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Hedonic Prices and House Numbers: The Influence of Feng Shui
No full textIn contemporary practice, feng shui incorporates a wide range of concepts considered to affect a person’s luck. These include traditional ideas about site selection and building design, as well as newer beliefs about the “luckiness” of certain numbers. Focusing on an area with a relatively high percentage of Chinese households in Auckland, New Zealand, this paper uses hedonic price analysis to investigate whether house values are affected by lucky and unlucky numbers. Sales transactions for 1989 to 1996 are used in this analysis. The results demonstrate that lucky house numbers are capitalised into house values.Feng shui, hedonic price model, lucky, New Zealand
On an Open Problem by Feng Qi Regarding an Integral Inequality
No full textIn the article, a functional inequality in abstract spaces is established, which gives a new affirmative answer to an open problem posed by Feng Qi in Several integral inequalities which appeared in J. Inequal. Pure Appl.
Math. 1 (2000), no. 2, Art. 19. Moreover, some integral inequalities and a discrete inequality involving sums are deduced
Dataset for: Demonstration of >1Tbit/s WDM OWC with wavelength-transparent beam tracking-and-steering capability
No full textDatabase to support article: Y. Hong, F Feng, K, Bottrill, N Taingnoi, R Singh, G Faulkner, DC.O'Brien P. Petropolous. "Demonstration of >1Tbit/s WDM OWC with wavelength-transparent beam tracking-and-steering capability". Optics Express. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.436239
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YU-FENG GU, MORIGENGAOWA, RI-HONG JIANG, BAO-DONG LIU & YUE-HONG YAN (2021) Sphaeropteris guangxiensis Y. F. Gu & Y. H. Yan (Cyatheaceae), a new species of tree fern from Southern China. Phytotaxa 518 (1): 69-74.
No full textYu-Feng Gu, Morigengaowa, Ri-Hong Jiang, Bao-Dong Liu (2021): YU-FENG GU, MORIGENGAOWA, RI-HONG JIANG, BAO-DONG LIU & YUE-HONG YAN (2021) Sphaeropteris guangxiensis Y. F. Gu & Y. H. Yan (Cyatheaceae), a new species of tree fern from Southern China. Phytotaxa 518 (1): 69-74. Phytotaxa 520 (1): 116-116, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.520.1.10, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.520.1.1
Bifurcations of emergent bursting in a neuronal network
No full textComplex neuronal networks are an important tool to help explain paradoxical phenomena observed in biological recordings. Here we present a general approach to mathematically tackle a complex neuronal network so that we can fully understand the underlying mechanisms. Using a previously developed network model of the milk-ejection reflex in oxytocin cells, we show how we can reduce a complex model with many variables and complex network topologies to a tractable model with two variables, while retaining all key qualitative features of the original model. The approach enables us to uncover how emergent synchronous bursting can arise from a neuronal network which embodies known biological features. Surprisingly, the bursting mechanisms are similar to those found in other systems reported in the literature, and illustrate a generic way to exhibit emergent and multiple time scale oscillations at the membrane potential level and the firing rate level
Fiorinia dinghuensis Wei & Feng, sp. n.
No full textFiorinia dinghuensis Wei & Feng sp. n. (Figs 9–16) Material examined. Holotype: adult female, China: Guangdong Province, Dinghu Mountain, 4 -vi- 1963, Coc 63255, coll. Chou IO (NWAFU). Paratypes: data same as holotype, 4 adult females (NWAFU). Description, n= 5. Mounted adult female. Appearance in life not recorded. Body 754–1041 μm long (holotype 620 μm long); 481–592 μm wide (holotype 509 μm wide). Body outline oval to fusiform. Derm membranous except for pygidium. Cephalothorax. Antennae present close together on a sclerotized area on anterior margin of body; each with a long seta; without an interantennal process. Anterior spiracles each with 5 trilocular pores; pores absent from posterior spiracles. Pygidial lobes. With 2 pairs of lobes: L 1 deeply sunk into pygidium, strongly zygotic, each lobe rather pointed and with 4 notches on inner margin; L 2 bilobed, inner lobules larger than outer lobules, rounded on apex, with 1 notch on each margin; outer lobules rounded on apex, with 1 obvious notch on outer margin. Setae. With 1 pair of setae present between L 1; 1 pair between L 1 and L 2, and a pair on margins of abdominal segments IV, V and VI. Gland spines with 6 pairs of short spines, with 2 pairs present on abdominal III and 3 pairs on abdominal segments IV plus 1 pair between Gland tubercles: 28–32 pairs present marginally on cephalothorax plus abdominal segment I. Macroducts. Marginal macroducts 2 -barred, with 1 pair between L 1 and L 2, 1 pair on abdominal segment VI, 2 pairs on each of abdominal segments IV and V but none between L 1. Submargial and submedial macroducts absent. Ventral microducts few and scattered. Anal opening small, 12–14 μm in diameter, positioned 37–45 μm from anterior margin of pygidium and 108–114 μm from the base of L 1. Perivulvar pores in 5 groups, 3–5 in median group, 10–14 in each anterolateral group and 16–20 in each posterolateral group. Remarks. The new species can easily be distinguished from other Fiorinia species by the presence of a sclerotized area on the anterior margin of the head. Fiorinia dinghuensis is similar to F. fioriniae Targioni-Tozzetti, 1867, and F. proboscidaria Green, 1900, in having 2 pairs of pygidial lobes, but can be distinguished by (character states for F. fioriniae in brackets): 1) the presence of 28–32 gland tubercles on the margins of cephalothorax plus abdominal segment I (absent), and 2) absence of gland spines between L 1 and L 2 (present). F. dinghensis differs from F. proboscidaria by (character states for F. fioriniae in brackets): 1) absence of an inter-antennal process between antennae (with a prominent inter-antennal process), and 2) absence of gland spines on abdominal segments V, VI and VII (present). Host. Acronychia pedunculata (Linn.) (Rutaceae). Etymology. The specific epithet refers to Dinghu Mountain, Guangdong Province, China, the type locality. Distribution. China (Guangdong).Published as part of Wei, Jiufeng, Zhang, Bin & Feng, Jinian, 2013, Two new species of Fiorinia Targioni-Tozzetti (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae) from China, pp. 92-100 in Zootaxa 3641 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/22329
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Wavelength conversion in a short length of a solid lead-silicate fibre
No full textWe experimentally demonstrate a four-wave-mixing-based wavelength conversion scheme at 1.55 µm using a 1.1-m length of highly nonlinear, dispersion tailored W-type lead–silicate optical fibe
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