- China ponders this royal business
The success of the British royal wedding has intrigued China as it agonizes over how to similarly combine its historic and modern image for soft-power projection. The removal of a Confucius statue in Tiananmen Square and unfortunate choice of celebrities to display on New York billboards have been public relations flops that suggest Beijing isn't at ease with either portraying China's past or its present. - Antoaneta Becker (May 18, '11) それは同様のソフトパワープロジェクションのための歴史とモダンなイメージを結合する方法を苦悶の英国王室の結婚式の成功は、中国に興味をそそらしています
- U.S. mayors from Indiana meet on attracting more investment from China
Over 20 mayors from the U.S. state of Indiana attended Indiana Mayoral Roundtable on China here on Friday, discussing how to attract investment from Chinese businesses.
The Roundtable, sponsored by the Confucius Institute of Purdue University focused on facilitating Chinese businesses to invest in the United States. Yang Guoqiang, Chinese consul general in Chicago, delivered keynote speech at the conference.
Three mayors who visited Shanghai and eastern Zhejiang province with Indiana Gover ... 米国インディアナ州から20以上の市長は、中国企業からの投資を誘致する方法を議論し、金曜日にはここを中国にインディアナ州市長円卓会議に出席した
- Interview: Chinese leaders do well in managing economy, professor says
China's leaders do well in managing the nation's economy and helping many other countries deal with the international financial crisis, says a Greek economics professor.
Gregory Prastacos, rector of the Athens University of Economics and Business and chairman of the Athens Business School of Confucius Institute, appears very positive about initiatives undertaken by Chinese leadership on the economic front.
He noted during a recent interview with Xinhua that in a network economy any decisio ... 中国の指導者たちは国の経済を管理し、国際的な金融危機と他の多くの国々との契約を助けることにうまく、ギリシャの経済学教授は言う
- Feathers of earliest birds 'would not have supported flight'
Early feathers evolved for insulation and display were barely strong enough for gliding, says report in journal ScienceThe first birds to make a mark in the evolutionary record might have sported an impressive plumage, but they would never have got off the ground, scientists say.An examination of fossilised feathers belonging to the ancient birds Confuciusornis and Archaeopteryx shows their wings were too weak to support the birds in flight.At the very best, the creatures might have used their wings to glide between trees or from vantage points to lower ground, researchers report today in the journal Science.Robert Nudds and Gareth Dyke, at the universities of Manchester and Dublin respectively, took measurements of the feather structure of Confuciusornis, which lived in the early Cretaceous 120m years ago, and Archaeopteryx, considered to be the first bird species to emerge on Earth in the Late Jurassic, around 145m years ago.The scientists found that the central shafts of the birds' feathers, which give wings their strength, were thinner than those of modern birds.When the researchers calculated the forces acting on the birds' wings in flight, they realised that even if the shafts had been solid, they would barely be strong enough to allow the birds to glide. The finding suggests that powered flight arose later in birds' evolutionary history.Archaeopteryx is believed to be a transitional form between reptiles and birds. Unlike modern birds, it had a full set of teeth, a long bony tail and three claws on each wing, which it probably used to grasp prey and cling to trees. It was the size of a small chicken.Paleontologists have long debated whether Archaeopteryx used its wings for flight, insulation or display. The latest study suggests that feathers evolved as a means o 早期羽は保温性とディスプレイの進化ぎりぎりグライダーの強いされ、ブログにScienceThe最初の鳥が進化レコードのマークを作成するレポートが印象的な羽を遊ばしたかもしれないが、彼らは地面を、科学者say.An降りたことはなかっただろうという化石の。孔子と始祖は、羽を示しています古代の鳥に属する検査も最高flight.Atの鳥をサポートするために弱い、生き物は木や有利な点からの間に地下、研究者に滑空する翼を使用している可能性がありますマンチェスター、ダブリンの大学ジャーナルScience.Robert Nuddsとガレスダイクのレポートは、今日、それぞれ孔子で、前期白亜紀120メートル年前に住んでいたの羽の構造、始祖、最初の鳥と考えられるの測定をした種は地球上のジュラ紀後期の約145メートル年ago.The科学者たちは翼に彼らの強さを与える鳥の羽の中央軸は、これらの近代的なbirds.Whenより薄い研究者が力を作用を計算したが出現する飛行中に鳥の羽が、彼らはシャフトは、固体されていた場合でも、彼らはぎりぎりの鳥が滑空できるようにする強さに気づきました
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