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The article reports that the Chinese readers of the modern era read Old Testament (OT) as an historical and literary document of the ancient Israelites, which is similar to their reading of early Chinese narrative as a historical document. It states that early Chinese historiography is similar among ancient historiographies to the Hebrew Deuteronomistic historiography. It mentions that the biblical and Chinese texts are observed in translated form.

Progress on the evaluation of systematic frequency shifts is described in the development of the optical frequency standard based on single-trapped 40Ca+ with a "clock" transition at 729 nm. The overall systematic uncertainty of the 4s ²S1/2-3d ²D5/2 clock resonance has been characterized to be 7.8 x 10-16. This uncertainty is at a level similar to the Cs fountain primary standard, while the potential stability for the 40Ca+ clock exceeds that of Cs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]