DBZ (Danshensu Bingpian Zhi), a Novel Natural Compound Derivative, Attenuates Atherosclerosis in Apolipoprotein E–Deficient Mice by Jing Wang, Pengfei Xu, Xinni Xie, Jiao Li, Jun Zhang, Jialin Wang, Fan Hong, Jian Li, Youyi Zhang, Yao Song, Xiaohui Zheng, Yonggong Zhai

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Changes in habitat suitability and population size of the endangered Przewalski's gazelle by Tian Liu, Zhigang Jiang, Wei Wang, Guangyao Wang, Xiangrong Song, Aichun Xu, Chunlin Li

“…Its historical distribution range covered a large area of the western China, but had shrunk to several fragmented areas around the Qinghai Lake during the 20th century. …”
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The current status and factors related to the preparation of home first-aid kits in China by Pu Ge, Jinzi Zhang, Ke Lyu, Yuyao Niu, Qiyu Li, Ping Xiong, Jiaxin Liu, Yajie Yang, Yuqian Deng, Xialei Li, Wenli Yu, Mei Yin, Xinying Sun, Xu Han, Yibo Wu

“…The respondents whose geographic area was Central and Western China, permanent residence in the urban area, secondary education or above, monthly income of 3,000 RMB or above, health care cost-bearing method mainly resident health insurance, high subgroup of self-efficacy, high subgroup of health care dimension in health literacy, and whose openness and conscientiousness was high subgroup were more likely to prepare home first-aid kits (P < 0.05).ConclusionThe preparation rate for home first-aid kits in China is less than a quarter. …”
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A Latent Profile Analysis of Chinese Physicians' Workload Tethered to Paperwork During Outpatient Encounters by Dehe Li, Yinhuan Hu, Sha Liu, Chuntao Lu, Jiayi Li, Jinghan Zhou, Yeyan Zhang, Shaoyu Lu

“…This study aimed to investigate the level of physician workload tethered to paperwork during outpatient encounters and explore its latent workload subgroups among Chinese physicians.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted via online questionnaire primarily in 24 hospitals in 6 provinces in Eastern, Central, and Western China from November 2020 to February 2021. The Chinese physician mental workload scale developed by our research team was used for assessment of physician workload tethered to paperwork. …”
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The Additions of Nitrogen and Sulfur Synergistically Decrease the Release of Carbon and Nitrogen from Litter in a Subtropical Forest by Liehua Tie, Rao Fu, Josep Peñuelas, Jordi Sardans, Shibin Zhang, Shixing Zhou, Junxi Hu, Congde Huang

“…Therefore, a two-year field experiment was performed using a litterbag method in a subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest in western China to examine the responses of litter decomposition and nutrient release to the control (CK), added N (+N), added S (+S), and added N and S (+NS) treatments. …”
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oprC Impairs Host Defense by Increasing the Quorum-Sensing-Mediated Virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Pan Gao, Pan Gao, Kai Guo, Qinqin Pu, Qinqin Pu, Zhihan Wang, Zhihan Wang, Ping Lin, Shugang Qin, Shugang Qin, Nadeem Khan, Junguk Hur, Haihua Liang, Min Wu

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Occurrence morphology of bitumen in Dengying Formation deep and ultra-deep carbonate reservoirs of the Sichuan Basin and its indicating significance to oil and gas reservoirs by Shugen Liu, Zeqi Li, Bin Deng, Wei Sun, Zhiwu Li, Yi Ding, Jinming Song, Juan Wu

“…In order to provide reference and basis for the deep and ultra-deep oil and gas exploration in the Sichuan Basin and the basins in western China, this paper systematically studies the occurrence morphological characteristics of bitumen in deep and ultra-deep carbonate reservoirs in well Gaoshi 1 of the Sichuan Basin by carrying out thin section observation, scanning electron microscope-energy spectrum analysis and fluid inclusion organic geochemical analysis on the cores of the fourth member of Dengying Formation (Deng 4 Member). …”
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Is tuberculosis patients management improved in the integrated TB control model in West China? A survey in Guizhou Province, China by Jie Pu, Wei Chen, Wei-Xi Jiang, Wei Xing, Sheng-Xiang Liang, Geng Wang, Shi-Li Liu, Hao Wu, Ying Li, Sheng-Lan Tang

“…This study aims to investigate TPM delivery in resource-limited western China and to identify factors affecting TPM delivery by LHWs under the integrated TB control model. …”
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A cyclic effect of cAMP and calcium signaling contributes to jujube growth and development by Li-xin WANG, Lin-xia WANG, Meng-ling ZHANG, Ying-yue QU, Ye YUAN, Ehsan SADEGHNEZHAD, Meng-jiao GAO, Ruo-yu ZHAO, Chao-feng QI, Xiao-xue GUO, Wen-hui ZHU, Rui-mei LI, Li DAI, Meng-jun LIU, Zhi-guo LIU

