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Human leukocyte antigens in undifferentiated spondyloarthritis
No full text[[abstract]]Hsien-Tzung Liao, MD⁎, †, ‡, Kuan-Chia Lin, MD§, Chun-Hsiung Chen, MD⁎, †, Toong-Hua Liang, MD⁎, Ming-Wei Lin, PhD¶, Chang-Youh Tsai, MD, PhD†, David Tak Yan Yu, MD, PhD‖, Chung-Tei Cho
The Study on Kuan-yin Tzu-lin Chi
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This paper aims to analyze Kuan-yin Tzu-lin Chi (Compassionate Grove of Kuan-yin) compiled by Hung-tsan in Ching Dynasty. One part of Kuan-yin Tzu-lin Chi includes eleven pieces of classics related to Kuan-yin, and the other part contains kan-ying (stimulus and response) tales, composed of two subsections. The latter part of Kuan-yin Tzu-lin Chi involves 154 kan-ying tales about Kuan-yin (including nine tales from India), which were collected from Ch`in Ch\ue2\ub2in to Ching Dynasty and recorded on 26 pieces of Chinese literature. In these tales, people chanted the name of Kuan-yin or recited The Heart Sutra, Kuan-yin Ching (Chapter of Universal Gateway), or The Great Compassionate Dharani to meet their practical needs in life.
This paper includes six chapters, and the method adopted is literature analysis. First of all, the derivation of the worship in Kuan-yin and the popularity of such belief among the Asian world are discussed. Subsequently, accounts are given that from possessing the conferral by the Buddha of the prediction of the attainment of Buddhahood in the future, Kuan-yin has been kind and compassionate to the end of all time. In addition, Kuan-yin has vowed to benefit the sentient beings, be profoundly compassionate, and build the relationship in the secular world. In order to save all sentient beings and manifest physically, Kuan-yin can give practical benefits to them, including invoking the name, satisfying two kinds of seeking, deleting three basic evil afflictions, solving eight difficulties, and creating fourteen fearlessness. To prove Kuan-yin\ue2s benevolent power, the kan-ying tales from Kuan-yin Tzu-lin Chi, Kuan-yin Chi-yen Chi, and other literature are cited. Apart from that, with the progress of the Buddha\ue2s teaching, and the extension of kan-ying tales about Kuan-yin, research on Kuna-yin\ue2s impact on literature and Buddhism is conducted to verify the Universal Gateway belief in \ue2Great kindness is to build absolute trust for all the sentient beings, and great compassion is to save them.\ue
Ming maritime governance and the Suppression of Lin Feng
No full textPiracy in Ming China during the 1560s and 1570s, while not frequently discussed, posed a unique maritime problem for officials to tackle. One threat they faced in this period was Lin Feng (active 1568–1580s), a pirate appearing on the coasts of Guangdong and Fujian provinces since the early Longqing period (1567–1572). Lin Feng was constantly seen clashing with the Ming military and had considerable influence; in 1574, he even sailed to Luzon, part of the modern-day Philippines, and appointed himself as the lord there. Eventually, he was evicted back to the Ming coasts, where the military suppressed his forces in 1576, early in the reign of the Wanli emperor (1572–1620). Previous scholars have noted Lin Feng’s trans-local impacts and portrayed him as a cultural broker between imperial China and the Philippines. What they neglected to do, however, was treat the conflicts and encounters he shared with officials as instances of Ming maritime governance.
To revisit the case of Lin Feng from a political perspective, this thesis uses records from gazetteers, Ming shilu, memorials, legal codes, and letters. It places him with Longqing and Wanli officials to trace the complex processes through which officials reached their decisions. This thesis presents four seemingly separate incidents involving Lin Feng and various Ming officials that became the milestones of the Suppression of Lin Feng, the campaign to eliminate his forces. Each of the officials discussed in these examples came from diverse backgrounds with varying levels of prestige. Yet they were all, as this thesis argues, motivated by two kinds of factors interwoven with each other: structural—the broader political, geographic, social, and economic contexts as well as the experience of their predecessors—and personal—opportunities to keep their careers or elevate their statuses while gaining material benefits. Making this argument can help this thesis highlight the paramount roles that officials played in this campaign and, in doing so, offer new understandings of Lin Feng as a historical character and position county and provincial-level officials as being integral to creating and enforcing policies for Ming maritime governance.Arts, Faculty ofHistory, Department ofGraduat
The political role of the people's liberation army 1949-1973
