This study aims to introduce the potential applicability of traditional ecological knowledge and community forestry in Northeast Asia, including China, Japan, and South Korea. In ancient Northeast Asia, forest policies and practices were based on Fengshui (an old Chinese concept regarding the flow of vital forces), with which forests were managed under community forestry. However, these traditi...

An interprovincial boundary region is a new subject of economic disparity study in China. This study explored the multi-scale spatio-temporal dynamics of economic development from 1995 to 2010 in the interprovincial boundary region of Sichuan-Yunnan-Guizhou, a mountain area and also the junction area of Tibetan Plateau, Hengduan Mountain, Yungui Plateau and Sichuan Basin in southwestern China. ...

A New Improved Firefly Algorithm for Global Numerical Optimization Gai-Ge Wang1 ∗, Lihong Guo2, Hong Duan3, and Heqi Wang2 1School of Computer Science and Technology, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221116, China 2Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China 3School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Nor...

1 Center of Bioinformatics (COBI), Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China 2Department of Chemistry and Alberta Glycomics Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2G2 3National Engineering Laboratory for Druggable Gene and Protein Screening, Northeast Normal University, Changchun...

Zhongyu Li a,b, Xin Huang a, Song Xu c, Zihui Chen a, Zhi Zhang a, Fushi Zhang a,∗, Kazuo Kasatani d,∗ a Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China b Department of Chemical Engineering, Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, Jilin 132022, PR China c Department of Application Technology, Northeast China University of Electric Power Engineering, Jilin 132021, PR China...

1 Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, 2 College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China, 3 Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, 4 Key Laboratory of Plant Resources ...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) 52 is an oncogenic HPV type prevalent in Asia. The aim of the study was to analyze HPV 52 genetic variations in women from Northeast China. To explore the intratypic variants of HPV 52, the genomic regions of L1, E6, E7 and long control region (LCR) of HPV 52, which have been identified in women from Northeast China by HPV GenoArray test, were analyzed. Twenty-five mu...

D. Mao, Z. Wang, L. Li, Z. Miao, W. Ma, C. Song, C. Ren, and M. Jia Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 4888, Shengbei Street, Changchun, Jilin Province 130102, China Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis 46202, USA Jilin Province Water Resource and Hydrop...