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From Han tradition to Tang elegance
No full textThis long paper is the comprehensive essay to the exhibition China at the court of the emperors. Unknown masterpieces from Han Tradition to Tang elegance (25-907), held at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, in Spring 2008.
It thoroughly explains the development of the arts in China from the Han to the Tang dynasties against the historical and cultural context of the time, underlying the new perspective recently put forward on the basis of the latest archaeological excavations. These have driven scholars to regard the period of division between Han and Tang no longer as a ‘dark’ epoch of unrest, during which the country was politically and culturally fragmented, but instead as a moment of regeneration and flowering of the arts, stimulated by intercultural exchanges with Rome, Persia, India and Central Asia. From this new viewpoint, it appears clear that the great renaissance of the seventh to eighth centuries was the culmination of a long process that had germinated in the second to third centuries
363_RhodGer
No full textRaw NMR data and HiFSA profiles associated with the publication: Y Tang, JB Friesen, D Lankin, J McAlpine, D Nikolic, S-N Chen, G Pauli
Geraniol-Derived Monoterpenoid Glucosides from Rhodiola rosea: Resolving Structures by QM-HifSA Methodology
Journal of Natural Products 86, 256–263 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.2c0083
Lycopus primus Tang and Li 2009
No full textLycopus primus Tang and Li, 2009 Lycopus primus Tang and Li, 2009a: 51, figs 4A–D, 5A–C, 6 A – E, ♂. Material examined. CHINA: Yunnan: Xishuangbanna, Mengla County, Menglun Town, Menglun Nature Reserve, G. Tang and Z. Y. Yao: 4 ♀, Lvshilin Forest Park, Limestone tropical seasonal rain forest (N21º54.600', E101º17.084', 640 m), 17 November 2009 (Tang-Yao_No.12); 1 ♀, Lvshilin Forest Park, Limestone tropical seasonal rain forest (N21º54.614', E101º16.880', 642 m), 4 December 2009 (Tang-Yao_No.42). Distribution. China (Hainan, Yunnan).Published as part of Tang, Guo & Li, Shuqiang, 2010, Crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae) 2703, pp. 1-105 in Zootaxa 2703 on page 2
Stenus fuscus Hu & Tang 2018, sp. n.
No full textStenus fuscus Hu & Tang, sp. n. (Figs. 3, 17–22) Type Material. Holotype: China: Sichuan: ♂, glued on a card with labels as follows: “ China: Sichuan Prov., Mianning County, Yele Daba, 28°55'22''N, 102°13'32''E, 2500m, 25.VII.2015, Jiang, Peng, Tu & Zhou leg.” “ Holotype / Stenus fuscus / Hu & Tang” [red handwritten label] (SHNU) . Paratypes: 5♂♂ 3♀♀, same data as for the holotype. (SHNU, cPut) Description. BL: 4.0– 4.3 mm, FL: 1.9–2.1 mm. HW: 0.86–0.90 mm, PL: 0.69–0.73 mm, PW: 0.63–0.69 mm, EL: 0.66–0.71 mm, EW: 0.70–0.79 mm, SL: 0.50–0.53 mm. Similar to S. lizipingus sp. nov. in most respects, but different in the following characters: head 1.11–1.23 times as wide as elytra, lateral portion of head with distinct microsculptures; pronotum relatively longer with PL/ PW: 1.04–1.13; elytra relatively narrower with 0.87–0.93 times as long as wide; elytral disk impressions shallower; punctation of abdominal tergites relatively smaller and slightly sparser than that of S. lizipingus sp. nov. Male. Sternite VIII (Fig. 17) with emargination in the middle of posterior margin; sternite IX (Fig. 18) with very long apicolateral projections, posterior margin serrate. Aedeagus (Figs. 19, 20) with median lobe stout, apical sclerotized area broadly and bluntly, pointed at apex; expulsion clasps large; parameres distinctly longer than median lobe, swollen at apical third, each with 9–12 setae on apico-internal margins. Female. sternite VIII (Fig. 21) slightly prominent at middle of posterior margin; spermatheca (Fig. 22)sclerotized, basal porch very large, spermathecal duct with two bents, apical chamber large and capsule very large. Distribution. China (Sichuan). Remarks. The new species is similar to S. lizipingus sp. nov. both occurred in same locality, and it can be distinguished from the latter by the exterior characters indicated above and the different sexual characters. It is also similar to S. zhuxiaoyui Tang & Zhao, 2008, S. pectorifossatus Tang & Zhao, 2008 and S. erlangshanus Tang & Zhao, 2008 from Sichuan, and can be distinguished from S. zhuxiaoyui and S. erlangshanus by more confluent pronotal punctation, from S. zhuxiaoyui also by larger body size (FL: 1.5–2.0 mm in S. zhuxiaoyui), from S. erlangshanus by lacking distinct subbasal and subapical pronotal impressions and abdominal tergites mostly with microsculptures, from S. pectorifossatus by darker elytral coloration and sparser abdominal punctation. Etymology. The specific name is derived from the lartin word “ fuscus ” after its dark coloration.Published as part of Hu, Cheng-Zhi & Tang, Liang, 2018, Notes on the Stenus indubius group with descriptions of four new species from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 341-350 in Zootaxa 4471 (2) on pages 345-346, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4471.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/143976
Collective behavior of crowded drops in microfluidic systems
