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TIMS U-series ages of speleothems from the Tangshan caves, Nan**g
U-series ages of a set of speleothem samples from the two caves near Tangshan Town, Nan**g, determined by thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS), range from older than 500 KaBP to around 20 kaBP. These d...
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The explosive growth of the World Wide Web has resulted in a distributed database consisting of hundreds of millions of documents. While existing search engines index a page based on the text that is readily e...
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Correlation between high-resolution climate records from a Nan**g stalagmite and GRIP ice core during the last glaciation
A 400-mm-long stalagmite from Tangshan Cave, Nan**g has been analyzed by a high-precision TIMS-U series dating method and also determined for oxygen and carbon stable isotopic compositions. The results provid...
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Cyclic softening properties of 30Cr2MoV steel at elevated temperatures
Low cycle fatigue tests for 30Cr2MoV steel are done at both room and elevated temperatures and their softening properties are investigated. Based on the experimental results, a quantitative relationship betwee...
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A high-resolution stalagmite O-C isotope record from Nan**g and its rapid response to climatic events
Here we discussed rapid response of the cave temperature and vegetation to the four Dansgaard-Oeschger cold and warm cycles during 50-40 kaBP based on results of oxygen and carbon stable isotopic compositions ...
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A quick cooling event of the East Asian monsoon responding to Heinrich Event 1: Evidence from stalagmite δ18O records
Based on TIMS U-series dating results and annual band counting method, an annual-resolution time scale from 17450 to 14420 aBP has been established for a stalagmite from the Hulu Cave at Tangshan, Nan**g. A h...
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A continuous 3000-year precipitation record of ENSO variability during LGM from a stalagmite in Nan**g
A glacial stalagmite chronology from Nan**g has been established by the TIMS-U series dating and annual band counting methods. The annually layering sequence spanning the 3000-year period from 18179 to 14900 ...
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Long-Term Monitoring and Prediction for Settlement and Composition of Refuse in Shanghai Laogang Municipal Landfill
Parameters about composition of refuse such as mass percentage of biodegradable matter, volatile solid, organic carbon, cellulose, total sugar, and settlement were monitored and analyzed in a large-scale exper...
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A Toolkit for Automatically Modeling and Simulating 3D Multi-articulation Entity in Distributed Virtual Environment
This paper describes the Entity Modeling and Simulating Platform (EMS), a toolkit which can automatically model and simulate multi-articulation entities (actor or avatar) in a distributed virtual environment. ...
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The first-order phase transition and colossal magnetoresistance effects in bulk Gd-doped La0.67Sr0.33MnO3
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Abrupt climate change of East Asian Monsoon at 130 kaBP inferred from a high resolution stalagmite δ18O record
230Th ages and oxygen isotope data of a stalagmite from Shanbao Cave in Hubei Province characterize the East Asian Monsoon precipitation from 133 to 127 ka. The decadal-scale high-resolut...
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Complicated responses of stalagmite δ 13C to climate change during the last glaciation from Hulu Cave, Nan**g, China
We present a record on carbon stable isotopic composition (δ 13C), covering 75 through 10 thousands years ago (ka B.P.), from Hulu Cave, Nan**g. The overlap** d 13C profiles are very similar in pattern and ran...
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Long-term trend and abrupt events of the Holocene Asian monsoon inferred from a stalagmite δ10O record from Shennongjia in Central China
A high-resolution oxygen-isotope record from a thorium-uranium-dated stalagmite from Shanbao Cave at Shennongjia reflects variations in the amount of monsoon precipitation for the period from 11.5 to 2.1 ka (1...
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Imprint of solar activity on Nan**g stalagmite annual layer thickness sequence during the Last Glacial Maximum
A 3000-year-long stalagmite chronology from Hulu Cave near Nan**g was established by counting annual layers under microscope. Based on the 230Th age, this chronology covers the period 24-21 kaBP, within the Last...
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Application of Trefftz BEM to anti-plane piezoelectric problem
Anti-plane electroelastic problems are studied by the Trefftz boundary element method (BEM) in this paper. The Trefftz BEM is based on a weighted residual formulation and indirect boundary approach. In particu...
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Three-dimensional analytical solution for a rotating disc of functionally graded materials with transverse isotropy
Based on the basic equations for axisymmetric problems of transversely isotropic elastic materials, the displacement components are expressed in terms of polynomials of the radial coordinate with the five invo...
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Synthesis of Fe-substituted CoSb3-based skutterudite Co4−x Fe x Sb12 by mechanical alloying-hot pressing-annealing
Mechanical alloying and preparation of Fesubstituted CoSb3-based skutterudite Co4−x Fe x Sb12 (x⩽1) were studied. All the compositions showed similar kinetics in ...
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Prevention of chemotherapy-induced alopecia in rodent models
Alopecia (hair loss) is experienced by thousands of cancer patients every year. Substantial-to-severe alopecia is induced by anthracyclines (e.g., adriamycin), taxanes (e.g., taxol), alkylating compounds (e.g....
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Observation of a higher JAK2 V617F homozygous mutated clone in polycythemia vera compared to essential thrombocythemia
Single-tube bi-directional allele specific amplification (SB-ASA) and real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RQ-PCR) assays were developed and performed for JAK2V617F detection on 40 polycythemia ve...
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Preparation and microwave properties of Mg doped barium strontium titanate (BSTO) ceramics sintered from Sol–Gel-derived powders
Studies on the Preparation and microwave properties of Mg doped barium strontium titanate (BSTO) ceramics sintered from Sol–Gel-derived powders. The crystal structure and microstructure of Ba0.60Sr0.40TiO3 cerami...