Urban environments expose animals to abundant anthropogenic materials and foods that facilitate foraging innovations in species with oppor-tunistic diets and high behavioral flexibility.Neophilia and exploration tende...Urban environments expose animals to abundant anthropogenic materials and foods that facilitate foraging innovations in species with oppor-tunistic diets and high behavioral flexibility.Neophilia and exploration tendency are believed to be important behavioral traits for animals thriving in urban environments.Vervet monkeys(Chlorocebus pygerythrus)are one of few primate species that have successfully adapted to urban environments,thus making them an ideal species to study these traits.Using a within-species cross-habitat approach,we compared neophilia and exploration of novel objects(jointly referred to as"object curiosity")between semi-urban,wild,and captive monkeys to shed light on the cognitive traits facilitating urban living.To measure"object curiosity:"we exposed monkeys to various types of novel stimuli and compared their approaches and explorative behavior.Our results revealed differences in the number of approaches and explorative behavior toward novel stimuli between the habitat types considered.Captive vervet monkeys were significantly more explorative than both semi-urban and wild troops,sug-gesting that positive experiences with humans and lack of predation,rather than exposure to human materials per se,influence object curiosity.Across habitats,juvenile males were the most explorative age-sex class.This is likely due to males being the dispersing sex and juveniles being more motivated to learn about their environment.Additionally,we found that items potentially associated with human food,elicited stronger explorative responses in semi-urban monkeys than non-food related objects,suggesting that their motivation to explore might be driven by"anthrophilia'that is,their experience of rewarding foraging on similar anthropogenic food sources.We conclude that varying levels of exposure to humans,predation and pre-exposure to human food packaging explain variation in"object curiosity"in our sample of vervet monkeys.展开更多
Seeing Design in the Ordinary Chief Director:Ye Shen Length:Six Episodes Producers:bilibili,Xiaohe Media Broadcasting Platform:bilibili This is the first 4K documentary series in the field of design.What is good desig...Seeing Design in the Ordinary Chief Director:Ye Shen Length:Six Episodes Producers:bilibili,Xiaohe Media Broadcasting Platform:bilibili This is the first 4K documentary series in the field of design.What is good design?How does a design proceed from inspiration to presentation?The film traces the origin of design in people’s everyday life.Combined with rich animation and creative photography,it presents the designer’s inner world to pique people’s curiosity and make them question the design of objects around them.Through different categories of design,such as folk art,architecture,and public spaces,it provides an understanding of design and its application.展开更多
Veng Soknea,a Cambodian teacher dressed in Hanfu(traditional Han Chinese costume),was all smiles.A group of female students surrounded her,admiring the beauty and solemnity of Hanfu,their eyes full of surprise and cur...Veng Soknea,a Cambodian teacher dressed in Hanfu(traditional Han Chinese costume),was all smiles.A group of female students surrounded her,admiring the beauty and solemnity of Hanfu,their eyes full of surprise and curiosity.Encouraged by their teacher,they also put on Hanfu to experience the unique charm of traditional Chinese costume.展开更多
Cross-cultural education is often understood to mean acquiring cultural knowledge about different cultural groups in order to serve people from diverse groups equitably.However,this article argues that to work effecti...Cross-cultural education is often understood to mean acquiring cultural knowledge about different cultural groups in order to serve people from diverse groups equitably.However,this article argues that to work effectively in cross-cultural situations,we need to learn about our own culture and develop an approach of respectful curiosity.The first goal of cross-cultural education is to understand how culture influences our thoughts,perceptions,biases,and values at an unconscious level.The second goal is to understand the nature of individual cultural identity as a multidimensional and dynamic construct through exploration of our own cultural identity.This exploration helps us understand the limitations of learning about‘others’through learning categorical information and helps us limit the effect of our implicit biases on our interactions.The approach of respectful curiosity is recommended to question our assumptions,understand each unique individual patient,connect with each patient,and build the therapeutic relationship.展开更多
