Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway Reports Surge in Revenue.The Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has transported 680,000 passengers and 9.5 million tonnes of cargo,with its annual transportation revenue increasing 39 pe...Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway Reports Surge in Revenue.The Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has transported 680,000 passengers and 9.5 million tonnes of cargo,with its annual transportation revenue increasing 39 percent on average over the past six years.The railway’s Chinese management consortium on 17 May disclosed that the 752-km Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has seen the operation of 2,500 passenger trains with a passenger volume of 680,000 since it started commercial operations in January 2018.Data from the railway’s management team also show that the railway has operated 7,700 freighttrains with cargo volume of 9.5 million tonnes,and achieved the total commercial transport revenue of 11.3 billion Ethiopian birr(about$197 million)during the same period.展开更多
Background:Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)as a traditional Chinese medical practice,has gradually evolved into a coherent and systematic medical science based on natural principles and applied to human beings over t...Background:Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)as a traditional Chinese medical practice,has gradually evolved into a coherent and systematic medical science based on natural principles and applied to human beings over time.The publication of the“Huangdi Neijing”(The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine,Written between the Warring States period and the Qin and Han Dynasties,and finally compiled in the Western Han Dynasty,from 475 B.C.E.-8 C.E.)signified the establishment of a comprehensive theoretical framework for Chinese medicine.Due to the perspective of the‘correspondence between heaven and man’in TCM,the purpose of this paper is to explore the origin and development of the basic theories of TCM under the ancient astronomical view and the connection between the two.Methods:This paper emphases on the universe uninty with the humanities,philosophy,and medicine,starting with the forms of stargazing in ancient Chinese astronomy and the natural laws derived by the ancients from their observations of natural celestial phenomena.Results:Astronomy,arts and crafts,divination and medical correlations are based on the sequential changes of natural seasons.Conclusion:The operation of natural celestial phenomena and the characteristics of physical phenomena correspond to human physiology,and the development of the basic theories of Chinese medicine is inextricably linked to ancient astronomy,ancient philosophy,and ancient primeval science.展开更多
Dear Editor, Lithium-ion(Li-ion) battery has become a promising source to supply and absorb energy/power for many energy-transportation applications. However, Li-ion battery capacity would inevitably degrade over time...Dear Editor, Lithium-ion(Li-ion) battery has become a promising source to supply and absorb energy/power for many energy-transportation applications. However, Li-ion battery capacity would inevitably degrade over time, making its related ageing prediction necessary.展开更多
This paper considers an overall and basic definition of calendar effects,which is one of the market anomalies.As we all know,the efficient market anomalies refer to situations that are difficult to reconcile with the ...This paper considers an overall and basic definition of calendar effects,which is one of the market anomalies.As we all know,the efficient market anomalies refer to situations that are difficult to reconcile with the efficient market hypothesis.展开更多
October 5-10,2015,Jcju,Korea8th International Conference on Asian Marine Geology(ICAMG-8)Tel:+82-42-868-3013,3192,3210Fax:+82-42-868-3417Email:icamg-8@kigam.re.kr Web Site:http://icamg-8.kigam.re.kr/ICAMG/index.jsp Oc...October 5-10,2015,Jcju,Korea8th International Conference on Asian Marine Geology(ICAMG-8)Tel:+82-42-868-3013,3192,3210Fax:+82-42-868-3417Email:icamg-8@kigam.re.kr Web Site:http://icamg-8.kigam.re.kr/ICAMG/index.jsp October 7,2015,Surabaya,Indonesia2nd International Conference on Civil Engineering Research展开更多
Three new worldwide calendars are proposed and compared in this paper. None of them requires any departure from an existing tradition to divide years on lean and leap. Although all three are pretty accurate, it is dem...Three new worldwide calendars are proposed and compared in this paper. None of them requires any departure from an existing tradition to divide years on lean and leap. Although all three are pretty accurate, it is demonstrated that the Julian calendar with one additional amendment is the simplest and the most suitable for implementation.展开更多
Purpose: To evaluate the potential of a year-round school calendar (180-day school year distributed across 12 months) as an intervention comparedto a traditional school calendar (180-day school year distributed across...Purpose: To evaluate the potential of a year-round school calendar (180-day school year distributed across 12 months) as an intervention comparedto a traditional school calendar (180-day school year distributed across 9 months) for mitigating children's weight gain and fitness loss viaa natural experiment.Methods. Height, weight, and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) (i.e., Fitnessgram Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run) were measured inchildren (5—12 years old) in 3 schools (2 traditional, 1 year-round, n = 990 students, age = 8.6 土 2.4 years, 53.1% male, 68.9% African American) from1 school district. Structure (represented by the presence of a school day) was the independent variable. Changes in body mass