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This paper first examines the UK Department for Transport's top-level planning for transport big data and UK rail data access, including the Department's proposed directions for big data applications, transport data sets and data fusion. It then summarizes such information as data statistics, Data Portal Services and data application developed and provided to the public by UK's rail regulator Office of Rail and Road and UK's rail operator Network Rail. It finally puts forward suggestions on the application and development of the big data in China's rail transport industry from the perspective of building the rail transport data set, constructing the data portal for rail transport, and promoting the opening sharing of relevant data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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John Osborne's Look Back in Anger is a classic work of "Angry Young Men" in Britain, telling a post-war British young man Jimmy Porter's psychological journey of being angry. By focusing on the prominence of "figure", the reversal of "figure and ground" and the construction of super-foregrounded "figure" of the character and theme in the play, this paper analyzes the characterization, ethical implication and ethical appeal of Jimmy's anger. Osborne uses the "dominant" of "anger" to present the lives of British post-war young men and steer the audience to adjust their focuses on the dynamic changes of "figure and ground" so as to perceive the panoramic vision of what the playwright has depicted: individuals, family, and the society, which projects the "other" in the drama into the reader's "self" in real life and arouses the audience's introspection and reflection, so that the theme of "anger" as well as its ethical implication is sublimated. This play exhibits the playwright's ethical reflection on the causes, expressions and possible solutions of the "anger" among Angry Young Men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents an in-depth study on the short-term stiffness of hybrid prestressed concrete beams with bonded tendons and unbonded tendons. Calculation formulae of short-term stiffness were derived based on the double line theory. Multiple regression analysis is conducted for the reduction coefficient β0.5 used for the termination point of the stiffness calculation, based on the finite element results of 71 beams. Two formulae for the short-term stiffness of the hybrid prestressed concrete beams were proposed based on two different ways of calculating β0.5. The test data of 42 unbonded prestressed concrete beams and 31 bonded prestressed concrete beams collected from existing literatures verified the proposed stiffness formula. It’s suggested that the proposed formulae for short-term stiffness can also be applicable to bonded prestressed concrete beams and unbonded prestressed concrete beams. In addition, this paper presents an assessment of the accuracy of design formulae provided by a number of design standards, including GB 50010—2010, ACI 318-11, EN 1992-1-1:2004, for the short-term stiffness of prestressed concrete flexural members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Soil respiration is mediated by microbial activities, temperature, humidity and other environmental factors in soil. The increase in use of microbial organic fertilizer and drip irrigation in greenhouse production could alter soil micro-environment, particularly the rhizosphere, thereby leading to a change in soil respiration. This paper investigated the response of soil respiration to different combinations of drip irrigation amounts and microbial organic fertilizer applications. We experimentally compared three irrigation amounts 15, 18 and 21 mm – associated with three microbial organic fertilizer applications 2800, 3600 and 4400 kg/hm². The treatment with inorganic fertilizer application served as the control. In each treatment, we measured soil respiration rate and accumulated carbon emission, as well as other determinants. The soil temperature and humidity were measured following the soil respiration measurement using the delta-T sensor (delta-T company, UK); soil organic matter was measured using the potassium dichromate sulfuric acid oxidation external heating method; the activity of dehydrogenase was determined using the TTC colorimetry method; the activity of urease was determined by the phenol sodium colorimetry method; the activity of catalase was determined by the KMnO4 volumetric method. We analyzed the responsive change in soil respiration to these determinants and root biomass. The results showed that, compared to the CK, drip irrigation and microbial organic fertilization improved soil organic matter and increased the activities of dehydrogenase, urease and catalase by 11.6%-27.6%, 8.0%-27.7% and 1.8%-11.2%, respectively; the increase in urease activities was at significant level (p<0.05). The soil respiration rate was positively correlated to the root biomass, temperature and organic matter content at significant level of p<0.01, and to the enzymatic activities at significant level of p<0.05. Among all treatments, irrigating 18 mm of water and applying 4400 kg/hm² of microbial organic fertilizer produced the highest root biomass, reaching 394 g/m² 120 days after the transplanting. Overall, combining drip irrigation and microbial organic fertilization increased root biomass by 25.9%-43.4%, compared to the CK. When irrigation amount was 15 and 18 mm, the carbon emission increased significantly (p<0.05) when the fertilizer application increased from 3600 kg/hm² to 4400 kg/hm². The cumulative carbon emission peaked at 415.2 g/m² when the irrigation amount was 18 mm and the microbial fertilization was 4400 kg/hm², significantly higher than that under other treatments (p<0.05). The lowest cumulative carbon emission was from the CK, being 255.3 g/m² only. In summary, this study showed that drip irrigation and microbial organic fertilization combined to impact soil carbon emission by changing organic matter content and root biomass in the soil. Our results have important implications for improving ecological cultivation in greenhouse production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the process of the UK's ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon using a liberal intergovernmentalist approach. Traditionally, in contrast to other member states of the European Union, the UK has often been hesitant to pursue European integration. And yet, over the past half century, the European Union has become a significant model of voluntary regional integration. The ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon, which brought important changes to the European Union, marked a significant milestone for European