![]() ![]() The Indian subcontinent is still crashing northward into Asia, and the Himalayas are growing about 5 centimeters (2 inches) every year. ![]() The Indian subcontinent, once connected to Africa, collided with the Eurasian continent about 50 million to 55 million years ago, forming the Himalayas. Mountain Systems The Himalaya mountains extend for about 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles), separating the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia. Asia can be divided into five major physical regions: mountain systems plateaus plains, steppes, and deserts freshwater environments and saltwater environments. Asia’s physical geography, environment and resources, and human geography can be considered separately. Asia is bordered by the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. However, most geographers define Asia’s western border as an indirect line that follows the Ural Mountains, the Caucasus Mountains, and the Caspian and Black Seas. The border between the two continents is debated. Asia makes up the eastern portion of the Eurasian supercontinent Europe occupies the western portion. It is also the world’s most populous continent, with roughly 60 percent of the total population. OL15587432W Page_number_confidence 92.39 Pages 462 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220603153511 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 481 Scandate 20220601085135 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780521731645 Tts_version 5.Asia is the largest of the world’s continents, covering approximately 30 percent of the Earth’s land area. Introduction: What is East Asia? - The origins of civilization in East Asia - The formative era - The age of cosmopolitanism - The creation of a community : China, Korea, and Japan (7th-10th centuries) - Mature independent trajectories (10th-16th centuries) - Early-modern East Asia (16th-18th centuries) - The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations - The age of Westernization (1900-1929) - The dark valley (1930-1945) - Japan since 1945 - Korea since 1945 - China since 1945 - AfterwordĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:18:08 Autocrop_version 0.0.13_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40848911 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Charles Holcombe is an experienced and sure-footed guide who encapsulates, in a fast-moving and colorful narrative, the vicissitudes and glories of one of the greatest civilizations on earth"-Provided by publisher This shared past and the interconnections among three distinct, yet related societies are at the heart of this book, which traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the early twenty-first century. ![]() It shared, for example, a Confucian heritage, some common approaches to Buddhism, a writing system that is deeply imbued with ideas and meaning, and many political and institutional traditions. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both an historical and cultural coherence. ![]() "Charles Holcombe begins his extraordinarily ambitious book by asking the question "What is East Asia?" In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, and Korea - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics, or globalization. "The interconnections among three distinct, yet related societies are at the heart of this book, which traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the present"-Provided by publisher ![]()
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![]() ![]() According to No Matter, the gameplay was inspired by Shadow of the Colossus, Deus Ex, DayZ, and Bloodborne. Due to this, the game's scope and scale were also significantly expanded. It ended up raising more than half a million dollars, doubling the teams' original expectations (USD$300,000). The studio crowdfunded the game through Kickstarter in July 2016. ![]() In February 2016 the studio moved to Seattle, Washington to work on the game full-time. On October 19, 2015, No Matter Studio revealed the game as Prey for the Gods, with a short trailer on YouTube. They initially worked part-time on the game. No Matter Studios, the game's developer, consists of three people, Brian Parnell, Hung-Chien Liao, and Tim Wiese. Clothing and other miscellaneous items can be upgraded once the resource cost has been fulfilled.ĭevelopment of Praey for the Gods began in 2014 in San Francisco. Weapons have certain levels, relative to how easily they can be obtained. There are treasure hunts, involving puzzles, to gain some of the more items. Resources can be found in crates, dropped by animals and enemies (excluding the "gods" themselves) or found in the environment. The crafting system is based on maintaining and upgrading equipment. Each set of three will increase the maximum stamina of the character (a total of ten enhancements), which is crucial for taking down the gods. 30 glowing totems can be found around the map, rewarded for solving environmental puzzles or searching obscure locations. There are also potions scattered around to help keep these afflictions at bay, although it is strongly advisable to hunt, gather, cook and rest during play. If caught in a freezing gale or body of water, the character will need to find shelter and make a fire before the cold affects her health. Most actions will exacerbate this, for example: sprinting will increase hunger faster, which decreases the rate of stamina replenishment. Over time, the character will become hungry, fatigued and chilled, which all negatively impact her performance. Some hints on how to do so are provided in the form of cave drawings. Each one is unique and must be