Tai people are widely distributed in Thailand, Laos and southwestern China and are a large population of Southeast Asia. Although most anthropologists and historians agree that modern Tai people are from southwestern China and northern Thailand, the place from which they historically migrated remains controversial. Three popular hypotheses have been proposed: northern origin hypothesis, souther...

Hydatothrips ormosiae sp. n. (Thripidae: Sericothripinae) is described from southern China; H. ekasi, H. liquidambara and H. onari Kudô are newly recorded for mainland China, and H. noro Kudô is newly recorded for Taiwan. A key to the 16 Hydatothrips species recorded from China (including Taiwan) is provided.

Er-Ping Xi, Jian Zhu, Shui-Bo Zhu, Gui-Lin Yin, Yong Liu, Yong-Qiang Dong, Yu Zhang, Feng Xia I Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command, Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China. II Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China. III Liaocheng People’s Hospital, Liaocheng, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, People’s Republic of ...

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China,Institute of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, College of Science and Technology, University of South China, Hengyang, 421001, China, Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, Simmons Cooper Cancer Institute, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. 913 N. Rutledge Street, Springfield, ...

1 Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, 2 State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China, 3 State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Medical University, Guan...

A 46-year-old woman presented with a slowly enlarging skin lesion on the back, jugular lymphadenopathy for 1 month, but no fever. She was infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); CD4+ T lymphocyte count was 22 cells/ mm. She had always lived in Hubei province (central China) and denied a history of traveling to southern China. The skin lesion was 3 +3 cm flesh-colored, well-demarca...

Yuan Fang, Ge Sun,* Peter Caldwell, Steven G. McNulty, Asko Noormets, Jean-Christophe Domec, John King, Zhiqiang Zhang, Xudong Zhang, Guanghui Lin, Guangsheng Zhou, Jingfeng Xiao and Jiquan Chen 1 Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA 2 Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Se...

Urban heat islands (UHIs) created through urbanization can have negative impacts on the lives of people living in cities. They may also vary spatially and temporally over a city. There is, thus, a need for greater understanding of these patterns and their causes. While previous UHI studies focused on only a few cities and/or several explanatory variables, this research provides a comprehensive ...

Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China; and State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou 510060, China Department of Neuropharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China Discipline of Pharmacy, School of Medical Sciences, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria ...

Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (C.Z., Z.Z., S.X., J.-K.Z.); Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 (C.Z., S.X., T.S., Y.L., J.-K.Z.); Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecology in Southern China, Ministry of Agriculture/H...