With the reform of urban health delivery systems in China, concern has been growing about the effect of these changes on health care demand and utilization at basic-level health institutions, especially Community Health Services Centers (CHC). Using data from the fourth China National Health...

To solve the problem of ‘Kan bing nan, kan bing gui’ (medical treatment is difficult to access and expensive), a Harvard-led research team implemented a community‐based health insurance scheme known as Rural Mutual Health Care (RMHC) in Chinese rural areas from 2004 to 2006. Two major...

Irrigation-induced landslide is a recurring problem in the Heifangtai loess platform of northwest China. The landslide sites are characterized by a concave topography. Numerical modeling indicates that the groundwater table at the past-landslide site rises more quickly than the other natural...

We present two results that pertain to the choosing of the centering distribution in a Bayesian setup with a Dirichlet process mixture prior based on Gaussian kernels. Our results indicate that for such kernels, one can choose the centering measure for the Dirichlet process mixture model exactly...

The aims of this study were to undertake principal component analysis (PCA) of hip dysplasia (HD) and to examine the power of the principal components (PCs) in genome-wide association studies. A cohort of 278 dogs for PCA and that of 369 dogs for genotyping were used. The distraction index (DI),...

With rapid economic development, energy consumption in China has tripled in the past 20years, exceeding 2.8 billion tons of standard coal in 2008. The search for new green energy as substitutes for nonrenewable energy resources has become an urgent task. Biodiesel is one of the most important...

Chalcogenide phase change material Ge1Sb2Te4 (GST) nanoparticle arrays with long-range-order were fabricated by using a monolayer of self-assembled polystyrene (PS) spheres as mask. The morphology of nanoparticle arrays can be controlled via changing RIE processing conditions. Images of atomic...

A water-miscible solvent of 1,2-dimethoxyethane was found for efficient extraction of algal oil from wet cells of Botryococcus braunii. The volumetric ratio of the extractant to water in the wet algal biomass affected the extraction efficiency at a fixed ratio of solvent to dry algal biomass,...

Using 11 years of county-level panel data, fixed effect models are estimated to evaluate the impact of the Safe Motherhood (SM) Program in China. Propensity score matching is used to select comparable factual and counterfactual counties. Out of 2013 counties in China, 283 are selected for the...