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Study on Solar KANG Heating System for Cold Areas
No full textAbstractThe current rural traditional heated kang cannot meet people's increasing requirements of comfort and environmental protection. This paper propose solar kang heating system in cold regions. System performance and heating effect were analyzed. We selected two typical rooms. One was set in traditional kang, and the other one was solar Kang type. Using temperature recording instrument and 64 roads inspection instrument and other instruments, we test the indoor temperature and the kang surface temperature of two rooms. Solar kang thermal resistance, heat storage, heat dissipation and heating effect were analyzed and compared. The results of the study show this system have the smaller fluctuation, more comfort while alleviating the kang surface overheat or super-cooling problem. It satisfied the requirements of indoor thermal comfort. The warming rate is 5.17°C/h, and the cooling rate is 3.01°C/h. These are slower than traditional Huokang speed. It improved the heat storage capacity of kang body with surface heat dissipation 1237W. Average temperature of the solar kang heating room was improved 3.28°C. It gets the smaller indoor temperature fluctuation. PMV values are concentrated about -0.5, and this basically meet the requirements of the user comfort
Kang Youwei, Couplet in Running Script
No full textPair of hanging scrolls, ink on paperDimension: calligraphy 131 x 33 cm; mounting 185 x 45 cmCalligraphy: 山水含芳意 風雲入壯懷
Translation: Mountains and rivers contain virtue, wind and clouds embrace aspirationsInscription: 煒和仁兄。康有為。
Translation: For dear friend Weihe. Signed Kang Youwei.Artist's Seal: 康有為印
維新百日出亡十六年三週大地遊遍四洲經三十一國行六十萬哩Kang Youwei (1858-1927, alternative name Zuyi, 祖詒; Guangxia, 廣廈; Gengsheng, 更生; Changsu, 長素) is a native of Nanhai, Guangdong province. He passed the national exam and earned the jinshi degree in 1895 during the Guangxu reign. He was known for his calligraphy and political ideology. Realizing the challenging issues the late Qing court encountered, Kang Youwei led a movement that tried to establish a constitutional monarchy, similar to the British political system. Supported by the emperor Guangxu, Kang Youwei, along with his famed student, Liang Qichao, launched the Hundred Days’ Reform in 1898. But the Dowager Empress suppressed this reform and ordered Kang Youwei to be executed. Kang had to flee to Japan where he continued promoting his political ideas. After the Qing dynasty fell and Sun Zhongshan established the Republic of China, Kang Youwei still wished to put his idea for a constitutional monarchy into practice. He published Kongzi gaizhi kao, Xinxue weijing kao, and Datong shu to express his political views.
Kang Youwei’s most influential publication on calligraphy is Guang yizhou shuangji. Based on the ideas of Bao Shichen and Ruan Yuan (1764-1849), Kang Youwei promoted the importance and significance of the stele school by surveying Qing calligraphy works. His own calligraphy reflects his study on stele writings from Northern Dynasties, expressing strength of brush and ink as in this pair scrolls.
Kang Youwei wrote this couplet for his friend Weihe. The poem, “Mountains and rivers contain virtue, wind and clouds embrace aspirations,” seems very powerful because of the bold, and sometime dry brushes. For example, the first two characters on the right scroll, wind (feng) and cloud (yun), present the motion of nature by moving the strokes freely with both wet and dry brushes. These running scripts combine the characteristic of clerical script, in which all the characters are composed steadily and firmly. Although the composition of each character looks very open at the first glance, the internal structure is built tightly. With both round and square stroke endings, the entire piece creates a balance between power and conservation.
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Double Beauty: Qing Dynasty Couplets from the Lechangzai Xuan Collection, ed by Kuo, Jason C., Egan, Ronald, Mok, Harold, Sturman, Peter. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Art, 2003.
