MiguelÁngel Asturias’work titled Men of Maize stands as a significant masterpiece within the realm of Latin American magical realism literature.It unfolds and discloses the profound and abiding antagonism that e...MiguelÁngel Asturias’work titled Men of Maize stands as a significant masterpiece within the realm of Latin American magical realism literature.It unfolds and discloses the profound and abiding antagonism that exists between Indian culture and modern capitalism by means of a prose narrative that is rendered in a poeticized fashion,replete with rich mythological symbols as well as complex social conflicts that are intricately interwoven.This paper undertakes an analysis across four distinct aspects,namely the backdrop or setting against which the work was created,the very definition along with the characteristic features that are emblematic of magical realism,the context or background within which it came into being and subsequently developed,and the specific and tangible manifestations of the magical realist writing techniques as they are exemplified in Men of Maize.The study that has been conducted reveals that Men of Maize manages to demonstrate the historical fissure or divide and the cultural antagonism that pervades Latin American society through the employment of techniques such as the clash of cultures,a non-traditional narrative structure that breaks away from the norm,and the symbolism associated with deities.Moreover,it simultaneously engages in a profound and incisive reflection upon the marginalization of traditional culture during the course of the modernization process.The creative output of Asturias is not solely a critique leveled at the social reality of Latin America;rather,it also represents an exploration of the common issues and challenges that are faced by mankind at large,thereby laying down an important and substantial foundation for the further development of magical realism literature.展开更多
Find It What did the old woman give Lucy?Once upon a time,a poor girl named Lucy lived in a small village.She was kind and helped others when she could.But she and her mother were often very hungry because they were p...Find It What did the old woman give Lucy?Once upon a time,a poor girl named Lucy lived in a small village.She was kind and helped others when she could.But she and her mother were often very hungry because they were poor.展开更多
Multiparent advanced generation inter-cross(MAGIC)populations improve the accuracy of quantitative trait loci mapping compared to biparental populations by increasing diversity and reducing linkage disequilibrium betw...Multiparent advanced generation inter-cross(MAGIC)populations improve the accuracy of quantitative trait loci mapping compared to biparental populations by increasing diversity and reducing linkage disequilibrium between variants.Here we describe the development of two MAGIC populations derived from a cross of 11 founder lines from the INTA(National Institute for Agricultural Technology in Argentina)sunflower breeding program.The founder lines are fertility maintainer inbred lines that exhibit genetic diversity in several traits,including flowering cycle,plant architecture,disease resistance,oil content and oil quality.The crossing scheme applied follows the design of two-way,four-way and eight-way crosses with a modification to increase the number of recombinations and shorten the linkage disequilibrium.Phenotyping a subset of F_(2)families and F_5 lines for different traits shows an increase in the diversity of the analyzed traits compared to the parental lines.In addition,we identified lines with transgressive segregation for Sunflower Verticillium Wilt resistance.These results confirm that the MAGIC populations will serve as unique genetic and genomic resources to better characterize the genetics of complex traits and identify potentially superior alleles for sunflower breeding.It will also enrich the gene pool of fertility maintainers(A/B line)of the sunflower germplasm and facilitate the introduction of new breeding methods to select female parents for use in AxR combinations to obtain superior sunflower hybrids.展开更多
We connect magic(non-stabilizer)states,symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measures(SIC-POVMs),and mutually unbiased bases(MUBs)in the context of group frames,and study their interplay.Magic st...We connect magic(non-stabilizer)states,symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measures(SIC-POVMs),and mutually unbiased bases(MUBs)in the context of group frames,and study their interplay.Magic states are quantum resources in the stabilizer formalism of quantum computation.SIC-POVMs and MUBs are fundamental structures in quantum information theory with many applications in quantum foundations,quantum state tomography,and quantum cryptography,etc.In this work,we study group frames constructed from some prominent magic states,and further investigate their applications.Our method exploits the orbit of discrete Heisenberg-Weyl group acting on an initial fiducial state.We quantify the distance of the group frames from SIC-POVMs and MUBs,respectively.As a simple corollary,we reproduce a complete family of MUBs of any prime dimensional system by introducing the concept of MUB fiducial states,analogous to the well-known SIC-POVM fiducial states.We present an intuitive and direct construction of MUB fiducial states via quantum T-gates,and demonstrate that for the qubit system,there are twelve MUB fiducial states,which coincide with the H-type magic states.We compare MUB fiducial states and SIC-POVM fiducial states from the perspective of magic resource for stabilizer quantum computation.We further pose the challenging issue of identifying all MUB fiducial states in general dimensions.展开更多
This photo,taken on 1 December 2024,captures the Danxia landform in Zhangye,Gansu Province,northwest China.Known for its striking reddish sandstone formations,the landscape is partially blanketed in snow.
