Search results for "China"

Brown Carbon Aerosol in Urban Xi'an, Northwest China: The Composition and Light Absorption Properties.

2018

Light-absorbing organic carbon (i.e., brown carbon or BrC) in the atmospheric aerosol has significant contribution to light absorption and radiative forcing. However, the link between BrC optical properties and chemical composition remains poorly constrained. In this study, we combine spectrophotometric measurements and chemical analyses of BrC samples collected from July 2008 to June 2009 in urban Xi'an, Northwest China. Elevated BrC was observed in winter (5 times higher than in summer), largely due to increased emissions from wintertime domestic biomass burning. The light absorption coefficient of methanol-soluble BrC at 365 nm (on average approximately twice that of water-soluble BrC) w…

Mathematical Modeling, Analysis, and Advanced Control of Complex Dynamical Systems

2014

1 School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia 2 Department of Engineering, Faculty of Technology and Science, University of Agder, 4898 Grimstad, Norway 3 College of Automation, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China 4 School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China 5 College of Automation, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China

The impact of the subsidy policy on total factor productivity : an empirical analysis of China's cotton production

2013

Published version of an article in the journal: Mathematical Problems in Engineering. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/248537 Open access This paper develops one model to explore the relationship between the subsidy policy and the agricultural total factor productivity (TFP). It indicates that the agricultural TFP will be lower after the subsidy policy is implemented and there exists a negative relation between the subsidy and TFP, if subsidies are associated with the acreage. Using Malmquist index, this paper measures the changes of TFP in China's cotton production before and after the subsidy policy is implemented. The results verify that the subsidy po…

Sentiment, Reason, and Law: Policing in the Republic of China on Taiwan by Jeffrey T. Martin. Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governan…

2020

Four Remarkable Additions to the Biodiversity of Chinese Mosses

2022

Four species of moss genus Schistidium are reported for the first time from China. All of them have been found in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Ecological and distributional details of the newly recorded species are provided and their local distribution is mapped. Photographs of the species are attached. Checklist of Schistidium species and identifying key are added. Considering the present records, Schistidium consists of 15 species in China.

Teologia chińska. Szansa czy zagrożenie?

2022

Chinese theology is a challenge for Christianity. On the one hand, it presents new opportunities, and on the other, it prompts the redefinition of many terms, dogmas, and ways of thinking. Under the influence of Chinese theology, classical theology may become sinicized, i.e. influenced by the Chinese way of perceiving the world, man and the upernatural. Without knowing the philosophy, religion, art and language of the Chinese, Chinese theology may cause fear and apprehension. This can only be overcome by learning about the Asian world without fear.

Historical and Technical Notes on Aqueducts from Prehistoric to Medieval Times

2013

The aim of this paper is to present the evolution of aqueduct technologies through the millennia, from prehistoric to medieval times. These hydraulic works were used by several civilizations to collect water from springs and to transport it to settlements, sanctuaries and other targets. Several civilizations, in China and the Americas, developed water transport systems independently, and brought these to high levels of sophistication. For the Mediterranean civilizations, one of the salient characteristics of cultural development, since the Minoan Era (ca. 3200-1100 BC), is the architectural and hydraulic function of aqueducts used for the water supply in palaces and other settlements. The M…

Studies on the impact of winter climate on rubber and wheat cultivation in the mountains of southern China, applying a fuzzy cluster analysis

1992

Data from climatic stations in China, located south of 30° N and > 400 m above sea-level, were analysed in order to study the relationship with winter climate, on the one hand, and with rubber and winter wheat cultivation, on the other. Three relevant agroclimatic parameters were investigated for January, namely mean temperature, precipitation total and sunshine duration. By applying a fuzzy cluster analysis, three agroclimatic regions were found in winter; the boundaries coincide with the macro-scale topography of southern China. In one case the boundary even corresponds with the position of the Kunming quasi-stationary front. Winter climate in the three agroclimatic regions was found to s…

Female Cyborgs, Gender Performance, and Utopian Gaze in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina

2020

The cyborg as a metaphor for cultural encodings of the interaction between humans and technology has been an accepted trope since the publication of Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto.” Alex Garland’s 2015 film Ex Machina shares many of its key themes and motifs with earlier science fiction films, from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. A first viewing of the film thus suggests an interpretation that focuses on the film’s portrayal of its female cyborgs Ava and Kyoko as another version of the “pleasure model” in the mode of Lang’s Maria or Scott’s Pris. However, it is the tension between Ava’s intelligence and visual attractiveness and her performance of a female gender …

Nuovi inibitori di Aurora chinasi A come target biologico coinvolto nei processi carcinogenici

2011

Identificando Aurora chinasi A come target elettivo per l’inibizione dell’espansione tumorale è stato sfruttato l’approccio computazionale per effettuare un virtual screening su una libreria “in house” di strutture molecolari. L’analisi dei dati computazionali ha permesso di identificare nei derivati della serie pirido[3’,2’:4,5]furo[3,2-d]-1,2,3-triazin-4(3H)one di tipo 3 nuovi composti a potenziale attività inibitoria sul sito ATP-asico di Aurora chinasi A. La sintesi del sistema triciclico-eteroaromatico 3 prevede la diazotazione della 3-amino-furopiridina 1 e conseguente reazione di copulazione con una serie di ammine primarie opportunamente scelte, permettendo l’isolamento delle 3-tria…