Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control and Their Associated Socioeconomic Factors in China: A Spatial Analysis of A National Representative Survey.

Objective: We aimed to investigate and interpret the associations between socioeconomic factors and the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension at the provincial level in China.

Methods: A nationally and provincially representative sample of 179,059 adults from the China Chronic Disease and Nutrition Surveillance study in 2015-2016 was used to estimate hypertension burden. The spatial Durbin error model was fitted to investigate socioeconomic factors associated with hypertension indicators.

Spatial heterogeneity of the association between temperature and hand, foot, and mouth disease risk in metropolitan and other areas.

Interest in assessing the effects of temperature on hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) has increased. However, little evidence is available on spatial heterogeneity in relationship to temperature and HFMD in metropolitan (capital city and municipal districts) and other areas where economic levels are significantly different. In this study, the Bayesian space-time hierarchy model was applied to identify the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of HFMD.

Pyrimidine Nucleosides from sp. SSA28.

Eleven new pyrimidine nucleosides (-) and 12 known analogues (-) were isolated from the marine-derived sp. SSA28. All of the new structures were elucidated by extensive NMR spectroscopic analysis and HRESIMS data.

Medermycin-Type Naphthoquinones from the Marine-Derived Streptomyces sp. XMA39.

Four new medermycin-type naphthoquinones, strepoxepinmycins A-D (1-4), and one known compound, medermycin (5), were identified from Streptomyces sp. XMA39. Their structures were elucidated by analysis of HRESIMS, 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopic data, and ECD calculations.

Quantifying the influences of various ecological factors on land surface temperature of urban forests.

Identifying factors that influence the land surface temperature (LST) of urban forests can help improve simulations and predictions of spatial patterns of urban cool islands. This requires a quantitative analytical method that combines spatial statistical analysis with multi-source observational data. The purpose of this study was to reveal how human activities and ecological factors jointly influence LST in clustering regions (hot or cool spots) of urban forests.

Towards Identifying and Reducing the Bias of Disease Information Extracted from Search Engine Data.

The estimation of disease prevalence in online search engine data (e.g., Google Flu Trends (GFT)) has received a considerable amount of scholarly and public attention in recent years.

Spatial dynamic patterns of hand-foot-mouth disease in the People's Republic of China.

Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) is the most common and widespread infectious disease in the People's Republic of China. Although there has been a substantial increase of HFMD in many parts of the country in recent years, its spatial dynamics and determinants remain unclear. When we collected and analysed weekly data on HFMD cases from 1,456 counties and the corresponding meteorological factors from 1 May 2008 to 27 March 2009, it was found that HFMD was spatially dispersed across the country in the summer and winter, while clustered in the spring and autumn.

Estimation of citywide air pollution in Beijing.

There has been discrepancies between the daily air quality reports of the Beijing municipal government, observations recorded at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, and Beijing residents' perceptions of air quality.

[The influences of shoulder porcelain length on the stress distribution of metal-ceramic crowns].

Objective: To analyze the stress distribution induced by simulated intra-oral loads on ceramometal crowns with different length of shoulder porcelain in labial margins.

Methods: Eighteen two-dimensional finite element models of the maxillary central incisor restored with ceramometal crowns were constructed which were designed with different labial terminal locations of metal coping. Different coping alloys and marginal designs were employed in the crown models.