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Discovering Chinese economic history from footnotes : the living tale of a private merchant archive (1800-1850)
Get PDFThis article recounts our unique encounter –through the last seven years of our
research - with the Tong Taisheng (统泰升) merchant account books in the Ninjing county of
Northern China in 1800-1850. By tracing the personal history of the original owner or donor,
we address a large historiographical and epistemological issue behind the current Great
Divergence debate on why Industrial Revolution occurred in England but not in China. Our
article showcases how the development of political ideology and academic discipline in the
modern era impacts our understanding of historical statistics and realities of the early modern
era, a critical issue largely neglected in the current Great Divergence debate
Cannabidiol hydroxyquinone-induced apoptosis of splenocytes is mediated predominantly by thiol depletion.
No full textMultiple Source Cooperation: From Code Division Multiplexing To Variable-Rate Network Coding
No full textMultiple-source cooperation techniques, including conventional code-division multiplexing (CDM) and classic network coding (CNC), are investigated. We adopt a soft sum - product decoding algorithm for the CNC technique to efficiently process a large number of information streams and propose a flexible variable-rate network coding (VNC) technique, which is capable of attaining a near-optimum performance. Quantitatively, the proposed VNC method is capable of operating within 1 dB from the outage capacity of the quasi-static Rayleigh fading channel. The iterative decoding convergence of the multiple-source computation methods is analyzed with the aid of extrinsic information transfer charts
Tong Castle, Shropshire
No full text'TONG CASTLE, SHROPSHIRE. Drawn by J. P. Neale. Engraved by J. Henshall. London. Pub. Jan. 1. 1826, by J. P. Neale, 16, Bennett St. Blackfriars Road & Sherwood, Jones & Co. Paternoster Row. Printed by J & G. Bishop.' Accompanied by notes
John Tong
Get PDFabstract: John was ten years old when he left his home. He traveled to Ethiopia with his friends and elders without food or water.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 25Region: BarakazarThis picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Three design aspects of multicarrier interleave division multiple access
Get PDFThis paper presents a novel generalized transceiver architecture, i.e., Multicarrier Interleave-Division-Multiplexing-aided Interleave Division Multiple Access (MC-IDM-IDMA). A parallel interference cancellation (PIC)-aided iterative multiuser detection (MUD) algorithm is introduced, and the convergence behavior of the system is evaluated with the aid of EXtrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) charts under the assumption of an equal-power multiuser scenario. Three interesting design tradeoffs of the MC-IDM-IDMA system are analyzed: 1) the multiplexing versus diversity tradeoffs; 2) the coding versus spreading tradeoffs, where the achievable bandwidth efficiency of both MC-IDM and MC-IDMA are characterized, and a general design rule is provided for low-rate codes; and 3) the complexity versus performance tradeoffs and the EXIT characteristics of two different MUD algorithms are investigated, leading to a reduced-complexity hybrid MU
Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics/ Rong Chen.
No full textIn English.With the "discursive turn" has come a distrust - a complete rejection by some - of theories that seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, with its accompanying overemphasis on specificity and fluidity of linguistic meaning and social values, is unwarranted and unhelpful. Drawing on insights from social theories and various strands of pragmatics, he proposes a motivation model of pragmatics (MMP), contending that language use can be adequately, coherently, and elegantly studied via the motivation behind it in its varied and dynamic contexts. The model, with its well-laid out components, is then applied to (im)politeness research, cross-cultural pragmatics, diachronic pragmatics, discourse and genre analysis, conversation analysis, identity construction, and the study of metaphor, sarcasm, parody, and lying. MMP is thus a framework aimed at accounting for fluidity with stable notions, specificity with general principles, and differences with similar underlying factors. As such, the book should appeal to students of pragmatics, (im)politeness, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, communication, sociology, and psychology.Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Chapter 1 Pragmatics then and now -- Chapter 2 A motivation model of pragmatics (MMP) -- Chapter 3 MMP and (im)politeness -- Chapter 4 MMP and cross-/intercultural variation -- Chapter 5 MMP and diachronic pragmatics -- Chapter 6 MMP and discourse -- Chapter 7 MMP and metaphor -- Chapter 8 MMP and the non-literal -- Afterword -- References -- Appendix -- Subject index -- Author index1 online resource (XIII, 333 p.)
Azlan Salimin Terpilih Untuk Biasiswa Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong
Get PDFBANGI, 15 Jan – Pelajar tahun pertama, Fakulti Pertanian Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Azlan Salimin, 20, menerima biasiswa Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong baru-baru ini
Waste is "wicked" when we try to solve it. Author's response to Joshua Goldstein's comments
No full textThis is the author's response to Dr. Goldstein's response to our recent article The rise and fall of a Waste cityin the construction of an urban circular economic systenif The changing landscape of waste in Beijingin the February 2016 issue of this publication. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.SCI(E)REVIEW175-17611
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