Illustrated Flora of Food Crops and Their Wild Related Plants in China systematically examines the botanical and morphological characteristics of China's major food crops,such as rice,wheat,corn,sweet potato,potat...Illustrated Flora of Food Crops and Their Wild Related Plants in China systematically examines the botanical and morphological characteristics of China's major food crops,such as rice,wheat,corn,sweet potato,potato,mung bean,and buckwheat.Featuring more than 5000 color photos and 200 line drawings,it offers a comparative study that highlights the kinship and internal connections between cultivated and wild species.The book is an invaluable resource for breeders,offering a comprehensive morphological and genetic database that aids in the development of high-yielding,high-quality,and disease-resistant crop varieties.展开更多
MANY Chinese people think that illustrated books originated in other countries.In fact,children’s books with illustrations date back to more than 100 years ago in China.Illustrated children’s books,in a modern sense...MANY Chinese people think that illustrated books originated in other countries.In fact,children’s books with illustrations date back to more than 100 years ago in China.Illustrated children’s books,in a modern sense,gained popularity across China after the year 2000 when Chinese publishing houses introduced foreign books into the country.In the course of time,Chinese writers and illustrators have created a variety of books that have received widespread acclaim at home and abroad.展开更多
Bencao Tujing(Illustrated Classic of Materia Medica)is a brilliant and monumental compendium of materia medica by Su Song,which was published in 1061 and gathered ancestral knowledge from the Song dynasty as a legacy ...Bencao Tujing(Illustrated Classic of Materia Medica)is a brilliant and monumental compendium of materia medica by Su Song,which was published in 1061 and gathered ancestral knowledge from the Song dynasty as a legacy for posterity.The compendium emphasized the clinical applications of medicinal materials collected nationwide,which used illustrated atlases as references.The descriptions for each medicinal material subsumed the prescriptions containing it and were supplemented with relevant medical cases.Medical prescriptions predating the Song dynasty were included,which enhanced the clinical usefulness of the pharmacopoeia.The ancestral knowledge of materia medica was extensively merged with natural history throughout the compendium,which also made extensive reference to more than 200 Chinese classics,local gazetteers,and published works from the social and natural sciences.The inclusion of natural history and literature works changed the convention used in earlier pharmacopoeias to present medicines based solely on pharmacological analyses.The compendium also pioneered the inclusion of natural history in pharmacopoeia.Bencao Tujing helped establish China’s leading position in the field of materia medica.Su Song’s meticulous nature,truth-seeking attitude,and adherence to scientific thinking are truly worthy of emulation and promotion.展开更多
China’s“24 Solar Terms”,known as the fifth invention after China’s hour Major Inventions,is a knowledge system and social practice formed through observations of the sun’s annual motion,and cognition of the year...China’s“24 Solar Terms”,known as the fifth invention after China’s hour Major Inventions,is a knowledge system and social practice formed through observations of the sun’s annual motion,and cognition of the year’s changes in season,climate and phenology.More and more people in the world have been eager to know more about it since UNESCO inscribed Chinas“24 Solar Terms”on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016.As a way of nurturing life,the Illustrated Daoyin of the 24 Solar Terms includes twenty-four exercise forms,corresponding to the 24 solar terms respectively,which reflects the significant idea of complying with the law of yin-yang changes in the universe.It presents a series of sitting and standing exercises designed to prevent diseases that occur during seasonal changes throughout the year.The ancient Chinese wisdom of time and life nurturing has been witnessed in China’s“24 Solar Terms”and“Illustrated Daoyin of the 24 Solar Terms”This article aims to arouse readers’concern and interest in life nurturing by introducing how to do all the exercises presented by the Illustrated Daoyin of the 24 Solar Terms,which is helpful to the prevention and cure of diseases as well as good for health.展开更多
Medicinal plants are important source for Oriental and Western medicines.There are more than 500 herbs commonly used today in China,in which near 30% of them are seed medicines and over
Objective:In this research,we tried to explore how short-term mindfulness(STM)intervention affects adoles-cents’anxiety,depression,and negative and positive emotion during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design:10 classes were...Objective:In this research,we tried to explore how short-term mindfulness(STM)intervention affects adoles-cents’anxiety,depression,and negative and positive emotion during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design:10 classes were divided into experiment groups(5 classes;n=238)and control(5 classes;n=244)randomly.Hospital Anxi-ety and Depression Scale(HADS)and Positive and Negative Affect Schedule(PANAS)were used to measure par-ticipants’dependent variables.In the experiment group,we conducted STM practice interventions every morning in theirfirst class from March to November 2020.No interventions were conducted in the control group.Methods:Paired-sample t-tests were used to identify if a significant difference exists between every time point of the experimental and control groups.Repeated ANOVA and Growth Mixture Model(GMM)were used to analyze the tendency of positive and negative emotions,anxiety,and depression in the experimental group.Results and Conclusions:(1)With the intervention of STM,there was a significant decrease in negative emotions and an increase in positive emotions in the experimental group,whereas there were non-significant differences in the control group.(2)To explore the heterogeneity trajectories of dependent variables,we built a GMM and found there were two latent growth classes in the trajectories.(3)The results of the models showed their trajec-tories were downward,which meant that the levels of anxiety,depression,and negative emotions of participants decreased during the STM training period.Nonetheless,the score of positive affect showed upward in three loops of intervention,which indicated that the level of the participants’positive affect increased through the STM inter-vention.(4)This research indicated that STM should be given increasing consideration to enhance mental health during the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19.展开更多
