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Yang Yao (姚洋) interview for the China Boom Project
No full textYang Yao, Professor of Economics at the China Center for Economic Research, Beijing University, was interviewed by the Asia Society staff in New York, USA on June 12, 2009.Transcript and interviewee's bio are available.Original video interviews are available at the Asia Society.The China Boom Project classified this interviewee’s field as Academics
Yang yi ya yan dan yao ji fang
No full text許克昌, 畢法同輯.綫裝.框18.3x12.7公分, 10行22字. 白口, 左右雙邊, 單黑魚尾. 版心上鐫題名, 中鐫卷次及小題, 下鐫葉次.同治丁卯[1867]易崇堦"重刻外科證治弁言"詳言刻書事.《中國中醫古籍總目》09418著錄.卷末附刻: 全生集醫案 / 王洪緖 -- 瘍醫雅言丹藥集方 / 曹畸菴.鈐"莊兆祥印", "莊兆祥".Xian zhuang.Kuang 18.3 x 12.7 gong fen, 10 hang 22 zi. Bai kou, zuo you shuang bian, dan hei yu wei. Ban xin shang juan ti ming, zhong juan juan ci ji xiao ti, xia juan ye ci.Detailed notes in vernacular field only.Detailed notes in vernacular field only.Xu Kechang, Bi Fa tong ji.Juan mo fu ke: Quan sheng ji yi an / Wang Hongxu -- Yang yi ya yan dan yao ji fang / Cao Jian.Qian "Zhuang Zhaoxiang yin", "Zhuang Zhaoxiang"
Villa aquila Yao, Yang & Evenhuis, 2009, sp. nov.
No full textVilla aquila sp. nov. (Figs. 1, 6–11) Diagnosis. Dorsum with dense long yellowish hairs laterally except tergites 5–6 with black hairs and tergite 7 with dense white and black hairs; dorsum with dense black recumbent scales except tergite 4 with white recumbent scales anteriorly and tergites 1, 5, and 6 with white recumbent scales posteriorly. Epiphallus wide clubbed, with an irregular tip in dorsal view; distiphallus rather narrow, long and slightly curved at middle in lateral view. Description. Male. Body length 14–15 mm, wing length 12–14 mm. Head black with grey pollen; ocellar tubercle dark brown. Hairs on head black and yellowish; frons with dense black erect hairs, face with dense yellowish erect hairs; occiput with aparse short black hairs and white scales become denser near eyes, a row of brown erect hairs on edge. Antenna black; scape twice longer than wide, with dense black hairs; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with short sparse black hairs; first flagellomere cone-shaped, bare. Antennal ratio: 8: 1: 5. Proboscis dark brown with yellow and black hairs; palpus dark brown with black hairs. Thorax black with black scales. Hairs on thorax mostly yellow, bristles yellow; postpronotal lobe with long yellow hairs, mesonotum with row of long yellow hairs at anterior margin and three long yellow lateral bristles near base of wing, postalar callus with six yellow bristles; thorax with black scales on back but bare in middle. Scutellum with sparse yellow hairs; scales on scutellum black; scutellum with six bristles each side, with apical scutellar bristles and subapical scutellar bristles black, and basal scutellar bristles yellow. Legs dark brown with black scales except hind femur and tibia with yellowish scales. Hairs on legs mostly black, bristles black. Femora with sparse long black hairs; tibiae and tarsi with short black hairs. Mid femur with four av apically; hind femur with six av apically. Fore tibia with eight ad, 10 pd, and seven pv; mid tibia with eight ad, 12 pd, eight av and 14 pv; hind tibia with 10 pv and with all hairs bristle-like. Wing (Fig. 1) mostly hyaline with metalline reflecting except cells sc, c, and basal half of cell r 1 and base of wing dark brown. Base of vein C with brush-like long black hairs and white scales, tegula with white scales. Wing with basicosta strong; vein r-m nearly 1 / 3 length of discal cell apically. Halteres pale. Abdomen black. Hairs on abdomen mostly yellowish; dorsum