The son of peasants, Professor Zhou Yiqing was born in 1929. He joined the Eighth Route Army (later part of the People’s Liberation Army) at the age of 16. During the Sino-Japanese War and the War of Liberation (Chinese Civil War) he served as a nurse, head of a nursing squad, assistant physician and eventually doctor-in-charge. In 1960, he graduated from the Shanghai No. 2 Military Medical Uni...

Pellagra is the prototype of the social disease from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, affecting tens of thousands of people each year, particularly in rural areas. Trying to find a solution for this social plague, medical staff of that time, as V. Babeş, A. Babeş, I. Felix, D. Sergiu, I. Neagoe, have done original researches, with minimal material resources, regarding aetiology ...

In recent years, the rise of farmer-supermarket direct purchase is one of the innovative modes in agricultural supply chain operations, study its operation is very important for improving the operational efficiency of the agricultural supply chain. This paper based on the newsboy model and centralized decision-making model, established agricultural supply chain coordination model with option co...

The article discusses an unpublished short manuscript by Władysław Stanisław Reymont. A note placed the author of Peasants on a ball ticket from 1922 constitutes starting point for reconstruction minor, although particularly interesting, episode late period in artist’s life.

BACKGROUND Scattered patches of crocidolite, one form of asbestos, were found in the surface soil in the rural county of Da-yao in southwestern China. In 1983, researchers from the West China University of Medical Sciences (WCUMS) discovered that residents of two villages in Da-yao had hyperendemic pleural plaques and excessive numbers of pleural mesotheliomas. AIMS To review and summarise ep...