Personal Thinking on the Creative Directions of Chinese Contemporary Zheng Music

In this article, composer Peng Liu investigates the role of the Zheng instrument in Chinese new music scene. The composer focuses on three main approaches on how Zheng music has been written so far: the preservation of tradition, the modern development, and the extreme use. Peng also talks about the resistance from traditional Zheng players when performing pieces from the new music repertoire, and the encouragement to experimentation led mainly by Chinese composers. Although the text is a personal response by the composer, Peng is motivated to contribute to the development of new music repertoire for Zheng [note by editor]

Personal Thinking on the Creative Directions of Chinese Contemporary Zheng Music

In this article, composer Peng Liu investigates the role of the Zheng instrument in Chinese new music scene. The composer focuses on three main approaches on how Zheng music has been written so far: the preservation of tradition, the modern development, and the extreme use. Peng also talks about the resistance from traditional Zheng players when performing pieces from the new music repertoire, and the encouragement to experimentation led mainly by Chinese composers. Although the text is a personal response by the composer, Peng is motivated to contribute to the development of new music repertoire for Zheng [note by editor]

Corrigendum to “Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and COVID-19 infection during pregnancy” [Trav Med Infect Dis. (2020) 101641]

This article is made available for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.The authors regret that reference 6 was incorrectly cited and the following reference is the correct one “Liu D, Li L, Wu X, Zheng D, Wang J, Yang L, Zheng C. Pregnancy and Perinatal Outcomes of Women With Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pneumonia: A Preliminary Analysis. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2020 Mar 18:1–6. https://doi.org/10.2214/AJR.20.23072. [Epub ahead of print]. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused

A Note on the Monge-Kantorovich Problem in the Plane

The Monge-Kantorovich mass-transportation problem has been shown to be fundamental for various basic problems in analysis and geometry in recent years. Shen and Zheng (2010) proposed a probability method to transform the celebrated Monge-Kantorovich problem in a bounded region of the Euclidean plane into a Dirichlet boundary problem associated to a nonlinear elliptic equation. Their results are original and sound, however, their arguments leading to the main results are skipped and difficult to follow. In the present paper, we adopt a different approach and give a short and easy-followed detailed proof for their main results

A Linear Approximation for the Excitation Energies of single and double analog states in the f_{7/2} shell

We find that the excitation energies of single analog states for odd-even nuclei in the f$_{7/2}$ shell with J=j=7/2$^{-}$ and the J=0$^{+}$ double analog states in the even-even nuclei are well described by the formulas $E^{*}(j,T+1) = b (T+X)$ and $E^{*}(0^{+},T+2) = 2b (T+X+0.5)$,respectively, where $T=\mid N-Z\mid /2$ is usually the ground state isospin. It is remarkable to note that the parameter X accounts for the departures from the symmetry energy based predictions.Comment: 8 pages and no figure