Sentences with phrase «sichuan changhong»

Other investigators contributing to the new study include Chaoran Yin, Ting Zhang, Yonggang Zhang, Raj Putatunda, Xiao Xiao, Fang Li, Shen Dai, and Xuebin Qin in the Department of Neuroscience at the Center for Neurovirology and the Comprehensive NeuroAIDS Center, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine; Weidong Xiao in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine; Huaqing Zhao in the Department of Clinical Science, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine; Xiying Qu in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh; and Xianming Mo in the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

Aftershocks rattled the western province causing yet more damage, including the collapse of a middle school in the Sichuan city of Dujiangyan that trapped 900 children.

SHANGHAI, China — Rescue workers are using microphones and fiber - optic cable to probe rubble, searching for people trapped in Monday's devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection has assembled a special team to assess the risk of water pollution and to investigate potential problems at the undisclosed number of nuclear reactors in Sichuan, where uranium fuel is produced.

To find out how the breeding season plays out, Hudson and his colleague Jinzhong Fu monitored moustache toads living on a 300 - metre stretch of river near Mount Emei in Sichuan, China, over two breeding seasons.

According to Professor Jun Zhu from the National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance in Sichuan, China, one of the study's lead authors, «Our findings show that since 1970, child deaths in China have fallen far more quickly than expected, at the country, province and county level.

The pipes that carry water in many of the cities of Sichuan have been destroyed or damaged, including the famous World Heritage Site irrigation waterworks of Dujiangyan, exposing them and drinking water to contamination.

The epicenter of the quake was in Wenchuan County in Sichuan near the famed Wolong Nature Reserve — home of the panda breeding program — but was felt as far away as Bangkok, Thailand.

The maps showed that most of these native species were concentrated in the mountains of southwestern China, especially in the province of Sichuan — exactly the places where the panda now survives, and where many nature preserves have been established to protect them.

However, where they reside together, the Sichuan bush warbler prefers to live at lower elevations.

When not competing with its cousin, the Sichuan bush warbler breeds up to 7500 feet.

«The Sichuan bush warbler is exceedingly secretive and difficult to spot as its preferred habitat is dense brush and tea plantations,» said Rasmussen, who has helped document and scientifically describe 10 new species of birds.

A Michigan State University professor was part of an international team of scientists that has discovered a new bird in China — the Sichuan bush warbler.

The provincial and national governments had promoted the timber industry in Sichuan as a way of employing people.

Then he resumed his journey, traveling ever farther into Sichuan.

A camera trap captures a panda walking through the snow in the Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan, China

Liu and his colleagues were charged with compiling a botanical survey of the entire Sichuan Province.

«Professor Yin knows all the plants because he's walked all over Sichuan, touching each kind,» says Chang.

But as we ventured ever farther into remote corners of Sichuan, it became increasingly clear that we were traveling the Yin Trail too.

It lies along the Sichuan - Yunnan border, and two days of hard driving from the pass brought us to its mountain - hemmed valleys.

Wilson never made it this far into Sichuan, although American botanist Joseph Rock did.

«He loved the plants and the people of Sichuan, and he wanted to share what he found.

A young panda peers from its perch in a tree in the Wolong Nature Center in the Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan, China.

Giant pandas live in scattered populations in the wet, cool bamboo forests of China's mountainous Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, making it difficult for scientists to monitor their populations and extinction risks.

Researchers trapped six male bumblebees (pictured) living at an altitude of 3250 meters in Sichuan, China, and placed them, one at a time, in a plexiglass flight chamber.

Next, the team zeroed in on Sichuan Province in south - central China and conducted fieldwork on bird and bee diversity across all seasons.

A few years later the tree, which supposedly went extinct about 10 million years ago, was found thriving in Hubei and Sichuan provinces.

The research team — which included scholars from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sichuan University, the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and the University of Vermont — wanted to investigate how these approaches to planting influenced biodiversity.

CHONGQING, China — The people of this city stood stock - still and bowed their heads for three minutes of silence beginning at 2:28 P.M. local time this afternoon, solemnly observing the one - week anniversary of the earthquake that the government estimates has killed nearly 35,000 people in Sichuan Province and injured nearly 250,000.

But they now live in a small tent because their house was destroyed (more than 4.8 million people have lost their homes in Sichuan) and drink water that soldiers treat daily with antibiotics to kill bacteria.

Sichuan province is prone to earthquakes, including the devastating Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008 when a 7.9 magnitude quake hit the area, killing over 70,000 people.

Additional aftershocks have wreaked further havoc, including the collapse of a middle school in the Sichuan city of Dujiangyan that trapped 900 children.

«Furthermore, large - scale energy storage systems are strongly needed in China [as backup during] frequent natural disasters» such as the recent Sichuan earthquake.

The team from Newcastle University (UK), Chengdu University of Technology, Tongji University, China Academy of Space Technology and Wuhan University (China) have been tracking the devastating events of last week when a massive landslide struck Xinmo Village, Maoxian County, Sichuan Province in China.

A fuel to slow climate change lies 3,000 meters below a new wellhead in China's Sichuan Province.

Areas like Sichuan are already prone to earthquakes — the Wenchuan quake in 2008 killed at least 70,000 people and may have been exacerbated by the reservoirs for new dams in the region.

The Chinese government decided to capture as many wild pandas as possible and place them in rescue centers built throughout the animal's habitat, in Sichuan, Gansu, and Shaanxi provinces.

A scavenging panda, Zhen Zhen, takes refuge in a hut in the Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, where, in 1980, the first detailed studies of pandas in the wild were conducted.

Researchers have attempted to monitor the underground temperature after an on - land earthquake on three previous occasions — after the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan, the 1999 Chi Chi quake in Taiwan and the 2008 Wenchuan quake in Sichuan Province, China.

More than 87,000 people were killed or went missing as a result of the 2008 magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake in China's Sichuan province, the largest quake to hit China since 1950.

After examining eight such families from the Sichuan province of southeastern China, the duo discovered that in two of the families, the parents (who could hear) had one mutated copy of the gene for myosin VIIA.

For an example, Lay cites the 7.9 - magnitude event that hit Sichuan in China in May 2008.

Chinese researchers led by oncologist Lu You of Sichuan University in Chengdu got approval to conduct the new trial this summer.

NASA's Terra satellite capture the following image of a hazy Sichuan Basin on January 23, 2014: The Sichuan Basin is home to many cities, including the province's capital Chengdu, a city with more than 14 million residents.

A team led by Lu You, an oncologist at Sichuan University's West China Hospital in Chengdu, plans to start testing such cells in people with lung cancer next month.

Cai, along with Jinrong Wu, a visiting professor from Sichuan University, China, and senior author David A. Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, developed a hybrid rubber with both covalent and reversible bonds.

Yang grew up in Sichuan province in southwestern China, at the base of a mountain that inspired a fascination with nature.

Yet not always: the 2008 Sichuan quake in China (pictured) came out of the blue.

However, few studies have directly compared the brain structural effects of the two disorders, said the author of the new study, Youjin Zhao M.D., Ph.D., from Sichuan University in Chengdu, China.

But there is persistent concern about the quality of some of the construction and this is because, local officials sometimes take bribes and allow construction companies to build things below standard and so we have a situation in the Sichuan province where the earthquake occurred, where schools were collapsing and collapsed at a much greater rate than other government buildings and the suspicion is of course that local officials have taken bribes and allowed the schools to be built this way.