This overview discusses old and new results as to the controversy on the past glacier extension in High Asia, which has been debated for 35 years now. This paper makes an attempt to come closer to a solution. H.v. Wis...This overview discusses old and new results as to the controversy on the past glacier extension in High Asia, which has been debated for 35 years now. This paper makes an attempt to come closer to a solution. H.v. Wissmann's interpretation (1959) of a small-scale glaciation contrasts with M. Kuhle's reconstruction (1974) of a large-scale glaciation with a 2.4 million km2 extended Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) inland glaciation and a Himalaya-Karakorum icestream network. Both opinions find support but also contradiction in the International and Chinese literature (Academia Sinica). The solution of this question is of supraregional importance because of the subtropical position of the concerned areas. In case of large albedo-intensive ice surfaces, a global cooling would be the energetical consequence and, furthermore, a breakdown of the summer monsoon. The current and interglacial heat-low above the very effective heating panel of the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau exceeding 4000 m, which gives rise to this monsoon circulation, would be replaced by the cold-high of an inland ice. In addition, the plate-tectonically created Pleistocene history of the uplift of High Asia — should the occasion arise up to beyond the snowline (ELA) —would attain a paleoclimatically great, perhaps global importance. In case of a heavy superimposed ice load, the question would come up as to the glacio-isostatic interruption of this primary uplift. The production of the loesses sedimentated in NE-China and their very probable glacial genesis as well as an eustatic lowering of the sea-level by 5 to 7 m in the maximum case of glaciation are immediately tied up with the question of glaciation we want to discuss. Not the least, the problems of biotopes of the sanctuary-centres of flora and fauna, i.e., interglacial re-settlement, are also dependent on it. On the basis of this Quaternary- geomorphological-glaciological connection, future contributions are requested on the past glaciation, the current and glacial permafrost table and periglacial development, the history of uplift, and the development of Ice Age lakes and loess, but also on the development of vegetation and fauna in High Asia.展开更多
Purpose:This study aims to search for fitting lenses to view and interpret teacher learning in a Japanese secondary school teacher staffroom and capture the reconstituting of researcher subjectivities in this process....Purpose:This study aims to search for fitting lenses to view and interpret teacher learning in a Japanese secondary school teacher staffroom and capture the reconstituting of researcher subjectivities in this process.Design/Approach/Methods:A narrative approach chronically documents the findings and use of the lenses in analyzing the staffroom daily interactions and traces the journey of transformation inour researcher subjectivities.Findings:The telling of a Japanese staffroom(shokuinshitsu)as a thrice-told tale under the three lenses—cultural-historic activity theory,contextualism,and intimacy orientationeach uncovers a unique interpretation of the learning going on in the daily life of the Japanese staffroom.While complementary,Western-lenses are found to be unable to explain the nature of the everyday practices in the staffroom formed under the worldviews and ethics of East Asia.Our critical examination of the major academic encounters involved in the past two decades illuminates the complex dynamism behind our research perspectives,awakens us to the dominance of Western-centralism in our researcher subjectivities,transforms our worldviews,and returns us to our cultural roots to build alternative frames of reference as East Asia as Method.OriginalityValue:This study not only uniquely demonstrates what decentered,alternative,and diversified frames of reference would look like in studying East Asian practices but also what it would take for scholars to move toward East Asia as Method.Additionally,going beyond the three lenses,it contributes to our understanding of how space(staffroom as an entity)mediates forming of the character of those who are dwellers of the shokuinshitsu.展开更多
Purpose:This paper aims to exemplify how Chen's idea of"Asia as method"can be employed in a case study on Korean experiences of modern schooling.Design/Approach/Methods:It does so by focusing on the auth...Purpose:This paper aims to exemplify how Chen's idea of"Asia as method"can be employed in a case study on Korean experiences of modern schooling.Design/Approach/Methods:It does so by focusing on the author's personal experiences of modern schooling as both a student and a teacher in modern Korea.In this description,the author makes two seemingly contradictory moves:a move toward decolonialization by keeping a critical distance from her own native culture and a move toward deimperialization by keeping her distance from the West.Findings:This shows the challenges and tensions in the Korean experience of modern schooling as a student or teacher dealing with different moral languages such as Confucian and rationalist or rationalistandpost-rationalist.OriginalityValue:This experimental work suggests the possibility of forming a uniquely East Asian subjectivity while showing how educational research in East Asia can be performative in the sense that it changes the way East Asians understand themselves and the world around them.展开更多
