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The Leisure Meaning of Vipassana Activities – Tai-Chi Chuan as an Example
No full text[[abstract]]To relieve the heavy pressure of the modern lifestyle, those Vipassana leisure activities, for instance, yoga, meditation, tai-chi, etc., have the function of contemplation of personal physical and mental state, and people pay more attention progressively on them.This study takes tai chi chuan as an example, and the purpose of it is to understand the social participation attitudes, to explore the content of tai-chi chuan and its development in society, to discover the implication of the tai-chi chuan’s true meaning and value, and to further promote leisure awareness and depth of Vipassana participants.This study used in- depth interviewing and narrative analysis methods of qualitative research, for the eight tai chi participants’ experiences.The study found that each tai chi participant had their own emotional mindset, family lives, and social connection. The participant should experience exuberance sensations, especially through the transitions of different tai-chi forms and breathing, which is like the meditation of Vipassana. Also, the process of community tai-chi involves many different aspects of social connection: organization, mutual cooperation…etc. From this study, the research discovered two main points regarding the mind and body: liberation and enjoyment. Liberation refers to how the body is relaxed by tai-chi in many different ways and levels, how the activity of tai-chi chuan allows the participant to free their minds of worries and stress and spiritually help the participant reach a stage of enlightenment. Enjoyment refers to how tai-chi allows the body to experience high levels of physical sensuousness, the purification of their mind, and to enjoy spiritual peacefulness.However, the study also found that because every participant obtains different social status when they involve leisure activities, they vary with extents of involvement, from "tai-chi chuan as an exercise", "tai-chi chaun as living" to " tai-chi chuan as practicing". Therefore they gain diverse realizations of leisure meaning.Keywords: Tai-Chi Chuan, Vipassana, Leisur
Habitat Use of Two Benthic Fishes, Crossostoma lacustre and Rhinogobius candidianus, in the Hapen Creek of Northern Taiwan
No full textCriniverticillus Lin, Yao & Ren 2018, gen. nov.
No full textGenus <i>Criniverticillus</i> Lin, Yao & Ren gen. nov. <p>http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:A5025B96-B712-418B-958C-FB3A91475B51</p> <p> <b>Type species.</b> <i>Criniverticillus longicumulus</i> Lin, Yao & Ren <b>sp. nov.</b></p> <p> <b>Diagnosis (macropterous male).</b> Body large (ca. 2 mm long, Fig. 1); antenna long (ca. 2.1–2.4 mm, Fig. 2F), most antennal setae forming distinct whorls, antennal apical segment with curved bristles (Fig. 2G); hamulohaltere leaf-shaped; basisternum without a median ridge (Fig. 2B); abdominal tergites well developed and sclerotized, first three tergites each with distinct median ridge (Fig. 2A); abdominal tergites VI and VII each with a transverse row of 7–9 tubular ducts (Fig. 2A) extruding wax filaments; a pair of short tubercular projections present on apex of abdominal segment VIII (Fig. 2 C).</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The generic name <i>Criniverticillus</i> comes from combination of the prefix ‘ <i>crini-</i> ’ (from the Latin <i>crinis</i> meaning ‘hair’) with the masculine Latin noun ‘ <i>verticillus</i> ’ (meaning ‘whorl’), referring to most of the setae on the antenna forming whorls around the segments.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> Koteja (2008) considered that the following extinct genera were xylococcid-like taxa: <i>Arnoldus</i> Koteja; <i>Grohnus</i> Koteja; <i>Lithuanicoccus</i> Koteja; <i>Serafinus</i> Koteja, and <i>Weitschatus</i> Koteja, and classified them in five families: Arnoldidae, Grohnidae, Lithuanicoccidae, Serafinidae and Weitschatidae respectively. After comparing key structures like antennal capitate setae; pterostigma on forewing; radial sector on forewing; hamulohaltere; basisternal median ridge; small caudal extension on tergite VIII; tarsal digitule; penial sheath; anterior margin of scutellum, and membranous lateral areas of scutellum, Vea & Grimaldi (2015) questioned this classification and considered that further analyses of relationships within the xylococcid-like taxa were needed. According to our observations, based on the body and wing shapes, antennae without specialised setae, subtriangular scutellum and waxy tail tufts of our adult male <i>Criniverticillus</i>, we think these genera are very similar to each other, and are inclined to support the latter authors’ point of view.