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DIETARY CONDITIONS AND DIFFERENTIAL ACCESS TO FOOD RESOURCES AMONG THE VARIOUS CLASSES DURING THE HAN PERIOD
No full textIn this thesis, I study how food resources and dietary conditions were determined by social and economic status during the Han period in China, B.C. 206~A.D.220. Even though earlier scholars have published research concerning the Chinese food culture of this period, these studies were limited in that they only illustrated the dietary culture of the upper class or the available food resources in one geographic area. Also, without any persuasive data, it has been assumed by these earlier scholars that there were big differences in food resources and food consumption between the upper and lower classes. In this thesis, for comparison among the classes, I divide the social and economic classes into five stratified groups: nobles, officials, peasants, soldiers and convicts. After a brief introduction of the nature of each social class, I examine the food resources and nutritional condition of each group using information such as the wealth and income of each group, the market price of food resources, the agricultural products of peasants, and the amount of food distribution to soldiers and convicts. I found these data from archaeological remains, received historical records and pictorial data, and excavated texts. This research shows a broader view of Chinese dietary condition focusing not only on the variety of food resources of nobles, but also on the different food accessibilities among the officials, and the food deficiencies of peasants. It also deals with the situations of food supply for soldiers and convicts in an effort to reveal the true dietary consumption and nutritional conditions for all Chinese. This research proves that the various classes during the Han period in China had different food resources and dietary conditions
Coauthor prediction for junior researchers
No full textResearch collaboration can bring in different perspectives and generate more productive results. However, finding an appropriate collaborator can be difficult due to the lacking of sufficient information. Link prediction is a related technique for collaborator discovery; but its focus has been mostly on the core authors who have relatively more publications. We argue that junior researchers actually need more help in finding collaborators. Thus, in this paper, we focus on coauthor prediction for junior researchers. Most of the previous works on coauthor prediction considered global network feature and local network feature separately, or tried to combine local network feature and content feature. But we found a significant improvement by simply combing local network feature and global network feature. We further developed a regularization based approach to incorporate multiple features simultaneously. Experimental results demonstrated that this approach outperformed the simple linear combination of multiple features. We further showed that content features, which were proved to be useful in link prediction, can be easily integrated into our regularization approach. © 2013 Springer-Verlag
Making the Majority: Defining Han Identity in Chinese Ethnology and Archaeology
No full textAccording to the People's Republic of China, fifty-six ethnic groups combine to form the Chinese nation although the Han, at over ninety percent of the population, constitute China's overwhelming majority. Their numbers now exceed one billion, the largest ethnic group on earth and twenty percent of the world's population. My dissertation project, entitled "Making the Majority: Defining Han Identity in Chinese Ethnology and Archaeology," challenges the putative authenticity of this official category by critically examining its creation and evolution in the modern period. In the early twentieth century anthropology became instrumental in defining the Chinese as a people and composing China's national narrative, or what Benedict Anderson calls the "biography of the nation." While archaeologists searched for Chinese racial and cultural origins in the Yellow River valley of the Central Plain, ethnologists studied non-Han minorities in the rugged and remote frontiers. These scholars linked contemporary minorities to ethnonyms from classical texts, thus imposing on them a legacy of barbarism while Han assumed the role of ethnic Chinese, heirs of historic Chinese civilization, and the heart of the modern Chinese nation. Over the course of the past century social changes and political expediency necessitated revisions of the Han narrative, and popular conceptions evolved accordingly. Today the various Chinese political communities of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and the PRC all perceive the Han differently, reflecting their divergent visions of the Chinese nation. On the whole, examining interpretations and representations of Han identity across heuristic and spatial boundaries shows that the concept of Han is in fact fluid, evolving, and ultimately political. This study concludes that Han, like "white" or Caucasian in the US, represents an imagined majority—a social construct that continues to inform the negotiation of Chinese identities
Dataset to support the article "High-resolution 𝜙-OFDR using phase unwrap and nonlinearity suppression"
No full textThis dataset is used for realizing high resolution of phase-sensitive Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometer. It is associated with the research paper:
Guo Z, Yan J, Han G, Yu Y, Greenwood D and Marco J (2023) "High-Resolution φ-OFDR Using Phase Unwrap and Nonlinearity Suppression". Journal of Lightwave Technology, 41 (9), 2885-2891. (https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2023.3236775).
