China is not only the most populous country in the world, but also a multinational country with 56 ethnic groups. Tibetans (4.6 million in 1990) ranked in number as the ninth largest minority group. The Tibet question has attracted wide publicity in the Western media in recent years. The Chinese government is frequently criticised for political oppression and human rights violation in Tibet, pa...

The Time Intervals based Bandwidth Estimation Technique (TIBET) is a proposed change to the TCP congestion control algorithm which performs a run-time sender-side-only estimation of the bandwidth available to the connection. TIBET uses the estimated bandwidth to allow TCP sources to achieve higher performances both over wired and wireless networks, avoiding overly conservative rate reductions i...

Desertification in Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau is part of Chinese desertification. In the past decades, due to the climate warming, the climate condition in Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau has been relatively dry. This has resulted in permafrost degradation and other environmental problems. In addition, the vegetation and the soil layer were also destroyed by unreasonable economic activities....

This study establishes an information system of the wetlands and lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. We sort up on the wetlands and use Visual Basic 6.0 for the management and development of MapObjects, and the ArcSDE pattern to place the spatial and attribute data into the Microsoft SQL Server relational integrated database. We demonstrate how this Wetland Information System, containing all th...

The study was carried out to investigate the prevalence of mental disorders, and the requirement of mental health services in Tibet Autonomous Region of China. There was lower industrialization, different culture, and different customs in Tibet. The study revealed that, excluding mental retardation, the prevalence of other mental disorders was significantly higher than in other areas and other ...

Three outbreaks of acute respiratory disease occurred at military camps in 2016 at Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan province, China. The pathogen induced these three outbreaks were all confirmed as HAdV-55 by genotype-specific PCR. The outbreak in Tibet was the first report that HAdV-55 occurred in the high altitude (HA, above sea level 3658 m). This study aims to determine the gene variation and evol...

[1] Broadband seismic experiments over the last two decades have produced dense data coverage across Tibet. Yet, the mechanism of the India-Asia lithospheric convergence beneath it remains a puzzle, with even its basic features debated and with very different end-member models advocated today. We measured highly accurate Rayleighand Love-wave phase-velocity curves in broad period ranges (up to ...

Seismic data from central Tibet have been combined to image the subsurface structure and understand the evolution of the collision of India and Eurasia. The 410- and 660-kilometer mantle discontinuities are sharply defined, implying a lack of a subducting slab beneath the plateau. The discontinuities appear slightly deeper beneath northern Tibet, implying that the average temperature of the man...

A tomographic image of the upper mantle beneath central Tibet from INDEPTH data has revealed a subvertical high-velocity zone from approximately 100- to approximately 400-kilometers depth, located approximately south of the Bangong-Nujiang Suture. We interpret this zone to be downwelling Indian mantle lithosphere. This additional lithosphere would account for the total amount of shortening in t...

Yi-Xing Li,1 Ming-Hua Li,1 Shi-Hong Fu, Wei-Xin Chen, Qi-Yong Liu, Hai-Lin Zhang, Wa Da, Song-Lin Hu, Sang Dan La Mu, Ju Bai, Zun-Dong Yin, Hong-Yue Jiang, Yu-Hong Guo, Dun Zhu Duo Ji, Hui-Mei Xu, Ge Li, Gu Gu Cuo Mu, Hui-Ming Luo, Jing-Lin Wang, Jun Wang, Xiu-Min Ye, Zhuo Ma Yang Jin, Wei Zhang, Gui-Jun Ning, Huan-Yu Wang, Gui-Chang Li, Jian Yong, Xiao-Feng Liang, and Guo-Dong Liang Author aff...