Failure Characteristics and Stability Control of Bolt Support in Thick-Coal-Seam Roadway of Three Typical Coal Mines in China by Zhe Xiang, Nong Zhang, Deyu Qian, Zhengzheng Xie, Chenghao Zhang, Feng Guo, Sujian Wang

“…Based on field observations, the failure mechanism of selected roadway failures under distinct conditions at three representative coal mines in eastern and western China was analyzed. Recommendations are provided for roadway safety control. …”
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Study on dynamic mechanical properties of frozen weakly cemented rock under lateral constraint by Weiyu Li, Weiyu Li, Shizheng Fang, Ye Zhu, Guangming Li

“…Weakly cemented red sandstone is common in the construction of shaft engineering in western China. Based on the actual working conditions, the dynamic mechanical behavior of this kind of rock under the combined action of multiple variables was studied. …”
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Soil-Rock Slope Stability Analysis under Top Loading considering the Nonuniformity of Rocks by Huang Xian-Wen, Zhi-Shu Yao, Wang Bing-Hui, Zhou Ai-Zhao, Peng-Ming Jiang

“…Soil-rock slopes are widely distributed in central or western China. With the development of transportation, many subgrades are being built on mountainsides and therefore, slope stability has to be estimated under high loadings. …”
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Suitability analysis of prefabricated underground utility tunnels crossing active ground fissures by Qiang Xu, Lei Qiu, Jianbing Peng, Chaoyu Bai, Shuguang Chang, Quanzhong Lu, Wenyang Li, Junyan Zhao, Haoran Chen, Feifan Chen

“…The city of Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, is the transportation hub in western China, which has planned to establish an underground utility tunnel system. …”
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Diversity and Multigene Phylogeny of the Genus <i>Floccularia</i> (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) by Zai-Wei Ge, Hua Qu, Malka Saba, Tian Gao, Martin Ryberg

“…<i>Floccularia</i> is known as a northern-hemisphere-distributed genus with important economic values, especially in Western China. However, its species diversity in Asia and the phylogeny of this genus have not been critically studied. …”
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The occurrence characteristic and dissolution mechanism of lithium-rich sediments in Salt Lake Mahai of Qaidam Basin, NW China by Yanjun Zhao, Pengyu Long, Hua Zhang, Yufei Hu, Zihao Cui, Yumeng Zhang, Minglu Zhang, Qiang Wang, Shengzhong Hu

“…Abstract The Salt Lake Mahai in Qaidam Basin, western China contains large and thick lithium-rich clay sediments that exhibit great economic potential for lithium exploration. …”
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Care burden and quality of life among family caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in China: the mediating roles of social support and coping styles by Fang Liu, Rui Zhang, Cui Cui, Hengyu Zhou

“…Methods The purposive sampling method was used in this study to select 189 caregivers of cerebral palsy children from the rehabilitation department of a children’s hospital in western China from May 2022 to August 2023. Self-designed demographic data questionnaire, the WHO’s Quality of Life Questionnaire, the Zarit Burden Interview, the Social Support Rating Scale, and the Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire were used for conducting the investigation. …”
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Effect of vascular simulation training on practice performance in residents: a retrospective cohort study by Lin Yang, Jianlin Liu, Yanzi Li, Yamin Liu

“…Objective This study aims to investigate the teaching effect of vascular simulation training (ST) in rotating vascular residents.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting and participants A total of 95 vascular residents were included from 2015 to 2018 in a university affiliated centre western China, and divided into an ST group and a conventional training (CT) group. …”
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Transformer-based travel time estimation method for plateau and mountainous environments by Guangjun Qu, Kefa Zhou, Rui Wang, Dong Li, Yingpeng Lu, Zhihong Lv, Dequan Zhao, Aijun Zhang, Qing Zhang

“…Two datasets were constructed based on measurements from two selected areas in eligible plateau and mountainous regions of western China. For each dataset, two categories of features were defined: terrain-weather features and spatio-temporal features. …”
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Effects of migrant workers’ health capital on their returning home intentions: evidence from China by Haitao Li, Haitao Li, Haibo Li, Hao Xiang

“…Data were collected from a sample of 810 migrant workers from three provinces located in eastern, central, and western China using a survey questionnaire.ResultsMigrant workers’ HC had a significant and negative impact on their RHI, and mental health (MH) had a greater impact on migrant workers’ RHI than physical health (PH). …”
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Land use transition and its driving mechanisms in China’s human-elephant conflict areas by WANG Yuan, WANG Yahui, YANG Aoxi, FAN Hui, XIE Fei

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Dynamic Splitting Behavior and the Constitutive Relationship of Frozen Sandstone Containing a Single Fissure by Tao Zhao, Gengshe Yang, Lei Wang, Hailiang Jia, Yuzhe Qiao

“…Fractured sandstone is widely distributed in mining areas throughout western China where the artificial freezing method is extensively adopted to construct vertical shafts. …”
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Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with mites phoretic on bark beetles in Qinghai, China by Runlei Chang, Tuan A. Duong, Stephen J. Taerum, Michael J. Wingfield, XuDong Zhou, Z. Wilhelm de Beer

“…We studied the mites and fungi from galleries of four spruce-infesting bark beetle species in the high altitude forests of Qinghai province, western China. Mites were identified based on morphological characteristics, and fungi based on DNA sequences of four gene regions. …”
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Mechanism and Evolution Control of Wide Coal Pillar Bursts in Multithick Key Strata by Wenhao Guo, Anye Cao, Chengchun Xue, Yang Hu, Songwei Wang, Qian Zhao

“…Coal mine pillar burst frequently occurs in Western China, which seriously restricts safe production. …”
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China’s national continuing medical education program for general practitioners: a cross-sectional survey (2016–2023) by Conglei You, Lingling Wang, Jian Zhang, Mi Yao

“…However, the regional distribution of the CME programs was uneven, with Shanghai, Zhejiang, and Beijing leading but western China lagging. Furthermore, most programs focused on patient care and medical knowledge in competency-based CME evaluations, with less emphasis on interpersonal and communication skills. …”
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Experimental Study on Flow Characteristics of Aeolian Sand in Fractures by Jiarui Chen, Wenhu Gu, Jihua Zhang, Jitao Tang, Zhengzheng Cao, Jingke Wu, Jianxiong Liu, Weizhong He, Fang Shi

“…It is one of the important safety problems in the process of mining shallow coal seams in western China that the rock mass affected by mining stress breaks and forms a penetrating fracture, leading to a sand burst in the working face. …”
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Factor structure and longitudinal measurement invariance of Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale during the whole perinatal period: a multicenter cohort study in China by Jichun Yang, Yu Jiang, Yimin Qu, Yongle Zhan, Haihui Ma, Xiaoxiu Li, Dongmei Man, Hongguo Wu, Ping Huang

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Seasonal and Regional Variability of Long-Wave Effective Radiation in China and Associated Modulating Factors by Qianrong Ma, Jie Zhang, Yu Gu, Yujun Ma, Yu Cao

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Segmented evolution and exploration targets of the Cambrian platform margin in the Manxi area, Tarim Basin by Zongquan Hu, Fan Feng, Chengming Fang, Zicheng Cao, Tieyi Wang, Kangkang Guo, Yang Li, Shi Wang

“…Of the three major basins in western China, Tarim is the only basin with large-scale platform margin where no exploration breakthrough has been achieved yet. …”
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Coupling analysis of multi-systems urbanization: Evidence from China by Junqiang Luo, Weijing Ma, Shuang An, Zining Zhang, Yanchuan Fu, Hejun Huang, Genying Chang

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