In order to enrich the life of the local staff,make their voices heard,and promote the cultural integration between China and Myanmar,as the Myanmar Songkran was approaching,the SinoMyanmar Pipeline project Naypyidaw ...In order to enrich the life of the local staff,make their voices heard,and promote the cultural integration between China and Myanmar,as the Myanmar Songkran was approaching,the SinoMyanmar Pipeline project Naypyidaw office(hereinafter referred to as“Naypyitaw office”)held the annual multilingual speech contest for Myanmar staff on 9 April to welcome the Myanmar New Year,and 27 in-service Myanmar employees all participated enthusiastically in the contest.展开更多
The report of the 18th National Congress of the CPC for the first time put forward that "We will take solid steps to promote public diplomacy as well as people-to-people and cultural exchanges",and has eleva...The report of the 18th National Congress of the CPC for the first time put forward that "We will take solid steps to promote public diplomacy as well as people-to-people and cultural exchanges",and has elevated public diplomacy and people-topeople and cultural exchanges to the status of consolidating the social foundation for state-tostate relations,which highlights the展开更多
The subdistrict office is the most grass-roots government organization, and is also the main unit providing services for the masses at the grass-roots level. In order to ensure the work efficiency of the subdistrict o...The subdistrict office is the most grass-roots government organization, and is also the main unit providing services for the masses at the grass-roots level. In order to ensure the work efficiency of the subdistrict office, it is necessary to strengthen the modernization of the subdistrict office. However, due to the influence of traditional management concepts for a long time, the street offices in many areas of our country still adopt traditional management methods when carrying out human resources management, which is difficult to motivate the staff. If this situation cannot be changed in time, it will affect the service efficiency of the street offices and the grassroots will be full of complaints, which will not only affect the image of the national government agencies, but also affect the stability of the street residents.展开更多
Objective: This study was designed to develop a dental-office-friendly diabetes self-screening tool for diabetes mellitus (DM) and prediabetes (PreDM). Methods: Consecutive dental patients, aged 18 years or older, wit...Objective: This study was designed to develop a dental-office-friendly diabetes self-screening tool for diabetes mellitus (DM) and prediabetes (PreDM). Methods: Consecutive dental patients, aged 18 years or older, without history of DM or PreDM, completed a 14-question questionnaire without assistance. They subsequently underwent onsite finger-sticks for capillary blood collection for glycohemoglobin (A1c) measurement. Results: Of the total 500 patients who completed the study, 302 were women (60.4%) and 198 were men (39.6%), with a collective mean age of 47.8 (±16.8) years old. The prevalence of PreDM and DM was 19.2% and 1.2%, respectively. Predictors of PreDM or DM included age, >10% above ideal body weight, waist size above 40” for men or 35” for women, reported hypertension, reported abnormal lipids, tingling of hands or feet, and visual symptoms or conditions (blurring, cataracts, glaucoma). Conclusions: This study introduces a newly developed, user-friendly, PreDM and DM self-screening tool, abbreviated as DiDDO (Diabetes detection in the dental office). This screening tool requires no body weighing or BMI calculation (undesirable by dentists) nor laboratory tests or blood pressure measurement, allowing dentists to identify patients at moderate and high risk for DM/PreDM, and perform (or refer for) diagnostic A1c testing. This dental-office-friendly self-screening tool is proposed for validation in other dental populations.展开更多
