1,138 research outputs found
The role of solar energy and eco‐innovation in reducing environmental degradation in China: Evidence from QARDL approach
No full textIn the past decade, researchers have shifted their interests to explore different ways to mitigate environmental degradation. In that context, the present study explores the role of solar energy and eco-innovation in reducing environmental degradation in China. The study utilized data for the period 1990–2018 and applied the latest available econometric technique, a quantile autoregressive distributed lag model, to determine the impacts of solar energy and eco-innovation on improving China's environmental quality. According to the empirical results, in the long term, solar energy is negatively and significantly associated with CO2 emissions at higher quantiles. Eco-innovation has proven to be the most important channel to mitigate CO2 emissions in China. Eco-innovation is exerting a negative and significant influence on CO2 emissions at all quantiles in the long term. In addition, the population size is causing CO2 emissions to surge significantly at lower quantiles. The empirical analysis reveals that per capita income (PI) is positively associated with CO2 emissions at all quantiles, but it is significant only at higher quantiles in China. We found evidence of unidirectional causality for eco-innovation to CO2 emissions and solar energy to CO2 emissions. However, for population and CO2 emissions, per capita income, and CO2 emissions, we found bidirectional causality. As indicated by our empirical results, solar energy and eco-innovation are the two most effective channels to control CO2 emissions in China. Therefore, policies based on the promotion of eco-innovation and the initiation of new solar energy projects can control emissions and improve environmental quality in China
Axisymmetric polydimethysiloxane microchannels for in vitro hemodynamic studies
No full textThe current microdevices used for biomedical research are often manufactured using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. Although it is possible to fabricate precise and reproducible rectangular microchannels using soft lithography techniques, this kind of geometry may not reflect the actual physiology of the microcirculation. Here, we present a simple method to fabricate circular polydimethysiloxane (PDMS) microchannels aiming to mimic an in vivo microvascular environment and suitable for state-of-the-art microscale flow visualization techniques, such as confocal µPIV/PTV. By using a confocal µPTV system individual red blood cells (RBCs) were successfully tracked trough a 75 µm circular PDMS microchannel. The results show that RBC lateral dispersion increases with the volume fraction of RBCs in the solution, i.e. with the hematocrit
A Study of Yu-chien Jo-fen
No full textYü-chien 玉澗, who is as famous as Mu-chi has always been praised till our time as a painter of the “transcendental mode” of the end of the Sung Period and there are fine examples of his works, such as the fragments of the “Scroll of the Eight Views of Hsiao-hsiang” and the fragments of the “View of Lu-shan.” But we have four painters crowned with the name of Yü-chien through the Sung and Yüan Periods, and it is problematical which is the artist of the works we have. Among these four, Mêng Yü-chien i 孟玉澗, who was not a monk and who lived in the latter half of the Yüan Period, can not be and naturally has not been regarded as the artist of these works. As for Pin Yü-chien 彬玉澗, another of the four, we find a poem for his painting in an anthology of a Ch'an monk. But we have not enough material to connect this with the existing “ Yü-chien” works.
The other two are Ying Yü-chien 瑩玉澗 and Yü-chien Jo-fên 玉澗若芬. The author earlier presented a hypothetical idea that the “ Yü-chien” we have is Ying Yü-chien, a poet priest in the circle of the famous Ch'an priest Ch'ih-chüeh Tao-ch'ung 癡絶道冲. The reasons were that he was considered to have been one of the pastime painters of the Ch'an Sect, who have been thought to have encouraged ink painting at the end of the Sung Period and that all of the existing works haye Yü-chien's own poems.
However, after that, the author found several materials which convinced him that the Yü-chien we have is not Ying Yü-chien but chien Jo-fên, and here presents his new theory. It is as follows. In the anthologies of such literati as Wu Shih-tao 呉師道, Chin Lũ-hsiang 金履祥 and Wang Po 王柏, who are from Chin-hua 金華 as well as Yü-chien Jo-fên, and who were active at the end of Sung and the beginning of Yüan, he found the name of Fên Yü-chien; and there he also found the facts that he was good at simple transcendental ink painting and that he always wrote his own poem on his painting. Not only that, he made it clear that the biography of Yü-chien Jo-fên in Sung-chai-mén-pú 松斎梅譜, written by Wu Tai-su 呉太素, is a rather precise record of Jo-fên and Jo-fên's paintings as he saw and heard of them. From these facts, WEM, the author judges it more reasonable to consider this priest of the Tien-t'ai Sect from Chin-hua of Chê-ching Province as the artist of the extant works than to connect Ying Yü-chien, the poet priest, and these works. This new idea rises a new question for the student of Sung and Yüan ink painting, who generally have tended to em phasize the relationship between the Sung and Yüan ink paintings and the church of the Ch'an sect : on the one hand, it proposes a question about artists' personal taste which may, more than the religious attitude of the Chan sect, have promoted this artistic trend, and also a question about the possible relationship of this trend to the tradition of ink painting in Chê-chiang Pro vince and to the prevalance of the transcendental style in the Sung Period.journal articl
Un chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)
No full textReview of both ""Un Chien Andalou"" and ""L'Age D'or"" in response to their being a part of McNay Museum's, Get Reel series. Author also provides some background information about Luis Bunuel and his collaboration with Dali
Service-oriented models for audiovisual content storage
No full textWhat are the important topics to understand if involved with storage services to hold digital audiovisual content? This report takes a look at how content is created and moves into and out of storage; the storage service value networks and architectures found now and expected in the future; what sort of data transfer is expected to and from an audiovisual archive; what transfer protocols to use; and a summary of security and interface issues
Le chien de berger ; développement et signification géographique d'une technique pastorale
No full textSummary.