index (BMI), age- andsex-specific BMI z-scores (zBMI), BMI percentile, percent of overweight or obese children, and CRF (Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular EnduranceRun laps completed) were assessed for summer 2017 (May—August 2017), school year 2017/2018 (August 2017—May 2018), and summer 2018(May—August 2018). Primary analyses examined the overall change in weight and CRF from summer 2017 until summer 2018 via multilevel mixedeffects regression, with group (traditional vs. year-round calendar), time, and a group-by-time interaction as the independent variables. Secondaryregression analyses estimated differences in change within and between groups during each time period, separately.Results. Year-round students gained less BMI (difference in A = —0.44, 95% confidence interval (CI): —0.67 to —0.03) and less CRF (differencein △ = — 1.92, 95%CI: —3.56 to —0.28) than students attending a traditional school overall. Compared with traditional students, during both sum・mers, year-round students gained less BMI (summer 2017 difference in A = —0.15, 95%CI: —0.21 to —0.08;summer 2018 difference in△ = —0.16, 95%CI: —0.24 to —0.07) and zBMI (summer 2017 difference in A = —0.032, 95%CI: —0.050 to —0.010;summer 2018 difference in△ = —0.033, 95%CI: —0.056 to —0.009), and increased CRF (summer 2017 difference in A = 0.40, 95%CI: 0.02—0.85;summer 2018 differencein A = 0.23, 95%CI: —0.25 to 0.74). However, the opposite was observed for the school year, with traditional students gaining less BMI andzBMI and increasing CRF compared with year-round students (difference in BMI A = 0.05, 95%CI: 0.03—0.07;difference in zBMI A = 0.012,95%CI: 0.005—0.019;difference in Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run laps A = —0.43, 95%CI: —0.58 to —0.28).Conclusion'. The year-round school calendar had a small beneficial impact on children's weight status but not CRF. It is unclear if this benefit tochildren's weight would be maintained because gains made in the summer were largely erased during the school year. Trajectories of weight andCRF gain/loss were consistent with the structured days hypothesis.展开更多
June 15-17,2015,Rome,Italy6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering(Marine 2015)Tel:+34 93 405 4696Fax:+34 93 205 8347Email:marine@cimne.upc.edu Web Site:http://congress.cimne.com/mar...June 15-17,2015,Rome,Italy6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering(Marine 2015)Tel:+34 93 405 4696Fax:+34 93 205 8347Email:marine@cimne.upc.edu Web Site:http://congress.cimne.com/marine2015/frontal/default.asp July 1-3,2015,Shanghai,China8th International Conference on Behaviour of Steel Structures展开更多
January 9-12, 2006, Emmitsburg, Maryland Advanced HAZUS Multi-Hazards for Hurricane Fax: 301-447-1658 Web Site: http://training.fema.gov/emiweb January 12-13, 2006, Los Angeles, California Design and Renovation of Woo...January 9-12, 2006, Emmitsburg, Maryland Advanced HAZUS Multi-Hazards for Hurricane Fax: 301-447-1658 Web Site: http://training.fema.gov/emiweb January 12-13, 2006, Los Angeles, California Design and Renovation of Wood Structures Fax: 703-295-6144 Email: conted@asce.org Web Site: http://ww.asce.org/conted/ January 12-13, 2006, Miami, Florida Dam Safety and Rehabilitation Fax: 703-295-6144 Email: conted@asce.org Web Site: http://www.asce.org/conted/展开更多
文摘Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway Reports Surge in Revenue.The Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has transported 680,000 passengers and 9.5 million tonnes of cargo,with its annual transportation revenue increasing 39 percent on average over the past six years.The railway’s Chinese management consortium on 17 May disclosed that the 752-km Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has seen the operation of 2,500 passenger trains with a passenger volume of 680,000 since it started commercial operations in January 2018.Data from the railway’s management team also show that the railway has operated 7,700 freighttrains with cargo volume of 9.5 million tonnes,and achieved the total commercial transport revenue of 11.3 billion Ethiopian birr(about$197 million)during the same period.
基金the support of the Fund’s programme named Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department-Applied Basic Research Joint Special Funds of Chinese Medicine(202101AZ070001-061).
文摘Background:Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)as a traditional Chinese medical practice,has gradually evolved into a coherent and systematic medical science based on natural principles and applied to human beings over time.The publication of the“Huangdi Neijing”(The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine,Written between the Warring States period and the Qin and Han Dynasties,and finally compiled in the Western Han Dynasty,from 475 B.C.E.-8 C.E.)signified the establishment of a comprehensive theoretical framework for Chinese medicine.Due to the perspective of the‘correspondence between heaven and man’in TCM,the purpose of this paper is to explore the origin and development of the basic theories of TCM under the ancient astronomical view and the connection between the two.Methods:This paper emphases on the universe uninty with the humanities,philosophy,and medicine,starting with the forms of stargazing in ancient Chinese astronomy and the natural laws derived by the ancients from their observations of natural celestial phenomena.Results:Astronomy,arts and crafts,divination and medical correlations are based on the sequential changes of natural seasons.Conclusion:The operation of natural celestial phenomena and the characteristics of physical phenomena correspond to human physiology,and the development of the basic theories of Chinese medicine is inextricably linked to ancient astronomy,ancient philosophy,and ancient primeval science.
