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Chao Yuen Ren (1892–1982)
No full textY. R. Chao is easily the most famous linguist to have come out of China. Born before the end of the last dynasty in China, he received a traditional Confucian education, but was also one of the first Chinese people to be sent to the West for training in modern Western science (under the Boxer Indemnity Fund). The remarkable breadth and scope of his studies included physics, mathematics, linguistics, musical and literary composition, and translation, and he was a pioneer in many of these fields
Chao Phraya Monthly Streamflow Reconstruction
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Nguyen, H. T. T., Galelli, S., Xu, C., & Buckley, B. M. (2022). Droughts, Pluvials, and Wet Season Timing across the Chao Phraya River Basin: A 254-Year Monthly Reconstruction from Tree Rings and δ18O. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL10044
Vulnerability and Resilience of the Bang Luang Community to Flooding from the Chao Phraya River
No full textFlooding is a natural phenomenon and in the past Thai people have adapted to flood events. However over the years land degradation, deforestation and bad urban practices have exacerbated the impact of flood disasters. This study of flood management in Thailand shows how human activities and interventions have impacted on the river basin system. This research focuses on the vulnerability to flood hazard of the people living or working near the Chao Phraya River. The case study is of the community living or working in the proximity of Wat Bang Luang (Bang Luang Temple) of the Pathum Thani Province, Thailand.
This research explores the capacity of communities to live with or cope with floods. Their adaptations to changes in flood regimes will depend on several factors: political (especially when Thailand has a long history of preoccupation with engineering and technological solutions as the main approach to disaster response), economic, ecological (human modification to flood plains), social (kin-based networks) and cultural factors.
The data collected from the target community showed a power struggle between Thai culture and the dominant hazard management paradigm. This research put a human face on natural disaster and looked at the issue of flooding from the experiences of ordinary people. The findings showed that some members of the community are resilient while others are passive and are more vulnerable to floods. However, it is important not to label any individual or group as either vulnerable or resilient as people can be both at the same time and policy makers need to build on the strengths, rather than focus on the weaknesses and on offering emergency relief
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No full textABSTRACT. Research findings indicate that teachers' beliefs play an important role in their deciding how they will integrate technology into the classroom. The author used qualitative research methods to explore the relations between teachers' pedagogical beliefs and technology integration. Participants were 12 Taiwanese high school teachers, and findings indicated inconsistency between the teachers' expressed beliefs and their practices. The author categorized the reasons for the inconsistency into 3 interrelated aspects: (a) the influence of external factors, (b) teachers' limited or improper theoretical understanding, and (c) teachers' other conflicting beliefs. The author presents suggestions for school settings, professional development, and future research
Henry S. Gee oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Henry Gee came to American as a teenager and lived with his grandparents in Louisiana. He
later moved to Mississippi but could not attend school with the whites. Therefore, Henry came
to Houston, attended school in Houston with the whites. Meanwhile he worked in Harry Gee Sr.'s
restaurant and lived with Harry Gee Sr. After high school, he went into the US merchant marine, and then
the Navy. After his military service, Henry attended UT Austin on a GI bill. Upon graduation he was
hired by Texas Highway Department. He started the first Chinese school in Houston, called the Institute
of Chinese Culture, with a group of other people. He was president of the school
Elements for a political ecology of river basins development: The case of the Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand
No full textRiver basin developmentHistory
Trischidocera yunnanensis Chao & Zhou
No full text<i>Trischidocera yunnanensis</i> Chao & Zhou <p>(Figs 4–7)</p> <p> <i>yunnanensis</i> Chao & Zhou, 1987: 208. Holotype male (NZMC). Type locality: China, Yunnan, Weixi [as “Weisi”], 2500 m.</p> <p> <b>Remarks</b>. No material was available for study, but the holotype male deposited at the NZMC (Beijing) was kindly photographed by the curators Lili Zhang and Xiao-lin Chen. The morphological characters of <i>T. yunnanensis</i> discussed below were based on those photographs (Figs 4–7) and on the original description and illustrations by Chao & Zhou (1987).</p> <p> <b>Distribution</b> (Fig. 8). China (provinces of Sichuan, Shanxi, Tibet and Yunnan).</p>Published as part of <i>Nihei, Silvio S., 2015, The misplaced genus Trischidocera Villeneuve (Diptera, Tachinidae), pp. 279-286 in Zootaxa 3926 (2)</i> on page 282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.2.8, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/245949">http://zenodo.org/record/245949</a>
Numerical investigation of the equipment set-up in triaxial testing of soft soils
No full textElement testing of soft soils is challenging due to the large strains attained in the pre-failure range. Besides the heterogeneity of natural samples, the set-up configuration is the main driving factor for non-homogenous response. Stress, strain and pore pressure non-uniformities induced by the loading system affect the observed behaviour and complicate proper interpretation of the results. Among the difficulties encountered in the interpretation of laboratory data, the unexpected decrease of the stress ratio frequently observed on Dutch organic soft clays on the wet side of critical state is investigated by numerically back-analysing the triaxial test set-up. A 3D finite element simulation using an advanced constitutive model for soft clays developed at TU Delft was performed to clarify the nature of the response. The results indicate that a decrease in the deviatoric stress up to critical state may be interpreted as a true feature of the soil response. However, the response at large strains is very much influenced by the triaxial shear apparatus, in particular, by the rotation of the top cap which triggers geometrical instability. Practical recommendations are given to limit the effects of the set-up configuration on the determination of the undrained shear strength to be used for field applications.Geo-engineerin
Chao-Jaccard dataset
No full textMatrix of coexistences between target species (A. herba-alba, S. vermiculata and L. spartum) and the other species found in transects. Data is separate in different sheets for different study sites. Species code can be found in the first sheet
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