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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
A-Train observation of thermodynamic conditions above tropical cyclones
No full textThis dataset consists of A-Train observation of thermodynamic conditions above tropical cyclones. Satellite observations that pass over tropical cyclone events are identified in ‘A-Train_overpass_geolocation.nc’. Based on identified satellite overpasses, data samples from AIRS-L1B, DARDAR-Cloud, and MLS v4.2 products are collected. Above observed thick high-level clouds, a synergetic retrieval approach (joint AIRS-DARDAR retrieval, Feng et al. (2021 a, b)) is developed to obtain the thermodynamic profiles above the tropical cyclones.
1. A-Train_overpass_geolocation.nc: Geolocation of tropical cyclones over the Northern part of the West Pacific, derived from CloudSat 2D-TC product. It also includes the granule number of CloudSat and AIRS observations that pass over these tropical cyclones.
2. A-Train_overpass_cloud.nc: Ice water content and cloud categories, as defined in Feng and Huang. (2021), derived from DARDAR-Cloud and CloudSat 2D-CLDCLSS product.
3. A-Train_overpass_AIRS.nc: AIRS brightness temperature at an infrared window channel and a CO2 channel.
4. A-Train_overpass_MLS.nc: Temperature and water vapor from MLS v4.2 product. Only data not affected by high clouds are collected.
5. JointAIRSDARDAR.nc: Temperature, water vapor, and ice water content above tropical cyclone events.
References:
1. Feng, J., Huang, Y., and Qu, Z.: An observing system simulation experiment (OSSE)-based assessment of the retrieval of above-cloud
620 temperature and water vapor using infrared hyper-spectrometers, Manuscript submitted for publication, 2021 a.
2. Feng, J., and Huang.: Impacts of tropical cyclones on the thermodynamic conditions in the tropical tropopause layer observed by A-train satellites, Manuscript submitted for publication, 2021 b
Chinese language samples (6), letter by Chin Feng Lin
No full textA sample of Chinese language writing, possibly a memento from the possessions of Susan Tallmon Sargent; this was a letter written by Chin Feng Li
Auditory Enhancement EEG data
No full textNIH grant R01 DC012262Mehta, Anahita; Feng, Lei; Oxenham, Andrew J.. (2021). Auditory Enhancement EEG data. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.13020/dygy-qx38
A Conversation with Xianghong Feng, Author of Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land
No full textIn this installment of Lexington Books\u27 Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility and Society Author Conversations, series editor Michael A. Di Giovine talks to anthropologist Xianghong Feng, author of the book, Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land: Power and Inequality in Rural China. With rich ethnographic detail, Feng focuses on the intersection of tourism development, power and inequality in the southern interior of China. Capital-intensive, elite-driven tourism has reshaped the social and cultural patterns of the ethnic Miao. Although tourism is often touted as able to empower women, lower classes, and minorities, Feng shows that often it reinforces the very power structures that it attempts to equalize
Triphora magica Feng 1996
No full textTriphora magica Feng, 1996 Triphora magica Feng, 1996: 136, 160, pl. 26, fig. 7–10. Type locality. China, Ran Pin Jiao reef, Xian Ping Jiao reef or Nunchelen Jiao reef. Type material. Type material not located so far. Distribution. China (Feng 1996). Remarks. This taxon requires further study. Feng did not select a holotype or paratype and it is unclear if the figured specimens are the specimens used for the original description as they differ in size.Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 108, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/583653
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No full textThis is a curious book. The verso of the title-page says simply "Reprinted from the 1953 edition." From all I can learn, that is true, but that original was printed not by the University Press of the Pacific but by the Foreign Languages Press in Beijing. Indeed, it seems as though this book is a photocopy reprint of that original, and so even the page references in my comment on that book still apply here. These fables are often directly admonitory and/or of a highly political slant. Thus the author writes of skylarks "Poets like these are the true friends of the people" (6). The best of the fables, I believe, are "The Snake and the Rabbit" (42) and "The Original Rat" (61), which may also have the best illustration. Among the most overtly political are those on the imperialist weasel munching a duckling (27) and the imperialist snake against the collective bees (29). Other good fables include "The Hunter and His Wife" (12), "The Lion and the Setting Sun" (15), "The Lion and the Lamb" (34), "The Fox and the Rabbits' Farm" (39), "The Cow and Her Rope" (53), "The Curious Crow" (44), and "The Cow and Her Calf" (54). There is a T of C at the front after the highly political "Publisher's Note." 7½" x 9¼".Feng Hsueh-feng, translated by Gladys Yan
Scathophaga curtipilata Feng 2002
No full textScathophaga curtipilata Feng, 2002 Scathophaga curtipilata Feng, 2002: 365. HOLOTYPE: J, China, Sichuan, Mt. Emei, Taiziping, 2858 m a.s.l., 29°59′N 103°42′E, 21.vi.1984, Feng Yan leg. Distribution. China (FENG 2002: 365).Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 162, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.534249
many sorted algebraic data models for gis
No full textAlthough many GIS data models are available, a declarative,
operational, well-defined, implementation-independent, and objectoriented
language is lacking. Based on the theory of many sorted
algebra, this work presents a family of geometric data models. Some
geographical data models of urban information systems are illustrated
using homomorphism. According to the results, the preferred
characteristics of mixing declarative and operational statements,
multiple representations, tight interdependency among objects, and
integration of vector and raster based systems can be achieved through
this mechanism.
int. j. geographical information science. 1998. vol.12. no. 765-788. 1. many sorted algebraic data models for gis. feng-tyan lin. graduate institute of building & planning. national taiwan. university.. #1. sec
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