Isolation and Characterization of 89K Pathogenicity Island-Positive ST-7 Strains of Streptococcus suis Serotype 2 from Healthy Pigs, Northeast China by Shujie Wang, Peng Liu, Chunyu Li, Yafang Tan, Xuehui Cai, Dongsheng Zhou, Yongqiang Jiang

“…Notably, a majority of the serotype 2 isolates belonged to the 89K pathogenicity island-positive ST-7 clone that had historically caused the human STSS outbreaks in the Sichuan and Jiangsu provinces of China, although the human STSS case caused by S. suis had never been reported in northern areas of China. …”
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Fintech Penetration, Financial Literacy, and Financial Decision-Making: Empirical Analysis Based on Tar by Yi Li, Zhengwang Li, Fan Su, Qiteng Wang, Qian Wang

“…This paper uses mediating effect and moderating effect to test the influence path of rural residents’ subjective and objective financial literacy on their financial decision-making with survey data from Henan and Anhui provinces in China. The results show that subjective and objective financial literacy have positive effects on financial market participation. …”
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Regional Credit, Technological Innovation, and Economic Growth in China: A Spatial Panel Analysis by Huan Zhou, Shaojian Qu, Xiaoguang Yang, Qinglu Yuan

“…Based on data of 31 provinces in China for the period 2007–2017, this paper establishes spatial models by means of a transcendental logarithmic production function and analyzes the impact of regional credit and technological innovation on regional economic growth. …”
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Epidemiological Study on the Status of Nutrition-Support Therapies by Emergency Physicians in China by Chi Niu, Wei Guo, Wei Gu

“…Results. 527 questionnaires were collected from over 300 hospitals in 25 provinces of China. The time to initiation of emergency nutrition support was often delayed. …”
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Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Land Investment: Evidence from National Plot-Level Data in Rural China by Xiaolong Sun, Jinmin Wang, Fangping Rao

“…Drawing on the triple land tenure security framework, this paper examines the impact of the de jure and the de facto land tenure security on farming households’ decisions about using organic fertilizer on their plots in China, based on a national survey dataset covering 2308 plots matched with 962 farming households across 8 provinces in China (Shangdong, Shangxi, Jilin, Zhejiang, Henan, Gansu, Hunan, and Sichuan) from January to July 2013. …”
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Digital Financial Inclusion, Spatial Spillover, and Household Consumption: Evidence from China by Yao Li, Haiming Long, Jiajun Ouyang

“…Considering geographical connectivity characteristics, we examine the effects of digital financial inclusion on household consumption by applying spatial econometric models and using data from 31 provinces in China from 2013 to 2018. The impact of digital financial inclusion is further disaggregated into direct, indirect, and total impacts. …”
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Microsatellite and Mitochondrial COI Provide Novel Insights Into the Population Genetic Structure of White Prunicola Scale (Pseudaulacaspis prunicola) in China by Minmin Niu, Dengen Fu, Haoyang Wang, Yun Liu, Xuanxing Du, Qing Zhao, Jiufeng Wei

“…Microsatellite molecular and mitochondrial COI markers were used to examine the genetic diversity and structure of 19 P. prunicola populations across 10 provinces in China. The results revealed low genetic diversity and limited gene flow among populations. …”
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Modeling the Spatial Correlations among Energy Consumption, Economic Growth, and the Ecological Environment by Feng Zhao, Yi Sun, Jie Zhang, Pingping Sun

“…To clarify whether there is a spatial correlation problem among China’s provincial energy consumption, economic growth, and ecological environment, this paper adopts the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2008 to 2019 and uses a spatial data analysis method. …”
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The impact of ecological civilization construction on the resilience of green technology innovation: evidence based on double dual machine learning by Cunlin Li, Cunlin Li, Shiyu Zhang, Shiyu Zhang, Baojun Yang, Baojun Yang

“…Based on a sample of 237 prefecture-level cities across 31 provinces in China from 2011 to 2021, our double dual machine learning and spatial difference-in-differences model indicates that ECDZs significantly enhance urban green innovation resilience. …”
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Irrigation Expansion and Rural Transformation in China: Evidence of Provincial Data in 1978–2018 by Pengfei Shi, Jikun Huang

“…Based on the statistical data from 27 provinces in China, this paper analyses the correlation between irrigation expansion and rural transformation over the period of 1978–2018. …”
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Studies on Dissipations and Residues of Indoxacarb under Different Field and Environmental Conditions by Ying-Hong Li, Xiang-Yun Wang, Wei Hua, Hu Zhang

“…The dissipations and residues of indoxacarb were researched at three different field sites in Beijing, Hunan, and Zhejiang provinces in China. Analytical methods for determining the residue of indoxacarb in paddy water, paddy soil, rice straw, rice hull, and brown rice were described. …”
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Detection and Genetic Analysis of Porcine Bocavirus in Different Swine Herds in North Central China by Mengmeng Liu, Yi Li, Dong Sun, Yihe Xia, Jinhai Huang, Lili Guo

