CND-US, March 20, 1999 (US99-004)
CND-US Editors
US Regional, No US99-004
March 20, 1999
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1. Chinese Scientist Won Medal from Microscopy Society of America ....... 16
2. 2-Character Author Names May Affect Their Paper Citation Index ....... 24
3. "He Was Treating Me Like a Criminal"
-- A Chinese Canadian's Experience at Detroit Airport ............... 120
4. Job Opportunities (2 Items) .......................................... 44
5. Conference Announcement (2 Items):
Fifth International Conference of IUMRS;
International Venture Capital Seminar in Beijing .................... 112
6. Seek Medical Help for Skull Depression and Low Fever ................. 30
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1. Chinese Scientist Won Medal from Microscopy Society of America ....... 16
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From: "Aileen Yuan" <ailee...@hotmail.com>
Dr. Zhong Lin Wang is the recipient of this year's Burton Medal from the
Microscopy Society of America (MSA) for "his outstanding contribution to
the field of electron microscopy in electron scattering and
diffraction". MSA has 50 years of history and currently ~ 6000 members.
Dr. Wang is the first Chinese ever to win a medal from MSA.
Dr. Wang received his BS from Northwestern Telecommunication Engineering
Institute (current name: Xidian University) in 1982 and came to the US
through the CUSPEA program in 1983. He received his Ph.D. in Physics
from Arizona State University in 1987. He is currently a full Professor
of Materials Science and Engineering and the Director of the Electron
Microscopy facility at Georgia Tech. He also won the 1998 US NSF CAREER
award and the first round China NSF Outstanding Oversea Young Scientist
Award in 1998.
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2. 2-Character Author Names May Affect Their Paper Citation Index ....... 24
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From: Jinyou Liang <jli...@leland.Stanford.EDU>
If your firstname consists of two characters in Chinese
and you are from Mainland China, you may find that your paper(s)
will *never* be cited by others according to Scientific Citation
Index (SCI) though in reality your paper(s) may have been cited
by others for a thousand times.
Below is why this is the case. For example, Chunrong Zheng
authored 10 papers in most reputable journals last year, and
they were cited 100 times by other authors in good journals.
Other authors use C. Zheng to cite. However, the Institute for
Scientific Information (ISI) responsible for producing SCI does not
work in the correct way. They refer Chunrong Zheng as C.R. Zheng.
So the citation times of Chunrong Zheng's 10 papers were all zero,
and will be zero forever !
To push ISI to correct such an error which have caused severe
negligiance to mainland Chinese authors with first names consisting of
two characters, please contact Linda Clark, Associate Manager,
Phone: 800-336-4474 ext. 1282, Fax: 215-386-6362, Email:
lcl...@isinet.com. Tell your friends about this and ask them to
voice loudly to Ms. Linda Clark.
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3. "He Was Treating Me Like a Criminal"
-- A Chinese Canadian's Experience at Detroit Airport ............... 120
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Forwarded by Bing WEN, 03/99
(Zheng Anderson, an Ottawa lawyer, tells story about being manhandled by a
U.S. immigration agent while waiting for a flight at Detroit International
Airport.)
I was exhausted from the 13-hour flight from Beijing and time was running
out for me to catch my connecting flight at Detroit International Airport.
The line-ups at the immigration counter were incredibly long. It was March
7. Northwest 088 was scheduled to depart at noon and it was now after 11
a.m.
I kept looking at my watch. I was the 12th person in line but it wasn't
moving. I was getting more and more worried. There were so many people in
line. It was taking a long time for them to be processed because they were
mostly Chinese visitors who didn't understand English.
I thought I was going to miss my flight back to Ottawa so I turned to the
authorities for help. A few feet away I spotted a U.S. immigration officer
who was patrolling the floor. I told him the line was rather slow.
That is when my nightmare began. It was horrible.
He said: "So what." I was really surprised that he spoke like that because
he was a representative of the U.S. government.
I remained calm. His shoulders came forward and he was right in my face,
shouting: "What do you want me to do?" I couldn't understand what was
going on. I couldn't believe it. I asked him if they could open another
line. He said: "With what?"
I was turning to this person for help and now he was treating me like a
criminal.
He came at me with such speed and power. He grabbed my passport and my
flight tickets and dragged me out of line.
He broke my thumb and it was covered in blood. I started screaming. I had
to yell to get help. He told me I could be arrested if I kept it up. I
asked him on what grounds. He said for "a crime" and for arguing with him.
He kept threatening me and said I could be detained for the rest of the
day. I kept telling him I was a Canadian citizen and had a connecting
flight to catch but he kept dragging me.
I'm 5-foot 10 and used to be a professional basketball player in Beijing.
I don't cry very easily but I was shaking.
I was so scared.
He probably never expected someone with a Chinese face to speak back to
him. He was probably so used to treating people that way because the
Chinese are known for reacting with modesty and a smile.
