China’s 1 km Merged Gauge, Radar and Satellite Experimental Precipitation Dataset by Yan Shen, Zhen Hong, Yang Pan, Jingjing Yu, Lane Maguire

“…The downscaled bias-corrected 0.01° resolution CMORPH was employed to fill the gaps in regions, mainly in Western China and the Tibetan Plateau, where gauge and radar measurements are limited.…”
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Widespread illegal sales of antibiotics in Chinese pharmacies – a nationwide cross-sectional study by Jie Chen, Yanmei Wang, Xuejie Chen, Therese Hesketh

“…Methods Using the Simulated Patient method, we conducted a cross-sectional survey across purposively-sampled retail pharmacies in urban and rural areas of 13 provinces in eastern, central and western China. Medical students presented a scenario of a mild upper respiratory tract infection, following a strict three-step protocol. …”
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‘Two hands, multiple fingerprints’: understanding the development of water markets in China by Svensson, J

“…In this dissertation, through an historical analysis of three case studies across northern and north-western China, I argue that the water supply infrastructure and water markets have developed alongside one another, thus culminating in a “two-hands” (government and market) approach to water governance. …”

Características hidroquímicas y ambiente acuático de las aguas superficiales y subterráneas poco profundas en el norte del delta del río Amarillo, China by Kui-Feng Wang, Ni-Na Liu, Jiang-Bao Xia, Xiao-Jing Chu, Shu-Jian Xu, Tai-Ping Zhang, Ge Hu, Yang Liu, Hong-Jun Zhang, Yan Xu

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Genetic diversity analysis of Chinese Leishmania isolates and development of L. donovani complex-specific markers by RAPD by Dongmei Yuan, Hanxiao Qin, Dali Chen, Jianping Chen

“…Abstract Background Leishmaniasis is one of the most neglected tropical diseases in the world and remains endemic in some underdeveloped regions, including western China. The phylogeny and classification of Chinese Leishmania has not been completely clarified to date, especially within the Leishmania (L.) donovani complex, although phylogenetic analyses based on a series of gene markers have been performed. …”
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Evolution of insecticide resistance and its mechanisms in Anopheles stephensi in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region by Ahmadali Enayati, Ahmad Ali Hanafi-Bojd, Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat, Morteza Zaim, Janet Hemingway

“…Anopheles stephensi is the main malaria vector in Iran and its range extends from Iraq to western China. Recently, the vector invaded new territories in Sri Lanka and countries in the Horn of Africa. …”
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Hypertension Patients' Self-rated Improvement Gained from and Satisfaction with the National Essential Public Health Services by Linghe YANG, Meicen LIU, Xinyue CHEN, Zirui LIAO, Ziqing ZAN, Jun LIAN, Siqi YANG, Siqi ZHANG, Lili YOU, Yuanli LIU

“…Methods By use of multi-stage stratified sampling, 2 419 hypertensive patients (≥35 years old) were selected from 20 community (township) health centers in 10 districts (counties) of 5 cities in eastern, central and western China from November to December 2019. A questionnaire survey was conducted with them for understanding their general demographic information and management of hypertension. …”
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Characters and Metallogenetic Significance of Organic Matter in Coal from the Daying Sandstone-Hosted Uranium Deposit in the Northern Ordos Basin, China by Qi Li, Bailin Wu, Jingjing Luo, Songlin Yang, Miao Wang, Mingyi Liu, Zhouyang Lin, Xiaorui Zhang, Long Zhang, Jiangqiang Wang, Mengdi Yang

“…Coal is usually found in many sandstone-hosted uranium deposits in western China. However, it remains unclear whether coal organic matter is related to the mineralization of uranium in sandstone. …”
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Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis Identified a Novel Thirteen-Gene Signature Associated With Progression, Prognosis, and Immune Microenvironment of Colon Adenocarcinoma... by Cangang Zhang, Zhe Zhao, Haibo Liu, Shukun Yao, Shukun Yao, Dongyan Zhao, Dongyan Zhao

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Influences of Seasonal Soil Moisture and Temperature on Vegetation Phenology in the Qilian Mountains by Xia Cui, Gang Xu, Xiaofei He, Danqi Luo

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Unbalanced Risk of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in China at the Subnational Scale: Spatiotemporal Analysis by Maogui Hu, Yuqing Feng, Tao Li, Yanlin Zhao, Jinfeng Wang, Chengdong Xu, Wei Chen

