Disclosing of Thousand Years＇ Mystery-- Origin of the Book of Changes

The Book of Changes is a huge system, including （1） Taiji Yin-yang five elements system; （2） Taiji-2 status-4 images-8 hexagrams--64 hexagrams, internal 8 hexagrams and external 8 hexagrams; （3） moral system, ＂Tao generates one, one generates two, two generate three and three generate everything＂; （4） heavenly stems and earthly branches system; （5） Hetu, Luoshu and 9 grid pattern systems; （6） 60 Jiazi system （a cycle of 60 years） of year, month, day and hour; （7） TCM five evolutive phases and six climatic factors system, including host evolutive phase and host climatic factor, guest evolutive phase and guest climatic factor. The Book of Changes is stemmed fi＇om accurate recognition and description on life system and movement, e.g. it can （1） describe the structure, movements and changes of life core system--five abdominal Zang organs and five abdominal Fu organs with Yin-yang four-season five elements, 10 heavenly stems, Hetu, internal 8 hexagrams and host evolutive phase of five evolutive phases; （2） describe the structure, movements and changes of outside system of life form with Yin-yang six climatic factors five elements, 12 earthly branches, Luoshu, external 8 hexagrams, host climatic factor of six climatic factors; （3） describe the system of life form core structure combined with outside system with 12 energy channels system and 64 hexagrams system; （4） describe the four gradations in life form with Taiji-2 status-4 images-8 hexagrams system and moral system; （5） describe the power system of development and growth--longitudinal four seasons of life form via 60 Jiazi system （a cycle of 60 years） of year, month, day and hour; （6） the horizontal four-season movements of life form generate TCM host evolutive phase and host climatic factor, whilst the longitudinal four-season movements generate TCM guest evolutive phase and guest climatic factor. With the disclosing of origin of The Book of Changes, the universe secretes are being fully discovered.

Analysis of New Senior English for China Student’s Book 1

This article will firstly discuss the context overview of English teaching and learning in China. Under thiscircumstance, a problematic element will be examined of the New Senior English for China Student’s Book 1 and critical appraisal ofhow this element relates to other elements of curriculum development will be analyzed. The recommended changes and demonstrationmechanisms for evaluating the changes are put forward in the last two parts.

Complex network analysis of climate change in the Tarim River Basin, Northwest China

The complex network theory provides an approach for understanding the complexity of climate change from a new perspective.In this study,we used the coarse graining process to convert the data series of daily mean temperature and daily precipitation from 1961 to 2011 into symbol sequences consisting of five characteristic symbols(i.e.,R,r,e,d and D),and created the temperature fluctuation network(TFN)and precipitation fluctuation network(PFN)to discover the complex network characteristics of climate change in the Tarim River Basin of Northwest China.The results show that TFN and PEN both present characteristics of scale-free network and small-world network with short average path length and high clustering coefficient.The nodes with high degree in TFN are RRR,d RR and Re R while the nodes with high degree in PFN are rre,rrr,eee and err,which indicates that climate change modes represented by these nodes have large probability of occurrence.Symbol R and r are mostly included in the important nodes of TFN and PFN,which indicate that the fluctuating variation in temperature and precipitation in the Tarim River Basin mainly are rising over the past 50 years.The nodes RRR,DDD,Re R,RRd,DDd and Ree are the hub nodes in TFN,which undertake 19.71%betweenness centrality of the network.The nodes rre,rrr,eee and err are the hub nodes in PFN,which undertake 13.64%betweenness centrality of the network.

