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Lesteva concava Cheng & Li & Peng 2019, new species
No full textLesteva (s. str.) concava, Cheng, Li & Peng, new species (Figs 2B, 3 G–H, 5D–F, 24) Type material (64 exs). Holotype: CHINA: ♂: ‘ China: Zhejiang Prov., Lin’an City (临安市), Mt. Qingliang (清 凉峰), 1050–1080 m, 8–10.v.2005, Zhu & Li leg. ’ / HOLOTYPE (red), L. concava sp. nov., det. Cheng, Li & Peng, 2019, SNUC. Paratypes: CHINA: 17 ♂♂, 34 ♀♀: same label data as holotype / PARATYPE (yellow), L. concava sp. nov., det. Cheng, Li & Peng, 2019, SNUC; 1 ♀: ‘ China: Anhui Prov., Anqing City (安庆市), Qianshan County (潜山县), Mt. Tainzhu (天柱山), 1150–1250 m, 25.iv.2005, Hu & Tang leg. ’ / PARATYPE (yellow), L. concava sp. nov., det. Cheng, Li & Peng, 2019, SNUC; 1 ♀: ‘ China: Anhui Prov., Chizhou City (池州市), Shitai County (石台县), Guniujiang N. R. (牯牛降自然保护区), alt. 300 m, 27.iv.2005, Hu & Tang leg. ’ / PARATYPE (yellow), L. concava sp. nov., det. Cheng, Li & Peng, 2019, SNUC; 1 ♀: ‘ China: Zhejiang Prov., Hangzhou City (杭州 市), Anji County (安吉 县), Mt. Longwang (龙王 山), 300–500 m, 24.iv.2004, Jing-Wen Zhu leg. ’ / PARATYPE (yellow), L. concava sp. nov., det. Cheng, Li & Peng, 2019, SNUC; 2 ♀♀: ‘ China: Zhejiang Prov., Hangzhou City (杭州市), Anji County (安吉县), Mt. Longwang (龙王山), 250–550 m, 24.iv.2006, Jin-Wen Li leg. ’ / PARATYPE (yellow), L. concava sp. nov., det. Cheng, Li & Peng, 2019, SNUC; 2 ♀♀: ‘ China: Zhejiang Prov., Hangzhou City (杭州市), Anji County (安吉县), Mt. Longwang (龙王山), 1050–1200 m, 15.v.2013, Chen & Pan leg. ’ / PARATYPE (yellow), L. concava sp. nov., det. Cheng, Li & Peng, 2019, SNUC; 1 ♀: ‘ China: Zhejiang Prov., Lin’an City (临安市), Mt. Tianmu (天目山), 800–1150 m, 2.v.2001, Jiao-Yao Hu leg. ’ / PARATYPE (yellow), L. concava sp. nov., det. Cheng, Li & Peng, 2019, SNUC; 1 ♀: ‘ China: Zhejiang Prov., Lin’an City (临安市), Mt. Tianmu, (天目山), 800–1150 m, 31.v.2006, Hu & Tang leg. ’ / PARATYPE (yellow), L. concava sp. nov., det. Cheng, Li & Peng, 2019, SNUC; 1 ♂: ‘ China: Zhejiang Prov., Lin’an City (临安市), Mt. Tianmu, (天目山), 830–900 m, 31.v.2010, Wang, Xu & Zhu leg. ’ / PARATYPE (yellow), L. concava sp. nov., det. Cheng, Li & Peng, 2019, SNUC; 1 ♂, 1 ♀: ‘ China: Zhejiang Prov., Quzhou City (衢州市), Jingning County (景宁 县), Baiyunlinqu (白云林区), 1100–1270 m, 07.v.2012, Jian-Qing Zhu leg. ’ / PARATYPE (yellow), L. concava sp. nov., det. Cheng, Li & Peng, 2019, SNUC. Description. Measurements (in mm) and ratios: BL 3.04–3.29; FL 2.36–2.48; HL 0.47–0.50; HW 0.59–0.62; PL 0.56–0.59; PW 0.65–0.68; EL 1.27–1.33; EW 1.18–1.21; HL/HW 0.75–0.79; PL/PW 0.86–0.90; EL/EW 1.07–1.11; HW/PW 0.90–0.95; PL/EL 0.44–0.46; AnL 1.39–1.42; AeL 0.46–0.50. Habitus as in Fig. 2B. Reddish brown, head usually darker, blackish brown; mouthparts fuscous brown; antennae yellowish brown; elytra with small subtriangular yellow maculae near middle; legs reddish brown, except of paler apex of tibiae and tarsi. Pubescence of body pale, evident and recumbent. Head subtriangular, coarsely and sparsely punctate, widest across eyes; eyes prominent, 1.86 times longer than temples; ocelli distinct, distance between ocelli 1.75 times as long as distance between ocellus and posterior margin of eye. Antennae elongate, relative lengths of the antennomeres I–XI: 1.54: 1: 1: 1: 1: 1: 1.15: 1.15: 1.15: 1.15: 1.77. Pronotum subcordate, moderately convex, widest near anterior third; lateral margins arcuate at anterior twothirds and nearly straight at posterior third; punctation and pubescence as that on head; disc with