171 research outputs found
The politics of fashion: perceptions of power in female clothing and ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei
No full textThis thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty. Using aspects of a New Historicist approach, information from contemporary literary and historical sources are analysed alongside each other. With its emphasis on the lives of women and preoccupation with the description of material objects, the late Ming novel Jin Ping Mei forms an important element in the thesis. China in the sixteenth century saw expanding urbanisation, the emergence of a new wealthy merchant class, increasing visibility of women and a questioning of traditional morality. Fashion consciousness, as one of the most conspicuous aspects of the new material culture, is a possible indicator of these trends. Traditional Western theories contend that fashion began in the particular context of Renaissance Europe. However, this study argues that a similar fashion awareness existed in China too, and was manifested in a competitive striving for social status, in this case specifically among women. In contrast to previous studies which downplayed the impact women had on defining traditional Chinese culture, this thesis demonstrates how women and their sartorial choices began to redefine the boundaries of material culture, influencing literati discourse which, in turn, re- influenced female behaviour
STRATEGIC GREEN MARK SCHEME IN TERTIARY CAMPUSES
No full textBachelor'sBACHELOR OF SCIENCE (PROJECT AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
On the Structures of the Hard Palate of Felis tigris
No full text【Abstract】On December 13,1925, news was received of the appearance of
a tiger in the hills of Nan Pu-toa, in Amoy. It was supposed to
have come from the mountnins of Nan Tai Wu, about five miles
from the Amoy Island across the bay, reaching the latter place
by swimming over. Three days later it was shot by police and
brought to the court for exhibition. President Lim Boon Keng, of
the University of Amoy, secured the skeleton for the University
Museum. I had the pleasure of making some observations on
some of the soft structures of the hard palate left with the skull
Mengenalpasti masalah dalam pembelajaran amali PLC ( Programmable Logic Controller) di KUiTTHO
No full textPada hari ini bidang industri telah memasuki ke era automasi di mana
keseluruhan proses pembuatan telah dilakukan secara automatik oleh mesin-mesin
yang dikawal oleh satu sistem pengawal komputer pusat yang canggih seperti
Programmable Logic Controller ( PLe). Penguasaan yang sepenuhnya dalam
penggunaan Programmable Logic Controller ( PLe ) adalah satu kelengkapan atau
kemahiran yang perlu ada pad a setiap orang pelajar jurusan kejuruteraan eleh.1rikal
terutamanya untuk menerokai dunia automasi dalam bidang industri pada masa
hadapan. Dengan itu, Universiti-universiti tempatan dan Politeknik-politeknik
Malaysia telah menyediakan makmal automasi yang dilengkapi dengan PLe untuk
memberi latihan yang secukupnya kepada pelajar-pelajarnya supaya pelajar yang
dihasilkan adalah memenuhi keperluan industri.
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Dengan itu, masalah-masalah yang dihadapi semasa pembelajaran PLe di
makmal automasi perlu dikenalpasti dan diberi perhatian yang sepenuhnya. Ini
adalah untuk memastikan pelajar dapat menguasai pengetahuan secara teori dan juga
kemahiran secara praJ....1ikal. Perkara ini penting, terutamanya bila pembelajaran
amali dalam pengaturcaraan PLe ini adalah cara pembelajaran yang berlainan dari
cara tradisi, ia melibatkan peralatan yang mahal dan terhad, isu-isu keselamatan
yang perlu diberi perhatian serta keperluan latihan dan kemahiran yang banyak dan
berterusan.
Satu cadangan penyelesaian dalam bentuk CD lnteraktifkemudian
dihasilkan sebagai satu usaha untuk mengatasi masalah- masalah yang dapat
dikenalpasti oleh dapatan kajian
Mitigation Of Syn-Flooding Attack Using High Speed Programmable Network Processor
No full textDenial of service (DoS) attacks tie up resources of a remote host or network, thereby denying or degrading service to legitimate users. This thesis brings closer two emerging areas of networking, network processor and firewall system. We propose an innovative and practical SYN-flooding defense system built on network processor. An embedded architecture, called synmon (SYN-flooding monitoring) is proposed. Our solution is an end-point-based autonomous system which is deployable at both source and victim network's border routers
HVAC-Aware Occupancy Scheduling (Extended Abstract)
No full textMy research focuses on developing innovative ways to control Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and schedule occupancy flows in smart buildings to reduce our ecological footprint (and energy bills). We look at the potential for integrating building operations with room booking and meeting scheduling. Specifically, we improve on the effectiveness of energy-aware room-booking and occupancy scheduling approaches, by allowing the scheduling decisions to rely on an explicit model of the building's occupancy-based HVAC control. From computational standpoint, this is a challenging topic as HVAC models are inherently non-linear non-convex, and occupancy scheduling models additionally introduce discrete variables capturing the time slot and location at which each activity is scheduled. The mechanism needs to tradeoff minimizing energy cost against addressing occupancy thermal comfort and control feasibility in a highly dynamic and uncertain system
Fabrication of 3D printing filament utilising recycled PET (rPET) and rPET - PETG blends from marine sources
No full textPlastic, due to its unique advantages compared to other materials, has brought about varied uses across a plethora of industries globally. However, as waste disposal of rubbish (and plastic) is not properly regulated in numerous countries, many of which end up in sewers and rivers across the globe. As the water bodies are connected, the waste gets carried downstream and they eventually end up in the seas as marine waste. Several of the major polluters hail from across Asia, where due to their geographical location, their waste discharge comes close to the Pacific Ocean. These interactions of ocean currents carry waste which eventually forms the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is still increasing by size yearly.
