Maize is one of the major cultivated crops of China, having a central role in ensuring the food security of the country. There has been a significant increase in studies of maize under interactive effects of elevated CO2 concentration ([CO2]) and other factors, yet the interactive effects of elevated [CO2] and increasing precipitation on maize has remained unclear. In this study, a manipulative...

Hua Zhang 1,2, Lei Pei 1, Jinlei Sun 1, Kai Song 1, Rengui Lu 1, Yongping Zhao 1, Chunbo Zhu 1,* and Tiansi Wang 1 1 School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China; [email protected] (H.Z.); [email protected] (L.P.); [email protected] (J.S.); [email protected] (K.S.); [email protected] (R.L.); [email protected] (Y.Z.); tiansi.wa...

Sweta bambusanasp. n. (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Dikraneurini), a new bamboo-feeding species, is described and illustrated from Guizhou and Guangdong of China. This represents the first record of the genus Sweta Viraktamath& Dietrich from China and the second known species of the genus. The new taxon extends the range of the genus Sweta, previously known only from northeast India ...

Lung cancer represents a complex and malignant cancer. Close Homologue of L1 (CHL1) gene plays a crucial role in the progress of cancer. The aim of this study is to explore the association between CHL1 rs425366 polymorphism and lung cancer susceptibility in northeast of China. A hospital-based case-control study was carried out to collect relative characteristics. Logistic regression analysis w...

To understand nonylphenol (NP) contamination in the northeast coastal environment in China, NP was determined in 19 sediment and 20 bivalve samples collected during November 2005. NP was identified in all sediment samples in the range of 8.8 to 1.0 x 10(3) ng/g dw (dry weight), with an average of 0.12 x 10(3) ng/g dw. Most of the bivalve samples (oysters and mussels) contained detectable amount...

This paper examines disparities between unitary central governments and local governments in how environmental policy is defined and implemented at the local level. This is done within the context of northeast Asia, where results can often differ from expectations driven by traditional models of local government behaviour offered by the West. A theoretical measure for policy distance between th...

This paper summarizes the results of a reliability assessment conducted by Northeast Power Coordinating Council’s (NPCC) Regional Planning Forum (RPF). The RPF’s goal is to explore innovative approaches to reliably enhancing the capabilities of the transmission grid from a Wide-Area, Trans-Regional outlook. Scenarios of Canadian to United States transfers, New England to the Mid-Atlantic Area C...

Huapeng Li 1,*, Shuqing Zhang 1, Xiaohui Ding 1,2, Ce Zhang 3 and Patricia Dale 4 1 Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130012, China; [email protected] (S.Z.); [email protected] (X.D.) 2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 3 Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK;...

The distribution of the capped langur (Trachypithecus pileatus) in China has become controversial since Shortridge's langur (Trachypithecus shortridgei) was upgraded to a full species. The capped langur is considered to be distributed in northeast India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and northwest Myanmar only (Brandon-Jones et al., 2004; Choudhury, 2008, 2014; Das et al., 2008; Groves, 2001). In our fie...