Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize: a profile (click for details on Telegraph, UK) China’s great migration - China’s Henan province has a population of about 100 million -- larger than that of most countries. In China’s administrative system, a province is at the highest level of subna...
This paper examines the spatial pattern of the population flow network and its implications for containing epidemic spread in China. The hierarchical and spatial subnetwork structure of national population movement networks is analysed by using Baidu migration data before and during the Chinese Spring Fes...
most of which were located in Central China. To ensure that each strain originated from distinct pigs, we exclusively isolated and preserved one representative ExPEC strain from each pig farm at a given time. In this study, we randomly selected 50-90 isolates for each year from 2011 to ...
Demographic characteristics are mostly considered one of the most important structural factors influencing the equilibrium rate of investments and capital-to-output ratio. Current research does not identify structurally over/underinvested countries reflecting future population aging the countries face up in ne...
A history of migration Australia is often referred to as an ‘immigrant nation’, alongside the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Before the Second World War, migrants to Australia were almost exclusively from the UK, however after 1945, Australia’s immigration policy was broadened to att...
RankCountryNumber of BillionairesCollective Billionaire Wealth #1US975$4.45 trillion #2China400$1.45 trillion #3Germany176$602 billion #4India124$384 billion #5UK120$266 billion #6Hong Kong SAR114$287 billion #7Switzerland111$365 billion
in UK twin subjects (Andrew et al. 2008), and both genes interact with OPA1 to regulate mitochondrial fusion and the inhibition of mitochondrial-led apoptosis, respectively. Besides, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) detected two associated loci, MIPEP...
However, population mobility differs across locations, which could reduce the effectiveness of pandemic control measures. Here we assess the extent to which socioeconomic factors are associated with reductions in population mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic, at both the city level in China and ...
2Division of Infectious Diseases, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 155 Changbai Road, Changping District, Beijing 102206, China. 3Geography and Environment, University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. 4Institute for...
China, have been confirmed by more recent studies22, sometimes using as many as a thousand samples23, but an explicit correlation between antibiotic consumption and resistance at a global scale has yet to be unequivocally demonstrated24. There is also the question of what is driving these ...