BACKGROUND The Xichuan turquoise mining area in Henan Province belongs to the east extension of the turquoise metallogenic belt in the junction of Hubei and Shaanxi Provinces.A lot of turquoise artifacts have been excavated in many early archaeological sites near Xichuan.Therefore, the distribution of the Xichuan turquoises has attracted wide atten
Ammonia, as an essential and economical fuel, is a key intermediate for the production of innumerable nitrogen-based compounds.Such compounds have found vast applications in the agricultural world, biological world (amino acids, proteins, and DNA), and various other chemical transformations.However, unlike other compounds, the decomposition of ammo
Sporadic cerebral small vessel seatpost adjusment disease (cSVD) is primarily attributed to heritability and vascular risk factors.Still, our understanding of the causative factors in cSVD lesion burden in the brain is far from complete.This is exemplified by this case of identical twins with remarkably similar vascular risk profiles, where one twi
Tools Thelaziasis is an Arthropod-born disease of the eye and adnexa caused by Thelazia callipaeda, a nematode parasite transmitted by drosophilid flies to carnivores and humans.Because of its distribution mainly confined to South Asian countries and Russia, it is commonly known as Oriental Eye worm.It is often under-reported and not been given its