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Falun Gong
No full textFalun Gong, founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992, attracted international attention in 1999 after staging a demonstration outside government offices in Beijing. It was subsequently banned. Followers then created a number of media outlets outside China focused on protesting the PRC's attack on the 'human rights' of practitioners. This volume focuses on Falun Gong and violence. Though the author notes accusations of how Chinese authorities have abused and tortured practitioners, the volume will focus on Li Hongzhi's teachings about 'spiritual warfare', and how these teachings have motivated practitioners to deliberately seek brutalization and martyrdom.</jats:p
Trends. Immaterial Materialism: The Communist Party Confronts Falun Gong and Qi Gong in the People\u27s Republic of China
No full textThe author discusses the April 1999 demonstration by members of the Falun Gong sect outside the Zhongnanhai compound in Beijing
The Psychology of Qi Gong: A Qualitative Study
No full text This article presents an in-depth, qualitative study, analyzing responses to focus-group interviews regarding individuals’ self-reported experiences and attitudes during Qi Gong practice. Semistructured interviews were conducted with three Qi Gong groups in order to collect research data. These data were transcribed verbatim and subjected to content and thematic analysis across and within groups. The analysis indicates extraordinary experiences of Qi Gong practitioners on various levels of bio-psycho-spiritual/energetic functioning. The results indicate how Qi Gong influences the complexity and multidimensionality of individuals’ health. In the discussion, the author compares and contrasts his results with other recently performed research. </jats:p
Hellesth-gong Dizilerinin Korelasyonları Üzerine Sonuçlar
No full textSequences are important arguments that uses in coding area however, not all of the sequences, only the sequences which have low correlation distribution have many appliances. In some of these appliances more than one user can connect through the same connection channel. Helleseth and Gong found a sequence with the function which they found and they showed that the decimation numbers' correlation of these sequence have three distributions. Researches in the literature showed that these decimation numbers are found specially with the d (decimation) number. In this thesis, the author analyzed which of the Helleseth-Gong sequence have three valued distributions and proved that the distribution can be three valued distribution for the dierent d numbers. In addition, a new observation which has a hard proof was found and its correctness proved by written SAGE code. To prove of this observation, a dierent technique is needed.Diziler şifreleme alanında kullanılan önemli argümanlardır. İyi korelasyona sahip dizilerin günümüzde birçok uygulaması vardır. Bu uygulamaların bazılarında birden fazla kullanıcı tek bir iletişim kanalını kullanmaktadır. Helleseth ve Gong tarafından önerilen dizi ve bu dizinin kaydırılmasıyla elde edilen yeni dizinin korelasyonunun 3 değerli dağılıma sahip olduğu bilinmektedir. Literatürdeki çalışmalar bu kaydırmalı dizilerin özel olarak d (desimasyon) sayısı ile elde edildiğini göstermiştir. Bu tezde Helleseth-Gong dizisinin hangi d değerleri için 3 dağılıma sahip olduğu incelenmiş, farklı d sayıları için dağılımın 3 değerli olduğu gösterilmiştir. Bunlara ilaveten ispatlanması güç olan yeni bir gözlem ortaya konmuş ve SAGE kodu ile belirli boyutlar için doğrulanmştır. Bu yeni gözlemin ispatı için farklı bir teknik gerekmektedir
Fluid Flow in Fractured Reservoirs
No full textNaturally fractured reservoirs (NFRs) are important because they hold a significant quantity of oil reserves. Researchers build reservoir simulators to help them studying and predicting NFR performance. Some of them use the dual-porosity concept in their reservoir simulator, where the model consists of two continua: matrix and fracture. Fluid transport between matrix and fracture is defined by a parameter which is known as the shape factor. It describes the geometry of a characteristic matrix block surrounded by fractures. Commercial reservoir simulator accounts for only one average shape factor for each simulation grid block, which is calculated from fracture spacing. However, one grid block may contain a collection of matrix blocks and variable fracture spacing. Our study objective is to evaluate whether published methods to compute an average shape factor for a collection of matrix blocks give a good approximation to recovery from that collection of blocks; we use the solution to the heat-conduction equation to determine this. Our work is based on the knowledge that the heat-conduction equation is identical to the pressure-diffusion equation under certain assumptions. Recently, a simple method to calculate the dimensionless temperature in a collection of rectangular objects of different sizes has been created. We test the methods of calculating shape factors with collections of matrix blocks that represent, at least approximately, the distribution of matrix-block shapes that Gong and Rossen (2014) found in their study of discrete fracture networks (DFN). Our work starts by converting statistics for a DFN, as reported by Gong and Rossen, into an orthogonal fracture set. We generate five realizations to approximate the DFN and simulate remaining oil in place as a function of time for these realizations. We then compare the remaining oil we calculate to that estimated using three methods in the literature: the methods of Vermeulen, Warren and Root, and Lim & Aziz. We calculate shape factor based on average fracture spacing from each realization. From this study, we can conclude that Vermeulen method, coupled with equivalent fracture spacing, can approximate oil production in a region with variable fracture spacing with an acceptable accuracy. Specifically, it stays within a few percent of cumulative recovery until about 70% of oil is recovered.Civil Engineering and GeosciencesGeoscience & EngineeringPetroleum Engineerin
