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23 December 2008, Volume 30 Issue 6

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Invited Special Paper

Wind energy and its applications

LIN Zong-hu

2008, 30(6):  309-314. 

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Wind energy is a clean, abundant resource of renewable energy. It does not produce greenhouse gases. Economically and technically, the wind is a preferred alternative energy in the current days because of the depletion of mineral resources and deteriorating environment. So the development and utilization of wind energy are accelerating all over the world now. In this article, the causes and characteristics of the wind are described, the valuation method of wind energy reserves and wind energy in China and in the world are presented. In the mean time, the wind power technology, trends and prospects are focused on. In addition, the use of wind energy technology and the present situation are introduced, such as wind power water-lifting, wind-aided sailing and wind power heating.

Viruses and Human Health: A Brief Introduction to the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008

TIAN Xiaochen;WEN Yu-Mei

2008, 30(6):  315-318. 

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 was awarded to Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discoveries of two viruses causing severe human diseases. In this paper, the close association of viruses and human health was discussed.

Articles

Symmetry Breaking of the Matter World

XING Zhi-zhong;ZHOU Shun

2008, 30(6):  319-323. 

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Because of their great contributions to the dynamics of symmetry breaking in elementary particle physics, the Japan-born American theorist Yoichiro Nambu from the Enrico Fermi Institute (University of Chicago, USA) and the Japanese theorists Makoto Kobayashi from the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK, Japan) and Toshihide Maskawa from the Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics (Kyoto University, Japan) have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008. In this essay, we shall briefly introduce their awarded works and the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe.

Three landmarks during the research of the green fluorescent protein (GFP): a brief introduction to the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

CUI Zhi-fang;ZOU Yu-hong;JI Ai-yun

2008, 30(6):  324-328. 

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American scientists Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien are jointly awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry on 8 October, 2008 for their extraordinary discovery and reconstruction of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). The research history and the application field of GFP were discussed in the paper.

Molar-Tooth Carbonates Which is a Bizarrerie Rock Type in Paleo-Ocean

GE Ming;MENG Xiang-hua

2008, 30(6):  329-333. 

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Molar-tooth Carboantes, which is a bizarrerie rock type, holds an important position in Meso-Neoproterozoic paleo-ocean carbonate deposition. These years, precambrian research has made great progress, espercially with development of further research on global events, stratigraphy and paleocontinent reconstraction, Molar-tooth Carboantes become the Meso-Neoproterozoic hot point. And it disappears with the arrival of Varanger/Marinoan before 700Ma. Because its development and disappearance have respect to origins of life on Earth, ocean carbonates deposition and geochemical mutation, Molar-tooth Carboantes is one of the keys to Precambrian biological and geochemical events. In other words, Molar-tooth Carboantes have become a critical geological event for exploring early earth ocean environment, origins of life and proterozoic international stratigraphic correlation. The IGCP 447 approved by UNESCO/ IUGS have studied indetail about proterozoic Molar-tooth Carboantes and evolution of earth, espercially made an improtant progress in its origin and global paleocontinent stratigraphic correlation.


Response of mammalian evolution to the Neogene climatic and environmental changes in China

Deng Tao

2008, 30(6):  334-339. 

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The Neogene was the period when the global environment had significant variations, and the formation and evolvement of the Tibetan Plateau were the important driving force for the changes of the Asian and even global environment. To recognize the distribution patterns and ecological characteristics of the Neogene mammals from the Tibetan to Mongolian plateaus is an effective method to know the alteration of the Tibetan Plateau’s uplift to the terrain and climate in China as well as the influence to the global climatic model. Mammals are very sensitive for climatic and environmental changes, and there are advantaged Neogene mammalian fossils in China. The Linxia Basin and central Mongolian Plateau are situated respectively in the sedimentary and affected regions of the Tibetan Plateau’s uplift, and there are well-exposed deposits to reflect the uplift and paleoclimate and very abundant mammalian fossils in the two regions. The result of comparative studies in the Linxia Basin and central Mongolian Plateau will have scientific significance to understand a series of important global environmental and ecological events during the Neogene, especially the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, the formation of the Asian monsoon, and biotic dispersal and migration.



Popular Legends Aammonite Fossils

YIN Jia-run;TIAN YingZHANG Yi

2008, 30(6):  340-343. 

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Ammonites are an extinct marine fauna, living for a length about 300 million-years; they have high scientific values in stratigraphy and paleontology. Moreover, ammonite fossils have contributed to mythology and palce names to a surprising high degree, due to their beautiful shell, varied forms, and well-preserved samples. There were popular legends about ammonites many years ago.



Drylands ：sustenance for agricultural development in the future

LI Sheng-xiu;

2008, 30(6):  344-349. 

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The rapid growth of population and the increasing demands for food and fiber while facing the shortage supply of water and land reduction have forced people to pay attention to the dryland agriculture, i.e. a kind of agriculture being conducted in the dry subhumid and semiarid areas without irrigation. Drylands have large areas that can be used for agriculture and the precipitation has a certain potential for agricultural production. However, a shortage of water supply and serious wind and water erosion seriously limit agricultural development. A full use of natural precipitation is the basis for agricultural development, including summer fallow, water harvesting, mulching and national fertilization to raise water use efficiency.


SCience:Kindling in Winter

ZHAO Zhuo—xi

2008, 30(6):  350-353. 

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The evolvement and cultivation of industrial eco-system based on self-organization of system

WU Peng-ju;GUO Guang-pu;KONG Zheng-hong;ZHANG Yan-fang④;JI Chuan-wei

2008, 30(6):  354-358. 

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Low efficiency, insufficient impetus as well as instability commonly lied in currently built eco-industrial systems, and these are needed to discuss the evolvement and development of industrial eco-system and the application of its theory. Based on the self-organization theory of systems, we carefully explore three premises: openness, unequilibrium and nonlinearness that define an industrial ecosystem as being self organizing. Evolvement rules of self-organizing industrial ecosystems are also addressed with demonstrations of forest industrial eco-system of Uimaharju in Finland. Unsuitable knowledge exists in relevant studies and applications due to their failing to recognize industrial ecosystem as self organizing rather than being organized during the concept’s development. A fully discussion has been carried out with respect to those biased recognitions and we then come up with principles concerning self organizing capacity cultivation.


Funtion and Mechanism of Intellectual Images in Mathematical Discovery

TANG Zhi-hua;XU Li-quan

2008, 30(6):  359-363. 

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N.Tinbergen’s life and work

ZHAO Xin;LIU Ding-zhen

2008, 30(6):  364-367. 

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