Local Climate Forcing and Eco-Climatic Complexes in the Wooded Savannah of Western Nigeria

Many climate impact applications are sensitive to local differentials in the climate system. This study investigates how eco-geographic factors influence the local climate and propagate eco-climatic complexes that vary spatio-temporally. Local geography data including elevation, slope, aspect, rainfall, temperature, vegetation, population density, and soil potential for agriculture were integrated and analyzed using geographic information system and principal component analysis. The result was profiled for local climate drivers and associated spatial structures in present and future climate (2046-2065) scenarios. The results suggest a local climate system driven by the coupling between terrain, rainfall and temperature in all seasons. In the present climate, this coupling creates eco-climatic complexes that extend from the southeast to northwest corridor in all seasons except June-July-August (JJA) when it is shifted to the northeast axis. This pattern is projected to continue in the future climate scenario, but its spatial influence and intensity would weaken around the northwest axis and rainfall will become less significant in the system in JJA. The clustering of rural settlements these complexes suggests the climate-positives produced by the system significantly support rural livelihoods. Thus, these eco-climatic complexes represent climate sensitive natural resource systems that should be targeted as a fulcrum for climate change mitigation and adaptation in the wooded savannah.

Historical biogeography and evolutionary diversification of Lilium(Liliaceae): New insights from plastome phylogenomics

Here, we infer the historical biogeography and evolutionary diversification of the genus Lilium. For this purpose, we used the complete plastomes of 64 currently accepted species in the genus Lilium(14plastomes were newly sequenced) to recover the phylogenetic backbone of the genus and a timecalibrated phylogenetic framework to estimate biogeographical history scenarios and evolutionary diversification rates of Lilium. Our results suggest that ancient climatic changes and geological tectonic activities jointly shaped the distribution range and drove evolutionary radiation of Lilium, including the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum(MMCO), the late Miocene global cooling, as well as the successive uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau(QTP) and the strengthening of the monsoon climate in East Asia during the late Miocene and the Pliocene. This case study suggests that the unique geological and climatic events in the Neogene of East Asia, in particular the uplift of QTP and the enhancement of monsoonal climate, may have played an essential role in formation of uneven distribution of plant diversity in the Northern Hemisphere.

Fine-grained permutation entropy as a measure of natural complexity for time series

In a recent paper [2002 Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 174102], Bandt and Pompe propose permutation entropy （PE） as a natural complexity measure for arbitrary time series which may be stationary or nonstationary,deterministic or stochastic.Their method is based on a comparison of neighbouring values.This paper further develops PE,and proposes the concept of fine-grained PE （FGPE） defined by the order pattern and magnitude of the difference between neighbouring values. This measure excludes the case where vectors with a distinct appearance are mistakenly mapped onto the same permutation type,and consequently FGPE becomes more sensitive to the dynamical change of time series than does PE,according to our simulation and experimental results.

A METROD PREDICTING RESPONSE OF SEDIMENT YIELD TO POSSIBIE CHANGE OF PRECIPITATION DUE TO GLOBAL GREENHOUSE WARMING:AN EXAMPIE FROM NORTH FRINGE OF THE LOESS PLATEAU, CHINA

Starting from the supposition of time-space substitution, the Langbein-Schumm's Law was applied to deal with response of fluvial erosion System to the changes in mean annual Precipitation induced by global green-house warming. As a result, a simple method was put forward to predict change in sediment yield, with Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the northern fringe of the Loess Plateau of China as an example. Results show that, even the change in mean annual precipitation is the same, the direction and magnitude of the resultant chang in sediment yteld would be quite different in fferent physico-geographical zones. When mean annual precipitation is increased, sediment yield in arid or semi-arid areas with a mean anntal Peripitation of less than 400 mm will be increased, while sediment yield in sub-humid or humid areas with a mean annual precipitation of more than 400 mm will be decreased.Additionally, the complex response of fluvial erosion system in time series due to the lag of change in vegetation behind the changn in precipitation has also been qualitatively discussed in this paper.