integration in the early twenty-first century. This paper aims to explore the process and challenges of the UK's ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon by employing a liberal intergovernmentalist analysis. Such an approach has been developed over several decades and become a major theoretical approach to the study of European integration. Liberal intergovernmentalism, which draws special attention to the processes of negotiating, signing, and ratifying the EU's major treaties, provides a suitable theoretical approach to the analysis of the UK's passage of the Treaty of Lisbon. This paper is, therefore, designed with the dual purpose of examining the empirical case study of the UK's passage of the Treaty of Lisbon, and of examining the theoretical validity of liberal intergovernmentalism against empirical studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The prediction of deformation capacity of reinforced concrete (RC) columns is the foundation to realize performance-based seismic design. This paper presented a critical review of flexural-shear failure of columns based on Chinese design codes. The empirical formulas of ultimate deformation of RC columns were discussed, and the deficiencies of parametric model were revealed. The failure mode of flexural-shear, shear behavior and P-Δ effect are the main reasons for the scattering of the prediction of ultimate displacement. The length of plastic hinge is not a specific statistical sample. The prediction of ultimate displacement on the basis of equivalent plastic hinges method shows large scatter. In order to reveal the real shear demand in RC columns subjected to seismic loadings, the interaction between shear and flexural behaviors in plastic hinge zone should be taken into consideration. However, the corresponding simplified methods need to be improved. An effective method to evaluate the effect of shear on the deformation performance of columns is not available. In the GB 50010—2010 ‘Code for design of concrete structures’, the correction of the shear capacity formula for seismic design can effectively avoid the shear failure of columns under large displacement reversals, but the safety margin is different under varying ductility levels of ultimate displacement. The scatter of the prediction of GB 50010—2010 is larger than that of the original formula. Shear demand of identical columns under different test setups is not same due to the variety of P-Δ effect. The influence of P-Δ effect on the ultimate deformation capacity of RC columns depends failure modes. Finally, according to the relevant research in ultimate deformation, it is suggested that Chinese building code should be supplemented with an empirical formula for lower limit value of ultimate displacement by regression methods to improve performance-based design methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In current Chinese timber structure design codes, due to lack of a determination method, design strength value of domestic dimension lumber can only be determined with reference to the design method of sawn and log timber structure, which is dependent only upon wood species and is not related to visual grade and size of dimension lumber. For rational determination of the design strength value of domestic dimension lumber, full scale tests for bending strength were conducted on different visual grades (grade Ic, IIc, IIIc, IVc) of Chinese larch dimension lumber, and then reliability analysis on bending strength of domestic dimension lumber was carried out by the first order second moment method. In order to predict accurately the tail of probability distribution of bending strength, this paper has suggested that the mean value and standard deviation could be determined with the truncated 25% tested data of bending strength. The statistical mean vaule and coefficient of variation of geometry size of Chinese larch dimension lumber should be modified and be equal to 1.00 and 0.05, respectively. Based on reliability analysis results, relationships between reliability index and partial factor for different visual grades dimension lumber under different fitting data, probability distribution models of bending strength, load combinations, and load ratios were investigated. Finally, according to the target reliability requirements specified in the GB 50068—2001 ‘Unified standard for reliability design of building structures’, the partial factors for resistance and the corresponding design values of bending strength for Chinese larch dimension lumber were given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 156 years of British colonial rule (1842-1997) finally ended when the sovereignty over Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997. Since 1980, many new policies had been introduced in Hong Kong for the purpose of smoothing the process of handover. Some of the policies were introduced out of consideration for new political circumstances. Others were launched with the hidden agenda of erasing colonial history. The implementation of Chinese as an official medium of communication in the judicial system reflects the former, whereas the change of the Chinese titles of government officials reflects the latter. Many translation issues were involved in these so-called localization policies. In this regard, the change of Chinese titles for government officials in Hong Kong is a subject worthy of study. The Chinese titles of major government officials in colonial Hong Kong were actually taken over from those of Imperial China. Therefore, they are marks of Chinese imperial history rather than British colonial history. However, for the apparent propose of erasing colonial history, these proper Chinese titles were changed to newly coined Chinese titles that are not found in Chinese history. The aim of this paper is to use the issue of translation as an example to demonstrate that in the decolonization process of Hong Kong, as in that of many other colonized countries which intended to break with their colonial past, many decolonizing policies were actually self-defeating in purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zhongxue is a Chinese translation of W. Whewell's An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics, which was translated by Joseph Edkins and Li Shanlan and published in 1859. There are seven editions of Whewell's treatise. That Zhongxue is translated from which of the editions is still an unresolved issue. Based on a comparison of the Zhongxue with different editions of An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics, this paper comes to conclusion that the Zhongxue was translated from the fifth edition published in 1836. The paper also analyzes the differences between Zhongxue and its original texts, and corrects some popular