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Soil selenium concentration and Kashin-Beck disease prevalence in Tibet, China

Shunjiang LI, Wei LI, Xia HU, Linsheng YANG, Ruodeng XIRAO

Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2009, Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 62-68 doi: 10.1007/s11783-009-0009-4

Abstract: In order to investigate the correlation between the prevalence of Kashin-Back disease (KBD) and Se concentrationsto the third layer, were 0.17 mg/kg, 0.11 mg/kg, and 0.10 mg/kg, respectively, and in non-disease areasnon-disease areas, respectively.Soil Se concentrations in KBD areas were lower than that in non-disease areas, and the mean concentrationsTherefore , there is a close relationship between soil Se concentrations and KBD in Tibet.

Keywords： Kashin-Beck disease (KBD) selenium (Se) soil Tibet

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Relationship between selenium concentration in child hair and the distribution of Kashin-Beck Disease

LI Shunjiang, YANG Linsheng, WANG Wuyi, LI Yonghua, LI Hairong, XIRAO Ruodeng

Frontiers of Medicine 2007, Volume 1, Issue 2, Pages 223-225 doi: 10.1007/s11684-007-0043-1

Abstract: determine the relationship between selenium (Se) concentrations in child hair and the distribution of Kashin-Beckdisease (KBD) in Tibet.The hair of children in typical KBD-affected areas and non-disease areas was collected, and its Se concentrationsnon-disease areas respectively, which are significantly different.Appropriate Se supplementation is important to prevent KBD in Tibet.

Keywords： different relationship non-disease selenium KBD distribution

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On water security, sustainability, and the water-food-energy-climate nexus

Michael Bruce BECK, Rodrigo VILLARROEL WALKER

Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2013, Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages 626-639 doi: 10.1007/s11783-013-0548-6

Abstract: The role of water security in sustainable development and in the nexus of water, food, energy and climate interactions is examined from the starting point of the definition of water security offered by Grey and Sadoff. Much about the notion of security has to do with the presumption of scarcity in the resources required to meet human needs. The treatment of scarcity in mainstream economics is in turn examined, therefore, in relation to how each of us as individuals reconciles means with ends, a procedure at the core of the idea of sustainable development. According to the Grey-Sadoff definition, attaining water security amounts to achieving basic, single-sector water development as a precursor of more general, self-sustaining, multi-sectoral development. This is consistent with the way in which water is treated as “first among equals”, i.e. privileged, in thinking about what is key in achieving security around the nexus of water, food, energy and climate. Cities, of course, are locations where demands for these multiple resource-energy flows are increasingly being generated. The paper discusses two important facets of security, i.e., diversity of access to resources and services (such as sanitation) and resilience in the behavior of coupled human-built-natural systems. Eight quasi-operational principles, by which to gauge nexus security with respect to city buildings and infrastructure, are developed.

Keywords： cities as forces for good diversity energy and nutrient recovery green economy infrastructure failure resilience

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Nexus security: governance, innovation and the resilient city

Michael Bruce BECK, Rodrigo VILLARROEL WALKER

Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2013, Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages 640-657 doi: 10.1007/s11783-013-0549-5

Abstract: Nexus security is a compound mix of ideas: reconciling human needs and wants with access to multiple resources; diversity of access to those resources and services; resilience in the face of weather- and climate-related variability; resilience likewise in the face of infrastructure failure; and the personal, individual sense of belonging. At the level of Systems Thinking there is a very close relationship between resilience in the behavior of natural (ecological) systems and resilience in the social dynamics of governance within communities, where such resilience establishes the viability of these communities over centuries, which in turn entails successful stewardship of the man-environment relationship. We use insights from this cross-system mapping — across natural, built, and human systems — to assess, first, the role of city governance in achieving nexus security (or not) and, second, the role of technological innovations in serving the same purpose. More specifically, eight principles, covering resilience and diversity of access to resources and services, are used to gauge security-enhancing features of city buildings and infrastructure. Case studies include new designs of resilient office blocks, nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) recovery systems for sanitation and wastewater treatment, and the reconstruction of urban parks for the provision of ecosystem services. Throughout the paper, matters of risk in the face of meteorological variability are prominent. We do not conclude, however, that the presence of risk implies nexus security.

Keywords： cities as forces for good climate variability ecosystem services energy and nutrient recovery infrastructure failure urban metabolism

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Water---- and nutrient and energy---- systems in urbanizing watersheds

Rodrigo VILLARROEL WALKER, Michael Bruce BECK, Jim W. HALL

Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2012, Volume 6, Issue 5, Pages 596-611 doi: 10.1007/s11783-012-0445-4

Abstract: Driven by considerations of sustainability, it has become increasingly difficult over the past 15–20 years — at least intellectually — to separate out the water infrastructure and water metabolism of cities from their intimately inter-related nutrient and energy metabolisms. Much of the focus of this difficulty settles on the wastewater component of the city’s water infrastructure and its associated fluxes of nutrients (N, P, C, and so on). Indeed, notwithstanding the massive volumes of these materials flowing into and out of the city, the notion of an urban nutrient infrastructure is conspicuous by its absence. Likewise, we do not tend to discuss, or conduct research into, “soilshed” agencies, or soilshed management, or Integrated Nutrient Resources Management (as opposed to its most familiar companion, Integrated Water Resources Management, or IWRM). The paper summarizes some of the benefits (and challenges) deriving from adopting this broader, multi-sectoral “systems” perspective on addressing water-nutrient-energy systems in city-watershed settings. Such a perspective resonates with the growing interest in broader policy circles in what is called the “water-food-energy security nexus”. The benefits and challenges of our Multi-sectoral Systems Analysis (MSA) are illustrated through computational results from two primary case studies: Atlanta, Georgia, USA; and London, UK. Since our work is part of the International Network on Cities as Forces for Good in the Environment (CFG; see www.cfgnet.org), in which other case studies are currently being initiated — for example, on Kathmandu, Nepal — we close by reflecting upon these issues of water-nutrient-energy systems in three urban settings with quite different styles and speeds of development.

