3,267 research outputs found

    Using system dynamics in business simulation training games

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    Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-58).by Jennifer Ching-Wen Han.M.Eng

    The nomenclature of the lycophyte species Phlegmariurus mingcheensis Ching (Huperziaceae)

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    In 1982, Ren Chang Ching twice described the same lycophyte species under the names Lycopodium mingcheense (published in April; the original "minchegense" spelling being a correctable error) and Phlegmariurus mingcheensis Ching (published in May). Phlegmariurus mingcheensis cannot be taken as a combination based on Lycopodium mingcheense because in the original publication a different holotype was indicated and the name Lycopodium mingcheense was not mentioned. The correct names for this species in Huperzia, Lycopodium, and Phlegmariurus are Huperzia mingcheensis (Ching) Holub (basionym: Phlegmariurus mingcheensis), Lycopodium mingcheense Ching, and Phlegmariurus mingcheensis Ching, respectively. The recent lectotypification of the name Lycopodium mingcheense using P.S. Chiu 2069 (PE) was redundant since this specimen was clearly indicated as the holotype in Ching's original publication. The recent new name Phlegmariurus mingjoui X.C. Zhang is an illegitimate superfluous name

    Mapping the Discipline of the Olympic Games An Author-Cocitation Analysis

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    The authors conducted an author cocitation analysis on prominent authors writing about the Olympics during the 1990s. Author cocitation is an established bibliometric technique that can be used to measure the relative similarities of topics written about by the cited authors. This enables a visual representation of the “intellectual space” of the discipline, in this case the Olympics, to be created for the period under review. So core and peripheral research areas are identified, along with their major contributors. The representation appears as a two-dimensional cluster-enhanced map. Subject expertise was then applied to the results to place labels on the generated clusters of authors and their topics

    Distributed human computation framework for linked data co-reference resolution

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    Distributed Human Computation (DHC) is a technique used to solve computational problems by incorporating the collaborative effort of a large number of humans. It is also a solution to AI-complete problems such as natural language processing. The Semantic Web with its root in AI is envisioned to be a decentralised world-wide information space for sharing machine-readable data with minimal integration costs. There are many research problems in the Semantic Web that are considered as AI-complete problems. An example is co-reference resolution, which involves determining whether different URIs refer to the same entity. This is considered to be a significant hurdle to overcome in the realisation of large-scale Semantic Web applications. In this paper, we propose a framework for building a DHC system on top of the Linked Data Cloud to solve various computational problems. To demonstrate the concept, we are focusing on handling the co-reference resolution in the Semantic Web when integrating distributed datasets. The traditional way to solve this problem is to design machine-learning algorithms. However, they are often computationally expensive, error-prone and do not scale. We designed a DHC system named iamResearcher, which solves the scientific publication author identity co-reference problem when integrating distributed bibliographic datasets. In our system, we aggregated 6 million bibliographic data from various publication repositories. Users can sign up to the system to audit and align their own publications, thus solving the co-reference problem in a distributed manner. The aggregated results are published to the Linked Data Cloud

    The <i>I Ching</i> as a Potential Jungian Application: History and Practice

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    AbstractSwiss psychiatrist Carl Jung had a lifelong interest in the I Ching after discovering it in 1919. Jung’s interest in the I Ching is arguably more practical than purely theoretical or intellectual, and references to I Ching divination appear frequently in his various publications, seminars, letters and clinical practice records. After a few observations on the history of the study of the I Ching in China, the author categorizes Jung’s three uses of the I Ching as physical use (to preview future potentials of outer reality), psychological use (to reveal one’s psychological state), and psychical approach (to engage with the divine through “神”[“shen”, spiritual agencies]). Finally, the author discusses the current Jungian engagement by demonstrating clinical cases in contemporary times. Some Jungian analysts practise I Ching divination to obtain insights into the physical and psychological state of therapeutic relationships and for personal development. This paper is a historical and critical engagement of the Jungian practice of I Ching divination.</jats:p

    The Image of the Change: From the I Ching to the Evolution of Chaos

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    This article is dedicated to artistic explorations of change, with the I Ching (The Book of Changes) as a stepping stone. The author uses modern mathematics to identify the basic types of change in the I Ching codes and to build a bottom-up I Ching systemization with an associated aesthetic principle. Moreover, the author introduces other (chaotic) types of change to sparsely fill the gap between the basic I Ching orders and the ultimate Change, allowing artistic speculation reflecting the evolution of many types of change by means of digital simulations, 3D volumetric display, etc

    [[alternative]]A STUDY ON ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IN CHING TAIWAN (1684-1895)