A new set of Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer （IASI） channels was re-selected from 314 EUMETSAT channels. In selecting channels, we calculated the impact of the individually added channel on the improvem...A new set of Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer （IASI） channels was re-selected from 314 EUMETSAT channels. In selecting channels, we calculated the impact of the individually added channel on the improvement in the analysis outputs from a one-dimensional variational analysis （1D-Var） for the Unified Model （UM） data assimilation system at the Met Office, using the channel score index （CSI） as a figure of merit. Then, 200 channels were selected in order by counting each individual channel＇s CSI contribution. Compared with the operationally used 183 channels for the UM at the Met Office, the new set shares 149 channels, while the other 51 channels are new. Also examined is the selection from the entropy reduction method with the same 1D-Var approach, Results suggest that channel selection can be made in a more objective fashion using the proposed CSI method. This is because the most important channels can be selected across the whole IASI observation spectrum. In the experimental trial runs using the UM global assimilation system, the new channels had an overall neutral impact in terms of improvement in forecasts, as compared with results from the operational channels. However, upper-tropospheric moist biases shown in the control run with operational channels were significantly reduced in the experimental trial with the newly selected channels. The reduction of moist biases was mainly due to the additional water vapor channels, which are sensitive to the upper-tropospheric water vapor.展开更多
This paper evaluates the microwave instruments onboard the latest Chinese polar-orbiting satellite, Fengyun 3D (FY- 3D). Comparing three months of observations from the Microwave Temperature Sounder 2 (MWTS-2), the Mi...This paper evaluates the microwave instruments onboard the latest Chinese polar-orbiting satellite, Fengyun 3D (FY- 3D). Comparing three months of observations from the Microwave Temperature Sounder 2 (MWTS-2), the Microwave Humidity Sounder 2 (MWHS-2), and the Microwave Radiation Imager (MWRI) to Met Office short-range forecasts, we characterize the instrumental biases, show how those biases have changed with respect to their predecessors onboard FY- 3C, and how they compare to the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) onboard NOAA-20 and the Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager (GMI). The MWTS-2 global bias is much reduced with respect to its predecessor and compares well to ATMS at equivalent channel frequencies, differing only by 0.36 ± 0.28 K (1σ) on average. A suboptimal averaging of raw digital counts is found to cause an increase in striping noise and an ascending- descending bias. MWHS-2 benefits from a new calibration method improving the 183-GHz humidity channels with respect to its predecessor and biases for these channels are within ± 1.9 K to ATMS. MWRI presents the largest improvements, with reduced global bias and standard deviation with respect to FY-3C;although, spurious, seemingly transient, brightness temperatures have been detected in the observations at 36.5 GHz (vertical polarization). The strong solar-dependent bias that affects the instrument on FY-3C has been reduced to less than 0.2 K on average for FY-3D MWRI. Experiments where radiances from these instruments were assimilated on top of a full global system demonstrated a neutral to positive impact on the forecasts, as well as on the fit to the background of independent instruments.展开更多
Microwave radiances from passive polar-orbiting radiometers have been,until recently,assimilated in the Met Office global numerical weather prediction system after the scenes significantly affected by atmospheric scat...Microwave radiances from passive polar-orbiting radiometers have been,until recently,assimilated in the Met Office global numerical weather prediction system after the scenes significantly affected by atmospheric scattering are discarded.Recent system upgrades have seen the introduction of a scattering-permitting observation operator and the development of a variable observation error using both liquid and ice water paths as proxies of scattering-induced bias.Applied to the Fengyun 3 Microwave Temperature Sounder 2(MWTS-2)and the Microwave Humidity Sounder 2(MWHS-2),this methodology increases the data usage by up to 8%at 183 GHz.It also allows for the investigation into the assimilation of MWHS-2118 GHz channels,sensitive to temperature and lower tropospheric humidity,but whose large sensitivity to ice cloud have prevented their use thus far.While the impact on the forecast is mostly neutral with small but significant short-range improvements,0.3%in terms of root mean square error,for southern winds and low-level temperature,balanced by 0.2%degradations of short-range northern and tropical low-level temperature,benefits are observed in the background fit of independent instruments used in the system.The lower tropospheric temperature sounding Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer(IASI)channels see a reduction of the standard deviation in the background departure of up to 1.2%.The Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A(AMSU-A)stratospheric sounding channels improve by up to 0.5%and the Microwave Humidity Sounder(MHS)humidity sounding channels improve by up to 0.4%.展开更多