No full textDroplet microfluidics, in which microdroplets serve as individual reactors, has enabled a wide range of high-throughput biochemical processes. Unlike solid wells typically used in current biochemical assays, droplets are subject to instability and can undergo breakup, especially under fast flow conditions. Although the physics of single drops has been studied extensively, the flow of crowded drops or concentrated emulsions - where droplet volume fraction exceeds ∼80% - is relatively unexplored in microfluidics. In this paper and the related invited lecture from the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics, we describe the collective behavior of drops in a concentrated emulsion by tracking the dynamics and the fate of individual drops within the emulsion. At the slow flow limit of the concentrated emulsion, we observe an unexpected order, where the velocity of individual drops in the emulsion exhibits spatiotemporal periodicity. This periodicity is surprising from both fluid and solid mechanics points of view. We show the phenomenon can be explained by treating the emulsion as a soft crystal undergoing plasticity, in a nanoscale system comprising thousands of atoms as modeled by droplets. Our results represent a type of collective order which can have practical use in on-chip droplet manipulation. As the flow rate increases, the emulsion transitions from a solidlike to a liquidlike material, and the spatiotemporal order in the flow is lost. At the fast flow limit, droplet breakup starts to occur. We show that droplet breakup within the emulsion follows a probability distribution, in stark contrast to the deterministic behavior in classical single-drop studies. In addition to capillary number and viscosity ratio, breakup probability is governed by a confinement factor that measures drop size relative to a characteristic channel length. The breakup probability arises from the time-varying packing configuration of the drops. Replacing surfactant with nanoparticles as droplet stabilizers suppresses breakup and increases the throughput of droplet processing by >300%. Strategic placement of an obstacle suppresses breakup by >103-fold. Finally, we discuss recent progress in computation methods for recapitulating the flow of concentrated emulsions
Henry S. Tang interview for the China Boom Project
No full textHenry Tang, Co-Founder of Committee of 100， was interviewed by the Asia Society staff in New York, U.S. on February 11, 2009.Transcript is also available.Interviewee’s bio is also available.Original video interviews are available at the Asia Society.The China Boom Project classified this interviewee’s field as Business
Parameter sensitivity analysis of the short-range prediction of Kuroshio extension transition processes using an optimization approach
No full textSmodiscinodes yaoi Tang & Li 2010, sp. nov.
No full textSmodiscinodes yaoi sp. nov. Figs 46–48 Type material. Holotype: ♂, CHINA: Yunnan: Xishuangbanna, Mengla County, Menglun Town, Menglun Nature Reserve, G 213 roadside, High plantations (N21º54.123', E101º16.927', 590 m), 24 November 2009, G. Tang and Z.Y. Yao (Tang-Yao_No.22). Etymology. The specific name is a patronym in honor of Mr. Zhi-Yuan Yao (IZCAS), who took part in the field work in 2009. Diagnosis. This new species is very similar to S. hupingensis Tang, Peng and Yin, 2004 from Hunan Province, but can be separated from the latter by: cymbium with a dorsal outgrowth (absent in S. hupingensis); ratio of length of RTA / VTA = 0.5 (about 1.0 in S. hupingensis). This new species can be separated from S. schwendingeri by: 1) opisthosoma oval (elongated in S. schwendingeri); 2) RTA sharp (bifurcate in S. schwendingeri); 3) RTA uncovered by tutaculum (covered in S. schwendingeri). Description. Male (holotype measured): Total length 2.40. Prosoma 1.05 long, 0.95 wide; opisthosoma 1.30 long, 0.97 wide. Dorsal shield of prosoma dark brown. Prosoma with conspicuous crest of four projections, the two posterior ones bifurcate. Eye tubercles large; an angle-shaped projection presented between ALE and PLE. Eye measurements: AME 0.06; ALE 0.14; PME 0.05; PLE 0.13; AME–AME 0.12; AME–ALE 0.08; PME–PME 0.25; PME–PLE 0.22. MOA length 0.34 with front width 0.24 and back width 0.37. Chelicerae, gnathocoxae, labium and sternum dark brown; chelicerae with one large and one small promarginal teeth. Legs slender, femora with blackish brown annuli, each femur with a dorsal spine. Leg measurements: I: 2.82 (0.90, 1.00, 0.52, 0.40); II: 2.85 (0.90, 1.00, 0.55, 0.40); III: 2.35 (0.70, 0.80, 0.50, 0.35); IV: 2.68 (0.88, 0.90, 0.55, 0.35), leg formula: 2143. Opisthosoma oval, dorsally blackish brown with a pair of brown stripes, venter grayish brown. Palp (Figs 47 A–D, 48 A–D). Palp dark brown, cymbium with tutaculum and a dorsal outgrowth; VTA large digitiform, RTA sharp; tegulum flat, embolus small spiniform. Female: Unknown. Distribution. China (Yunnan). Habitat. Specimen was collected from evergreen tropical forest.Published as part of Tang, Guo & Li, Shuqiang, 2010, Crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae) 2703, pp. 1-105 in Zootaxa 2703 on pages 63-6
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