He dragged me to a room and told me to stay put. I asked if I could speak
to the supervisor. He said he was the supervisor. I thought he was going
to hit me. He pointed to the corner and told me to take a seat.
Everything was happening so fast. I was just trying to gather all of the
information in my brain.
Another officer came over and said he would handle everything. He said he
was going to check it out. I asked to see his name tag because he had my
passport.
I paced the room for about 10 minutes. I considered this an illegal
detainment and prepared myself that they would do something worse to me. I
didn't know how long I'd be there because they told me nothing.
I was thinking about my daughter the whole time. She has Chinese features
and I figured that if I didn't fight back she will suffer in the future. I
had never felt racism before.
He came back into the room and asked me to follow him. He led me to the
back of the longest line at the immigration counter, handed over my
papers, and told me not to make any trouble.
It was as if they were trying to teach me a lesson.
The other officer was standing by a pay phone keeping an eye on me. I
stood in line but it wasn't moving so I stepped out. I didn't want to give
them an excuse to arrest me so I just stood there. I thought I'd
definitely miss my flight.
Moments later, the other officer waved me over to an empty counter,
glanced at my papers and said I could go through. I showed him my left
thumb and told him that his colleague had broken it. He used the public
address system and called for his supervisor.
He took me back to the same room where I had been detained. The supervisor
came out and I told him he broke my finger. He denied it, turned his back
to me and walked away. They gave me back my ticket and passport and the
supervisor said: "Sue me."
I told them I was a lawyer and it wouldn't be hard to do. I walked away to
find gate G-10. I was so angry and I had to phone my husband. I telephoned
him collect and told him to contact (Foreign) Affairs.
The tears were running down my face. I couldn't believe that such a thing
happened to me.
My plane ended up being delayed until 1:15 p.m., so I caught it.
I have lived in Canada for 14 years and have been a citizen for the past
nine. I have treated Canada as my home.
Maybe what happened to me is a sign that despite all the hard work I have
done to contribute to my community and my country, that I am still
regarded as Chinese and that this treatment can come at any time.
I want everyone to know about this story so they can watch out and be
warned about this bad dog at the door.
It was traumatic. I couldn't sleep for two nights. What gives him the
right to treat me like that?
I would have never been treated like that if I had a white face.
It would be very easy not to fight back and just forget about what
happened but I can't. I was assaulted physically and mentally.
This story must be told so that this doesn't happen to someone else.
(Zheng Anderson has since filed a detailed complaint with Foreign Affairs
and is calling on U.S. authorities to investigate the incident. She is
also demanding an apology.)
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4. Job Opportunities (2 Items) .......................................... 44
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(1) Postdoctoral Position in Advanced Materials Research Institute
From: Jian Q Wang <jwa...@uno.edu>
A postdoctoral position is available in the Advanced Materials Research
Institute at University of New Orleans to work in the area of thin film
fabrication and characterization. Candidates with a Ph.D. degree in
physics, materials science and related fields, who have experiences in
studying GMR magnetic thin film, multilayers, and spin-valves, CMR oxides,
and/or high/low Tc superconducting films using vacuum deposition techniques
are encouraged to apply. Relevant experiences include microstructure,
magnetic and transport characterization, such as using X-ray diffraction,
TEM, SEM, SQUID magnetometry, VSM, magneto-transport measurements. Ability
to carry out and understand model analysis and computer simulation is an
advantage. The position is for two-years and possibly for three years. For
more information about the position, visit our web site at
http://www.amri.uno.edu. Application materials, including cover letter, CV,
and three reference letters, should be sent to Dr. Jian Q. Wang, AMRI,
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148. The University of New
Orleans is an affirmative action equal opportunity employer.
(2) Postdoc on Internet Quality of Service
_From: "DR. DANNY TSANG" <eet...@ee.ust.hk>
We are currently looking for a postdoc candidate to work on a research
project on Internet Quality of Service (QoS). The project aims at developing
a prototype IP router implementing different forwarding policies based on
the differentiated services framework to provide different QoS to voice,
video, and data traffic. Candidates should have strong research interests
in Internet QoS, Voice and Video over IP, and software programming.
For further information, please send your email inquiry to "eet...@ee.ust.hk".
Danny H.K. Tsang
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2358-7045
Fax: (852) 2358-1485
email: eet...@ee.ust.hk
http://www.ee.ust.hk/~ustatm/
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5. Conference Announcement (2 Items):
Fifth International Conference of IUMRS;
International Venture Capital Seminar in Beijing .................... 112
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(1) Fifth International Conference of IUMRS
From: En-Hou Han <eh...@MIT.EDU>
The Fifth IUMRS (International Union of Materials Research Societies,
called Guo(2) Ji(4) Cai(2) Lian(2) in Chinese) International Conference
on Advanced Materials will be held on June 13-18, 1999 in Beijing,
China. The host of the meeting will be the Chinese Materials Research
Society (C-MRS). The Conference Organization Committee has sent us the
meeting information. Prof. Hengde Li, Conference Chairman, of the Dept.
of Materials Science & Eng. at Tsinghua University wrote us and asked us
to pass around the conference information to Chinese students and
scholars in the United States and Canada ; he, as a present Chairman of
the International Union of Materials Research Societies, sincerely
invites us to attend the conference and to do contributions to Chinese
Materials Research Society.
