Literature Review on Ren Rongrong’s Chinese Translation of Charlotte’s Web

The fairy tale Charlotte’s Web written by the American writer Elwyn Brooks White is featured with concise language, childlike innocence and profound meaning. It has been translated into various languages and introduced to many countries. In China, there are also different Chinese translations, among which the most influential and widely accepted translation goes to Ren Rongrong’s. Ren is one of the most experienced translators in children’s literature, making great contributions to the development of children’s literature translation in China. This paper first attempts to analyse the status quo in terms of the previous studies on Charlotte’s Web at home and abroad and then provide a review of domestic researches of Ren’s translation, focusing on the researches of Ren’s Chinese translation of Charlotte’s Web from the perspectives of skopostheorie, reception aesthetics, among others, and pointing out the deficiencies of the previous studies so as to make clear the current situation of the studies and provide some suggestions for the further studies of children’s literature translation in China

A Study on Self-Translation of Taipei People From the Perspective of Translator’s Subjectivity

Based on translator’s subjectivity and Chinese-English corpus, this paper analyzes Pai Hsien-yung’s self-translation of Taipei People in terms of subjective initiative, passivity and purposefulness. The self-translation is concise, intelligible and fluent, reproducing the original spirit and style to the greatest extent and exactly implying translator’s active intervention. The author as a translator meanwhile can both exert great subjectivity and be constrained by his own political stand, cultural background, translation purpose as well as specific social and historical background. The bilingual self-translator tends to show a complete understanding of the original text and focus on the deep meaning of the original text. The source text is revised appropriately to make the translation more readable and acceptable to the target readers

Resistance mechanisms adopted by a Salmonella Typhimurium mutant against bacteriophage

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Bacteriophages have key roles in regulating bacterial populations in most habitats. A Salmonella Typhimurium mutant (N18) with impaired sensitivity to phage fmb-p1 was obtained and examined, the adsorption efficiency of fmb-p1 to N18 was reduced to 6%, compared to more than 97% for wild type S. Typhimurium CMCC50115. Reduced adsorption was accompanied by a reduction of 90% in the LPS content compared to wild type. Electron microscopy showed phage scattered around N18 with minimal engagement, while the phage were efficiently adsorbed to the wild type with tails oriented towards the bacterial surface. Evidence suggests fmb-p1 can slightly infect N18 and this does not give rise to an increase of phage titer. RT-qPCR data show that several Salmonella genes involved in lipopolysaccharide synthesis and five virulence related genes were down-regulated upon exposure of N18 to phage fmb-p1. In contrast, phage resistance related genes such as the SOS response, restriction-modification (RM), and Cas1 gene were up-regulated in N18. These data suggest that although inefficient adsorption and entry is the primary mechanism of resistance, transcriptional responses to phage exposure indicate that alternative resistance mechanisms against phage infection are also brought to bear, including digestion of phage nucleic acids and activation of the SOS. These findings may help develop strategies for biocontrol of Salmonella where multi-resistant bacteria are encountered or emerge in applications for food production, bioremediation or wastewater treatment

Exploring the allelopathic autotoxicity mechanism of ginsenosides accumulation under ginseng decomposition based on integrated analysis of transcriptomics and metabolomics

Continuous cropping obstacles seriously constrained the sustainable development of the ginseng industry. The allelopathic autotoxicity of ginsenosides is the key “trigger” of continuous cropping obstacles in ginseng. During harvest, the ginseng plants could be broken and remain in the soil. The decomposition of ginseng residue in soil is one of the important release ways of ginsenosides. Therefore, the allelopathic mechanism of ginsenosides through the decomposed release pathway needs an in-depth study. To investigate this allelopathic regulation mechanism, the integrated analysis of transcriptomics and metabolomics was applied. The prototype ginsenosides in ginseng were detected converse to rare ginsenosides during decomposition. The rare ginsenosides caused more serious damage to ginseng hairy root cells and inhibited the growth of ginseng hairy roots more significantly. By high-throughput RNA sequencing gene transcriptomics study, the significantly differential expressed genes (DEGs) were obtained under prototype and rare ginsenoside interventions. These DEGs were mainly enriched in the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites and metabolic pathways, phytohormone signal transduction, and protein processing in endoplasmic reticulum pathways. Based on the functional enrichment of DEGs, the targeted metabolomics analysis based on UPLC-MS/MS determination was applied to screen endogenous differential metabolized phytohormones (DMPs). The influence of prototype and rare ginsenosides on the accumulation of endogenous phytohormones was studied. These were mainly involved in the biosynthesis of diterpenoid, zeatin, and secondary metabolites, phytohormone signal transduction, and metabolic pathways. After integrating the transcriptomics and metabolomics analysis, ginsenosides could regulate the genes in phytohormone signaling pathways to influence the accumulation of JA, ABA, and SA. The conclusion was that the prototype ginsenosides were converted into rare ginsenosides by ginseng decomposition and released into the soil, which aggravated its allelopathic autotoxicity. The allelopathic mechanism was to intervene in the response regulation of genes related to the metabolic accumulation of endogenous phytohormones in ginseng. This result provides a reference for the in-depth study of continuous cropping obstacles of ginseng

TableGPT: Towards Unifying Tables, Nature Language and Commands into One GPT

Tables are prevalent in real-world databases, requiring significant time and effort for humans to analyze and manipulate. The advancements in large language models (LLMs) have made it possible to interact with tables using natural language input, bringing this capability closer to reality. In this paper, we present TableGPT, a unified fine-tuned framework that enables LLMs to understand and operate on tables using external functional commands. It introduces the capability to seamlessly interact with tables, enabling a wide range of functionalities such as question answering, data manipulation (e.g., insert, delete, query, and modify operations), data visualization, analysis report generation, and automated prediction. TableGPT aims to provide convenience and accessibility to users by empowering them to effortlessly leverage tabular data. At the core of TableGPT lies the novel concept of global tabular representations, which empowers LLMs to gain a comprehensive understanding of the entire table beyond meta-information. By jointly training LLMs on both table and text modalities, TableGPT achieves a deep understanding of tabular data and the ability to perform complex operations on tables through chain-of-command instructions. Importantly, TableGPT offers the advantage of being a self-contained system rather than relying on external API interfaces. Moreover, it supports efficient data process flow, query rejection (when appropriate) and private deployment, enabling faster domain data fine-tuning and ensuring data privacy, which enhances the framework's adaptability to specific use cases.Comment: Technical Repor

Benefit of Relaxation-Type Damping on the Performance of a Six-Degree-of-Freedom Microvibration Isolation Device for Control Moment Gyroscope

In order to provide an ultraquiet environment for spacecraft payload, a six-degree-of-freedom microvibration isolation device for satellite control moment gyro (CMG) is proposed in this paper. The dynamic characteristics of the microvibration isolation device are analyzed theoretically and experimentally. The dynamic equations of the microvibration suppression device are established by using the Newton–Euler method. The dynamic responses are numerically solved and the frequency-domain characteristics of the microvibration isolation device under base excitation are analyzed. The analytical results are first verified numerically, and the two results are in good accordance. The experimental apparatus is built, and the vibration isolation performance is investigated. The acceleration transfer function is measured and the influence of the excitation amplitude on the vibration isolation performance is performed. It is shown that the amplification factor at the vicinity of the resonance frequency is within 10 dB, and the vibration isolation performance is significant at higher frequencies. The vibration attenuation performance at the main frequency of the CMG (100 Hz) is more than 30 dB. The microvibration suppression device can effectively suppress the microvibration generated by CMG during orbital operation