北欧绿色邮报网报道（记者陈雪霏）－－到达陕西洋县，小雨一直淅淅沥沥地下着。但是，给我留下的印象最深的是那里最好吃的家常菜和最好听的汉棒棒调儿。
陈雪霏2015-04-07于陕西洋县拍摄。
说这里的家常菜好吃，我认为是有特殊原因的。从西安出发前，省政府领导说，到下边条件没那么好，不但要两个人一间房，而且，比较艰苦。但是，我的感受是，这里虽然没有首府城市豪华，但是，这里可以说是绿色城市，绿色乡村。
由于这里有国家级保护禽类朱鹮，这里也被称为朱鹮之乡。而朱鹮之乡的特殊待遇就是农业不许撒化肥和农药。为了保护朱鹮，这里没有大的工业项目，都是生态农业和生态果园。田间有各种蔬菜和水果，稻谷，都是绿色食品，绿色蔬菜。因此说，这里的家常菜最好吃。因为没有污染，原汁原味。
而这汉调也是土生土长的当地的调儿，非常有韵味。不信你听听！
这个曲目也促进的当地的皮影手工业的发展。
Alcohol dependence causes morbidity as well as mortality and is –major health problem in today’s society. The costs for alcohol dependence in Sweden are estimated to be around SEK 45 billion per year. Nearly 5 percent of the adult population in Sweden have been diagnosed with alcohol dependence, which corresponds to approximately 300 000 people. Even more Swedes have harmful alcohol consumption. Indeed, approximately 15 percent consume more than 14 standard drinks per week (men) or more than nine standard drinks per week (women).
A new study at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, shows that interfering with the hormone GLP-1 could be a target for treating alcohol dependence, which is an entirely novel aspect.
Researchers have found that a medication that resemble GLP-1, which is used to treat type 2 diabetes as well as obesity, also could be used to treat alcohol dependence.
Usually, dopamine is released in the brain’s reward center in response to drinking alcohol, which leads to a sense of euphoria. The GLP-1-like substance prevents the ability of alcohol to increase dopamine in reward areas in the mice, suggesting that they no longer experience a reward from alcohol. In addition the diabetes medication caused the rats to decreases their alcohol intake, as well as reduced the motivation to drink alcohol in rats that were bred to drink a lot of alcohol. The medication also prevents relapse drinking in rats, which is major problem for alcohol dependent individuals.
“The GLP-1-like substance reduced the alcohol consumption by 30-40 percent in rats that drank large quantities of alcohol for several months” says Elisabet Jerlhag, researcher at Sahlgrenska Academy.
Similar mechanisms appear to regulate alcohol dependence and binge eating. The hormone GLP-1 is released from the intestines when we eat and causes satiety. It is also released in the brain and thereby reduces food intake.
“The results of the present study suggest that the physiological role of GLP-1 extends beyond glucose homeostasis and food intake regulation and includes modulation of development of alcohol dependence. In addition we suggest that medications that resemble GLP-1 could be used to treat alcohol dependence in humans. This will now be studied further,” says Elisabet Jerlhag at Sahlgrenska Academy.
The article The glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist liraglutide attenuates the reinforcing properties of alcohol in rodents was published in the journal Addict Biology on August 25.
Link to article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26303264
By Xuefei Chen Axelsson
Stockholm, Sept. 11(Greenpost)–At the end of 2015 Nordic Life Science Days, it was announced that the 2016 NLSDAYS is scheduled to be held on Sept. 13-15.
Jonas Ekstrand told Green Post that this was the third year that NLSDAYS was held in Stockholm, the largest event in life science field in the Nordic region.
The conference is a platform to provide business development and cooperation opportunities for academia, researchers, clinics and manufacturers.
This year showed the largest number of delegates and companies compared with the previous two years. Unfortunately the Chinese group wasn’t able to come due to the failure of getting visas.
Of course Chinese National Medicine Administration delegates had a look at the conference.
This year set up a lot of face-to face talk rooms so that people can really effectively talk with each other.