Climate warming will cause differences in precipitation distribution and changes in hydrological cycle both at regional and global scales. Arid lands of Central Asia （ALCA）, one of the largest arid regions at the mi...Climate warming will cause differences in precipitation distribution and changes in hydrological cycle both at regional and global scales. Arid lands of Central Asia （ALCA）, one of the largest arid regions at the middle latitudes in the world, is likely to be strongly influenced by climate warming. Understanding the precipitation varia- tions in the past is an important prerequisite for predicting future precipitation trends and thus managing regional water resources in such an arid region. In this study, we used run theory, displacement, extreme deviation theory, precipitation concentration index （PCI）, Mann-Kendall rank correlation and climatic trend coefficient methods to analyze the precipitation in wet and dry years, changes in precipitation over multiple-time scales, variability of precipitation and its rate of change based on the monthly precipitation data during 1950-2000 from 344 meteorological stations in the ALCA. The occurrence probability of a single year with abundant precipitation was higher than that of a single year with less precipitation. The average duration of extreme drought in the entire area was 5 years, with an average annual water deficit of 34.6 mm （accounting for 11.2% of the average annual precipitation over the duration）. The occurrence probability of a single wet year was slightly higher than that of a single dry year. The occurrence probability of more than 5 consecutive wet years was 5.8%, while the occurrence probability of more than 5 consecutive dry years was 6.2%. In the center of the study area, the distribution of precipitation was stable at an intra-annual timescale, with small changes at an inter-annual timescale. In the western part of the study area, the monthly variation of precipitation was high at an inter-annual timescale. There were clear seasonal changes in precipitation （PC1=12-36） in the ALCA. Precipitation in spring and winter accounted for 37.7% and 24.4% of the annual precipitation, respectively There was a significant inter-annual change in precipitation in the arid Northwest China （PC1=24-34）. Annual precipitation increased significantly （P=0.05） in 17.4% of all the meteorological stations over the study period. The probability of an increase in annual precipitation was 75.6%, with this increase being significant （P=-0.05） at 34.0% of all the meteorological stations. The average increasing rate in annual precipitation was 3.9 mm/10a （P=0.01） in the ALCA. There were significant increasing trends （P=0.01） in precipitation in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, with rates of 2.6, 3.1 and 3.7 mm/10a, respectively.展开更多
Aim: To present a personal account of the involvement of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the collaborativedevelopment in Asia of those areas of andrology concerned with male contraception and reproductive healt...Aim: To present a personal account of the involvement of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the collaborativedevelopment in Asia of those areas of andrology concerned with male contraception and reproductive health.Methods: The andrology training through workshops and institution support undertaken by the WHO HumanReproduction Programme (HRP) and how they contributed to the strengthening of andrology research in Asia aresummarised. Results: The author's experience and the Asian scientific contributions to the global research in thefollowing areas are reviewed: the safety of vasectomy and the development of new methods of vas occlusion; gossypoland its failure to become a safe, reversible male antifertility drag; Tripterygium and whether its pure extracts will passthrough the appropriate toxicology and phased clinical studies to become acceptable contraceptive drugs; hormonalmethods of contraception for men. Conclusion: The WHO policy of research capacity building through training andinstitution strengthening, together with the collaboration of Asian andrologists, has created strong National institutionsnow able to direct their own programmes of research in clinical and scientific andrology.展开更多
Tecto nic stresses of Ce ntral Asia(limited by geographic coo rdinates 36-46°N,56-76°E)over the rece nt times are modeled based on moment elasticity,taking into account the focal mechanism of earthquakes.Num...Tecto nic stresses of Ce ntral Asia(limited by geographic coo rdinates 36-46°N,56-76°E)over the rece nt times are modeled based on moment elasticity,taking into account the focal mechanism of earthquakes.Numerical results obtained by the method of boundary integral equations.The relief of the earth’s surface,built on the map of Central Asia used to verify the solution of the inverse elasticity problem.The moment elasticity equations are simplified by assumingωk=εijkμi,j,which makes it possible to return to classical theory of elasticity,with the difference that the stress tensor ceases to be symmetricσij≠σji.Based on the specifics of the geodynamic formulation of problems,the three-dimensional model reduced to a two-dimensional model for averaged stresses and displacements.According to the results,a displacement field was constructed,which is fully consistent with the movements of the earth’s surface,established by the GPS method.The model makes it possible to determine stresses variations in the region from earthquakes occurring in Central Asia.展开更多