Extreme Rainfall Events in the Southwest of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and Its Association with the Sandization Process

Part of the sandization process in southwestern Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) originates from daily torrential rains. However, it is believed that climate changes have been provoking more frequent and more intense rains in the region, a phenomenon which can change the dynamic of erosion/transport/sedimentation natural processes. The objective of this work is to identify the behavior of daily rainfall extreme events (in terms of their frequency, return time, tendency and genesis), relating them to both climatic change issue and enhancement of erosive processes. We have used daily rainfall data from meteorology stations of Brazilian National Water Agency (ANA) for the period between 1928 and 2017 and the percentile 99 was used to identify daily rainfall extreme value (71.5 mm). The upper values were categorized and their absolute and relative frequencies as well as their return time were identified. The temporal tendency of these events was evaluated by the Mann-Kendall test, considering the 90 years of the series. The results showed that there was a significant increase in heavy rainfall events in November and December in the last two decades and that the return time for these events decreased throughout the time. Synoptic analyses from GOES 13 satellite infrared imagery and from ECMWF/ERA/Interim reanalysis data allowed concluding that such intense rainfall events originated themselves from the transport of moisture from the Amazon by Low-Level Jets, which promoted the formation of Mesoscale Convective Complex, with large volumes of rain in the study region. Thus, the recurrence of these events in the southwest of Rio Grande do Sul may intensify these sandization processes, since they arise from the association between natural morphoscultural dynamics and agricultural practices, generating environmental problems for the region.

Detection of NO_2 Based on 4-Carboxyl-4′-hydroxy Azobenzene and Its Cu(II) Complex

An organic ligand and its Cu（II） complex formulated as （C13HloN203）·5H2O （H2L·5H2O, 1） and Cu（HL）2（phen）·0.125H2O （2, H2L = 4-carboxyl-4′-hydroxy azobenzene, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline） have been synthesized and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In the two compounds, H2L and HL exhibit a trans-conformation. Complex 2 shows a mononuclear Cu（Ⅱ） structure with the hydroxyl group of HL uncoordinated. Complex 2 is assembled into a three-dimensional （3D） supramolecular architecture by hydrogen bonds and π-π stacking interactions. H2L and compound 2 can detect NO2 via reversible and irreversible color changes, respectively. The mechanism for the color changes is investigated.

An Integrated and Evolutionary Dynamical Systems View of Climate Complexity

The Earth shows a constant display of an organized complexity system, and its intrinsic capacity for sporadic self-organization constitutes its fundamental and profound mysterious property. A graphical method derived from the logistic phase space of precipitation is proposed to identify periods of abundance-scarcity of rain as well as El Nino presence in order to cope with climate change. The most striking result is that the majority of El Nino events on this graph are chaotic, in which the sign of the dominant eigenvalues of precipitation gives trends of scarcity on negative signs and abundance on positive signs, with eleven years periods.

Effects of Complex Parameters on t→ch^0 in Supersymmetric QCD

We investigate the leading SUSY-QCD contributions to the branch ratio (BR) oft→ch~0 within the context of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with complex parameters,assuming more generally that there is a misalignment between the squark and quark that leads to a flavor non-diagonal squark mass matrix.We introduce complex phases only in μ and At,namely φ_μ and φ_(Aq),for simplicity,and study the dependence of the BR of t→ch~0 on these phase parameters.Our calculations show that these CP-violation phases and the flavor mixing parameter λ influence the BR oft→ch~0 considerably,and the effect induced by φ_(At) is much larger than that by φ_μ and φ_(Ac(?)u.For different values of the complex parameters μ and A_t that are set in this paper,the BR of t -+ ch~ is in the range of 10~(-7)～10~(-6),depending mainly on the value of the trilinear coupling A_t.