</p> <p> Among the Xylococcid-like genera, records from the Cretaceous only comprise <i>Xiphos</i> Vea & Grimaldi (family placement uncertain) from the Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber and <i>Pseudoweitschatus</i> Vea & Grimaldi from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber; all other fossil records are from the Eocene Baltic amber. However, the morphological characters of <i>Xiphos</i> are very different from the other genera, such as: body small (ca. 1.45 mm long total); scutum with an oval membranous area; forewings each without anterior flexing patch; claw digitule absent, and penial sheath extremely elongate. The Xylococcid-like taxa therefore only have one important record (<i>Pseudoweitschatus</i>) from the Cretaceous. The new species described in this paper adds to the record of the Weitschatidae in the mid-Cretaceous and provides a significant new addition to the understanding the past diversity of scale insects.</p> <p> The new genus described herein is assigned to the family Weitschatidae based on the presence of the following features (contrasting conditions in the other fossil taxa/families are given in brackets): antennae without capitate setae (capitate setae present in <i>Arnoldus</i> (Arnoldidae)); radial sector of forewing absent (present in <i>Xylococcus</i> (Xylococcidae)); tarsal digitules undifferentiated (clavate in <i>Arnoldus</i> and <i>Xiphos</i>); membranous lateral areas of scutellum absent (present in <i>Grohnus</i> (Grohnidae) and <i>Xiphos</i>) and cubital ridge extending beyond middle of wing (cubital ridge very short, reaching posterior wing margin at 1/4 its length in <i>Serafinus</i> (Serafinidae)). In particular, the shape of the pterostigma in <i>Criniverticillus</i> is very similar to that of <i>Weitschatus</i> and <i>Pseudoweitschatus</i> (Weitschatidae) (absent in other Xylococcid-like taxa).</p> <p> <i>Criniverticillus</i> differs from the other two genera in Weitschatidae by the following combination of characters (contrasting conditions in the other taxa are given in brackets): antenna significantly longer, 2.10–2.40 mm in <i>Criniverticillus</i> (1.30–1.33 mm in <i>Pseudoweitschatus</i>); most setae on antenna forming distinct whorls (without whorls in <i>Weitschatus</i>); antennal apical segment with the short ‘curved bristles’ of Vea & Grimaldi (2015) (absent in <i>Weitschatus</i>); hamulohaltere leaf-shaped (bilobed in <i>Weitschatus</i>); first three abdominal tergites with distinct median ridge (median ridge absent in <i>Weitschatus</i> and <i>Pseudoweitschatus</i>); a single row of tubular ducts present on each of abdominal tergites VI and VII (2–4 rows of pores in <i>Weitschatus</i>), and the presence of a pair of short tubercular projections on the apex of abdominal segment VIII (absent in <i>Pseudoweitschatus</i>).</p>Published as part of <i>Lin, Shan, Yao, Yunzhi & Ren, Dong, 2018, A new scale insect of the extinct family Weitschatidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, pp. 427-434 in Zootaxa 4407 (3)</i> on pages 428-431, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.3.9, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/1216662">http://zenodo.org/record/1216662</a>
Teng Yen-lin, Tchong-wen ts'an-k'ao-chou kiu-yao
No full textStein Rolf Alfred. Teng Yen-lin, Tchong-wen ts'an-k'ao-chou kiu-yao. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 41, 1941. pp. 393-394
Yao Mingle. Enquête sur la mort de Lin Biao
No full textDomenach Jean-Luc. Yao Mingle. Enquête sur la mort de Lin Biao. In: Politique étrangère, n°3 - 1983 - 48ᵉannée. pp. 755-756
Ecomorphological Comparison and Habitat Preference of 2 Cyprinid Fishes, Varicorhinus barbatulus and Candidia barbatus, in Hapen Creek of Northern Taiwan
No full textNote on a New Host of Ichthyoxenus fushanensis: An Endemic Species of Freshwater Fish, Candidia barbatus, in Taiwan
No full textShi yao shen shu zhu jie
No full text陳念祖著 ; [陳]道著纂集 ; 林壽萱校訂. 十藥神書註解 / 葛可久編 ; 陳念祖註 ; 林壽萱韻.綫裝.框18.9x13.5公分, 10行26字. 白口, 左右雙邊, 單黑魚尾. 版心上鐫題名, 中鐫卷次及小題, 下鐫葉次.題名背頁牌記刻"光緖二十七年[1901]春月新化三味書局校刊"《中國中醫古籍總目》(01030及07167)著錄.鈐"莊兆祥印", "莊兆祥".Xian zhuang.Kuang 18.9 x 13.5 gong fen, 10 hang 26 zi. Bai kou, zuo you shuang bian, dan hei yu wei. Ban xin shang juan ti ming, zhong juan juan ci ji xiao ti, xia juan ye ci.Detailed notes in vernacular field only.Detailed notes in vernacular field only.Chen Nianzu zhu ; [Chen] Daozhu zuan ji ; Lin Shouxuan jiao ding. Shi yao shen shu zhu jie / Ge Kejiu bian ; Chen Nianzu zhu ; Lin Shouxuan yun.Qian "Zhuang Zhaoxiang yin", "Zhuang Zhaoxiang"
Supplemental Material - Clinical metagenomics-assisted diagnosis of relapsed HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis
No full textClinical metagenomics-assisted diagnosis of relapsed HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis by Ting-Kuang Yeh, Kuan-Pei Lin, Yu-Chuan Chuang, Li-An Wang, Chih-Jun Chen, Ding-Yu Lee, Yao-Ting Huang, Po-Yu Liu in International Journal of STD & AIDS</p
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