146 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
A Study on Jia Ping-wa \ue3Old Furnace\ue3Social psychology and narratology
No full textJia Ping wa (1952-) has a pivotal literary status in China. He has more than forty years of literary creation. His words such as \ue2Turbulence\ue2, \ue2Ruined City\ue2 (or \ue2The Abandoned Capital\ue2),\ue2Shaanxi opera\ue2, \ue2Old- Furnace\ue2 are all very popular. These works, whether they are about the rural or urban areas under reform, the survival dilemma of peasants and intellectuals, or the contradiction between tradition and modernity, are related to history, society and the relationship between people. Jia Ping wa assumes a heavy social responsibility and his works show a great deal of Psycho-emotions and destiny of people in the historical settings.
\ue3\ue3Jia Ping wa \ue2Old Furnace\ue2 shows the dilemma of the rural community, official corruption, especially distortion of human nature and the weakness of Chinese peasants and the morbid psychology of The Chinese. The potential influence of the social ideology of Cultural Revolution is how to form crowd mentality, and how to represent the historical, cultural, and psychological structure of The Chinese. This study intends to discuss these issues. Therefore, it will delve into the perspective of social psychology. In the \ue2Old Furnace\ue2 the author expresses the psychological phenomena of historical society and people by describing the daily life of the old furnace villagers during the period of Cultural Revolution. The last part of this thesis uses the theory of Marxist G.V. Plekhanov (1856-1918) to illustrate the complex social psychological phenomena between the infrastructure and superstructure.
Since \ue2Old Furnace\ue2 describes many daily political events, how these episodes and the characters influence the explosion of the revolution, and what function do they play in the text? These are the questions that this study tries to answer and to point out its implied tragedy in analyzing \ue2Old Furnace\ue2 from the perspective of narratology
Dr. Ping and Dr. Pong: Rethinking Writing and Work with Playful Embodied AIs
No full textWhat if artificial intelligence (AI) could transform academic writing into an exhilarating game of table tennis? This paper explores AI’s potential to foster creativity, enjoyment, and play. We challenge the view of AI as merely a tool for efficiency, showcasing its capacity for embodied interaction and intellectual engagement. We introduce an AI-infused table tennis setup, where two people can co-author a paper while playing ping pong. Using ChatGPT and an Arduino-driven system, this environment generates writing prompts based on gameplay, blending physical play with intellectual practice. Through PingPonGPT, we demonstrate AI’s role in reflective practices, enriching overall work and creative processes.Non peer reviewe
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No full textA AI Xin-ping艾新平 5:459 ALIWOWE Alice 6:560 Andrew P. Abbot 2:172 B BAI Li白莉 5:459 BIAN Zhao-yong卞兆勇 5:48
Orthogonal Partial Least Squares - Discriminant Analysis in Metabolomic for Disease Characterization
No full textMaster'sMASTER OF SCIENC
Philagra Stal 1863
No full textGenus Philagra Stål, 1863 Chalepus Walker, 1851: 731. Type species: Chalepus hastatus Walker, 1851, by subsequent designation of Distant, 1908: 107. Preoccupied by Chalepus Thunberg, 1805. Philagra Stål, 1863: 593; Distant, 1908: 107; Metcalf & Horton, 1934: 399; Metcalf, 1962: 571. Type species: Philagra douglasi Stål, 1863, designated by Metcalf and Horton, 1934: 399. Diagnosis. Species of Philagra Stål can be distinguished by the following combination of characters: body relatively slender and elongate, medium to large-sized, covered with fine, short, silvery setae (Figs 1, 2, 5); head relatively narrow, conically produced in front of eyes into a cephalic process as long as or longer than pronotum and scutellum combined, usually curving dorsad (Figs 1, 2, 4A–C, 5, 7A,B); pronotum wider than head; scutellum relatively large, usually about half as long as pronotum; antennae with expanded flagellar base (Figs 3A–E) hidden in apical cavity of pedicel and not visible in lateral aspect, bearing two peg-like basiconic sensilla and a few coeloconic sensilla on surface (Figs 3A–E); rostrum short, not passing trochanters of middle legs; forewings usually large, coriaceous, with venation indistinct, costal margin usually strong convex, widest about level of apex of scutellum, with apical angle acuminate; venation inconspicuous, M and Cu fused basally, with 3 preapical cells of similar width; legs relatively robust and short, posterior tibia short and stout, with two stout spines on lateral edge, the distal larger than the proximal, second segment of hind tarsus bilobed with median lobe usually longer than lateral lobe; male pygofer in lateral view short, cylindrical (Figs 4D, 6A–D, 7C); anal segments and anal style elongate (Figs 4D, 6A–D, 7C); subgenital plates relatively large, narrow, acuminate, and elongate, base fully fused with pygofer, tapering from base to dorsally recurved apex, fully covering genital styles and aedeagus in ventral view, with a strong recurved process at apical margin (Figs 4D,E, 6A–D, 7C,D); genital style elongate, usually forked or excavated apically, with upper edge subapically strongly excavated in lateral view (Figs 4D,F, 6A,E–G, 7C,E); aedeagal shaft slender, tubular, moderately long, nearly perpendicular, apex usually with two spinose processes directed postero-ventrad; gonopore subapical dorsally (Figs 4G,H, 6E–G, 7F,G) (Metcalf & Horton 1934; Liang & Fletcher 2003). Biology. In common with most spittlebug groups, currently no biological data are available for Philagra species. The nymphs of Philagra species produce conspicuous masses of cuckoo-spit on shrubs and small trees (Liang & Fletcher 2003). Distribution. India, China, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia (Batjan, Halmahera), and Australia (Metcalf 1962; Liang & Fletcher 2003). Notes on the type species of the genus. Metcalf and Horton (1934) discussed