Gong Pengcheng’s critical study of the “lyric tradition” theory
No full text“Lyric tradition” was put forward by Chen Shixiang, a scholar in the United States, in a speech in the 1970s.It became a view of the characteristics of Chinese literature, and was developed and widely accepted in the later literary criticism,becoming one of the most productive views of foreign Sinology in the last century. But in recent years in the academic circle of its theory system,there are some dissenting voices on the system, among which the most critical criticism is written by Taiwan scholar Gong Pengcheng The Nonexistent Tradition —— On Chen Shixiang’s Lyrical Tradition. The author tries to criticize the lyric tradition from Gong Pengcheng,starting with the original document, to have an overview of Gong’s lyric tradition and explore why the “lyric tradition” is still quite influential despite of the fierce suspicion; Whether there is a stronger narrative tradition beyond lyricism
Regularity of a ∂ ̄ -Solution Operator for Strongly C -Linearly Convex Domains with Minimal Smoothness
No full textWe prove regularity of solutions of the ∂ ̄ -problem in the Hölder–Zygmund spaces of bounded, strongly C-linearly convex domains of class C1 , 1. The proofs rely on a new analytic characterization of said domains which is of independent interest, and on techniques that were recently developed by the first-named author to prove estimates for the ∂ ̄ -problem on strongly pseudoconvex domains of class C2
Flood prevention on the lower reaches of the Rellow River
No full textProceedings of a congerence in Zhenzhou, China, 1990: Gong Shiyan, Wu Zhiyao: Introduction. Bao Zicheng, Zhang Mingde, Wang Rudiu: Strenghtening of dykes by Warping. Cheng Zidao, Liu Yuli: To remedy hidden defects in dykes by probing with pointed steed rods and subsequent grouting. Hu Yisan: River training works on the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Shen Hongxin, Xu Fuling: Engineering structures for river correction on the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Bao Xicheng, Zho Guangming, Wang Hongxiang: Ice dam on the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Liu7 Ruyun, Tong Linlang: Organizing for flood protection on the lower reaches fo the Yellow river. A brief account of Dongpinghu detention reservoir
Telling stories about the authority of place : Ethnographizing Tudi Gong in contemporary Taiwan.
No full textThis thesis examines the cult of Tudi Gong, the 'spirit of the place,' both as a religio-social phenomenon of intrinsic interest, but also as an 'appropriate vehicle' and a 'fixed reference point' for exploring and analysing the dynamic social changes which have been occurring in contemporary Taiwan, and people's strategic adaptations to these changes. Despite the prevalence and popularity of the 'spirit of the place' among the people of Taiwan, there is a dearth of discursive attention to the figure of Tudi Gong in anthropological literature. In the six substantive chapters of the thesis, particular attention is given to the changing Taiwanese senses of place, community and identity, in addition, reflecting upon his ethnographic fieldwork, the author also engages in a theoretical discussion on ethnographic writing as well as on a number of key concepts related to the notions of place and space. In the first section of the thesis, the initial chapter presents the ethnographic data from Datong district in Taibei city with an emphasis on the various Tudi Gong temples and their connections with the local historical development of the places in which they are sited. The second chapter focuses on the small rural village of Yongxing in Nantou county. In particular, it dwells upon the place of Tudi Gong cults in the village and the villagers' senses of attachment to place/community. In the third chapter the author speculates on the extent to which the previous two chapters, although belonging to the same research topic, seem to show a substantial variation in the form of writing and in the way knowledge, understanding and senses of the places in question have been presented in an ethnographic account. The author notes that although anthropologists have discussed issues regarding the extent to which their writings may represent and shape places and cultures, the question of whether the places and cultures they study may shape and dictate the style and tenor of their ethnographic writing does not seem to have been coherently addressed in anthropological literature. The second section starts with a comprehensive as well as ethnographically detailed fourth chapter on the 'functions' and connotations of Tudi Gong in contemporary Taiwan. The following chapter draws on a wide variety of oral and textual materials as well as iconographies and representations of Tudi Gong in the various mass media (e.g. television, newspapers, etc.). By these means, the author hopes to give the reader a flavour of the ways the Taiwanese talk of, experience, represent and write about Tudi Gong in the practice of everyday life. It also seeks to make a contribution to the debate about representation in anthropology. Chapter six argues that the study of Tudi Gong in contemporary Taiwan is a relevant locus from which to understand and discuss local senses of place, community and identity as well as informing, from an unorthodox perspective, the analysis of Chinese religion in Taiwan's changing society. The conclusion combines the findings of both sections and challenges anthropology to reassess the position of an anthropology of place in the discipline
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Orthogonal tuning of gene expression noise using CRISPR–Cas
No full textThe first version of this article inadvertently neglected to include Ting Gong as third author. This has now been corrected online. The authors regret the error
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