During the past few decades,we have witnessed the phenomenon of constant warming occurring everywhere on the globe.Cities have suffered from urban warming to a greater extent than any other part of the world,and Kolka...During the past few decades,we have witnessed the phenomenon of constant warming occurring everywhere on the globe.Cities have suffered from urban warming to a greater extent than any other part of the world,and Kolkata has one of the highest levels of urban warming of any city around the world.In Kolkata,73%of the buildings are residential,and it is this type of building that contributes to a significant amount of this warming.With the city of Kolkata as the case study,this paper aims at understanding the multiple domains of urban heat islands and thermal comfort within the context of the city,from a macro perspective of an urban heat island down to a micro perspective of a building level,with the ultimate aim of mitigating global warming through this study.Various research works have been undertaken in India and abroad to understand the individual as well as composite effect of various building components on the indoor thermal comfort.Researches have also been undertaken to compare and comprehend the differential thermal comfort of old indigenous residences with that of the new residential buildings.Hence,this paper discusses methods that have been applied in past works to evaluate the thermal comfort of old and new residential buildings in a non-subjective manner,without having recourse to user feedback,in the final segment that views the process of learning from comparing old and new residential buildings.展开更多
Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse , published in 2006 by Blackwell Publishing, is an eminent monograph in the study of sociolinguistics. This paper begins by offering a ge...Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse , published in 2006 by Blackwell Publishing, is an eminent monograph in the study of sociolinguistics. This paper begins by offering a general introduction to the book, goes on to conduct a detailed chapter-by-chapter review and then ends by stressing its three merits and demerits, namely: On the one hand, this book successfully connects theory with empirical research; It has largely avoided drawing simplistic conclusions; It has wide social implications. However, on the other, this monograph is not immune to gender bias and its conclusions are limited to a certain social sphere.展开更多
Ferroelectric materials have many interesting physical properties such as ferroelectricity, pyroelectricity, piezoelectricity, and opto-electricity, and applying ferroelectric materials in the forms of thin and thick ...Ferroelectric materials have many interesting physical properties such as ferroelectricity, pyroelectricity, piezoelectricity, and opto-electricity, and applying ferroelectric materials in the forms of thin and thick films and integrating them on the silicon substrate as electronic and MEMS devices is a very attractive research area and challenging. In this paper, we report our research works on ferroelectric MEMS and ferroelectric films for electronic device applications. Pyroelectric thin film infrared sensors have been made, characterized, and a 32×32 array with its size of 1cm×1cm has been obtained on Si membrane. Ferroelectric thin films in amorphous phase have been applied to make silicon based hydrogen gas sensors with the metal/amorphous ferroelectric film/metal device structure, and its turn-on voltage of about 4.5V at ～1000 ppm in air is about 7 times of the best value reported in the literature. For the application of electron emission flat panel display, ferroelectric BST thin films with excess Ti concentrations have been coated on Si tips, the threshold voltage of those ferroelectric film coated tips has been reduced about one order from ～70 V/μm to 4～10 V/μm for different Ti concentrations, and however, the electron emission current density has been increased at least 3～4 order for those coated tips compared to that of the bare Si tips. To fulfill in the thickness gap between thin film of typical ～1 μm made by PVD/CVD and polished ceramic wafer of ～50 μm from the bulk, piezoelectric films with thickness in a range of 1～30 μm have been successfully deposited on Si substrate at a low temperature of 650oC by a novel hybridized deposition technique, and piezoelectric MEMS ultrasonic arrays have been very recently obtained with the sound pressure level up to ～120 dB. More detailed results will be presented and mechanisms will be discussed.展开更多
In 2005,China's total tax revenue topped 3.0866 trillion Yuan (excluding tariffs and agricultural taxes), up 20%and 514.8 billion Yuan over 2004 and exceeding 3 trillion Yuan for the first time. During the 10t... In 2005,China's total tax revenue topped 3.0866 trillion Yuan (excluding tariffs and agricultural taxes), up 20%and 514.8 billion Yuan over 2004 and exceeding 3 trillion Yuan for the first time. During the 10th five-year plan period,the total tax revenue remitted into the state coffer amounts to 10.9217 trillion Yuan, with an average annual increase of 19.5%; and the revenue in the fifth year more than doubles that in the first year. The fast and steady growth of the tax revenue in pace with the economic growth has greatly enhanced the country's financial strength and provided solid financial guarantee for the country's efforts to build a well-off society in an all-round way.……展开更多
In line with the overall Objectives set out in the"Outline Scheme for the Academic Divisions of theChinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) during theNinth Five-year Plan (1996-2000)," CAS has donea good job of the...In line with the overall Objectives set out in the"Outline Scheme for the Academic Divisions of theChinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) during theNinth Five-year Plan (1996-2000)," CAS has donea good job of the supplementary election of CASmembers and the development of the virtues ofscience and fine style of research. In addihon, con-sultation and appraisal, academic exchanges, andthe popularization of science have progressivelybeen focuses of the academic divisions, and manyaccomplishments have been achieved in these areas.展开更多