The film market during the Spring Festival in the year of the snake can be described as “YOLO”(which means hot),with six films are released simultaneously, including Ne Zha 2, Detective Chinatown 1900, Boonie Bears:...The film market during the Spring Festival in the year of the snake can be described as “YOLO”(which means hot),with six films are released simultaneously, including Ne Zha 2, Detective Chinatown 1900, Boonie Bears:Future Reborn,Operation Hadal, Creation of the Gods II:Demon Force (hereinafter referred to as Creation of the Gods II) and Legends of The Condor Heroes:The Gallants.These movies show a variety of national and patriotic feelings and traditional culture. Among them, Ne Zha 2 has been constantly breaking record since the box office exceeded RMB 14 billion.展开更多
As animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2 and the video game Black Myth:Wukong have become all the rage globally,Chinese culture is in the international spotlight again.Since its release in January 29,Chinese animated film Ne ...As animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2 and the video game Black Myth:Wukong have become all the rage globally,Chinese culture is in the international spotlight again.Since its release in January 29,Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2 has been making history.It entered the list of the all-time global box office top 10 only 20 days later,with ticket sales surpassing RMB 12 billion.It is also the world’s highest-grossing animated movie of all time,and the highest-grosser in a single market.IMDb gave it an 8.3 rating as of February 20,reflecting its universal appeal.展开更多
Background Cotton is an important cash crop in China and a key component of the global textile market.Verticil-lium wilt is a major factor affecting cotton yield.Single nucleotide polymorphism(SNP)markers and phenotyp...Background Cotton is an important cash crop in China and a key component of the global textile market.Verticil-lium wilt is a major factor affecting cotton yield.Single nucleotide polymorphism(SNP)markers and phenotypic data can be used to identify genetic markers and loci associated with cotton resistance to Verticillium wilt.We used eight upland cotton parent materials in this study to construct a multiparent advanced generation inter-cross(MAGIC)population comprising 320 lines.The Verticillium wilt resistance of the MAGIC population was identified in the green-house in 2019,and the average relative disease index(ARDI)was calculated.A genome-wide association study(GWAS)was performed to discover SNP markers/genes associated with Verticillium wilt resistance.Results ARDI of the MAGIC population showed wide variation,ranging from 16.7 to 79.4 across three replicates.This variation reflected a diverse range of resistance to Verticillium wilt within the population.Analysis of distribution pat-terns across the environments revealed consistent trends,with coefficients of variation between 12.25%and 21.96%.Families with higher ARDI values,indicating stronger resistance,were more common,likely due to genetic diver-sity and environmental factors.Population structure analysis divided the MAGIC population into three subgroups,with Group I showing higher genetic variation and Groups II and III displaying more uniform resistance performance.Principal component analysis(PCA)confirmed these divisions,highlighting the genetic diversity underlying Verticil-lium wilt resistance.Through GWAS,we identified 19 SNPs significantly associated with Verticillium wilt resistance,distributed across three chromosomes.The screening of candidate genes was performed on the transcriptome derived from resistant and susceptible cultivars,combined with gene annotation and tissue expression patterns,and two key candidate genes,Ghir_A01G006660 and Ghir_A02G008980,were found to be potentially associated with Verticillium wilt resistance.This suggests that these two candidate genes may play an important role in responding to Verticillium wilt.Conclusion This study aims to dissect the genetic basis of Verticillium wilt resistance in cotton by using a MAGIC population and GWAS.The study seeks to provide valuable genetic resources for marker-assisted breeding and enhance the understanding of resistance mechanisms to improve cotton resilience against Verticillium wilt.展开更多