with dense long yellowish hairs laterally except tergites 5–6 with black hairs laterally and tergite 7 with dense white and black hairs laterally; dorsum with dense black recumbent scales except tergite 4 with white recumbent scales anteriorly and tergites 1, 5 and 6 with white recumbent scales posteriorly. Sternites with dense yellow erect hairs and dense white recumbent scales except sternites 3, 5, and 6 lack white scales. Male genitalia (Figs. 6–11). Epandrium subquadrate, with dense long black bristles apically, nearly as long as wide; cercus well exposed in lateral view; epandrium a little longer than wide, slightly narrowed from base to tip in dorsal view; gonocoxa with numerous black bristle-like hairs apically, distinctly narrowing apically in ventral view; gonostylus subquadrate, its tip obtuse and slightly curved at middle in lateral view; epiphallus broad, clubbed, with a trifurcate tip in dorsal view, distiphallus narrow, long and slightly curved at middle in lateral view. Female. Body length 16–17 mm, wing length 15–16 mm. Similar to male, but wing with tegula lacks white scales; tergites 1–3 with yellowish recumbent scales anteriorly and tergites 5– 6 with yellowish recumbent scales posteriorly. Type material. Holotype male, CHINA: Ningxia, Longde, Sutai (N 106 ° 14 ’ E 35 ° 62 ’), 24. VI. 2008, Gang Yao; Paratypes 1 male, CHINA: Ningxia, Longde, Sutai (N 106 ° 14 ’ E 35 ° 62 ’), 24. VI. 2008, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Ningxia, Longde, Fengtai (N 106 ° 14 ’ E 35 ° 62 ’), 27. VI. 2008, Tingting Zhang; 6 males, CHINA: Ningxia, Longde, Fengtai (N 106 ° 14 ’ E 35 ° 62 ’), 28. VI. 2008, Gang Yao; 6 males, CHINA: Beijing, Mentougou, Lingshangudao (N 114 ° 40 ’ E 38 ° 47 ’), 9. VI. 2008, Gang Yao; 4 males, CHINA: Beijing, Mentougou, Longmenjian (N 114 ° 40 ’ E 38 ° 47 ’), 8. VI. 2008, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Beijing, Mentougou, Longmenjian (N 114 ° 40 ’ E 38 ° 47 ’), 15. VIII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Beijing, Mentougou, Xiaolongmen (N 114 ° 40 ’ E 38 ° 47 ’), 7. VI. 2008, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Yunnan, Kunming, Songhuabashuiku (N 103 °00’ E 26 ° 48 ’), 24. VII. 2006, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Ningxia, Tongxin, Daluoshan (N 106 ° 17 ’ E 37 ° 19 ’), 13. VII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 female, CHINA: Beijing, Mentougou, Xiaolongmen (N 114 ° 40 ’ E 38 ° 47 ’), 7. VI. 2008, Gang Yao (CAU); 1 female, CHINA: Beijing, Mentougou, Longmenjian (N 114 ° 40 ’ E 38 ° 47 ’), 15. VIII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 female, CHINA: Beijing, Changping, Heishanzhai (N 116 ° 23 ’ E 40 ° 21 ’), 5. IX. 2006, Haiqing Wang; 1 female, CHINA: Hebei, Kongjian, Yangjiaping (N 115 °02’ E 39 ° 57 ’), 11. VIII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 female, CHINA: Beijing, Mentougou, Baihuagu (N 115 ° 36 ’ E 39 ° 52 ’), 2. IX. 2008, Tingting Zhang. Distribution. China (Beijing, Hebei, Ningxia, Yunnan). Etymology. The species epithet derives from the Latin “ aquila ” [= dark-colored]; referring to infuscation on the anterior part of the wing. Remarks. The new species is similar to V. fasciata (Meigen), but it can be separated from the latter by tergite 4 with white recumbent scales anteriorly and tergites 1, 5, and 6 with white recumbent scales posteriorly. In V. fasciata, tergites 2–3 have yellowish recumbent scales antero-laterally, tergite 4 has yellowish recumbent scales anteriorly, and tergites 5–6 have yellowish recumbent scales posteriorly.Published as part of Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2009, Four new species and a new record of Villa Lioy, 1864 from China (Diptera: Bombyliidae), pp. 49-60 in Zootaxa 2055 on pages 51-52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18668
Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income: Evidence from Rural China
No full textUsing a sample of households in 48 Chinese villages for the period 1986-2002, this paper studies the dynamic effects of major health shocks on household income and the role played by village elections in mitigating these effects. Our results show that in the first 15 years after a shock, a shock-hit household on average falls short of its normal income trajectory by 11.8% and its recovery would take 19 years. Based on the premise that shock-hit families impose negative externalities on richer families by borrowing from them, our political economy model predicts that the outcome of village elections would differ from that of a standard median voter model in that the elected village leaders tend to adopt pro-poor policies. Our empirical study finds that villages are more likely to establish a healthcare plan after the election is introduced. In addition, village elections reduce the probability of a household to borrow by 16.7% when one of its working adults is seriously sick. As a result, they reduce more than half of the negative effect of a health shock on household income.
Supplemental Material - Mannose-binding lectin gene polymorphism and the susceptibility of sepsis: A meta-analysis
No full textSupplemental Material for Mannose-binding lectin gene polymorphism and the susceptibility of sepsis: A meta-analysis by Shaowen Cheng, Rong Wang, Hengjie Zhu, Jian Yang, Jiangling Yao, Yunfu Zeng, Hongwang Cui and Binwen Huang in European Journal of Inflammation.</p
Apolysis galba Yao, Yang, Evenhuis & Gharali, 2010, sp. nov.
No full textApolysis galba sp. nov. (Figs. 3–7; 12–21) Diagnosis. Male thorax with brown pollen except anterior part with white pollen, female thorax with white pollen, except two black longitudinal paramedian lines and brown antehumeral patches immediately anterior to thoracic suture. Male abdomen black with brown pollen except posterior portion fourth of tergites yellow with pale pollen; female abdomen with anterior half of tergites black, posterior half yellow except tergite 1 which is entirely yellow. Description. Male (Fig. 3). Body length 5–6 mm, wing length 4–5 mm. Head black. Eyes holoptic; frons with short sparse black erect hairs and brown pollen; face with short sparse black erect hairs and white pollen; occiput with long dense brown hairs at tip and long dense white hairs at below. Antennae (Fig. 7) black; scape slightly longer than wide, with short sparse brown hairs; pedicel rounded, nearly as long as wide, with short sparse yellowish hairs; first flagellomere subclavate, nearly four times longer than wide, with short sparse brown hairs, distinctly broadening from base to tip, first flagellomere concave at tip, and with an articulated spine-like second flagellomere in addition to a stylus at middle of concavity. Proboscis black, bare, more than four times longer than head; palpus black, with short yellowish hairs. Thorax (Fig. 4) black with brown pollen except middle-anteriorly half with white pollen. Thorax with sparse yellowish hairs laterally; thorax almost bare on disc, except posterior part with sparse yellowish hairs, anepisternum and katepisternum with white pollen and anepisternum with dense yellowish hairs. Scutellum black, almost bare. Legs black. Hairs on legs white and brown, bristles lacking. Femora with long sparse white hairs; tibiae