Henry Y. H. Zhao. The uneasy narrator : Chinese fiction from the traditional to the modern

This article reviews the book The Uneasy Narrator: Chinese Fiction from the Traditional to the Modern , written by Henry Y.H. Zhao

The rate of hypo-osmotic challenge influences regulatory volume decrease (RVD) and mechanical properties of articular chondrocytes

Zhao Wang is funded on a China Scholarships PhD Studentship. Jerome Irianto was supported on a project grant from The Wellcome Trust (ref no. 084717)

The gentle grip of a helping hand

Using NMR spectroscopy, Zhao and colleagues, in this issue, have modeled the short-lived complex formed between the MT1-MMP hemopexin domain and a synthetic triple-helical collagen mimetic. Their model is consistent with two alternative mechanisms for the breakdown of collagen by the enzyme

Richmond Competition Recital: Kyra Xuerong Zhao, September 13, 2017

This is the concert program of the Richmond Competition Recital: Kyra Xuerong Zhao on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 6:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were No. 3, 6, and 10 from Musica Ricercata by György Ligeti, No. 11 Pour les arpèges composés, No. 7 Pour les derés chromatiques, and No. 5 Pour les Octaves from Douze Etudes L. 136 by Claude Debussy, Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 by L. v. Beethoven, and Polonaise from Eugene Onegin Op. 24 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arranged by Franz Liszt. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Multiagent model and mean field theory of complex auction dynamics

Acknowledgements We are grateful to Ms Yinan Zhao for providing the data and to Yuzhong Chen and Cancan Zhou for discussions and suggestions. This work was supported by ARO under Grant No. W911NF-14-1-0504 and by NSFC under Grants Nos. 11275003 and 61174165. The visit of QC to Arizona State University was partially sponsored by the State Scholarship Fund of China.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Regulating stepping during fixed-speed and self-paced treadmill walking

textBackground: Treadmill walking should closely simulate overground walking for research validation and optimal skill transfer. Traditional fixed-speed treadmill (FS) walking may not simulate natural walking because of the fixed belt speed and lack of visual cues. Self-paced (SP) treadmill walking, especially feedback controlled SP treadmill walking, enables close-to-real-time belt speed changes with users' speed changes. Different sensitivity levels of SP treadmill feedback determine how fast the treadmill respond to user's speed change. Few studies have examined the differences between FS and SP treadmill walking, or the difference between sensitivity levels of SP treadmills, and their methods were questionable because of averaging kinematics and kinetics parameters, and failing to examine directly treadmill and subjects' speed data. This study compared FS with two SP modes with variation of treadmill speed and user's speed as dependent variables. Method: Thirteen young healthy subjects participated. Subjects walked on a motorized split-belt treadmill under FS, high sensitivity SP (SP-H) and low sensitivity SP (SP-L) conditions at normal walking speed. Root mean square error (RMSE) for subject's pelvis global speed (Vpg), pelvis speed with respect to treadmill speed (Vpt), and treadmill speed (Vtg) data were collected for all trials. Results: Significant condition effects were found between FS and the two SP modes in all RMSE values (p < 0.001). The two sensitivity levels of SP had similar speed patterns. Large subject × condition interaction effects were found for all variables (p < 0.001). Only small subject effects were found. Conclusions: The results of the study reveal different walking patterns between FS and SP. However, the two sensitivity levels failed to differ much. More habituation time may be needed for subjects to learn to optimally respond to the SP algorithm. Future work should include training subjects for more natural responses, applying a feed-forward algorithm, and testing the effect of optic flow on FS and SP speed variation.Kinesiology and Health Educatio

The identification of coupled map lattice models for autonomous cellular neural network patterns

The identification problem for spatiotemporal patterns which are generated by autonomous Cellular Neural Networks (CNN) is investigated in this paper. The application of traditional identification algorithms to these special spatiotemporal systems can produce poor models due to the inherent piecewise nonlinear structure of CNN. To solve this problem, a new type of Coupled Map Lattice model with output constraints and corresponding identification algorithms are proposed in the present study. Numerical examples show that the identified CML models have good prediction capabilities even over the long term and the main dynamics of the original patterns appears to be well represented

Grating-Free nth order cascaded Raman fibre lasers using highly Ge-Doped low loss fibre

Yucheng Zhao, Yahua Li, and Stuart D. Jackso

Geochemitry of the Xiong’er volcanic rocks: implications for the Paleo-Mesoproterozoic accretion of the North China Craton

This journal supplement has title: Awards Ceremony Speeches and Abstracts of the 19th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt ConferenceThe Xiong.er volcanic belt along the southern margin of the North China Craton is dominated by basaltic andesite and andesite with minor dacite and rhyolite. Geochemically, the Xiong.er volcanic rocks fall in the calc-alkaline series, with enrichments in the LILE and LREE, and negative anomalies on Nb-Ta-Ti, similar to arc-related volcanic rocks (He et al. 2008; Zhao et al. 2009). Available SHRIMP and LA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon age data indicate that the volcanism forming the Xiong.er volcanic rocks erupted intermittently over a protracted interval from 1.78 Ga, through 1.76-1.75 Ga and 1.65 Ga, to 1.45 Ga, though a major phase of the volcanism occurred at 1.78-175 Ga (He et al. 2009). Taken together, the Xiong.er volcanic belt was most likely a Paleo-Mesoproterozoic continental magmatic arc at the southern margin of the North China Craton. Age-similar continental magmatic arcs were also present at the southeastern margin of Laurentia, southern margin of Baltica, northwestern margin of Amonzonia, and southern and eastern margins of the North Australia Craton, which are considered to represent subduction-related outbuilding on the continental margins of the supercontinent Columbia (Zhao et al. 2004).postprintThe 19th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland, 21-26 June 2009. In Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2009, v. 73 n. 13 suppl., p. A151

Zhao v. Atty Gen USA

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