Using the equatorial balanced model and the low-corder spectral method to consider the effect of the basic flow, the primary and secondary shear flows, the nonlinear equation describing the winter and summer monsoon i...Using the equatorial balanced model and the low-corder spectral method to consider the effect of the basic flow, the primary and secondary shear flows, the nonlinear equation describing the winter and summer monsoon in south Asia is derived. The stress is on the influence of the flows on the formation,transformation and intensity of the monsoon in south Asia. The results show that the influence on the monsoon in south Asia is significantly different among the primary shear flow, the basic flow and the secondary shear flow.展开更多
A three-dimensional viscoelastic LDDA method is put forward on the basis of the two-dimensional elastic LDDA method and a corresponding computer program is developed. Both the method and the program, verified by a num...A three-dimensional viscoelastic LDDA method is put forward on the basis of the two-dimensional elastic LDDA method and a corresponding computer program is developed. Both the method and the program, verified by a numerical frictional experiment composed of two blocks, are correct and reliable. Simultaneously, using this program, the present velocity field of the eastern Asia area, which is induced by the collision of the Indian shield against the Asian plate, is investigated. The primary result shows that the velocity field in magnitude is largest near the colliding boundary and attenuates fast away from it. The Tibet plateau moves northeast, the North China plain and the southeastern Asia moves eastward and southeastward, respectively. The attenuation of the velocity field across Qilianshan is nonlinear, its direction changes from the northeast nearly to the east, its gradient is 0.05 mma-1km-1 and 0.007 mma-1km-1 to the southwest and the northeast of Qilianshan, respectively. The attenuation of the velocity field is almost linear across the Longmenshan fault, its gradient is 0.01 mma-1km-1 and its direction is toward the southeast. The remarkable deformation caused by collision extends to the east longitude 115 and to the north latitude 45. The velocity field obtained by the method is basically consistent with the data from the Global Positioning System. The relative slip rate along the Bangong-Nujiang-Lancangjiang fault is 0.5 mm/a, the Jinshajiang fault, 0.8 mm/a, while the Tanlu fault hardly moves. It is shown that the method proposed in this paper could be employed to study the geodynamic problems with faults.展开更多
文摘This overview discusses old and new results as to the controversy on the past glacier extension in High Asia, which has been debated for 35 years now. This paper makes an attempt to come closer to a solution. H.v. Wissmann's interpretation (1959) of a small-scale glaciation contrasts with M. Kuhle's reconstruction (1974) of a large-scale glaciation with a 2.4 million km2 extended Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) inland glaciation and a Himalaya-Karakorum icestream network. Both opinions find support but also contradiction in the International and Chinese literature (Academia Sinica). The solution of this question is of supraregional importance because of the subtropical position of the concerned areas. In case of large albedo-intensive ice surfaces, a global cooling would be the energetical consequence and, furthermore, a breakdown of the summer monsoon. The current and interglacial heat-low above the very effective heating panel of the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau exceeding 4000 m, which gives rise to this monsoon circulation, would be replaced by the cold-high of an inland ice. In addition, the plate-tectonically created Pleistocene history of the uplift of High Asia — should the occasion arise up to beyond the snowline (ELA) —would attain a paleoclimatically great, perhaps global importance. In case of a heavy superimposed ice load, the question would come up as to the glacio-isostatic interruption of this primary uplift. The production of the loesses sedimentated in NE-China and their very probable glacial genesis as well as an eustatic lowering of the sea-level by 5 to 7 m in the maximum case of glaciation are immediately tied up with the question of glaciation we want to discuss. Not the least, the problems of biotopes of the sanctuary-centres of flora and fauna, i.e., interglacial re-settlement, are also dependent on it. On the basis of this Quaternary- geomorphological-glaciological connection, future contributions are requested on the past glaciation, the current and glacial permafrost table and periglacial development, the history of uplift, and the development of Ice Age lakes and loess, but also on the development of vegetation and fauna in High Asia.