The color cluster red,black and white occurs in the artistic,ritual and magical activities of virtually all cultures around the world,suggesting their preeminence in human symbolic thought.Among the various explanatio...The color cluster red,black and white occurs in the artistic,ritual and magical activities of virtually all cultures around the world,suggesting their preeminence in human symbolic thought.Among the various explanations that have been brought forth to account for the special status of these three colors are:1)evolutionary/ecological arguments,drawing support from vision science,perceptual philosophy and primate biology;2)cognitive arguments,which pay attention to how human beings categorize and create meaning out of perceptual experiences;3)linguistic arguments,as these are the earliest lexicalized color words in most languages;4)and diverse socio-cultural arguments.This paper will explore the manifestation of red,black and white–both in concrete terms,through the use and manipulation of materials,as well as abstract ideas–in Assyrian and Babylonian magical and ritual activities.It will highlight how meaning is created and communicated by relating colors to natural and supernatural phenomena and will further attempt to provide a methodological framework for the analysis of color symbolism.展开更多
By combining experimental α-decay energies and half-lives, the α-particle preformation factor for nuclei around neutron magic numbers N of 126, 152, and 162 were extracted using the two-potential approach. The nucle...By combining experimental α-decay energies and half-lives, the α-particle preformation factor for nuclei around neutron magic numbers N of 126, 152, and 162 were extracted using the two-potential approach. The nuclei around the shell closure were more tightly bound than adjacent nuclei. Additionally, based on the WS4 mass model (Wang et al., Phys. Lett.B 734, 215 (2014)), we extended the two-potential approach to predict the α-decay half-lives of nuclei around N values of178 and 184 with Z of 119 and 120. We believe that our findings will serve as guidelines for future experimental studies.展开更多
The term“Black Girl Magic”has slipped into our literary vocabulary.The term refers to Black female characters in literary works by writers such as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker who challenge the dehumanizing elemen...The term“Black Girl Magic”has slipped into our literary vocabulary.The term refers to Black female characters in literary works by writers such as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker who challenge the dehumanizing elements of Black female existence.Can white writers create Black Girl Magic?This essay suggest that they can,offering as examples Eliza Harris in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dilsey Gibson in William Faulkner’s 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury.展开更多
China's first triple-A video game "Black Myth:Wukong" has not only made waves in the global gaming industry,but has also brought the allure of Chinese culture to the world stage.Inspired by the classic n...China's first triple-A video game "Black Myth:Wukong" has not only made waves in the global gaming industry,but has also brought the allure of Chinese culture to the world stage.Inspired by the classic novel"Journey to the West",the game was filmed at 36 scenic spots in China,with up to 27 of these locations being in Shanxi Province.展开更多
文摘MiguelÁngel Asturias’work titled Men of Maize stands as a significant masterpiece within the realm of Latin American magical realism literature.It unfolds and discloses the profound and abiding antagonism that exists between Indian culture and modern capitalism by means of a prose narrative that is rendered in a poeticized fashion,replete with rich mythological symbols as well as complex social conflicts that are intricately interwoven.This paper undertakes an analysis across four distinct aspects,namely the backdrop or setting against which the work was created,the very definition along with the characteristic features that are emblematic of magical realism,the context or background within which it came into being and subsequently developed,and the specific and tangible manifestations of the magical realist writing techniques as they are exemplified in Men of Maize.The study that has been conducted reveals that Men of Maize manages to demonstrate the historical fissure or divide and the cultural antagonism that pervades Latin American society through the employment of techniques such as the clash of cultures,a non-traditional narrative structure that breaks away from the norm,and the symbolism associated with deities.Moreover,it simultaneously engages in a profound and incisive reflection upon the marginalization of traditional culture during the course of the modernization process.The creative output of Asturias is not solely a critique leveled at the social reality of Latin America;rather,it also represents an exploration of the common issues and challenges that are faced by mankind at large,thereby laying down an important and substantial foundation for the further development of magical realism literature.
文摘Find It What did the old woman give Lucy?Once upon a time,a poor girl named Lucy lived in a small village.She was kind and helped others when she could.But she and her mother were often very hungry because they were poor.
