Previous studies have shown that the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) can play an important role in modulating the variabilityoflndian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) over a 50-60-yr timescale. A significant...Previous studies have shown that the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) can play an important role in modulating the variabilityoflndian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) over a 50-60-yr timescale. A significant positive correlation between the AMO and ISMR is found both in observations and models. However, instrumental records show that the relationship becomes non-significant or even of opposite sign after the mid-1990s, suggesting a weakening of the AMO-ISMR connection. The mechanism for the breakdown of the AMO-ISMR connection is investigated in the present work, and the results suggest that a substantial warming in the Indian-tropical western Pacific Ocean plays a role. The warming weakens the meridional gradient of tropospheric temperature between Eurasia and the indian Ocean, and reduces the meridional sea level pressure gradient between the Indian Subcontinent and Indian Ocean, weakening the Indian summer monsoon. Thus, warming in the Indian-tropical western Pacific Ocean seems responsible for the weakened connection between the AMO and ISM.展开更多
The post-modernist concerning with identity and subjectivity posits that identity is multi-faceted and constantly gets re-constructed by choice. This results in increasingly fragmented and unstable identities leading ...The post-modernist concerning with identity and subjectivity posits that identity is multi-faceted and constantly gets re-constructed by choice. This results in increasingly fragmented and unstable identities leading to an inevitable breakdown in social relationships and sanity. A limited and dependable set of coherent identities began to fragment into a diverse and unstable series of competing identities. Post-modernism stifled the idea of nation, religion, family, and identity as bedrocks of stability and security. Disillusioned post-modernist world has deconstructed the well-defined boundaries that governed the life, otherwise, transition and transgression through and across these domains became the norm that allowed negotiation in daily lives. Where the subject became a terminal of multiple networks, consciously enacting the repetitions through which identity was getting produced and changed, demonstrating identity's "performativity". Establishing that what we believe to be true is only a construction or an interpretation of reality, shaped by our own socially constructed bias, thereby putting to scrutiny the idea of reality and real itself, which removed any sense of objective reality and with it the notion of an objective self. Identity is constantly changing and transitioning, the idea of the self which is entangled with multiplicity, heterogeneity, difference and ceaselessly becoming caught between the present and future, real and unreal, death and life. This research paper will carry out an analysis on evidential aspects in the selected novel and will further interpret the episodes of transition and transgressions that inform this novel.展开更多
In this paper, the target aggregation is investigated for a multi-agent system consisting of second-order agents and multiple leaders. Sufficient conditions are proposed to make the agents approach the target set span...In this paper, the target aggregation is investigated for a multi-agent system consisting of second-order agents and multiple leaders. Sufficient conditions are proposed to make the agents approach the target set spanned by these moving leaders. With the condition on switching interconnection topologies, all mobile agents can asymptotically track the dynamical target set specified by multiple moving leaders with bounded error. Moreover, discussion on the case with static leaders is also given.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China[grant number 2016YFA0601802]the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant number41375085],[grant number 421004]the Strategic Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[grant number XDA11010401]
文摘Previous studies have shown that the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) can play an important role in modulating the variabilityoflndian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) over a 50-60-yr timescale. A significant positive correlation between the AMO and ISMR is found both in observations and models. However, instrumental records show that the relationship becomes non-significant or even of opposite sign after the mid-1990s, suggesting a weakening of the AMO-ISMR connection. The mechanism for the breakdown of the AMO-ISMR connection is investigated in the present work, and the results suggest that a substantial warming in the Indian-tropical western Pacific Ocean plays a role. The warming weakens the meridional gradient of tropospheric temperature between Eurasia and the indian Ocean, and reduces the meridional sea level pressure gradient between the Indian Subcontinent and Indian Ocean, weakening the Indian summer monsoon. Thus, warming in the Indian-tropical western Pacific Ocean seems responsible for the weakened connection between the AMO and ISM.
文摘The post-modernist concerning with identity and subjectivity posits that identity is multi-faceted and constantly gets re-constructed by choice. This results in increasingly fragmented and unstable identities leading to an inevitable breakdown in social relationships and sanity. A limited and dependable set of coherent identities began to fragment into a diverse and unstable series of competing identities. Post-modernism stifled the idea of nation, religion, family, and identity as bedrocks of stability and security. Disillusioned post-modernist world has deconstructed the well-defined boundaries that governed the life, otherwise, transition and transgression through and across these domains became the norm that allowed negotiation in daily lives. Where the subject became a terminal of multiple networks, consciously enacting the repetitions through which identity was getting produced and changed, demonstrating identity's "performativity". Establishing that what we believe to be true is only a construction or an interpretation of reality, shaped by our own socially constructed bias, thereby putting to scrutiny the idea of reality and real itself, which removed any sense of objective reality and with it the notion of an objective self. Identity is constantly changing and transitioning, the idea of the self which is entangled with multiplicity, heterogeneity, difference and ceaselessly becoming caught between the present and future, real and unreal, death and life. This research paper will carry out an analysis on evidential aspects in the selected novel and will further interpret the episodes of transition and transgressions that inform this novel.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 60874018,60736022,and 60821091
文摘In this paper, the target aggregation is investigated for a multi-agent system consisting of second-order agents and multiple leaders. Sufficient conditions are proposed to make the agents approach the target set spanned by these moving leaders. With the condition on switching interconnection topologies, all mobile agents can asymptotically track the dynamical target set specified by multiple moving leaders with bounded error. Moreover, discussion on the case with static leaders is also given.