文摘Purpose:This study aims to search for fitting lenses to view and interpret teacher learning in a Japanese secondary school teacher staffroom and capture the reconstituting of researcher subjectivities in this process.Design/Approach/Methods:A narrative approach chronically documents the findings and use of the lenses in analyzing the staffroom daily interactions and traces the journey of transformation inour researcher subjectivities.Findings:The telling of a Japanese staffroom(shokuinshitsu)as a thrice-told tale under the three lenses—cultural-historic activity theory,contextualism,and intimacy orientationeach uncovers a unique interpretation of the learning going on in the daily life of the Japanese staffroom.While complementary,Western-lenses are found to be unable to explain the nature of the everyday practices in the staffroom formed under the worldviews and ethics of East Asia.Our critical examination of the major academic encounters involved in the past two decades illuminates the complex dynamism behind our research perspectives,awakens us to the dominance of Western-centralism in our researcher subjectivities,transforms our worldviews,and returns us to our cultural roots to build alternative frames of reference as East Asia as Method.OriginalityValue:This study not only uniquely demonstrates what decentered,alternative,and diversified frames of reference would look like in studying East Asian practices but also what it would take for scholars to move toward East Asia as Method.Additionally,going beyond the three lenses,it contributes to our understanding of how space(staffroom as an entity)mediates forming of the character of those who are dwellers of the shokuinshitsu.
文摘Purpose:This paper aims to exemplify how Chen's idea of"Asia as method"can be employed in a case study on Korean experiences of modern schooling.Design/Approach/Methods:It does so by focusing on the author's personal experiences of modern schooling as both a student and a teacher in modern Korea.In this description,the author makes two seemingly contradictory moves:a move toward decolonialization by keeping a critical distance from her own native culture and a move toward deimperialization by keeping her distance from the West.Findings:This shows the challenges and tensions in the Korean experience of modern schooling as a student or teacher dealing with different moral languages such as Confucian and rationalist or rationalistandpost-rationalist.OriginalityValue:This experimental work suggests the possibility of forming a uniquely East Asian subjectivity while showing how educational research in East Asia can be performative in the sense that it changes the way East Asians understand themselves and the world around them.
基金financially supported by International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China (2010DFA92720)the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-T09)the Post-doctoral Fund Program of China (2013M542416)
文摘Climate warming will cause differences in precipitation distribution and changes in hydrological cycle both at regional and global scales. Arid lands of Central Asia （ALCA）, one of the largest arid regions at the middle latitudes in the world, is likely to be strongly influenced by climate warming. Understanding the precipitation varia- tions in the past is an important prerequisite for predicting future precipitation trends and thus managing regional water resources in such an arid region. In this study, we used run theory, displacement, extreme deviation theory, precipitation concentration index （PCI）, Mann-Kendall rank correlation and climatic trend coefficient methods to analyze the precipitation in wet and dry years, changes in precipitation over multiple-time scales, variability of precipitation and its rate of change based on the monthly precipitation data during 1950-2000 from 344 meteorological stations in the ALCA. The occurrence probability of a single year with abundant precipitation was higher than that of a single year with less precipitation. The average duration of extreme drought in the entire area was 5 years, with an average annual water deficit of 34.6 mm （accounting for 11.2% of the average annual precipitation over the duration）. The occurrence probability of a single wet year was slightly higher than that of a single dry year. The occurrence probability of more than 5 consecutive wet years was 5.8%, while the occurrence probability of more than 5 consecutive dry years was 6.2%. In the center of the study area, the distribution of precipitation was stable at an intra-annual timescale, with small changes at an inter-annual timescale. In the western part of the study area, the monthly variation of precipitation was high at an inter-annual timescale. There were clear seasonal changes in precipitation （PC1=12-36） in the ALCA. Precipitation in spring and winter accounted for 37.7% and 24.4% of the annual precipitation, respectively There was a significant inter-annual change in precipitation in the arid Northwest China （PC1=24-34）. Annual precipitation increased significantly （P=0.05） in 17.4% of all the meteorological stations over the study period. The probability of an increase in annual precipitation was 75.6%, with this increase being significant （P=-0.05） at 34.0% of all the meteorological stations. The average increasing rate in annual precipitation was 3.9 mm/10a （P=0.01） in the ALCA. There were significant increasing trends （P=0.01） in precipitation in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, with rates of 2.6, 3.1 and 3.7 mm/10a, respectively.
