The Caspian Sea, which is surrounded by five countries, including Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan, is the largest enclosed inland water body in the world. Because of the interactions of geographical environment and meteorological phenomena such as river discharge, evaporation, precipitation, and water temperature, the seasonal and interannual Caspian Sea level variations …

Cichlid fishes in Great Lakes of East Africa are famous for their diversification and replicated adaptive radiation during evolution. To elucidate their mechanisms, in this article we determined genome sequences of several cichlid fishes from different lakes including Tanganyika, Malawi and Victoria together with those of river origins. The paper also includes comprehensive molecular data that …

Over 350 million people in the world are the carriers of hepatitis B virus (HBV). The symptoms of HBV infection include cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). On average about 25% of infected patients, HBV infection further induces liver tumor formation. Intensive research efforts have been focused on the mechanisms by which HBV affects the host cell to promote viral replication and its …

This study proposes an approach for polyglot speech synthesis based on cross-lingual frame selection using only mono-lingual speaker corpora. The basic idea is to generate artificial parallel utterances based on optimal frame selection, and use the generated utterances to adapt a synthesis model in a language foreign to the target speaker. As a result, a polyglot synthesis system can be developed …

As the typhoon will cause the disaster to endanger our human life, the solar geomagnetic storm will cause the variation of plasma in the high atmosphere region (around 50 ~ 1000 km altitude) to affect the radio communication. For a severe geomagnetic storm event, the satellite communication will further be interfered or broken down and the accuracy of navigation positioning will also be affected …