Background: Since December 29, 2019, pneumonia infection with 2019-nCoV has rapidly
spread out from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China to most others provinces and other counties. …

Rationale Several studies have estimated basic production number of novel coronavirus
pneumonia (NCP). However, the time-varying transmission dynamics of NCP during the …

A highly efficient on-chip acousto-optic modulator is as a key component and occupies an
exceptional position in microwave-to-optical conversion. Homogeneous thin-film lithium …

Background International literature has illustrated that the health impacts of heat waves vary
according to differences in the spatial variability of high temperatures and the social and …

Enterovirus A71 (EV71) vaccination program was introduced in 2016 in China. Based on a
longitudinal surveillance dataset from 2012 to 2019 in Guangdong, China, we estimated the …

In this work, we report experimental characterizations of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)
in low-loss Ge_25Sb_10S_65 (GeSbS) chalcogenide waveguides. A 7-cm-long spiral …

We present the design, preparation, and performance optimization of strip waveguide in
chalcogenide glass (ChG) for broadband supercontinuum (SC) generation. Ternary Ge-Sb-S …

Objectives We aimed to estimate the time-varying transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in
China, Wuhan City, and Guangdong province, and compare to that of severe acute respiratory …

Varicella is a rising public health issue. Several studies have tried to quantify the relationships
between meteorological factors and varicella incidence but with inconsistent results. We …

Background On December 31, 2019, an outbreak of COVID-19 in humans was reported in
Wuhan, and then spread fast to other provinces, China. We analyzed data from field …