Int J Environ Res Public Health
February 2023
The inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has both advanced China's economic development process and influenced the ecological quality of China's regions. Under the deepening of economic globalization and the continuous deterioration in environmental quality, the correlation mechanism between foreign direct investment, environmental regulation, and economic growth is becoming increasingly complex. Therefore, based on the slacks-based measure (SBM) model and the Global Malmquist-Luenberger (GML) index, this study measured the level of green economic growth using data from 30 provinces and cities from 2004-2019 and constructed a panel fixed-effect regression model to study the effect of foreign direct investment on green economic growth in China.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAgainst the background of the pandemic, the mask supply chain faces the risk of pollution caused by discarded masks, the risk of insufficient funds of retailers, and the risk of mask overstock. To better guard against the above risks, this study constructed a two-party game model and a cusp catastrophe model from the perspective of the mask green supply chain, and studied the strategic choices of retailers and suppliers in the supply chain affected by the risk of capital constraints and overstock. The result shows that the risk shocks will lead to the disruption of the mask green supply chain, and the main factors affecting the strategy choice of mask suppliers and retailers are mask recycling rate, deposit ratio, risk occurrence time, etc.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a rare case of urolithiasis induced by cefazolin sodium pentahydrate and review the relevant literature. A 12-year-old girl with right kidney injury was admitted to our hospital, a computed tomography scan revealed that no signs of disease in her left kidney but her right kidney was traumatized severely. After receiving cefazolin sodium pentahydrate, 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNowadays, firms spend a great deal of effort on Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER) disclosure. From prospect theory, firms might disclose more CER information when they fail to achieve expected financial performance of the organization. We have constructed a CER disclosure index based on the "Guidelines for Environmental Information Disclosure of Listed Companies" issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China in 2010.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This study was performed to explore the total prostate-specific antigen (tPSA) concentration, free PSA (fPSA) concentration, free-to-total PSA ratio (% fPSA), tPSA density (tPSAD), and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in blood in patients with concurrent benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and histologic prostatitis, and to provide new ideas for the diagnosis of prostatitis.
Methods: Patients who underwent transurethral bipolar plasmakinetic prostatectomy from June 2017 to June 2018 were retrospectively divided into two groups according to the degree of pathological inflammation of the resected prostate tissue: group A (BPH with histologic acute and chronic inflammation), group B (BPH with histologic chronic inflammation). The preoperative PSA-related indexes and NLR in blood were respectively compared between two groups.
Background: This study explores the role of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) in the etiology of urolithiasis in acute renal colic by analyzing the PGE2 levels in blood and urine throughout the clinical course of renal colic.
Methods: From June 2015 to November 2017, a total of 60 patients with acute renal colic were enrolled in the study. Blood and urine samples were taken before and after administration of drug to inhibit prostaglandin synthesis; further blood and urine samples were obtained from the patients 2 weeks after their recovery.