Partial linear single-indexmodel (PLSIM) is a flexible and applicablemodel when investigating the underlying relationship between the response and the multivariate covariates. Most previous studies on PLSIM concentrated on mean regression, based on least square or likelihood approach. In contrast to this method, in this paper, we proposeminimizing average check loss estimation (MACLE) procedure...

Authors’ contributions FW participated in the study design, wrote most of the manuscript, performed most of the experiments and analyzed data. DCM, GZ, YL, XW, and JKL participated in the study design, data interpretation and revised the manuscript critically. LW and QC conceived the study, participated in its design, data analysis and revised the manuscript carefully and critically. All author...

Xiaomin Xu 1,*, Dongxiao Niu 1, Jinpeng Qiu 1, Meiqiong Wu 1, Peng Wang 2, Wangyue Qian 3 and Xiang Jin 3 1 School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China; [email protected] (D.N.); [email protected] (J.Q.); [email protected] (M.W.) 2 Shanxi Electric Power Design Institute Co. Ltd, China Energy Construction Group, Xi’an 710054, China; ...

BACKGROUND Brucellosis, one of the world's most important zoonosis, has been re-emerging in China. Shanxi Province, located in northern China, where husbandry development has been accelerated in recent years, has a rather high incidence of human brucellosis but drew little attention from the researchers. This study aimed to describe the changing epidemiology of human brucellosis in Shanxi Provi...

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 325 11 SEPTEMBER 2009 1309 COVER Wind turbines near the Great Wall in Shanxi, China. The Chinese government has aggressively fostered wind power development and tripled its target for the year 2020 to 100 gigawatts of installed capacity. Combining assimilated meteorology with current turbine technologies and concession policies, McElroy et al. (page 1378) report o...

State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 0300 State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processin 102249, China Department of Physics and Mathematics, U del Charro Ave. Cd, Juárez, Mexico, 32310 Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Scien 48109-2104, USA Department of Physics, Berea College, Bere Department of Chemistry, University of Cal Synfuels China Co. Ltd., Hua...

Neural-tube defects (NTDs) are considered to be the most common congenital malformations. As Shanxi Province, a poor region in the North of China, has one of the highest reported prevalence rates of NTDs in the world, folate fortification of rice is an excellent alternative to low intake of folate acid pills in this region. This paper investigates the relations between socio-demographic indicat...

CREOL and Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA, Department of Physics, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, China, Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA, Department of Applied Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shanxi 710049, China, Department of Physics, St. Petersburg State Universit...

BACKGROUND Neural tube defects (NTDs) are congenital birth defects that occur in the central nervous system, and they have the highest incidence among all birth defects. Shanxi Province in China has the world's highest rate of NTDs. Since the 1990s, China's government has worked on many birth defect prevention programs to reduce the occurrence of NTDs, such as pregnancy planning, health educati...

BACKGROUND Brucellosis presents a significant economic burden for China because it causes reproductive failure in host species and chronic health problems in humans. These problems can involve multiple organs. Brucellosis is highly endemic in Shanxi Province China. Molecular typing would be very useful to epidemiological surveillance. The purpose of this study was to assess the diversity of Bru...