), Insights From Sandbox Modeling by Chuang Sun, Chuang Sun, Zhigang Li, Zhigang Li, Shimin Wu, Shimin Wu, Zhiyuan He, Shaotian Zhao, Panfei Wang

“…The WSFTB is located outboard of the eastern Tibetan Plateau, western China. It has received great attention due to high earthquake risks and rich resources of oil and gas. …”
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Mortality Rate of Lymphoma in China, 2013–2020 by Weiping Liu, Jinlei Qi, Jiangmei Liu, Yuqin Song, Lijun Wang, Maigeng Zhou, Jun Ma, Jun Zhu

“…The mortality rate was higher in eastern China than in central and western China, indicating a heterogeneous distribution at the provincial level. …”
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The population genomic analyses of chloroplast genomes shed new insights on the complicated ploidy and evolutionary history in Fragaria by Yanhong Song, Chaochao Li, Lifeng Liu, Panpan Hu, Gang Li, Xia Zhao, Houcheng Zhou

“…Species native to western China were clustered into Group B. Group D consisted of F. virdis, F. orientalis, F. moschata, and F. vesca. …”
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Characterization of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in a Chinese teaching hospital by Yaowen eChang, Guangxin eLuan, Ying eXu, Yanhong eWang, Min eShen, Chi eZhang, Wei eZheng, Jinwei eHuang, Jingni eYang, Xu eJia, Baodong eLing

“…In this study, we investigated the epidemiological and molecular differences of CRAB, and the threatening factors for contributing to increased CRAB infections at a hospital in western China. 110 clinical isolates of A. baumannii, collected in last two years, were tested for carbapenem antibiotic susceptibility, followed by a molecular analysis of carbapenemase genes. …”
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Ore Genesis of the Changkeng–Fuwan Au-Ag Deposit in Central Guangdong, South China: Evidence from Fluid Inclusions and C-H-O-S-Pb-He-Ar Isotopes by Guangyao Shi, Jianling Xue, Xiaoqiang Zhu, Zhenshan Pang, Xueqiu Wang, Fan Yang, Gilby Jepson, Wen Tao, Shimin Zhen

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Diverse Responses of Vegetation Phenology to Climate Change in Different Grasslands in Inner Mongolia during 2000–2016 by Shilong Ren, Shuhua Yi, Matthias Peichl, Xiaoyun Wang

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Epidemic characteristics and related risk factors of occupational exposure for pediatric health care workers in Chinese public hospitals: a cross-sectional study by Yuanshuo Ma, Xin Ni, Yu Shi, Chunmei Yan, Lei Shi, Zhe Li, Xiangxu Gao, Dinan Wang, Xi Yang, Lihua Fan, Yongchen Wang

“…Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted with pediatric health care workers in 43 hospitals in 15 provinces in eastern, central, and western China between July and October 2018. With this sample, we computed the descriptive statistics of the demographic characteristics, calculated the frequency of various types of occupational exposure, and tested risk factors for occupational exposure using a chi-squared test and binary logistic regression analysis. …”
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Examining clinical capability of township healthcare centres for rural health service planning in Sichuan, China: an administrative data analysis by Min Yang, Chaojie Liu, Juying Zhang, Jay Pan, Kun Zou, Zhanqi Duan, Ziwu Zhang, Jinliang Hu

“…Objective This study aimed to examine the clinical capability of township healthcare centres (THCs), the main primary care providers in rural China, as a basis for rural health service planning.Design Observational study of quantitative analysis using administrative data.Setting Three counties with low, middle and high social economic development level, respectively, in Sichuan province western China.Participants 9 THCs and 6 county hospitals (CHs) were purposively selected in the three counties. …”
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The association between micronutrient powder delivery patterns and caregiver feeding behaviors in rural China by Rong Liu, Ruixue Ye, Qingzhi Wang, Lucy Pappas, Sarah-Eve Dill, Scott Rozelle, Huan Zhou

“…This study explores the association between MNP delivery patterns and MNP feeding behaviors among Han and minority caregivers in rural Western China. Methods In August 2019, a total of 1021 caregiver-child pairs were selected through a four-stage cluster sampling process. …”
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Iron Speciation in Insoluble Dust from High-Latitude Snow: An X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study by Shiwei Liu, Cunde Xiao, Zhiheng Du, Augusto Marcelli, Giannantonio Cibin, Giovanni Baccolo, Yingcai Zhu, Alessandro Puri, Valter Maggi, Wei Xu