OSA’s dynamic new feature-rich journal article provides the rest If you have the curiosity,but not the time,to track down every paper,image,equation or citation relevant to your research,OSA’s redesigned and signifi...OSA’s dynamic new feature-rich journal article provides the rest If you have the curiosity,but not the time,to track down every paper,image,equation or citation relevant to your research,OSA’s redesigned and significantly enhanced journal article can help.The new format delivers time-saving features that not only increase accessibility and discoverability but also rapidly connect you to an unprecedented amount of relevant content from all other journals on OSA’s Digital Library,Optics Info Base.展开更多
China-based websites mimicking the Groupon model fight for survival in a vicious, overcrowded market After a year of reckless expansion,China’s group buying websites are facing some chilly headwinds.Gaopeng.com, a jo...China-based websites mimicking the Groupon model fight for survival in a vicious, overcrowded market After a year of reckless expansion,China’s group buying websites are facing some chilly headwinds.Gaopeng.com, a joint venture between Groupon and China’s Internet giant Tencent,展开更多
Chemical weathering can occur on Earth and other rocky planets with liquid water on their surfaces.As the Curiosity Mission has revealed that fluvio-lacustrine depositional environments once prevailed in Gale Crater,i...Chemical weathering can occur on Earth and other rocky planets with liquid water on their surfaces.As the Curiosity Mission has revealed that fluvio-lacustrine depositional environments once prevailed in Gale Crater,investigation of sediment geochemistry to interpret chemical weathering history and the possible influence of climate fluctuation seems feasible on Mars.This study examines the relationship between temperature and the degree of weathering inferred from weathering indices,and applies the suitable weathering indices to a compilation of published datasets from Gale Crater sediment.The selected weathering indices(CIA,CIW,PIA,V,W,and WIP)consistently suggest an increase followed by a more gradual increase and decrease in weathering intensity up-section,which might reflect climate variations.However,diagenetic and/or hydrothermal alteration seem to have overprinted the primary weathering signature.展开更多
This text comprises a brief description and summary of THE FLIGHT OF THE BOOMERANG, in which for the first time its author, Gabriel Barceló, presented the Theory of Dynamic Interactions in a book (2006). This boo...This text comprises a brief description and summary of THE FLIGHT OF THE BOOMERANG, in which for the first time its author, Gabriel Barceló, presented the Theory of Dynamic Interactions in a book (2006). This book proposes foundations for new hypotheses in rotational dynamics, which enable us to resolve issues that until today have been unthinkable, such as the anomalies of the Pioneer probes, the essence of dark matter, or the true structure of the cosmos. The Theory of Dynamic Interactions, is a conceptual structure that studies the behavior of rigid solid bodies endowed with angular momentum.展开更多
Depression is one of the most common illnesses affecting college students today. It is often related to low motivation. It can affect the ability to function, think, and feel. In learning process, learners are strongl...Depression is one of the most common illnesses affecting college students today. It is often related to low motivation. It can affect the ability to function, think, and feel. In learning process, learners are strongly affected by motivation. However, there is a group of students that is worthy of being noticed, and it seems that they have no motivation and lose interest in their study and other activities. According to a case study of Mr. WANG, the symptom of his depression was described, and the paper employing motivation theory aims at analyzing the depression severity and what causes depression, in order to uncover the students＇ inner problems and tries to find proper ways to motivate them and help them overcome the feeling of depression. Besides, the paper offers other options for solving the problem, such as speaking with a friend, partner, minister, professional counselor, or psychiatrist to canvass a different perspective展开更多
Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Marlowe’s The Tragedy of Dr.Faustus are important dramatic works of the English Renaissance.Despite the distance between their periods of creation,Shakespeare and Marlowe share the same bac...Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Marlowe’s The Tragedy of Dr.Faustus are important dramatic works of the English Renaissance.Despite the distance between their periods of creation,Shakespeare and Marlowe share the same background of social life,and in the same ideological and cultural context,the two playwrights coincidentally deal with the theme of“nothingness”in their respective works.The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast Macbeth and The Tragedy of Dr.Faustus,and to compare the similarities and differences in characterization and narrative techniques between the two works in exploring the theme of“nothingness”.展开更多
