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Social networks based on Chinese culture, or guanxi, played an important role in scientists’ capacity to produce knowledge, their collaboration experiences, and in navigating the securitized research environment targeting collaboration between the United States and China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Few prospective studies have examined dairy fat in relation to cardiovascular disease (CVD). Objective: We aimed to evaluate the association between dairy fat and incident CVD in US adults. Design: We followed 43,652 men in the Health Professionals Follow- Up Study (1986-2010), 87,907 women in the Nurses' Health Study (1980-2012), and 90,675 women in the Nurses' Health Study II (1991-2011). Dairy fat and other fat intakes were assessed every 4 y with the use of validated food-frequency questionnaires. Results: During 5,158,337 person-years of follow-up, we documented 14,815 incident CVD cases including 8974 coronary heart disease cases (nonfatal myocardial infarction or fatal coronary disease) and 5841 stroke cases. In multivariate analyses, compared with an equivalent amount of energy from carbohydrates (excluding fruit and vegetables), dairy fat intake was not significantly related to risk of total CVD (for a 5% increase in energy from dairy fat, the RR was 1.02; 95% CI: 0.98, 1.05), coronary heart disease (RR: 1.03; 95% CI: 0.98, 1.09), or stroke (RR: 0.99; 95% CI: 0.93, 1.05) (P > 0.05 for all). In models in which we estimated the effects of exchanging different fat sources, the replacement of 5% of energy intake from dairy fat with equivalent energy intake from polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) or vegetable fat was associated with 24% (RR: 0.76; 95% CI: 0.71, 0.81) and 10% (RR: 0.90; 95% CI: 0.87, 0.93) lower risk of CVD, respectively, whereas the 5% energy intake substitution of other animal fat with dairy fat was associated with 6% increased CVD risk (RR: 1.06; 95% CI: 1.02, 1.09). Conclusions: The replacement of animal fats, including dairy fat, with vegetable sources of fats and PUFAs may reduce risk of CVD. Whether the food matrix may modify the effect of dairy fat on health outcomes warrants further investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the study that investigates the effectiveness of data mining methods in boosting the loyalty intentions of tourists in the international tourism hotel industry in the U.S. Topics discussed include the vital role of hotels in contributing to the satisfaction of visitors at destinations, the quality elements of hotel service, and the different data mining techniques.