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The politics of fashion: perceptions of power in female clothing and ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei
No full textThis thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty. Using aspects of a New Historicist approach, information from contemporary literary and historical sources are analysed alongside each other. With its emphasis on the lives of women and preoccupation with the description of material objects, the late Ming novel Jin Ping Mei forms an important element in the thesis. China in the sixteenth century saw expanding urbanisation, the emergence of a new wealthy merchant class, increasing visibility of women and a questioning of traditional morality. Fashion consciousness, as one of the most conspicuous aspects of the new material culture, is a possible indicator of these trends. Traditional Western theories contend that fashion began in the particular context of Renaissance Europe. However, this study argues that a similar fashion awareness existed in China too, and was manifested in a competitive striving for social status, in this case specifically among women. In contrast to previous studies which downplayed the impact women had on defining traditional Chinese culture, this thesis demonstrates how women and their sartorial choices began to redefine the boundaries of material culture, influencing literati discourse which, in turn, re- influenced female behaviour
New Roads for Patron-Driven E-books:Collection Development and Technical Services Implications of a Patron-Driven Acquisitions Pilot at Rutgers
No full textCollection development librarians have long struggled to meet user demands for new titles. Too often, required resources are not purchased, while some purchased resources do not circulate. E-books selected through patron-driven plans are a solution but present new challenges for both selectors and catalogers. Radical changes to traditional technical services workflows are required, and selectors must modify the selection process to give more choice to the user. Rutgers University librarians have adopted an innovative new technical services workflow and collection-development model to manage a successful, patron-driven acquisitions project for e-books in the fields of math and computer science.This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship on 13/12/2011, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1941126X.2011.627043
Yu zhu shang han lun yi: si juan. v.1
No full text柯韻伯著 ; 能靜居士評閱 ; 余景和重訂 ; 埽閒居士校刊.綫裝.框18.8x13.2公分, 10行25字. 下黑口, 左右雙邊, 單黑魚尾. 版心上鐫題名, 中鐫小題, 下鐫葉次及卷次. 眉端刻註解.書名頁刻"傷寒論翼, 余聽鴻先生註, 施覺盦題", 又有紅色戳記"蘇州綠蔭堂福記精造書籍章". 背頁牌記刻"蘇州綠蔭堂藏板, 上海文瑞樓發行"前有光緖十九年[1893]埽閒居士孫思恭序及光緖癸己余景和書序. 目錄末及卷四末刻有"蘇城郡廟東首謝文翰齋刊印"《中國中醫古籍總目》01082著錄光緖十九年[1893]會稽掃閑居士孫思恭刻本, 蘇州謝文翰齋刻本, 蘇州綠蔭堂刻本及上海文瑞樓石印本.鈐"莊兆祥印", "莊兆祥"Xian zhuang.Kuang 18.8 x 13.2 gong fen, 10 hang 25 zi. Xia hei kou, zuo you shuang bian, dan hei yu wei. Ban xin shang juan ti ming, zhong juan xiao ti, xia juan ye ci ji juan ci. Mei duan ke zhu jie.Detailed notes in vernacular field only.Detailed notes in vernacular field only.Detailed notes in vernacular field only.Ke Yunbo zhu ; Nengjing ju shi ping yue ; Yu Jinghe chong ding ; Saoxian ju shi jiao kan.Qian "Zhuang Zhaoxiang yin", "Zhuang Zhaoxiang
A study on the residual stress and crystal growth of thermal barrier coatings
No full text학위논문(석사) - 한국과학기술원 : 무기재료공학과, 1995.2, [ [ii], 61 p. ]한국과학기술원 : 무기재료공학과
스퍼터링법으로 증착한 박막의 잔류응력 생성 원인 및 결정 방향성과의 관계
No full text학위논문(박사) - 한국과학기술원 : 재료공학과, 1999.8, [ xii, [114] p. ] thin films were deposited by reactive sputtering of an Y target in Ar and gas mixture. Intrinsic stresses and the Ar content in the films were measured by the sines quare psi method of x-ray diffraction and wavelength dispersive spectrometer, respectively. At low working pressures the films had high compressive stresses. As working pressure increased, compressive stress was relaxed. Ar content was high in the film that had high compressive stress. After annealing of the films at 700℃, the compressive stress was largely relaxed but Ar content remained unchanged. These results clearly showed that compressive stress in films was not caused by Ar entrapment as an impurity but by Ar bombardment. Intrinsic stress was almost independent of the /Ar flow ratio, showing that O bombardment was equal to Ar bombardment in affecting the intrinsic stress in films. The independence of intrinsic stress of /Ar flow ratio was explained by the concept of M_i\frac^{1}{2} θ ±(M_t^2 - M_i^2 sin ^2 θ)^\frac{1}{2}]/(M_i + M_t) instead of the Mt/Mi ratio, where is the atomic mass of the target material, is the atomic mass of the sputtering gas, and θ is the scattering angle. Cu thin films were deposited by bias sputtering and the film density was measured by grazing incidence x-ray reflectivity. The influence of the experimentally measured film density on residual stress, which previously few studies reported about, was investigated. Without bias voltage, the relative film density was low and the tensile stress was high. With increasing bias voltage, tensile stress decreased and saturated to nearly zero at a bias voltage of -100 V while the film density increased and saturated to nearly bulk value at a bias voltage of -100 V. These results were consistent with those from previously reported molecular dynamic simulations. From the consideration of the Morse potential for relatively dense films, it was possible that tensile stress d...한국과학기술원 : 재료공학과
Feasibility and Effects of TAI CHI for the Promotion of Sleep Quality and Quality of Life: A Single-Group Study in a Sample of Older Chinese Individuals in Hong Kong
No full textPoor sleep in later life is a global issue that reduces many individuals' quality of life (QOL). The purpose of this pilot study was to test the feasibility and effects of a simplified tai chi exercise intervention on sleep quality and QOL among Chinese community-dwelling older adults with poor sleep quality. This single-group, descriptive feasibility study included 34 individuals with poor sleep quality who agreed to participate in a 12-week tai chi intervention. Twenty-six individuals completed the program (23.5% dropout rate). Older adults with poor sleep quality who completed the intervention showed significant improvement in the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 mental component and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index global and component scores. The low recruitment and attendance and high dropout rates might be associated with participants' age, gender, and sleep quality. Further long-term studies are required to examine the potential effects of the tai chi intervention
Study of S-wave Microseisms Generated by Storms in the Southeast Australia and North Atlantic
No full textThe beamforming and seismic data for the paper by Xiao et a
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