At the end of the conference, Nordic Stars Awards were awarded to AMRA, BerGenBio and Nexstim companies.
Young women who play computer games are a new risk group for developing overweight and obesity. This is the finding of a study that includes more than 2,500 Swedes in their twenties, according to a press release from Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg.
In the current study, around 2,500 young adults between the ages of 20 and 24 responded to a survey on three different occasions: in 2007, 2008 and 2012. Researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy used the survey to investigate whether the amount of time young people spend e-mailing, chatting or playing computer games in their free time affects their BMI.
The results show that women of normal weight who played computer games for at least 1 hour a day were more likely to develop overweight (measured as a BMI over 25) during the five-year study period compared with women who did not play.
“The increased BMI in those who played computer games for more than two hours a day would for a young woman of average height and weight equal an additional weight gain of 3.7 kilos. That calculation takes other risk factors for obesity into account, such as age, occupation, total daily computer time, physical activity during free time, sleep and perceived social support,” says Sara Thomée, researcher at Sahlgrenska Academy.
The same development was not found in men. It is unclear why only women gained weight, according to Sara Thomée, who says further studies are needed to verify the results and identify possible causes.
Gothenburg researchers still conclude that young female gamers may be an important target group for preventive public health initiatives.
The article “Leisure time computer use and overweight development in young adults – a prospective study” was published in the scientific journal BMC Public Health on September 2.
Link to article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/15/839
| By Xuefei Chen Axelsson
Stockholm, Sept. 8 (Greenpost)–Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a new way to study nanoparticles one at a time, and have discovered that individual particles that may seem identical in fact can have very different properties, according to news reaching here from Gothenburg.
Christoph Langhammer, Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Physics Photographer / Source Sabina Johansson The results, which may prove to be important when developing new materials or applications such as hydrogen sensors for fuel cell cars, will be published in Nature Materials. “We were able to show that you gain deeper insights into the physics of how nanomaterials interact with molecules in their environment by looking at the individual nanoparticle as opposed to looking at many of them at the same time, which is what is usually done,” said Associate Professor Christoph Langhammer, who led the project. By applying a new experimental approach called plasmonic nanospectroscopy, the group studied hydrogen absorption into single palladium nanoparticles. They found that particles with exactly the same shape and size may exhibit differences as great as 40 millibars in the pressure at which hydrogen is absorbed. The development of sensors that can detect hydrogen leaks in fuel cell powered cars is one example of where this new understanding could become valuable in the future. “One main challenge when working on hydrogen sensors is to design materials whose response to hydrogen is as linear and reversible as possible. In that way, the gained fundamental understanding of the reasons underlying the differences between seemingly identical individual particles and how this makes the response irreversible in a certain hydrogen concentration range can be helpful,” said Langhammer.
Caption: A single gold plasmonic nanoantenna probes the hydrogen absorption in an adjacent palladium nanocube. Illustration: Ella Marushchenko and Alex Tokarev¨ Photographer / Source Karin Weijdegård Others have looked at single nanoparticles one at a time, but the new approach introduced by the Chalmers team uses visible light with low intensity to study the particles. This means that the method is non-invasive and does not disturb the system it is investigating by, for example, heating it up. “When studying individual nanoparticles you have to send some kind of probe to ask the particle ‘what are you doing?’. This usually means focusing a beam of high-energy electrons or photons or a mechanical probe onto a very tiny volume. You then quickly get very high energy densities, which might perturb the process you want to look at.” said Langhammer. ” This effect is minimized in our new approach, which is also compatible with ambient conditions, meaning that we can study nanoparticles one at a time in as close to a realistic environment as possible.”