The data is presented as an excel file:
High_resolution_OFDR_using_phase_unwrap_and_nonlinearity_suppression.xlsx
This work was funded by High Value Manufacturing Catapult and the Engineer and Physical Sciences Research Council - EPSRC EP/V000624/1. The author Gaoce Han would like to acknowledge the China Scholarship Council for sponsoring.</span
Indices of innovation: application of Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Index Analysis in the assessment of R&D efficiency in R&D-critical sectors
No full textMaintaining or increasing R&D efficiency and productivity is a constant challenge for R&D-driven businesses, and companies in these sectors often explore strategies seen be effective in related sectors, for example the adoption of ‘open’ innovation by the pharmaceutical sector, based on its observed success in the information technology sector as reported by Chesbrough. The papers in this thesis address two gaps in the research literature: (1) the relative lack of established quantitative measures of the performance of open or other innovation strategies, and (2) the continuing challenge of assessing the effectiveness or otherwise of the OI paradigm outside its original high-tech industry focus. The pharmaceutical industry has been claimed as one of the pioneering industries where the principle of OI has been applied. In view of the limitations of prior research on R&D efficiency and OI in this industry, the question of whether OI is the best or only prescription for innovation in the pharmaceutical industry remains a strategic one. The first paper in the sequence identifies and explores systematic measures of innovation by investigating the adaptation and application of DEA as a candidate technique for analysing the R&D efficiency performance, using data on China’s high-tech industry sectors. The second paper explores how such ‘indices of innovation’ could be used to measure performance in terms of changes in R&D efficiency over time, in a case study of Procter and Gamble, a company widely recognised as an early adopter of OI. The third paper builds on the first two, using DEA and MI as ‘indices of innovation’ to measure whether adopting OI is leading to increased R&D efficiency in the pharmaceutical sector. Taken together, these papers explore (a) the feasibility if DEA and MI as new quantitative econometric ‘indices of innovation’, (b) their correlation with a known case of open innovation, and (c) to test the hypothesis that open innovation is increasing R&D efficiency in the pharmaceutical industr
Empire, Ethics, and Tradition: An International Conference on the Han Dynasty [conference program]
No full textHan dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE) thought is a curiously understudied field. While scholars lavish attention on the Confucian Analects, the Daodejing, and other texts from the Warring States period (ca. 475 - 221 BCE), they largely neglect the thinkers and texts of the Han dynasty. Indeed, one position in the field is that the Han dynasty was the beginning of a "philosophical dark age" (Chad Hanse, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation, Oxfor UP, 1992). In contrast to this view, we see something new and exciting happening in the Han--a rethinking of tradition under the new empire, and a retooling of the methods involved in ethical and political arguments. We believe that a new and focused study of the Han dynasty will spark greater interest in Han thought and reshape the study of Chinese thought as a whole. This conference is one step in this direction. It brings together an international cohort of scholars, from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, to present their latest research on the Han dynasty
sj-docx-3-han-10.1177_15589447211063544 – Supplemental material for Gabapentinoid Prescribing for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-3-han-10.1177_15589447211063544 for Gabapentinoid Prescribing for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by Jessica I. Billig, Vidhya Gunaseelan, Maryam Yazdanfar, Erika D. Sears, Theodore J. Iwashyna, Tammy Chang and Jennifer F. Waljee in HAND</p
sj-jpg-1-han-10.1177_15589447211063544 – Supplemental material for Gabapentinoid Prescribing for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
No full textSupplemental material, sj-jpg-1-han-10.1177_15589447211063544 for Gabapentinoid Prescribing for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by Jessica I. Billig, Vidhya Gunaseelan, Maryam Yazdanfar, Erika D. Sears, Theodore J. Iwashyna, Tammy Chang and Jennifer F. Waljee in HAND</p
Vibration Characteristics of Pre and Post Buckled Laminated Composite Spherical Shells
No full textThis work was supported by Defense Acquisition Program Administration and Agency for the
Defense Development under the contract UD060009AD. The first author thanks the support of
the second stage of the Brain Korea 21 project in 2007
sj-docx-2-han-10.1177_15589447211063544 – Supplemental material for Gabapentinoid Prescribing for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-han-10.1177_15589447211063544 for Gabapentinoid Prescribing for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by Jessica I. Billig, Vidhya Gunaseelan, Maryam Yazdanfar, Erika D. Sears, Theodore J. Iwashyna, Tammy Chang and Jennifer F. Waljee in HAND</p
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