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    [[abstract]]The main purposes of the study are: 1. To understand the origin of the institutions of the elementary education in Ching Taiwan. 2. To inquire the development and changes of the institutions of elementary education in Ching Taiwan. 3. To discuss the contributions of the elementary education to the transmission of Taiwanese culture and education. Historical method was undertaken. First-hand and second-hand ones sources were used, such as official documents, private materials, and publications. The main findings of this study are as follows: 1. Community schools (She-sheh), charity schools (I-sheh), and private schools were the three major patterns of the institutions of the elementary education in Ching Taiwan 2. She-sheh emerged from the Yuan dynasty, I-sheh from the Song dynasty, and private school from the Han dynasty. She-sheh and I-sheh were established and sponsored by the public, but private schools did not so. 3. In Ching Taiwan, the total numbers of She-sheh were about 273, I-sheh about 83, and private schools about 1127. She-sheh played the major role before Emperor Chang-Long, but private schools took its place after Emperor Chia-Ching. As to I-sheh had much less influence than the others. 4.Compared to the formal schools, county schools and academies, private schools played a significant role in the educational development in Ching Taiwan, which importance should not be ignored any more.

    sj-docx-1-his-10.1177_11786329231187891 – Supplemental material for Incorporating Safety and Quality Measures Into Australia’s Activity-Based Funding of Public Hospital Services

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    Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-his-10.1177_11786329231187891 for Incorporating Safety and Quality Measures Into Australia’s Activity-Based Funding of Public Hospital Services by Samuel B. G. Webster, Sarah E. Neville, Jennifer Nobbs, Jada Ching and Kees van Gool in Health Services Insights</p

    In conversation with... Francis D.K. Ching

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    [EN] Interview with Francis DK Ching. Frank Ching is a renowned author of over a dozen books addressing architectural forms and their analysis through drawing.He is a widely recognized author of books addressing architectural and design graphicsHe has taught at several universities in the United States as well as in Japan and Hong Kong. He is currently holds the Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington.He has received awards from prestigious organizations such as the American Institute of Architects and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.More recently, in 2013, he received the gold medal of the UID, in Matera , where we had the pleasure of meeting Frank Ching in person and invited him to this interview, which has now been published.At Matera, surrounded by his students, the professor drew the Sassi, illustrating in front of our eyes, what he has been doing for decades: using Drawing as a cognitive and creative tool. His way to approach arquitectural drawing has been a benchmark for many generations of graphic arts teachers. Currently he is still regularly sharing new drawings on his personal web page from which we can continually learn and enjoy.[ES] Entrevista con Francis D. K. Ching. Frank Ching es un reconocido autor de más de una docena de libros relativos a la enseñanza de la arquitectura y su análisis a través del dibujo. Fue docente en diversas Universidades en Estados Unidos desde 1972, así como en Japón (1990) y Hong Kong (1993). Actualmente posee el título de Profesor Emérito en la Universidad de Washington.Fue galardonado con premios de prestigiosas entidades como el American Institute of Architects o los Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. Más recientemente, en el 2013, recibió la medalla de oro del UID, en Matera, donde tuvimos el placer de conocerlo personalmente e invitarlo a esta entrevista ahora publicada.En Matera, rodeado de sus estudiantes, el Profesor, dibujaba los sassi, concretando delante de nuestros ojos, lo que desde décadas lleva haciendo: la divulgación del dibujo como herramienta cognitiva y creativa. Sus conceptos para abordar el dibujo arquitectónico, han sido una referencia para distintas generaciones de docentes del dibujo de arquitectura y actualmente sigue compartiendo regularmente en su página web personal, nuevos dibujos que nosotros continuamos asimilando y disfrutandoBarros Costa, H.; Hidalgo Delgado, F. (2015). Conversando con... Frank D.K. Ching. EGA. Revista de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica. 20(25):20-31. https://doi.org/10.4995/ega.2015.3708SWORD2031202

    On the Rhyme 歌 in the Yün Ching (韻鏡)

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    Many reexaminations of the phonemic system of the Ch’ieh Yün have been made after the presentation of Karlgren’s brilliant task. Concerning the rhyme 歌, however, it is almost established that the vowel was /ɑ/, opposing to the front vowel /ɑ/ of the rhyme 麻 etc., in Ancient Chinese. A single exception is C. W. Luh’s solution that assumes the vowel as /v/. (Luh Chih Wei: The Phonology of Ancient Chinese. Yenching Journal of Chinese Studies. Monograph Series No. 20, 1947) In this respect, the author cannot agree with him, especially from the view-point of the pattern of rhymes that is found in the relation to the upper character of fan ch’ieh (反切上字).Regarding the vowel of the rhyme 歌 as /a/ in Ancient Chinese, we have to solve the question why the rhymes 歌 and 麻 were arranged in the separate tables in Yün Ching, because, in Yün Ching, it is recognizable that both the rhymes containing /ɑ/ as a principle vowel and the rhymes containing /a/ are arranged in the same table. The author solves the question by the phonetic change of the vowel /a/ > /ɔ/ in open syllables that happened between the Ch’ieh Yün and Yün Ching, and this way of interpretation should not be restricted within this rhyme only. (cf. the author’s article “On the III and IV divisions of Yün Ching” in the Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan, No. 21)Moreover, this solution seems to be suggestive to the meaning of 内外轉 denoted in the Yün Ching, for the rhymes 歌 and 麻 are denoted distinctively: the former as 内轉 and the latter as 外轉. But, the question of 外轉 for the group 臻 being not yet solved, a complete interpretation of 内外轉 demands further investigations.journal articl
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