Preparations of Complex Bimetallic Oxides from Bimetallic Assemblies Containing Different Copper（Ⅱ） Precursors and Comparison of Some Related Systems

This is a mini-review-like article including our recent results and methods for （new） metal oxides and （previously reported） composite materials composed of metal complexes and metal oxides for comparison to enhance anisotropic structural changes intentionally. Some complex inorganic oxides are known that they may be promising color materials （absorbing visible light of certain wavelengths region） having potential application for environmentally benign catalysts, for example, photocatalysts. Chiral copper（Ⅱ） complexes having bidentate amine ligands （[CuL2]2＋） can be acted as cationic building blocks of bimetallic metal complexes. We have prepared some chiral bimetallic complexes with various anionic metal complexes such as [PtCl4]2-, [M02O7]2 and Mn12 clusters （typical single-molecule magnets） which characterized by means of solid-state electronic and CD （circular dichroism） spectra, IR （infrared） spectra, synchrotron XRD （X-ray diffraction） and XAS （soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy）. By sintering these precursor chiral bimetallic complexes, we have prepared complex inorganic oxides from them. The IR spectra indicated substituting metal-ligand bonds and losing organic moieties. The XRD pattern indicated complete changes of crystal structures. The XAS revealed replacing coordination atoms as well as oxidation of valences of metal ions. Furthermore, we will also investigate possibility of patterning by homogeneous precipitation method as bimetallic complexes to prepare desirable complex inorganic oxides.

Extract and Simple Explanation on the Principles of Taiji Studies

Taiji studies are a field of study that has its roots in the philosophical thought of the Yi Jing or Book of changes.It integrates the self‑cultivation traditions of Confucianism,Buddhism,and Daoism,and centers its academic system mostly on the perspective of the“states view”(jing jie guan).From the standpoint of its philosophical theory,Taiji studies divide the understanding of Dao into three theoretical states:the state of existence(you jie),the state of existence‑nonexistence(you wu jie),and the state of nonexistence(wu jie).It also establishes a theoretical structure that mainly includes“three states and nine axioms,”“One Dao and Nine theory sections,”and“Three practice levels and Nine secrets.”Based on traditional Chinese culture and philosophy,Taiji studies are continuously integrating the essence of them for better understanding and raising,and finally set up a rational school of Taiji Da Dao。

Spatio-Temporal Kinematic Decomposition of Movements

We propose the new experimental method for investigating and approximating the organization and structure of movements with given accuracy. The composition of approximating trajectories illuminating the movement traits discloses the level of movement expertise in dancers and golf players. The method allows estimating the level of movement expertise, drawing the detailed structure of movements, and classifying movements into a given repertoire automatically.

Implicit Shape Reconstruction of Unorganized Points Using PDE-Based Deformable 3D Manifolds

In this work we consider the problem of shape reconstruction from an unorganized data set which has many important applications in medical imaging, scientific computing, reverse engineering and geometric modelling. The reconstructed surface is obtained by continuously deforming an initial surface following the Partial Differential Equation (PDE)-based diffusion model derived by a minimal volume-like variational formulation. The evolution is driven both by the distance from the data set and by the curvature analytically computed by it. The distance function is computed by implicit local interpolants defined in terms of radial basis functions. Space discretization of the PDE model is obtained by finite co-volume schemes and semi-implicit approach is used in time/scale. The use of a level set method for the numerical computation of the surface reconstruction allows us to handle complex geometry and even changing topology,without the need of user-interaction. Numerical examples demonstrate the ability of the proposed method to produce high quality reconstructions. Moreover, we show the effectiveness of the new approach to solve hole filling problems and Boolean operations between different data sets.

Command the Overall Situation of the World In the Course of Complexity and Changes

Looking back at the developments in the past five years(2007-2012),the first is fermentation of the U.S.subprime mortgage crisis in 2007,which fused the outbreak of the international financial crisis in the following year.The year 2008 is the year of real"turning point",on September 15th,the century-old Lehman Brothers on Wall Street closed down surprisingly and detonated the on-going financial crisis,the world then entered a

