Using 3D technology , a team lead by two Chinese ancient biology researchers has successfully printed a 3D model of a Placodermi's head, which will help further research on the ancient fish that lived in Australia approximately 400 million years ago.


Lu Jing, a researcher with the institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology who was in charge of the research, told Chinese media the joint China-Australia team spent the past year conducting detailed research on the Placodermi head fossil.


The size of a ping pong ball, with the thinnest point less than 0.1 mm, the fossil was discovered 30 years ago in Australia. However [url=http://www.ventesneakersblazer.fr/nike-blazers-fleuri/nike-blazer-fleuri-ba... blazer fleuri basse , few researchers had touched it because it was so fragile, Lu said.


Lu, together with Hu Yuzhi, a Chinese doctor, used micro-CT technology to scan the fossil in detail, and then virtually created several thousand cross sections of it nike blazer fleuri femme , which Lu used to print a 3D model of the fish head.


"It took us more than three months to print the model," Lu said. The model was six times larger than the original fossil and was the first 3D model of an ancient fish in the world, according to Lu.


With the model, researchers could deconstruct and then put together the pieces to get first-hand information on the ancient fish. Some information might also help researchers uncover secrets about the human body.


Lu said she was planning to print 3D models of other Placodermi, and her research achievements had been shared with Chinese professionals. She said she hoped one day the models could be exhibited in museums, allowing every child the opportunity to touch them and learn about the ancient fish.


Acclaimed Greek author Menis Koumandareas was found apparently murdered Saturday in his central Athens home nike blazer fleuri , authorities said. He was 83.


Though cause of death was not determined, police said the author had wounds to his neck and face, which also showed evidence of asphyxiation.


Investigators believe Koumandareas went with friends to a cafe in his neighborhood on Friday evening.


According to media reports, he excused himself at one point, saying he had to return to his flat.


The door to his apartment showed no signs of forced entry, police said.


Police were still piecing together what happened next and have not indicated a possible motive for the crime.


Koumandareas wrote some 20 novels vente nike blazer soldes , short story collections and essays starting in the 1960s, and he twice won the state prize for novels. His writing has been translated into several languages.


"The tragic death of Meni Koumandareas deprives Greek literature of one of its greatest authors," Greece's Culture Minister Kostas Tasoulas said in a statement. "Over the past half-century Koumandareas has expressed with his unparalleled sensitivity and personal style the hopes of contemporary man and society."


Known also for translating Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Koumandareas drew sober portraits in his works Koula and the Glass Factory of post-war Greek society.




TOKYO, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- A new poll showed Tuesday that more than half of respondents oppose Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe 's handling of security policies, such as lifting the ban on collective self-defense vente nike blazer pas cher , local media reported.


The telephone survey, conducted by Japan's Kyodo News Agency following Sunday's lower house election in which Abe and his ruling coalition won two-thirds of seats, showed that 55.1 percent of the respondents oppose the prime minister's security policies, with only 33.6 percent supporting them.


In July, Abe's Cabinet rubber-stamped a resolution to allow the country to exercise collective self- defense right by reinterpreting the pacifist Constitution.


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Singles Day shopping festival, an online shopping initiated by Alibaba’s online shopping site nine years ago puma heart satin gris , broke the record again with 168.2 billion yuan (US$25.4 billion), adding 39.5 percent from last year’s 120.7 billion yuan.


JD whose shopping season kicked off on November 1, reported 127.1 billion yuan of accumulative sales over the 12-day period.


E-commerce retailers’ affiliates including logistics, payment and cloud computing services beefed up efforts to deliver synergies to support the shopping bonanza.


It took a little more than 13 hours for gross merchandise volume at Alibaba to break the transaction record for the 24-hour period last year and it’s also the first time for the e-commerce giant to fully incorporate online and offline resources with more than 100,000 smart retail stores participating in the shopping extravaganza.


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