At the "Chinese Contemporary Literature and Modernism" Symposium held in Hong Kong last December, an interesting topic was feminism or feminism. Two mainland female writers, Wang Anyi and Liu Suola, made a similar declaration in a different way: "I am not a feminist." Some overseas scholars have / X:在去年十二月香港举行的“中国当代文学与现代主义”学术讨论会上,一个绕有兴趣的论题是女权主义或者说女性论。两名大陆女作家王安忆和刘索拉以不同的方式发表了一个类似的宣言:“我不是女权主义者”。一些海外学者就此进行了激

Human-emitted volatile organic compounds and other trace gases often dominate concentrations of occupied indoor atmospheres. With the application of real-time mass spectrometry, it has become possible to measure time-resolved behaviour of breath metabolites, skin emanations including oil oxidation products and microbial VOCs, and other bioeffluents. The temporal and mass spectral resolution enables deeper understanding of their impact on air quality, VOC exposure, and sensory perceptions. Per-person CO2 and VOC emissions derived from similar groups of students indicate consistencies in major breath metabolites. Skin-emitted VOCs can be differentiated from volatilization of consumer care products by their distinctive diurnal patterns. Here we synthesize recent approaches to time-resolved measurements of human bioeffluents by PTRMS to inspire new research directions in indoor air science.

The identification of novel metabolites and the characterization of their biological functions are major challenges in biology. X-ray crystallography can reveal unanticipated ligands that persist through purification and crystallization. These adventitious

The Daya Bay reactor antineutrino experiment is designed to make a precision measurement of the neutrino mixing angle θ13, and recently made the definitive discovery of its non-zero value. It utilizes a set of eight, functionally identical antineutrino detectors to measure the reactor flux and spectrum at baselines of ∼ 300-2000 m from the Daya Bay and Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plants. The Daya Bay antineutrino detectors were built in an above-ground facility and deployed side-by-side at three underground experimental sites near and far from the nuclear reactors. This configuration allows the experiment to make a precision measurement of reactor antineutrino disappearance over km-long baselines and reduces relative systematic uncertainties between detectors and nuclear reactors. This paper describes the assembly and installation of the Daya Bay antineutrino detectors. © 2013 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl.

Research on the spherical torus (or spherical tokamak) (ST) is being pursued to explore the scientific benefits of modifying the field line structue fro that in more moderate aspect ratio devices. The ST experiments are being conducted in various US research facilities. The area of power and particle handling is expected to be challenging because of the higher power density expected in the ST relative to that in conventional aspect-ratio tokamaks.