Ning Dong

Nov 17, 2024 | nature.com | Douglas Kelley |Ning Dong |Chantelle Burton

AbstractExplaining tropical tree cover distribution in areas of intermediate rainfall is challenging, with fire’s role in limiting tree cover particularly controversial. We use a novel Bayesian approach to provide observational constraints on the strength of the influence of humans, fire, rainfall seasonality, heat stress, and wind throw on tropical tree cover.

Aug 7, 2024 | iam-media.com | Ning Dong

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Jul 14, 2024 | mdpi.com | Ning Dong |Hong Jiang |Yipeng Liu |Jingtao Zhang

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Nov 13, 2023 | lexology.com | Ning Dong

On November 3, 2023, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) released its "Guidelines for Determining the Eligible Subject Matter for Utility Model Patents" (the "Guidelines"), delineating the boundaries for what qualifies as protectable subject matter under utility model patents. Under the Chinese Patent Law, there are three patent categories: inventions, utility models, and designs.

Sep 14, 2023 | future-science.com | Ning Dong |Yong Zheng |Haibin Zhang |Yongli Du

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81872744), and the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (ZR2019MH046). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.