and tarsi with short dense brown hairs. Wing mostly hyaline with metallic reflections. Crossvein r-m close to base of cell dm, cell r 5 open. Base of vein C with brush-like yellowish hairs. Halteres with stem brown, knobs yellowish. Abdomen black with brown pollen except posterior fifth of tergites yellow with pale pollen. Abdomen with sparse yellowish hairs. Sternites black with pale pollen, except posterior portion fifth of sternites yellow with pale pollen. Male genitalia (Figs. 12–17). Epandrium subquadrate, distinctly longer than high, cercus well exposed in lateral view; epandrium semicircular in dorsal view; gonocoxite distinctly narrowing apically, not ventrally fused; gonostylus subquadrate with a rather acute tip in ventral view; gonostylus subtriangular, its tip acute in lateral view; epiphallus semicircular, almost round at tip in dorsal view, epiphallus with a quadrate tip, distiphallus with a rather long and acute tip in lateral view. Female (Fig. 5). Body length 5–6 mm, wing length 4–5 mm. Similar to male, but eyes dichoptic; frons with short sparse yellow erect hairs; face with long sparse erect white hairs; thoracic dorsum (Fig. 6) with white pollen, except two black longitudinal paramedian lines running from anterior slope of mesonotum for 4 / 5 ths of its length and brown antehumeral patches immediately anterior to thoracic suture and spreading to just posterior to it. Tergites of abdomen with anterior half black and posterior half yellow except tergite 1 which is entirely yellow. Female genitalia (Figs. 18–21). Tergite 8 L-shaped, and with cercus well exposed, sternite 8 triangular in lateral view; spermathecae peanut-shaped; tergite 8 roundish, tergite 9 + 10 U-shaped in ventral view; eggs (Figs. 19–20) oval, with an operculum (three of four lost opercula). FIGURES 18–21. Apolysis galba sp. nov. female genitalia. 18. female genitalia, lateral view; 19. female genitalia, ventral view; 20. the photo of eggs; 21. eggs. Type material. Holotype male, CHINA: Ningxia, Longde, Fengtai (N 35 ° 38 ’ 51 ’’ E 106 ° 10 ’ 37 ’’), 27. VI. 2008, Gang Yao. Paratypes 1 male, CHINA: Ningxia, Longde, Fengtai (N 35 ° 38 ’ 51 ’’ E 106 ° 10 ’ 37 ’’), 27. VI. 2008, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Ningxia, Longde, Fengtai (N 35 ° 38 ’ 51 ’’ E 106 ° 10 ’ 37 ’’), 27. VI. 2008, Tingting Zhang; 2 males, CHINA: Ningxia, Jingyuan, Dongshanpo (N 35 ° 36 ’ 44 ’’ E 106 ° 16 ’ 25 ’’), 21. VI. 2008, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Ningxia, Jingyuan, Dongshanpo (N 35 ° 36 ’ 44 ’’ E 106 ° 16 ’ 25 ’’), 22. VI. 2008, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Ningxia, Longde, Sutai (N 35 ° 26 ’ 49 ’’ E 106 ° 12 ’ 31 ’’), 23. VI. 2008, Tingting Zhang; 2 females, CHINA: Ningxia, Jingyuan, Dongshanpo (N 35 ° 36 ’ 44 ’’ E 106 ° 16 ’ 25 ’’), 21. VI. 2008, Gang Yao; 1 female, CHINA: Ningxia, Jingyuan, Dongshanpo (N 35 ° 36 ’ 44 ’’ E 106 ° 16 ’ 25 ’’), 21. VI. 2008, Tingting Zhang; 2 females, CHINA: Ningxia, Jingyuan, Dongshanpo (N 35 ° 36 ’ 44 ’’ E 106 ° 16 ’ 25 ’’), 22. VI. 2008, Gang Yao; 1 female, CHINA: Ningxia, Longde, Fengtai (N 35 ° 38 ’ 51 ’’ E 106 ° 10 ’ 37 ’’), 27. VI. 2008, Gang Yao; 1 female, CHINA: Ningxia, Longde, Fengtai (N 35 ° 38 ’ 51 ’’ E 106 ° 10 ’ 37 ’’), 27. VI. 2008, Tingting Zhang; 1 female, CHINA: Ningxia, Jingyuan, Hongxia (N 35 ° 29 ’ 17 ’’ E 106 ° 20 ’ 39 ’’), 1. VII. 2008, Tingting Zhang. Distribution. China (Ningxia). Etymology. The species epithet derives from the Latin “ galba ” [= yellow]; referring to the yellow color of the posterior margin of the tergites. Remarks. The new species is similar to A. gobiensis