When the Yellow River flows through Hetao Plain in Inner Mongolia, north China, it forms a mountain-river-desert system with Yin Mountains on one side and Hobq desert other side. In this system, dense growth of green grass is formed area fronting river mountains at back, however, opposite river, has an inherent trend to lost moisture, which might cause desertification. This study verifies theor...

Thomas Schelling observed that when people use self-command to prevent their future selves from acting waywardly, they eVectively divide themselves into two selves with conXicting desires for the same point. In the morning, for example, a dieter may not want dessert at dinnertime but change his mind when at table. This raises the question of which self is authentic or rational. Or, if we are as...

Nature developed numerous solutions to solve various technical problems related to material surfaces by combining the physico-chemical properties of a material with periodically aligned micro/nanostructures in a sophisticated manner. The utilization of ultra-short pulsed lasers allows mimicking numerous of these features by generating laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS). In this r...

My concern about diet as a public health problem began in the early 1950s in Naples, where we observed very low incidences of coronary heart disease associated with what we later came to call the "good Mediterranean diet." The heart of this diet is mainly vegetarian, and differs from American and northern European diets in that it is much lower in meat and dairy products and uses fruit for dess...