文摘Dear Editor, Lithium-ion(Li-ion) battery has become a promising source to supply and absorb energy/power for many energy-transportation applications. However, Li-ion battery capacity would inevitably degrade over time, making its related ageing prediction necessary.
文摘This paper considers an overall and basic definition of calendar effects,which is one of the market anomalies.As we all know,the efficient market anomalies refer to situations that are difficult to reconcile with the efficient market hypothesis.
文摘October 5-10,2015,Jcju,Korea8th International Conference on Asian Marine Geology(ICAMG-8)Tel:+82-42-868-3013,3192,3210Fax:+82-42-868-3417Email:icamg-8@kigam.re.kr Web Site:http://icamg-8.kigam.re.kr/ICAMG/index.jsp October 7,2015,Surabaya,Indonesia2nd International Conference on Civil Engineering Research
文摘Three new worldwide calendars are proposed and compared in this paper. None of them requires any departure from an existing tradition to divide years on lean and leap. Although all three are pretty accurate, it is demonstrated that the Julian calendar with one additional amendment is the simplest and the most suitable for implementation.
基金Research reported in this publication was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R21HD095164
文摘Purpose: To evaluate the potential of a year-round school calendar (180-day school year distributed across 12 months) as an intervention comparedto a traditional school calendar (180-day school year distributed across 9 months) for mitigating children's weight gain and fitness loss viaa natural experiment.Methods. Height, weight, and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) (i.e., Fitnessgram Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run) were measured inchildren (5—12 years old) in 3 schools (2 traditional, 1 year-round, n = 990 students, age = 8.6 土 2.4 years, 53.1% male, 68.9% African American) from1 school district. Structure (represented by the presence of a school day) was the independent variable. Changes in body mass index (BMI), age- andsex-specific BMI z-scores (zBMI), BMI percentile, percent of overweight or obese children, and CRF (Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular EnduranceRun laps completed) were assessed for summer 2017 (May—August 2017), school year 2017/2018 (August 2017—May 2018), and summer 2018(May—August 2018). Primary analyses examined the overall change in weight and CRF from summer 2017 until summer 2018 via multilevel mixedeffects regression, with group (traditional vs. year-round calendar), time, and a group-by-time interaction as the independent variables. Secondaryregression analyses estimated differences in change within and between groups during each time period, separately.Results. Year-round students gained less BMI (difference in A = —0.44, 95% confidence interval (CI): —0.67 to —0.03) and less CRF (differencein △ = — 1.92, 95%CI: —3.56 to —0.28) than students attending a traditional school overall. Compared with traditional students, during both sum・mers, year-round students gained less BMI (summer 2017 difference in A = —0.15, 95%CI: —0.21 to —0.08;summer 2018 difference in△ = —0.16, 95%CI: —0.24 to —0.07) and zBMI (summer 2017 difference in A = —0.032, 95%CI: —0.050 to —0.010;summer 2018 difference in△ = —0.033, 95%CI: —0.056 to —0.009), and increased CRF (summer 2017 difference in A = 0.40, 95%CI: 0.02—0.85;summer 2018 differencein A = 0.23, 95%CI: —0.25 to 0.74). However, the opposite was observed for the school year, with traditional students gaining less BMI andzBMI and increasing CRF compared with year-round students (difference in BMI A = 0.05, 95%CI: 0.03—0.07;difference in zBMI A = 0.012,95%CI: 0.005—0.019;difference in Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run laps A = —0.43, 95%CI: —0.58 to —0.28).Conclusion'. The year-round school calendar had a small beneficial impact on children's weight status but not CRF. It is unclear if this benefit tochildren's weight would be maintained because gains made in the summer were largely erased during the school year. Trajectories of weight andCRF gain/loss were consistent with the structured days hypothesis.
文摘June 15-17,2015,Rome,Italy6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering(Marine 2015)Tel:+34 93 405 4696Fax:+34 93 205 8347Email:marine@cimne.upc.edu Web Site:http://congress.cimne.com/marine2015/frontal/default.asp July 1-3,2015,Shanghai,China8th International Conference on Behaviour of Steel Structures
文摘January 9-12, 2006, Emmitsburg, Maryland Advanced HAZUS Multi-Hazards for Hurricane Fax: 301-447-1658 Web Site: http://training.fema.gov/emiweb January 12-13, 2006, Los Angeles, California Design and Renovation of Wood Structures Fax: 703-295-6144 Email: conted@asce.org Web Site: http://ww.asce.org/conted/ January 12-13, 2006, Miami, Florida Dam Safety and Rehabilitation Fax: 703-295-6144 Email: conted@asce.org Web Site: http://www.asce.org/conted/
