BACKGROUND Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy(PEG)is a well-established,minimally invasive,and easy to perform procedure for nutrition delivery,applied to individuals unable to swallow for various reasons.PEG has a h...
In his controversial book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, American author John Perkins described how he was employed by a U.S. company to talk world leaders into accepting substantial infrastructure loans. If a hi...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31871109,32071083,and 31900779);Shenzhen–Hong Kong Institute of Brain Science—Shenzhen Fundamental Research Institutions(2021SHIBS0003).
People as third-party observers,without direct self-interest,may punish norm violators to maintain social norms.However,third-party judgment and the follow-up punishment might be susceptible to the way we frame(i.e.,v...
High temperatures adversely affect diverse biological processes,such as disease resistance,in plants.In a recent article published in Nature,Kim et al.found that exposure of Arabidopsis plants to a high ambient temper...
Although agriculture is the backbone of the African economy, it has faced considerable challenges in the past sixty years. Africa has moved from being a self-sufficiency continent before the 1960s, to net food importe...
When this tragedy ends, it will become clear whether it is a pandemic, epidemic, mass infection, or mass psychosis (initiated by mass media with heavy engagement from political and economic establishments). The USA an...
Global supply chains-technically dubbed global value chains(GVCs)-have become weaponized in the economic battles of the novel coronavirus disease(COVID-19)pandemic.The target:China,the West’s favorite scapegoat in a ...
with a crying need for the U.S.and China to unite and work together,it is unfortunate that China-U.S.relations have deteriorated to a level not seen since the Cold War before Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China i...
The paper presents a new analytical framework to discuss the effect of Chinese foreign investment policy on the international technology transfer absorbed by enterprises of different ownership.The US Trade Representat...
The 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty was the one and only international opportunity that would have allowed demanding for Japan’s responsibility of the colonization of Korea.However,the United States did not demand of...