China＇s FengYnn 3 （FY-3） polar orbiting satellites axe set to become an important sonrce of observational data for nu- merical weather prediction （NWP）, atmospheric reanalyses, and climate monitoring studies over...China＇s FengYnn 3 （FY-3） polar orbiting satellites axe set to become an important sonrce of observational data for nu- merical weather prediction （NWP）, atmospheric reanalyses, and climate monitoring studies over the next two decades. As part of the Climate Science for Service Partnership China （CSSP China） prograln, FY-3B Microwave Humidity Sounder 1 （MWHS-1） and FY-3C MWHS-2 observations have been thoroughly assessed and prepared for operational assimilation. This represents the first time observations from China＇s polar orbiting satellites have been used in the UK＇s global NWP model. Since 2016, continuous data quality monitoring has shown occasional bias changes found to be correlated to changes in the energy supply scheme regulating the platform heating system and other transient anomalies. Nonetheless, MWHS-1 and MWHS-2 significantly contribute to the 24-h forecast error reduction by 0.3% and 0.6%, respectively, and the combination of both instruments is shown to improve the fit to the model background of independent sounders by up to 1%. The observations from the Microwave Radiation Imager （MWRI） also are a potentially significant source of benefits for NWP models, but a solar-dependent bias observed in the instrument half-orbits has prevented their assimilation. This paper presents the bases of a correction scheme developed at the Met Office for the purpose of a future assimilation of MWRI data.展开更多
互联网经济模式和分享经济模式带来了管理和创业的新思维,也孵化了新的办公空间。基于2014年MAT Office推出的研究课题"Office 3.0,the Next Working Space"的成果,本文梳理了现代办公空间的发展历史,并通过大量案例研究,得...互联网经济模式和分享经济模式带来了管理和创业的新思维,也孵化了新的办公空间。基于2014年MAT Office推出的研究课题"Office 3.0,the Next Working Space"的成果,本文梳理了现代办公空间的发展历史,并通过大量案例研究,得出新一代办公空间将具有更加鲜明的共享特征这一结论。对空间"共享"的更深入挖掘,也将为未来的办公空间发展提供更多机遇与挑战。展开更多
With a 126-year history,ASTM International still exudes strong vitality today.It is one of the most renowned standards organizations in the world,boasting a globally leading standards development system and database.I...With a 126-year history,ASTM International still exudes strong vitality today.It is one of the most renowned standards organizations in the world,boasting a globally leading standards development system and database.It is open,transparent,fair,diverse,inclusive,and consensus-driven,but these are just some of its characteristics.ASTM always prioritizes the development of standards and the needs of industries and users.展开更多
Since 2014,the Nanjing Foreign Affairs Office has cooperated with the Japan Association of History Educators to organize three annual exchanges of Chinese and Japanese history teachers as one part of a series of activ...Since 2014,the Nanjing Foreign Affairs Office has cooperated with the Japan Association of History Educators to organize three annual exchanges of Chinese and Japanese history teachers as one part of a series of activities under the theme'Joining hands with foreign friends to build peace cities'.The Japanese association is a nongovernmental organization with展开更多
In this paper,we consider the maximal positive definite solution of the nonlinear matrix equation.By using the idea of Algorithm 2.1 in ZHANG(2013),a new inversion-free method with a stepsize parameter is proposed to ...In this paper,we consider the maximal positive definite solution of the nonlinear matrix equation.By using the idea of Algorithm 2.1 in ZHANG(2013),a new inversion-free method with a stepsize parameter is proposed to obtain the maximal positive definite solution of nonlinear matrix equation X+A^(*)X|^(-α)A=Q with the case 0<α≤1.Based on this method,a new iterative algorithm is developed,and its convergence proof is given.Finally,two numerical examples are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
As China and Laos mark the 65th anniversary of their diplomatic relations,the two socialist neighbors stand at a new historical starting point.From revolutionary comrades-in-arms to comprehensive strategic partners,Ch...As China and Laos mark the 65th anniversary of their diplomatic relations,the two socialist neighbors stand at a new historical starting point.From revolutionary comrades-in-arms to comprehensive strategic partners,China and Laos have steadily deepened their bond as"good neighbors,good friends,good comrades,and good partners."展开更多
