Economic Load Dispatch Using Population-Variance Harmony Search Algorithm B K Panigrahi, V Ravikumar Pandi, Swagatam Das, Zhihua Cui, Renu Sharma Department of Electrical Engg., IIT, Delhi, India – 110016. Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engg., Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Complex System and Computational Intelligence Laboratory, Taiyuan University of Science and Technol...

Hieracium sinoaestivum Sennikov sp. nov. is described as new to science and illustrated. This presumably apomictic species is solely known from two old collections made in a single locality in the Shanxi Province of China. It belongs to the hybridogenous group Hieracium sect. Aestiva (Hieracium sect. Prenanthoidea × Hieracium sect. Umbellata) and is most similar to Hieracium veresczaginii from ...

Hai Wang,1,* Shujing Li,1 Zhongxiao Xu,1 Xingbo Zhao,1 Lijun Zhang,1 Jiahua Li,1 Yuelong Wu,1 Changde Xie,1 Kunchi Peng,1 and Min Xiao1,2 1The State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Opto-Electronics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, People’s Republic of China 2Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA (Received 9 ...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to make a preliminary comparison of emergency department (ED) presentations between Australia and China. The comparison could provide insights into the health systems and burden of diseases and potentially stimulate discussion about the development of acute health system in China. METHODS An observational study was performed to compare Australian ED presentations u...

The present paper describes a new species Lithobius (Monotarsobius) monoforaminissp. n. (Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) recently discovered from Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces, Central China. Morphologically it resembles Lithobius (Monotarsobius) minimus Farzalieva, 2006 from Eastern Kazakhstan, but could be well distinguished from the latter having only one pore on the coxae of legs 12-15 and diff...

In Shanxi Province, China, children living in the endemic fluoride village of Sima (water supply F = 4.12 mg/L) located near Xiaoyi City had average IQ (97.69) significantly lower (p < 0.02) than children living to the north in the nonendemic village of Xinghua (F = 0.91 mg/L; average IQ = 105.21). These differences were not associated with gender, but the IQ scores were directly related to edu...

BACKGROUND Several studies have shown that the predominant genotype of Chinese Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is evolving from genotype 3 to genotype 1. However, in recent years, almost all genotype 1 isolates were from mosquitoes, and genotype 1 has been less associated with human disease than genotype 3. This study reports the isolation of human genotype 1 JEV and its genetic characteristi...

Joseph Ka Hoi Wong was born in Guangzhou, China, to 2 loving parents, Hsi Huang and Ching Lam. He came to Canadaat age 17 years.He completedhismedical degree at the University of Toronto, his residency in otolaryngology at the University of West Ontario, and spent a year in Tokyo, Japan, on a fellowship with the renowned cleft lip and palate surgeonTakuyaOnizuka,MD. Joe later establishedabusy a...