Mr.Fred Engst,American sinologist and Professor of School of International Economics and Trade of University of International Business and Economics,through the perspective of economic development,illustrated the reas...Mr.Fred Engst,American sinologist and Professor of School of International Economics and Trade of University of International Business and Economics,through the perspective of economic development,illustrated the reason for China’s rising and the high-quality growth of China’s economy and analysed the misunderstandings Western scholars currently hold about China.展开更多
In the latest years,researchers from the industry and academia extensively applied machine learning algorithms in a broad range of domains.The goal of this special issue is to illustrate the most recent applications o...In the latest years,researchers from the industry and academia extensively applied machine learning algorithms in a broad range of domains.The goal of this special issue is to illustrate the most recent applications of deep learning methods in a range of real-life domains and to show the practical utility of these techniques.A particular attention goes towards methods to process network data that is capable of modelling complex artificial and natural systems as the interactions of a multitude of simpler entities.展开更多
INTRODUCTION Types of paper Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication:Original research papers;review articles;rapid communications;short communications;viewpoints;letters ...INTRODUCTION Types of paper Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication:Original research papers;review articles;rapid communications;short communications;viewpoints;letters to the Editor;book reviews.1.Research papers-original full-length research papers which have not been published previously,except in a preliminary form,and should not exceed 7500 words(including allowance for no more than 6 tables and illustrations).展开更多
INTRODUCTION Types of paper Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication:Original research papers;review articles;rapid communications;short communications;viewpoints;letters ...INTRODUCTION Types of paper Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication:Original research papers;review articles;rapid communications;short communications;viewpoints;letters to the Editor;book reviews.1.Research papers-original full-length research papers which have not been published previously,except in a preliminary form,and should not exceed 7500 words(including allowance for no more than 6 tables and illustrations).展开更多
INTRODUCTION Types of paper Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication:Original research papers;review articles;rapid communications;short communications;viewpoints;letters ...INTRODUCTION Types of paper Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication:Original research papers;review articles;rapid communications;short communications;viewpoints;letters to the Editor;book reviews.1. Research papers-original full-length research papers which have not been published previously, except in a preliminary form, and should not exceed 7 500 words (including allowance for no more than 6 tables and illustrations).展开更多
INTRODUCTION Types of paper Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication:Original research papers;review articles;rapid communications;short communications;viewpoints;letters ...INTRODUCTION Types of paper Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication:Original research papers;review articles;rapid communications;short communications;viewpoints;letters to the Editor;book reviews.1.Research papers-original full-length research papers which have not been published previously,except in a preliminary form,and should not exceed 7500 words(including allowance for no more than 6 tables and illustrations).展开更多
文摘Illustrated Flora of Food Crops and Their Wild Related Plants in China systematically examines the botanical and morphological characteristics of China's major food crops,such as rice,wheat,corn,sweet potato,potato,mung bean,and buckwheat.Featuring more than 5000 color photos and 200 line drawings,it offers a comparative study that highlights the kinship and internal connections between cultivated and wild species.The book is an invaluable resource for breeders,offering a comprehensive morphological and genetic database that aids in the development of high-yielding,high-quality,and disease-resistant crop varieties.
文摘MANY Chinese people think that illustrated books originated in other countries.In fact,children’s books with illustrations date back to more than 100 years ago in China.Illustrated children’s books,in a modern sense,gained popularity across China after the year 2000 when Chinese publishing houses introduced foreign books into the country.In the course of time,Chinese writers and illustrators have created a variety of books that have received widespread acclaim at home and abroad.
基金This study was financed by the grant from the Third National Level Premier Open Course Resources Program for Undergraduates by the Ministry of Education of China(No.2013-94).
文摘Bencao Tujing(Illustrated Classic of Materia Medica)is a brilliant and monumental compendium of materia medica by Su Song,which was published in 1061 and gathered ancestral knowledge from the Song dynasty as a legacy for posterity.The compendium emphasized the clinical applications of medicinal materials collected nationwide,which used illustrated atlases as references.The descriptions for each medicinal material subsumed the prescriptions containing it and were supplemented with relevant medical cases.Medical prescriptions predating the Song dynasty were included,which enhanced the clinical usefulness of the pharmacopoeia.The ancestral knowledge of materia medica was extensively merged with natural history throughout the compendium,which also made extensive reference to more than 200 Chinese classics,local gazetteers,and published works from the social and natural sciences.The inclusion of natural history and literature works changed the convention used in earlier pharmacopoeias to present medicines based solely on pharmacological analyses.The compendium also pioneered the inclusion of natural history in pharmacopoeia.Bencao Tujing helped establish China’s leading position in the field of materia medica.Su Song’s meticulous nature,truth-seeking attitude,and adherence to scientific thinking are truly worthy of emulation and promotion.
