Analysis of the Contradictory Relationship among Family Members in Long Day' s Journey into Night

Long Day' s Journey into Night is one of Eugene O' Neill' s (1888-1953) masterpieces, who is a great American playwright and called the father of modern American drama. This thesis aims at the analysis of the contradictions in family members in the play. The first part analyzes the contradictions between wife and husband. The second part focuses on the contradictory relationship in parents and sons. The contradictions between brothers are discussed in the third part. Through the study of the causes of the contradictory relationship among family members, the tragedy of the characters in the play will be explored to the readers, which is also the tragedy of modern Ameri can people.

The Effect of High Day and Low Night Temperature on Pollen Production, Pollen Germination and Postharvest Quality of Tomatoes

Temperature integration where high day temperatures are compensated by lower night temperatures is one strategy that can be used to reduce energy consumption in greenhouses. Crop tolerance to temperature variation is a prerequisite for using such a strategy. Greenhouse experiments were conducted on tomatoes cvs, Capricia, Mecano and Cederico in order to investigate the effect of different day/night temperature regimes (24/17, 27/14 and 30/11℃) where the same mean temperature was maintained for the production and germination of pollen. In addition, fruit quality as determined by fruit firmness, dry matter content, soluble solids, titratable acids, and pH was examined at harvest and after seven and 14 days of storage. The 30/11℃ treatment significantly increased pollen production and germination compared to the 24/17℃ treatment, while the 27/14℃ treatment was generally in between the other two treatments. Fruits grown at the 27/14℃ treatment were significantly firmer, while fruits grown at 24/17℃ had higher dry matter content, soluble solids, and titratable acids compared to the other treatments. There were significant differences between cultivars with respect to firmness, dry matter, titratable acidity, and pH. The quality of the fruits changed during storage, but the storability of the tomatoes was not affected by preharvest temperature treatments. The overall conclusion was that the 27/14℃ treatment was superior to the other two temperature treatments with respect to the studied parameters.

NIGHT-AND-DAY CHANGE FOR THE NO MAN’S LAND IN NORTHERN TIBET

About 5,000 meters above sea level, the grasslands of no rthern Tibet were often referred to as "no man's land: although there were the nomadic families here and there. The low levels of oxygen made it more than just a bit difficult for plants and animals to live, which is why it also bore the name "life's forbidden zone: Those who did happen to call this place their home often resided in Tsonyi and Nyima counties, which were known for their lack of modern transportation. People on the outside were once terrified to go there, let alone live there, but today, the situation is like comparing night and day, a historical moment in bringing a forgotten land into the limelight of modern development.

An Analysis of Long Day’s Journey into Night from the Perspective of the Cooperative Principle

Eugene O’Neill,one of the essential writers of the 20th century,was hailed as the“American Shakespeare.”He enjoyed a high reputation in America owing to his special writing techniques.Long Day’s Journey into Night was his last play,which was an autobiographical play to some extent,and founded on his own authentic experience.The play told the story of an Irish immigrant family’s daily life from day to night.Among the studies at home and abroad,many discuss this play from a psychological perspective and Feminist perspective.The article,instead,gives an interpretation of this play according to Cooperative Principle.Through the analysis of their conversations,it points out what principles their communications violated so as to understand the implied meaning of their conversations.The thesis tries to study the conversations between Mary and other family members,and then demonstrate that Mary is the most tragic person in the family.

The Effect of Low Night and High Day Temperatures on Photosynthesis in Tomato

If low night temperatures can be combined with high day temperatures, providing optimal growth conditions for plants, a significant energy saving can be achieved in greenhouses. Lowering the night temperature from 18°C to 10°C-11°C for 8 h had no negative effect on the CO2 exchange rate (CER) during the following light period in tomato. This was found both in plants grown in artificial light only or in combination with daylight. Allowing the temperature to increase from 20°C to about 40°C, in parallel with an increasing solar photon flux density (PFD) from 0 up to about 800 μmol·m-2·s-1 in the greenhouse during summer, progressively increased CER when the CO2 concentration was maintained at 900 μmol·mol-1. At 400 μmol·mol-1 CO2, maximum CER was reached at about 600 μmol·m-2·s-1 PFD combined with a temperature of 32°C, and leveled out with a further increase in PFD and temperature. Maximum CER at high CO2 concentration was around 100% higher than at low CO2 level. Under early autumn conditions, CER increased up to about 500 μmol·m-2·s-1 PFD/32°C at low CO2 and up to about 600 μmol·m-2·s-1 PFD/35°C at high CO2. An elevated CO2 level doubled the CER in this experiment as well. Measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence showed no effect of low night temperature, high day temperature or CO2 concentration on the quantum yield of photosynthesis, indicating that no treatment negatively affected the efficiency of the photosynthetic apparatus. The results showed that low night temperatures may be combined with very high day temperatures without any loss of daily photosynthesis particularly in a CO2 enriched atmosphere. If this can be combined with normal plant development and no negative effects on the yield, significant energy savings can be achieved in greenhouses.