studied to understand how to defeat it. After some exploration, players must track down behemoths known as "gods", finding ways to scale their massive bodies and strike the chimes located at critical points. She must scavenge for resources (weapons, food, etc.) to survive the frozen landscape, dynamically generated weather and other hostilities. The player character starts her journey stranded on a frozen island, with only the clothes on her back. Initially released via early access in January 2019, and the full version of the game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Xbox One in December 2021. Praey for the Gods is an action-adventure survival game developed by No Matter Studios. ![]() ![]() Only the cytoplasmic side displays measurable conformational changes during and after (bR-D96N has ~10.5 s open state dwell-time) light stimulation. Bottom: Averages of the cytoplasmic and extracellular side topographies (labeled cyto and ext in the first pair of images). Middle: HS-AFM images of bR-D96N patches exposing cytoplasmic and extracellular sides (labeled). The green laser (activating laser) is used to excite bR. c HS-AFM setup: Only the main components are shown and labeled: The IR laser (AFM laser) monitors the cantilever position. b Superposition of the open (green) and closed (red) structural states: The conformational change in helix-F (and to a minor degree in helix-E) are highlighted by arrows. 1a, green, PDB 6RPH) where the E-F loop is displaced and the cytoplasmic gate is open, conceptually matching the alternate access model of membrane transport 7.Ī Structure of bR trimer viewed from the cytoplasmic side in the closed (PDB 6RNJ) and open (PDB 6RPH) states. 1a, pink, PDB 6RNJ) and the open state (Fig. Therefore, structurally, the reaction cycle can be divided into two major parts, the closed state, defined as the state where the cytoplasmic gate is closed (Fig. ![]() In the fourth step, this conformational change is reversed and the cytoplasmic gate closes. 1a, b), opening the cytoplasmic gate and rendering Asp-96 and the retinal accessible for re-protonation within the first ten milliseconds. In contrast, the third step involves displacements of the cytoplasmic half of helices E and F and the E-F-loop (Fig. The first two steps are accompanied by only small local conformational changes and happen within the first tens of microseconds. Fourth, the cytoplasmic gate closes (N to O state) and the protein resets for the next reaction cycle (O to ground state). Third, through a large conformational change of helix-F a funnel to the cytoplasm opens and a H + enters via Asp-96 and re-protonates the retinal (N state). Second, a H + from the retinal Schiff-base passes to Asp-85 (L to M 1 state) and the proton releasing group (Glu-194 and Glu-204) releases a H + to the extracellular side (M 1 to M 2 state). First, upon photon absorption, the retinal isomerizes within the first picoseconds (ground to K state) and then relaxes in the 13- cis conformation (K and L state). In brief, the bR reaction cycle can be subdivided into four main processes. We prefer to use the terminology “reaction cycle” that represents better the conformational and functional dynamics than the more spectroscopic term “photocycle”. The time scales at which the different light-induced intermediates of the reaction cycle occur, span from femtoseconds to milliseconds and have been studied by spectroscopy and structural methods 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. This event starts a cascade of reactions that lead to H +-release on the extracellular side and cytoplasmic H +-uptake 2, 3, thus H +-pumping that establishes an electrochemical H +-gradient that powers ATP-production. Photon absorption induces the isomerization of the retinal from all- trans to 13- cis. If you are already a user you can make a reservation in FBS.Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) is a membrane protein and member of the microbial rhodopsin family, a light-driving proton (H +) pump formed by seven transmembrane helices (TMHs) and a covalently bound retinal chromophore 1. 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![]() ![]() “We are so thankful for the vision, expertise, and execution from Mathias and the whole SYBO Team, who have strengthened Subway Surfers both creatively and commercially during this past decade,” said Sybo cofounder Sylvester Rishøj Jensen, in a statement. Their short film gave birth to Subway Surfers, which they further co-developed with Kiloo, a Danish games publisher. ![]() Sybo got its start in 2010, founded by Danish animation school graduates Sylvester Rishøj Jensen and Bodie Jahn-Mulliner. Miniclip’s numbers, by the way, are now bigger than Roblox’s, thanks to Subway Surfers. ![]() That is achieved squarely by what Sybo and the team are doing now with Subway Surfers.” The biggest game Subway Surfers is just about 10 years old. 1 thing, and our entire vision and purpose is to be the world’s most popular games company. We prioritize audience engagement as our No. ![]() “There are just a handful of those, like Angry Birds, and as a single game we know Subway Surfers is the biggest. “Sybo is one of the jewels of the mobile gaming industry in terms of an IP generated from a mobile-first game,” said Choudri. Overall, Miniclip will have something like 70 million daily active users, Saad Choudri, Miniclip’s CEO, in an interview with GamesBeat. What’s really important for us is finding a partner who saw where we wanted to go and could enable our journey there.” With the consolidation happening in the market, and all the increased user acquisition budgets, all the things happening around us, they wanted