The author attempts to interpret the theme of A Passsage to India by analyzing the major events and characterization. It is indicated in the thesis that E.M.Forster highlights the failure of aspired understanding ...The author attempts to interpret the theme of A Passsage to India by analyzing the major events and characterization. It is indicated in the thesis that E.M.Forster highlights the failure of aspired understanding between different races, different people and even within a person. In other words, in many cases people have aspirations for understanding, but in reality the real understanding is very difficult to fulfill.展开更多
After a brief emphasis about the interconnected world, including Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems, the increasing importance of the decision-making by autonomous, quasi-autonomous, and autonomic systems is emphasised...After a brief emphasis about the interconnected world, including Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems, the increasing importance of the decision-making by autonomous, quasi-autonomous, and autonomic systems is emphasised. Promising roles of computational understanding, computational awareness, and computational wisdom for better autonomous decision-making are outlined. The contributions of simulation-based approaches are listed.展开更多
System dynamics shows how the structure and policies in a system produce change through time. System dynamics deals with the internal processes that produce good and bad behavior in social, economic, and environmental...System dynamics shows how the structure and policies in a system produce change through time. System dynamics deals with the internal processes that produce good and bad behavior in social, economic, and environmental systems. In a system dynamics study, one builds a computer model that acts out the behavior of the real system being represented. The computer model is then used to展开更多
Schematic illustration of the PEO of the carbon steel in 8 g·L^-1 NaAlO2+2 g·L^-1 NaH 2PO4:(a)the sample before the application of anodic current,(b)the moment after the application of anodic current,(c)the ...Schematic illustration of the PEO of the carbon steel in 8 g·L^-1 NaAlO2+2 g·L^-1 NaH 2PO4:(a)the sample before the application of anodic current,(b)the moment after the application of anodic current,(c)the deposition of an aluminum phosphates or AAP layer on the steel surface,(d)the initiation of plasma discharges through the breakdown of the dielectric layer,(e)stable discharges at later stage of PEO.展开更多
An important feature of porous materials is the adsorption hysteresis: the amount of an atomic or molecular species adsorbed from the gas phase is not only dependent on the gas pressure, but may depend in certain rang...An important feature of porous materials is the adsorption hysteresis: the amount of an atomic or molecular species adsorbed from the gas phase is not only dependent on the gas pressure, but may depend in certain ranges of pressure on the history. Thus, the system may respond in different ways to identical experimental conditions which seems to contradict classical thermody-namics. While the phenomenon is known since about a century, it has not yet found a consistent theoretical description. In the pres-ent talk, we will-based on results of computer simulations-formulate rules that provide a consistent basis for the behavior of confined systems, or even for inhomogeneous systems in general. In other words, we present a new theory (confined thermodynamics) with its own definitions and rules. It will turn out, that hysteretic behavior does not impose a conceptual challenge any more, but follows in a natural way from these rules. The approach which is employed in the simulations is very akin to the density functional method. All quantities defined develop into the standard thermodynamic expressions when the density of amount becomes homogeneous.The second part of the talk is devoted to the potential for practical use. It turns out that the new theory does not only remove conceptual problems, but at the same time opens the route to a number of new states found in porous systems which may lead to im-proved applications. In particular we will focus on the possibility to drive a fluid in a pore into exotic states with negative pressure, provided one has full control over the phenomenon of adsorption hysteresis. Negative pressure states are in principal known since the time of Torricelli and they have been in the literature as experimentally accessible situations. Still, they have not been turned into practical usefulness which is likely to be caused by the notion of their metastability in macroscopic systems. However, fluids con-fined to nanopores have been proven to show reproducible behaviour. The present time appears to be suited for exploring the new ap-plications resting in fluid/pore systems: since about a decade material scientists have started to prepare pores with increasing accura-cy from an increasing variety of substances. On the other hand, the new theory presented in the first part of the talk provides the tool to drive a fluid/pore system reliably into any of the exotic states found within a hysteresis loop. Prospects of a few applications will be discussed.展开更多
Mr. President, Ambassador, everyone, ladies and gentlemen,it is a great pleasure to be with you here at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. Thank you, Mr. President for
This essay deals with the fast growing Sino-Latin American relations,touching upon the issues of the importance of Latin America to China;pros and cons of the bilateral relations;the U.S.factor;the opportunities that ...This essay deals with the fast growing Sino-Latin American relations,touching upon the issues of the importance of Latin America to China;pros and cons of the bilateral relations;the U.S.factor;the opportunities that might be emerged from the financial crisis for the bilateral relations;China's first policy paper towards the region;the overseas Chinese contribution to the bilateral relations;Taiwan problem;the so-called neo-colonialism and the role of Europe.展开更多
The Collaborative Cross( CC) is a powerful genetic resource with a wide range of applications in medical research. It is a multiparental genetic reference population,composed of 200 recombinant inbred mouse strains. I...The Collaborative Cross( CC) is a powerful genetic resource with a wide range of applications in medical research. It is a multiparental genetic reference population,composed of 200 recombinant inbred mouse strains. It was designed to be a resource for rapid mapping of genes that mediate complex traits. The CC has been produced following an intense breeding program that had taken over ten years to complete. It is now becoming available to the research community. While advances in human genetic technologies over the last decade have been substantial,the CC provides the ability to make discoveries not possible with other methods or resources. It can be applied to any subject that can be measured or modelled in the mouse. Here,we discuss a range of applications for which the CC can be used,with examples taken from the early characterization of this powerful resource.展开更多
文摘The author attempts to interpret the theme of A Passsage to India by analyzing the major events and characterization. It is indicated in the thesis that E.M.Forster highlights the failure of aspired understanding between different races, different people and even within a person. In other words, in many cases people have aspirations for understanding, but in reality the real understanding is very difficult to fulfill.
