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Complete solo piano works of Zhou Long
No full textAccess to thesis restricted until 07/2023.Zhou Long is a contemporary composer of Chinese American descent, who
belongs to a generation of Chinese composers that began introducing traditional
Chinese music to western audiences. He gained international recognition after
receiving the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his opera, Madame White Snake (2011). Very
few performances, recordings, and publications currently exist on Zhou’s piano
music, and this doctoral lecture recital is the first time an artist has performed the
complete collection of Zhou’s solo piano pieces. The pieces include: Mongolian Folk-
Tune Variations, Wu Kui, Pianogongs, and Pianobells. In his piano music, Zhou
makes use of unconventional extended piano techniques, imitates and evokes Chinese
traditional instruments, and likes to make connections with other art genres. Also, the
prominence of percussive elements in Zhou’s music is of a great importance. In this
lecture recital, the author has mainly focused on 1) the background information of
Zhou Long and his solo piano works; 2) the influence of Chinese traditional
instruments, ancient literatures and aesthetic concepts, in addition to folk elements on
his piano music; 3) how the composer combined those elements with western music
and compositional skills; and 4) the exploration of the percussive usage of the piano
along with various sound effect. Much of the discussion were from the author’s own
observations; it also include insights from an interview the author conducted with the
composer. Through the combined presentation of the lecture and performance of Zhou
Long’s four piano pieces, the author intended to help bring exposure to his piano
works, and to serve as a guide for piano students and teachers interested in exploring
Zhou’s piano music.Thesis (D.A.
Stenus (Hypostenus) yiae , Zhao & Zhou 2020, sp. nov.
No full text2. Stenus (Hypostenus) yiae Zhao & Zhou, sp. nov. Type Material. Holotype: male, CHINA, Beijing, Chaoyang, Datunxiang (116°24′E, 39°59′N), 21.V. 1996, Hong-zhang Zhou collected [Deposited in Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZ-CAS)]; Paratypes: 1 female, same data as holotype; 1 male, 1 female, CHINA, Beijing (116°28′E, 40°13′N), 1942; 1 male, 2 females, CHINA, Fujian, Shaxian (117°46′E, 26°25′N), 15.VII.1977, Xiao-nan Luo collected; 2 males, 3 females, CHINA, Shanghai (121°29′E, 31°13′N), A. SAVIO collected; 14 ex., CHINA, Shanghai (121°29′E, 31°13′N), O. PIEL collected. [Deposited in Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZ-CAS)] Diagnosis. This new species belongs to the cicindeloides group. It can be easily distinguished from S. (H.) verticalis Benick and S. (H.) primivenatus Zhao & Zhou sp. nov. by the absence of spots on elytra. It is similar to S. (H.) cicindeloides (Schaller), but differs from the latter by having a broad apical part of median lobe and a different spermatheca structure. Detailed description and illustrations of the species are provided by Zhao & Zhou (2008).Published as part of Zhao, Cai-Yun & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2020, Validation of Stenus (Hypostenus) primivenatus and Stenus (Hypostenus) yiae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Steninae), pp. 591-592 in Zootaxa 4881 (3) on page 591, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.3.11, http://zenodo.org/record/428387
More than skin deep: Gene regulation orchestrated by the transcription factor p63 in development and disease
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155618.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 23 maart 2016Promotor : Bokhoven, J.H.L.M. van Co-promotor : Zhou, H.270 p
The Princess in the Castle: Challenging Serious Game Play for Integrated Policy Analysis and Planning
No full textWhat are the principles that make societal problems socio-technically complex? And, even more important, how can we support public policymaking in the wake of socio-technical complexity? In The Princess in the Castle, the author investigates if, why and how serious games and game-like simulations (SGs) can support integrated policy making and planning, especially in relation to managing rivers and oceans. She argues that ‘playful methods’ are particularly suited to surround sophisticated analysis with extensive participation. The book contains many examples and illustrations but centres on: the Climate Game, used in a neighbourhood reconstruction project incorporating climate adaptation measures; The Blokkendoos Planning Kit, used in the Netherlands’ planning project Room for the River for integrated flood management; the MSP Challenge, used to further the development of integrated, eco-system based marine spatial planning. The book provides a de- and re-construction of the ‘principles of play’ that underlying integrated policy analysis. The perceived usefulness of game-like tools in the Dutch and Chinese policy contexts is empirically studied. The author concludes that serious games for policy-making and planning are powerful methods with largely untapped potential. Yet, without room to play they can be easily turn into ineffective and expensive toys. Qiqi Zhou is a researcher at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She is involved in several research projects with Dutch and Chinese universities.Policy, Organization, Law and Gaming (POLG)Technology, Policy and Managemen
Medhiama liupanshanensis Zhou & Zhou, sp. n.
