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Translingual adaptations: Asian works in late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century French literature
No full textThis dissertation rethinks an important genre of world literature overlooked by previous scholars, namely, creative adaptations of Eastern works by Western authors based on received translations. Specifically, my dissertation focuses on how three major nineteenth- and twentieth-century French authors—Théophile Gautier, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Victor Segalen—adapted Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan works into mainstream French literature. In a broader sense, my work reads these adaptations as significant contributions to world literature. My approach consists of closely comparing the adaptations with the previous translations on which Gautier, Mallarmé, and Segalen based their retellings, and against the source works in Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan. In so doing, I tease out examples of truncation, addition, paraphrase, annotation, and unintentional misreading that befell these Asian works as they traveled across time, space, and cultural spheres. The first chapter traces how the vernacular romance “Heying Lou,” by Chinese writer Li Yu, morphed into Théophile Gautier’s novella “Le Pavillon sur l’eau.” The original story, first rendered into English by John Francis Davis under the name “The Shadow in the Water,” was then further translated into French by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat under the title “L’Ombre dans l’eau,” upon which Gautier later based his “Le Pavillon sur l’eau.” By teasing out each author’s input in this multilayered transmission, I reveal how Gautier at once converged with and diverged from Li Yu by intentionally misinterpreting China and unwittingly recovering some important narrative traits of the “Heying Lou” lost in previous translations. The second chapter deals with Mallarmé’s retelling of the Nalopākhyānam episode of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata. Mallarmé based his Nala et Damayantî on Mary Summer’s adaptation of the same name, which in turn vulgarized the French Sanskritist Émile Burnouf’s translation of the Nalopākhyānam titled Nala épisode du Mahâbhârata. Indeed, when adapting Burnouf’s literalist translation, Summer embraced an assimilative approach while injecting much Orientalist cliché. For instance, she eroticized Damayantī’s body and wishfully smoothed out what she thought to be disjointed cuts between scenes in the Sanskrit original. Her systematic recourse to abridgement not only revamped the internal structures of the story, but also weakened the character Damayantī’s image as a fully empowered Indian woman who possessed wits, volition, and rationality. Mallarmé’s poetic license, in contrast, enabled him to go beyond received norms of nineteenth-century popular narratives pertaining to the Orient. First, he singled out elements in the Nalopākhyānam that directly resonated with his own poetic agenda. Second, he relinquished Summer’s pseudorealism, mitigated many Orientalist trappings, and switched to a more symbolic treatment of plot details. Finally, Mallarmé adopted a prose style reminiscent of classical Sanskrit, owing notably to his pursuit of condensation and syntactic ellipsis, his poetics of suggestion, and his tendency to multiply nominal appositives at the expense of finite verbs. In short, although Mallarmé’s stylistic idiosyncrasies are not easy to digest, by “Sanskritizing” his phraseology, so to speak, he effectively transmuted the Nalopākhyānam into a fresh narrative consisting of evocative, highly aestheticized, and rapidly shifting images. The third chapter examines how Segalen interpolated snippets of Chinese classics into his prose poem titled Stèles, while the fourth studies Segalen’s recasting of a small portion of the Tibetan classic Padma bka’ thang in his long poem Thibet. These last two chapters counteract Segalen’s image as a progressive modernist writer invested in East-West intercultural dialogue. By delving deeply into the way Segalen reworked his primary sources both in Stèles and in Thibet, I show that (1) Segalen’s Orientalism was not always his own, but often replicated and amplified that of previous translators; (2) Segalen was not a post-Mallarméan modernist, and his literary stance was not at all revolutionary; and (3) Segalen remained a cultural imperialist at heart who was keen to forge a pedantic, self-centered, and metaphoric Orient that had no room for concrete realities. More specifically, his authorial subjectivity either negated or superimposed itself on his Chinese sources in Stèles, while in Thibet, his ego went so far as to impersonate a valiant male French explorer embarking on the journey of conquering a female Tibet. Although the abstruse intertextuality underpinning Segalen’s Orientalism has thus far spared him from criticism directed at less recondite writers such as Pierre Loti, his appropriation of Chinese ideographs and Tibetan prosody belies a continuation of the Romantic poets’ fancy for the East. Although these foreign elements may indicate Segalen’s inclusiveness for some critics, in reality they function more as marketing gimmicks for readers barely able to verify their authenticity.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Yunfei Ba
