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Contrast instead of comparison: Evidence from West Tibetan differentiating property ascriptions
Linguistic Discovery, 2018 Non-equative comparisons are typically interpreted in terms of degree semantics. That is, the comparee is thought to have the same property as the standard, but to a different degree.
Bettina Zeisler
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Linking deeply-sourced volatile emissions to plateau growth dynamics in southeastern Tibetan Plateau
Nature Communications, 2021 The episodic growth of high-elevation orogenic plateaux is controlled by a series of geodynamic processes. However, determining the underlying mechanisms that drive plateau growth dynamics over geological history and constraining the depths at which ...
Maoliang Zhang +15 more
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Widespread societal and ecological impacts from projected Tibetan Plateau lake expansion
Nature GeoscienceLakes on the Tibetan Plateau are expanding rapidly in response to climate change. The potential impact on the local environment if lake expansion continues remains uncertain.
Fenglin Xu +6 more
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Xiehe Yixue ZazhiObjectiveTo construct and validate a deep learning-based bone age prediction model for children living in both plain and highland regions.MethodsA model named "ethnicity vision gender-bone age net (EVG-BANet)" was trained using three datasets, including ...
LIU Qixing +8 more
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The Characteristics of Sleep Apnea in Tibetans and Han Long-Term High Altitude Residents
Nature and Science of Sleep, 2022 Lu Tan,1 Taomei Li,1 Lian Luo,1 Xiaofang Xue,2,3 Fei Lei,1 Rong Ren,1 Ye Zhang,1 Jiaming He,2,3 Konrad E Bloch,4 Xiangdong Tang1,5– 7 1Sleep Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of ...
Tan L +9 more
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A survey of useful wild plants of the Tibetan in Zanda County, Xizang, China
Guangxi ZhiwuWild plants play a pivotal role in people's daily lives, providing numerous necessities such as food, medicine, and living tools for survival. Zanda County, located in the southwestern part of Ngari Prefecture, Xizang Autonomous Region, China, bordering ...
LIN Lei1,2, DING Xiaoyong1, HU Huabin3, ZHANG Dezheng4, WU Guomao1,2, MEI Renqiang1, WANG Yuhua1*
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020 Musk Larkspur (Delphinium brunonianum) is a perennial herb of the family Ranunculace with medicinal values. In this study, the chloroplast (cp) genome of this herb was determined to be 153,926 bp long with an A + T-biased base composition, and comprises ...
Qien Li +6 more
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Detecting Rock Glacier Displacement in the Central Himalayas Using Multi-Temporal InSAR
Remote Sensing, 2021 Rock glaciers represent typical periglacial landscapes and are distributed widely in alpine mountain environments. Rock glacier activity represents a critical indicator of water reserves state, permafrost distribution, and landslide disaster ...
Xuefei Zhang +7 more
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Communications Earth & EnvironmentThe Tibetan grassland ecosystems possess significant carbon sink potential and have room for improved carbon sequestration processes. There is a need to uncover more ambitious and coherent solutions (e.g., Nature-based Solutions) to increase carbon ...
Jian Sun +11 more
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Why Has the Inner Tibetan Plateau Become Wetter since the Mid-1990s?
Journal of Climate, 2020 The Inner Tibetan Plateau (ITP; also called the Qiangtang Plateau) appears to have experienced an overall wetting in summer (June, July, and August) since the mid-1990s, which has caused the rapid expansion of thousands of lakes.
Jing Sun +5 more
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