In order to incorporate the knowledge of two species of wild doves and compare the results of both, we assessed morphometrics (body weight, bill, tarsus, tail, wing, head and culmen length) and body condition index (u...In order to incorporate the knowledge of two species of wild doves and compare the results of both, we assessed morphometrics (body weight, bill, tarsus, tail, wing, head and culmen length) and body condition index (using weigh, wing, tail and tarsus length) of Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto and Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura (Aves: Columbidae) based on 40 specimens of each species collected during fall-winter 2013 and spring-summer 2014 in the municipality of Durango, Durango, Mexico. We found that body condition index was higher during fallwinter for both species. We also found size dimorphism. Males of Eurasian Collared-Dove were larger than females in head length (p = 0.002) and tail length (p = 0.05) but smaller in culmen length. Female Mourning Doves had a higher body condition index compared to males (p = 0.02) during both seasons. As expected, Eurasian Collared-Dove was larger in all measurements than Mourning Dove (p > 0.05) but tail length (p = 0.12).展开更多
At 22:08 h on February 27,2010,Professor Geng-Tao Liu,a renowned pharmacologist affiliated with the Department of Pharmacology,Institute of Materia Medica,Chi-nese Academy of Medical Sciences,Beijing,an academi-cian o...At 22:08 h on February 27,2010,Professor Geng-Tao Liu,a renowned pharmacologist affiliated with the Department of Pharmacology,Institute of Materia Medica,Chi-nese Academy of Medical Sciences,Beijing,an academi-cian of the Chinese Academy of Engineering,a展开更多
By the law, the highest-ranking state officials announce national mouming in response to death of prominent persons. The concept of mourning should be understood both as way of showing grief in public spaces and a per...By the law, the highest-ranking state officials announce national mouming in response to death of prominent persons. The concept of mourning should be understood both as way of showing grief in public spaces and a period of time. In turn, the concept of iconography means a collection of illustrations, paintings, prints, drawings relating to a person, place or topic. President of Poland, his wife and other 94 people died in the Smolensk plane crash on April 10, 2010, thus the images of plane crash and its outcome published in different segments of Polish press are the subject of the article. Research based on methods such as interpretation of composition and semiotics. I started my analysis with a few hypotheses： （1） The cultural background, especially religious, determines the mourning visual representation; （2） The result of certain style of visualization can be constructing of a political myth; （3） Different means can be used by mass media in adapting culture patterns process; （4） Different photographic genres can be used to illustrate the mourning; and （5） Press segments differ in way/style of mourning visualization.展开更多
The aim of this essay is to provide an analysis of the Euripides＇ ＂Phoenician Women＂ in terms of mourning. The author intends to set a parallel between the ancient tragedy and its modern adaptation staged by one of...The aim of this essay is to provide an analysis of the Euripides＇ ＂Phoenician Women＂ in terms of mourning. The author intends to set a parallel between the ancient tragedy and its modern adaptation staged by one of the most prominent Polish directors Krzysztof Warlikowski. In the essay, the author will discuss how suffering is depicted in the ancient drama and what changes of mourning motif are introduced into its modern performance. The author will examine the literary as well as the （modern） theatrical topos of grief by analyzing the poetics of tragedy （dramatic structure, metaphors of death, dramatis personae, funeral vocabularium, function of laments） and the poetics of performance （stage design, costumes and props, funerary symbolism, acting, directing solutions）. The purpose of the paper is to argue against the insignificance of Euripides＇ drama and the marginalization of Warlikowski＇s ＂Phoenician Women.＂ Finally, the author will attempt to indicate the mourning motif as one of the essential and attractive for the ancient tragic plot and the modern performance as well展开更多
This essay enacts a dialogue between Francois Girard＇s film The Red Violin （1998） and Jacques Derrida＇s contemplations on ＂memory,＂ ＂spectrality＂ and ＂the work of mourning＂ to envision the possibility of ope...This essay enacts a dialogue between Francois Girard＇s film The Red Violin （1998） and Jacques Derrida＇s contemplations on ＂memory,＂ ＂spectrality＂ and ＂the work of mourning＂ to envision the possibility of opening a hopeful condition of being for those who suffer from loss. In The Red Violin, Girard＇s cinematic experiments apply techniques of montage and of repetitive musical theme, practicing intertextuality of non-chronological stories by paralleling various memories of each individual character, blurring the biological and metaphorical boundaries between the living and non-living, and highlighting the fateful interrelations among time, space and different characters＇ life experiences. In this vein, the memories and beings of both the living and the dead are tightly woven together while reproduced--or further, relived--in temporal, spatial and trans-individual dynamics. Reversing the negative imaginaries of loss and death, both Derrida and The Red Violin agree with a messianic work of mourning by exploring the powerful potentiality of spectrality that manifests a way to mutualize the subject/ other, the living/non-living, into a promised being, thus gesturing towards an infinite future.展开更多