No full text2. <i>Medhiama liupanshanensis</i> Zhou & Zhou, sp. n. <p>(Fig. 4 A–H)</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> Holotype: male, <b>CHINA</b>: <b>Ningxia</b>: <b>JingYuan co.:</b> Liupan Shan: Shanpo Linchang, 2200 m, 06.VII.2008, Zhou Haisheng & Zhao Zongyi collected (IZ-CAS); Paratypes: 1 female, same data as holotype; Xixia Linchang, 1 male, 2100 m, 26.VI.2008, Zhou Haisheng & Zhao Zongyi collected; Erlonghe Linchang, 1 female, 2050 m, 22.VI.2008, Zhou Haisheng & Zhao Zongyi collected (IZ-CAS).</p> <p> <b>Description. Measurement.</b> BL= 5.89 mm, FL= 3.23 mm, HL = 1.08 mm, HW= 0.80 mm, PL= 1.10 mm, PW= 0.70 mm, EL= 0.95 mm, EW= 0.95 mm.</p> <p>Body nearly cylindrical and medium sized. Entirely brown, except legs, apical 1/2 of last antennomere, last segment of maxillary and labial palpi lighter in color.</p> <p> <b>Head</b>. Oblong (HL to HW ratio 1.36), tempora substraight, not widened, posterior angles rounded. Dorsal integument entirely bearing microsculpture composed of shallow polygonal reticulum, and extensively distributed relatively small punctures, puncture intervals not wide, being equal about puncture diameter. Median longitudinal region impunctate, width equals to 4–5 puncture diameters; frontal region with shallow microstriae, and 3 pairs of tiny punctures. Each side of cranium without anterolateral puncture, with midlateral puncture far from dorsal margin of eye (5–6 puncture diameters to eye), temporal puncture rather near lateral margin (at lateral 1/6) and occipital puncture rather near posterior margin (at posterior 1/6). Frontal furrows deep and long, convergent backwards; anteocular furrows indistinct, scarcely observable. Eye quite small and rather flat, diameter not over 1/5 of temporal length (eye: tempora = 0.13: 0.82 mm). Epistoma relatively wide, subrectangular and flat, with a pair of tiny punctures. Distance between antennal insertions 0.24 mm, longer than distance from antenna to eye (0.19 mm).</p> <p> <b>Antennae</b>. Scape stout, thickened apically, much longer than three subsequent antennomeres combined, 0.44 mm; antennomere II elongate, 0.11 mm; III elongate, slightly shorter than II, 0.10 mm; IV and V subequal in length, 0.080 mm; last antennomere of medium length, 0.19 mm, subequal to two preceding antennomeres combined.</p> <p> <b>Mouthparts</b>. Labrum bilobed, with a median longitudinal groove. Maxillary palpus elongate, segment III longest, last segment slender and obconical and shorter than the penultimate. Labial palpus distinctly slender, last segment longest.</p> <p> <b>Neck</b>. Medium width (0.29 mm), nearly 1/3 of head width, with a transverse substraight ridge on anterior 1/3.</p> <p> <b>Pronotum</b>. Relatively shorter (PL to PW ratio 1.57), of same length as head, but narrower. Widest at anterior 1/3, narrowest at posterior 1/3. Anterior angles widely rounded and slightly protruding, lateral margins sinuate from middle, posterior angles rounded. Integument bearing shallow microstriae, and a pair of admedian row of 12–14 punctures, smaller than those on head. Areas outside admedian rows with additional, irregular, sparsely set punctures.</p> <p> <b>Mesoscutellum.</b> Shiny, extensively bearing polygonal reticulum and with a pair of small punctures on apical 1/4.</p> <p> <b>Elytra</b>. Subquadrate (EL to EW ratio 1.0), shorter but distinctly wider than pronotum. Humeri well developed, lateral margins widened posteriorly, hind margin rounded. Integument slightly wrinkled, without microsculpture; each side symmetrically with regular rows of punctures, interspaces between rows 1–2 puncture diameters; deflexed portion of each elytron with 3–4 rows of punctures.</p> <p> <b>Legs</b>. First four segments of protarsi stout, not dilated, those of mesotarsi relatively slender; each last segment as long as the II–IV combined. Protibia with apical ctenidium and subapical ctenidia, meso- and metatibia only with apical ctenidium.</p> <p> <b>Abdomen.</b> Cylindrical, broadest at segment VII. Tergites III–VII shiny, surface entirely covered with a distinct mixture of extensive microstriae and polygonal reticulum; punctures small, sparsely scattered, interspace between them 3–4 puncture diameters, but much denser on tergite VI and VII. Each tergite with median longitudinal impunctate region, width about 3–4 puncture diameters, without distinct basal impression near anterior margin. Surface between two basal transverse carinae of tergites III–VII bearing distinct polygonal reticulum. All abdominal sternites shiny, with microstriae and setiferous punctures as those on tergites.</p> <p> <b>Male</b> (Fig. 4 A–F). Abdominal segment VIII entirely covered with setiferous punctures, posterior margins of tergite VIII and sternite VIII both slightly emarginated (Fig.4 A, B). Tergite IX symmetrical, connected mediobasally. Sternite IX, with long linear-shaped base and rounded in right margin (Fig.4 D). Tergite X symmetrical and broadest at anterior 1/4, anterior 1/4 sharply narrowed and with obtusely rounded apex (Fig.4 C). Aedeagus elliptical and large (Fig. 4 E, F), basal bulb 1.16 mm long. Parameres symmetrical and simple, 0.34 mm and slightly shorter than 1/3 of basal bulb length. Internal sac broadly bag-like, gradually widened and with cellshaped structure in median portion (Fig. 4 E).