Editor's Note

It is with great pleasure that I am serving asa Guest Editor for a special issue of the ChinaCommunications on Communications and InformationSecurity for a second time.The goal of this issue is a continuation of theSpecial Issue by the same Editor which waspublished by CIC in February 2007.We

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The CHINESE JOURNAL OF METAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY was startedin 1985 and was the only metallurgical periodical in English at that time in China.It is pub-lished under the auspices of The Chinese Society for Metals and managed by the Institute ofMetal Research,The Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS).The editor-in-chief is ProfessorChangxu SHI,member of CAS and director of the Division of Technological Science,CAS.

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Recently, the Western media has been questioning if the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is evolving into an anti-West military

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The JOURNAL OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS (JAC) is published annually by the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, The People’s Republic of China). The Journal aims to provide a forum for the discussion of various aspects of the cultural and historical process in the Near Eastern and Mediterranean world, encompassing studies of individual civilizations as well as common elements, contacts and interactions among them (e.g., in such traditional fields as Assyriology, Classics, Egyptology, Hittitology, etc.). The Journal welcomes articles dealing with history, philology, art, archaeology and linguistics which are intended to illuminate the material

Editor's Note

The JOURNAL OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS (JAC) ispublished annually by the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations(Northeast Normal University,Changchun,Jilin Province,The People＇sRepublic of China). The Journal aims to provide a forum for the discussion of variousaspects of the cultural and historical process in the Near Eastern andMediterranean world, encompassing studies of individual civilizations aswell as common elements,contacts and interactions among them(e.g.,insuch traditional fields as Assyriology, Classics, Egyptology, Hittitology,etc.).The Journal welcomes articles dealing with history,philology,art,archaeology and linguistics which are intended to illuminate the materialand spiritual culture of that region.Articles discussing other cultures willbe considered for publication if they are clearly relevant to the NearEastern and Mediterranean region. Information about new discoveries andcurrent scholarly events is also welcome. Publishers are encouraged tosend review copies of

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Concern for adolescent sex and reproductive health is a common understanding formed in recent years in the world.The International Conference on Population and Development(ICPD)held in 1994 for the first time made clear the obviously different demands for sexual and reproductive health by adolescents from those by adults and regarded it as one of the issues that should be given first priority to.Adolescent has become the hot issue in many international organizations and international cooperative programs.

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Human settlements are the spaces which allow people to live,work,entertain and conduct social communication.The science of human settlements studies the form of human community,and particularly discusses interrelations between the human habitat and the environment.The studies of architecture,urban and rural planning,landscape architecture,civil engineering and urban environment engineering altogether support the scientific research of the human settlements science.

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China's implementation of the "reform and opening up to the outside world" policy in the past 30 years has

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The JOURNAL OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS (JAC) is published annually by the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, People's Republic of China).

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The JOURNAL OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS (JAC) is published annually by the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, People’s Republic of China).

Editor's Note

The JOURNAL OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS (JAC) is published annually by the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, People's Republic of China). JAC provides a forum for the discussion of various aspects of the cultural and historical process in the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean world, encompassing studies of individual civilizations as well as common elements,

Editor's Note

The JOURNAL OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS (JAC) is published annually by the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, People's Republic of China). JAC provides a forum for the discussion of various aspects of the cultural and historical process in the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean world, encompassing studies of individual civilizations as well as common elements,

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Since China started reform and opening-up later in 1978,China's diplomatic work in the 30 Years has borne rich fruits and made great achievements that attract worldwide attention.Liu Huaqiu,former Ministerof the Foreign Affairs Office of the State Council,contributed to this issue

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We are glad to announce that as from 2009,China International Studies will be published by-monthly so as to keep up with the fast-changing international situation.

100 Most Beautiful Chinese Paintings: Equestrian in Autumn Grove and Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Editor s note: In cooperation with the Art Project by Google Cultural Institute, CCAD launched the online exhibition of"100 Most Beautiful Chinese Pointings". With CCAD as the leading academic team, the task force has selected 100 Chinese paintings from the millennia-long history of Chinese civilization;these works are not only the masterpieces best representing different stages of the Chinese painting, but also true pictures of the society and history of different historical periods, ranging from the Stone Age to modern times.

100 Most Beautiful Chinese Paintings:Paintings by Zhang Xuan

Editor’s note: In cooperation with the Art Project by Google Cultural Institute, CCAD launched the online exhibition of "100 most beautiful Chinese paintings". With CCAD as the leading academic team,the task force has selected 100 Chinese paintings from the millennia-long history of Chinese civilization;these works are not only the masterpieces best representing different stages of the Chinese painting, but also true pictures of the society and history of different historical periods, ranging from the Stone Age to modern times.

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Andy Saunders is currently Professor of Geochemistry in the Department of Geology at the University of Leicester,UK.

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Robert (Bob) J. Stern is a Professor of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received a BSc in Geology with honors from the University of California at Davis in 1974, and a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of California at San Diego (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) in 1979. He held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of

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In recent months,a novel influenza virus H1N1 broke out around the world.With bioinformatics technology,the 3D structure of HA protein was obtained,and the epitope residues were predicted with the method developed in our group for this novel flu virus.58 amino acids were identified as potential epitope residues,the majority of which clustered at the surface of the globular head of HA protein.Although it is located at the similar position,the epitope of HA protein for the novel H1N1 flu virus has obvious differences in the electrostatic potential compared to that of HA proteins from previous flu viruses.