The Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life Science, Shandong University, 27 Shandanan Road, Jinan, Shandong 250100, People’s Republic of China (Y.Z., W.D., N.Z., X.A., M.W., G.X.); and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Phytohormones and Growth Development, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utiliza...

At the local level, Hospital Project Managers (PMs) were single points of contact for the provincial WTIS project team and were responsible for delivering on all aspects of the WTIS deployment within hospitals. Here, two PMs share their WTIS deployment experience from Beta/Phase I (completed in March 2006) and Phase II (completed in December 2006). It was through valuable insight and feedback s...

Copyright © 2017 The Korean Society of Radiology RE: Is There a Correlation between the Presence of a Spiculated Mass on Mammogram and Luminal A Subtype Breast Cancer? Rong-Pin Wang, MD*, Li Xu, MD*, Shuqin Zhou, MD, Nanzhu Wang, MD, Lei Tang, MD Department of Radiology, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, Guiyang 550002, China; Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guang...

The huge regional disparity in government health expenditures (GHE) is a major policy concern in China. This paper addresses whether provincial GHE converges in China from 1997 to 2009 using the economic convergence framework based on neoclassical economic growth theory. Our empirical investigation provides compelling evidence of long-term convergence in provincial GHE within China, but not in ...

1Department of Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK 2School of Ophthalmology & Optometry, The Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China 3Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA 4Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Hospital of University of Electronic Scie...

Designing a Model for Evaluating the Performance of Research Departments within the Provincial Divisions of MoE   G. Yooselyaani* M.R. Behrangi, Ph.D. ** H.R. Aaraasteh, Ph.D. *** B. Abdollaahi, Ph.D. ****   To improve the performance of the departments of research within the provincial divisions of Ministry of Education, based on the views of experts and the content of all adm...

Impairments in cell migration processes may cause various diseases, among which cancer cell metastasis, tumor angiogenesis, and the disability of immune cells to infiltrate into tumors are prominent ones. Mathematical modeling has been widely used to analyze the cell migration process. Cell migration is a complicated process and requires statistical methods such as random walk for proper analys...

conclusions our findings show that, at provincial levels, a complex set of known/unknown influencing factors affect individuals’ assessments of their own health quality. understanding these patterns of srh and ls could be useful for better health policy and more targeted studies in this field. background self-rated health (srh) and life satisfaction (ls) are of increasing interest to medical re...

the increasing cost of peanut production is a major concern in iran. therefore, developing the mechanization of peanut production is a necessity. in this regard, a three-phase delphi study was conducted to identify the promoting and deterring factors affecting peanut cultivation mechanization in guilan province, the main peanut-producing region in iran. after preliminary studies, 26 experts wer...