the question of a type species for Philagra. They regarded Stål's (1863: 593) description of Philagra as the creation of a new genus rather than a replacement name for Chalepus Walker, which was preoccupied. Stål (1863) appeared to have been unaware of Walker's genus Chalepus and described Philagra as a new genus with two new species, P. douglasi and P. scotti, neither of which was designated as type species. Metcalf and Horton (1934) rightly pointed out that a type species for such a new genus needed to be designated from those species placed in the genus by the original author. As Stål (1863) had failed to designate a type species, Metcalf and Horton (1934) selected the first of the two species included in the genus by Stål (1863) as the type. Other authors have followed Distant (1908) who selected Chalepus hastatus Walker as the type on the assumption that Stål's name simply replaced Walker's preoccupied name but, as pointed out by Metcalf and Horton, this was not the case and C. hastata cannot be considered available for designation as type species of Philagra (Liang & Fletcher 2003). Schmidt (1920) established the tribe Philagrini to accommodate Philagra. Three genera, Philagra, Interocrea Walker, 1870 and Grellaphia Schmidt, 1920 were included in the world catalogue of the family Aphrophoridae (Metcalf, 1962). Philagrini is obviously not a monophyletic group and the phylogenetic position of the tribe needs to be investigated cladistically.Published as part of Liang, Ai-Ping, 2022, Three new species of the genus Philagra Stål (Hemiptera: Cercopidea: Aphrophoridae) from China and Bangladesh, pp. 169-180 in Zootaxa 5200 (2) on pages 170-171, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5200.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/725682
Environmental protection & the consumers' role : a study of the retail industry in Singapore
No full textThis study was carried out to ascertain the level of environmental consciousness of the retail consumers in Singapore.ACCOUNTANC
Can Generative Artificial Intelligence Write an Academic Journal Article? Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications
No full textThis article offers an in-depth reflection on the author’s experiences with Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI), ChatGPT 4.0. The author started the journey from their initial need for software for English proofreading and editing services to their interest in exploring pre-service teachers’ application of Gen AI in lesson planning. Based on prompt engineering techniques, an iterative three-stage manuscript generation process—brainstorming, refinement, and writing—with ChatGPT is detailed. A short paper generated by ChatGPT is presented. Although Gen AI is a valuable tool in providing insights and assistance in research idea generation and design, academic writing, and English writing learning, the author cautions that critical thinking plays a vital role in ensuring accuracy, ethical considerations, and the preservation of rigorous scholarly standards. As Gen AI emerges as a game-changer in academia and education, this article highlights the importance of balancing its emerging capabilities with maintaining traditional academic and educational values
An Annotative Approach to Better Hyperauthoring and Associative Linking
No full textEarly hypertext visionaries proposed entire online archives of the world's literature, with everything associatively linked to everything else. Today, the most widespread hypertext system is the World-Wide Web (WWW), a publicly accessible and globally distributed medium. However, the WWW is not living up to the promise of hypertext associativity - the majority of hypertext linking on the WWW is estimated to be intended for navigational purposes only. WWW authors typically have new ideas to contribute, and assert particular relationships between these and existing ideas already published in order to demonstrate both the reliability of the conceptual foundation being built on, and the innovation and significance of the new ideas. However, these associations are rarely rendered as associative links which seamlessly link the new material into the global context. This research investigates the possibility of capturing these implicit inter-document associations through annotation, and then using these annotations to assist the hyperauthoring process. The hypothesis of this work is therefore that by capturing inter-document associations through annotation, a better hyperauthoring process will result, both in terms of the quality and coverage of the new writing, and in terms of the seamless (associative) integration with the global context, helping the WWW evolve to achieve all of its potential hypertextual richness. The Annotation LInking ENvironment (ALIEN) has been implemented to demonstrate techniques for capturing inter-document associations made by an author whilst reading, using free form annotations. Further work proposed includes the re-purposing of these captured associations to assist the authoring and linking processes through dynamic visualisation of the association structures "as-you-type", and automatic associative linking
Sports shoe industry analysis and the positioning of nike in Singapore
No full textNike has always been an active player in the sports shoe industry. In recent years, the
dynamic environment in the industry is constantly changing. The purpose of this report
is to study this changing environment in the industry and the purchasing behavior of the
consumers. Conclusion will be drawn and recommendations will be made for action.
To further enhance Nike's leading position m the industry, action plans include an
improvised advertising and promotion strategy, to concentrate on what Nike excels in, to
enhance its market presence in Singapore, to search for endorsement contracts, and to
consider ways to capture the women's segment. Implementation for the above
recommendations would benefit from hiring a research company to conduct further
studies before any actions is to be carried out.
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