Cognitive Motivation for Unaccusative Verbs with Objects in Existential Construction in Chinese

This study applies conceptual blending and grammatical blending to analyze the meaning and structure construction of the NP1+Vi+NP2 construction in existential construction in Chinese. We found that the NP1+Vi+NP2 construction in existential sentences is the result of conceptual integration and grammatical blending of two subevents with basic grammatical structure of NP1+Vt+NP2 and NP2+Vi respectively. By discussing process of semantic construction and syntactic realization, we derive that the structure of existential sentences is integrated by the input spaces of "the existing object exists (or lies on some status)" and "somewhere exists something". It can concludes that the emergent meaning is "somewhere exists the existing object lying on some status" through analyzing the blending characters. This proves that conceptual integration and grammatical blending theories are animate and have mighty explanatory power in this specific linguistic phenomenon

A Description of LE in Mandarin Chinese and its pedagogical implications

Aspect of Mandarin Chinese has attracted much interest and attention in recent years. Mandarin language is regarded as exclusively an aspect language (Gong 1991) for that the language does not grammatically mark tense but grammatically marks aspect. However, in contrast, English grammatically marks both tense and aspect (Xiao and McEnery 2002). In Mandarin Chinese there are four major aspect markers: guo, zai, zhe, and LE, in which guo is experiential aspect marker, zai and zhe are progressive aspect markers, whereas LE has been the most controversial marker in Mandarin

Boundary stabilization of quasilinear hyperbolic systems of balance laws: Exponential decay for small source terms

We investigate the long-time behavior of solutions of quasilinear hyperbolic systems with transparent boundary conditions when small source terms are incorporated in the system. Even if the finite-time stability of the system is not preserved, it is shown here that an exponential convergence towards the steady state still holds with a decay rate which is proportional to the logarithm of the amplitude of the source term. The result is stated for a system with dynamical boundary conditions in order to deal with initial data that are free of any compatibility condition

Verteporfin mitigates sepsis-induced liver injury by blocking macrophage-derived inflammation

Purpose: To study the role of yes-associated protein (YAP) inhibition by verteporfin (VTF) in LPSinduced acute liver injury (ALI) after sepsis.Methods: In vitro, VTF was used to treat LPS-stimulated RAW 267.4 cells. In vivo, LPS was injected to induce sepsis in mice, followed by treatment with VTF. The inflammatory mediators were determined using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), immunofluorescence spectroscopy (IF) and immunohistochemical staining (IHC), and the levels of YAP, P53 and ERK were measured by qRT-PCR, WB and IHC. Moreover, liver histology and liver function were examined using HE staining and ELISA respectively.Results: The results showed that VTF reduced YAP expression and inhibited LPS-induced cell activation and inflammatory cytokine production such as IL-6 and IL-1β, by attenuating the expressions of p53 and ERK pathway in macrophages. The levels of AST, AIL and TBiL remarkably decreased in ALI mice after VTF treatment (p < 0.05). Moreover, it was observed that inflammatory mediators, including inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), IL-6 and IL-1β, decreased significantly in VTF treated mice (P < 0.05).Conclusion: VTF plays an antagonistic role in LPS-induced inflammatory response after ALI. Therefore, VTF is a potential medicinal agent for preventing infectious acute liver injury

TRACKING VOLUME CHANGE OF THE BULK COMMODITIES WITH INTERFEROMETRIC SAR

Source at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/1000307/all-proceedings.Bulk commodities are crucial to global economy and modern society. Some commodities, such as grain, are normally stored in cylindrical tanks. The height of the tank’s roof may be correlated to the substance quantity inside the tank, indicating that roof displacement may be associated with the volume of the bulk commodities. Here we analyzed the displacements derived from C-band Sentinel-1 data with the vessel tracking Automatic Identification System (AIS) data from a major grain export port - Chornomorsk port in Ukraine. Our results show that displacements of silos’ roof derived from satellite observation are consistent with the discharge quantities estimated from AIS and other data sources. This preliminary investigation suggests the feasibility of integrating InSAR measurements and AIS data to improve the efficiency and accuracy of commodity cargoflow tracking and resource management for the global commodity and shipping industry