Keywords： cities climate change energy sector nutrient sector systems analysis resource recovery water-food-energy security

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et’s disease in a Chinese population

Shengping Hou, Aize Kijlstra, Peizeng Yang

Frontiers of Medicine 2012, Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 354-359 doi: 10.1007/s11684-012-0234-2

Abstract: et’s disease is defined as a multisystemic inflammatory disease.et’s disease. To explore the genetic factors for Beh?et’s disease, our group investigated the association of Beh?et’s disease with multiple immune response genes and has identified multiple Beh?et’s disease-related immunoregulatory pathways in the Chinese Han population.

Keywords： et’s disease SNPs immune gene genetic study

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Heterogeneity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: from phenotype to genotype

Xu Chen, Xiaomao Xu, Fei Xiao

Frontiers of Medicine 2013, Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 425-432 doi: 10.1007/s11684-013-0295-x

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality

Keywords： chronic obstructive pulmonary disease heterogeneity phenotype genotype prediction

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Large-Scale Underground Storage of Renewable Energy Coupled with Power-to-X: Challenges, Trends, and Potentials in China

Xie, Jiashun Luo, Zhengmeng Hou, Gensheng Li, Jianhua Liu, Jianwei Tang, Liangchao Huang, Hans-Peter Beck

Engineering 2023, Volume 29, Issue 10, Pages 15-21 doi: 10.1016/j.eng.2023.04.014

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Acupuncture for the management of dry eye disease

Frontiers of Medicine 2022, Volume 16, Issue 6, Pages 975-983 doi: 10.1007/s11684-022-0923-4

Abstract: The effectiveness of using acupuncture for dry eye disease (DED) is controversial.outcomes of interests were (1) to evaluate the efficacy of acupuncture in improving the ocular surface disease

Keywords： dry eye disease xerophthalmus acupuncture

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Exploration of Strategies for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control and Relevant System Development

Long-de Wang

Frontiers of Engineering Management 2015, Volume 2, Issue 1, Pages 2-12 doi: 10.15302/J-FEM-2015002

Abstract: the status of major chronic diseases in China, analyzing the key issues and key factors in chronic diseasethe previous projects, this paper proposes the following recommendations as strategies for chronic diseaseWork norms and requirements will then improve the performance and efficiency in chronic disease prevention

Keywords： chronic disease prevention and control strategy and system construction

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Astrocytes in depression and Alzheimer’s disease

Frontiers of Medicine 2021, Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 829-841 doi: 10.1007/s11684-021-0875-0

Abstract: brain diseases may cause psychosocial and cognitive impairment, such as depression and Alzheimer’s diseasedepression and AD has shown that depression might be a prodrome of progressive degenerative neurological disease

Keywords： astrocytes depression Alzheimer’s disease roles mechanisms

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Minimal residual disease in solid tumors: an overview

Frontiers of Medicine 2023, Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 649-674 doi: 10.1007/s11684-023-1018-6

Abstract: Minimal residual disease (MRD) is termed as the small numbers of remnant tumor cells in a subset of patients

Keywords： MRD solid tumor CTC ctDNA

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Multislice computed tomography angiography in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease: 3D visualizations

Zhonghua Sun

Frontiers of Medicine 2011, Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages 254-270 doi: 10.1007/s11684-011-0153-7

Abstract: computed tomography (CT) has been widely used in clinical practice for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseaseangiography has been recognized as the method of choice for detecting and diagnosing head and neck vascular diseaseIn patients with suspected coronary artery disease, although invasive coronary angiography still remainsThe imaging diagnosis of cardiovascular disease is based on a combination of two-dimensional (2D) andan overview of the diagnostic performance of various 2D and 3D CT visualizations in cardiovascular disease

Keywords： cardiovascular disease multislice computed tomography three-dimensional reconstruction diagnosis visualization

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Zooming in and out of ferroptosis in human disease

Frontiers of Medicine 2023, Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages 173-206 doi: 10.1007/s11684-023-0992-z

Abstract: ferroptosis and its regulatory pathways could provide additional strategies for the management of these disease, we summarize the progress in the research into ferroptosis and its regulatory mechanisms in human diseaseWe also discuss our perspectives on the future directions in the targeting of ferroptosis in human disease

Keywords： ferroptosis human disease iron metabolism lipid peroxidation antioxidation

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PulseNet China, a model for future laboratory-based bacterial infectious disease surveillance in China

Wei Li, Shan Lu, Zhigang Cui, Jinghua Cui, Haijian Zhou, Yiqing Wang, Zhujun Shao, Changyun Ye, Biao Kan, Jianguo Xu

Frontiers of Medicine 2012, Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 366-375 doi: 10.1007/s11684-012-0214-6

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Surveillance is critical for the prevention and control of infectious disease.China’s real-time web-based infectious disease reporting system is a distinguished achievement.However, many aspects of the current China Infectious Disease Surveillance System do not yet meet thedemand for timely outbreak detection and identification of emerging infectious disease.PulseNet, the national molecular typing network for foodborne disease surveillance was first established

Keywords： infectious disease laboratory-based infectious disease surveillance pulse field gel electrophoresis multilocus