HANGZHOU Homme ECCO Kallum Premium Sneakers Blanche Soldes , May 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's delivery arm Cainiao Network Monday announced a plan to partner with domestic automakers to produce 1 million smart vans powered by advanced Internet technology.
Cainiao said a computing system will analyze real-time orders and design the most efficient routes for its delivery fleet. The move will cut costs and reduce energy consumption.
In two cities where the plan was piloted in April, vans traveled 30 percent shorter distances and saved 20 percent of the operational costs.
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Cainiao is China's leading logistics firm that processes packages and parcels ordered through Alibaba's e-commerce platforms.
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SYDNEY, March 8 (Xinhua) -- During the 1990s a United States company Erox, patented two specific compounds that reported to be sex-specific human pheromones, however researchers in Australia have announced Wednesday that it may not be the case.
"Our study is suggesting that these two particular steroid compounds are not pheromones," The University of Western Australia's Centre for Evolutionary Biology, Professor Leigh Simmons told Xinhua.
To conduct the study, researchers followed up on an experiment that came out of China's Academy of Sciences, where they asked subjects to assign gender to ambiguous videos of people walking, while being administered by the Erox compound.
"So we replicated this kind of experiment using morphed images of faces that appeared gender neutral, we then administered our subjects with the Erox compound and asked them what sex the faces were," Simmons said.
So if the compound acted like pheromones, the male subjects of the study should see the face as female and for the female subjects, the faces should appear male.
"Our study found that the subjects could not identify gender above chance," he said.
In a second experiment the researchers collected a series of male and female faces and asked subjects to rate their attractiveness before and after being exposed to pheromones.
If the substance were a pheromone, researchers say they would expect the participants to find the faces of the opposite sex more attractive after being in contact with it.
"The compound had no effect on people's ratings of attractiveness," he said.
Although a lot is known about animal pheromones, scientists still have a lot to understand about how the process works in humans.
SKOPJE, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) - The Republic of Macedonia marks its 22nd anniversary of "Independence Day" on Sunday.
President of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov will address a academy in the Macedonian Opera and Ballet.
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Under the motto "Our Unity, Our Victory" the celebration highlights a series of sporting events taking place all over the country. The sports aim at promoting sports and encouraging the citizens to be engaged in sport activities.
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NEW DELHI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- At least 14 people were killed and more than 20 others injured after militants opened fire and hurled grenades at a busy market in the northern Indian state of Assam, a top police official said on Friday.
The incident took place at the busy weekly Tiniali market outside the state's Kokrajhar town, some 220 km from the largest state city of Guwahati, where hundreds of people gathered for trade.
"At least three to four militants attacked the market place in the afternoon. One militant has also been neutralized. We have launched an intensive operation to track down others involved in the terror attack," state police chief Mukesh Sahay told the media.
While 14 people lost their lives, those injured have been admitted to nearby hospitals where the condition of some are said to be serious, the official said.
Local TV channels reported that the area has been cordoned off by police and the Indian Army, and operations have been launched to track down the militants believed to hole up in nearby buildings.