Disaster Risk Perception, Sense of Pace, Evacuation Willingness, and Relocation Willingness of Rural Households in Earth...
severity corresponds to decreases in the odds of willingness to relocate by factors of 0.003 and 0.003, respectively.
Characteristics of Surface Ozone in Five Provincial Capital Cities of China during 2014–2015
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an, MDA8 O3 showed the highest in summer and lowest in winter. Guangzhou also had the highest O3 concentration in summer, but had similar levels in other three seasons. The O3 levels were similarly high in Shanghai during spring, summer, and autumn, while in Hefei, O3 concentration peaked in autumn. No significant difference between weekend and wee...
Chinese Industrial Outward FDI Location Choice in ASEAN Countries
2016 with a particular focus on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. It was found that Chinese OFDI in ASEAN countries was generally focused on areas that had large potential markets and low tax rates. Unlike previous studies, it was found that primary and secondary industry labor costs were the main motivators rather than ...
The Dietary Inflammatory Index Is Positively Associated with Colorectal Cancer Risk in a Chinese Case-Control Study
0.01) for the highest E-DII quartile compared with the lowest quartile after adjusting for potential confounders. When stratified based on cancer subsite, sex, body mass index, and smoking status, significant associations were not observed in women or underweight individuals. Results from this study confirmed that a higher E-DII score was associate...
Crowdsourcing contests to facilitate community engagement in HIV cure research: a qualitative evaluation of facilitators...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundAs HIV cure research advances, there is an increasing need for community engagement in health research, especially in low- and middle-income countries with ongoing clinical trials. Crowdsourcing contests provide an innovative bottom-up way to solicit community feedback on clinical trials in order to enhance community engagement. The objec...
Widespread illegal sales of antibiotics in Chinese pharmacies – a nationwide cross-sectional study
Published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
BackgroundAccess to antibiotics without a prescription from retail pharmacies has been described as a major contributor to anti-microbial resistance (AMR) globally. In the context of high rates of AMR, the Chinese government has recently introduced strict policies regarding hospital antibiotic use, but the existing ban on antibiotic sales without p...
Provincial-level industrial CO2 emission drivers and emission reduction strategies in China: Combining two-layer LMDI me...
Published in The Science of the total environment
Understanding the CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions mechanisms in each province is important to reduce China's CO2 emissions and achieve carbon reduction targets. This paper combines two-layer LMDI (logarithmic mean divisia index) method and spectral clustering to analyze industrial CO2 emission drivers in 30 provinces of China and proposes carbon red...
Navigating between Tea and Rubber in Xishuangbanna, China: When New Crops Fail and Old Ones Work
Following the massive expansion of rubber plantations in China, considerable research has been conducted on the impact of these landscape changes. The general consensus is that there have been negative impacts on the environment and positive impacts on local economies. However, since rubber prices dropped after 2011, the economic benefit to the loc...
Sustainable Collaborative Innovation between Research Institutions and Seed Enterprises in China
however, it has a direct effect on strategic partnership and the collaborative mechanism. We find that an innovation climate could indirectly influence the participation of research institutions via collaborative mechanism and strategic partnership. Furthermore, strategic partnership and collaborative mechanism are found to moderate the participati...
The economy-energy-environment Nexus in IMF’s Top 2 biggest economies: a TY approach
This paper assesses the relationship between carbon emissions, economic growth and, energy consumption, in USA and China from the perspective of Granger causality, in a multivariate framework controlling for financial development, urbanization, and trade openness. Econometric techniques employed include unit root tests, Toda and Yamamoto Granger ca...