to explore what that it could mean, if we could find the right fit or the right home for Sybo going forward. “We’ve had a very nice ride and over the last couple of years have seen the teams running very fine by themselves. The founders have been really proud of what they managed to accomplish with Subway Surfers becoming the largest game, seeing how the market kept downloading, how the players kept loving, how the fans kept coming,” Gredal Nørvig said. While he isn’t talking about the purchase price, as both companies are private, Gredal Nørvig said it is the biggest deal in European mobile games this year. He credited the efforts to focus on live operations to keep players coming back. In the last 18 months or so, Subway Surfers has seen its daily active users rise from around 15 million to 20 million a day to now 30 million or so a day, said Sybo CEO Mathias Gredal Nørvig, in an interview with GamesBeat. ![]() ![]() ![]() Point your telescope to that spot and you’ll see it. That’s when it’ll be floating three degrees (or six moon-widths) directly above the nearly-full Moon. And your best bet to see Neptune (with a telescope) might be coming up on October 7, 2022. This month is when it’s closest to Earth and at its brightest of the entire 2022. Still, how would you locate that faint 7.7 magnitude dot? Best Bet to View Neptune Such a teensy disk is technically resolvable by good backyard telescopes, but its two arcsecond diameter makes it barely distinguishable from the many little smudgy twinkling background stars in the dim constellation of Aquarius. If you were on Neptune, the Sun would look so small and faint that high noon would appear as dim twilight. Neptune is located 30 times more distant from the Sun than Earth is, so that it only appears the size of a quarter dollar coin held up 1 ½ miles away from you. ![]() That’s because, though it’s four times Earth’s diameter, it’s so far away!Ĭredit: ESO’s Very Large Telescope/P. Neptune is the only planet that can’t be observed with the naked eye, and even an expensive backyard telescope only shows it as a tiny disk. It’s this methane-commonly called natural gas-that helps make the planet blue, since it absorbs the red section of the sunlight hitting it. The part seen with backyard telescopes-its upper cloud layers-are hydrogen and helium with a little methane added for variety. The eighth and farthest planet from our Sun, Neptune is an ice giant that is enormous enough to fit 58 planet Earths inside if it were hollow. Here’s Bob Berman’s latest post about the news-plus, some facts about the outermost planet. No, those aren’t Saturn’s rings! This is the first (stunning!) image of planet Neptune by the new Webb telescope, showing off several narrow rings on our outermost planet. ![]() ![]() While players are able to spend as much time as they would want in each, it is possible to accelerate or skip phases altogether. Each phase exhibits its own style of play, and has been described by the developers as ten times more complicated than its preceding phase. ![]() The outcome of one phase affects the initial conditions and leveling facing the player in the next. The game is broken up into distinct yet consistent, dependent "stages". Throughout the game, the player's perspective and species change dramatically. Spore allows the player to develop a species from a microscopic organism to its evolution into a complex animal, its emergence as a social, intelligent being, to its mastery of the planet and then finally to its ascension into space, where it interacts with alien species across the galaxy. ![]() However, Spore was criticized for its gameplay which was seen as shallow by many reviewers GameSpot remarked: "Individual gameplay elements are extremely simple." Controversy surrounded Spore for SecuROM, its DRM software, which can potentially open the user's computer to security risks. Praise was given for the fact that the game allowed players to create practically any creature, vehicle and building. Spore was released after several delays to generally favourable reviews. These can then be uploaded to the online Sporepedia and downloaded by other players. Throughout each stage, players are able to use various creators to produce content for their games. It has drawn wide attention for its massive scope, and its use of open-ended gameplay and procedural generation. Covering many genres including action, real-time strategy, and role-playing games (RPG), Spore allows a player to control the development of a species from its beginnings as a microscopic organism, through development as an intelligent and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture. As part of its license, Electronic Arts released Spore Origins, an arcade-style game for mobile devices, and Spore Creatures, a light RPG for the Nintendo DS, Spore: Galactic Adventures, an expansion pack for the PC game, Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena for Wii and Nintendo DS respectively, is in the fall 2009 lineup, and Spore Creature Keeper were announced as part of the 2009 lineup. ![]() A special edition of the game, Spore: Galactic Edition, additionally includes a Making of Spore DVD video, How to Build a Better Being DVD video by National Geographic Channel, The Art of Spore hardback mini-book, a fold-out Spore poster and a 100-page Galactic Handbook published by Prima Games. The game was released for the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems in September 2008 as Spore. Spore is a 2008 multi-genre single-player god game developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. The game was sent into the show by Raiin. 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