基金supported by a doctoral grant from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council(Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y T ecnicas,CONICET)the National Institute of Agricultural Technology(INTA)+1 种基金by projects funded by INTA(CP_2019–2023 I-114,I-127,I-090/2023–2025 I-111,I-87)Agencia Nacional de Promocio n Científica y T ecnica(PICT 2017N?2523)。
文摘Multiparent advanced generation inter-cross(MAGIC)populations improve the accuracy of quantitative trait loci mapping compared to biparental populations by increasing diversity and reducing linkage disequilibrium between variants.Here we describe the development of two MAGIC populations derived from a cross of 11 founder lines from the INTA(National Institute for Agricultural Technology in Argentina)sunflower breeding program.The founder lines are fertility maintainer inbred lines that exhibit genetic diversity in several traits,including flowering cycle,plant architecture,disease resistance,oil content and oil quality.The crossing scheme applied follows the design of two-way,four-way and eight-way crosses with a modification to increase the number of recombinations and shorten the linkage disequilibrium.Phenotyping a subset of F_(2)families and F_5 lines for different traits shows an increase in the diversity of the analyzed traits compared to the parental lines.In addition,we identified lines with transgressive segregation for Sunflower Verticillium Wilt resistance.These results confirm that the MAGIC populations will serve as unique genetic and genomic resources to better characterize the genetics of complex traits and identify potentially superior alleles for sunflower breeding.It will also enrich the gene pool of fertility maintainers(A/B line)of the sunflower germplasm and facilitate the introduction of new breeding methods to select female parents for use in AxR combinations to obtain superior sunflower hybrids.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China,Grant No.2020YFA0712700the National Natural Science Foundation of China‘Mathematical Basic Theory of Quantum Computing’special project,Grant No.12341103。
文摘We connect magic(non-stabilizer)states,symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measures(SIC-POVMs),and mutually unbiased bases(MUBs)in the context of group frames,and study their interplay.Magic states are quantum resources in the stabilizer formalism of quantum computation.SIC-POVMs and MUBs are fundamental structures in quantum information theory with many applications in quantum foundations,quantum state tomography,and quantum cryptography,etc.In this work,we study group frames constructed from some prominent magic states,and further investigate their applications.Our method exploits the orbit of discrete Heisenberg-Weyl group acting on an initial fiducial state.We quantify the distance of the group frames from SIC-POVMs and MUBs,respectively.As a simple corollary,we reproduce a complete family of MUBs of any prime dimensional system by introducing the concept of MUB fiducial states,analogous to the well-known SIC-POVM fiducial states.We present an intuitive and direct construction of MUB fiducial states via quantum T-gates,and demonstrate that for the qubit system,there are twelve MUB fiducial states,which coincide with the H-type magic states.We compare MUB fiducial states and SIC-POVM fiducial states from the perspective of magic resource for stabilizer quantum computation.We further pose the challenging issue of identifying all MUB fiducial states in general dimensions.
文摘This photo,taken on 1 December 2024,captures the Danxia landform in Zhangye,Gansu Province,northwest China.Known for its striking reddish sandstone formations,the landscape is partially blanketed in snow.
文摘The film market during the Spring Festival in the year of the snake can be described as “YOLO”(which means hot),with six films are released simultaneously, including Ne Zha 2, Detective Chinatown 1900, Boonie Bears:Future Reborn,Operation Hadal, Creation of the Gods II:Demon Force (hereinafter referred to as Creation of the Gods II) and Legends of The Condor Heroes:The Gallants.These movies show a variety of national and patriotic feelings and traditional culture. Among them, Ne Zha 2 has been constantly breaking record since the box office exceeded RMB 14 billion.
文摘As animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2 and the video game Black Myth:Wukong have become all the rage globally,Chinese culture is in the international spotlight again.Since its release in January 29,Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2 has been making history.It entered the list of the all-time global box office top 10 only 20 days later,with ticket sales surpassing RMB 12 billion.It is also the world’s highest-grossing animated movie of all time,and the highest-grosser in a single market.IMDb gave it an 8.3 rating as of February 20,reflecting its universal appeal.
基金supported by funding from the fund for National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFD2301203-05)National Natural Science Foundation of China(32260510)+3 种基金Special Financial Project for Seed Industry Development in the Autonomous Region(BNZJ2024-10,BNZJ2024-30)Key Project for Science and Technology Development of Shihezi city,Xinjiang Production and Construction Crops(2022NY01)Shihezi University high-level talent research project(RCZK202337)Science and Technol-ogy Planning of Shuanghe city,Xinjiang Production and Construction Crops(2021NY02).
