Characteristics and Meteorological Factors of Severe Haze Pollution in China by Chao He, Song Hong, Hang Mu, Peiyue Tu, Lu Yang, Biqin Ke, Jiayi Huang

“…A severe haze pollution incident caused by unfavorable weather conditions and a northern air mass occurred in eastern, northern, northwestern, and southwestern China from January 15 to January 22, 2018. …”
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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

“…Several recent studies explored the diversity of fungi from conifer-infesting bark beetles and their galleries in China, but only one study considered phoretic mites and their fungi from conifer-infesting bark beetles in Yunnan, southwestern China. 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. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Dynamic Stable Cluster Head Selection in VANET by Muhammad Asim Saleem, Zhou Shijie, Muhammad Umer Sarwar, Tanveer Ahmad, Amarah Maqbool, Casper Shikali Shivachi, Maham Tariq

“…The proposed scheme is tested on the real map of Chengdu, southwestern China’s Sichuan province, with different vehicular mobilities. …”
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Spatial Downscaling of GPM Annual and Monthly Precipitation Using Regression-Based Algorithms in a Mountainous Area by Chesheng Zhan, Jian Han, Shi Hu, Liangmeizi Liu, Yuxuan Dong

“…They were employed to downscale annual and monthly precipitation obtained from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission in Hengduan Mountains, Southwestern China, from 10 km × 10 km to 1 km × 1 km. Ground observations were then used to validate the accuracy of downscaled precipitation. …”
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Aroma profile of two commercial truffle species from Yunnan and Sichuan, China: inter- and intraspecific variability and shared key compounds by Bin Lu, Jesús Perez-Moreno, Fengming Zhang, Andrea C. Rinaldi, Fuqiang Yu

“…We thus collected and analyzed young, middle mature and mature fruiting bodies of each species from different locations in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, located in southwestern China. Overall, 76 VOCs were identified, belonging to different chemical classes, i.e. alcohols and phenols, aldehydes and ketones, benzenes and methoxy compounds, hydrocarbons and amines. …”
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Inflammation and endothelial gene polymorphism are associated with ischemic stroke by Wanli Chen, Jie Li, Jintao Zhou, Xingyang Yi, Hong Chen

“…AimEvaluate the correlation between ischemic stroke and genetic variations related to inflammation and endothelial function.MethodsThis was a multicenter cross-sectional research conducted in southwestern China. Residents aged ≥40 years voluntarily join in the face-to-face survey in 8 communities. 2,377 participants were at high risk of stroke, of which 429 had a previous history of ischemic stroke. …”
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Accumulation and Transport of Cd, Pb, As, and Cr in Different Maize Varieties in Southwest China by Qi Liu, Sheng Wang, Jijiang Zhou, Li Bao, Wenbing Zhou, Naiming Zhang

“…M2, M4, M5, M9, M10, M21, and M25–28 were identified as suitable varieties with low Cd, Pb, As, and Cr accumulation for popularization in HM-contaminated soils in southwestern China due to their low accumulation of HMs.…”
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A Semianalytical Model for Analyzing the Infill Well-Caused Fracture Interference from Shale Gas Reservoirs by Sidong Fang, Yonghui Wu, Cheng Dai, Liqiang Ma, Hua Liu

“…Finally, the proposed model is used to analyze the production data of a field case from Fuling shale in Southwestern China. After analyzing the production data, several parameters can be obtained for both parent and infill wells, including the fracture lengths and conductivities, numbers of connected fractures, and the near and distant well permeabilities of the SRV. …”
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Relationship between Tectonism and Composition and Pore Characteristics of Shale Reservoirs by Fuhua Shang, Yanming Zhu, Haitao Gao, Yang Wang, Ruiyin Liu

“…To explore the relationship between tectonism and composition and pore characteristics of shale reservoirs, this research carried out mineralogy tests, organic geochemistry tests, field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) experiments, and low-pressure gas adsorption (LPGA, N2 and CO2) experiments on the shale samples of various deformation intensities from Southwestern China. Based on the FE-SEM image analyses, it can be found that there are large differences in pore characteristics in shale samples with different deformation intensities. …”
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Tea cultivation: facilitating soil organic carbon accumulation and altering soil bacterial community—Leishan County, Guizhou Province, Southwest China by Yingge Shu, Shan Xie, Hong Fan, Chun Duan, Yuansheng Liu, Zuyong Chen

“…Background Camellia sinensis is an important cash crop in southwestern China, with soil organic carbon playing a vital role in soil fertility, and microorganisms contributing significantly to nutrient cycling, thus both of them influencing tea tree growth and development. …”
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Comparing Soil pH Mapping from Multi-Temporal PlanetScope and Sentinel-2 Data Across Land Use Types by Ziyu Wang, Wei Wu, Hongbin Liu

“…This study evaluated PlanetScope (high-resolution) and Sentinel-2 (medium-resolution) images in estimating soil pH across diverse land use types in southwestern China’s hilly areas. It examined how spectral variables from four seasonal images affect prediction accuracy. …”
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Immune Dysfunction and Coinfection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Schistosoma japonicum in Yi People by Yu Yang, Peng-Lei Xiao, Ya Yang, Jian-Chuan Gao, Yan Shi, Wan-Ting Cheng, Yue Chen, Xiu-Xia Song, Qing-Wu Jiang, Yi-Biao Zhou

“…A block design study was conducted in a Yi county in southwestern China, one of the endemic areas of both HIV/AIDS and S. japonicum in China. …”
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Heterogeneous occurrence of evergreen broad-leaved forests in East Asia: Evidence from plant fossils by Jiagang Zhao, Shufeng Li, Jian Huang, Wenna Ding, Mengxiao Wu, Tao Su, Alexander Farnsworth, Paul J. Valdes, Linlin Chen, Yaowu Xing, Zhekun Zhou

“…The earliest occurrence of EBLFs in southern China can be traced back to the middle Eocene, followed by southwestern China during the late Eocene–early Oligocene. …”
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Integrative analyses of morpho-physiological, biochemical, and transcriptomic reveal the seedling growth response of Pinus yunnanensis to nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization by Junfei Xu, Junfei Xu, Xiyan Li, Shi Chen, Shi Chen, Lin Chen, Lin Chen, Junrong Tang, Junrong Tang, Peizhen Chen, Peizhen Chen, Nianhui Cai, Nianhui Cai, Yulan Xu, Yulan Xu

“…Pinus yunnanensis, a silvicultural tree in southwestern China, faces economic and ecological limitations due to nutrient deficiency in the soils in its distribution areas. …”
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