The quantity of leachate is crucial when assessing pollution emanating from municipal landfills. In most cases, existing leachate quantification measures only take into account one source - precipitation, which resulted in serious underestimation in China due to its waste properties: high moisture contents. To overcome this problem, a new estimation method was established considering two source...

Yong Li is a Research Associate at the School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems, the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Yong obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in flight dynamics from the Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He was working on GPS aerospace applications, first at the Beijing Institute of Control Engineering and then the Japanese Aerospace Exp...

Fuzhuan brick tea, a kind of dark tea consumed mainly in the border regions of Southwestern and Northwestern China since the 1860s, is produced from the leaves of Camellia sinensis var. sinensis by microbial fermentation. From this special fermented tea, a new norisoprenoid, 3R,9R-oxido-5-megastigmene, was isolated, together with α-linolenic acid, strictin, isovitexin, astragalin, (+)-catechin,...

The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) led to a severe terrestrial ecosystem collapse. However, the ecological response of insects EPME remains poorly understood. Here, we report new species assigned Chauliodites , tongchuanensis sp. nov. (Grylloblattida: Chaulioditidae), from Middle Triassic Tongchuan Formation Shaanxi, northwestern China, and redescribe fuyuanensis ( Lin, 1978 ) Lower Kayitou...

Introduction Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most common gastrointestinal cancer and the leading cause of cancer deaths in Iran.1 According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately, 875000 new cases of CRC are diagnosed annually worldwide.2 In general, the most CRCs are immunologically silent tumors, grow slowly and often do not produce symptoms until they reach a large size. The in...

Yigeng Huangfu 1, Shengzhao Pang 1,*, Babak Nahid-Mobarakeh 2, Akshay Rathore 3, Fei Gao 4 and Dongdong Zhao 1 1 School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China; [email protected] (Y.H.); [email protected] (D.Z.) 2 Research Group in Electrical and Electronics, Université de Lorraine, 54518 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France; [email protected] 3...

The subterranean ground beetle genus Guiaphaenops Deuve, 2002 is taxonomically reviewed. This poorly known genus is different from Guizhaphaenops Vigna Taglianti, 1997 in having convex propleura which is visible from above and elytral chaetotaxy especially the humeral group of the marginal umbilicate series, in which the 1st pore is transversely and backwardly shifted. The second species, G. de...

Qiang Zhu,1, b) Vinit Sharma,2, c) Artem R. Oganov,1, 3, 4 and Rampi Ramprasad2 Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, Center for Materials by Design, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, NY 11794, USA Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 06626, CT, USA Department of Problems of Physics...