Deep learning-based real-time damage assessment of lithium-ion batteries under dynamic impact
No full textLithium-ion batteries are widely used in diverse applications due to their high energy density and long service life. However, minor mechanical impacts during operation often induce hidden internal damage, creating safety and performance risks. If such damage is not addressed promptly, it can lead to fire, explosion, or other severe consequences. This study presents a real-time lithium-ion battery (LIB) damage detection and assessment method based on a deep learning framework that integrates acoustic emission (AE) techniques, convolutional neural networks (CNN), and long short-term memory networks (LSTM). A drop-weight impact test rig is designed to simulate low-velocity mechanical impacts and to collect AE signals across multiple impact energy levels. Signal pre-processing, including Savitzky-Golay smoothing, normalization, and Gaussian noise-based data augmentation, enhances model robustness. The proposed CNN-BiLSTM model achieves an average accuracy of 95 % in classifying four damage levels. Furthermore, electrochemical performance characterization, including internal resistance and capacity decay after cycling, validates the reliability of the AE-based classification results. This approach provides a feasible, non-destructive, and intelligent solution for monitoring the health status of lithium-ion batteries under dynamic mechanical impacts, contributing to improved safety and extended service life.
Yard 21
Get PDFYard 21 by Yunfei Zhang, M.F.A. Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology 2011 An overview of the process of the proposal, production, and ultimate result of the live-action documentary film，Yard 21. The goal of Yard 21 on the technical level was to generate a story idea, develop the idea, and produce and finish the film. The aesthetic purpose of Yard 21 is to evoke a spiritual response from the audience as they watch these un-acclaimed characters\u27 lives. Included are the original proposal and developed proposal, schedule breakdown, budget, editing schedule, final script, animation sequence samples, and frame style samples
Hydrodynamic forces on subsea cables immersed in wave boundary layers
No full textThis paper investigates the hydrodynamic forces on small-diameter cables (50 mm ≤ D ≤ 200 mm) under wave conditions. A total of 87 experimental tests are conducted in the parameter ranges of 20 ≤ KC ≤ 2000, 104 ≤ Rep ≤ 105, 10 ≤ β ≤ 1 000 and 0.001 < ks/D ≤ 2.6, where KC is the Keulegan–Carpenter number, Rep is the Reynolds number defined with the cable diameter and peak freestream velocity, β is the Stokes number and β = Rep/KC, and ks/D is the ratio between the seabed roughness and cable diameter. The results show that wave boundary layers significantly affect the forces on cables in contact with the seabed. The variations in the force coefficients with the governing parameters of KC and ks/D are interpreted based on the characteristic wave boundary layer features, namely, velocity deficit (reduction) and wall turbulence. Two counteracting mechanisms influence the force coefficients: velocity reduction in the wave boundary layer decreases the force coefficients, whereas strong wall turbulence from the seabed increases the force coefficients. Empirical formulas for evaluating the force coefficients of an on-bottom cable immersed in a wave boundary layer are proposed based on the present results.</p
Hydrodynamic forces on near-bed small diameter cables and pipelines in currents, waves and combined flow
No full textThe on-bottom stability design of subsea pipelines and cables is important to ensure safety and reliability but can be challenging to achieve, particularly for renewable energy projects which are preferentially located in high energy metocean environments. Often these conditions lead to the seabed being stripped of all loose sediment, leaving the cables to rest on exposed bedrock where roughness features can be similar in size to the cables. As offshore renewable energy projects progress from concept demonstration to commercial-scale developments, new approaches are needed to capture the relevant physics for small diameter cables on rocky seabeds to reduce the costs and risks of export power transmission and increase operational reliability. These