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Quenching the Dragon's Thirst: The South-North Water Transfer Project -- Old Plumbing for New China? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
As the legend goes, when a man named Yu heeded the dragon's instructions about how to channel flood waters, he tamed China's rivers and was made emperor.
Carla Oman
core  

Form and load transfer aspects of foundation systems: Case‐based implementation and adaptation for buildings

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
Upon conceptualization of structural behavior, foundations in terms of their form are divided into linear (1D), planar (2D), and volumetric (3D). Regarding the load transfer mechanisms, linear foundation systems are considered vector‐acting, planar foundations are divided into section and surface‐acting, and volumetric ones are recognized as block ...
Abolfazl Eslami   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bottlenecks‐Breaking in Zinc‐Iodine Batteries Toward Practical Implementation: A Review and Perspective

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
Aqueous zinc–iodine batteries (Zn–I2Bs) offer promise for grid storage due to safety and cost advantages yet face critical bottlenecks: severe self‐discharge (polyiodide shuttling and HER), limited energy density, sluggish kinetics, and zinc anode instability.
Jia‐Lin Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Advances in Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Photocatalysis: Mechanism, Synthesis and Applications

open access: yesExploration, EarlyView.
Conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) have attracted more and more attention as new photocatalysts due to their unique advantages such as high performance, long stability and strong light absorption. This review summarizes the application of CMPs as a photocatalyst in recent years and introduces the catalytic mechanism.
Dun Zhou   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jesus: His Life—Perspectives of Joseph and John the Baptist (Pt. 1)

open access: yes, 2019
As the calendar approaches Easter, made-for-television movies and documentaries appear on the History Channel, CNN, the National Geographic Channel, and other venues; and, why not?
Anderson, Paul N.
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Antiquity in the shape of a Canon.: Views on antiquity from the outlook of mathematics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Paper submitted for the proceedings of the conference organized by Dieter Kuhn, "Perceptions of antiquity in China's civilization, Past and Present", Wuerzburg, 2004.
Chemla, Karine
core   +2 more sources

Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Translation and ophthalmology during the Abbasid Era: Hunayn bin Isḥāq’s ‘In the Eye, Two Hundred and Seven Issues’ as a model of medical scholarship

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This study explores the contributions of Hunayn bin Isḥāq al-Abbadi (d. 873 AD) to the fields of translation and ophthalmology in the Abbasid era. Focusing on the first fifty questions from his own innovative work In the Eye, Two Hundred and Seven Issues,
Dalal H. Al-Zubi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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