甲骨文动植物字假借现象的研究

假借字是汉字研究的重要课题，对于甲骨文中的假借字，前人的研究多是侧重全貌的字数、字频的统计。本文对动植物字假借的比例进行重新统计和对比，可以看出不同的意义层面上假借的使用情况是不同的，对假借字的总体描述应分层次、分类别来进行。

东巴经植物字写词法研究

从《纳西东巴古籍译注全集》来看,植物字在东巴经典中出现频率较高且字形变化丰富。运用写词法的理论对其进行整理研究,概括出植物字的形象写词法、象声写词法、形声写词法。各写词法之下细分造字法,形象写词法包含象物字、象意字、象事字;象声写词法包含全象声字、半象声字;形声写词法包含加形符字、加声符字、加形符与声符字、形符替换部分声符字。进而总结出东巴经植物字写词法的特点。

The Preliminary Design and Implement of Plant Digital Information Retrieval System

[Objective] The aim was to set up a plant digital information retrieval system.[Method] Plant digital information retrieval system was designed by combining with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition database management system and Structure Query Language.[Result] The system realized electronic management and retrieval of local plant information.The key words of retrieval included family,genus,formal name,Chinese name,Latin,morphological characteristics,habitat,collection people,collection places,and protect class and so on.[Conclusion] It provided reference for these problems of species identification and digital management of herbarium.

Comparison of Early Jurassic flora from South Primorye of Russia with its main coeval floras of China

The Early Jurassic flora,with over 42 species of 26 genera and documented in age by sandwiched marine beds,from the Lower Jurassic Schitukhe Formation of South Primorye,Russia,is further reported.The flora is dominated by cycadophytes,ferns and conifers,with some of ginkgoales and czekanowskiales,and characterized by occurrence of Cycadocarpidium,with very rare Coniopteris.A comparison of this flora with its coeval Early Jurassic floras of China is discussed.The Russian flora is considered as the early assemblage of Early Jurassic flora,and more similar to the Early Jurassic floras from the Shansonggang-and Yihe formations of Jilin,Beipiao Formation of Liaoning,and lower-middle Guanyintan Formation of Hunan in China.

Gene Flow from Transgenic Chinese Cabbage (Brassica campestris ssp. chinensis var.utilis) to Related Cruciferae Species Through Outcrossing

It was substantiated by morphological observation, chromosome and DNA identification that the bar gene, conferring the resistance to herbicide basta in transgenic Chinese cabbage ( Brassica campestris ssp. chinensis var. utilis Tsen et Lee), could intrude into the genomes of turnip ( B. campestris ssp. rapifera), heading Chinese cabbage B. campestris ssp. pekinensis) and other non-heading Chinese cabbage ( B. campestris ssp. chinensis in a relatively high frequency while into genome of B. napus at a low frequency via natural cross-pollination in open field. Herbicide resistant hybrids of B. nigra, B. carinata, and B. juncea could be obtained at certain frequency in the greenhouse by hand pollination. At no time did the resistant hybrid plants of transgenic Chinese cabbage with B. oleracea, R. sativus and seven wild weeds, widespread in China, gained in our experiments.

An Unlikely Marriage： Theorizing the Corporeality of Language at the Crossroads of Thoreau, Heidegger and the Botanical World

This paper examines the relationship between language, particularly language that expresses aesthetic experiences of plant life, and corporeality. The theorisation of language is a keystone towards conceptualising participatory relationships between people and the botanical world. A comparative reading of the works of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Heidegger provides a framework for approaching language as embodied participation. Despite political differences, Thoreau and Heidegger shared a mutual conviction about the generative powers of language. Thoreau＇s literary practice partly involved immersion in places such as swamps and forests. Fittingly, Heidegger＇s explication of Rilke＇s concept of＂the Open＂ mirrors the participatory aesthetics of Thoreau. Both thinkers looked towards the capacities of poetics to galvanise the evolution of language. In response to the increasing dissection offered by contemporaneous theories of linguistics, Thoreau and Heidegger held the notion of language as a body in itself, one brought to life through immanence between sensuous bodies in the world. For each theorist, language was both bodily and a body. Their works evidence that multi-sensorial encounters with the natural world can be captured in language. The body of language may be engaged with as a whole living phenomenon rather than a dissected corpse as this comparative reading of Thoreau and Heidegger will intimate.

Spring peepers Pseudacris crucifer modify their call structure in response to noise

Acoustic interference can impede effective communication that is important for survival and reproduction of animals. In response to acoustic interference, some animals can improve signalling efficacy by altering the structure of their signals. In this study, we played artificial noise to 46 male spring peepers Pseudacris crucifer, on their breeding grounds, and tested whether the noise affected the duration, call rate, and peak frequency of their advertisement calls. We used two experimental noise treatments that masked either the high- or low-frequency components of an average advertisement call; this allowed us to evaluate whether frogs adaptively shift the peak frequency of their calls away from both types of interference. Our playback treatments caused spring peepers to produce shorter calls, and the high-frequency noise treatment caused them to lower the frequency of their calls immediately after the noise ceased. Call rate did not change in response to playback. Consistent with previous studies, ambient temperature was inversely related to call duration and positively related to call rate. We conclude that noise affects the structure of spring peeper advertisement calls, and that spring peepers therefore have a mechanism for altering signal structure in response to noise. Future studies should test if other types of noise, such as biotic or anthropogenic noise, have similar effects on call structure, and if the observed changes to call structure enhance or impair communication in noisy environments [Current Zoology 60 （4）： 438-448, 2014].