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This article reviews the book The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film: Configurations of Space, Time, and Gender written by Yingjin Zhang

Lydia H. Liu. Translingual practice : literature, national culture, and translated modernity : China, 1900-1937

This article reviews the book Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900-1937 , written by Lydia H. Liu

OverPlotter: A Utility for Herschel Data Processing

The OverPlotter utility is a GUI tool written in Java to support interactive data processing (DP) and analysis for the Herschel Space Observatory within the framework of the Herschel Common Science System (HCSS)(Wieprecht et al 2004). The tool expands upon the capabilities of the TableViewer (Zhang & Schulz 2005), providing now also the means to create additional overlays of sev- eral X/Y scatter plots within the same display area. These layers can be scaled and panned, either individually, or together as one graph. Visual comparison of data with different origins and units becomes much easier. The number of available layers is not limited, except by computer memory and performance. Presentation images can be easily created by adding annotations, labeling layers and setting colors. The tool will be very helpful especially in the early phases of Herschel data analysis, when a quick access to contents of data products is important

Toward a more realistic holographic QCD model

By matching the $Dp-Dq$ system in type II superstring theory with the Regge trajectories of vector and axial-vector meson spectra, a possible 5-dimension metric of a $Dp-Dq$ soft-wall model has been determined. The dependence of the metric parameters on Regge trajectory parameters has been demonstrated. It is shown that the models defined in $Dp$ brane background for $p=3$ or 4 can be consistent with experimental data.Comment: 8 pages, proceedings for the YITP International Symposium "Fundamental Problems in Hot and/or Dense QCD", March 3-6, 2008, Kyoto, Japa