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Li Bai rides a celestial dolphin home
No full textPoetry about Alaska, growing old, and more.--Provided by publisher.Snowy Egret Rising -- By the St. Croix River -- Wachusett Reservoir -- Maids in Yellow -- Lake Utopia -- West of Rousses Point, New York -- Glen Nevis, Ontario -- Superior Pulp, LLC -- New Wawa, Ontario -- Elderly Couple Having Breakfast at a Truck Stop -- In Praise of Surgeons -- Crossing the Prairies -- Yellow-Headed Blackbirds at Dusk -- The Man Behind the Wheel, Fort Nelson, B.C. -- Alaska Highway Lodge, 1966 -- House Sparrows at Glenallen, Alaska -- Li Bai Wakes in Broad Pass -- Li Bai and the Magpie -- Magpie's Wife -- Li Bai Meets a Brown Bear -- The Brown Bear -- Trapper -- Li Bai Arrives at Wonder Lake -- Almost Fall -- The North Fork Wolves -- Li Bai Discovers Adolph Murie's Cabin -- Coal Creek -- Heaven's River -- Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home -- The Brown Bear's Lament -- The Magpies Build a Nest in Honor of Li Bai -- Coda: -- Russian American Bells -- Russian Orthodox Priest -- Richardson Homestead -- Black-Capped Chickadee -- Paper Birch -- Christmas Wolves -- Rime Ice -- Making Applesauce on a Snowy Afternoon -- Common Merganser on a Winter Morning -- Snow Squall -- Snow-Blind Rivers -- Benediction -- Goldfinches at a Feeder -- Saw-Whet Owl in a Hemlock Tree -- A Magical Fox -- The Winter Sky -- Moonlight -- In Praise of Visible Things -- Basho -- Thinking of Basho While Walking at Dawn -- Greening -- In This the First Long Light of Spring -- At Delta Junction
Paramorphocoris Bai & Heiss, gen. n.
No full text<i>Paramorphocoris</i> Bai & Heiss, gen. n. <p> Type species: <i>Paramorphocoris henanensis</i> Bai & Heiss, sp.n.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> Apterous. Medium sized. Body elongate ovate. Dorsal and ventral surfaces partly covered by grayish incrustation of unique pattern, only lateral borders with few short bristles. Head longer than width across eyes; genae slender, produced over clypeus; antenniferous tubercles stout, conical, apically pointed; eyes small, semiglobose, with convex face; postocular lobes anterolaterally subparallel with some distinct tubercles, converging posteriorly to constricted neck; vertex and clypeus together forming a median ridge; antennae long and slender, first and third segments of subequal length, second shortest, first stout and clavate, second and third cylindrical, fourth fusiform; rostrum arising from a slit-like atrium, not reaching limits of rostral groove. Pronotum attenuated anteriorly, anterolateral angles protruding anteriorly beyond collar, disc with narrow medial groove. Meso- and metanota medially fused to narrow, high longitudinal ridge strongly constricted at middle and flanked by deep depressions, laterally separated by furrows, metanotum separated by furrows from mtg I, mtg II and triangular fused deltg I+II; lateral margins of thoracic segments incrassate, deeply cleft between pro-, meso-, and metanota. Mtg I separated from mtg II by a furrow. Tergal plate of fused mtg III-VI pentagonal. Tergite VII strongly elevated posteriorly (Fig. 2) Thoracic sterna with processes pointing to coxae.</p> <p>Legs long and slender, without spines trochanters fused to femora.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> China.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The generic name reflects the similarity to <i>Morphocoris,</i> >para<(Latin) = near to.