Full text linkThis thesis is to study the political role of the People's Liberation Army from the approach of structure and function. The framework of the thesis consists of three major parts, first, the influence of Chinese traditional political culture on, and the formation of, the political role of the PL A; second, the influence of domestic political struggles and external military conflicts on the development of the political role of the PLA; and the third, the analysis of the transition of the PLA's political role from the structure and personnel arrangements of the CCPCC Within the above-mentioned three scopes, this thesis make a thorough discussion on the following: (1) The relationship between the structure of the PRC and the formation of the PLA's political role; (2) How has ideology influenced the army's political role; (3) What is Mao's viewpoint and his influence on the development of the army's political role; (4) What is the link between the army and the party, and how has this developed; (6) What accounts for the expansion of the PLA's political functions; (7) What is the influence of political factional struggles on the PLA's political role; (8) Is it political institution or military institution that controls the recruitment of the military elite; (9) What are the disparities between the military elite in handling international conflicts and what are their political considerations; (10) What is the Party's position in the army; (11) How have the Party’s important meetings and personnel arrangements influenced the rise and fall of the PLA's political role
Shang han ming li lun
No full text張仲景述 ; 王叔和撰次 ; 成無己注解 ; 吳勉學閱 ; 徐鎔校. 傷寒明理論 : 四卷 / 成無己撰 ; 吳勉學閱 ; 徐鎔校.綫裝.框20x13.5公分, 10行20字, 小字雙行同. 白口, 四周單邊(間或左右雙邊), 單黑魚尾. 版心上鐫題名, 中鐫卷次, 下鐫葉次.書名頁刻"張仲景著傷寒論, 張卿子先生手定, 成無己註, 附諸名家, 大文堂藏板"《中國中醫古籍總目》(00671)著錄清廣州大文堂刻本.卷前附附: 醫林列傳 -- 論圖.鈐"莊兆祥印", "莊兆祥"Xian zhuang.Kuang 20 x 13.5 gong fen, 10 hang 20 zi, xiao zi shuang hang tong. Bai kou, si zhou dan bian (jian huo zuo you shuang bian), dan hei yu wei. Ban xin shang juan ti ming, zhong juan juan ci, xia juan ye ci.Detailed notes in vernacular field only.Detailed notes in vernacular field only.Zhang Zhongjing shu ; Wang Shuhe zhuan ci ; Cheng Wuji zhu jie ; Wu Mianxue yue ; Xu Rong jiao. Shang han ming li lun : si juan / Cheng Wuji zhuan ; Wu Mianxue yue ; Xu Rong jiao.Juan qian fu fu: Yi lin lie zhuan -- Lun tu.Qian "Zhuang Zhaoxiang yin", "Zhuang Zhaoxiang
Reduction techniques for training support vector machines
No full textRecently two kinds of reduction techniques which aimed at saving training time
for SVM problems with nonlinear kernels were proposed. Instead of solving the stan-
dard SVM formulation, these methods explicitly alter the SVM formulation, and so-
lutions for them are used to classify data. The rst approach, reduced support vector
machine (RSVM) [21], preselects a subset of data as support vectors and solves a
smaller optimization problem. The second approach [11] uses imcomplete Cholesky
factorization (ICF) to obtain a low-rank approximation of the kernel matrix. There-
fore, an easier optimization problem is obtained. We nd that several issues of their
practical uses have not been fully discussed yet. For example, we do not know if
they possess comparable generalization ability as the standard SVM. In addition,
we would like to see for how large problems they outperform SVM on training time.
In this thesis we show that the formulation of each technique is already in a form
of linear SVM and discuss several suitable implementations. Experiments indicate
that in general the test accuracy of both techniques is a little lower than that of the
standard SVM. In addition, for problems with up to tens of thousands of data, if the
percentage of support vectors is not high, existing implementations for SVM is quite
competitive on the training time. Thus, the two techniques will be mainly useful
for either larger problems or those with many support vectors. Experiments in this
thesis also serve as comparisons of (1) dierent implementations for linear SVM; (2)
standard SVM using linear and quadratic cost functions; and (3) two ICF algorithms
for positive denite dense matrices
The tale of Lady Tan: negotiating place between Central and local in Song-Yuan-Ming China
Full text linkThis paper explores the story of Lady Tan across genres from biographical record to temple inscription and marvellous tale, highlighting different representations of ‘the local’ in these stories: the loss of local belonging for some, inscribing the morals of a local community for others. Focusing on this tale, this essay argues that locality and belonging were contested constructs, especially during the Song-Yuan-Ming transitional period. Ex-ploring how literati understood themselves in relation to their localities contributes to our understanding of literati identities and the meaning of ‘the local’, in a period with ‘weak central government’, or as a repeating pattern of centralisation and localisation. It reveals the complexities in-volved in giving meaning to locality and negotiating belonging. In Ji'an prefecture, the centralising policies of the Hongwu and Yongle emperors were felt locally and affected how literati positioned themselves between central government and local community. This focus on literati writings from a single prefecture suggests that a close reading of the negotiations that form part of constructing locality and belonging in Ji'an can reveal the potential for a complex interplay between central government and local communities throughout China
vegetable seedling feature extraction using stereo color imaging
No full textvegetable seedling feature extraction using stereo color imaging. ta-te lin. jeng-ming chang. department of agricultural machinery engineering.. national taiwan university.. taipei. taiwan. roc. introductio
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