Stepped Geomorphology Shaped the Phylogeographic Structure of a Widespread Tree Species (Toxicodendron vernicifluum, Anacardiaceae) in East Asia by Lu Wang, Yao Li, Shuichi Noshiro, Mitsuo Suzuki, Takahisa Arai, Kazutaka Kobayashi, Lei Xie, Mingyue Zhang, Na He, Yanming Fang, Feilong Zhang

“…Mountain ranges in western China and the East China Sea land bridge were inferred to be dispersal corridors in the western and eastern distributions of T. vernicifluum, respectively. …”
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Age and Composition of Columbite-Tantalite Group Minerals in the Spodumene Pegmatite from the Chakabeishan Deposit, Northern Tibetan Plateau and Their Implications by Wenli Sun, Zhidan Zhao, Xuanxue Mo, Chunjing Wei, Guochen Dong, Xiaowei Li, Wanming Yuan, Tao Wang, Shuang Yang, Bingzhang Wang, Tong Pan, Jie Han, Hongliang Cao, Yan Tang, Liangliang Zhang

“…Based on the new age data and published geochronological data, it can be concluded that the spodumene pegmatite dykes in the CKBS deposit formed in an oceanic subduction-related setting, representing a new metallogenic event in western China. Except for the CKBS deposit, a large number of rare-metal pegmatite dykes have also been discovered in the eastern NQTB, indicating that the eastern NQTB may be an important potential rare-metal metallogenic belt that should be explored in detail and arouse painstaking attention.…”
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Study on damage mechanism and treatment of water sprayed roof in Jurassic stratum roadway by Xuebin LI, Quntao GU, Guohui WEN, Zhaobing SUN, Jianping ZHU, Minghu CHEN, Yuying ZHOU

“…The roof of the Jurassic main coal seam in western China generally contained low level weak rich water layer, which led to the long-term watering of the roof of the coal roadway especially the roof anchor cable hole and the reduction of the roof surrounding rock strength and the roof support effect, and affected the safety of the coal roadway roof. …”
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Distributional Response of the Rare and Endangered Tree Species <i>Abies chensiensis</i> to Climate Change in East Asia by Peng-Bin Dong, Li-Yang Wang, Ling-Juan Wang, Yun Jia, Zhong-Hu Li, Gang Bai, Rui-Ming Zhao, Wei Liang, Hong-Yan Wang, Feng-Xia Guo, Yuan Chen

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Preliminary report of the September 5, 2022 MS 6.8 Luding earthquake, Sichuan, China by Yanru An, Dun Wang, Qiang Ma, Yueren Xu, Yu Li, Yingying Zhang, Zhumei Liu, Chunmei Huang, Jinrong Su, Jilong Li, Mingxiao Li, Wenkai Chen, Zhifan Wan, Dengjie Kang, Baoshan Wang

“…The 2022 MS 6.8 Luding earthquake is the strongest earthquake in Sichuan Province, Western China, since the 2017 MS 7.0 Jiuzhaigou earthquake. …”
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Pyrite Textures and Compositions in the Dunbasitao Gold Deposit, NW China: Implications for Ore Genesis and Gold Mineralization Processes by Wenxiang Liu, Xiaohua Deng, Shen Han, Xi Chen, Xun Li, Abulimiti Aibai, Yanshuang Wu, Yong Wang, Wei Shan, Zengsheng Li, Yanjing Chen

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The medium-term impact of a micronutrient powder intervention on anemia among young children in Rural China by Siqi Zhang, Lei Wang, Renfu Luo, Scott Rozelle, Sean Sylvia

“…Methods At baseline, this study sampled 1,802 children aged 6–11 months in rural Western China. The intervention lasted 18 months. In this medium-term follow-up study that successfully followed 81% (n = 1,464) of children (aged 49–65 months) from the original study population 4 years after the start of the intervention, we used both intention-to-treat (ITT) effect and average treatment on the treated effect (ATT) analyses to assess the medium-term impacts of the MNP distribution program on the nutritional status of sample children. …”
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Spatial co-location patterns between early COVID-19 risk and urban facilities: a case study of Wuhan, China by Guoqing Zhi, Guoqing Zhi, Guoqing Zhi, Bin Meng, Bin Meng, Hui Lin, Hui Lin, Xin Zhang, Min Xu, Siyu Chen, Siyu Chen, Siyu Chen, Juan Wang, Juan Wang

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Preferences for the Use of Appropriate TCM Techniques among Primary Health Workers: a Discrete-choice Experiment-based Study by YAN Hao, CHEN Sisi, NIE Hanlin, HUANG Zhengwei, HU Hanxu, ZHAO Weihan, YANG Yong, SHI Xuefeng

“…A randomized multistage stratified cluster sampling was used to select 319 health workers on duty on the survey day from a total of 23 primary healthcare institutions in three counties in eastern, central and western China (one county was extracted from each region), and each worker was required to complete one version of the questionnaire extracted sequentially by themselves. …”
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A Functional Variant of CXCL16 Is Associated With Predisposition to Sepsis and MODS in Trauma Patients: Genetic Association Studies by Jianhui Sun, Huacai Zhang, Di Liu, Li Cui, Qiang Wang, Lebin Gan, Lebin Gan, Dalin Wen, Jun Wang, Juan Du, Hong Huang, Anqiang Zhang, Jin Deng, Jianxin Jiang, Ling Zeng

