The grand building code called Yingzao fashi, drafted in the twelfth-century Song dynasty, was used as a technical reference guide and assisted previous researchers in analyses of premodern Chinese building structures and construction, yet how the building code entangled with contemporary society, coetaneous challenges and the changing courses of p
Degeneration of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) plays a central role in age-related macular degeneration (AMD).Throughout life, RPE cells are challenged by a variety of cytotoxic stressors, some of which are cumulative with age and may ultimately contribute to drusen and lipofuscin accumulation.Stressors such as these continually damage RPE ce
Decolonizing trauma theory has been a major project in postcolonial literary scholarship ever since its first sustained engagements with trauma theory.Since then, trauma theory and postcolonial literary studies have been uneasy bedfellows, and the time has now come to take stock of what remains in postcolonial trauma studies from the original formu
Integration of multiple diversified functionalities into an ultracompact platform is crucial for the development of on-chip photonic devices.Recently, a promising all-dielectric two-dimensional platform based on Bloch surface waves (BSWs) sustained by dielectric multilayer has been proposed to enable various functionalities and provide novel approa
In this paper we consider a class Rectangle Dining Table of nonlinear dynamical systems with fractional damping.The problem is transformed into a system of fractional-order differential equations.A computationally effective fractional predictor-corrector method is used to simulate and examine the effects and solution behavior of the nonlinear dynam