Analysis of Changes of Extreme Temperature during June to August Season over Tanzania

Natural and human systems are exposed and vulnerable to climate extremes, which contributes to the repercussions of climate variability and the probability of disasters. The impacts of both natural and human-caused climate variability are reflected in the reported changes in climate extremes. Particularly at the local community levels in the majority of the regions, there is currently a dearth of information regarding the distribution, dynamics, and trends of excessive temperatures among the majority of Tanzanians. Over the years 1982-2022, this study examined trends in Tanzania’s extreme temperature over the June to August season. Based on the distinction between absolute and percentile extreme temperatures, a total of eight ETCCDI climate indices were chosen. Mann-Kendall test was used to assess the presence of trends in extreme climatic indices and the Sen’s Slope was applied to compute the extent of the trends in temperature extremes. The study showed that in most regions, there is significant increase of warm days and nights while the significant decrease of cold days and nights was evident to most areas. Moreover, nighttime warming surpasses daytime warming in the study area. The study suggests that anthropogenic influences may contribute to the warming trend observed in extreme daily minimum and maximum temperatures globally, with Tanzania potentially affected, as indicated in the current research. The overall results of this study reflect patterns observed in various regions worldwide, where warm days and nights are on the rise while cold days and nights are diminishing.

Analysis of the Tragic Female Images in Eugene O'Neill's Plays

Ruth and Mary are two heroines in Eugene O'Neill's plays Beyond the Horizon, and Long Day's Journey into Night. They have some similarities: when they are young, they are beautiful, native and full of hope towards the future life, but both make wrong choices; in the following years, both suffer a lot from these wrong choices, and feel regretful. This paper tries to explore these two tragic female images.

The Characteristics of Radiation During the Polar Day and Night at Zhongshan Station, Antarctica

The polar day and night are special phenomena that occur within the Antarctic and Arctic circles.There is no such phenomenon at Great Wall Station(62°13′S, 58°58′ W). There are 55 and 58 days at the Zhongshan Station (ZSS, 69°22′S, 76°22′ E) for the polar day and the polar night respectively. The observational experiment of radiation and thermal regime were carried out at the latter station from February 1990 to January 1991.In the present note the characteristics of the surface radiation are analysed from the data obtained in the experiment.

时尚化的都市音乐 王弢全新专辑《Night & Day一天》

最近,环球音乐推出了著名单簧管演奏家、当代青年艺术家王弢个人全新流行演奏音乐专辑《Night＆Day一天》。整张专辑的曲风跳脱轻快,蕴含了古典、当代、跨界、新世纪音乐等多种元素,还包含有混搭京剧、人声伴唱等新鲜尝试,王弢坚持专辑一定要有特别不一样的地方,有开创性的东西。他表示自己不想做简单的流行音乐,而是要为观众搭一条通向古典乐的台阶。

Day Turns to Night

A rare total solar eclipse brings excitement to China Holding a big colored umbrella and wearing special glasses, Chen Diefeng, a Shanghai shipping company employee, celebrated July 22’s total solar eclipse with his girlfriend. "Though it rained, we didn’t

Philippine Volcano Roars,Turns Day to Night

本文出现在2000年2月29日的Internet上。文字生动,描写具体,读者有亲临现场之感。菲律宾中部著名的马荣火山每次爆发都会持续两个月左右。有些像小轿车一样大的火山石散落在路旁,甚至在几天之后,其内层仍十分炙热。石缝中不断散发出夹杂浓烈的硫磺气味的烟雾。下列描写让读者有亲临现场的感觉: The 8, 000-foot high volcano spat out tons of burning rocks called "volcanic bombs”. …at about 2 p.m.it was no longer day but already night because of the ashfalls. …90 percent of his town was covered by at least two inches of ash. …thousands more terrified families poured into congested(拥挤的)evacua-tion centers. 世界气象专家认为,马荣火山爆发的影响不仅仅局限于菲律宾部分地区。他们认为:如果火山灰继续积聚于大气顶层,它们将会形成一层遮盖地球表面的灰幕,阻隔部分抵达地球的太阳热量,全球的气温可能因此下降。1991年菲律宾皮纳图博火山爆发造成800多人丧生,数千人被迫迁移。全球气候也受到影响,1992年的全球气温比以往有所下降。当年皮纳图博火山喷出的砂石和火山灰直冲2万米的天空,而这次马荣火山的喷发高度是13000米,虽然及不上上次威力大,但它对降低气温也会产生影响。

外部杂散光对风云三号晨昏轨道气象卫星中微光成像仪的影响

在介绍风云三号E星(FY3E)晨昏轨道气象卫星和微光成像仪特点的基础上,利用Satellite Tool Kit仿真技术并根据FY3E轨道参数,针对FY3E所搭载的遥感器(微光成像仪)可能受到来自太阳和月球的外部杂散光的情况进行模拟分析,并设计了遮光方法来抑制外部杂散光。分析结果表明,2006-12-18当天太阳矢量与遥感器底部窗口法向量的夹角最小,遥感器受太阳杂散光的影响最大。进一步分析了遥感器可能受月球杂散光的影响,发现只要满足太阳遮挡条件,月球就不会对遥感器产生杂散光。因此,设计遮光板时只要考虑太阳矢量与遥感器窗口法向量的夹角即可。目前的遥感器视场角为55°,遮挡杂散光的效率较低。将遥感器视场角减小到50°,同时减小遮光板尺寸,可以提高对杂散光的遮挡效率且不影响其应用。

