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Drought control and resistance affect national food security. With this in mind, we studied five main grain-producing regions of China: Sanjiang Plain, Songnen Plain, Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, the middle Yangtze River and Jianghuai region and Sichuan Basin. Using GIS technology, we evaluated the comprehensive agricultural drought situation based on major crops, the basic drought resistance by integ...

If history is aligned with metaphysics, it can promote universality, and until this alignment occurs, one culture, or people, age has little chance of being successfully compared another. Individual histories isolated periods time, such as ancient Egypt, Aztec America, the Louis XIV are important individually, but they confer meaning when others, that is, if comparable at all. It task historian...

ActorsOnlyRule(v:ACViewClass) ::= §o:ObjectClass· o∈v ∧o∈find_all_abstract_actors () Query22 find_all_abstract_actors()::= §a:SpecifiedActorElementClass· (a in AbstractActorElementClass) 5.2.5 Plain-Actors-Only view Informal description A Plain-Actors-Only view presents plain actors, their direct specified actors, and the “specifies” links that connect them. master-thesis-v4.4.doc 93/231 9/1/20...

We introduce a technique for creating novel, enhanced thumbnails of Web pages. These thumbnails combine the advantages of plain thumbnails and text summaries to provide consistent performance on a variety of tasks. We conducted a study in which participants used three different types of summaries (enhanced thumbnails, plain thumbnails, and text summaries) to search Web pages to find several dif...

A biochemical world that would have existed before the contemporary DNA-RNA-Protein world, and baptized in 1986 «The RNA World» by Walter Gilbert (Gilbert, 1986), such a world had already been proposed during the preceding decades by Carl Woese, Francis By demonstrating the remarkable diversity of the RNA molecule, Molecular Biology proved these predictions. RNA present in all living cells, per...

The beaux and belles o£ the faststepping nineties came to life again last Wednesday when the Architectural Society of Rice Institute staged a Gay Nineties Ball at the Junior League Building. Ray Watkin, daughter of the head of the department ot architecture at the Rice Institute, reigned supreme at the social, function as Queen of the Arch Arts. Girls robed in long, flowing gowns curtsied to th...

This issue of IJE includes a theme on autism edited by two of us (Ezra Susser and Michealine Bresnahan). Our colleague Guohua Li joins us to write this introduction. In choosing this topic we venture into territory marked by controversy and conflict. The heat of the conflict is reflected in two recently published books, reviewed here by Stein and by Grinker. One of the flashpoints of controvers...

The Web has become a popular starting point for many innovations targeting infrastructure, services, and applications. One of the challenges of today’s vast Web landscape is to monitor ongoing developments, put them into context, and assess their chances of success. One of the main virtues of a more scientific approach towards the Web landscape would be a clear differentiation between approache...