AIM To investigate the association of glutathione S-transferase T1 (GSTT1) gene polymorphism in patients with idiopathic azoospermia or oligospermia in the northwestern China population. METHODS In the case-control study, GSTT1 genotypes were identified by multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with peripheral blood DNA samples from 78 patients with idiopathic azoospermia, 103 patients wit...

Toxoplasmosis is a worldwide zoonosis caused by Toxoplasma gondii, which can infect warm-blooded animals and humans. The present study was performed to investigate the seroprevalence of T. gondii in horses in Xinjiang, northwestern China. A total of 637 blood samples were collected from seven regions in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang in 2011 and assayed for T. gondii antibodies usi...

Han-Xin Yang, Ming Tang, and Zhen Wang Department of Physics, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China School of Information Science Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China Big data research center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical Univers...

Cun Xue, 2 Jun-Yi Ge, An He, Vyacheslav S. Zharinov, V. V. Moshchalkov, Y. H. Zhou, 5 A. V. Silhanek, and J. Van de Vondel School of Mechanics, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China INPAC–Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B–3001 Leuven, Belgium College of science, Chang’an University, Xi’an 71...

[1] Dust storms originating in the Gobi desert and the surrounding areas critically impact weather, climate, and public health in China and neighboring Pacific Rim countries. In the decades between 1954 and 2007, reports of annual dust storm occurrences and the corresponding amount of total precipitation at 753 Chinese meteorological sites show a reduction in the occurrence and intensity of dus...

Xi Liu, Badong Chena∗, Bin Xu, Zongze Wu, and Paul Honeine School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China; School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China; School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China; the Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, UNIHAVRE, INSA Rouen, LITIS, Rouen, ...

Jonathan Andreasen, Hui Cao,* Allen Taflove, Prem Kumar, and Chang-qi Cao Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Received 24 September 2007; published 8 Feb...

From Nondissociative to Dissociative Adsorption of Benzene-thiol on Au(111): A Density Functional Theory Study Xiaoli Fan,* Qiong Chi, Chong Liu, and Woonming Lau* School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710072, China Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100084, China Chengdu Green Energy and Green Manufacturing Techno...

Taoyan Zhao 1,*, Ping Li 2,*, Jiangtao Cao 2 and Tian Li 3 1 School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China 2 School of Information and Control Engineering, Liaoning Shihua University, Fushun 113001, China; [email protected] 3 Sinopec Tianjin Natural Gas Pipe Company, Tianjin 300457, China; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected] (T.Z.); liping...