John Donne is a representative of 17th century English metaphysical poets.Donne's poetry embraces a wide range of secular and religious subjects.His poetry is full of philosophical metaphor,and quick thinking acti...John Donne is a representative of 17th century English metaphysical poets.Donne's poetry embraces a wide range of secular and religious subjects.His poetry is full of philosophical metaphor,and quick thinking activities are lively and strong passions-love passion and the passion of religious integration,which created a new harmony.Reading Donne's poetry is like participating in a mental game,only use our brains in order to catch up with speeding on the poet's imagination,his exquisite taste of the speculation.The Flea is one of representative works by John Donne.A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning is the most famous works of Donne's works.Both "The Flea" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" are famous love poems by John Donne.The two poems have something in common and something different.Although the two poems are similar and also different to each other,they both set their own situation properly and impressively.展开更多
Mudslides buried and flooded hundreds of homes on Sunday, August 8, in Zhouqu,the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of northwest Gansu Province. The death toll from the massive rain-triggered mudslides in Zhouqu C...Mudslides buried and flooded hundreds of homes on Sunday, August 8, in Zhouqu,the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of northwest Gansu Province. The death toll from the massive rain-triggered mudslides in Zhouqu County had risen to 1,239 as of August 15, a week after the devastating mudslides hit the county, with 505 others still missing.展开更多
At least 1,000 people gathered in front of Gyegu’s town hall on April 21 to mourn those killed in the last week’s devastating earthquake.The mourners, representing all the
This article attempts to compare the mourning of the dead before burial in Archaic and Classical Greece with that in Pre-Qin China. It focuses on three main subjects of mourning before burial--lamentation, mourners＇ ...This article attempts to compare the mourning of the dead before burial in Archaic and Classical Greece with that in Pre-Qin China. It focuses on three main subjects of mourning before burial--lamentation, mourners＇ gestures and behaviors, and mourning apparel--to demonstrate the cultural function and social influence of the mourning rituals through the analysis of the function and purpose of the mourning of two ancient peoples. We find that there are some differences in these two ancient societies, although the rites of mourning share some basic and similar procedures and functions.展开更多
To our great sorrow Prof.Hua Loo-keng,former editor in chief of this journal,passed away of a sudden heart attack in Tokyo onJune 12.1985 during his academic visit to Japan.His passing away is undoubtedly a heavy loss...To our great sorrow Prof.Hua Loo-keng,former editor in chief of this journal,passed away of a sudden heart attack in Tokyo onJune 12.1985 during his academic visit to Japan.His passing away is undoubtedly a heavy loss forthe Chinese mathematical circle and scientific circleand the whole nation.展开更多
With deep sadness, the Editorial Board of Journal of Hydrodynamics mourns the passing of Professor Allen T. Chwang. Prof. Chwang has been an International Advisor of our board since 1989 and the Chairman of Executive
Su Manshu＇s 苏曼殊（1884-1918） The Lone Swan （Duanhong lingyanji 断鸿零雁记, 1911, 1912） is best known for a sustained use of subjective voice and a thematic emphasis on tragic love. Critics have often credited th...Su Manshu＇s 苏曼殊（1884-1918） The Lone Swan （Duanhong lingyanji 断鸿零雁记, 1911, 1912） is best known for a sustained use of subjective voice and a thematic emphasis on tragic love. Critics have often credited the novella＇s intensely tragic narrative for spearheading a new kind of literary subjectivity that became a cornerstone of modern Chinese literature as heralded by the May Fourth critics in the late 1910s and the 1920s. However, very few have examined this new subjectivity as an effect of Su＇s critical engagement with a late Qing nationalist narrative. Su＇s novella was an appropriation of the anti-Manchu revolutionary narrative of a nation, which hinged on a paradoxical mode of envisaging a new China through a temporal return to the past and by means of a tragic sacrifice of the individual. Following a brief analysis of Su＇s early piece published in The People＇s Journal （Minbao 民报）, this article demonstrates how The Lone Swan elaborated on an excess of individual sacrifice, while developing the new, mourning subjectivity as a witness to the unfinished revolutionary enterprise of forging a powerful nation. Su＇s narrative of cultural devastation resonates with Lu Xun＇s （1881-1936） late Qing work, but, in the May Fourth period that immediately followed, this sense of despair would become an unequivocal obiect for overcoming.展开更多
About 10,000 representatives of all walks of life pay silent tribute at a national memorial ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, in Nanjing east China＇s Jiangsu Province, on December 13.