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RIPK3 Promotes JEV Replication in Neurons via Downregulation of IFI44L by Peiyu Bian, Chuantao Ye, Xuyang Zheng, Chuanyu Luo, Jiali Yang, Mengyuan Li, Yuan Wang, Jing Yang, Yun Zhou, Fanglin Zhang, Jianqi Lian, Ying Zhang, Zhansheng Jia, Yingfeng Lei

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Effects of early preventive dental visits and its associations with dental caries experience: a cross-sectional study by Xing Qu, Shannon H. Houser, Meirong Tian, Qiong Zhang, Jay Pan, Wei Zhang

“…Conclusions Early PDV was associated with a lower rate of dental caries prevalence and untreated dental caries among sampled children younger than seven in Western China. Underutilization and social inequities existed in PDV utilization. …”
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DROUGHT-INDUCED UNKNOWN PROTEIN 1 positively modulates drought tolerance in cultivated alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) by Dong Luo, Xi Zhang, Jie Liu, Yuguo Wu, Qiang Zhou, Longfa Fang, Zhipeng Liu

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Tissue mechanics modulate PCNP expression in oral squamous cell carcinomas with different differentiation by Leyang Zhang, Leyang Zhang, Dingcheng Guo, Junjie Shen, Yayuan Zheng, Junkai Zhai, Ruiping Li, Ruiping Li, Dengqi He, Baoping Zhang, Baoping Zhang, Baoping Zhang, Baoping Zhang, Baoping Zhang

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Deep Learning Empowers Lung Cancer Screening Based on Mobile Low-Dose Computed Tomography in Resource-Constrained Sites by Jun Shao, Gang Wang, Le Yi, Chengdi Wang, Tianzhong Lan, Xiuyuan Xu, Jixiang Guo, Taibing Deng, Dan Liu, Bojiang Chen, Zhang Yi, Weimin Li

“…Methods: This study recruited participants prospectively in two rural sites of western China. A deep learning system was developed to assist clinicians to identify the nodules and evaluate the malignancy with state-of-the-art performance assessed by recall, free-response receiver operating characteristic curve (FROC), accuracy (ACC), area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). …”
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Utilizing a single-temporal full polarimetric Gaofen-3 SAR image to map coseismic landslide inventory following the 2017 Mw 7.0 Jiuzhaigou earthquake (China) by Rubing Liang, Keren Dai, Qiang Xu, Saeid Pirasteh, Zhenhong Li, Tao Li, Ningling Wen, Jin Deng, Xuanmei Fan

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Biodiversity priority areas and conservation strategies for seed plants in China by Xudong Yang, Xudong Yang, Wendi Zhang, Wendi Zhang, Fei Qin, Fei Qin, Jianghong Yu, Jianghong Yu, Tiantian Xue, Tiantian Xue, Yunfeng Huang, Weibin Xu, Jianyong Wu, Erik F. Smets, Erik F. Smets, Erik F. Smets, Shengxiang Yu, Shengxiang Yu

“…The conservation gaps need to be filled by establishing new nature reserves or national parks, especially in south-western China, and more attentions should be paid to strengthen the conservation of specific plant taxa due to the apparent mismatches between different distribution patterns.…”
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Damage of Green Synthetic Cement Slurry to Clastic Rock Reservoir by Meng Xu, Xin Tan, Libo Yang, Hanlie Cheng, David Cofell

“…In order to solve this problem, this study takes a typical clastic rock block in an oilfield in western China as the research object and carries out a geological survey of fracture development, pressure deficit, and cement slurry permeability leakage in the reservoir. …”
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Membrane distillation treatment of high-salinity mine water by Qiang GUO, Jingfeng LI, Zhaofeng LIU, Zhiguo CAO, Ruimin HE, Wei BIAN, Shuqin LIU

“…The main coal producing areas in western China have the problems of dry climate and water shortage, and the mine water produced by coal mining generally has the characteristics of high salinity and high hardness. …”
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Chinese medical staff's knowledge, attitudes and practices towards breast cancer patients' sexual health management: A cross-sectional study by Li Yao, Yaling Li, Tingshu Wang, Fangrong Jia, Yu Zhang, XiaoLi You, Li Hu, Biyu Zhang, Qianya Zhang, Wei Ming, Hong Li

“…Objective: The objective of this research was to assess the level and determinants of medical personnel's knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding the management of sexual health in breast cancer survivors residing in western China. Background: Sexual well-being is a crucial aspect of one's overall satisfaction with life. …”
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Deep mineralization of VOCs in an embedded hybrid structure CoFe2O4/MoS2/PMS wet scrubber system by Xiai Zhang, Wenquan Zhang, Xinwei Zhang, Jun Li, Tong Wang, Qikui Fan, Hao Zhu, Zhimao Yang, Chuncai Kong

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