Dr.Kristine Asch IUGS Vice-President(2016–2020).I am a geologist with the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources(BGR),in Hannover,Germany.Growing up in Berlin I was always interested in and curious a...Dr.Kristine Asch IUGS Vice-President(2016–2020).I am a geologist with the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources(BGR),in Hannover,Germany.Growing up in Berlin I was always interested in and curious about the world beyond my divided city.Thanks to my parents’enthusiasm for travel to the Alps and North Sea,I was infected with the desire to see the natural world.展开更多
The short story"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children"presents people's various judgment towards the old man, which are out of their curiosity, and with the popularity of the spider wom...The short story"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children"presents people's various judgment towards the old man, which are out of their curiosity, and with the popularity of the spider woman as a turning point, people's attitude towards the old man changes from judgment to treating him with indifference. Also, as Pelayo and Elisenda's attitude changes from the best judgment of treating him as equal as a human being, to using him to make money, and finally to no judgment, treating him as indifferent, eventually they regard the old man as a burden.展开更多
“Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee,but not impossible to plan for in a sense.I do not think Dr.Whitney deliberately plans his seren...“Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee,but not impossible to plan for in a sense.I do not think Dr.Whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way;he has the art—an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature,so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan.”.展开更多
“There is no such thing as a failed experiment, onlyexperiments with unexpected outcomes.”—Richard Buckminster Fuller, American Architect(1895–1983) 1Each January, we boldly and bravely enter a New Yearthat will b...“There is no such thing as a failed experiment, onlyexperiments with unexpected outcomes.”—Richard Buckminster Fuller, American Architect(1895–1983) 1Each January, we boldly and bravely enter a New Yearthat will be filled with joys and sorrows, accomplishmentsand disappointments, and a full assortment of humanexperiences. It is impossible to approach the first day ofJanuary without feeling a bubbling up of optimism andexcitement for what the next 52 weeks can bring us, bothpersonally and professionally. While many of us mightwish we could know in advance what will happen in thecoming year, such knowledge of the future would makelife dull and predictable, for it is the discovery of theunknown that makes our days, months, and years inter-esting and exhilarating.The uncovering of the unknown and our curiosity toexplore compels those of us in science to move forward,to struggle to develop the next great idea, to trouble-shoot that seemingly impossible code, and to get thecomplex and finicky experiment to eventually work. Likeour research, our life is a grand experiment. But, unlikeour research, we have only one chance at our “life exper-iment.”展开更多
My First Encounter With English I had my first encounter(相遇)with English when I was four.One day in the kindergarten,I was told to give an English show.When I heard the news,I was curious(好奇的)about it,but I knew ...My First Encounter With English I had my first encounter(相遇)with English when I was four.One day in the kindergarten,I was told to give an English show.When I heard the news,I was curious(好奇的)about it,but I knew nothing about English.Then I started to prepare for the show,following my teacher.I neither knew English words nor could pronounce(发音)them.展开更多
These carefully-selected experiences are intended to present my seven-year journey in India featuring curiosity,confusion,and how to seek ways out and outline the overall operation and governance in India as completel...These carefully-selected experiences are intended to present my seven-year journey in India featuring curiosity,confusion,and how to seek ways out and outline the overall operation and governance in India as completely as possible.展开更多
基金the funding agencies behind this research,the Finnish KONE Foundation,the Wenner Gren Foundation,and the Swiss National Science Foundation(CRSK-3_220769)awarded to SE.
