On “A Rose for Emily”

William Faulkner is regarded as one of the leading American authors of the Twentieth Century and the leading representative of"Southern Literature. "His writings draw the attention of not only the Americans but also the whole world. From many aspects, he is an original writer. His subject matter, his originality of working out the plot, and his unusual artistic style let him stand like a firm and erect reef in the fast changing Western literary currents. It is owing to his outstanding contribution to world litreature that he was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.     

Response to“Discussion on the systematic position of the Early Cambrian priapulomorph worms”

Due to the combination of complex states of preser- vation and taphonomies in Chengjiang fossils, Huang et al.[1] expressed different opinions to those of Han et al.[2] on the morphology and systematic position of the fossil priapulomorph worms (Priapulom…     

Reply to: Parker A. Comment on “Low-frequency sea level variation and its correlation with climate events in the Pacific”

First, we would like to thank Parker for his discussion and comments on our work. Parker’s main concern [1] is that the sea level is oscillating with important multi-decadal periodicities but absolutely not positively accelerating. He also argued that the global mean sea level (GMSL) acceleration computed by Jin et al. [2] seemed too large. His similar     

Comment on “On linking climate to Chinese dynastic change: Spatial and temporal variations of monsoonal rain”

An article by Zhang et al. questions the interpretation of our oxygen isotope record from Wanxiang Cave and the sediment titanium record from Lake Huguang Maar, and the possible linkage between climate change and Chinese culture. In response, we explain that their approach lacks logical rigor and their major argument is broadly consistent with, rather than contradictory to our original conclusions. We also note that climate-culture relationships similar to those that we observe in China have been observed for other cultures around the world.     

Toward understanding the molecular mechanisms governing plant hormone actions: A brief introduction to the major research program “Molecular mechanisms of plant hormone actions” funded by the national natural science foundation of china (NSFC)

Decades of physiological and molecular studies have demonstrated that plants rely on a diverse set of small molecule hormones to regulate every aspect of their biological processes including development,growth and adaptation.The