the turkmans are one of the iranian ethnic population. hla typing (class i and ii) was performed in this population. the data obtained from this study was compared with different populations of the world. we observed that the turkman population is most similar to the northern chinese and uigur population. the distributions of hla antigens in turkmans are somewhat between iranian population, nor...

it is widely accepted in many parts of the world thatcommunity nurses are of vital importance in various phases of disaster response and management. in china, however, it is not clear whether the chinese community nurses are able to assume disaster-related duties due to the lack of a systematic assessment.a pre-designed and well-tested questionnaire was employed to evaluate the competency in di...

BACKGROUND The past 3 decades have witnessed a boost in science development in China; in parallel, more and more Chinese scientific journals are indexed by the Journal Citation Reports issued by Thomson Reuters (SCI). Evaluation of the performance of these Chinese SCI journals is necessary and helpful to improve their quality. This study aimed to evaluate these journals by calculating various j...

background: recently, the traditional and complementary medicine has largely gained interest among scholars across the globe. keeping pace with the on-going trend, the iranian academia have provided the phd course on traditional iranian medicine. in this study, we attempted to perform a qualitative study, comparing the phd curricula of the chinese and iranian traditional medicine in detail. met...

The rootes of Chinese sage, Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (labieteae) are used to prepare an important traditional medicine in the Chinese pharmacoepia, Dan Shen. Indeed, related members of this genus are common traditional medicines throughout the world, making Salvia species the targets of intense phytochemical investigations. The active constituents of these species have been reported to be seve...

Based on the rapid development of Chinese agricultures, many English users are interesting on the Chinese agricultural information, and many Chinese users are interesting on English agricultural information too. This paper is a schema to design an agricultural cross languages engine, the core technology is the mapping between Chinese and English agricultural thesauri. The paper introduces the a...

background: glutathione s-transferases ( gsts ) have been investigated as potential carcinoma susceptible genes. however, the relationship between gsts ( gstm1 , gstt1 ) variants and gastric carcinoma (gc) risk has been controversial in chinese population. methods: a comprehensive literature search strategy (pubmed, chinese biomedical database, chinese national knowledge infrastructure, wan fan...

INTRODUCTION When I was invited as an opening speaker for this conference, I was not asked to embed it in what some call the Aarhus tradition that is now giving rise to the fourth decennial international and interdisciplinary scientific event. However, I found that I could not do otherwise. Partly, because I am full of admiration for what has been achieved, and partly because I wonder where the...

Research indicates that non-commercial and informal university–industry interactions, which are defined as academic engagement, account for a larger part and play a more important role than commercialization in academic knowledge transfer in China. This paper aims to explore the effect of Chinese scientists’ individual differences on academic engagement via social cognitive theory. This study a...