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For most people, summer involves numerous daily shifts between scorching outdoor heat and frosty air-conditioned interiors. But does exposing the body to extreme temperature swings make people sick? Professor Ron Eccles, director of the Common Cold Centre at Cardiff University in Wales, which perfor 阅读全文
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The politically explosive issue of the official retirement age has drawn academics from two of China's most august educational institutions into a public standoff, signaling how closely fought the policy contest over how to cope with the country's shrinking work force has become.standoff：和局， 阅读全文
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To understand how much television could soon change, it helps to visit an Intel Corp. division here that runs like a startup.Erik Huggers, a Dutch-born former British Broadcasting Corp. executive, has assembled a 350-person team with talents beyond computer chips -- including programmers, industrial 阅读全文
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Chinese companies build iPads, high-speed trains and world-class telecom gear, but they can't seem to make their own fancy handbag.gear：齿轮，装置，工具It's true that global giants from Prada to Apple source goods from China, but it is difficult to name a single Chinese brand that is known for its q 阅读全文
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You've probably heard the baleful reports. The number of college students majoring in the humanities is plummeting, according to a big study released last month by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The news has provoked a flood of high-minded essays deploring the development as a symp 阅读全文
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It's a familiar scenario in many households: Hours after dinner, the stomach growls and the refrigerator beckons. Some diet experts suggest bedtime snacking leads to weight gain and poor-quality sleep. But is it always a no-no? One registered dietitian, Sharon Hoerr, a professor at Michigan Stat 阅读全文
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在matlab图像处理中，为了标识出图像的目标区域来，需要利用plot函数或者rectangle函数，这样标识目标后，就保存图像。一般saves保存的图像存在白边，可以采用imwrite对图像进行保存，保留原始图像大小。代码如下： set(gca,'units','pixels','Visible','off'); axes('position', [0 0 1.0 1.0]); [rows cols]=size(img); imshow(img); hold on s = regionprops(logicmap 阅读全文
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Why is the first day on the job often the worst?New employees tend to be greeted with stacks of benefits paperwork, technology hassles and dull presentations about company culture.hassle：激战，争辩，麻烦事 But some companies -- hoping to create a first impression that really counts -- are turning to orien... 阅读全文
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Typically in transportation — and most social arenas, for that matter — laws promoting safety precautions lead to an increase in public health. Legislation on speed limits, drunk driving, and seatbelt are a few of the most obvious examples. Even bans on the relatively new phenomenon of driver-textin 阅读全文
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The typical honeymoon doesn't last too long before the hard work of marriage begins. And so it normally is with new corporate chief executives and their shareholders. Lucky for Marissa Mayer, as well as Yahoo shareholders, growth at Alibaba Group is extending the vacation.Yahoo's second-quar 阅读全文