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Educational attainment, which was rescaled as a dichotomous variable (1 = greater than a high school diploma vs. 0 = high school diploma or less), was used as a proxy for socioeconomic status. Analytic approach For descriptive statistics, we estimated means with standard deviations of...
Given the rapid increase in synthetic drug and poly-drug use and its serious consequences, interventions to mitigate harm are imperative. First, current synthetic drug users should be encouraged to cease SD use. However, quitting synthetic drug use is difficult as withdrawal has been shown to caus...
Unfortunately, the trend will continue to exist in low- and middle-income countries despite the misconception that diabetes is “a disease of the well-to-do” [4]. It is estimated that developing countries will bear 77% of the global burden of the DM epidemic in the 21st century [5] as...
(local/other city), local residence time (≤ 6 months/7–12 months/1–2 year /> 2 years), level of education (primary school or below/junior middle school/ high school / university), sexual orientation (homosexual/heterosexual/bisexual/unknown) and the place to find a male ...
The Dian Basin takes its name from the Lake Dian, the largest water reservoir in Yunnan province, and the sixth largest of the whole country, with a total area of 298 km2. The Dian Basin sits in the middle of the Yungui Plateau, which presents an average altitude of 1886 m asl. Moder...
1 School of Economics, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China 2 School of Geography and Ecotourism, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China 3 School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. ...
The AS showed the trend of atrophy of high elevation and high-altitude settlement centers over time, while the BS showed the trend of balanced rural development in the middle elevation of troughs and valleys. The DS showed the development trend of high altitude and high elevation to restrict ...
Most of the pollutants produced in the main city of Kunming flow into Caohai Lake, which has a smaller water area and is more seriously polluted than Waihai Lake. Figure 4. Changes in water quality indexes of Dianchi Lake. The water quality in Waihai Lake first decreased and then ...
In general, the human activity disturbance intensity in Mianzhu City was at the middle to low levels (Figure 4). Among them, the areas with slight disturbances accounted for the largest proportion (49.59%), followed by the areas with moderate disturbance (21.63%). The mild disturbance areas ...