文摘In order to incorporate the knowledge of two species of wild doves and compare the results of both, we assessed morphometrics (body weight, bill, tarsus, tail, wing, head and culmen length) and body condition index (using weigh, wing, tail and tarsus length) of Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto and Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura (Aves: Columbidae) based on 40 specimens of each species collected during fall-winter 2013 and spring-summer 2014 in the municipality of Durango, Durango, Mexico. We found that body condition index was higher during fallwinter for both species. We also found size dimorphism. Males of Eurasian Collared-Dove were larger than females in head length (p = 0.002) and tail length (p = 0.05) but smaller in culmen length. Female Mourning Doves had a higher body condition index compared to males (p = 0.02) during both seasons. As expected, Eurasian Collared-Dove was larger in all measurements than Mourning Dove (p > 0.05) but tail length (p = 0.12).
文摘At 22:08 h on February 27,2010,Professor Geng-Tao Liu,a renowned pharmacologist affiliated with the Department of Pharmacology,Institute of Materia Medica,Chi-nese Academy of Medical Sciences,Beijing,an academi-cian of the Chinese Academy of Engineering,a
文摘By the law, the highest-ranking state officials announce national mouming in response to death of prominent persons. The concept of mourning should be understood both as way of showing grief in public spaces and a period of time. In turn, the concept of iconography means a collection of illustrations, paintings, prints, drawings relating to a person, place or topic. President of Poland, his wife and other 94 people died in the Smolensk plane crash on April 10, 2010, thus the images of plane crash and its outcome published in different segments of Polish press are the subject of the article. Research based on methods such as interpretation of composition and semiotics. I started my analysis with a few hypotheses： （1） The cultural background, especially religious, determines the mourning visual representation; （2） The result of certain style of visualization can be constructing of a political myth; （3） Different means can be used by mass media in adapting culture patterns process; （4） Different photographic genres can be used to illustrate the mourning; and （5） Press segments differ in way/style of mourning visualization.
文摘The aim of this essay is to provide an analysis of the Euripides＇ ＂Phoenician Women＂ in terms of mourning. The author intends to set a parallel between the ancient tragedy and its modern adaptation staged by one of the most prominent Polish directors Krzysztof Warlikowski. In the essay, the author will discuss how suffering is depicted in the ancient drama and what changes of mourning motif are introduced into its modern performance. The author will examine the literary as well as the （modern） theatrical topos of grief by analyzing the poetics of tragedy （dramatic structure, metaphors of death, dramatis personae, funeral vocabularium, function of laments） and the poetics of performance （stage design, costumes and props, funerary symbolism, acting, directing solutions）. The purpose of the paper is to argue against the insignificance of Euripides＇ drama and the marginalization of Warlikowski＇s ＂Phoenician Women.＂ Finally, the author will attempt to indicate the mourning motif as one of the essential and attractive for the ancient tragic plot and the modern performance as well
文摘This essay enacts a dialogue between Francois Girard＇s film The Red Violin （1998） and Jacques Derrida＇s contemplations on ＂memory,＂ ＂spectrality＂ and ＂the work of mourning＂ to envision the possibility of opening a hopeful condition of being for those who suffer from loss. In The Red Violin, Girard＇s cinematic experiments apply techniques of montage and of repetitive musical theme, practicing intertextuality of non-chronological stories by paralleling various memories of each individual character, blurring the biological and metaphorical boundaries between the living and non-living, and highlighting the fateful interrelations among time, space and different characters＇ life experiences. In this vein, the memories and beings of both the living and the dead are tightly woven together while reproduced--or further, relived--in temporal, spatial and trans-individual dynamics. Reversing the negative imaginaries of loss and death, both Derrida and The Red Violin agree with a messianic work of mourning by exploring the powerful potentiality of spectrality that manifests a way to mutualize the subject/ other, the living/non-living, into a promised being, thus gesturing towards an infinite future.