Tina Gschneidtner, Kasper Moth-Poulsen, Svetlana Syrenova and Christoph Langhammer. Photographer / Source Karin WeijdegårdEven though they have now reached the level where their results are ready to be published, Christoph Langhammer believes they have just scratched the surface of what their discovery and developed experimental methodology will lead to in relation to further research. He hopes that they have helped to establish a new experimental paradigm, where looking at nanoparticles individually will become standard in the scientific world. “It is not good enough to look at, and thus obtain an average of, hundreds or millions of particles if you want to understand the details of how nanoparticles behave in different environments and applications. You have to look at individual ones, and we have found a new way to do that.” he added. “My own long-term vision is to apply our method to more complex processes and materials, and to push the limits in terms of how small nanoparticles can be for us to be able to measure them. Hopefully, along the way, we will gain even deeper insights into the fascinating world of nanomaterials.” The paper Hydride formation thermodynamics and hysteresis in individual Pd nanocrystals with different size and shape is published online in Nature Materials on September 7. |
By Xuefei Chen Axelsson
Stockholm, Sept. 7(Greenpost)–Swedish Prime Minister said at the World Water Week that man cannot live without water.
Filmed by Anneli Larsson on Aug. 24, 2015 in Stockholm.
He stressed the importance of having clean water for life. He also recalled the journey of Sweden’s history of cleaning water.
He called on the people all over the world to join hands to provide clean water and face climate change.
北欧绿色邮报网报道：中国9.3大阅兵吸引了世界的关注，中国北京，上海，香港，台湾等地多家电视台都进行了直播，而且也都放到youtube上了。这里转播一下，看他们是怎样报道这一历史时刻的。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BeUQlzAsgE
Stockholm, Sept. 6(Greenpost)–China held a grand military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of V-Day in Beijing on Sept. 3, 2015.
Video broadcast of China’s V-Day Military parade in Beijing 2015 by rt, subscribed from Youtube.
By Xuefei Chen Axelsson
Stockholm, Sept. 6(Greenpost)–Gabriella Pichler and Jonas Hassen Khemiri collaborate, Ninja Thyberg updates the image of the horse-loving girl and sami coming of age drama by Amanda Kernell in West Bothnia are among the films awarded funding in August.
From Sámi Blood (Sameblod) by Amanda Kernell. Photo: Oskar Östergren Amanda Kernell
Invasion! is Gabriela Pichler’s first film since the Venice awarded Eat Sleep Die (Äta sova dö). The script is a collaboration between Pichler and Swedish award-winning novelist and playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri. As in her previous film, Pichler works with first time actors on location.
Tacit Wisdom (Tyst kunskap) by Saara Cantell is a reality-based psychological social drama about witchcraft on the Swedish-governed Åland islands in the 17th century, where the men in power suppress the wisdom of women. Independent young Anna is at the centre when the church begins a hunt for women who are in league with the devil.
With her debut feature Sámi Blood (Sameblod), Amanda Kernell continues along the same lines as her acclaimed short Northern Great Mountain (Norra Storfjället). Elle Marja attends a Sami boarding school in the 1930s. Racial biology examinations cause her to break away from her Sami identity, but becoming Swedish proves to be harder than she thought.
Three projects in a short format have been awarded funding in August. In the erotic short The Stud (Hingsten) by Ninja Thyberg, horse-loving 16-year-old Adena wants to lose her virginity to her handsome teacher Adam. Patterns are broken and gender roles switch places. In 2013 Thyberg was awarded the Canal+ Award in Cannes for Pleasure, about the porn industry. This is her first film after graduating from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts.
The children’s adventure Dreamgame (Drömspel 1) by Elisabet Gustafsson, who made Annabell’s Spectacularities (Krakel Spektakel) in 2014, is part of the Moving Sweden initiative. Nicolas’s mum spends too much time working on her thesis and is literally absorbed into her computer. Nicolas jumps into his video game to save her and meets giant spiders and other characters on his journey to the factory, where his mum is being held captive.
In Ni ska se att jag har rätt (English title tba) by Saga Gärde, bus-driving union man Magnus gives an impassioned speech behind the wheel as he sees the union losing members, and how the privatisation of public transport is creating stress and occupational injuries among his colleagues
BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) — China’s State Council, the cabinet, decided on Tuesday to lower the minimum capital requirement for fixed-asset projects in a bid to boost investment in public goods and services.
The minimum capital ratio of key projects of ports, costal and river transportation, and airports has been lowered to 25 percent from 30 percent. The minimum capital ratio of railroad, highway and urban rail projects decreased to 20 percent from 25 percent.