</p> <p> <b>Female</b> (Fig. 4 G, H). Sternite VIII not distinctly oblong, and posterior margin sharply protruding posteriorly (Fig. 4 G). Genital segment with a large pair of subtriangular supplementary sclerites, and a broad sternite with not distinctly protruding anterior margin (Fig. 4 H).</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> China (Ningxia).</p> <p> <b>Etymology</b>. The specific epithet is the Latinized adjective derived from the Chinese name (Pin-yin) of the type locality: Liupan Shan.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> This new species can be easily distinguished from its congeners by the following character combination: sparsely punctate head, emarginated posterior margin of male sternite VIII, special form of sternite IX, tergite X, unique shape of inner sac and a broad sternite with slightly protruding anterior margin in female genital segment.</p>Published as part of <i>Zhou, Yu-Lingzi & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2012, Taxonomy of the genus Medhiama Bordoni, 2002 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Staphylininae, Xantholinini) with descriptions of three new species, pp. 169-191 in Zootaxa 3478</i> on pages 175-178, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/282239">10.5281/zenodo.282239</a>
Stenus (Hypostenus) primivenatus Zhao & Zhou 2020, sp. nov.
No full text<i>1.</i> <i>Stenus (Hypostenus) primivenatus</i> Zhao & Zhou, sp. nov. <p> <b>Type Material.</b> <b>Holotype:</b> male, CHINA, Hainan, Jianfengling (180°52′E, 18°48′N), 20.VII. 2004, 650 m, Jie Wu and Yong-jie Chen collected. [Deposited in Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZ-CAS)]</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> This new species belongs to the <i>cicindeloides</i> group. It can be easily distinguished from <i>S. (H.) cicindeloides</i> (Schaller) and <i>S. (H.) yiae</i> Zhao & Zhou <b>sp. nov.</b> by spots on elytra. It is similar to <i>S. (H.) verticalis</i> Benick, but can be distinguished from the narrow apical part of median lobe and small body. Although the median hooks of <i>S. (H.) primivenatus</i> Zhao & Zhou <b>sp. nov.</b> is not distinct sclerotized like other species of the <i>cicindeloides</i> group, the median hooks are still connected by slightly sclerotized part. Maybe this new species is primitive in this species group. Detailed description and illustrations of the species are provided by Zhao & Zhou (2008).</p>Published as part of <i>Zhao, Cai-Yun & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2020, Validation of Stenus (Hypostenus) primivenatus and Stenus (Hypostenus) yiae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Steninae), pp. 591-592 in Zootaxa 4881 (3)</i> on page 591, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.3.11, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4283876">http://zenodo.org/record/4283876</a>
Towards deeper molecular insight into familial exudative vitreoretinopathy: Zinc-ing deep into the vessels
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204520.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Radboud University, 04 juli 2019Promotores : Collin, R.W.J., Cremers, F.P.M. Co-promotor : Zhou, H
Application of particle swarm optimization in adaptive self-interference cancellation
No full textThis thesis investigates the application of particle swarm optimization in self-interference cancellation. To achieve cancellation, the receiver has to differentiate between the transmit and receive signal. The transmit signal is already known at the transmitting side but it undergoes some distortion before it reaches the receiving end. An adaptive filter proves to be useful in estimating the distortion, but its weight remains an unknown factor. This thesis uses the particle swarm optimization algorithm to dynamically adjust the weights of the filter.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-08-01The student, Jingchao Zhou, accepted the attached license on 2020-07-07 at 14:08.The student, Jingchao Zhou, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-07-07 at 14:14.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-07-07 at 17:20.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15513 on 2020-10-02 at 15:31:36Made available in DSpace on 2020-10-07T22:44:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Gene regulation in epithelial stem cells of the cornea and epidermis
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318632.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Radboud University, 27 mei 2025Promotor : Veenstra, G.J.C. Co-promotores : Heeringen, S.J. van, Zhou, H.243 p
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