文摘John Donne is a representative of 17th century English metaphysical poets.Donne's poetry embraces a wide range of secular and religious subjects.His poetry is full of philosophical metaphor,and quick thinking activities are lively and strong passions-love passion and the passion of religious integration,which created a new harmony.Reading Donne's poetry is like participating in a mental game,only use our brains in order to catch up with speeding on the poet's imagination,his exquisite taste of the speculation.The Flea is one of representative works by John Donne.A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning is the most famous works of Donne's works.Both "The Flea" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" are famous love poems by John Donne.The two poems have something in common and something different.Although the two poems are similar and also different to each other,they both set their own situation properly and impressively.
文摘Mudslides buried and flooded hundreds of homes on Sunday, August 8, in Zhouqu,the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of northwest Gansu Province. The death toll from the massive rain-triggered mudslides in Zhouqu County had risen to 1,239 as of August 15, a week after the devastating mudslides hit the county, with 505 others still missing.
文摘At least 1,000 people gathered in front of Gyegu’s town hall on April 21 to mourn those killed in the last week’s devastating earthquake.The mourners, representing all the
文摘This article attempts to compare the mourning of the dead before burial in Archaic and Classical Greece with that in Pre-Qin China. It focuses on three main subjects of mourning before burial--lamentation, mourners＇ gestures and behaviors, and mourning apparel--to demonstrate the cultural function and social influence of the mourning rituals through the analysis of the function and purpose of the mourning of two ancient peoples. We find that there are some differences in these two ancient societies, although the rites of mourning share some basic and similar procedures and functions.
文摘To our great sorrow Prof.Hua Loo-keng,former editor in chief of this journal,passed away of a sudden heart attack in Tokyo onJune 12.1985 during his academic visit to Japan.His passing away is undoubtedly a heavy loss forthe Chinese mathematical circle and scientific circleand the whole nation.
文摘With deep sadness, the Editorial Board of Journal of Hydrodynamics mourns the passing of Professor Allen T. Chwang. Prof. Chwang has been an International Advisor of our board since 1989 and the Chairman of Executive
文摘Su Manshu＇s 苏曼殊（1884-1918） The Lone Swan （Duanhong lingyanji 断鸿零雁记, 1911, 1912） is best known for a sustained use of subjective voice and a thematic emphasis on tragic love. Critics have often credited the novella＇s intensely tragic narrative for spearheading a new kind of literary subjectivity that became a cornerstone of modern Chinese literature as heralded by the May Fourth critics in the late 1910s and the 1920s. However, very few have examined this new subjectivity as an effect of Su＇s critical engagement with a late Qing nationalist narrative. Su＇s novella was an appropriation of the anti-Manchu revolutionary narrative of a nation, which hinged on a paradoxical mode of envisaging a new China through a temporal return to the past and by means of a tragic sacrifice of the individual. Following a brief analysis of Su＇s early piece published in The People＇s Journal （Minbao 民报）, this article demonstrates how The Lone Swan elaborated on an excess of individual sacrifice, while developing the new, mourning subjectivity as a witness to the unfinished revolutionary enterprise of forging a powerful nation. Su＇s narrative of cultural devastation resonates with Lu Xun＇s （1881-1936） late Qing work, but, in the May Fourth period that immediately followed, this sense of despair would become an unequivocal obiect for overcoming.
文摘About 10,000 representatives of all walks of life pay silent tribute at a national memorial ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, in Nanjing east China＇s Jiangsu Province, on December 13.