“…ConclusionsPTB risk showed significant regional inequality among counties in China, and western China presented a high plateau of disease burden. …”
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Exogenous brassinosteroid alleviates calcium deficiency induced tip-burn by regulating calcium transport in Brassica rapa L. ssp. pekinensis by Yutong Li, Yue Wu, Zhongqi Tang, Xuemei Xiao, Xueqin Gao, Yali Qiao, Jizhong Ma, Linli Hu, Jihua Yu

“…Pekinensis) plays an important role in the supply of summer vegetables on the plateau in western China. In recent years, tip-burn has seriously affected the yield, quality and commodity value of mini Chinese cabbage. …”
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PLANT DENSITY, IRRIGATION AND NITROGEN MANAGEMENT: THREE MAJOR PRACTICES IN CLOSING YIELD GAPS FOR AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY IN NORTH-WEST CHINA by Xiuwei GUO, Manoj Kumar SHUKLA, Di WU, Shichao CHEN, Donghao LI, Taisheng DU

“…An experiment was conducted on a 3.9-ha maize seed production field in arid north-western China, managed with border and drip irrigation, respectively, in 2015 and 2016. …”
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Precipitation regimes primarily drive the carbon uptake in the Tibetan Plateau by Lei He, Yaowen Xie, Jian Wang, Juanjuan Zhang, Menglin Si, Zecheng Guo, Changhui Ma, Qiang Bie, Zhao-Liang Li, Jian-Sheng Ye

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Anti-Nociceptive and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of the Ethyl Acetate Extract of Belamcanda chinensis (L.) Redouté in Raw 264.7 Cells in vitro and Mouse Model in vivo by He X, Yang Y, Yuan X, Sun Y, Li Y

“…Xirui He,1 Yan Yang,1 Xufang Yuan,1 Yin Sun,2 Yongsheng Li3 1Department of Bioengineering, Zhuhai Campus of Zunyi Medical University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, 519041, People’s Republic of China; 2Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Northwest University), Ministry of Education, Xi’an, 710169, People’s Republic of China; 3Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710054, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Yongsheng Li, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710054, People’s Republic of China, Email superlys2018@sina.comPurpose: Inflammation and accompanying pain is a common global health problem that seriously affects human quality of life worldwide. …”
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A Strategy for Variable-Scale InSAR Deformation Monitoring in a Wide Area: A Case Study in the Turpan–Hami Basin, China by Yuedong Wang, Guangcai Feng, Zhiwei Li, Shuran Luo, Haiyan Wang, Zhiqiang Xiong, Jianjun Zhu, Jun Hu

“…The Turpan–Hami basin in western China is selected as the wide study area (277,000 km²) to verify the proposed WAVS–InSAR strategy. …”
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Lake Phenology of Freeze-Thaw Cycles Using Random Forest: A Case Study of Qinghai Lake by Weixiao Han, Chunlin Huang, Hongtao Duan, Juan Gu, Jinliang Hou

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Knowledge About COVID-19 Among Adults in China: Cross-sectional Online Survey by Yu, Fengyun, Geldsetzer, Pascal, Meierkord, Anne, Yang, Juntao, Chen, Qiushi, Jiao, Lirui, Abou-Arraj, Nadeem E, Pan, An, Wang, Chen, Bärnighausen, Till, Chen, Simiao

“…However, a substantial proportion still holds misconceptions or incorrect beliefs about prevention methods and recommended health care–seeking behaviors, especially in rural areas and some less wealthy provinces in Western China. This study can inform the development of tailored public health policies and promotion campaigns by identifying knowledge areas for which misconceptions are comparatively common and provinces that have relatively low knowledge.…”
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Comparisons of the vertical distributions of aerosols in the CALIPSO and GEOS-Chem datasets in China by Shenshen Li, Luo Zhang, Kun Cai, Wei Ge, Xueying Zhang

“…First, we validated CALIPSO and GEOS-Chem aerosol optical depth (AOD) using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) products, both CALIPSO and GEOS-Chem AOD were found to 30%∼50% underestimations in eastern China and 60%∼80% underestimations in western China. Second, MODIS AOD was introduced to normalize the aerosol extinction coefficient (AEC) of both CALIPSO and GEOS-Chem in each 1-km layer below 10 km to achieve a uniform comparison. …”
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Genetic connectivity constrained by natural barriers in a key agricultural pest: insights from mitochondrial DNA analysis by Jinyu Li, Jinyu Li, Yi Mao, Yi Mao, Kai Li, Kai Li, Wei Chen, Linyang Sun, Bang Zhang

“…Analyses revealed a reduction in gene flow on islands, along the Yangtze River, and across mountainous regions of Western China. Models explicitly detected the predominant contributions of topographic complexity to population divergence and evidenced that mountains may serve as effective dispersal barriers for E. onukii. …”
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