Adolescent smoking constitutes a critical public health challenge as early initiation increases the risk of premature mortality and smoking-related chronic diseases due to longer exposure and higher cumulative tobacco...Adolescent smoking constitutes a critical public health challenge as early initiation increases the risk of premature mortality and smoking-related chronic diseases due to longer exposure and higher cumulative tobacco use^([1]).Adolescents are especially prone to developing persistent smoking habits,with many adult smokers having started before the age of 18.In China,16.7%of secondary school students have tried smoking and 4.7%are current smokers,highlighting the critical need for targeted tobacco control interventions among the youth.展开更多
On October 28,2025,in the bustling diplomatic hub of Kuala Lumpur,a defining moment in Asian economic history quietly and solemnly unfolded when leaders from China and ASEAN member states witnessed the official signin...On October 28,2025,in the bustling diplomatic hub of Kuala Lumpur,a defining moment in Asian economic history quietly and solemnly unfolded when leaders from China and ASEAN member states witnessed the official signing of the protocol to upgrade the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area(CAFTA)to Version 3.0.The ceremony marked the culmination of nearly three years of intense negotiations.展开更多
文摘In order to enrich the life of the local staff,make their voices heard,and promote the cultural integration between China and Myanmar,as the Myanmar Songkran was approaching,the SinoMyanmar Pipeline project Naypyidaw office(hereinafter referred to as“Naypyitaw office”)held the annual multilingual speech contest for Myanmar staff on 9 April to welcome the Myanmar New Year,and 27 in-service Myanmar employees all participated enthusiastically in the contest.
文摘The report of the 18th National Congress of the CPC for the first time put forward that "We will take solid steps to promote public diplomacy as well as people-to-people and cultural exchanges",and has elevated public diplomacy and people-topeople and cultural exchanges to the status of consolidating the social foundation for state-tostate relations,which highlights the
文摘The subdistrict office is the most grass-roots government organization, and is also the main unit providing services for the masses at the grass-roots level. In order to ensure the work efficiency of the subdistrict office, it is necessary to strengthen the modernization of the subdistrict office. However, due to the influence of traditional management concepts for a long time, the street offices in many areas of our country still adopt traditional management methods when carrying out human resources management, which is difficult to motivate the staff. If this situation cannot be changed in time, it will affect the service efficiency of the street offices and the grassroots will be full of complaints, which will not only affect the image of the national government agencies, but also affect the stability of the street residents.
文摘Objective: This study was designed to develop a dental-office-friendly diabetes self-screening tool for diabetes mellitus (DM) and prediabetes (PreDM). Methods: Consecutive dental patients, aged 18 years or older, without history of DM or PreDM, completed a 14-question questionnaire without assistance. They subsequently underwent onsite finger-sticks for capillary blood collection for glycohemoglobin (A1c) measurement. Results: Of the total 500 patients who completed the study, 302 were women (60.4%) and 198 were men (39.6%), with a collective mean age of 47.8 (±16.8) years old. The prevalence of PreDM and DM was 19.2% and 1.2%, respectively. Predictors of PreDM or DM included age, >10% above ideal body weight, waist size above 40” for men or 35” for women, reported hypertension, reported abnormal lipids, tingling of hands or feet, and visual symptoms or conditions (blurring, cataracts, glaucoma). Conclusions: This study introduces a newly developed, user-friendly, PreDM and DM self-screening tool, abbreviated as DiDDO (Diabetes detection in the dental office). This screening tool requires no body weighing or BMI calculation (undesirable by dentists) nor laboratory tests or blood pressure measurement, allowing dentists to identify patients at moderate and high risk for DM/PreDM, and perform (or refer for) diagnostic A1c testing. This dental-office-friendly self-screening tool is proposed for validation in other dental populations.