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Zhou Ti ed. Zhongguo lidai shufajia mingren moji: qingdai bufen 中國歷代書法家名人墨跡：清代部份. vol. 2. Beijing: Zhongguo zhanwang chuban she, 1987. (788-790
Evolution of multiple prey defences: From predator cognition to community ecology
No full textExnerova A, Kang C, Rowland HM, Kikuchi DW. Evolution of multiple prey defences: From predator cognition to community ecology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology . 2023;36(7):961-966
Closure to “Discussion of \u27measurement of Stiffness Anisotropy in Kaolinite using Bender Element Tests in a Floating Wall Consolidometer\u27 by X. Kang, G.-C. Kang, and B. Bate” by Coffman, Salazar and Zhao
No full textThe authors appreciate the interest of the discussers in this paper. The main arguments of the discussers were: (1) comparing the back-pressure saturated, constant-rate-of-strain consolidation device that incorporated bender elements (BP-CRS-BE device) developed by the discussers to the floating wall consolidometer based bender element testing system in the original paper (Kang, X., Kang, G.-C., and Bate, B., 2014, Shear Wave Velocity Anisotropy of Kaolinite Using a Floating Wall Consolidometer-Type Bender Element Testing System, Geotech. Test. J., Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 869-883. [DOI: 10.1520/GTJ20120205]); (2) requesting the quantification of both the system lag and the machine deflection; (3) suggesting the authors use cross correlation method to determine the first arrival time because Vs values obtained by time domain method are only approximate, while the latter was the only method used by the discussers in their referenced work (Salazar, S. E. and Coffman, R. A., 2014, Design and Fabrication of End Platens for Acquisition of Small-Strain Piezoelectric Measurements during Large-Strain Triaxial Extension and Triaxial Compression Testing, Geotech. Test. J., Vol. 43, No. 2. pp. 1-11. [DOI: 10.1520/GTJ20140057]); and (4) making misleading arguments regarding the compression and shear waves measurements. In this closure, the authors first briefly compared the BP-CRS-BE device to the floating wall consolidometer based bender element testing system, and pointed out that (1) the well-documented wavelength ratio (Rd ratio) consideration in designing a bender element device and the seemingly unsatisfaction of such consideration in the BP-CRS-BE device, and that (2) both the lack of details in B-value checking to examine saturation and the lack of shear wave velocity resulted from the BP-CRS-BE device to substantiate the arguments of the discussers. Then the authors provided the requested quantifications of both system lag and machine deflection to address some postulations by the discussers. The authors disagreed with Arguments 3 and 4 made by the discussers, and respond accordingly
Daniel Pick, Faces of Degeneration. A European Disorder, c. 1848-c. 1918
No full textKang Zheng. Daniel Pick, Faces of Degeneration. A European Disorder, c. 1848-c. 1918. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 45ᵉ année, N. 3, 1990. pp. 699-701
Daniel Pick, Faces of Degeneration. A European Disorder, c. 1848-c. 1918
No full textKang Zheng. Daniel Pick, Faces of Degeneration. A European Disorder, c. 1848-c. 1918. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 45ᵉ année, N. 3, 1990. pp. 699-701
INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL PLANNING IN SINGAPORE: NEOTIEWPIA ECO-VILLAGE IN BUSTLING METROPOLITAN
Full text linkABSTRACT :The Neotiewpia Eco-Village is located within the Lim Chu Kang district at the north of Singapore. The Eco-Village only comprised of 3.5 sq km. Meanwhile the area was
dominated by farms, chalets and Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. In 2006, National University of Singapore, School of Design and Environment (SDE), MSc. Environmental Management and Nature Society of Singapore initiated an ecological planning exercise within the Neotiewpia site
to reduce the environmental impact from the development while providing Eco-friendly Tourism and R&D activities that feasible in the site. We did participate in the exercise and we tried explaining the ecological process, the limitation and potential development for integrated
ecological planning framework in Developing Countries like Indonesia, Brazil, etc with high ecological-values ecosystems. The Vision of Neotiewpia was “A Model Eco-Village that Respects its Natural Heritage, Builds Strong Community Links and Promotes Economic Development on Nature’s Premises." And Neotiewpia was successfully planned and designed with integrated ecological planning approach. It embraced the land evaluation and impact assessment. Further the plan was found feasible by the Singapore Government by earmarking the Lim Chu Kang and Kranji for Agri-tainment development in 2008 (although partially
implemented). The Neotiewpia or Lim Chu Kang area was found thriving with Green-Economy and Agro-Tourism. This integrated ecological planning could be translated to other areas in Developing Countries with agriculture potential and facing development pressures such as Neotiewpia. This concept would give alternate Green-Solution to the current economic crisis
Raw and preprocessed data: Talluri, Kang et al. 2022
No full textExample raw data, preprocessed data to reproduce analyses in Talluri, Kang et al. 2022 bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2022.09.08.507006. (now in press at Nature Neuroscience).The code to reproduce the analysis is in https://github.com/NienborgLab/TalluriKang_et_al_2022.Raw and preprocessed data files are in .mat format.If you use the data or the code, please cite: Talluri, B. C., Kang I., Lazere, A., Quinn, K. R., Kaliss, N., Yates, J.L., Butts, D.A., Nienborg, H. (2022). Activity in primate visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous movements. bioRxiv. 2022.09.08.507006. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.08.507006</p
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