shallow U-shaped depression. Scutellum subtriangular, surface with fine punctation and pubescence. Elytra subtrapezoidal, gradually dilated posteriorly, posterior angles broadly rounded; punctation and pubescence distinctly finer and sparser than those on pronotum. Abdomen broad, widest at segment IV (first visible abdominal segment), then distinctly narrowed posteriorly. Tergites with dense, fine punctation and decumbent pubescence, devoid of microsculpture; middle of the tergites IV and V with one pair of tomentose patches, but patches on tergite V smaller and less transverse. Male. Apical margin of the tergite VIII (Fig. 3G) broadly concave; sternite VIII (Fig. 3H) transverse, apical margin weakly concave; median lobe of the aedeagus (Figs 5 D–F) slightly longer than parameres; parameres somewhat asymmetrical, each slightly narrowed in anterior half, with three long apical setae; internal sac without sclerotized spines and without distinct dark membranous structures. Female. Abdominal sternite VIII without concavity apically. In other morphological characters similar with males. Comparative notes. Lesteva concava is closest to L. cooteri Rougemont in sharing similar body size, and punctation and pubescence of the head and pronotum. These two species can be readily separated by the different coloration of the body, and especially the narrower aedeagus with longer median lobe and narrower and longer parameres in L. concava. For illustrations of L. cooteri see Figs 6A, 8 A–B, 9A–C and Rougemont (2000: figs 1, 13). Distribution and nature history. China: Anhui, Zhejiang (Fig. 24). Some specimens were sifted from leaf litter near a stream in mixed deciduous forests at Mt. Tianzhu, Anhui. Etymology. The new specific epithet refers to the broadly concave apical margin of the male tergite VIII.Published as part of Cheng, Zhi-Fei, Li, Li-Zhen & Peng, Zhong, 2019, New species and new records of Lesteva Latreille, 1797 (Coleoptera Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) from China, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4560 (1) on pages 5-9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4560.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262725
An Interview with an Author and Editor: The View from Taiwan
No full textORCID Engagement Manager Asia-Pacific, Estelle Cheng, recently spoke with Wen-Yau Cathy Lin, an academic, author and scholarly journal editor about ORCID and its use in Taiwan
Laksamana Cheng Ho, Sejarah Pelayaran di Nusantara pada Abad ke-15 M dan Peninggalannya dalam Peradaban Islam
No full textHasil riset ini, menunjukkan beberapa hal pertama, Laksamana Cheng Ho merupakan seorang tokoh yang lahir di Prov. Yunnan tahun 1371 M di Desa He Dai. Kakek Laksamana Cheng Ho bernama Sayyid Ajall Shams al-Din Omar
dan pernah menjabat gubernur di Prov. Yunnan. Laksamana Cheng Ho memiliki beberapa nama diantaranya San Bao, Sam Poo Kong dan Zheng He. Laksamana Cheng Ho berlayar ke Nusantara sebagai utusan Dinasti Ming tahun 1405-1433 M & berkunjung ke Nusantara sebanyak 7 kali bersama
tokoh-tokoh muslim lainnya. Kedua, pengaruhnya yang cukup kuat dalam penyebaran Islam di Nusantara pada abad ke-15 M, sehingga dapat meningkatkan jumlah pemukiman China muslim dan muslim pribumi, impresi Laksamana Cheng Ho juga dapat dilihat pada aspek budaya arsitektur seperti
