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Worldwide, High-Speed Railway (HSR) networks have been developed intensely over the last few decades, such as Tokyo-Osaka, the first HSR corridor in Japan, the TGV in France and the ICE in Germany. HSR has also experienced exponential growth in China so that currently China's HSR networks are the largest in the world. Meanwhile, China's spatial development has experienced rapid urbanization. In general, the appearance of HSR tends to reduce passenger travel cost in time and to extend the interacting economic and social relationships of cities on a larger spatial scale. Therefore, as one of the new high-speed transportation linkages in urban networks, HSR could strongly interact with other components of urban networks (nodes, links, flows) for different functional activities. Three dimensions of these interacting relationships can be identified: the configuration of urban networks (city nodes and links) in HSR networks, HSR's interacting relationships with other high-speed transportation linkages in urban networks, and intra-city travel of HSR passengers flows to/from HSR stations in urban networks. It is a very typical situation that China's HSR networks have been developed in parallel with a fast urbanization process, especially with the consideration of future integration with Euro-Asian urban networks through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Due to differences in economic, cultural, political and institutional situations, the interacting relationships between HSR and urban networks in China may differ from the cases in other HSR countries. Therefore, knowledge on the consequences of the interaction between HSR and urban networks in China is urgently needed. The relevant answers to the three interactions between HSR and urban networks are pertinent to the development of HSR networks in China and other HSR countries that plan to develop HSR networks on a large scale. In this research, an empirical analysis is conducted to demonstrate the interacting relationships between HSR and the relevant components of ...

This new volume of Methods in Cell Biology looks at lipid droplets LDs, covering sections on analyses of LDs in model systems, cell/tissue-specific analyses of LDs and imaging and in vitro analyses of LD biogenesis and growth. Chapters are written by experts in the field. With cutting-edge material, this comprehensive collection is intended to guide researchers of LDs for years to come. Covers sections on analyses of lipid droplets (LDs) in model systems, cell/tissue-specific analyses of LDs and imaging, and in vitro analyses of LD biogenesis and growth Chapters are written by experts in the field Cutting-edge material

This article presents the results of geological and geochemical studies of the organic matter of source rocks and oil from reservoirs in the Karamay Formation (Anizian–Ladinian stages) in the eastern part of the Fukang Depression in Junggar petroleum basin. The quantity, quality, and degree of maturity of the organic matter in clayey mudstones in upper part of the Karamay Formation (T2k) were considered and the composition of the original organic matter, the conditions of its accumulation and the degree of maturity were reconstructed using pyrolytic parameters and biomarkers. The dark gray and gray mudstone in upper part of the Karamay Formation accumulated in fresh or low salinity lakes with relatively reducing conditions. At present, the organic matter of the Formation within the depression is in the zone of mesocatagenesis MK1–MK3, and therefore has not fully realized its oil-geological potential. It has been previously established that mudstones in upper part of the Karamay Formation provided the hydrocarbon fl uids for the Karamay reservoirs located in the submerged part of the Fukang Depression.

Globally, policy makers have overlooked the challenges faced by international migrants in host countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The policies and support systems designed by host governments highlight the lack of social justice and raise concerns for scholarly attention. Considering the experiences of international migrants living in the UK during the Covid-19 lockdown from the theoretical perspective of coping, this interpretivist study investigates international migrants' coping strategies adopted during the first UK national lockdown. Data collected from sixty Chinese, Italian and Iranian migrants using semi-structured interviews during the lockdown period were analysed thematically using Nvivo. The findings show that migrants adopted multi-layered and multi-phased coping strategies. To cope with the anxiety and uncertainties caused by the pandemic, they initiated new practices informed by both home and host institution logics. Nevertheless, the hostile context's responses provoked unexpected new worries and triggered the adoption of additional and compromising practices. The paper illustrates how coping became paradoxical because migrants had to cope with the hostile reactions that their initial coping strategies provoked in the host environment. By introducing the new concept of coping with coping, this paper extends previous theoretical debate and leads to several managerial implications for governments and policy makers.