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A lost boy and a father’s search: how Microsoft technology helped solve a four-year mystery

By Guest PostJune 10, 2017Technologybaobei huijia, four year mystery, guangzhou, junxiu wang, lost boy, microsoft technology

On a hot morning in June 2012, Junxiu Wang and his son awoke in the city of Guangzhou, northwest of Hong Kong, and started their day. (more…)

Cool Roofs in China Offer Enhanced Benefits During Heat Waves

By Guest PostMarch 27, 2016EnvironmentChina, cool roofs, dev millstein, guangzhou, heat waves, meichun cao, pablo rosado, ronnen levinson

New Berkeley Lab study uses regional climate model to compare heat waves to normal summer conditions.

It is well established that white roofs can help mitigate the urban heat island effect, reflecting the sun’s energy back into space and reducing a city’s temperature under normal weather conditions. In a new study of Guangzhou, China, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers working with Chinese scientists found that during a heat wave, the effect is significantly more pronounced. (more…)

Breaking Dengue Fever

By Guest PostJune 30, 2013Healthasia-pacific, China, dengue fever, florida, guangzhou, hawaii, infectious disease, malaria, michigan state university, mosquito species, mosquitoes, sun yat sen, united states, university, vaccine, wolbachia bacteria, zhiyong xi

Like malaria, dengue fever is an infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes. Unlike malaria, there is no vaccine for it. As many as 100 million people contract dengue each year, but MSU researcher Zhiyong Xi is working to change that.

Among the estimated 2.5 billion people at risk for dengue, more than 70 percent live in Asia Pacific countries, which spurred Xi to establish a collaborative research institute at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. (more…)

Species Extinction Rates Have Been Overestimated, New Study Claims

By Guest PostMay 29, 2011Natureafrica, asia, biodiversity, canada, center for tropical forest science, central america, China, earth, environmental decision making, experience a rain forest, extinction debt, extinction rates, fangliang he, global extinction, guangzhou, habitat loss, killing the dinosaurs, mathematical proof, meteor, photosynthesis, plant biomass, risk of extinction, south america, species area relationship, species extinction rates, stephen hubbell, sun yat sen university, tropical forest ecologist, university of Alberta

*However, researchers say, global extinction crisis remains very serious*

The most widely used methods for calculating species extinction rates are “fundamentally flawed” and overestimate extinction rates by as much as 160 percent, life scientists report May 19 in the journal Nature.

However, while the problem of species extinction caused by habitat loss is not as dire as many conservationists and scientists had believed, the global extinction crisis is real, says Stephen Hubbell, a distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA and co-author of the Nature paper. (more…)

Performance Recalls Faculty Member’s Years As One of China’s ‘Sent-down’ Youth

By Guest PostFebruary 12, 2011Culture1968, agricultural labor, ask the sky and the earth, black family, campaign, canton, chinese leader, civil unrest, composer, countryside, cowhouse, cultural revolution, east asian languages, guangzhou, hainan island, harvard university, intellectual leader, kuomintang, mao, mao zedong, orchestra, re-education movement, rural villages, sent-down youth, shinik hahm, spy, su wei, taiwan, tony fok, up to the mountains and down to the villages, urban youth, yale

In 1968, when Su Wei left his family behind and voluntarily joined the millions of urban youth who were being sent by Chinese leader Mao Zedong into the countryside to work the land as part of a “re-education” movement, his spirit was nearly broken.

As part of Mao’s “up to the mountains and down to the villages” campaign, initiated in 1968 to quell civil unrest during the Cultural Revolution, all urban 16-year-olds were commanded to travel to rural villages to be schooled in hard agricultural labor. More than 20 million teenagers were sent to work in the countryside, often devoting more than a decade of their lives to farm labor. Not only did this deprive them of a formal education, but parting from their families was a heart-wrenching experience for most of the youngsters. However, for then 15-year-old Su — now a senior lector in East Asian languages at Yale — leaving life in Guangzhou (Canton) represented an escape from an even more brutal life, and so he set off eagerly for the countryside even before he was required to do so. (more…)

Internet addiction and ‚self-harming‘

By ShamsMarch 29, 2010Health, Technologyalexis Pilkington, China, cyberbullying, formspring, guangdong, guangzhou, health professional, injury prevention, internet addiction, self-injurious behavior, sib

A recent study published on Injury Prevention, a journal for health professionals and others in injury prevention, shows a distinct association between internet addiction and self injurious behavior among the adolescents.

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