Experimental study on the triaxial mechanical behaviors of the Cemented Paste Backfill: Effect of curing time, drainage conditions and curing temperature.

The application of CPB (Cemented Paste Backfill) can realize the clean, efficient, and safe mining of underground metal mines. Clear understanding on the triaxial mechanical properties of CPB is important to the CPB design and the stability analysis of the backfilled CPB structure. The triaxial mechanical properties of CPB can be significantly affected by the different curing conditions.

Prevalence of Diabetes and Prediabetes in Adults from a Third-Tier City in Eastern China: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction: The aims of this study were to investigate the prevalence of adult diabetes and prediabetes in Bengbu (eastern China) in 2017, and to identify measures that can be taken to reduce the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes in this region.

Methods: A stratified cluster random sampling method was used in the study. Two sampling sites were randomly selected from each of the four districts of Bengbu City, and all permanent residents (resident for ≥ 5 years) at all eight sampling sites aged 18 years or above were cluster sampled, which led to the sampling of 3388 adults.

Competitive adsorption of vanillin and syringaldehyde on a macro-mesopore polymeric resin: modeling.

Vanillin and syringaldehyde are widely used as flavoring and fragrance agents in the food products. The potential of a macro-mesoporous adsorption resin was assessed for separation of these binary mixtures. This work focuses on modeling of the competitive adsorption behaviors and exploration of the adsorption mechanism.

Bio-butanol sorption performance on novel porous-carbon adsorbents from corncob prepared via hydrothermal carbonization and post-pyrolysis method.

A series of porous-carbon adsorbents termed as HDPC (hydrochar-derived pyrolysis char) were prepared from corncob and used for the 1-butanol recovery from aqueous solution. The influences of pyrolysis temperature on properties of the adsorbents were systematically investigated. The results showed that hydrophobicity, surface area, and pore volume of HDPC samples increased with an increase in pyrolysis temperature.

Explaining religious differentials in family-size preference: Evidence from Nepal in 1996.

We examine how religio-ethnic identity, individual religiosity, and family members' religiosity were related to preferred family size in Nepal in 1996. Analyses of survey data from the Chitwan Valley Family Study show that socio-economic characteristics and individual experiences can suppress, as well as largely account for, religio-ethnic differences in fertility preference. These religio-ethnic differentials are associated with variance in particularized theologies or general value orientations (like son preference) across groups.

Quality of life and health status among prostate cancer survivors and noncancer population controls.

Objective: To examine whether quality of life (QOL), health status, and the relationships between them varied by having a prostate cancer history. This study helps to inform the interface between aging-related health decline and the survival state among older men with prostate cancer, which is an important yet understudied public health issue.

Methods: Hierarchical linear models were used to analyze the cross-sectional data from the nationally representative population-based Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

Challenges of introducing participant observation to community health research.

Participant observation elicits unique observation data from both an insider's and an outsider's perspectives. Despite the growing tendency to adopt participant observation strategies in health care research regarding health-related beliefs and types of behavior, the use of participant observation in current research is mostly limited to structured clinical settings rather than community settings. In this paper, we describe how we use participant observation in a community health research study with Chinese-born immigrant women.