基金supported by the KMA Research and Development Program under Grant No.KMIPA 20151060supported by the BK21 Plus Project of the Korean government
文摘A new set of Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer （IASI） channels was re-selected from 314 EUMETSAT channels. In selecting channels, we calculated the impact of the individually added channel on the improvement in the analysis outputs from a one-dimensional variational analysis （1D-Var） for the Unified Model （UM） data assimilation system at the Met Office, using the channel score index （CSI） as a figure of merit. Then, 200 channels were selected in order by counting each individual channel＇s CSI contribution. Compared with the operationally used 183 channels for the UM at the Met Office, the new set shares 149 channels, while the other 51 channels are new. Also examined is the selection from the entropy reduction method with the same 1D-Var approach, Results suggest that channel selection can be made in a more objective fashion using the proposed CSI method. This is because the most important channels can be selected across the whole IASI observation spectrum. In the experimental trial runs using the UM global assimilation system, the new channels had an overall neutral impact in terms of improvement in forecasts, as compared with results from the operational channels. However, upper-tropospheric moist biases shown in the control run with operational channels were significantly reduced in the experimental trial with the newly selected channels. The reduction of moist biases was mainly due to the additional water vapor channels, which are sensitive to the upper-tropospheric water vapor.
基金This work was supported by the UK-China Research&Innovation Partnership Fund through the Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership(CSSP)China as part of the Newton Fund.
文摘This paper evaluates the microwave instruments onboard the latest Chinese polar-orbiting satellite, Fengyun 3D (FY- 3D). Comparing three months of observations from the Microwave Temperature Sounder 2 (MWTS-2), the Microwave Humidity Sounder 2 (MWHS-2), and the Microwave Radiation Imager (MWRI) to Met Office short-range forecasts, we characterize the instrumental biases, show how those biases have changed with respect to their predecessors onboard FY- 3C, and how they compare to the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) onboard NOAA-20 and the Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager (GMI). The MWTS-2 global bias is much reduced with respect to its predecessor and compares well to ATMS at equivalent channel frequencies, differing only by 0.36 ± 0.28 K (1σ) on average. A suboptimal averaging of raw digital counts is found to cause an increase in striping noise and an ascending- descending bias. MWHS-2 benefits from a new calibration method improving the 183-GHz humidity channels with respect to its predecessor and biases for these channels are within ± 1.9 K to ATMS. MWRI presents the largest improvements, with reduced global bias and standard deviation with respect to FY-3C;although, spurious, seemingly transient, brightness temperatures have been detected in the observations at 36.5 GHz (vertical polarization). The strong solar-dependent bias that affects the instrument on FY-3C has been reduced to less than 0.2 K on average for FY-3D MWRI. Experiments where radiances from these instruments were assimilated on top of a full global system demonstrated a neutral to positive impact on the forecasts, as well as on the fit to the background of independent instruments.
基金This work was supported by the UK-China Research&Innovation Partnership Fund through the Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership(CSSP)China as part of the Newton Fund.
文摘Microwave radiances from passive polar-orbiting radiometers have been,until recently,assimilated in the Met Office global numerical weather prediction system after the scenes significantly affected by atmospheric scattering are discarded.Recent system upgrades have seen the introduction of a scattering-permitting observation operator and the development of a variable observation error using both liquid and ice water paths as proxies of scattering-induced bias.Applied to the Fengyun 3 Microwave Temperature Sounder 2(MWTS-2)and the Microwave Humidity Sounder 2(MWHS-2),this methodology increases the data usage by up to 8%at 183 GHz.It also allows for the investigation into the assimilation of MWHS-2118 GHz channels,sensitive to temperature and lower tropospheric humidity,but whose large sensitivity to ice cloud have prevented their use thus far.While the impact on the forecast is mostly neutral with small but significant short-range improvements,0.3%in terms of root mean square error,for southern winds and low-level temperature,balanced by 0.2%degradations of short-range northern and tropical low-level temperature,benefits are observed in the background fit of independent instruments used in the system.The lower tropospheric temperature sounding Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer(IASI)channels see a reduction of the standard deviation in the background departure of up to 1.2%.The Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A(AMSU-A)stratospheric sounding channels improve by up to 0.5%and the Microwave Humidity Sounder(MHS)humidity sounding channels improve by up to 0.4%.
