In her article "McCarthy's The Road and Ethical Choice in a Post-Apocalyptic World" Jingjing Guo analyses ethical choice and its implications in McCarthy's The Road. After examining the deterioration of the ethical context and the prevalence of evil reflected in cannibalism, Guo highlights the father's ethical choice and dilemma. Different from most others, the father chooses to keep alive to p...

In her article "Electronic Literature in China" Jinghua Guo discusses how the reception and the critical contexts of production of online literature are different in China from those in the West despite similar developments in digital technology. Guo traces the development of Chinese digital literature, its history, and the particular characteristics and unique cultural significance in the cont...

Hypochlorous acid (HOCl) produced by myeloperoxidase (MPO) of activated neutrophils can react with nucleic acid bases to form chlorinated nucleosides such as 8-chloroguanosine (Cl-Guo). Chlorination is enhanced by nicotine. We investigated the effects of various natural antioxidants including polyphenolic phytochemicals on the formation of Cl-Guo by HOCl in the presence and the absence of nicot...

Mobile manipulator robotic systems (MMRSs) composed of a manipulator and a mobile platform are investigated in this paper. In order for the mobile manipulator robotic system (MMRS) to return to its initial state when the manipulator’s end-effector is requested to execute cyclical tasks, a quadratic program (QP) based repetitive motion planning and feedback control (RMPFC) scheme is proposed and...

From 1989 through 1996, Urban Drainage and Flood Control District in coordination with the University of Colorado at Denver has dedicated to the development of the concept of storm water quality runoff capture volume (QWCV). Before 1996, the major effort was to analyze tens of hundreds of individual events delimited from a continuous record. A serial of design charts and empirical formulas were...

In J Robot Syst 13(3):177–185 (1996), Ma proposed an efficient technique to stabilize local torque optimization solution of redundant manipulators, which prevents occurrence of high jointvelocity and guarantees the final joint-velocity to be near zero. To prevent the same problems, a different-level simultaneous minimization scheme is proposed in this paper for robotic redundancy resolution, wh...