Changsong Xu,1,2 Bin Xu,2 Yurong Yang,2 Huafeng Dong,3 Artem R. Oganov,3,4,5 Shanying Wang,1 Wenhui Duan,1,6 Binglin Gu,6 and L. Bellaiche2 1State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China 2Physics Department and Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering, University o...

In this paper, the seismic responses control characteristics of Mega-structure, Mega-sub Controlled Structure System (MSCSS) without dampers and MSCSS inserted friction dampers are investigated respectively under rare earthquake by using the elastic-plastic time history analysis method. The distribution of plastic hinges and different control efficiency of these structures under rare earthquake...

J. Song, Y. Huang, J. Xiao, S. Wang, K. C. Hwang, H. C. Ko, D.-H. Kim, M. P. Stoykovich, and J. A. Rogers Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, USA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illino...

www.cjcsysu.com Chinese Anti-Cancer Association CACA 521 Authors′ Affiliations: Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; US Chinese Anti-Cancer Association, Los Angeles, Martinez, CA 94553, USA; Department of Preventive Medicine, The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA; Beijing Cancer Hospital and Institut...

Jian Gaoa* , Bogang Junb Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentlandc Tao Zhoud & César A. Hidalgoe* a CompleX Lab, University of Electronic Science and Technology China, Chengdu, China; Kellogg School Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.b Department Economics, Inha Incheon, South Korea. c MIT Media Massachusetts Institute Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. d China. e Center for Collective Learning, ...

There has been a surge of paleo-climatic/environmental studies of Northwestern China (NW China), a region characterized by a diverse assortment of hydro-climatic systems. Their common approach, however, focuses on "deducing regional resemblance" rather than "exploring regional variance." To date, efforts to produce a quantitative assessment of long-term intra-regional precipitation variability ...

Quaternary climatic cycles have influenced marine organisms' spatial distribution and population dynamics. This study aimed to elucidate the evolutionary influences of contemporary and glacial physical barriers on the population structure, demography and colonization history of the mudskipper (Periophthalmus modestus) based on a mitochondrial gene segment (ND5) from 131 individual fish sampled ...

Da Qaidam and Xiao Qaidam are two of a number of lakes in northwestern China whose lake histories have been used to support the notion of a ‘‘Greatest Lakes’’ period in the region during marine isotope stage (MIS) 3. Reappraisal of the basins’ geomorphology, however, suggests that both lakes are highly problematic proxies for past climate. Xiao Qaidam has a low overflow threshold, only*10–12 m ...

Estimation of field crop evapotranspiration (ETc) and its partitioning into evaporation and transpiration, are of great importance in hydrological modeling and agricultural water management. In this study, we used a dual crop coefficient model SIMDualKc to estimate the actual crop evapotranspiration (ETc act) and the basal crop coefficients over a cotton field in Northwestern China. A two-year ...

CCDC170 and ESR1, located at 6q25.1, were associated with breast cancer (BC) risk by genome-wide association studies. Our goal was to validate the association between CCDC170-ESR1 polymorphisms and BC risk in the population of northwestern China. A case-control study of 551 patients with BC and 577 control individuals was conducted from January 2011 to November 2014. We analyzed five BC-associa...