文摘Urban environments expose animals to abundant anthropogenic materials and foods that facilitate foraging innovations in species with oppor-tunistic diets and high behavioral flexibility.Neophilia and exploration tendency are believed to be important behavioral traits for animals thriving in urban environments.Vervet monkeys(Chlorocebus pygerythrus)are one of few primate species that have successfully adapted to urban environments,thus making them an ideal species to study these traits.Using a within-species cross-habitat approach,we compared neophilia and exploration of novel objects(jointly referred to as"object curiosity")between semi-urban,wild,and captive monkeys to shed light on the cognitive traits facilitating urban living.To measure"object curiosity:"we exposed monkeys to various types of novel stimuli and compared their approaches and explorative behavior.Our results revealed differences in the number of approaches and explorative behavior toward novel stimuli between the habitat types considered.Captive vervet monkeys were significantly more explorative than both semi-urban and wild troops,sug-gesting that positive experiences with humans and lack of predation,rather than exposure to human materials per se,influence object curiosity.Across habitats,juvenile males were the most explorative age-sex class.This is likely due to males being the dispersing sex and juveniles being more motivated to learn about their environment.Additionally,we found that items potentially associated with human food,elicited stronger explorative responses in semi-urban monkeys than non-food related objects,suggesting that their motivation to explore might be driven by"anthrophilia'that is,their experience of rewarding foraging on similar anthropogenic food sources.We conclude that varying levels of exposure to humans,predation and pre-exposure to human food packaging explain variation in"object curiosity"in our sample of vervet monkeys.
文摘Seeing Design in the Ordinary Chief Director:Ye Shen Length:Six Episodes Producers:bilibili,Xiaohe Media Broadcasting Platform:bilibili This is the first 4K documentary series in the field of design.What is good design?How does a design proceed from inspiration to presentation?The film traces the origin of design in people’s everyday life.Combined with rich animation and creative photography,it presents the designer’s inner world to pique people’s curiosity and make them question the design of objects around them.Through different categories of design,such as folk art,architecture,and public spaces,it provides an understanding of design and its application.
文摘Veng Soknea,a Cambodian teacher dressed in Hanfu(traditional Han Chinese costume),was all smiles.A group of female students surrounded her,admiring the beauty and solemnity of Hanfu,their eyes full of surprise and curiosity.Encouraged by their teacher,they also put on Hanfu to experience the unique charm of traditional Chinese costume.
文摘Cross-cultural education is often understood to mean acquiring cultural knowledge about different cultural groups in order to serve people from diverse groups equitably.However,this article argues that to work effectively in cross-cultural situations,we need to learn about our own culture and develop an approach of respectful curiosity.The first goal of cross-cultural education is to understand how culture influences our thoughts,perceptions,biases,and values at an unconscious level.The second goal is to understand the nature of individual cultural identity as a multidimensional and dynamic construct through exploration of our own cultural identity.This exploration helps us understand the limitations of learning about‘others’through learning categorical information and helps us limit the effect of our implicit biases on our interactions.The approach of respectful curiosity is recommended to question our assumptions,understand each unique individual patient,connect with each patient,and build the therapeutic relationship.
文摘OSA’s dynamic new feature-rich journal article provides the rest If you have the curiosity,but not the time,to track down every paper,image,equation or citation relevant to your research,OSA’s redesigned and significantly enhanced journal article can help.The new format delivers time-saving features that not only increase accessibility and discoverability but also rapidly connect you to an unprecedented amount of relevant content from all other journals on OSA’s Digital Library,Optics Info Base.
文摘China-based websites mimicking the Groupon model fight for survival in a vicious, overcrowded market After a year of reckless expansion,China’s group buying websites are facing some chilly headwinds.Gaopeng.com, a joint venture between Groupon and China’s Internet giant Tencent,
基金supported by the NRF grant funded by the Korean Government(MSIT,No.2022R1A2C1004798)Global-Learning&Academic research institution for Master’s·PhD students,and Postdocs(LAMP)Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)grant funded by the Ministry of Education(No.RS-2023-00301702).
文摘Chemical weathering can occur on Earth and other rocky planets with liquid water on their surfaces.As the Curiosity Mission has revealed that fluvio-lacustrine depositional environments once prevailed in Gale Crater,investigation of sediment geochemistry to interpret chemical weathering history and the possible influence of climate fluctuation seems feasible on Mars.This study examines the relationship between temperature and the degree of weathering inferred from weathering indices,and applies the suitable weathering indices to a compilation of published datasets from Gale Crater sediment.The selected weathering indices(CIA,CIW,PIA,V,W,and WIP)consistently suggest an increase followed by a more gradual increase and decrease in weathering intensity up-section,which might reflect climate variations.However,diagenetic and/or hydrothermal alteration seem to have overprinted the primary weathering signature.