There will be 35 Symposia at the conference:
A. Nanostructured Materials
B. High Tic Superconductors
C. Fullerenes and Related Materials
D. Intermetallic Compounds and Bulk Metallic Glasses
E. Diamond Films and Related Materials
F. Thin Films and Multilayers; Science and Applications
G. Intelligent Materials and Integrated Systems
H. Functional Polymers
I. Hard Magnetic Materials
J. Advanced Inf. Recording Materials & Processing
K. Materials, Devices and Applications for Advanced Optical
Communication
L. Science & Technology of Artificial Crystals
M. Si-Based Materials and Devices
N. Compound Semiconductor Materials
O. Low Dimentional Structures and Quantum Devices
P. Display Materials
Q. Radiation Detectors for Imaging in Industry and Medicine
R. Materials Research Inspired by Biological Systems
S. Biomedical Materials
T. Materials for Energy Conversion
U. Ecomaterials
V. Rare Earths and Applications
W. Materials Synthesis and Modification by Energetic Beams
X. Surface Engineering
Y. Science and Engineering of Solidification
Z. Materials Research and Thermophysics in Extreme Cases
AA. Forward Look to Materials Science While Striding into a
New Century
BB. Advanced Ceramics
EE. Advanced Polymeric Structural Materials
FF. Advanced in Composite Materials
GG. Advanced Materials Characterization and Imaging
HH. Materials Design and Modeling
II. Advances in Porous Materials
According to the conference schedule, the deadline for submitting
abstracts is March 1, 1999, but the abstracts submitted by Chinese
students and scholars from abroad can be accepted by the conference
committee as late as April 1, 1999.
Detailed information about the conference is posted on the web site
http://www.chimeb.edu.cn .
If you have any questions, please contact:
Prof. Yafang Han,
Conference Secretary General,
Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials,
Beijing 100095, China.
phone: 86-10-62458053
Fax: 86-10-62456925
E-mail: ha...@public.east.net.cn
(2) International Venture Capital Seminar in Beijing
From: En-Hou Han <eh...@MIT.EDU>
Thanks to the flexible labor markets and policy, China has been becoming
the Asia entrepreneurial hub. Small business in China amount to a big
component of the total economy over the past ten years. Venture Capital
firms emerged in China in 1998. It will drive the high tech investment and
the small business stock market.
In order to meet the demand and trend of entrepreneurs and venture
capitals in China, North American Chinese Association of Science and
Technology, The Science and Technology Development Center
for 21st Century of Beijing, and Shanghai Finance and Stock Research
Institute will hold an "International Venture Capital Seminar" in late
April, 1999 in Beijing. You are encouraged to send and present your paper
on the seminar. The preferred topics include raising fund, experience of
start-up company, IPO, Merger & acquisition. This is an opportunity for
overseas Chinese to :
* Introduce your company to the investment community in a professional
seminar.
* Meet venture capitalists from leading firms and investment bankers
* Meet corporate and government business development representatives and
financing sources.
* Establish valuable business contacts.
The detail information about the seminar and the other events will be posted
on the website of North American Chinese Association of Science and
Technology ( http://www.nacast.org).
Please contact yl...@yahoo.com through email if you are interested in the
seminar.
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6. Seek Medical Help for Skull Depression and Low Fever ................. 30
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From: wen...@statcan.ca (Bing WEN)
A 34 year old, female, found a depression area (size 2.5*3.5*0.5cm) on left
parietal part of skull 4 months ago. The depression seemed to be enlarging
and patients had a low fever. CT showed that the external layer of skull
in the area was thinning (erosion). The intracranial compartment appears
unremarkable.
Now, locations on her skull ( size from 0.5*0.5*0.3cm to 3*3.5*0.5cm).
Sometime she can fell a little pain in the area. The erosion is even and
smooth, usually begins in a small size and become larger and larger. It
invades more in surrounding area evenly than in deep tissue ( to the
direction of brain) in the skull. Some white and somewhat hard secretions
were found in the skin of her skull. The secretions contain 3% of calcium.
Alpha, Beta, Gamma globulins and interpretation protein electrophoresis
appears normal. Calcium, phosphorus &alkaline phosphatase are normal in
her blood.
Her body temperature is around (37.1-37.5C) since the occurrence of the
skull erosion. It is a low fever if considering that her normal
temperature is 36.3-36.7C.
Anybody who knows something related diagnosis, treatments, medication, or
medical information such as, hospitals, doctors and any other sources,
please send email to mf...@utdallas.edu. I appreciate your help. Thank
you!
e-mail: mf...@utdallas.edu
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