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> General habitus, head and thoracic structures of the new genus resemble those of the Oriental genus <i>Morphocoris</i> Kormilev 1980 (Kormilev 1977(as <i>Glyptomorpha</i>); Heiss 1982), which comprises 3 species from Thailand, Malaysia, and India. Compared with a male paratype of <i>Morphocoros thailandicus</i> in the collection of the co-author (EH) (no female specimen has ever been illustrated), the latter is distinguished from <i>Paramorphocoris henanensis</i> gen. et sp. nov. by a much wider and less constricted median ridge of meso- and metanotum without a longitudinal sulcus, by the very deep oval lateral excavations of metanotum, the deeper median depression of mtg I+II showing 2 longitudinal carinae at its bottom on mtg II, the straight anterior margin of the tergal plate, and the deep median excavation on mtg III in continuation of that of mtg I+II flanked by raised margins. The elevations and deep cavities cannot be recognized from Kormilev’s 1977 only illustration of this species (p.618, Fig. 19).</p>Published as part of <i>Cui, Jianxin, Bai, Xiaoshuan, Heiss, Ernst & Cai, Wanzhi, 2015, A new apterous genus of Carventinae (Hemiptera: Aradidae) from China, pp. 143-146 in Zootaxa 3980 (1)</i> on pages 143-144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.1.9, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/239185">http://zenodo.org/record/239185</a>
Bai Wei xi ju zai tan
No full text白薇（1894-1987）被譽為最優秀的中國現代女劇作家，她的劇作除對五四風潮內的核心議題有深刻反思，亦有不少超前於同代作家的創作嘗試。但可惜的是，她的劇作因其晦澀而狂放的風格而未有在當世的社會急務中獲得理解，藝術上又與旗幟鮮明的現實主義相頡頏，而少數關注她的研究者亦對其劇作的獨異之處存有不少誤解，故她真正的創作貢獻暫時仍隱沒於文學史背後。「愛情」和「革命」是白薇文學創作的兩大面向，也是歷來研究其生平與文學轉向關係的焦點，但「倫理」亦同是她所著力書寫的議題，在回應自身家庭與社會問題之餘，同時叩問愛情與革命的應然性。本論文以此三項為座標，選取《琳麗》、〈打出幽靈塔〉和〈革命神的受難〉為主要研究對象，輔以其他相同題材的作品，揭示當中罕見的愛情哲學、倫理羈絆和革命諷諭。通過再探白薇之戲劇創作的熱情與理性、現實與想像，重新審視劇作蘊涵的細密思辯、藝術創新與人文關懷，為已有定評的白薇戲劇藝術提出新的分析和見解。二十年代少數作家對現代戲劇宣傳功能的突破，以及個人浪漫追求在社會現實主義洪流中的掙扎和消隱的問題，在白薇戲劇再探中可開展新的方向。Bai Wei (1894-1987) is known as the most outstanding Chinese modern female playwright. Her plays have embedded profound reflections upon core values of the May Fourth Era, and have displayed a variety of creative attempts which are way beyond the reach of other playwrights from the same generation. Regrettably, the obscure and wild style of her plays have precluded them to be understood by peers of the same epoch, as these plays were presumptuous and prematurely considered irrelevant to the social imperatives. And while compared to the clear-cut stance of realism, Bai Wei’s plays had antagonistically overshadowed. Moreover, misconceptions upon characteristics of Bai Wai’s drama have also been made by the few researchers who had paid attention to her. As a result, the distinguished achievements of Bai Wei are still temporarily buried in the literary history.‘Revolution’ and ‘Love’ are the two major aspects of Bai Wei’s literary writing, and they have long been focus of research on her life and on the shifting of direction in her literary career. However, ‘Ethics’ has also been a major concern of Bai Wei, for apart from responding to ethical issues regarding family and society, she had also provoked meditations on the suitability of love and revolution. Based on the three themes mentioned, this present study will conduct in-depth analysis on her three prominent plays, including Linli, Dachu Youlingta (Breaking out of the Ghost Tower) and Gemingshen de Shounan (The Suffering of the The Revolutionary God), complemented by investigations on works of the same motifs, with aims to reveal the philosophy of love, ethical restraints and revolutionary allegory rarely found in other plays.By clarifying the correlation of passion and rationality, as well as the cluster of reality and imagination encompassed in Bai Wei’s drama, this study strives to re-examine the fine speculations, artistic innovations and humanistic care captured in her dramatic vision. This study sought to provide new insights on interpretations of Bai Wei’s plays, and to reiterate the significance of her endeavors, on top of the fixed impressions created by previous critics. Through the re-examination of Bai Wei’s drama, this study will also contribute to the enrichment and extension of the researches on the breakthroughs of theatrical conventions for drama to be served as tools of enlightenment and political manifestation which were facilitated by a minority group of playwrights in the 1920s, as well as on the struggles and termination of personal romantic pursuits under the overidding trend of realism across the Chinese society during the early Republican period.Detailed summary in vernacular field only.Detailed summary in vernacular field only.姜曉敏.Parallel title from English abstract.Thesis (M.Phil.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-226).Abstracts in Chinese and English.Jiang Xiaomin
