Trends in Adolescent Suicide in Hong Kong for the Period 1980 to 2003 by Daniel T.L. Shek, Britta M. Lee, Joyce Chow

“…Third, although adolescent suicide rates in Hong Kong were lower than those reported in some English-speaking countries and Mainland China, the figures were higher than those reported in Taiwan. …”
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Equity and efficiency of public health resource allocation in China by Minghua Zhou

“…Methods Data on public health resources of 31 provincial-level administrative regions in mainland China were extracted from 2018 to 2022, and descriptive analysis, Theil index, and health resource agglomeration degree (HRAD) were used to analyze the equity, and data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to analyze the efficiency. …”
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How do intermediary organizations affect cultivated land conservation in China: the mediating role of land tenure stability by Jian Cai, Jiating Chen, Runmin Wu, Rosmini Omar, Binyao Ning, Binyao Ning

“…Using bounded rationality and property rights theories, we conducted quantitative research involving 564 farmers across five provinces in mainland China. The results show that intermediary organizations improve farmers’ willingness to conserve land, mediated by land tenure stability. …”
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Long-range Transport of Air Pollutants to Taiwan during the COVID-19 Lockdown in Hubei Province by I-Chien Lai, Peter Brimblecombe

“…Air over Taiwan may be affected by emissions from mainland China so the changes provided an opportunity to detect the effect of long-range pollutant transport to Taiwan, especially at remote sites. …”
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The health effect of relaxing entry regulation for private hospitals and its nonlinear characteristics: evidence from China by Wanwen Jia, Wanwen Jia

“…This study aims to comprehensively evaluate the health effect of relaxing entry regulation for private hospitals and to examine its nonlinear characteristics.MethodsUsing panel data from 31 provinces in mainland China, this study employs a fixed effects panel data model to investigate the health effect of relaxing entry regulation for private hospitals. …”
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Clinical Features and Genetic Analysis of 48 Patients with Chronic Granulomatous Disease in a Single Center Study from Shanghai, China (2005–2015): New Studies and a Literature Rev... by Jing Wu, Wei-Fan Wang, Yi-Dan Zhang, Tong-Xin Chen

“…Here we report 48 CGD patients in our single center study, which is the largest cohort study from Mainland China. The ratio of male to female was 11 : 1. …”
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Construction of a health literacy prediction model for diabetic patients: A multicenter study by Zepeng Wang, Junyi Shi, Fangyuan Jiang, Kui Jiang, Yalan Chen

“…Conclusions As one of the few HL prediction models for diabetic patients in mainland China that is built based on multi-center survey data and evaluated through multi-center assessment, this model can quickly identify patients with insufficient HL using a small amount of objective personal information.…”
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Exploring the impact of social influence on parents’ intention to use institutional childcare: a cross-sectional study by Bo Yu, Difan Zhang, Yin Sun, Yuna Yao, Yingji Li, Huiling Hu

“…Methods This study used parents of infants and toddlers in mainland China as the study population. Questionnaires were collected through electronic surveys created on a professional website, with 554 responses gathered through purposive sampling. …”
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Influence of Typhoons on Chemical Makeup of Rainwater in Zhanjiang, China by Zhen Zeng, Xin Zhou, Zhiyang Li, Fajin Chen, Huijie Luo, Guirong He, Ziyun Deng, Chunqing Chen, Qibin Lao

“…Therefore, 4 years of rainwater sampling and an analysis of the ionic composition (Cl−, Ca2+, Na+, SO4 2–, Mg2+, F−, and K+) of rainwater were conducted in Zhanjiang, a city on the southern tip of mainland China. The ionic composition varied seasonally, being high in dry seasons whereas low in wet seasons; ion levels were controlled by rainfall dilution effects rather than by the monsoon transition. …”
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Analysis of the Complete Genomes of Enterovirus 71 Subtypes in China by Lei Wang, Yuzhu Dai, Jun Cheng, Changgui Sun, Yu Chen, Dawei Cui

“…The results showed that major epidemic EV-A71 subtype was C4b before 2004, while it turned to C4a after 2004 in mainland China, and C4 and B5 were major subtypes in Taiwan. …”
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Examining the Role of Psychological Symptoms and Safety Climate in Shaping Safety Behaviors Among Construction Workers by Na Guo, Yong Liu, Shiwang Yu, Bo Xia, Weiyi Cong

“…To address these issues, this study investigates the interplay between psychological symptoms, safety climate, and safety behaviors among construction workers in Mainland China. Data were collected through a survey of 160 construction workers, with results analyzed using correlation and regression techniques. …”
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The status and thinking of needs of hospice care at home and abroad (国内外安宁疗护需求现状及思考) by ZHANG Jiquan (张继权), XIE Shaoju (谢绍菊), XU Fan (徐帆), LUO Xi (罗溪), ZHANG Ping (张平)