bangunan masjid, konstruksi makam Islam dan budaya tak benda. Ketiga, Laksamana Cheng Ho banyak memberikan kontribusi dalam proses penyebaran Islam di Nusantara, ia melakukan kunjungan baik di Sumatera ataupun Jawa pada pusat-pusat dagang sehingga memudahkan untuk menyebarkan Agama Islam. Sekitar abad ke-15 M, banyak masyarakat muslim China yang membentuk kelompok-kelompok masyarakat di Sumatera dan Jawa. Implikasi dari penelitian ini, mampu menjadi salah satu rujukan
dalam pengembangan penelitian tentang pelayaran Laksamana Cheng Ho di Nusantara. Riset ini juga mampu menjaga kelestarian sejarah tentang Laksamana Cheng Ho sebagai seorang tokoh muslim yang berpengaruh di Asia
Tenggara dan secara khusus di Nusantara, sebab masih banyak yang tidak mengenal dan mengetahui tentang sosok Laksamana Cheng Ho
Studi Tentang Ragam Hias pada Bangunan Masjid Cheng Hoo di Kecamatan Pandaan, Pasuruan, Jawa Timur
No full textABSTRAK Putra, Adhitya Yuwana. 2012. Studi Tentang Ragam Hias pada Bangunan Masjid Cheng Hoo di Kecamatan Pandaan, Pasuruan, Jawa Timur. Skripsi, Jurusan Seni dan Desain, Universitas Negeri Malang. Pembimbing (1)Drs. H.Mistaram, M. Pd, Ph. D. Pembimbing (2) Drs. Anak Agung Rai Airmbawa, M. Sn. Kata Kunci: ragam hias, bangunan, masjid. Kemunculan Masjid Cheng Hoo Pandaan terinspirasi oleh sikap Laksamana Cheng Hoo yang menghargai keberagaman agama dan kepercayaan. Berdasarkan observasi lapangan yang dilakukan oleh penulis di Masjid Cheng Hoo Pandaan, terdapat percampuran atau kombinasi seni hias Islam dan Tionghoa. Terakhir, penulis menyarankan agar kaum Muslim di Indonesia mengedepankan perdamaian dan toleransi jika berhubungan dengan penganut agama lain karena memang hal inilah yang diperintahkan dalam Al-Quran. Masalah yang diteliti dalam skripsi ini adalah: 1. Bagaimana latar belakang dari penggunnaan ragam hias di Masjid Cheng Hoo? 2 Apa saja motif hias yang ada pada Masjid Cheng Hoo? 3 Seperti apa penempatan dari motif hias tersebut? Dalam menjawab permasalahan tersebut, penulis menggunakan beberapa pendekatan, antara lain: Pendekatan Semiotika, yang mengacu pada hubungan tanda dan acuannya. Pendekatan Historis, mencari asal-usul penggunaan ragam hias pada Masjid Cheng Hoo di Pandaan. Pendekatan Strukturalisme, melihat bagian-bagian Masjid yang terdapat perubahan dan saling menyesuaikan. Sesuai dengan beberapa permasalahan, maka penulis berusaha mencari beberapa sumber atau data-data yang berupa tertulis ataupun lisan. Kesimpulan yang diambil dari skripsi ini adalah, Masjid Cheng Hoo di Pandaan adalah sebuah bangunan berupa Masjid yang berarsitektur Tionghoa. Di dalam bentuk bangunan masjid juga terdapat beberapa unsur antara lain Islam dan Cina. Bentuk dasar Masjid Cheng Hoo di Pandaan, berupa kelenteng yang biasanya terdapat di negeri Cina dan berfungsi sebagai tempat bersembahyang bagi orang yang beragama Kong Hucu. ABSTRACT Putra, Adhitya Yuwana. 2012. Study about Varieties of Ornamental Building in Cheng Hoo Mosque in Pandaan District, Pasuruan, East Java. Essay, Department of Art and Design, State University of Malang. Supervisor (1) Drs. H.Mistaram, M. Pd, Ph. D. Supervisor (2) Drs. Anak Agung Rai Airmbawa, M. Sn. Keywords: decorative, building, mosque. Existency of Cheng Hoo Mosque in Pandaan are inspired by the atititude of Admiral Cheng Hoo who respected the differences of the religions and beliefs. Based on the author’s observations in Masjid Cheng Hoo Pandaan, there are decorative art combinations of Islamic and Chinese. Finally, the author suggest to Moslems in Indonesia to promote peace and tolerance in touch with people of other faiths because it is commanded in the Qur'an. The problems that examined in this essay are: 1. What is the background of the decorative usage in Cheng Hoo Mosque? 