An investigation into the Innovator's dilemma in the automotive industry: A disruptive change and innovation
No full textThis dissertation demonstrates how computer-aided content analysis (CACA)
can be used to address analyze unique elements of language in annual reports
to disruptive innovation research. The author applies the MAXQDA computer
program to a sample of 130 annual reports from 13 different large car
manufacturers, with a focus on gaining insights concerning how disruptive
innovation influence the players in the automotive industry utilizing content
analysis. Also, the author tries using the word as an indicator to measure the
performance of the firm. This dissertation finds strong indication of the negative
trend between “disruptive innovation” and “firm’s performance,” and propose
the contribution for not only theoretical implication for future research but also
with a discussion of the implication for business practice, especially for car
manufacturer automotive industry
Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai
No full textFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the 8th century poet, Li Bai...also known as Li Po...one of the most beloved poets ever to emerge from China. With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the life story of Li Bai (701-762), whose poems...shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life...rang throughout the Tang Dynasty and continue to be celebrated today. Jin follows Li Bai from his birth on China\u27s western frontier through his travels as a young man seeking a place among the empire\u27s civil servants, his wanderings allowing him to hone his poetic craft, share his verses, and win him friends and admirers along the way. In his later years, he becomes swept up in a military rebellion that alters the course of China, and his death is surrounded by speculation and legend that continues to be spun to this day. The Banished Immortal is an extraordinary portrait of a poet who both transcended his time and was shaped by it, and whose ability to live, love, and mourn without reservation produced some of the most enduring verses in the worldhttps://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1588/thumbnail.jp
Bai yu ti mao yan jiu: gong shi miao xie ji li shi su yuan = A study on aspect of Bai language : synchronic description and diachronic analysis
No full textPh.D.Aspect is one of the most important grammatical categories of verb and is widely attested cross-linguistically. In Bai language, aspect is indicated by grammatical clitics, termed aspect markers in this study. Previous studies of Bai show that it has around ten aspect markers in each dialect, while so far there has been no thorough discussion on the semantic feature and syntactic distribution of its aspectual system. Besides, Bai is deeply influenced by language contact, to some extent, the complexity of Bai’s aspectual system is caused by language contact. For this reason, to clearly describe the distribution of Bai’s aspect markers, it is necessary to trace their diachronic development and clarify the role of language contact in it. Therefore, this dissertation studies aspect of Bai from two perspectives: synchronic and diachronic.First, under the framework of typology, I define eight aspect categories in Meiba Bai (that is the author’s mother tongue): Perfective -xɯ55, Habitual (unmarked), Progressive: locative phrase or -(tsɿ44) tɕiɛ31 (mɯ55), Perfect of result -tɯ44, Experiential -kuo42, Prospective -kʰɔ42, Inchoative -kʰɯ44/xɯ44, Delimitative ka44-. Second, all the aspect markers are thoroughly described in terms of their collocation with different situation types, arguments and temporal adverbials. It presents the synchronic distribution of the aspectual system of Bai, and also provides the clues for a diachronic analysis. Based on this, I propose a general approach to diachronic analysis of Bai’s grammar. This approach investigates the diachronic development of grammatical morphemes or structures by a detailed synchronic description and a systematic language comparison. In addition to Bai, this approach is also suitable for the diachronic study of any other languages that are lacking in historical documents and deeply affected by language contact. Chapter 4 introduces this approach step by step, predicts seven possibilities of grammatical morpheme/structure’s origin, and points out three mechanisms of syntactic changes. Next, I test the validity of the proposed approach in case of three aspect markers: Perfective -xɯ55, Inchoative - kʰɯ33/kʰɯ44/xɯ44, Progressive markers. Results indicate that Perfective -xɯ55 of Bai and its basic functions are genetic heritage from proto Bai, while its secondary functions that are not attested in all dialects are lately borrowed from Chinese or recently innovated in Bai. As for inchoative marker, its lexical source kʰɯ33 is cognate with qǐ起 in Chinese, thus its functions also found in Chinese are their common heritage, while functions different from Chinese are early or recent innovation features of Bai. There is no inherent progressive category in Bai, consequently, progressive markers in modern Bai dialects are all lately borrowed from Chinese.Last, I compare the semantic evolution paths of aspect markers with the same lexical sources in Bai and Chinese, and suggest that a more detailed language comparison can reveal more specific rules of the semantic evolution. The comparison between Bai and Chinese has two enlightenments on the typological study of aspect: (1) it is the polysemy of lexical sources that makes the different semantic pathways of the same lexical source available. When different semantic components of a lexical source are highlighted, different semantic evolution paths sprouts; (2) recent studies demonstrate that the grammatical morphemes with resultative meaning may develop into both perfective and imperfective markers, while by comparing the semantic evolution routes of directionals in Bai and Chinese not all grams with resultative meaning develop in this way. The gram has negative semantic features, like tʰɯ55 “down” of Bai that indicates the subject goes away from something, will not evolve into an imperfective marker.Summing up, the study of Bai’s aspectual system in this dissertation enhances our understanding of aspect. Moreover, as a language that has accepted Chinese culture very early but still maintains its independence, Bai is typical in the research of Sino-Tibetan that is characterized by language contact. Therefore, in addition to synchronic description, I hope the proposed approach to diachronic development of Bai in this study also contribute to advancing the methodology of language contact.“體”（也稱之爲“體貌”） ，是動詞最重要的語法範疇之一，也是一個跨語言普遍存在的語法概念。白語通過添加體標記來表達“體”。從現有研究來看，不同白語方言都有近十個體標記，其分佈交錯重疊，規律不清晰，但迄今沒有文獻對此作系統的討論。此外，白語深受語言接觸的影響，其體貌系統的共時複雜性很大程度上由語言接觸帶來，要想清晰地描寫白語體貌的共時分佈規律，就必須要追溯體標記的來源，釐清語言接觸在其中的作用。因此，本研究從共時和歷時兩個角度對白語的體貌系統作了較爲詳細的討論。首先，本文在類型學框架下，描寫了美壩白語的體貌系統，界定出八個性質不同的體範疇：完整體（xɯ55）、慣常體（無標記）、進行體（處所結構或體標記（tsɿ44）tɕiɛ31（mɯ55）、結果性完成體（tɯ44）、經歷體（kuo42）、展望體（kʰɔ42）、起始體（kʰɯ44/xɯ44） 、短時體（ka44）。其次，我們詳細描寫了不同體標記和情狀類型、賓語、時間成分等的搭配，以及體意義的詞彙表達手段、體標記和語氣詞的互動等共時分佈特點，不僅展示了白語體貌的現狀，也爲其歷時分析提供了線索。基於此，本文提出了白語語法的歷時分析方法。該方法主要結合對語法語素/結構共時規律的詳細描寫和系統性的語言比較，來判斷語言成分的來源及其演變路徑，除了白語，也適用於其他文獻缺乏而深受接觸影響的語言。第四章詳細介紹了白語語法歷時分析的每一個步驟，預測了白語語法語素的七種可能來源，以及說明了白語語法演變的三種可能機制。接着，我們以完整體標記xɯ55、起始體標記kʰɯ44/xɯ44“起”、進行體標記爲例檢驗了上述方法的有效性。