Eddy van Doorslaer, Owen O’Donnell, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
Background Conventional estimates of poverty do not take account of out-of-pocket payments to finance health care. We aimed to reassess measures of poverty in 11 low-to-middle income countries in Asia by calculating total household resources both with and without out-of-pocket payments for health ca...
Eddy van Doorslaer, Owen O’Donnell, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. We estimate the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population. We focus on payments that are catastroph...
Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
We estimate the distributional incidence of health care financing in 13 Asian territories that account for 55% of the Asian population. In all territories, higher-income households contribute more to the financing of health care. The better-off contribute more as a proportion of ability to pay in mo...
Wei Zhao, Asif Rasheed, Emmi Tikkanen, Jung‐Jin Lee et al.
To evaluate the shared genetic etiology of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and coronary heart disease (CHD), we conducted a genome-wide, multi-ancestry study of genetic variation for both diseases in up to 265,678 subjects for T2D and 260,365 subjects for CHD. We identify 16 previously unreported loci for T2D...
Xiuli Dong, Shouwei Gao, Jianying Huang, Shuhui Li et al.
Self-roughened and biodegradable superhydrophobic fabrics with solar-induced self-healing property are constructed for versatile and efficient oil–water separation.
Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenz curves and across countries. The analysis reveals that the distribution of public healthcare is prorich i...
Zhanglei Pan, Jian Zhou, Ziyuan Lin, Yingmu Wang et al.
High salinity and high organic concentration impose negative impacts on autotrophic nitrification, which hinders efficient nitrogen removal. To achieve efficient nitrogen removal, high saline wastewater nitrogen removal systems with different COD/TN ratios based on heterotrophic nitrification-aerobi...
Yifei Shi, Wen Wu, Hua Dong, Guangru Li et al.
Abstract All present designs of perovskite light‐emitting diodes (PeLEDs) stem from polymer light‐emitting diodes (PLEDs) or perovskite solar cells. The optimal structure of PeLEDs can be predicted to differ from PLEDs due to the different fluorescence dynamics and crystallization between perovskite...
Kamak Ebadi, Lukas Bernreiter, Harel Biggie, Gavin Catt et al.
This article surveys recent progress and discusses future opportunities for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in extreme underground environments. SLAM in subterranean environments, from tunnels, caves, and man-made underground structures on Earth, to lava tubes on Mars, is a key enabler ...
Jiadong Zhou, Chao Zhu, Yao Zhou, Jichen Dong et al.
Two-dimensional (2D) materials with multiphase, multielement crystals such as transition metal chalcogenides (TMCs) (based on V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Cd, Pt and Pd) and transition metal phosphorous chalcogenides (TMPCs) offer a unique platform to explore novel physical phenomena. However, the synthesis of a ...
Da Li, Di Zhou, Dong Wang, Weichen Zhao et al.
Abstract Although ceramic dielectric materials have been extensively explored owing to their numerous advantages, there are still obstacles in the collaborative enhancement of recoverable energy density ( W rec ) and efficiency (η). In this work, a combinatorial optimization strategy is proposed to ...
Md. Mostafizur Rahman, Md. Bodrud-Doza, Mark D. Griffiths, Mohammed A. Mamun
Biomedical waste is a threat to global public environmental health, especially in the lower-middle-income countries such as Bangladesh. Worldwide, it is estimated that at least 5·2 million people, including 4 million children, die each year because of diseases related to unmanaged medical waste.1The...
Kay Choong See, Ming Zhao, Emiko Nakataki, Kaweesak Chittawatanarat et al.
Purpose Professional burnout is a multidimensional syndrome comprising emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and diminished sense of personal accomplishment, and is associated with poor staff health and decreased quality of medical care. We investigated burnout prevalence and its associated risk ...
Yuan-Li Tsai, Dat P. Ha, He Zhao, Anthony J. Carlos et al.
The discovery that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) luminal chaperones such as GRP78/BiP can escape to the cell surface upon ER stress where they regulate cell signaling, proliferation, apoptosis, and immunity represents a paradigm shift. Toward deciphering the mechanisms, we report here that, upon ER str...
Marina Romanello, Maria Walawender, Shih-Che Hsu, Annalyse Moskeland et al.
Lifeng Zhu, Shiqing Deng, Lei Zhao, Gen Li et al.
Abstract Dielectric capacitors with high energy storage performance are highly desired for next-generation advanced high/pulsed power capacitors that demand miniaturization and integration. However, the poor energy-storage density that results from the low breakdown strength, has been the major chal...
Hua Dong, Jun Xi, Lijian Zuo, Jingrui Li et al.
Abstract Interfacial ligand passivation engineering has recently been recognized as a promising avenue, contributing simultaneously to the optoelectronic characteristics and moisture/operation tolerance of perovskite solar cells. To further achieve a win‐win situation of both performance and stabili...
Ashraful Alam, Qingshi Meng, Ge Shi, Sherif Arabi et al.
Xiaoyun Lin, Xiaowei Du, Shican Wu, Shiyu Zhen et al.
Low-cost, efficient catalyst high-throughput screening is crucial for future renewable energy technology. Interpretable machine learning is a powerful method for accelerating catalyst design by extracting physical meaning but faces huge challenges. This paper describes an interpretable descriptor mo...
Yishu Zhang, Wei He, Yujie Wu, Kejie Huang et al.
Neuromorphic systems aim to implement large-scale artificial neural network on hardware to ultimately realize human-level intelligence. The recent development of nonsilicon nanodevices has opened the huge potential of full memristive neural networks (FMNN), consisting of memristive neurons and synap...