inaccurate statements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academic circles usually narrate functionalism without strictly classifying its internal structure, and they are ambiguous on the origin and change of Hsiao-tung Fei's functionalism. Meanwhile, it is generally accepted that Fei Xiao tong became a functionalism after he acknowledged Malinowski as his master and followed him all along. The paper classifies the different development stages of Hsiao-tung Fei's functionalism: the rudimentary stage of Hsiao-tung Fei's functionalism before he studied in Britain; influenced by Malinowski's functionalism greatly during his staying in Britain; he became a structural functionalism of Brown from functionalism of Malinowski after he returned home from abroad. The paper lays special emphasis on analyzing the last stage and concludes five causes bringing about the change which makes him accomplish The Institutions for Reproduction. Therefore, Fei Xiao tong completed the functionalism of Malinowski and transcended the structural functionalism of Brown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Although the British philosopher Hume has often been labeled "empirical"or "skepticism", yet his thinking of "religion", no matter from form or content, is also with special philosophical meanings. In form, Hume rejects the theory of " natural religion" from the perspective of logical analysis and empiricism. In content, Hume holds that; the proper position of religion is to standardize people's morality, make person's behavior humanitarian, and infuse the spirit of abstention, order and obedience. That is to say, its purpose is to affirm the meaning of "religion" from the perspective of "religious socialization" and "religious moralization". The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct Hume's religious ideas by "natural religion dialogues", clarify its meanings of "true religion". At last, it attempts to examine philosophical implications of Hume's religious thought through the perspective of the contemporary religious philosopher Paul tillich'sultimate concern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to improve the survival ability of armored vehicles in the war, the protecting technology has been attached importance and developed completely by the world military powers. The paper presented the research state and protecting level of modern armor, and enumerated protecting furnishment of advanced armored vehicles, and summarized the research state and level of key protecting technology-armor material. After introducing situation of armor protecting technology, taking the research content of U. S. and U. K., the development trend to the modern armor technology-synthesis protection system were analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brexit is not only a major political event in Britain and an important node in the development of European integration, but also has an important impact on transatlantic relationship. Before Brexit, the UK occupied a unique position in EU-US relations, serving as a necessary bridge between the two and shaping the EU in a way that suited the US interests. However, Brexit has profoundly changed the EU, driving internal power structure shifts and policy adjustments. It will also change how EU and the US interact with each other and pose new challenges to the evolving transatlantic relationship. In the unfolding of “Great Changes Unseen in a Century”, the transatlantic relationship is undergoing profound adjustments, and Brexit has become a critical internal variable in this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) has a long history and has many advantages in some aspects over total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for patients with suitable indications, but it has not been established as a treatment at the same level with TKA. Therefore, 80 members of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) and the European Knee Society (EKS) were invited to attend a joint meeting with the aim of creating an evidence-based consensus statement on UKA, in London, UK (December 2019). A formal consensus process was undertaken at the meeting incorporating a multiple round Delphi exercise, with group discussion of areas of agreement and disagreement between rounds. Five consensus statements were issued: ① UKA should be offered as a successful alternative to TKA in patients undergoing arthroplasty who meet agreed indications. ② When consenting a patient for UKA, information including the benefits and risks that are specific to UKA, should be tailored to and discussed with the individual patient. ③ Evidence suggests that surgeons should avoid low-volume use of UKA to optimise outcomes for their patients. ④ Surgeons should use the contemporary evidence-based indications and contraindications for medial UKA. ⑤ Knee arthroplasty surgeons should have exposure to and training in UKA. On the basis of full study of the consensus, combined with the Expert Consensus on Perioperative Management of Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty in China in 2020, this paper elaborates the meaning of the final evidence-based consensus for clinicians' reference.

To analyze the development of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19), this study systematically retrieved relevant Chinese and English literatures from both CNKI and Web of Science database platforms by bibliometric research method and CiteSpace 5.5.R2 software to obtain information and visualize relevant literatures. A total of 695 Chinese and 446 English literatures were included in this paper. Statistics showed that China had published most of the literatures and established close cooperation with the United States and the United Kingdom. Through the analysis, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and its affiliated hospitals published the largest number of the publications. Moreover, the highly productive journals including Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and The Lancet covered eight major fields, such as medicine, medical virology, radiation medicine, infectious disease, and traditional Chinese medicine. Besides, a total of 35 special COVID-19 funds were recently established to subsidize these studies. The key words and themes analysis indicated that protein structure of COVID-19, receptor targets and mechanisms of action, integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, screening and development of antiviral drugs from traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, vaccine research as well as epidemiological characteristics and prediction are current study hotspots. This study provides a reference for researchers to rapidly master main study directions of COVID-19 and screen out relevant literatures.