分析結果表明：白語完整體標記形式及其核心功能是早期白語遺傳，即屬於白語固有的語法語素，個別晚近發展出的功能既有方言內部的創新，也有漢語借用；白語趨向詞“起”和漢語的“起”是同源詞，因此二者相似的功能（包括起始體標記）屬於祖語遺傳，而白語異於漢語的功能則是其早期內部的發展或個別方言晚近的創新；白語無固有的進行體範疇，不同白語方言中的進行體標記都是較晚才從附近的漢語方言中借來。最後，我們比較了白語和漢語相同詞源體標記的語義演變路徑，指出更細緻的跨語言比較可以揭示出更具體的體貌語義演變規律。白語和漢語趨向詞語義演變的異同對體貌類型學的研究有兩點啓示：（1）相同詞源產生相異演變路徑主要是因爲詞源成分的多義性，在語言使用中，被突出的語義特徵不同，就會產生不同的語義演變路徑。（2）現有研究表明結果義成分具有雙語法化路徑——既可以演變爲完整體標記、又可以演變爲未完整體標記，對比白語和漢語趨向詞的演變路徑來看，並非所有結果義成分都如此，具有“離開、消減、去除”等消極語義的結果無法發展出未完整體的語義，比如白語的tʰɯ55“下”。總的來看，白語的材料從多角度擴充了我們對“體”這一語法範疇的認識。此外，作爲一個很早就接受漢文化但仍然保持獨立性的語言，白語在整個語言接觸複雜的漢藏語研究領域中都具有典型意義，因此，除了梳理白語的體貌系統，我們也期望本文的研究能爲普遍的語言接觸研究提供有益的經驗和方法支持。李煊."2020年7月".Parallel title from added title page.Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2020.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 238-251).Abstract also in English.Title from PDF title page (viewed on March 1, 2022).Li Xuan
The empathy and the arts of satire in Bai Xian-Yong's 'Taipei people'
No full text"Taipei people" in the protagonist, have a lingering experience. They were forced to come to Taipei that time, in the land with profound contradictions of history. Seeing the year with brilliant vaguely by their own. But also feel unbearable with the memory in the past, they often face to similar people and things inadvertently now. Because of the specific trigger, and aftertaste from the past. The main characters in the book,produce many collisions, contradictory emotions and poor adaptability because of the geographical space-time conversion, the ruthless passage of youth. In this article, the author intends to use the book "Taipei" as the background, and "empathy", "satire art" as the theme of the study, in-depth analysis of "Taipei people" in the short messag as well as the implied mood. In order to clarify the author Bai Xianyong those hesitant, ambiguous, but intriguing, thought-provoking novel fragments.
This paper is divided into five chapters, the first chapter is "Introduction", which aims to illustrate the research motives, research purpose, scope and methods of study, and to explore the relevant literature. To understand the study of Bai Xianyong's works by scholars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, to evaluate and explore the feasibility of this paper. The second chapter is "Bai Xianyong's life and literature and art history", which aims to introduce Bai Xianyong's life, family background and its background. The third chapter is "the pursuit of the past time - empathy", analysis, to explore those novels by the "association" and "mood" arising from empathy. The fourth chapter is "revealing the contradictions and shortcomings - satire art", sorted out and explore the author Bai Xianyong in the "Taipei" book used in the satire. The fifth chapter is "conclusion", summarize the whole chapter, put forward the research results of this paper and research restrictions
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Suppression of Aurora-A oncogenic potential by c-Myc downregulation
No full textThe abnormality of serine/threonine kinase Aurora-A is seen in many types of cancers. Although in physiological context it has been shown to play a vital role in cellular mitosis, how this oncogene contributes to tumorigenesis remains unclear. Here we demonstrate that Aurora-A overexpression enhances both the expression level and transcriptional activity of c-Myc. The inhibition of c-Myc expression by RNA interference significantly impaired the oncogenic potential of Aurora-A, resulting in attenuated cellular proliferation and transformation rates as well as fewer centrosomal aberrations. Furthermore, downregulation of c-Myc effectively overcame Aurora-A-induced resistance to cisplatin in esophageal cancer cells. Taken together, our results suggest an important role for c-Myc in mediating the oncogenic activity of Aurora-A, which may in turn allow for future targeting of c-Myc as a potential therapeutic strategy for tumors with Aurora-A overexpression
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