Missing Women in China and India over Seven Decades: An Analysis of Birth and Mortality Data from 1950 to 2020

This paper constructs long-run estimates of total missing women (including missing girls at birth and excess female deaths) in China and India over seven decades from 1950 to 2020. We find that the number of missing women in India has been higher than in China throughout the seven decades. Over time, missing girls at birth grew faster in China than in India, but China has made more rapid progress in reducing excess female deaths after birth. While the share of missing girls at birth in total missing women has risen since the 1980s, there has also been a shift in excess female mortality from younger to older age groups. Our estimated trends are consistent with key economic, social, demographic and technological events and developments in the two countries.</p

Tailoring Locations and Electronic States of Rh Nanoparticles in KL Zeolite by Varying the Reduction Temperature for Selective Phenol Hydrogenation

In this study, we employed a top-down strategy, which entailed first the in situ encapsulation of Rh species within the one-dimensional KL channels and then the reduction of catalysts at different temperatures, to tailor the locations and electronic states of the Rh nanoparticles in KL channels for selective phenol hydrogenation under mild conditions. Kinetic studies revealed that with the reduction temperature increasing from 100 to 300 °C, Rh catalysts showed improved activity, while they demonstrated similar time profiles. The cyclohexanone selectivity of 82.4% could be obtained at the phenol conversion of 72.2%, which remained unchanged after recycling seven times. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and in situ CO adsorption Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) analyses indicated that the improved activity might be attributed to the more electron-rich chemical state of Rh nanoparticles as there were more probabilities to accept electrons from potassium when Rh nanoparticles migrated from the central location to the edge or surface of the KL zeolite

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Additional file 12. Detail information of KEGG pathway enrichment of DEGs in mock vs. MBV12h

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Additional file 1: Table S1. Length distribution of transcripts. Table S2. The annotation of novel transcripts/genes compared with NR, Swiss-Prot, and Pfam databases. Table S3. Nodes centrality analysis of PPI network of group Mock vs. MBV2h. Table S4. Nodes centrality analysis of PPI network of group Mock vs. MBV24h. Table S5. Nodes centrality analysis of PPI network of group MBV2h vs. MBV6h

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Additional file 3. DEGs identified in comparison group Mock vs. MBV2h

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Additional file 8. DEGs identified in comparison group MBV6h vs. MBV12h

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Additional file 6. DEGs identified in comparison group Mock vs. MBV24h

Additional file 2: of RNA-Seq transcriptome analysis of breast muscle in Pekin ducks supplemented with the dietary probiotic Clostridium butyricum

Figure S1. Species distribution of the top BLAST hits. Figure S2. Different levels of GO term function classification. Figure S3. The top 20 pathways according to numbers of unigene annotation. Figure S4. The numbers of up- or down-regulated genes annotated to each GO term function. (DOCX 1113 kb

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Additional file 4. DEGs identified in comparison group Mock vs. MBV6h

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Additional file 5. DEGs identified in comparison group Mock vs. MBV12h