Zaitzev, A. beijingensis (Yang &Yang) and A. glabrifrons Gharali & Evenhuis, but it can be separated from the others by the following points: The 1 st flagellomere is three times longer than wide; the stem of the haltere is brown, the knob is yellowish; the epiphallus has a quadrate tip in lateral view, the distiphallus is narrow and does not reach the tip of the epiphallus in lateral view. In A. gobiensis, the haltere is white; the epiphallus has a semicircular tip in lateral view, the distiphallus is wide and over the tip of the epiphallus in lateral view (Zaitzev, 1975). In A. beijingensis, the 1 st flagellomere is four times longer than wide; the knob of the haltere is milk-white; the anterior half of the thorax is covered with the white pollen except the postpronotal lobe is covered with the brown pollen and the posterior half is covered with the brown pollen; the epandrium is distinctly longer than high in the lateral view (Yang & Yang, 1994). In A. glabrifrons, the 1 st flagellomere is twice longer than wide; the knob of the haltere is brown; the thorax has the dense gray pollen anteriorly; the epandrium is as long as high in the lateral view (Gharali & Evenhuis, in press).Published as part of Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. & Gharali, Babak, 2010, A new species of Apolysis Loew, 1860 from China (Diptera: Bombyliidae, Usiinae, Apolysini), pp. 20-26 in Zootaxa 2441 on pages 22-25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19496
Notes Regarding the Customs of Marriage of the Yao Tribe
No full textAuthor was member of Yao (Mien) ethnic group and wrote this paper in Lao script. Undated
Distributed human computation framework for linked data co-reference resolution
No full textDistributed Human Computation (DHC) is a technique used to solve computational problems by incorporating the collaborative effort of a large number of humans. It is also a solution to AI-complete problems such as natural language processing. The Semantic Web with its root in AI is envisioned to be a decentralised world-wide information space for sharing machine-readable data with minimal integration costs. There are many research problems in the Semantic Web that are considered as AI-complete problems. An example is co-reference resolution, which involves determining whether different URIs refer to the same entity. This is considered to be a significant hurdle to overcome in the realisation of large-scale Semantic Web applications. In this paper, we propose a framework for building a DHC system on top of the Linked Data Cloud to solve various computational problems. To demonstrate the concept, we are focusing on handling the co-reference resolution in the Semantic Web when integrating distributed datasets. The traditional way to solve this problem is to design machine-learning algorithms. However, they are often computationally expensive, error-prone and do not scale. We designed a DHC system named iamResearcher, which solves the scientific publication author identity co-reference problem when integrating distributed bibliographic datasets. In our system, we aggregated 6 million bibliographic data from various publication repositories. Users can sign up to the system to audit and align their own publications, thus solving the co-reference problem in a distributed manner. The aggregated results are published to the Linked Data Cloud
Complex of five villages in Hua Sam Rong Subdistrict of Plaeng Yao District, Chachoengsao Province, eastern Thailand, from which samples of <i>Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti</i> (L.) were taken from December 2007 to September 2008.