same considerations also apply to the cables and small diameter pipes – such as umbilicals– required by oil and gas projects located on rocky seabeds.Recent experimental testing using the University of Western Australia's unique Large O-tube has enabled the experimental measurement of hydrodynamic forces on small diameter cables and pipes in proximity to smooth and rough beds. The tested conditions extend well beyond the existing published parameter range including much higher KC conditions together with seabed roughness which is comparable in size to the diameter. The results provide design data of great relevance to the ongoing development of marine renewable and conventional oil and gas projects, especially on rocky seabeds. This paper presents a summary of the existing knowledge on the subject as a preface to preliminary test results and gives tentative conclusions on the likely outcomes from this wor
The use of fibres in asphalt mixtures: A state of the art review
Get PDFThe various acknowledged benefits given by the use of fibre for construction materials made this component
essential for specific applications, including asphalt pavements. Fibres in asphalt mixtures usually play two
important roles: acting as an asphalt stabilizer to decrease the drain-down effect; and as a reinforcing additive to
enhance the mechanical performance of asphalt mixtures. To better understand their use, this paper aims to
review the various uses of different types of fibres in asphalt pavements. The main variables that influence the
effectiveness of fibres and the reinforcing mechanism of using fibres are discussed. Furthermore, a state-of-the-art
of the combined use of fibres and other additives, such as crumb rubber, polymer modifiers, and nano-size
modifiers, is presented. Results from relevant studies confirmed the effectiveness of using fibres in asphalt
pavements and the significance of optimizing the mixing method, size and dosage of fibres to achieve more
suitable performance. Additionally, the latest research findings and experimental applications are discussed, with
a specific focus on waste and recycled materials. Exploring feasible recycled alternatives to natural and traditional
fibres, optimizing the use of fibres from wastes, and combining the use of fibres with other sustainable
technologies, could maximize the environmental benefits of using fibres in asphalt pavements
Atomic force microscopy study of the ultrastructural changes of chelate-soluble pectin in peaches under controlled atmosphere storage
No full text© 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Hongshun Yang, Shaojuan Lai, Hongjie An, Yunfei L
Recycling shredded waste cigarette butts as stabilising fibres in stone mastic asphalt concretes
Get PDFConsidering the global burden of cigarette consumption, the disposal of cigarette butts has become an
inevitable issue. Compared to traditional disposal methods, such as landfilling or incinerating, the
recycling of these wastes is clearly an eco-friendlier solution. In this research, waste electronic
cigarette butts (E-CBs) were collected and recycled in bituminous mixtures, aiming to increase the use
of sustainable road construction materials. The objective of this research is to explore the possibility of
using waste E-CBs as an alternative stabilising fibre in asphalt mixtures. To this end, shredded waste ECBs
were incorporated in Stone Mastic Asphalt (SMA) and compared with the conventional cellulose
fibres. Furthermore, to investigate the effects of powders (below 0.063 mm) from the waste E-CBs on
the rheological properties of bitumen, tests were conducted on base SBS-modified bitumen and its
mastics. Results show that the waste powder was unfavourable to the thermal susceptibility of the
resulting binder. SMA samples with shredded E-CBs were also characterised through physical and
mechanical tests and compared to the reference mixture using cellulose fibres. It was concluded that
using waste E-CBs in SMA can be considered a promising alternative for replacing cellulose fibres and
avoiding the disposal of cigarette butts
Visualization and quantitative roughness analysis of peach skin by atomic force microscopy under storage
No full textCopyright © 2004 Swiss Society of Food Science and Technology Published by Elsevier Ltd.Hongshun Yang, Hongjie An, Guoping Feng, and Yunfei L
sj-docx-1-acr-10.1177_02841851231187373 - Supplemental material for Pectoralis muscle predicts distant metastases in breast cancer by deep learning radiomics
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-acr-10.1177_02841851231187373 for Pectoralis muscle predicts distant metastases in breast cancer by deep learning radiomics by Shidi Miao, Yunfei An, Pingping Liu, Shikai Mu, Wenjin Zhou, Haobo Jia, Wenjuan Huang, Jing Li and Ruitao Wang in Acta Radiologica</p
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