文摘This text comprises a brief description and summary of THE FLIGHT OF THE BOOMERANG, in which for the first time its author, Gabriel Barceló, presented the Theory of Dynamic Interactions in a book (2006). This book proposes foundations for new hypotheses in rotational dynamics, which enable us to resolve issues that until today have been unthinkable, such as the anomalies of the Pioneer probes, the essence of dark matter, or the true structure of the cosmos. The Theory of Dynamic Interactions, is a conceptual structure that studies the behavior of rigid solid bodies endowed with angular momentum.
文摘Depression is one of the most common illnesses affecting college students today. It is often related to low motivation. It can affect the ability to function, think, and feel. In learning process, learners are strongly affected by motivation. However, there is a group of students that is worthy of being noticed, and it seems that they have no motivation and lose interest in their study and other activities. According to a case study of Mr. WANG, the symptom of his depression was described, and the paper employing motivation theory aims at analyzing the depression severity and what causes depression, in order to uncover the students＇ inner problems and tries to find proper ways to motivate them and help them overcome the feeling of depression. Besides, the paper offers other options for solving the problem, such as speaking with a friend, partner, minister, professional counselor, or psychiatrist to canvass a different perspective
文摘Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Marlowe’s The Tragedy of Dr.Faustus are important dramatic works of the English Renaissance.Despite the distance between their periods of creation,Shakespeare and Marlowe share the same background of social life,and in the same ideological and cultural context,the two playwrights coincidentally deal with the theme of“nothingness”in their respective works.The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast Macbeth and The Tragedy of Dr.Faustus,and to compare the similarities and differences in characterization and narrative techniques between the two works in exploring the theme of“nothingness”.
文摘Dr.Kristine Asch IUGS Vice-President(2016–2020).I am a geologist with the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources(BGR),in Hannover,Germany.Growing up in Berlin I was always interested in and curious about the world beyond my divided city.Thanks to my parents’enthusiasm for travel to the Alps and North Sea,I was infected with the desire to see the natural world.
文摘The short story"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children"presents people's various judgment towards the old man, which are out of their curiosity, and with the popularity of the spider woman as a turning point, people's attitude towards the old man changes from judgment to treating him with indifference. Also, as Pelayo and Elisenda's attitude changes from the best judgment of treating him as equal as a human being, to using him to make money, and finally to no judgment, treating him as indifferent, eventually they regard the old man as a burden.
基金Donna J.Minton,Dr.Director of Publications,CCS E-mail:donna.minton@chinesechemsoc.org。
文摘“Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee,but not impossible to plan for in a sense.I do not think Dr.Whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way;he has the art—an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature,so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan.”.
文摘“There is no such thing as a failed experiment, onlyexperiments with unexpected outcomes.”—Richard Buckminster Fuller, American Architect(1895–1983) 1Each January, we boldly and bravely enter a New Yearthat will be filled with joys and sorrows, accomplishmentsand disappointments, and a full assortment of humanexperiences. It is impossible to approach the first day ofJanuary without feeling a bubbling up of optimism andexcitement for what the next 52 weeks can bring us, bothpersonally and professionally. While many of us mightwish we could know in advance what will happen in thecoming year, such knowledge of the future would makelife dull and predictable, for it is the discovery of theunknown that makes our days, months, and years inter-esting and exhilarating.The uncovering of the unknown and our curiosity toexplore compels those of us in science to move forward,to struggle to develop the next great idea, to trouble-shoot that seemingly impossible code, and to get thecomplex and finicky experiment to eventually work. Likeour research, our life is a grand experiment. But, unlikeour research, we have only one chance at our “life exper-iment.”
文摘My First Encounter With English I had my first encounter(相遇)with English when I was four.One day in the kindergarten,I was told to give an English show.When I heard the news,I was curious(好奇的)about it,but I knew nothing about English.Then I started to prepare for the show,following my teacher.I neither knew English words nor could pronounce(发音)them.
文摘These carefully-selected experiences are intended to present my seven-year journey in India featuring curiosity,confusion,and how to seek ways out and outline the overall operation and governance in India as completely as possible.