In addition, the government has changed the minimum capital requirement for corn further processing projects from 30 percent to 20 percent.
However, the State Council said industries with excessive capacity would still face high capital ratios between 30 percent and 40 percent. (Edited by Huang Xiaolan, huangxiaolan@xinhua.org)
BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) — The State Council, China’s cabinet, pledged to establish national small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development funds, said a statement released after a State Council executive meeting presided over by Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday.
The move aims to stimulate the impetus of entrepreneurship and innovation, alleviate the financing difficulties faced by SMEs and enlarge employment.
According to the statement, the central government will contribute 15 billion yuan and establish a national SME development funds boasting a total scale of 60 billion yuan under the participation of private enterprises, state-owned enterprises, financial institutions and local governments.
The funds, which adopt limited partnership, will be operated under marketization mode. (Edited by Zhang Yuan, zhangyuan11@xinhua.org)
BEIJING, Sept.2 (Xinhua) — Representatives from China’s top government bodies met on Saturday in Haikou, the capital city of southern China’s Hainan province, to discuss a draft plan on integrated local development.
The plan is part of the trial program that aims to coordinate the planning system on a provincial level in order to eliminate incompatibilities between plans issued by different government departments.
After the meeting, Hainan local government will make some revisions and a consultation to seek views before publishing the final plan.
Such efforts by Hainan and relevant experiences will be introduced to other parts of China if proven successful.
In an attempt to improve policy coordination, China in June selected Hainan to pilot a trial program encouraging rational use of land and better environmental protection. (Edited by Ding Lei, dinglei@xinhua.org)
BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Greenpost) — China will advance building a graded diagnose and treatment system to deepen healthcare reform, according to an executive meeting of the State Council presided over by Premier Li Keqiang.
China will expand medical service capabilities of not only major medical institutions but also county-level public hospitals.
Also, the country will integrate medical resources such as examination, testing and disinfection supply while advancing cross-recognition of examination and testing results as well as patient transfer among hospitals of different levels, according to the meeting.
The country also encourages the elderly, children, pregnant and lying-in women as well as patients with chronic diseases to sign primary family doctors or rural doctors voluntarily to receive basic medical treatments. (Edited by Niu Huizhe, niuhuizhe@xinhua.org)
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BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Greenpost) – China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), the parent company of China’s largest offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC Ltd. (CEO.NYSE; 00883.HK), would add 114 maritime engineering equipment in 2016-2020 with investment of 65.6 billion yuan, said Zeng Hengyi, deputy general engineer with CNOOC on Tuesday.
Speaking at a maritime equipment exhibition in Qingdao, Zeng said 42.5 billion yuan would be invested in deepwater engineering equipment in the period, accounting for 65 percent of total.
Investment in deepwater engineering equipment is likely to account for over 70 percent of CNOOC’s total investment in maritime engineering investment by 2030, according to Zeng.
China needs to develop semi submersible drilling platform of the seven and half generation and deploy four special deepwater projects in the South China Sea, said Zeng.
The process of offshore exploration and development would not be changed though fall of oil prices in the short term would weigh on maritime engineering industry, said Liu Heyin, an official with shipbuilding and maritime engineering operations of Siemens. (Edited by Liu Yanan, liuyn@xinhua.org)
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BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Greenpost) — China’s Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Tuesday said China would push ahead the pilot projects of converting grain to feeds to improve integration of farming and animal husbandry and overall efficiency during a meeting held in Taiyuan, Shanxi.
China has launched the pilot in ten provinces including Shanxi, Heilongjiang and Gansu and relative provincial governments have drafted local implement measures.
As grain-based feeds are mainly converted from corn, China would attach importance to adjust corn planting structure and put special efforts in promoting planting silage corn, which could be turned to feeds for cattle and sheep
In the recent years, planning area and output of corn have grown fast due to rising price and other factor. and corn surpassed rise to become China’s top grain crop in 2012. (Edited by Yang Qi, kateqiyang@xinhua.org)
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