Plastic and its derivatives virgin polymers) are important materials for 3D printing process. In recent years, 3D printing has gained immense popularity due to widespread technology advancement which allows 3D printing to be more accessible due to a lowering of price of 3D machineries. With more consumers recognising the benefits and ease of convenience that 3D printing brings, the increase in popularity in 3D printing has led to an increase in demand for raw material (polymer filament) required during the process.
This paper explores the possibility of creating 3D printing filament from using recycling marine waste plastic collected from Singapore’s shorelines, effectively giving the plastic a second life.Bachelor of Engineering (Materials Engineering
Adopting project-based management approach in upgrading the status of colleges to university colleges in Malaysian private higher education institutions
No full textFeasibility of pre-treating wastewater/water to prevent /minimize reverse osmosis(RO) membrane biofouling using combined UV/Ozone processes
No full textAs biofouling is a prevalent problem in Reverse Osmosis membranes, the use of advance oxidation processes (AOP) to solve this issue has been researched on by many. This study focuses on the effect of combine UV/Ozone advance oxidation process in inactivating a model bacteria. Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA01) was chosen as it is one of the common opportunistic bacteria that has been detected in biofilms in RO membranes. A stable consistent PA01 culture was obtained and exposed to UV/Ozone. Ozone strength was varied between 100-400mg/h while keeping the UV strength constant at 2.5W. Based on the results, the inactivation effiency was able to reach 100% within 1 minute for all experiments carried out. The kinetic graph was plotted and has shown that the rate constant increases with increase ozone strength. Results has concluded that the use of 400mg/h ozone strength combined with 2.5W UV-C lamp has the best result for killing PA01 of various concentrations within 10 seconds. Energy efficiency was calculated and has shown that 400mg/h ozone strength combined with 2.5W UV-C lamp is the most energy efficient when compared with 400mg/h ozone and 2.5W UV-C lamp individually. This is likely attributed to the synergic effect of the UV/Ozone combined oxidation process, making it a very powerful disinfectant for PA01, thus being the most energy efficient choice. The combine UV/Ozone process appears to be a very promising treatment to prevent membrane biofouling, thus it is strongly recommended for potential future research to use as a pre-treatment disinfectant.
Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental Engineering
Strangers in a strange land : verifying the Southern gothic-grotesque in the short fiction of William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University
No full textFor many critics, it is an undisputed fact that William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty are the major writers of the Southern Gothic-Grotesque canon. Remarkably, however, few have paused to consider the validity of such a claim. What exactly is the Southern Gothic-Grotesque? What are the elements that constitute the genre? Why have Faulkner, McCullers, O'Connor and Welty been identified as its major writers? A synthesis of the theories of authorities on the Gothic-Grotesque produces criteria which state that works identified as Southern Gothic-Grotesque must display four characteristics: disharmony, as it appears in the form of clashes, conflicts, contrasts and incongruities; prominent physical details; deformed or aberrant characters and a distressed writer who expresses his or her anguish through the aforementioned disharmonies, physical details and abnormal characters. Research on the Gothic-Grotesque also brings to light the idea that the Grotesque assumes certain standards or norms and alienates those who do not conform. Feminists argue that these standards are informed by patriarchal ideals and instituted for the sole purpose of repressing women. The stories of Faulkner, McCullers and O'Connor consistently demonstrate all four of the characteristics outlined in the synthesised criteria. Most perceptibly, these writers were labelled "grotesque" and marginalised because they did not coincide with the standards of their society. McCullers and O'Connor were at variance with the conventions of Southern femininity and Faulkner, too, found himself unable to act the part of the Southern gentleman. These writers expressed their pain by exacerbating, through their freak characters, the very grotesqueness that caused them to be marginalised in the first place. Welty's story, although it fails to meet some of the criteria of the Southern Gothic-Grotesque, displays expression of another sort. She draws on the elements of the Gothic-Grotesque to subvert the social order that denies the subjectivity and autonomy of its individuals. Therefore, by demonstrating, through their stories, that the Southern Gothic-Grotesque is an agent of expression for individuals who find themselves outsiders in the closed and exclusive world of the South, Faulkner, McCullers, O'Connor and Welty justify the intuitive labels of principal Southern Gothic-Grotesque writers
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