综合理解韧性治理视角下的城市社区洪涝灾害韧性及分析框架

气候变化背景下频发重发的洪涝灾害是人类社会可持续发展面临的重大挑战之一。该文首先从洪涝灾害治理的转变出发,深入探讨了从传统的洪涝风险管理向洪涝风险治理转变的深层含义,并概述了韧性城市发展的关键特征。接着,文章对韧性概念的发展历程进行了梳理,并对比分析了不同韧性理论及其侧重点。在城市韧性多学科视角下,提出了城市洪涝灾害韧性的主要特征与核心内涵,并回顾了相关研究进展,同时指出了社区韧性评价的主要聚焦点。再次,论述了城市社区在面对洪涝灾害时的稳健性、适应性和可转换性特征。最后,从韧性治理的角度,构建了“制度-网络-能力”的分析框架,并详细阐释了城市社区洪涝灾害韧性分析的五个维度:制度韧性、组织韧性、社会韧性、基础设施韧性和技术韧性,以及这些维度之间的内容特征和逻辑联系。

Tuning the Excited-state Properties of Cyclometalated Platinum(II) Complexes of 6-Phenyl-2,2′-bipyridine by Ancillary Acetylide Ligand

A series of luminescent cyclometalated platinum(II) complexes, (C^N^N)Pt(C≡CR) [HC^N^N=4 (4 tolyl) 6 phenyl 2,2′ bipyridine; R=4 chlorophenyl (1), phenyl (2) and 4 tolyl (3)], were synthesized, and their spectroscopic properties have been examined. These complexes are brightly emissive both in fluid solution and in the solid state, attributed to triplet metal to ligand charge transfer ( 3MLCT) state. The excited state energy can be tuned by ancillary acetylide ligands. The emission lifetimes in dichloro^methane solution at room temperature were up to 1 64 μs and the emission quantum yields were in the range of 0 03-0 15.

Phase change microcapsules in thermal Energy applications:A critical review

Phase change microcapsules can carry large amounts of heat and be dispersed into other mediums either as a solid composite or as slurry fluids without changes to their appearance or fluidity. These two standout features make phase change microcapsules ideal for use in thermal energy applications to enhance the efficiency of energy utilisation. This review paper includes methods used for the encapsulation of phase change materials, especially the method suitable for large scale productions, the trends of phase change microcapsule development and their use in thermal energy applications in static and dynamic conditions. The effect of phase change microcapsules on convective heat transfer through addition to thermal fluids as slurries is critically reviewed. The review highlighted that so far the phase change microcapsules used mainly have polymeric shells, which has very low thermal conductivities. Their enhancement in convective heat transfer was demonstrated in locations where the phase change material experiences phase change. The phase change results in the slurries having higher apparent local specific heat capacities and thus higher local heat transfer coefficients. Out of the phase change region, no enhancement is observed from the solid microcapsule particles due to the low specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity of the phase change microcapsules compared to that of water, which is normally used as slurry media in the test. To further the research in this area, phase change microcapsules with higher specific heat capacity, higher thermal conductivity and better shape stability need to be applied.

The Universal Grand Unified Theory Based on Life and Thought

The universe is life, which includes galaxies, living beings, society and man-made worlds. The universe is unified in life and thought. The universal grand unified theory is a theory to completely unify all phenomena in the universe with a fundamental mode （structural mode, operational mode, generation mode and evolution mode）. The book of changes of China： The great ultimate - two states - four images - eight hexagrams are life science and thought science theories, which represent the fundamental mode of universal unification, i.e. represent l） structural mode, operational mode, generation mode and evolution mode of life; 2） the four states that life has simultaneously： 0 dimension, ] dimension, 2 dimension, 3 dimension, and these four states have different structural and operational modes respectively; 3） the breathing and four seasonal trajectories of celestial bodies; 4） three generation modes of life： generation by transformation, generation by augmentation, and self-generation; 5） five dynamics systems inside life; 6） the sublimation and degration of life in the universe, the unification of religion and science; 7） the classification mode of the universal being; 8） the derivation mode of life; 9） the transformation between different forms of life in the universe; 10） the unification of six grand forces in the universe. All life systems in the universe： galaxy, organism, society, man-made worlds as well as cognitive science, natural science, social science are all in conform with the mode of the book of changes.