基金Research Base Projects of Beijing Social Science Foundation(No.17JDYYB002)。
文摘China’s“24 Solar Terms”,known as the fifth invention after China’s hour Major Inventions,is a knowledge system and social practice formed through observations of the sun’s annual motion,and cognition of the year’s changes in season,climate and phenology.More and more people in the world have been eager to know more about it since UNESCO inscribed Chinas“24 Solar Terms”on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016.As a way of nurturing life,the Illustrated Daoyin of the 24 Solar Terms includes twenty-four exercise forms,corresponding to the 24 solar terms respectively,which reflects the significant idea of complying with the law of yin-yang changes in the universe.It presents a series of sitting and standing exercises designed to prevent diseases that occur during seasonal changes throughout the year.The ancient Chinese wisdom of time and life nurturing has been witnessed in China’s“24 Solar Terms”and“Illustrated Daoyin of the 24 Solar Terms”This article aims to arouse readers’concern and interest in life nurturing by introducing how to do all the exercises presented by the Illustrated Daoyin of the 24 Solar Terms,which is helpful to the prevention and cure of diseases as well as good for health.
文摘Medicinal plants are important source for Oriental and Western medicines.There are more than 500 herbs commonly used today in China,in which near 30% of them are seed medicines and over
基金Regional Science Fund Project of Northwest Normal University,Grant No.31660281.
文摘Objective:In this research,we tried to explore how short-term mindfulness(STM)intervention affects adoles-cents’anxiety,depression,and negative and positive emotion during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design:10 classes were divided into experiment groups(5 classes;n=238)and control(5 classes;n=244)randomly.Hospital Anxi-ety and Depression Scale(HADS)and Positive and Negative Affect Schedule(PANAS)were used to measure par-ticipants’dependent variables.In the experiment group,we conducted STM practice interventions every morning in theirfirst class from March to November 2020.No interventions were conducted in the control group.Methods:Paired-sample t-tests were used to identify if a significant difference exists between every time point of the experimental and control groups.Repeated ANOVA and Growth Mixture Model(GMM)were used to analyze the tendency of positive and negative emotions,anxiety,and depression in the experimental group.Results and Conclusions:(1)With the intervention of STM,there was a significant decrease in negative emotions and an increase in positive emotions in the experimental group,whereas there were non-significant differences in the control group.(2)To explore the heterogeneity trajectories of dependent variables,we built a GMM and found there were two latent growth classes in the trajectories.(3)The results of the models showed their trajec-tories were downward,which meant that the levels of anxiety,depression,and negative emotions of participants decreased during the STM training period.Nonetheless,the score of positive affect showed upward in three loops of intervention,which indicated that the level of the participants’positive affect increased through the STM inter-vention.(4)This research indicated that STM should be given increasing consideration to enhance mental health during the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19.
文摘Mr.Fred Engst,American sinologist and Professor of School of International Economics and Trade of University of International Business and Economics,through the perspective of economic development,illustrated the reason for China’s rising and the high-quality growth of China’s economy and analysed the misunderstandings Western scholars currently hold about China.
文摘In the latest years,researchers from the industry and academia extensively applied machine learning algorithms in a broad range of domains.The goal of this special issue is to illustrate the most recent applications of deep learning methods in a range of real-life domains and to show the practical utility of these techniques.A particular attention goes towards methods to process network data that is capable of modelling complex artificial and natural systems as the interactions of a multitude of simpler entities.
文摘INTRODUCTION Types of paper Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication:Original research papers;review articles;rapid communications;short communications;viewpoints;letters to the Editor;book reviews.1.Research papers-original full-length research papers which have not been published previously,except in a preliminary form,and should not exceed 7500 words(including allowance for no more than 6 tables and illustrations).
文摘INTRODUCTION Types of paper Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication:Original research papers;review articles;rapid communications;short communications;viewpoints;letters to the Editor;book reviews.1.Research papers-original full-length research papers which have not been published previously,except in a preliminary form,and should not exceed 7500 words(including allowance for no more than 6 tables and illustrations).
文摘INTRODUCTION Types of paper Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication:Original research papers;review articles;rapid communications;short communications;viewpoints;letters to the Editor;book reviews.1. Research papers-original full-length research papers which have not been published previously, except in a preliminary form, and should not exceed 7 500 words (including allowance for no more than 6 tables and illustrations).
文摘INTRODUCTION Types of paper Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication:Original research papers;review articles;rapid communications;short communications;viewpoints;letters to the Editor;book reviews.1.Research papers-original full-length research papers which have not been published previously,except in a preliminary form,and should not exceed 7500 words(including allowance for no more than 6 tables and illustrations).
