http://hdl.handle.net/10453/35199 2026-08-06T01:27:06Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/195853 Title: Mapping drivers of life expectancy change in Asia from 1990 to 2023 Authors: Kang, J; Kim, HJ; Kim, MS; Abalos, JB; Abbastabar, H; Abd-Elsalam, S; Abdulkader, RS; Abedi, A; Abeywickrama, HM; Abidi, SH; Abiodun, OO; Aboagye, RG; Aburuz, S; Adetokunboh, OO; Adhikary, RK; Adnani, QES; Afzal, MS; Afzal, S; Aghamir, SMK; Ahmad, A; Ahmad, D; Ahmad, F; Ahmad, S; Ahmadi, A; Ahmed, A; Ahmed, H; Ahmed, M; Aithala, JP; Ajami, M; Akbarialiabad, H; Akinosoglou, K; Al Hasan, SM; Al-Ajlouni, Y; Alam, K; Alanezi, FM; Alanzi, TM; Alhabib, KF; Al-Hanawi, MK; Ali, A; Ali, A; Ali, L; Ali, MD; Ali, MU; Ali, R; Ali, SS; Al-Ibraheem, A; Alif, M; Aljunid, SM; Al-Kaif, MA; Almazan, JU; Alqahtani, JS; Alsabri, MA; Altaf, A; Al-Zubayer, A; Anh, NH; Anil, A; Anwar, S; Anwar, SL; Anwer, R; Aremu, A; Ariffin, H; Arul, S; Aryntayeva, N; Ashraf, T; Assembekov, B; Athari, SS; Atreya, A; Aujayeb, A; Ayatollahi, H; Azhar, GS; Aziz, MY; Badar, M; Asl, FB; Bahurupi, Y; Bai, R; Baig, AA; Bajpai, RC; Banach, M; Banik, R; Barengo, NC; Barua, L; Basharat, Z; Basu, S; Batra, K; Baune, BT; Beeraka, NM; Belay, BM; Bell, ML; Bhadoria, AS; Bhardwaj, N; Bhardwaj, P; Bhaskar, S; Bhat, AN; Bhattacharjee, P; Bhatti, GK; Bhatti, JS; Braithwaite, D; Butt, NS; Butt, ZA; Cao, S; Carvalho, AF; Cegolon, L; Cenderadewi, M; Cerin, E; Chakraborty, C; Chandika, RM; Chang, J-C; Chanie, GS; Chattu, VK; Chaudhary, AA; Chaurasia, A; Chen, A-T; Chen, H; Chen, H; Chen, S; Chew, NW; Chi, G; Chichagi, F; Chimoriya, R; Cho, WCS; Chong, B; Chong, YY; Choudhari, SG; Chowdhury, MAK; Chu, D-T; Chukwu, IS; Chung, E; Chung, S-C; Chung, S; Criqui, MH; Cui, X; Dalakoti, M; Daniel, RA; Darcho, SD; Darwesh, AM; Das, JK; Das, S; Dash, NR; Davletov, D; Davletov, K; De la Hoz, FP; Deb, N; Dee, EC; Dervišević, E; Desale, AT; Deuba, K; Dhali, A; Dhama, K; Dhamija, RK; Dharmaratne, SD; Dhingra, S; Dipeolu, IO; Dohare, S; Doshi, OP; Doshi, RP; Dsouza, AC; Dsouza, VS; 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Sinto, R; Solikhah, S; Sood, A; Sood, P; Sreeramareddy, CT; Srinivasamurthy, SK; Subedi, N; Subramaniyan, V; Suleman, M; Sulistiyorini, D; Sun, J; Sun, Z; Sun, Z; Sundaram, SP; Sunkersing, D; Suresh, V; Swain, CK; Y, SST; Tabarés-Seisdedos, R; Tabatabaei, SM; Tabibi, R; Tabish, M; Soodejani, MT; Taiba, J; Talaat, IM; Tampa, M; Tang, H; Tanwar, M; Tareque, I; Tarigan, IU; Tariq, S; Temsah, R; Teramoto, M; Tewari, J; Thakur, R; Thapar, R; Thomas, N; Thomas, NK; Ticoalu, JHV; Tleshev, M; Tomo, S; Tovani-Palone, MR; Tran, BX; Tran, QTH; Tran, TH; Duc, NTM; Tripathi, M; Tse, G; Tualeka, AR; Tumurkhuu, M; Tye, SC; Tyrovolas, S; Ullah, S; Umair, M; Umakanthan, S; Unnikrishnan, B; Upadhya, D; Upadhyay, E; Usman, JS; Vaithinathan, AG; Valderas, JM; Valdez, PR; Valenti, M; Van den Eynde, J; Varghese, J; Varthya, SB; Vellingiri, B; Venketasubramanian, N; Viet-Nhi, N-K; Villani, S; Vinayak, M; Waheed, Y; Wang, R; Wang, S; Wang, Y; Waqar, AB; Waqas, M; Wei, F-L; Weintraub, RG; Wicaksana, AL; Wickramasinghe, DP; Wickramasinghe, ND; Wijarnpreecha, K; Wilandika, A; Wong, YJ; Xia, Z; Xiao, H; Xiao, L; Xie, W; Xu, S; Xu, X; Xue, M; Yadav, MK; Yahya, G; Yamagishi, K; Yano, Y; Yao, H; Yarahmadi, A; Yasufuku, Y; Ye, P; Yi, S; Yin, D; Yip, P; Yonemoto, N; Yu, C; Yu, Y; Yunus, G; Zeariya, MGM; Zebari, SM; Zhang, CJP; Zhang, D; Zhang, L; Zhang, X; Zhang, Y; Zhang, Z; Zhong, CC; Zhumagaliuly, A; Zia, H; Zielińska, M; Zoghi, G; Zou, Z; Zuber, M; Hay, SI; Shin, JI; Yon, DK; Steel, N Abstract: Life expectancy is a key indicator of population health and an important guide for health policy1,2. Although Asia represents approximately 60% of the global population, studies of longitudinal trends in life expectancy and their underlying drivers across Asian countries remain limited, with most previous research focused on western or high-income settings3, 4, 5–6. Here we provide a comprehensive analysis of life expectancy, cause-specific mortality and risk factors in 1990–2023 across 34 Asian countries and territories, utilizing data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 20231,7. Life expectancy increased in all countries and territories between 1990 and 2023, with the largest annual gains observed in South Asia and the smallest annual