No full text<p>Complex of five villages in Hua Sam Rong Subdistrict of Plaeng Yao District, Chachoengsao Province, eastern Thailand, from which samples of <i>Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti</i> (L.) were taken from December 2007 to September 2008.</p
Hemipenthes beijingensis Yao, Yang & Evenhuis, 2008, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Hemipenthes beijingensis</i> sp. nov. <p>(Figs. 2, 17–22)</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> Hyaline part of cell <i>r1</i> crescent-shaped; hyaline apical part of cell <i>cu-a1</i> small, subtriangular. Epiphallus narrowed at middle, with a half unclear line apically; distiphallus subquadrate in dorsal view, long and slightly narrowing apically in lateral view.</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> Male. Body length 6–13 mm, wing length 7–14 mm.</p> <p>Head black; ocellar tubercle dark brown. Hairs on head black or yellow; frons with erect black hairs and sparse yellow recumbent hairs; face with dense black and yellow hairs; occiput with sparse black and yellow hairs and a row of erect blackish hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with six black hairs. Antenna brown; scape long cylindrical, two times longer than wide, with rows of long, black hairs on both sides; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with sparse black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, brownish, bare. Antennal ratio: 5:2:10. Proboscis brown with yellow and black hairs; palpus yellowish brown with black and yellow hairs.</p> <p> Thorax black with brown pollen. Hairs on thorax mostly yellow, bristles on thorax black or yellow; hairs on postpronotal lobe yellow, mesonotum with row of long yellow hairs along anterior margin and three long black lateral bristles near base of wing; laterotergite with a pile of yellowish hairs; postalar callus with three yellow bristles. Scutellum with yellow or black sparse long hairs. Legs black except tibiae yellow. Hairs on legs mostly black, bristles black. Femora with long black hairs; tibiae with short black hairs; tarsi with some short black hairs. Mid femur with three <i>av</i> apically; hind femur with three <i>av</i> apically. Mid tibia with nine <i>ad</i>, nine <i>pd</i>, six <i>av</i> and six <i>pv</i>; hind tibia with 12 <i>ad</i>, 12 <i>pd</i>, nine <i>av</i> and nine <i>pv</i>. Femora and tibiae with yellow scales. Wing (Fig. 2) half infuscate; hyaline part including entire cells <i>r4</i>, most part of cells <i>r2+3</i>, <i>r5</i>, <i>m1</i>, <i>m2</i>, <i>dm</i>, and <i>cu-a1</i>, and little part of cells <i>cup</i>, <i>a</i>, and <i>r1</i>; hyaline part of cell <i>r1</i> crescent-shaped; hyaline apical part of cell <i>a</i> very small, subtriangular. Halteres black; knob pale.</p> <p>Abdomen black with brown pollen. Hairs on abdomen yellowish and black; dorsum with long dense yellowish hairs laterally except tergites 1, 4, and 7; dorsum with black recumbent hairs, tergite 4 with a small mid-posterior area bare; tergites 9–10 with yellowish hairs. Sternites with yellow recumbent hairs and erect black hairs.</p> <p>Male genitalia (Figs. 17–22). Epandrium subquadrate, twice longer than high, and with small lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium twice wider than high in posterior view; gonocoxa more or less narrowing posteriorly, with a rather narrow middle incision apically and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically in ventral view; gonostylus with a basal process, its acute tip strongly curved in lateral view; epiphallus nearly semicircular apically, distinctly narrowed at middle, with a line half unclear apically; distiphallus curved in dorsal view, but long, slightly narrowing apically in lateral view.</p> <p>Female. Unknown.</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> Holotype male, CHINA: Beijing, Xiaolongmen, 14. VIII. 2007, Gang Yao. Paratypes 4 males, the same as holotype; 2 males, CHINA: Hebei, Yangjiaping, 12. VIII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Hebei, Yangjiaping, 11. VIII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Hebei, Wulingshan, 24. VIII. 2007, Kuiyan Zhang.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> China (Beijing, Hebei).</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The species is named after the type locality Beijing.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> The new species is similar to <i>H. mesasiatica</i> (Zaitzev), but it can be separated from the latter by the hyaline part of cell <i>cu-a1</i> smaller, the epiphallus distinctly narrowing at middle, and the distiphallus subquadrate in dorsal view. In <i>H. mesasiatica,</i> the hyaline apical part of cell <i>cu-a1</i> is rather large, more than half of the infuscate part; the epiphallus is slightly narrowing at middle, and the distiphallus is subtriangular in dorsal view (Zaitzev, 1962).</p>Published as part of <i>Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2008, Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae), pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 1870</i> on page 6, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/183945">10.5281/zenodo.183945</a>
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