4,069 research outputs found
Occupational heat stress and economic burden: A review of global evidence
No full textMatthew Anthony Borg, Jianjun Xiang, Olga Anikeeva, and Peng B
Current and projected heatwave-attributable occupational injuries, illnesses, and associated economic burden in Australia: a national time-series
No full textAbstract not availableMatthew Anthony Borg, Jianjun Xiang, Olga Anikeeva, and Peng B
Anomalous temperatures increase occupational injuries, illnesses and associated costs in Australia
No full textAbstract not availableMatthew Anthony Borg, Jianjun Xiang, Olga Anikeeva, and Peng B
Perceptions of capacity for infectious disease control and prevention to meet the challenges of dengue fever in the face of climate change: A survey among CDC staff in Guangdong Province, China
No full textAbstract not availableMichael Xiaoliang Tong, Alana Hansen, Scott Hanson-Easey, Jianjun Xiang, Scott Cameron, Qiyong Liu, Xiaobo Liu, Yehuan Sun, Philip Weinstein, Gil-Soo Han, Craig Williams, Peng B
Data for 'Studies on the Xiang dialects'
No full textThe data comprises IPA and partial Chinese character transcriptions of 22 narratives in Xiang, where speakers retell the events of the pear stories video. This is drawn from a larger corpus of 47 Xiang narratives collected by the author.
Also included are .xlsx and .csv files including demographic data for the full 47 respondents, a dataset for Study #1 of the thesis entitled 'Studies on the Xiang dialects', and three datasets for Study #3 for the same thesis. </p
The Socio-Cultural Context of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's Novel “The Founder of the Demon Path” Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
No full textАвтор розкриває стиль, структуру та наратив роману Мосян Тунсю «Засновник демонічного шляху», що сформувалися під впливом літературних тенденцій Китаю 2010-х років.
The author reveals the style, structure, and narrative of Mosiang Tongxiu's Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel The Founder of the Demon Path, which were shaped by the literary trends in China in the 2010s
Susceptibility loci for pigmentation and melanoma in relation to Parkinson's disease
No full textGrowing evidence suggests that Parkinson's disease (PD) patients have a lower risk for most types of cancer except for melanoma, which has a modest positive association with PD. Pigmentation genes have been hypothesized to contribute to this association. We therefore examined whether genetic susceptibility loci for pigmentation or melanoma was associated with PD risk in 2 large independent datasets. In the Parkinson's Genes and Environment (PAGE) study, we examined 11 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified from previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of pigmentation or melanoma in relation to PD among 808 PD cases and 1623 controls; furthermore, we also examined the colors of hair, eye, or skin and melanoma in relation to PD. In the International Parkinson's Disease Genomic Consortium (IPDGC), we examined a broader selection of 360 pigmentation or melanoma GWAS SNPs in relation to PD among 5,333 PD cases and 12,019 controls. All participants were non-Hispanic Whites. As expected, in the PAGE study, most SNPs were associated with 1 or more pigmentation phenotypes. However, neither these SNPs nor pigmentation phenotypes were associated with PD risk after Bonferroni correction with the exception of rs4911414 at the ASIP gene (p = .001). A total of 18 PD cases (2.2%) and 26 controls (1.6%) had a diagnosis of melanoma with an odds ratio of 1.3 (95% confidence interval: 0.7-2.4). In the IPDGC analysis, none of the 360 SNPs, including rs4911414, were associated with PD risk after adjusting for multiple comparisons. In conclusion, we did not find significant associations between GWAS SNPs of pigmentation or melanoma and the risk for PD
Distributed Joint Cluster Formation and Resource Allocation Scheme for Cooperative Data Collection in Virtual MIMO-Based M2M Networks
No full textAn efficient data collection scheme plays an important role for the real-time intelligent monitoring in many machine-to-machine (M2M) networks. In this paper, a distributed joint cluster formation and resource allocation scheme for data collection in cluster-based M2M networks is proposed. Specifically, in order to utilize the advantages of cooperation, we first propose a hierarchical transmission model which contains two communication phases. In the first phase, the intracluster information sharing is carried out by all the nodes within the same cluster. Then these nodes transmit the total information to the BS cooperatively with virtual-MIMO (VMIMO) protocol in the second phase. To grasp the properties and advantages of this cooperative transmission strategy, the theoretical analysis results are provided. The key issue in this system is to form the clusters and allocate resources efficiently. Since the optimization problem on this issue is an NP-hard problem, a feasible joint scheme for the cluster formation and resource allocation is proposed in this paper, which is carried out via coalition formation game with a distributed algorithm. This scheme can reduce the complexity while keeping an attractive performance. Simulation results show the properties of the proposed scheme and its advantages when comparing with the noncooperative scheme for the data collection in a practical scenario
CUHK electronic theses & dissertations collection
No full textXiang, Li.Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2014.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 156-168).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 30, September, 2016)
Anxiolytic-Like Effects of Compound Zhi Zhu Xiang in Rats
No full textThe purpose of this study was to determine whether compound zhi zhu xiang (CZZX) exerts anxiolytic-like effects in rats. The animals were orally administered CZZX (0.75, 1.5, and 3 g/kg daily) for 10 days and tested in the elevated plus maze (EPM), Vogel conflict test (VCT), and open field. Repeated treatment with CZZX (3 g/kg/day, p.o.) significantly increased the percentage of both entries into and time spent on the open arms of the EPM compared with saline controls. In the VCT, repeated treatment with CZZX (1.5 and 3 g/kg/day, p.o.) significantly increased the number of punished licks. The drug did not change the total entries into the open arms of the EPM or interfere with water consumption or nociceptive threshold, discarding potential confounding factors in the two tests. In the open field, locomotion was not reduced, discarding the possible sedative effect of CZZX. In the binding assay, the binding of [H-3] Ro 15-1788 (flumazenil) to the benzodiazepine binding site in washed crude synaptosomal membranes from rat cerebral cortex was affected by CZZX. These data indicate an anxiolytic-like profile of action for CZZX without sedative side effects, and this activity may be mediated by benzodiazepine binding site modulation at.-aminobutyric acid-A receptors
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