A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and English Animal Idioms from Culture Perspective

Idioms are the crystallization of human wisdom and the essences of language. Animal idioms, which can reflect people’s feelings or explain complicated phenomena and rules with vivid and expressive animal images, contain rich and unique cultural connotations. This paper studies a comparative analysis of English and Chinese animal idioms from perspective of culture, aiming to make people know the cultural differences, improve their intercultural awareness and use animal idioms accurately, to promote intercultural communication more smoothly and properly

Environmental ethics support for eco city construction

The modern city based on the principle of anthropocentrism has caused many urban environmental problems, resulting in the contradiction between man and nature gradually developing into a state of binary opposition, and promoting the urban ecosystem to be on the verge of danger. On the basis of deep reflection on modern urban environmental problems, eco city construction came into being and developed rapidly. Eco city is an urban development model to solve the current urban environmental crisis and realize the harmonious coexistence between man and nature, man and man, man and societyeco city has internal consistency with environmental ethics, which contains the environmental ethics of non anthropocentrism, sustainable development and environmental justiceenvironmental ethics guides the construction of ecological city and is an important support for the construction of ecological city. First of all, environmental ethical values such as environmental ethical values, environmental ethical codes of ethics and environmental ethical beliefs provide theoretical support for the construction of ecological citysecondly, environmental ethical practices such as ecological ethical culture, ecological moral education, low-carbon economic model and ecological ethical legal system provide practical support for the construction of ecological cities

Optimization of Inner Dumping Uncovered Height with Partially Covered End Wall in Adjacent Surface Coal Mining Districts

In order to analyze the relationships of inner dumping with covered end wall in adjacent surface coal mining districts, a trough-shaped uncovered end wall model was put forward. A mathematical model concerning uncovered end wall height (UEWH) was established based on minimum cost method. The inner dump capacity was considered regarding its effect on UEWH. Besides, a comprehensive model was established for calculating optimal UEWH in inner dumping with partially covered end wall mode and a shifting distance optimization model based on cost compensation method for building a provisional haulage system to connect inner dump. As for case study in Huolinhe number 1 surface coal mine, research results show that optimal UEWH was 225 m between North Pit and South Pit whereas in number 3 mining district of North Open-Pit Mine it was 23.50 m when making its transition from cross mining to mining along strike. Nevertheless, due to limited inner dump capacity, inner dump height in South and North mining districts shall be appropriately increased and closed pits from earlier period shall be fully utilized to make room for inner dumping with partially uncovered end walls

A Survey of Methods for Handling Disk Data Imbalance

Class imbalance exists in many classification problems, and since the data is designed for accuracy, imbalance in data classes can lead to classification challenges with a few classes having higher misclassification costs. The Backblaze dataset, a widely used dataset related to hard discs, has a small amount of failure data and a large amount of health data, which exhibits a serious class imbalance. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of research in the field of imbalanced data classification. The discussion is organized into three main aspects: data-level methods, algorithmic-level methods, and hybrid methods. For each type of method, we summarize and analyze the existing problems, algorithmic ideas, strengths, and weaknesses. Additionally, the challenges of unbalanced data classification are discussed, along with strategies to address them. It is convenient for researchers to choose the appropriate method according to their needs

The effects of calcium on the expression of genes involved in ethylene biosynthesis and signal perception during tomato flower abscission

Calcium regulation of the genes involved in ethylene biosynthesis and ethylene receptors in flower abscission zones (AZ) of wild-type tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) was investigated in this study. Calcium treatment delayed abscission of pedicel explants. However, verapamil (VP, calcium inhibitor) treatments accelerated abscission. Results showed an increase in AZ ethylene production consistent with abscission in both control and treatment explants. Moreover, in the AZ of flower pedicelstreated with VP, ethylene production, LeACO1 and LeETR1 expression was elevated, but LeETR4 expression decreased. Calcium treatments delayed the onset and maximum ethylene production, maintained low LeACO1 expression and elevated LeETR2, 3, 4, 5 expressions. Results also found that VP and calcium had little effect on LeACS2 expression. Our hypothesis that calcium is integral in preventing ethylene production at the point when 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) is converted to ethylene was supported, but the study also revealed the regulation of expression in theethylene receptors. The potential roles of LeACO1, LeETR 3, 4, 5 and calcium in AZs during tomato pedicel explants abscission are discussed

Role of calcium in the expression of MAP kinase kinases (MKKs) and MAP kinases in tomato flower abscission

The mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade is an important intracellular signaling module that functions as a convergent point for crosstalk during stress signaling. In this study, we constructed a phylogenetic tree for MAP kinase kinases (MKKs) and MAP kinases (MPKs) in Arabidopsis and Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato) and found that abscission-related AtMKK4 and AtMKK5, and AtMPK3 and AtMPK6 clustered with LeMKK2, and LeMPK1,and LeMPK2 and LeMPK3, respectively. To investigate whether there was a link between homology and abscission, we studied all the LeMKKs at the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) transcript level. LeMKK2 and its homologue AtMKK4/5 both have roles in regulating abscission. Quantitative real time polymerase chain recation (qRT-PCR) of LeMPK1 and LeMPK2, which are highly homologous to AtMPK3 and AtMPK6, most probably mediate abscission downstream through LeMKK2. Calcium depressed the expression of these genes in the early stages of abscission. Treatment with W7 (a calmodulin inhibitor) indicated that the expression of LeMKKs and LeMPKs depended on calmodulin during tomato flower explant abscission.Keyword: Abscission, calcium, qRT-PCR, MAPK, tomat