“…This article summarizes the status of needs in hospice care at home and abroad, the latest developments of hospice care, policy support, hospice care programs, aimed at providing suggestions for the development of Hospice care in mainland China. (在“健康中国2030”背景下, 安宁疗护的发展和患者疾病需求密切相关, 对缓解患者疾病痛苦、提升生命质量具有重要意义。…”
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Reassessing hourly precipitation–temperature scaling: the diurnal cycle in a warming China by Miao Lei, Shanshan Wang, Jianping Huang, Zhiyang Wang, Xiaoping Li

“…This study uses hourly gauge observations and reanalysis data from mainland China to analyze the scaling and explore its diurnal cycle for the first time. …”
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Teachers’ Growth Mindset, Perceived School Climate, and Perceived Parental Autonomy Support Moderate the Relationship Between Students’ Growth Mindset and Academic Achievement by Kai Zhang, Wu-Jing He

“…A sample of 358 middle school students (53.8% female; Mage = 13.38 years, SD = 2.20) from public schools in Shanghai City, mainland China, was assessed via three validated instruments: (1) the Growth Mindset Inventory, which is used to measure students’ and teachers’ beliefs about intelligence; (2) the Delaware School Climate Survey for Students, which is used to assess students’ perceptions of the school climate; and (3) the Perceived Parental Autonomy Support Scale, which is used to evaluate students’ perceived parental autonomy support. …”
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Comprehensive Characterization of the Odor-Active Compounds in Different Processed Varieties of Yunnan White Tea (<i>Camellia sinensis</i>) by GC×GC-O-MS and Chemometrics by Junaid Raza, Baosong Wang, Yue Duan, Huanlu Song, Ali Raza, Dongfeng Wang

“…This study investigates the aroma characterization of unique white tea varieties from the Lüchun county of Yunnan province, Mainland China. These include shaken, unshaken, steam-cooked, and compressed varieties. …”
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Hierarchical Transfer Learning with Transformers to Improve Semantic Segmentation in Remote Sensing Land Use by Miaomiao Chen, Lianfa Li

“…This study proposes a hierarchical transfer learning framework for fine-category semantic segmentation tasks, leveraging the powerful global relationship modeling capabilities of Transformer models to classify land use in Dongpo District, Meishan City, in mainland China. Our framework represents multilevel transfer learning, progressing from non-remote sensing classification to coarse classification, then to the refined classification of remote sensing. …”
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Reliability and validity of the revised indebtedness scale in Chinese university students by Jing Zhang, Rui Feng, Zheyan Li, Hongyu Liang, Tonglin Jin, Yunna A, Xiaoyu Li

“…Abstract The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Revised Indebtedness Scale (IS-R-C) in mainland China. A total of 1057 university students participated in this study using a two-wave whole-group sampling method. …”
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Compliance with ethical standards in the reporting of donor sources and ethics review in peer-reviewed publications involving organ transplantation in China: a scoping review by Angela Ballantyne, Wendy Rogers, Matthew P Robertson, Brette Blakely, Ruby Catsanos, Robyn Clay-Williams, Maria Fiatarone Singh

“…Objectives The objective of this study is to investigate whether papers reporting research on Chinese transplant recipients comply with international professional standards aimed at excluding publication of research that: (1) involves any biological material from executed prisoners; (2) lacks Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval and (3) lacks consent of donors.Design Scoping review based on Arksey and O’Mallee’s methodological framework.Data sources Medline, Scopus and Embase were searched from January 2000 to April 2017.Eligibility criteria We included research papers published in peer-reviewed English-language journals reporting on outcomes of research involving recipients of transplanted hearts, livers or lungs in mainland China.Data extraction and synthesis Data were extracted by individual authors working independently following training and benchmarking. …”
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Association between social capital and trajectories of cognitive function among Chinese older adults by Mengyun Xiong, Zhaojing Wen, Wanrui Ma, Xue Hu, Yan Tong, Zhizhong Wang

“…Abstract Background The association between social capital and trajectories of cognitive function (CF) is still unclear among older adults in mainland China. The present study aims to examine the association using a longitudinal cohort from the Ningxia Healthy Aging Cohort. …”
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Experience of nurse-guided root cause analysis after a sentinel event: a qualitative study by Li-Li Huang, Yan-Hong Jiang, Ju-Hong Yang, Wei-Wen Hong, Hai-Fei Chen, Wei-Wei Hu

“…Methods Twelve participants from a tertiary hospital in southeastern mainland China were selected for the study. A constructivist qualitative research method was used to collect views and opinions from the participants' perspectives through semi-structured face-to-face interviews, and content analysis was applied, the data was further interpreted using thematic analysis. …”
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