Changing Trends of Daily Temperature Extremes with Different Intensities in China

By comparing two sets of quality-controlled daily temperature observation data with and without the inhomogeneity test and adjustment from 654 stations in China during 1956 2004 and 1956-2010, impacts of inhomogeneity on changing trends of four percentile temperature extreme indices, including occurrences of cold days, cold nights, warm days, and warm nights with varying intensities, were discussed. It is found that the inhomogeneity affected the long-term trends averaged over extensive regions limitedly. In order to minimize the inhomogeneity impact, the 83 stations identified with obvious inhomogeneity impacts were removed, and an updated analysis of changing trends of the four temperature extreme indices with varying intensities during 1956 2010 was conducted. The results show that annual occurrences of both cold nights and cold days decreased greatly while those of warm nights and warm days increased significantly during the recent 20 years. The more extreme the event is, the greater the magnitude of changing trends for the temperature extreme index is. An obvious increasing trend was observed in annual occurrences of cold days and cold nights in the recent four years. The magnitude of changing trends of warm extreme indices was greater than that of cold extreme indices, and it was greater in northern China than in southern China. Trends for summer occurrence of cold days were not significant. Decreasing trends of occurrences of both cold nights and cold days were the greatest in December, January, and February （DJF） but the least in June, July, and August （JJA）, while increasing trends of warm nights were the greatest in JJA. Cold nights significantly decreased from 1956 to 1990, and then the decreasing trend considerably weakened. The decreasing trend also showed an obvious slowdown in recent years for occurrence of cold days. However, increasing trends of warm nights and warm days both have been accelerated continuously since the recent decades. Further analysis presents that the evolution of the trends for occurrences of the four temperature extreme indices was dominated by the changes in northern China .

Dataset of high temperature extremes over the major land areas of the Belt and Road for 1979-2018

Hot temperature extremes exert strong negative socioeconomic and environmental impacts worldwide.In this paper,we focus on the major land areas of the Belt and Road(BR)and develop a dataset of high temperature extremes including hot days,hot nights and combined hot extremes using Climate Prediction Center(CPC)gridded daily temperature data at a resolution of 0.5°during 1979-2018.The constant thresholds of daily maximum surface air temperature(Tmax)include 28℃,30℃,32℃,35℃,38℃,and 40℃,while those of daily minimum surface air temperature(Tmin)consist of 20℃,25℃,and 30℃.Data of hot days,hot nights and combined hot extreme are produced based on different constant Tmax and Tmin thresholds and their combination.We also adopt the 90th and 95th percentile thresholds of Tmax and Tmin to generate high temperature extreme data.The validation with China Meteorological Administration(CMA)data over eastern China for the period of 1979-2011 indicates that our dataset can generally describe the spatial and temporal variations of high temperature extremes well.Potential applications of this dataset include analyses on the local-to-regional characteristics of high temperature extremes and their impacts on various sectors over the major BR land areas.The dataset is available at http://www.sciencedb.cn/dataSet/handle/904.

Distinct effects of copper on the degradation of β-lactam antibiotics in fulvic acid solutions during light and dark cycle

This study revealed the dual roles of Cu(Ⅱ)on the β-lactam antibiotics degradation in Suwannee River fulvic acid(SRFA)solution during day and night cycle.Amoxicillin(AMX)and ampicillin(AMP)were selected as the representative β-lactam antibiotics.Cu(Ⅱ)played a key role in the dark degradation of AMX and AMP via catalytic hydrolysis and oxidation.However,Cu(Ⅱ)mainly exhibited an inhibitory effect on SRFA-involved photochemical degradation of AMX and AMP.In the presence of 500 nM of Cu(Ⅱ),the degradation rate of AMX and AMP in the light condition were around 5 times higher than that in the dark condition,suggesting the photodegradation of β-lactam antibiotics was much more pronounced than catalyzed hydrolysis and oxidation.The triplet excited state of SRFA(^(3)SRFA*)primarily contributed to AMX and AMP photodegradation.Hydroxyl radicals(·OH)and singlet oxygen(^(1)O_(2))exhibited limit impacts.The redox cycle of Cu(Ⅱ)/Cu(Ⅰ)restricted the electron transfer pathway of ^(3)SRFA* with AMX and AMP.During the day and night cycles for 48 h,Cu(Ⅱ)served as a stronger inhibitor rather than a promotor.These findings highlight the interactions between Cu(Ⅱ)and SRFA are distinct under day and night conditions,which could further affect the fate of β-lactam antibiotics in natural environments.