Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.1 Zhou Yi Xi Ci (The Zhou Book of Change •The Survey)said: “Alternation between Yin and Yang is called Tao (Way)”,2 Tao is the law of happen and development and changes for the things, “ Yin-Yang ‘ s greatness and vastness match the images of heaven and...

Two new species, Batricavus abdominalis Yin & Li, sp. n. and Batricavus hainanensis Yin & Li, sp. n. are described from Hainan, South China, with male habitus and major diagnostic features illustrated. Batricavus tibialis Yin & Li is newly recorded from Zhejiang, East China. Keys to both sexes of the genus are included.

We have developed finite difference codes based on the Yin-Yang grid for the geodynamo simulation and the mantle convection simulation. The Yin-Yang grid is a kind of spherical overset grid that is composed of two identical component grids. The intrinsic simplicity of the mesh configuration of the Yin-Yang grid enables us to develop highly optimized simulation codes on massively parallel superc...

Pitch is an important property of birdsong. Accurate and automatic tracking of pitch for large numbers of recordings would be useful for automatic analysis of birdsong. Currently, pitch trackers such as YIN can work with carefully tuned parameters but the characteristics of birdsong mean those optimal parameters can change quickly even within a single song. This paper presents YIN-bird, a modif...

Modeling a strong East Asian summer monsoon in a globally cool Earth, the MIS-13 case Q. Z. Yin, A. Berger, E. Driesschaert, H. Goosse, M. F. Loutre, and M. Crucifix Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique G. Lemaı̂tre, Université catholique de Louvain, Chemin du Cyclotron 2, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Received: 5 November 2007 – Accepted: 12 November 2007 – Published: 26 November 2007 Corre...

The monotypic genus Buobellenden Yin & Nomura, 2009 is placed as a junior synonym of Bellenden Chandler, 2001. This act results in Bellenden jingyuanensis (Yin & Nomura), comb. n. (from Buobellenden). A new species, Bellenden siguniang Yin & Jang, sp. n., collected from the alpine area in Sichuan, SW China, is described, illustrated, and distinguished from all congeners. A new illustration of t...

Individual and combined effects of ice sheets and precession on MIS-13 climate Q. Z. Yin, A. Berger, and M. Crucifix Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique G. Lemaı̂tre, Université catholique de Louvain, Chemin du Cyclotron 2, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Received: 23 January 2009 – Accepted: 24 January 2009 – Published: 24 February 2009 Correspondence to: Q. Z. Yin ([email protected]) Publi...

In modern computer systems, long-running jobs are divided into a large number of short tasks and executed in parallel. As the system size and complexity scales up, the task service times become highly random and the job service time is constrained by the slowest straggling tasks. An efficient solution is to replicate a task on multiple servers and wait for one task copy to finish early. However...