“…In this study, a survey was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of PBoV in slaughter pigs, sick pigs, asymptomatic pigs and classical swine fever virus (CSFV) eradication plan herds in five provinces of China (Henan, Liaoning, Shandong, Hebei and Tianjin) by means of PCR targeting NS1 gene of PBoV. …”
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Analysis of Volatile Components in Tremella fuciformis by Electronic Nose Combined with GC-MS by Lijun Fu, Jing Tian, Li Liu, Yongzheng Ma, Xiumin Zhang, Changyang Ma, Wenyi Kang, Yong Sun

“…In order to quickly evaluate the quality of Tremella fuciformis, the volatile components of T. fuciformis from 4 provinces in China, including Hebei, Henan, Fujian, and Sichuan, were analyzed by electronic nose combined with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), and the key aroma compounds were determined by relative odor activity value (ROAV). …”
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Nonlinear Effects of Governmental and Civil Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Productivity in China by Xubin Lei, Shusheng Wu

“…This paper employs metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger index to measure green total factor productivity and then builds panel model to investigate the nonlinear effects of both governmental and civil environmental regulation on green total factor productivity in 30 provinces of China in 2007–2016, where the threshold variables are environmental awareness and regulatory foundation. …”
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The differentiated impacts of interprovincial trade on achieving nine environment-related SDGs in China by Xiaoyu Duan, Qingxu Huang, Ziwen Liu, Ling Zhang, Penghui Li, Chunyang He, Delin Fang, Zhenci Xu, Yihao Li

“…Therefore, via an environmentally extended multiregional input‒output model and scenario analysis, we explored the impacts of interprovincial trade on the achievement of nine environmental-related SDG targets across 31 provinces in China. The results revealed that interprovincial trade has improved environmental sustainability across the country, with the total score of the nine SDGs increasing by 4.3%. …”
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Population aging, technological innovation and industrial differentiation by Chunhua Li, Chunhua Li, Zhangqing Chen, Wangchun Wu, Bin Gao, Lingfeng Zou

“…Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2006 to 2022, this paper constructs the entropy index to measure the overall industrial differentiation and tertiary industrial differentiation in China, and subsequently investigates the relationship among the three using the two-way fixed effect model. …”
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Research on the Relationship between Business Cycle and Industrial Fluctuations in Northeast China Based on Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noise by Yinan Zhou, Guofeng Gu, Qiushuang Ren

“…The results obtained are as follows: (1) In the three northeastern provinces of China, economic fluctuations were almost free from the influence of the primary industry, most affected by the secondary industry, and gradually influenced by the tertiary industry after the 21st century. (2) Regarding the short-term business cycle of each province, economic development was the most stable when the market and government participated in the development of the secondary industry simultaneously. (3) The midterm business cycle of Jilin Province was affected by the investment of equipment in secondary and tertiary industries, while that of Liaoning Province was affected by the investment of equipment in the secondary industry. (4) Investment in the equipment of the secondary industry and the construction of secondary and tertiary industries was the key to maintaining the stability of long-term business cycle in Heilongjiang Province, and that in the construction of secondary and tertiary industries was the key to maintaining the stability of long-term business cycles in Jilin and Liaoning Provinces.…”
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The Effectiveness and Mechanisms of China’s Grain Support Policies in Relation to Grain Yield—An Evaluation of a Wide Range of Policies by Tianjian Li, Fan Yang, Haotian Zhang, Qingning Lin

“…Thus, we collected and organized grain support policies during the study period according to the government work reports of 31 provinces in China from 2001 to 2022 and applied a two-way fixed-effects model based on the variables constructed using textual analysis to further explore the effects of a range of grain support policies on grain production gains. …”
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Preliminary species diversity and community phylogenetics of wood-inhabiting basidiomycetous fungi in the Dabie Mountains, Central China reveal unexpected richness by Xiang-Yang Liu, Shi-Liang Liu, Hao-Wen Wei, Xue-Wei Wang, Jia Yu, Shan Shen, Li-Wei Zhou

“…The Dabie Mountains, at the junction of Henan, Hubei, and Anhui Provinces, Central China, provide an ideal climate and favorable niches for the speciation and diversification of various forms of life including fungi. …”
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Moral distress, attitude toward death, and palliative care core competencies among ICU nurses: a cross-sectional study by Mengyun Peng, Qin Guan, Xiaoling Zhu

“…Random cluster sampling method was used. 342 ICU nurses were selected from 5 hospitals across 4 provinces in China. Participants were evaluated using the Moral Distress Scale-revised (MDS-R), the Attitude toward Death Profile-Revised (DAP-R), and the Palliative Care Nurses’ Core Competencies Scale (PCNCC). …”
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