“…Among these patients, 920 came from Chongqing in western China, 350 came from Zhejiang Province in eastern China, and 350 came from Guizhou Province in southwestern China. …”
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Impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystems: a global-scale analysis of ecologically relevant river flow alterations by P. Döll, J. Zhang

“…Considering long-term average river discharge, only a few regions, including Spain, Italy, Iraq, Southern India, Western China, the Australian Murray Darling Basin and the High Plains Aquifer in the USA, all of them with extensive irrigation, are expected to be less affected by climate change than by past anthropogenic flow alterations. …”
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A latent class analysis of community-based rehabilitation needs among Chinese older adults: a mixed study protocol by Lei Xu, Lei Xu, Caixiu Xue, Caixiu Xue, Ke Yang, Ke Yang, Lingyun Chen, Lingyun Chen, Xidong Chen, Xiaohui Xie, Xiaohui Xie, Jia Wang, Jia Wang, Xueting Wang, Xueting Wang, Lianhong Wang, Lianhong Wang

“…The study will be conducted in Guizhou Province in western China, where economic and social development is relatively low, and the results will inform and benefit other regions and developing countries facing similar challenges. …”
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Correlation of Regional Differences in the Prevalence and Types of Chronic Diseases among Middle-aged and Elderly People with Health Resources Allocation in China by LIU Ying, JIANG Juncheng, JING Huiquan

“…Regional health management of major chronic diseases should be strengthened, the ability of disease prevention and health management in primary care should be improved, medical and health personnel should be strengthened, the regional health resources allocation balance should be improved, so as to shorten the regional differences in the prevalence of chronic diseases among middle-aged and elderly people in the eastern, central and western China.…”
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Radiocarbon and genomic evidence for the survival of Equus Sussemionus until the late Holocene by Dawei Cai, Siqi Zhu, Mian Gong, Naifan Zhang, Jia Wen, Qiyao Liang, Weilu Sun, Xinyue Shao, Yaqi Guo, Yudong Cai, Zhuqing Zheng, Wei Zhang, Songmei Hu, Xiaoyang Wang, He Tian, Youqian Li, Wei Liu, Miaomiao Yang, Jian Yang, Duo Wu, Ludovic Orlando, Yu Jiang

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Recent changes in pan-Antarctic region surface snowmelt detected by AMSR-E and AMSR2 by L. Zheng, L. Zheng, L. Zheng, C. Zhou, T. Zhang, Q. Liang, Q. Liang, Q. Liang, K. Wang, K. Wang

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Spatiotemporal Patterns and Determinants of Grain Self-Sufficiency in China by Yingnan Niu, Gaodi Xie, Yu Xiao, Jingya Liu, Yangyang Wang, Qi Luo, Huixia Zou, Shuang Gan, Keyu Qin, Mengdong Huang

“…The areas with high supply and high demand were mainly located in Central and East China, the areas with high supply and low demand were mainly distributed in Northeast China, and the areas with low supply and low demand were mainly located in Western China. The pattern of self-sufficiency of corn in feed grain has remained basically unchanged; the areas with corn feed grain deficit were Central and Southeast China, while North China had corn feed grain surplus. …”
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Changes in different land cover areas and NDVI values in northern latitudes from 1982 to 2015 by Shou-Ye Xue, Hai-Yan Xu, Cui-Cui Mu, Tong-Hua Wu, Wang-Ping Li, Wen-Xin Zhang, Irina Streletskaya, Valery Grebenets, Sergey Sokratov, Alexander Kizyakov, Xiao-Dong Wu

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Assessing the structure and diversity of fungal community in plant soil under different climatic and vegetation conditions by Sen Liu, Chengjie Xiong, Longbing Lin, Nemat O. Keyhani, Mengjia Zhu, Zhiying Zhao, Weibin Zhang, Chenjie Yang, Hailan Su, Pu Liu, Xiayu Guan, Junzhi Qiu

“…In this study, we investigated differences in the fungal community structure and diversity in soils from two contrasting climatic and vegetation conditions: the Xinjiang western China plateau and the Fujian southeastern coastal province.MethodsA total of 36 soil samples collected from two climatic regions were subjected to high-throughput ITS gene sequencing for fungal community analysis. …”
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Willingness to Refer Patients with Common Illnesses to Lower Level Institutions and Associated Factors in County Hospital Physicians by SUN Jingjing, ZHANG Yan, KUANG Wenbo, LUO Yimeng, HUANG Pengqun, MAIREYAMUGULI· Aihemaiti, JIN Mengyuan, GAO Zeyu, DU Hanlin, DAI Xiaojie

“…By use of region-based stratified and convenience sampling, seven county-level people&apos;s hospitals were selected as settings from eastern, central and western China. By use of cluster sampling, physicians (n=142) in internal medical departments were selected from the above-mentioned hospitals to attend an online (through the WJX.cn platform) or off-line (hospital) questionnaire survey to understand their willingness to refer patients with a common illness to lower level institutions, and personal, institutional, environmental, and policy factors associated with their willingness during a consultation described using the scenario simulation method. …”
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Time-Transgressive Onset of Holocene Climate Optimum in Arid Central Asia and Its Association with Cultural Exchanges by Zhen Wang, Xiaokang Liu, Haichao Xie, Shengqian Chen, Jianhui Chen, Haipeng Wang, Meihong Ma, Fahu Chen

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