Mertz, Mechtild
Actes du premier colloque international Ki no bunka to kagaku [Wood Culture and Science], désormais annuel, organisé conjointement à l’initiative du professeur Itoh et moi, qui rassemble universitaires et artisans du bois. / National audience
HUANG, Zhao Alexandre Wang, Rui
This study of the U.S.–China trade war investigated how Beijing (a) uses institutional discourse and rhetoric to conceptualize digital public diplomacy based on the autocratic system of the Communist Party of China and (b) legitimizes its highly centralized and politicized international communication practices. We also investigated how China’s dome...
Zhang, Xiao Su, Xiaoli
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SN Social Sciences
Culture learning is complicated in teaching English as an international language (EIL), given the global contexts in which English is being used for various purposes. This study aims to examine cultural representations in four series of high school English language textbooks distributed in China and Germany. It categorized cultures into four cultur...
Lin, Yu Kuei Gao, Bixia Liu, Lili Ang, Lynn Mizokami-Stout, Kara Pop-Busui, Rodica Zhang, Luxia
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Current Diabetes Reports
Purpose of ReviewDiabetes can lead to development of devastating microvascular complications, such as nephropathy, retinopathy, and peripheral sensory and autonomic neuropathy. While China and the USA both face the threat of this major public health challenge, the literature is limited in describing similarities and differences in the prevalence, a...
Ervits, Irina
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International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility
In light of the growing economic might and intensification of global activities of Chinese multinational enterprises (MNE), this paper looks into the nature of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting. CSR communications of the largest Chinese companies and their counterparts from advanced economies have been compared based on quantita...
Yang, W. (author)
Congestion in and pollution by traffic are amongst the most severe and urgent problems faced by both developed and developing countries these days. It is regarded as a "wicked" problem, which implies it is both hard to define the inherent problem and to find adequate measures to deal with. The complexity of transport systems makes it impossible for...
Liu, Meijuan Liu, Min Liang, Xuejun Wu, Di Li, Wenjing Su, Chang Cao, Bingyan Chen, Jiajia Gong, Chunxiu
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Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
BackgroundHypophosphatasia (HPP) is a rare inherited disorder, which is caused by loss-of-function mutations in the ALPL gene. HPP is a heterogeneous disease that has a wide spectrum of phenotypes. Few studies were carried out in the Chinese population with HPP, especially in children.MethodsThe clinical and genetic characteristics of 10 Chinese ch...
Liu, Ming-wei McNaughton, Sarah A. He, Qi-qiang Leech, Rebecca
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International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
BackgroundChina has witnessed a significant nutritional transition. However, there is a gap in the literature investigating the association between change of diet and mortality among Chinese. Thus, we aimed to explore the longitudinal trajectories of diet quality over 10 years (from 1997 to 2006) and the subsequent risk of death till 2015 among Chi...
Zhong, Yalin Zhou, Ziyao Deng, Lei Liu, Haifeng Zhong, Zhijun Ma, Xiaoping Zhang, Kun Wang, Yingzhu Fu, Hualin Peng, Guangneng
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Parasite
Enterocytozoon bieneusi is a common intracellular parasite that infects a wide range of hosts, including humans and companion animals, raising concerns of zoonotic transmission. However, there is limited epidemiological information on the prevalence and genotypes of E. bieneusi in sheltered dogs and cats in Sichuan province, southwestern China. A t...
Chen, Lijuan Guo, Wei Perez, Cristina
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International journal of aging & human development
Previous studies indicate that Han and ethnic minority groups in China are not homogeneous. However, little research has examined potential heterogeneity in the association between social support and life satisfaction across Han and ethnic minority elderly. Based on data from the 2014 China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey, this study uses ordered ...