文摘Background Cotton is an important cash crop in China and a key component of the global textile market.Verticil-lium wilt is a major factor affecting cotton yield.Single nucleotide polymorphism(SNP)markers and phenotypic data can be used to identify genetic markers and loci associated with cotton resistance to Verticillium wilt.We used eight upland cotton parent materials in this study to construct a multiparent advanced generation inter-cross(MAGIC)population comprising 320 lines.The Verticillium wilt resistance of the MAGIC population was identified in the green-house in 2019,and the average relative disease index(ARDI)was calculated.A genome-wide association study(GWAS)was performed to discover SNP markers/genes associated with Verticillium wilt resistance.Results ARDI of the MAGIC population showed wide variation,ranging from 16.7 to 79.4 across three replicates.This variation reflected a diverse range of resistance to Verticillium wilt within the population.Analysis of distribution pat-terns across the environments revealed consistent trends,with coefficients of variation between 12.25%and 21.96%.Families with higher ARDI values,indicating stronger resistance,were more common,likely due to genetic diver-sity and environmental factors.Population structure analysis divided the MAGIC population into three subgroups,with Group I showing higher genetic variation and Groups II and III displaying more uniform resistance performance.Principal component analysis(PCA)confirmed these divisions,highlighting the genetic diversity underlying Verticil-lium wilt resistance.Through GWAS,we identified 19 SNPs significantly associated with Verticillium wilt resistance,distributed across three chromosomes.The screening of candidate genes was performed on the transcriptome derived from resistant and susceptible cultivars,combined with gene annotation and tissue expression patterns,and two key candidate genes,Ghir_A01G006660 and Ghir_A02G008980,were found to be potentially associated with Verticillium wilt resistance.This suggests that these two candidate genes may play an important role in responding to Verticillium wilt.Conclusion This study aims to dissect the genetic basis of Verticillium wilt resistance in cotton by using a MAGIC population and GWAS.The study seeks to provide valuable genetic resources for marker-assisted breeding and enhance the understanding of resistance mechanisms to improve cotton resilience against Verticillium wilt.
文摘The color cluster red,black and white occurs in the artistic,ritual and magical activities of virtually all cultures around the world,suggesting their preeminence in human symbolic thought.Among the various explanations that have been brought forth to account for the special status of these three colors are:1)evolutionary/ecological arguments,drawing support from vision science,perceptual philosophy and primate biology;2)cognitive arguments,which pay attention to how human beings categorize and create meaning out of perceptual experiences;3)linguistic arguments,as these are the earliest lexicalized color words in most languages;4)and diverse socio-cultural arguments.This paper will explore the manifestation of red,black and white–both in concrete terms,through the use and manipulation of materials,as well as abstract ideas–in Assyrian and Babylonian magical and ritual activities.It will highlight how meaning is created and communicated by relating colors to natural and supernatural phenomena and will further attempt to provide a methodological framework for the analysis of color symbolism.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.12175100 and 11975132)Construct Program of the Key Discipline in Hunan Province,Research Foundation of Education Bureau of Hunan Province,China(Nos.21B0402,18A237 and 22A0305)+3 种基金Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province,China(No.2018JJ2321)Innovation Group of Nuclear and Particle Physics in USC,Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation,China(No.ZR2022JQ04)Opening Project of Cooperative Innovation Center for Nuclear Fuel Cycle Technology and Equipment,University of South China(No.2019KFZ10)Hunan Provincial Innovation Foundation for Postgraduate(No.CX20230962).
文摘By combining experimental α-decay energies and half-lives, the α-particle preformation factor for nuclei around neutron magic numbers N of 126, 152, and 162 were extracted using the two-potential approach. The nuclei around the shell closure were more tightly bound than adjacent nuclei. Additionally, based on the WS4 mass model (Wang et al., Phys. Lett.B 734, 215 (2014)), we extended the two-potential approach to predict the α-decay half-lives of nuclei around N values of178 and 184 with Z of 119 and 120. We believe that our findings will serve as guidelines for future experimental studies.
文摘The term“Black Girl Magic”has slipped into our literary vocabulary.The term refers to Black female characters in literary works by writers such as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker who challenge the dehumanizing elements of Black female existence.Can white writers create Black Girl Magic?This essay suggest that they can,offering as examples Eliza Harris in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dilsey Gibson in William Faulkner’s 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury.
文摘China's first triple-A video game "Black Myth:Wukong" has not only made waves in the global gaming industry,but has also brought the allure of Chinese culture to the world stage.Inspired by the classic novel"Journey to the West",the game was filmed at 36 scenic spots in China,with up to 27 of these locations being in Shanxi Province.
