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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
Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts
No full textCitation: K-State First (2016). Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts [Flier]. Manhattan, Kansas: K-State First.Flyer advertising Joshua Davis's author talk at Kansas State University
Steven Johnson Author Talk Poster
No full textK-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Steven Johnson at Kansas State University on September 3, 2014. Steven Johnson's book "The Ghost Map" was the 2014-2015 common book
Fingerprint Synthesis
No full textBook cover
Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition pp 385–426Cite as
Fingerprint Synthesis
Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, Anil K. Jain & Jianjiang Feng
Chapter
First Online: 05 July 2022
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Abstract
Synthetic fingerprints, when properly generated, represent a reasonable substitute for real fingerprints for the design, training, and benchmarking of fingerprint recognition algorithms. This approach is particularly useful to deal with emerging privacy regulations (e.g., EU-GDPR) limiting the use of personally identifiable information. This chapter introduces fingerprint synthesis and focuses on the two main categories of generation approaches: (i) first generate a master fingerprint and then derive multiple impressions (e.g., SFinGe); (ii) generative models (e.g., GAN) for the direct synthesis of fingerprint images. Validation of synthetic generators through large scale experiments is finally presented
Purchasing Family Homes: Feng Shui versus Sustainability
No full textFeng Shui is an important element to be considered for purchasing real estate property for many Chinese families. The concepts of Feng Shui has been gradually adopted and accepted in the western world. It has been found that, in many perspectives, there are similarities between the concepts of traditional Chinese Feng Shui where harmony between environment, buildings and people are created; and western style of sustainability that focuses the harmonious relationship between human and nature. This paper reviews the Feng Shui elements considered by Chinese families and explores the main features considered by the Western families when purchasing a home. The results will be used as criteria for developing significant factors in future empirical study. Through case studies in Sydney, the findings will be compared and the elements that are similar or different will be discussed. The implications of the research will also be investigated
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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Kolla procerula Feng & Zhang, sp. nov.
No full textKolla procerula Feng & Zhang sp. nov. (Figs. 1 I–L, 4 A–H) Description. Crown with large median semicircular black spot touching basal margin, apical margin with pair of large black submedial maculae and small median black spot; face dark yellow with distinct clypeal muscle impressions; pronotum and scutellum black except small apical area of scutellum yellow; forewing black except for narrow transparent yellow stripe along costal margin. Male pygofer with a group of macrosetae located posterodorsally and evenly distributed microsetae on disk; ventral process with fine microsetae distributed evenly on basal half, distal half slender, twisted, extending slightly beyond pygofer apex; plates each with inner margin slightly concave near midlength, outer margin oblique, with uniseriate macrosetae and densely covered by long fine setae; aedeagus evenly curved dorsad in lateral view, shaft with lobes small and acute in lateral view, with short protuberance between them in caudoventral view. Measurement. Length of male 5.4–5.6 mm. Material examined. Holotype: ♂, China, Hebei Province, Weixian, 20 June 2009, coll. Qin Daozheng; Paratypes: 1 ♂, China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Liupanshan Mountain, 22 June 2008, coll. Meng Qiulei; 1 ♂, China, Gansu Province, Xinglong Mountain Nature Reserve, 27 July 2012, coll. Xue Qingquan. Remarks. This species is similar to K. atramentaria (Motschulsky, 1859), but can be easily distinguished from the latter by the different color pattern, less strongly produced head (Figs 1 I- 1 L), male plates densely covered by long fine setae (Figs 4 A, 4 B), and aedeagal shaft with lobes small and acute with a short protuberance between them (Fig. 4 G). Etymology. This new specific epithet is derived from the Latin word “procerulus”, referring to the short protuberance between two aedeagal shaft lobes.Published as part of Feng, Ling & Zhang, Yalin, 2015, Leafhopper genus Kolla Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) with descriptions of four new species from China, pp. 430-438 in Zootaxa 3999 (3) on pages 435-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3999.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/23624
Kolla prolongata Feng & Zhang, sp. nov.
No full textKolla prolongata Feng & Zhang sp. nov. (Figs. 1 E–H, 3 A–H) Description. Crown with diffuse black cruciform marking between ocelli, pair of transverse black submedial maculae and small median black spot on anterior margin; face yellow without obvious clypeal muscle impressions; posterior half of pronotum black with black rounded lobe extended into anterior half medially; scutellum orange with basal triangles and median posterior macula black; forewing black except narrow transparent yellow stripe along costal margin. Male pygofer with macrosetae posteriorly and evenly distributed microsetae; ventral process with fine setae at base, nearly straight and evenly tapered for most of length, abruptly curved dorsad before apex of pygofer; plates each with inner margin obviously concave near midlength, outer margin almost oblique, with several microsetae in base, with uniseriate macrosetae along the side of its outer margin; aedeagus bent dorsad in lateral view, shaft with lobes relatively narrow, widely divergent, without dorsal projection; base of aedeagal shaft elongated in lateral view, without protuberance between two lobes in caudoventral view. Measurement. Length of male 6.1–6.2 mm. Material examined Holotype: ♂, China, Zhejiang Province, Qingliangfeng Nature Reserve, 11 August 2011, coll. Wang Yang; Paratypes: 1 ♂, China, Hainan Province, Jianfengling, 20 July 2009, coll. Gao Xia; 1 ♂, China, Guangxi Province, Guilin, 28 August 1974, coll. Chou Io; 1 ♂, China, Zhejiang Province, Qingliangfeng Nature Reserve, 6 August 2008, coll. Gao Xia. Remarks. The new species is very similar to K. paulula (Walker, 1858), but can be easily distinguished from the latter by the following differences: crown with diffuse black cruciform marking between ocelli (Fig. 1), scutellum with basal triangles and median posterior macula black (Figs 1 E, 1 G), plates each with inner margin obviously concave near midlength (Fig 3 B), base of aedeagal shaft elongated (Fig. 3 H). It is also similar to K. rhabdoma Yang & Li, 2000 but differs from the latter by the markings on the crown and thorax in dorsal view and on the face; and the shape of its aedeagus and subgenital plate. Etymology. This new specific epithet is derived from Latin word “prolongatus”, referring to the base of the aedeagal shaft being elongated.Published as part of Feng, Ling & Zhang, Yalin, 2015, Leafhopper genus Kolla Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) with descriptions of four new species from China, pp. 430-438 in Zootaxa 3999 (3) on pages 433-434, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3999.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/23624
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Relative (pa,pb,pa,pa−b)-difference sets in p-subgroups of SL(n,K)
No full textAbstractIn this note, we study relative (pa,pb,pa,pa−b)-relative difference sets in certain p-subgroups of SL(n,K), K=Fq, where q is a prime power
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