http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2017.01.012 The first record of hand pollination was in a relief from an Assyrian dynasty, 800 BC, now preserved in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In the relief, shown in Figure 1A, two winged deities gingerly fertilize a date palm tree by using a male flower. Nearly 3,000 years later, pollination has been automated. In this issue of Chem, Chechetka et al. de...

Abstract In 1527–1541, the Mac dynasty was at risk of invasion from its northern neighbor in China and had to fight consecutively with Revival Le Dai Viet. Therefore, relations China, during this period tried maintain peaceful avoid war between two sides. Owing return several former Chinese lands period, many people, especially historians medieval Vietnam, have condemned humility dynasty, borde...

We establish the nature of the dynamics of the exchange rate in a two country model with heterogenous firms a la Abadir and Talmain (2002). We are picking an “off-the-shelf” two country (‘home’ or ‘foreign’) monopolistic competition model from Cook and Devereux (2016), denoted as CD later, and adapt it to our setting. We generalize their model by allowing heterogenous productivities among firms...

Objectives. To apply modern text-mining methods to identify candidate herbs and formulae for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy. Methods. The method we developed includes three steps: (1) identification of candidate ancient terms; (2) systemic search and assessment of medical records written in classical Chinese; (3) preliminary evaluation of the effect and safety of candidates. Results. Anc...

Environmental archaeology of archaeological sites on both sides of the Dachang section in the Daning River, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, shows that riverbed evolution has a great influence on the distribution of archaeological sites during the prehistorical and historical period, and it restricts human activity and the development of ancient culture. Field investigation, dating data, ...

This study examines the tax reductions that occurred during Koryŏ Dynasty. First, while reviewing historical sources for reduction and exemption, terms <i>kyŏn</i> (蠲), <i>kam</i> (減), <i>myŏn</i> (免), <i>pang</i> (放), <i>kyŏnmyŏn</i> (蠲免) accounted 90% of instances implied “to exempt” not relieve.” Second, reporting procedure exemptio...

Dynasties in Islamic history often show that many areas lived and developed under the leadership of a king. Thus political life various monarchical governments are justified part because there appears to be an heir throne. Of course, like countries, dynasties experienced several triumphs declines even collapse after enjoying extraordinary fame. For example, Mughal dynasty only lasted about 332 ...