There are errors in the author affiliations. The affiliations should appear as shown here: Daihui Peng, Feng Shi, Gang Li, Drew Fralick, Ting Shen, Meihui Qiu, Jun Liu, Kaida Jiang, Dinggang Shen, Yiru Fang 1 Division of Mood Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 2 Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Caroli...

Chen Chu1,2, Aijie Xin1,3,4, Yuchuan Zhou1, and Yonglian Zhang1,3* Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Andrology, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China Shanghai Institute...

The paper published in the January 2015 issue of this journal by Gusmano and colleagues entitled “Shanghai rising: health improvements as measured by avoidable mortality since 2000” has spurred this commentary. We discuss controversial issues surrounding the concept of avoidable mortality in health service research in general and Gusmano’s study in particular. The impact of overall social devel...

Yuanxun Ge, Jianjun Cao, Zhenhua Shen, Yuanlin Zheng, Xianfeng Chen, and Wenjie Wan* Department of Physics, The State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China University of Michigan–Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China *Corresponding author: wenjie....

Institute of Neurobiology, Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China, Pharmacology Research Center, Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China and Shanghai Institute of Brain Functional Genomics, East China Normal University,...

Second-order sensitivity analysis of multibody systems described by differentialz/algebraic equations: adjoint variable approach Jie-Yu Ding ab; Zhen-Kuan Pan b; Li-Qun Chen ac a Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, P.R. China b College of Information Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao, P.R. China c Department of Mechanics, Shanghai Unive...

a) Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China b) Department of Biomathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1766, USA c) Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240, Shanghai, China d) Department of Mathe...

a Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China b Central Laboratory, Shanghai Seventh People’s Hospital, Shanghai 200137, China c School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, England, UK d Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shanghai Seventh People’s Hospit...

The fastest developing city in China is Shanghai; its annual growth rate (GDP) exceeded 11.9% average in every year from 1992 and GDP per person in 2003 reached 4909 USD. Economists, industries and the government have been considering how to keep Shanghai developing in a sustainable manner. In 1994, the Shanghai Municipal Government put forward the concept of “information harbor” and set the go...

the decline in avoidable mortality (am) and increase in life expectancy in shanghai is impressive. gusmano and colleagues suggested that shanghai’s improved health system has contributed significantly to this decline in am. however, when compared to other global cities, shanghai’s life expectancy at birth is improving as london and new york city, but has yet to surpass that of hong kong, tokyo,...