The author studies the geographical distribution of the « driving dog », able to round and gather the herds, by opposition to the « defending dog », whose sole function is to guard the flocks. The driving dog is a recent technique, typical of Western and Central Europe. It expanded from Iceland where it appeared before the thirteenth century. The author examines the geographical factors of the invention and the expansion of this technique : a) the extinction of the wolves, which allows the canine species to evaluate towards nimble and small forms, succeeding to the ancient motossus ; b) an agrarian landscape of open fields with a complicated pattern of narrow strips, claiming precise movements of the flocks.Résumé.
Etude de la répartition géographique du « chien de conduite », apte à rassembler et diriger les troupeaux, par opposition au « chien de défense », dont la seule fonction est de les garder. Le chien de conduite est une technique récente, caractéristique de l'Europe occidentale et centrale, diffusée à partir de l'Islande où elle est apparue avant le treizième siècle. On examine les facteurs géographiques de l'invention et de l'expansion de cette technique : a) disparition des loups et autres bêtes fauves, permettant l'évolution du chien vers des races de petite taille et agiles qui remplacent les molosses antiques ; b) paysage agraire de champs ouverts à parcellaire lanière complexe, exigeant un parcours précis des animaux.de Planhol Xavier. Le chien de berger ; développement et signification géographique d'une technique pastorale. In: Bulletin de l'Association de géographes français, N°370, 46e année, mars 1969. pp. 355-368
The role of corporate governance and environmental and social responsibilities on the achievement of sustainable development goals in Malaysian logistic companies
No full textGlobally, sustainable development goals (SDGs) have gained significant
importance due to the uncertain environmental and economic
condition that needs researchers’ attention. Therefore, the
present paper aims to scrutinize the effect of environmental and
social responsibilities and corporate governance on the achievement
of SDGs of logistic firms in Malaysia. The present research
also examines the mediating impact of innovative culture among
the linkage of environmental and social responsibilities, corporate
governance, and achievement of SDGs of logistic firms in
Malaysia. The current article has applied the questionnaire method
to gather the primary data from selected respondents. The present
research also applied the Smart-PLS to analyze the primary
data using measurement and structural model assessment. The
results indicated that environmental and social responsibilities
have a positive linkage with the achievement of SDGs of logistic
firms in Malaysia. The findings also exposed that innovative culture
significantly mediates the relationship between environmental
and social responsibilities and the achievement of SDGs of
logistic firms in Malaysia. The present article has provided the
guidelines to the policymakers while formulating the regulations
and policies related to the achievement of SDGs in the
organization
Application of auricular therapy for cancer-related pain in nursing care
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: Yeh CHAuthor name used in this publication: Chien LCAuthor name used in this publication: Suen LKP2013-2014 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalVersion of RecordPublishedC
Le «signe du pincement du doigt» en traumatologie coxo-fémorale du chien
No full textThe author describes a very practical technic for the clinic differential diagnosis of the traumatic diseases of the hip joint in dogs : hip luxation, fracture of the collum ossis femoris and fracture of the acetabulum.L'auteur décrit une technique très simple pour le diagnostic clinique différentiel des affections traumatiques de la hanche du chien : luxation de la hanche, fracture du col et fracture acétabulaire.Chary J. F. Le «signe du pincement du doigt» en traumatologie coxo-fémorale du chien. In: Bulletin de l'Académie Vétérinaire de France tome 134 n°2, 1981. pp. 213-217
Two theories on information asymmetry in finance
No full textThis dissertation includes two essays which investigate the effects of information asymmetry in liquidity risk pricing and in agency problems. The brief abstracts of these two essays are presented as follows. The first essay investigates how a risk averse liquidity provider sets optimal limit order book under information asymmetry. I extend the model proposed by Copeland and Galai (1983). First, in response to increasing trade size, a severe risk averse liquidity provider offers convex negatively-sloped bid curves and concave positively-sloped ask curves under information asymmetry. In addition, the simultaneous existence of the risk averse liquidity provider and market information asymmetry is the necessary condition that the liquidity provider offers negatively-sloped bid curves and positively-sloped ask curves. Both numerical analysis and empirical evidence on the limit order book of Taiwan Index Futures support the findings in this essay. In the second essay, I investigate the effects of information asymmetry under the two-tiered agency problem which is commonly observed in a typical organizational structure. I propose the two-tiered agency model and shows that imposing Joint Responsibility policy between Agent_1 (Chief Executive Officer) and Agent_2 (Chief Financial Officer) is NOT a good policy for Principal (Shareholders). Joint Responsibility is that Agent_1 is accused of not identifying in advance Agent_2 who takes on destructive risky projects. I design two cases (Case_1 excludes Joint Responsibility and Case_2 includes it) and prove that Principal’s payoffs in Case_1 weakly dominate that in Case_2. In addition, static comparative analysis shows that how the change of the losses from the bad state of the high risky project, or the parameter of Agent_1’s monitoring costs, alters Agent_1’s monitoring and Principal’s payoffs in equilibrium.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Te-Chien L
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