gains in high-income Asia Pacific countries and territories. Reductions in cardiovascular disease mortality were the primary contributors to life expectancy gains in Central Asia, East Asia and high-income Asia Pacific, whereas declines in diarrhoeal diseases and tuberculosis contributed most in South and Southeast Asia. In 2019–2023, life expectancy declined in several Asian regions, largely driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a nearly two-year loss in the first year of the pandemic. The causes of changes in life expectancy and the contributing risk factors varied across regions and countries/territories. Therefore, under the principles of proportional universalism, proactive and effective policies at both regional and national levels are essential to reduce premature mortality and reduce life expectancy inequalities across Asia. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/195842 Title: Interplay of quantum resources in nonlocality tests Authors: Dong, HH; Zhu, Y; Cheng, SY; Zhang, X; Li, CL; Li, YZ; Li, H; You, L; Ma, X; Zhang, Q; Pan, JW Abstract: Nonlocality, evidenced by the violation of Bell inequalities, not only signifies entanglement but also highlights measurement incompatibility in quantum systems. Utilizing the tilted Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) Bell inequality, our high-efficiency optical setup achieves a loophole-free violation of 2.0132. This result provides a device-independent lower bound on entanglement, quantified as the entanglement of formation at 0.0159. Moreover, by tuning the parameters of the tilted CHSH inequality, we enhance the estimation of measurement incompatibility, which is quantified by an effective overlap of 4.3883×10-5. To explore the intricate interplay among nonlocality, entanglement, and measurement incompatibility, we generate mixed states, allowing for flexible modulation of entanglement via fast switching among the four Bell states using Pockels cells, achieving a fidelity above 99.10%. Intriguingly, our results reveal a counterintuitive relationship where increasing incompatibility initially boosts nonlocality but eventually leads to its reduction. Typically, maximal nonlocality does not coincide with maximal incompatibility. This experimental study sheds light on the optimal management of quantum resources for Bell-inequality-based quantum information processing. 2025-04-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/195799 Title: Virtual Channel Purification Authors: Liu, Z; Zhang, X; Fei, YY; Cai, Z Abstract: Quantum error mitigation is a key approach for extracting target state properties on state-of-the-art noisy machines and early fault-tolerant devices. Using the ideas from flag fault tolerance and virtual state purification, we develop the virtual-channel-purification (VCP) protocol, which consumes similar qubit and gate resources as virtual state purification but offers stronger error suppression with increased system size and more noisy operation copies. The application of VCP does not require specific knowledge about the target quantum state, the target problem and the gate noise model in the target circuit, and can still offer rigorous performance guarantees for practical noise regimes as long as the noise is incoherent. Further connections are made between VCP and quantum error correction to produce the virtual error-correction (VEC) protocol, one of the first protocols that combine quantum error correction (QEC) and quantum error mitigation beyond directly applying error-mitigation protocols on top of logical qubits. Assuming perfect syndrome extraction, VEC can virtually remove all correctable noise in the channel while paying only the same sampling cost as low-order purification. It can achieve QEC-level protection on an unencoded register when transmitting it through a noisy channel, removing the associated encoding qubit overhead. Another variant of VEC can mimic the error-suppression power of the surface code by inputting only a bit-flip and a phase-flip code. Our protocol can also be adapted to key tasks in quantum networks like channel capacity activation and entanglement distribution. 2025-04-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/195780 Title: Acknowledgements Authors: Bailo, F; Booth, E; Williams, J 2026-06-18T00:00:00Z