Ancient Whispers Beneath Wood and Rocks,From the majestic structures of the lang and Liao dynasties(681-1125)to the delicate designs of the Song and Yuan dynasties(960-1368),existing examples of China's traditional ar...
North Eastern region of India enjoys a place of pride in the whole of the country for its immensely rich assembly of tribal cultures.Among the prominent tribes of the region are the Karbis who possess unique tradition...
The role of bare body parts in sexual signalling in birds has received relatively little attention.I describe how the bare-throated spurfowl males saturate the colours of their throats to attract females.Of the 23 Afr...
A Rainbow in the Mountains:Dress of the Yao,an album of pictures and texts on Yao clothing,the most comprehensive and systematic record of the dazzling costumes of the Yao ethnic minority which has been inscribed on t...
funded by Peking University's Scholarship for Chinese Classics of Confucius(No.DC201912)。
This paper conducts a thorough investigation into the graves dating from the early Western Zhou to the middle Spring and Autumn period where fish-shaped coffin ornaments were unearthed,summarizes the characteristics o...
Bird plumage is often very colorful and can communicate the quality of the bearer to conspecifics. These plumage-based signals of quality are composed of multiple pigments (e.g., melanin and carote no ids). Therefore,...
High male mating effort and high variation in female quality select for male mate choice, which may be expressed as differential investment of reproductive effort based on female value. Male reproductive effort includ...
Mate-choice copying is a fascinating and widespread mate-choice strategy. Individuals gather public information about potential mates by observing others during sexual interactions and choose or reject the same indivi...
Heritage consists of those items people have inherited and want to keep, as they give them the sense of the past of their cultural identity, but these items, especially the buildings, could not face deteriorations dur...
financially supported by the united foundation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Guangdong province (No. U1034002)
Nickel is widely used as a bleaching element in white gold alloys, but it is a potential allergen. In this paper, a popular 18 KW gold alloy, often called "safe nickel," was chosen as the experimental material; its ...