Past researches showed that empathy for pain not only triggers a resonance mechanism between other and self, but also is modulated by contextual factors. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the present study demonstrated that short-term media violence exposure reduced both pain ratings and also the activation of anterior insula and anterior mid-cingulate cortex to other's pain. Thus, v...

There have been six times of severe heat damages happened to the mid-season rice in Yangtze River Valley (YRV), China during the past 50 years, with the latest one occurred in 2003. It was estimated that the involved acreage of rice in 2003 was about 3 million ha, with a loss of about 5.18 million rice grain yields. The serious heat stress situation in YRV might be closely correlated with the c...

Wikipedia, a collaborative Wiki-based encyclopedia, has become a huge phenomenon among Internet users. It covers a huge number of concepts of various fields such as Arts, Geography, History, Science, Sports and Games. As a corpus for knowledge extraction, Wikipedia’s impressive characteristics are not limited to the scale, but also include the dense link structure, word sense disambiguation bas...

background: recent researches have led to find strategies to prevent relapse and to improve survival for gastric cancer patients, including preoperative neo-adjuvant approaches. however, the efficacy of some neo-adjuvant regimens including 5-fluorouracil, cisplatin, and docetaxel have been less investigated. the present study evaluated the outcome and mid-term survival of patients with gastric ...

Although the West Antarctic surface climate has experienced large changes over past decades with widespread warming, an overall increase in snow accumulation and a deepening of Amundsen Sea Low, exact role human activities these not yet been fully investigated, which limits confidence future projections. Here, we perform detection attribution analysis using instrumental proxy-based reconstructi...