文摘After a brief emphasis about the interconnected world, including Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems, the increasing importance of the decision-making by autonomous, quasi-autonomous, and autonomic systems is emphasised. Promising roles of computational understanding, computational awareness, and computational wisdom for better autonomous decision-making are outlined. The contributions of simulation-based approaches are listed.
文摘System dynamics shows how the structure and policies in a system produce change through time. System dynamics deals with the internal processes that produce good and bad behavior in social, economic, and environmental systems. In a system dynamics study, one builds a computer model that acts out the behavior of the real system being represented. The computer model is then used to
文摘Schematic illustration of the PEO of the carbon steel in 8 g·L^-1 NaAlO2+2 g·L^-1 NaH 2PO4:(a)the sample before the application of anodic current,(b)the moment after the application of anodic current,(c)the deposition of an aluminum phosphates or AAP layer on the steel surface,(d)the initiation of plasma discharges through the breakdown of the dielectric layer,(e)stable discharges at later stage of PEO.
文摘An important feature of porous materials is the adsorption hysteresis: the amount of an atomic or molecular species adsorbed from the gas phase is not only dependent on the gas pressure, but may depend in certain ranges of pressure on the history. Thus, the system may respond in different ways to identical experimental conditions which seems to contradict classical thermody-namics. While the phenomenon is known since about a century, it has not yet found a consistent theoretical description. In the pres-ent talk, we will-based on results of computer simulations-formulate rules that provide a consistent basis for the behavior of confined systems, or even for inhomogeneous systems in general. In other words, we present a new theory (confined thermodynamics) with its own definitions and rules. It will turn out, that hysteretic behavior does not impose a conceptual challenge any more, but follows in a natural way from these rules. The approach which is employed in the simulations is very akin to the density functional method. All quantities defined develop into the standard thermodynamic expressions when the density of amount becomes homogeneous.The second part of the talk is devoted to the potential for practical use. It turns out that the new theory does not only remove conceptual problems, but at the same time opens the route to a number of new states found in porous systems which may lead to im-proved applications. In particular we will focus on the possibility to drive a fluid in a pore into exotic states with negative pressure, provided one has full control over the phenomenon of adsorption hysteresis. Negative pressure states are in principal known since the time of Torricelli and they have been in the literature as experimentally accessible situations. Still, they have not been turned into practical usefulness which is likely to be caused by the notion of their metastability in macroscopic systems. However, fluids con-fined to nanopores have been proven to show reproducible behaviour. The present time appears to be suited for exploring the new ap-plications resting in fluid/pore systems: since about a decade material scientists have started to prepare pores with increasing accura-cy from an increasing variety of substances. On the other hand, the new theory presented in the first part of the talk provides the tool to drive a fluid/pore system reliably into any of the exotic states found within a hysteresis loop. Prospects of a few applications will be discussed.
文摘Mr. President, Ambassador, everyone, ladies and gentlemen,it is a great pleasure to be with you here at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. Thank you, Mr. President for
文摘This essay deals with the fast growing Sino-Latin American relations,touching upon the issues of the importance of Latin America to China;pros and cons of the bilateral relations;the U.S.factor;the opportunities that might be emerged from the financial crisis for the bilateral relations;China's first policy paper towards the region;the overseas Chinese contribution to the bilateral relations;Taiwan problem;the so-called neo-colonialism and the role of Europe.
基金supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (Program 1037321 and Project 1069173)by Diabetes Research Western Australia
文摘The Collaborative Cross( CC) is a powerful genetic resource with a wide range of applications in medical research. It is a multiparental genetic reference population,composed of 200 recombinant inbred mouse strains. It was designed to be a resource for rapid mapping of genes that mediate complex traits. The CC has been produced following an intense breeding program that had taken over ten years to complete. It is now becoming available to the research community. While advances in human genetic technologies over the last decade have been substantial,the CC provides the ability to make discoveries not possible with other methods or resources. It can be applied to any subject that can be measured or modelled in the mouse. Here,we discuss a range of applications for which the CC can be used,with examples taken from the early characterization of this powerful resource.