基金supported by the UK-China Research&Innovation Partnership Fund through the Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership(CSSP)China as part of the Newton Fund
文摘China＇s FengYnn 3 （FY-3） polar orbiting satellites axe set to become an important sonrce of observational data for nu- merical weather prediction （NWP）, atmospheric reanalyses, and climate monitoring studies over the next two decades. As part of the Climate Science for Service Partnership China （CSSP China） prograln, FY-3B Microwave Humidity Sounder 1 （MWHS-1） and FY-3C MWHS-2 observations have been thoroughly assessed and prepared for operational assimilation. This represents the first time observations from China＇s polar orbiting satellites have been used in the UK＇s global NWP model. Since 2016, continuous data quality monitoring has shown occasional bias changes found to be correlated to changes in the energy supply scheme regulating the platform heating system and other transient anomalies. Nonetheless, MWHS-1 and MWHS-2 significantly contribute to the 24-h forecast error reduction by 0.3% and 0.6%, respectively, and the combination of both instruments is shown to improve the fit to the model background of independent sounders by up to 1%. The observations from the Microwave Radiation Imager （MWRI） also are a potentially significant source of benefits for NWP models, but a solar-dependent bias observed in the instrument half-orbits has prevented their assimilation. This paper presents the bases of a correction scheme developed at the Met Office for the purpose of a future assimilation of MWRI data.
文摘互联网经济模式和分享经济模式带来了管理和创业的新思维,也孵化了新的办公空间。基于2014年MAT Office推出的研究课题"Office 3.0,the Next Working Space"的成果,本文梳理了现代办公空间的发展历史,并通过大量案例研究,得出新一代办公空间将具有更加鲜明的共享特征这一结论。对空间"共享"的更深入挖掘,也将为未来的办公空间发展提供更多机遇与挑战。
文摘With a 126-year history,ASTM International still exudes strong vitality today.It is one of the most renowned standards organizations in the world,boasting a globally leading standards development system and database.It is open,transparent,fair,diverse,inclusive,and consensus-driven,but these are just some of its characteristics.ASTM always prioritizes the development of standards and the needs of industries and users.
文摘Since 2014,the Nanjing Foreign Affairs Office has cooperated with the Japan Association of History Educators to organize three annual exchanges of Chinese and Japanese history teachers as one part of a series of activities under the theme'Joining hands with foreign friends to build peace cities'.The Japanese association is a nongovernmental organization with
基金Supported in part by Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi(2023GXNSFAA026246)in part by the Central Government's Guide to Local Science and Technology Development Fund(GuikeZY23055044)in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62363003)。
文摘In this paper,we consider the maximal positive definite solution of the nonlinear matrix equation.By using the idea of Algorithm 2.1 in ZHANG(2013),a new inversion-free method with a stepsize parameter is proposed to obtain the maximal positive definite solution of nonlinear matrix equation X+A^(*)X|^(-α)A=Q with the case 0<α≤1.Based on this method,a new iterative algorithm is developed,and its convergence proof is given.Finally,two numerical examples are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
文摘As China and Laos mark the 65th anniversary of their diplomatic relations,the two socialist neighbors stand at a new historical starting point.From revolutionary comrades-in-arms to comprehensive strategic partners,China and Laos have steadily deepened their bond as"good neighbors,good friends,good comrades,and good partners."
基金supported by the World Health Organization Global Youth Tobacco Survey(WPDHP1206671)the Global Health Capacity Building and Tobacco Control Project:Tobacco Epidemic Monitoring and Comprehensive Tobacco Control Intervention。
文摘Adolescent smoking constitutes a critical public health challenge as early initiation increases the risk of premature mortality and smoking-related chronic diseases due to longer exposure and higher cumulative tobacco use^([1]).Adolescents are especially prone to developing persistent smoking habits,with many adult smokers having started before the age of 18.In China,16.7%of secondary school students have tried smoking and 4.7%are current smokers,highlighting the critical need for targeted tobacco control interventions among the youth.
文摘On October 28,2025,in the bustling diplomatic hub of Kuala Lumpur,a defining moment in Asian economic history quietly and solemnly unfolded when leaders from China and ASEAN member states witnessed the official signing of the protocol to upgrade the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area(CAFTA)to Version 3.0.The ceremony marked the culmination of nearly three years of intense negotiations.
