supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.12171277,12271294).
In this paper,we consider the regular s-level fractional factorial split-plot(FFSP)designs when the subplot(SP)factors are more important.The idea of general minimum lower-order confounding criterion is applied to suc...
supported by the Self-supporting Program of Guangzhou Laboratory(SRPG22-007);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFC3503400);the Gansu Province Intellectual Property Project under Grant(22ZSCQD02).
The global COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted human health and socioeconomic development,posing an enormous public health challenge.Extensive research has been conducted into the relationship between environmenta...
supported by grants from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council(General Research Fund Grant no.14605920,14611621,14606922;Collaborative Research Fund Grant no.C4023-20GF;Research Matching Grants RMG 8601219,8601242);a grant from the Research Committee on Research Sustainability of Major Research Grants Council Funding Schemes(3133235)of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Excessive urbanization leads to considerable nature deficiency and abundant artificial infrastructure in urban areas,which triggered intensive discussions on people's exposure to green space and outdoor artificial lig...
supported by Alberta Health,Alberta Innovates,the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada,and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Extensive research has used dimethylarsinic acid(DMA)in urine as a marker of arsenic methylation.The premise is that humans methylate inorganic arsenicals to monomethylarsonic acid(MMA)and DMA and excrete these arseni...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.12101545);by the natural science foundation of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (2022MS01007)。
Estimation of treatment effects is one of the crucial mainstays in economics and sociology studies.The problem will become more serious and complicated if the treatment variable is endogenous for the presence of unobs...
Fractional factorial split-plot design has been widely used in many fields due to its advantage of saving experimental cost. The general minimum lower order confounding criterion is usually used as one of the attracti...
partially supported by the UIC Grants(Nos.R201810,R201912 and R202010);the Zhuhai Premier Discipline Grant.
Experimental design is an effective statistical tool that is extensively applied in modern industry,engineering,and science.It is proved that experimental design is a powerful and efficient means to screen the relatio...
This letter to editor discusses on the publication on admission hemoglobin level and prognosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus.A comment on published article is raised.The specific confounding conditions on the hemoglobin...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31971540 and 31830005);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017FY100705);the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2019A1515010752);the Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou(202102020483);the Innovation Group Project of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory(Zhuhai)(311021006)。
There has been a large literature in the last two decades affirming adaptive DNA sequence evolution between species.The main lines of evidence are from(i)the McDonald-Kreitman(MK)test,which compares divergence and pol...
financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(82071167);Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2018B030306030);International Team for Implantology(ITI)Research Grant(1536_2020);Guangdong Financial Fund for High-Caliber Hospital Construction;Special Funds for the Cultivation of Guangdong College Students’Scientific and Technological Innovation(“Climbing Program”Special Funds,pdjh2020b0011).
Micro/nano topographic structures have shown great utility in many biomedical areas including cell therapies,tissue engineering,and implantable devices.Computer-assisted informatics methods hold great promise for the ...