“…We have investigated inorganic and organic standard substances, diluted mixtures of common Fe minerals in insoluble dust in snow from the Laohugou No.12 glacier, and sand (including soil and moraine) samples that were collected from western China. The speciation of iron (Fe) in insoluble dust and sand was determined by X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy. …”
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Performance Analysis of Public Investment in Chinese University Education Based on Regional Differences and Influencing Factors by Yang Yu

“…Regarding the performance level of public investment in higher education, there is a significant gap among the three regions of eastern, central, and western China, with the central region being the highest, the eastern region being the second highest, and the western region being the lowest. …”
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Near-surface velocity inversion from Rayleigh wave dispersion curves based on a differential evolution simulated annealing algorithm by Yaojun Wang, Hua Wang, Xijun Wu, Keyu Chen, Sheng Liu, Xiaodong Deng

“…The performance of BCDESA is validated by using both synthetic data and field data from western China. The results show that the BCDESA algorithm has stronger global optimization capabilities than SA, and the inversion results have higher stability and accuracy. …”
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Durability analysis and damage constitutive modeling of fiber-reinforced reactive powder concrete of drilling shaft in porous water-bearing rock stratum by Yu Fang, Zhishu Yao, Xianwen Huang, Xinwei Li, Yongjie Xu, Kun Hu, Siyuan Shu

“…The drilling activities at the mining sites in western China generally involve an extremely high drilling depth and complex formation environment, and the external load borne by the drilling shaft lining is also very high. …”
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Identification and Analysis of Unstable Slope and Seasonal Frozen Soil Area along the Litang Section of the Sichuan–Tibet Railway, China by Yuanjian Wang, Ximin Cui, Yuhang Che, Peixian Li, Yue Jiang, Xiaozhan Peng

“…The Sichuan–Tibet Railway (STR) is currently under construction and serves as an important transportation route in western China. Identifying potential geohazards along the route is important for project construction. …”
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Water Level Change of Qinghai Lake from ICESat and ICESat-2 Laser Altimetry by Weixiao Han, Chunlin Huang, Juan Gu, Jinliang Hou, Ying Zhang, Weizhen Wang

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Rockfall Hazard Assessment in the Taihang Grand Canyon Scenic Area Integrating Regional-Scale Identification of Potential Rockfall Sources by Jiewei Zhan, Zhaoyue Yu, Yan Lv, Jianbing Peng, Shengyuan Song, Zhaowei Yao

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Maternal regulation of biliary disease in neonates via gut microbial metabolites by Jai Junbae Jee, Li Yang, Pranavkumar Shivakumar, Pei-pei Xu, Reena Mourya, Unmesha Thanekar, Pu Yu, Yu Zhu, Yongkang Pan, Haibin Wang, Xufei Duan, Yongqin Ye, Bin Wang, Zhu Jin, Yuanmei Liu, Zhiqing Cao, Miki Watanabe-Chailland, Lindsey E. Romick-Rosendale, Michael Wagner, Lin Fei, Zhenhua Luo, Nicholas J. Ollberding, Shao-tao Tang, Jorge A. Bezerra

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Higher Expression Levels of Aquaporin Family of Proteins in the Kidneys of Arid-Desert Living Lepus yarkandensis by Jianping Zhang, Jianping Zhang, Jianping Zhang, Shuwei Li, Shuwei Li, Fang Deng, Buheliqihan Baikeli, Shuguang Huang, Binyu Wang, Guoquan Liu, Guoquan Liu

“…Lepus yarkandensis specifically lives in arid climate with rare precipitation of Tarim Basin in western China. Aquaporins (AQPs) are a family of channel proteins that facilitate water transportation across cell membranes. …”
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Mapping the Population Density in Mainland China Using NPP/VIIRS and Points-Of-Interest Data Based on a Random Forests Model by Yunchen Wang, Chunlin Huang, Minyan Zhao, Jinliang Hou, Ying Zhang, Juan Gu

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