The Mountain Summit Auspicious Clouds and Dreams—Recapping the Moment of the Olympic Torch Relay Leg at the Mt.Qomolangma

The Beijing leg of the 2008 Olympic torch relay be-gan in spring.Along with the citizens in other cities,we were longing for a distinctive and stun-ning torch relay in terms of the route and the many colorful cer-emonial activities. The unprecedented plan to ex-tend the torch relay to Mt. Qomolangma will surely attract at-tention from all over the world.

Seizing the Moment

THE international Conference on Investment to be held in Tunisia on November 29-30 will mark the end of the campaign for the promotion of Tunisia＇s 2016-20 five-year program This program aims to give new impetus to public and private investment, which was around 19.4 percent of GDP in 2015, bringing it to 24 per- cent in 2020 according to the Tunisian Govern- ment.

The Epiphany and the Moment——A Critical View of Joyce and Woolf's Fictional Technique

Joyce and Woolf have introduced into modern fiction both a matter and a manner peculiar in English literature. One fact strikes the reader at the very outset: in their fiction, time and consciousness are always in operation. Joyce and Woolf took pains to explore the true inward life of their characters and the possibilities

SEIZING THE MOMENT

April is a critical time for stakeholders to hammer out trade differences between China and the U.S.China and the United States have entered a crucial time in their economic relationship, with expectations high leading into two significant events taking place this month. Trade officials from China and the United States were scheduled to meet April 11 for the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, while nine davs later. Chinese President

Seize the Moment

Abig fish jumped out of the crystal clear water in a mountain creek.In a split second a bear splashed into the water charging at the fish.The exciting moment was captured by a Rollei camera and

Painting in the Moment

A Chinese friend of mine asked me whether I had anything planned for the weekend,and suggested I visit

A moment-based stochastic edge-based smoothed finite element method for electromagnetic forming process

In this paper, a novel stochastic method named as the moment-based stochastic edge-based finite element method(MSES-FEM)is proposed to deal with the uncertain electromagnetic problems. First, electromagnetic and mechanical field are formulated by smoothed Galerkin Weak Form under edge-based smoothed finite element method(ES-FEM) scheme. The moment analysis is then applied to obtain the first four moments of the responses and to observe the effects of each random variable on electromagnetic field responses. The maximum entropy theory is employed to calculate the probability density functions(PDFs) of the responses. A quasi-static electromagnetic problem and a practical electromagnetic forming problem(EMF) are performed. The proposed method successfully solves stochastic electromagnetic forming analysis under the uncertain parameters. Numerical results obtained by the proposed MSES-FEM are quite satisfactory with the ones by the Monte Carlo simulation(MCS).

Appraisal of the Production-Oriented Approach： An Introduction

The production-oriented approach （POA） has been developed over a decade. It is driven by the need to improve English classroom instruction for university students in China （Wen, 2016）. It is also motivated by the aspiration to enhance the quality of foreign language education in other similar pedagogical contexts outside China. A volume of research has been done by Wen Qiufang and her research team, to formulate the theory of POA and to test its effectiveness in classroom pedagogy （e.g. Wen, 2016, 2015; Yang, 2015; Zhang, 2015）. At the moment, the POA is still at an early stage of theory building and almost all empirical research is done in the Chinese context. In order to improve the quality of this theory and to make it intelligible to the international academic community, a one-day symposium was held in Beijing Foreign Studies University on May 15, 2017. The symposium was entitled ＇The first international forum on innovative foreign language education in China： Appraisal of the POA＇. In the forum, leading experts in applied linguistics were invited to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the POA and the directions for its future development. The symposium was the first attempt for the POA research team to discuss its latest work with international scholars. This Viewpoint section collects the responses of four experts who participated in the symposium, listed in alphabetical order. The collection of articles covers three topics related to the POA： its pedagogical application, its use for teacher training, and its research. Alister Cumming is Professor Emeritus and the former Head of the Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies, University of Toronto, Canada. His article focuses primarily on POA research as an exemplary case of design-based research. Rod Ellis is Research Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia. He discusses POA in terms of pedagogy, teacher training and research, with both critiques and constructive suggestions. Paul Kei Matsuda is Professor of English and Director of Second Language Writing at Arizona State University, the writed states. He responds to POA from the perspective of an expert researcher and teacher of L2 writing. Charlene Polio is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Linguistics ＆ Germanic, Slavic, Asian ＆ African Languages atMichigan State University, the writed states. She conceptualises POA as a useful method to address some issues in pre-service teacher development. Overall, the articles in this section are insightful and reader-friendly. They are not only useful for the development of POA in particular, but may also be valuable to a broad range of researchers as they touch upon pertaining issues, as well as emerging topics, in the field of applied linguistics. We therefore find it necessary to make them accessible to a wide readership.

Stochastic stability of viscoelastic system under non-Gaussian colored noise excitation

This article examines a viscoelastic plate that is driven parametrically by a non-Guassian colored noise,which is simplified to an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process based on the approximation method.To examine the moment stability property of the viscoelastic system,we use the stochastic averaging method,Girsanov theorem and Feynmann-Kac formula to derive the approximate analytic expansion of the moment Lyapunov exponent.Furthermore,the Monte Carlo simulation results for the original system are given to check the accuracy of the approximate analytic results.At the end of this paper,results are presented to show some quantitative pictures of the effects of the system parameters,noise parameters and viscoelastic parameters on the stability of the viscoelastic plate.