Throughout the past 45 years since its founding,the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has always adhered to bringing forth both research achievements and talented people as its aim in running the Academy.Proceeding fr...Throughout the past 45 years since its founding,the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has always adhered to bringing forth both research achievements and talented people as its aim in running the Academy.Proceeding from the national and its own situations, the CAS has conducted a lot of helpful explorations and innovative work in initiating education and cultivating talent.As a result,it has brought up a large number of excellent S&T personnel for the country. Thanks to the direct concern of former state展开更多
文摘During the past few decades,we have witnessed the phenomenon of constant warming occurring everywhere on the globe.Cities have suffered from urban warming to a greater extent than any other part of the world,and Kolkata has one of the highest levels of urban warming of any city around the world.In Kolkata,73%of the buildings are residential,and it is this type of building that contributes to a significant amount of this warming.With the city of Kolkata as the case study,this paper aims at understanding the multiple domains of urban heat islands and thermal comfort within the context of the city,from a macro perspective of an urban heat island down to a micro perspective of a building level,with the ultimate aim of mitigating global warming through this study.Various research works have been undertaken in India and abroad to understand the individual as well as composite effect of various building components on the indoor thermal comfort.Researches have also been undertaken to compare and comprehend the differential thermal comfort of old indigenous residences with that of the new residential buildings.Hence,this paper discusses methods that have been applied in past works to evaluate the thermal comfort of old and new residential buildings in a non-subjective manner,without having recourse to user feedback,in the final segment that views the process of learning from comparing old and new residential buildings.
文摘Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse , published in 2006 by Blackwell Publishing, is an eminent monograph in the study of sociolinguistics. This paper begins by offering a general introduction to the book, goes on to conduct a detailed chapter-by-chapter review and then ends by stressing its three merits and demerits, namely: On the one hand, this book successfully connects theory with empirical research; It has largely avoided drawing simplistic conclusions; It has wide social implications. However, on the other, this monograph is not immune to gender bias and its conclusions are limited to a certain social sphere.
文摘Ferroelectric materials have many interesting physical properties such as ferroelectricity, pyroelectricity, piezoelectricity, and opto-electricity, and applying ferroelectric materials in the forms of thin and thick films and integrating them on the silicon substrate as electronic and MEMS devices is a very attractive research area and challenging. In this paper, we report our research works on ferroelectric MEMS and ferroelectric films for electronic device applications. Pyroelectric thin film infrared sensors have been made, characterized, and a 32×32 array with its size of 1cm×1cm has been obtained on Si membrane. Ferroelectric thin films in amorphous phase have been applied to make silicon based hydrogen gas sensors with the metal/amorphous ferroelectric film/metal device structure, and its turn-on voltage of about 4.5V at ～1000 ppm in air is about 7 times of the best value reported in the literature. For the application of electron emission flat panel display, ferroelectric BST thin films with excess Ti concentrations have been coated on Si tips, the threshold voltage of those ferroelectric film coated tips has been reduced about one order from ～70 V/μm to 4～10 V/μm for different Ti concentrations, and however, the electron emission current density has been increased at least 3～4 order for those coated tips compared to that of the bare Si tips. To fulfill in the thickness gap between thin film of typical ～1 μm made by PVD/CVD and polished ceramic wafer of ～50 μm from the bulk, piezoelectric films with thickness in a range of 1～30 μm have been successfully deposited on Si substrate at a low temperature of 650oC by a novel hybridized deposition technique, and piezoelectric MEMS ultrasonic arrays have been very recently obtained with the sound pressure level up to ～120 dB. More detailed results will be presented and mechanisms will be discussed.
文摘 In 2005,China's total tax revenue topped 3.0866 trillion Yuan (excluding tariffs and agricultural taxes), up 20%and 514.8 billion Yuan over 2004 and exceeding 3 trillion Yuan for the first time. During the 10th five-year plan period,the total tax revenue remitted into the state coffer amounts to 10.9217 trillion Yuan, with an average annual increase of 19.5%; and the revenue in the fifth year more than doubles that in the first year. The fast and steady growth of the tax revenue in pace with the economic growth has greatly enhanced the country's financial strength and provided solid financial guarantee for the country's efforts to build a well-off society in an all-round way.……
文摘In line with the overall Objectives set out in the"Outline Scheme for the Academic Divisions of theChinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) during theNinth Five-year Plan (1996-2000)," CAS has donea good job of the supplementary election of CASmembers and the development of the virtues ofscience and fine style of research. In addihon, con-sultation and appraisal, academic exchanges, andthe popularization of science have progressivelybeen focuses of the academic divisions, and manyaccomplishments have been achieved in these areas.
文摘Throughout the past 45 years since its founding,the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has always adhered to bringing forth both research achievements and talented people as its aim in running the Academy.Proceeding from the national and its own situations, the CAS has conducted a lot of helpful explorations and innovative work in initiating education and cultivating talent.As a result,it has brought up a large number of excellent S&T personnel for the country. Thanks to the direct concern of former state