文摘Aim: To present a personal account of the involvement of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the collaborativedevelopment in Asia of those areas of andrology concerned with male contraception and reproductive health.Methods: The andrology training through workshops and institution support undertaken by the WHO HumanReproduction Programme (HRP) and how they contributed to the strengthening of andrology research in Asia aresummarised. Results: The author's experience and the Asian scientific contributions to the global research in thefollowing areas are reviewed: the safety of vasectomy and the development of new methods of vas occlusion; gossypoland its failure to become a safe, reversible male antifertility drag; Tripterygium and whether its pure extracts will passthrough the appropriate toxicology and phased clinical studies to become acceptable contraceptive drugs; hormonalmethods of contraception for men. Conclusion: The WHO policy of research capacity building through training andinstitution strengthening, together with the collaboration of Asian andrologists, has created strong National institutionsnow able to direct their own programmes of research in clinical and scientific andrology.
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文摘Tecto nic stresses of Ce ntral Asia(limited by geographic coo rdinates 36-46°N,56-76°E)over the rece nt times are modeled based on moment elasticity,taking into account the focal mechanism of earthquakes.Numerical results obtained by the method of boundary integral equations.The relief of the earth’s surface,built on the map of Central Asia used to verify the solution of the inverse elasticity problem.The moment elasticity equations are simplified by assumingωk=εijkμi,j,which makes it possible to return to classical theory of elasticity,with the difference that the stress tensor ceases to be symmetricσij≠σji.Based on the specifics of the geodynamic formulation of problems,the three-dimensional model reduced to a two-dimensional model for averaged stresses and displacements.According to the results,a displacement field was constructed,which is fully consistent with the movements of the earth’s surface,established by the GPS method.The model makes it possible to determine stresses variations in the region from earthquakes occurring in Central Asia.
文摘Using the equatorial balanced model and the low-corder spectral method to consider the effect of the basic flow, the primary and secondary shear flows, the nonlinear equation describing the winter and summer monsoon in south Asia is derived. The stress is on the influence of the flows on the formation,transformation and intensity of the monsoon in south Asia. The results show that the influence on the monsoon in south Asia is significantly different among the primary shear flow, the basic flow and the secondary shear flow.
文摘A three-dimensional viscoelastic LDDA method is put forward on the basis of the two-dimensional elastic LDDA method and a corresponding computer program is developed. Both the method and the program, verified by a numerical frictional experiment composed of two blocks, are correct and reliable. Simultaneously, using this program, the present velocity field of the eastern Asia area, which is induced by the collision of the Indian shield against the Asian plate, is investigated. The primary result shows that the velocity field in magnitude is largest near the colliding boundary and attenuates fast away from it. The Tibet plateau moves northeast, the North China plain and the southeastern Asia moves eastward and southeastward, respectively. The attenuation of the velocity field across Qilianshan is nonlinear, its direction changes from the northeast nearly to the east, its gradient is 0.05 mma-1km-1 and 0.007 mma-1km-1 to the southwest and the northeast of Qilianshan, respectively. The attenuation of the velocity field is almost linear across the Longmenshan fault, its gradient is 0.01 mma-1km-1 and its direction is toward the southeast. The remarkable deformation caused by collision extends to the east longitude 115 and to the north latitude 45. The velocity field obtained by the method is basically consistent with the data from the Global Positioning System. The relative slip rate along the Bangong-Nujiang-Lancangjiang fault is 0.5 mm/a, the Jinshajiang fault, 0.8 mm/a, while the Tanlu fault hardly moves. It is shown that the method proposed in this paper could be employed to study the geodynamic problems with faults.