2. What are the ornamental motifs in Cheng Hoo Mosque? 3. How about the placement of the decorative motifs? To answer these problems, the author use some approaches, such us: Semiotics approach, which refers to the relationship between sign and referent. Historical approach, is looking for the origin of the decorative usage in Cheng Hoo Mosque in Pandaan. Structuralism approach, is seeing the changes in the mosque parts that are adjusted each other. According to those problems, the author try to find some sources or files in the both written or oral form. The conclusion of this paper is, Cheng Hoo Mosque in Pandaan is a form of building that have Chinese architecture. In the form of the mosque, there are also several other elements between Islam and China. The basic form of Cheng Hoo Mosque in Pandaan is similar with temples that is usually found in domestic China and serve as a place of religious worship for people who are Confucians.
Validity of the Novel Taiwan Lymphoscintigraphy Staging and Correlation of Cheng Lymphedema Grading for Unilateral Extremity Lymphedema
No full textOBJECTIVE: The aim was to validate the new Taiwan Lymphoscintigraphy Staging, correlate it with Cheng Lymphedema Grading (CLG) and evaluate the treatment outcomes of unilateral extremity lymphedema. BACKGROUND: No consensus has been reached for diagnosis and staging for patients with lymphedema among medical specialties. METHODS: We included 285 patients with unilateral extremity lymphedema using lymphoscintigraphy. Lymphoscintigraphy was correlated to clinical symptoms and signs, and classified into normal lymphatic drainage, partial obstruction, and total obstruction. Inter- and intraobserver reliability of Taiwan Lymphoscintigraphy Staging, correlation between Taiwan Lymphoscintigraphy Staging and clinical findings were conducted. Patients were categorized in "surgical" (n = 154) or "nonsurgical" (n = 131) groups for outcome evaluation. RESULTS: Lymphoscintigraphy found 11 patients (3.9%) with normal lymphatic drainage, 128 (44.9%) with partial obstruction, and 146 (51.2%) with total obstruction. Taiwan Lymphoscintigraphy Staging showed high interobserver agreement [intraclass correlation coefficient: 0.89 (95% confidence interval, 0.82-0.94)], and significantly correlated to computed tomography volumetric difference (r = 0.66, P < 0.001) and CLG [intraclass correlation coefficient: 0.79 (95% confidence interval 0.72-0.84)]. At a mean follow-up of 31.2 ± 2.9 months, significant improvement in the circumferential difference (from 23.9% ± 17.6% to 14.6% ± 11.1%; P = 0.03) with a mean circumferential reduction rate of 40.4% ± 4.5% was found in surgical group. At a mean follow-up of 26.6 ± 8.7 months, the nonsurgical group had increase of mean circumferential difference from 24.0% ± 17.2% to 25.3% ± 19.0% (P = 0.09), with a mean circumferential reduction rate was -1.9% ± 13.0%. CONCLUSIONS: The Taiwan Lymphoscintigraphy Staging is a reliable diagnostic tool, correlated with clinical findings and CLG, aiding in the selection of the appropriate treatment to achieve favorable long-term outcomes in unilateral extremity lymphedema
On Semialgebraic Range Reporting
No full textSemialgebraic range searching, arguably the most general version of range searching, is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. In the problem, we are to preprocess a set of points in ℝ^D such that the subset of points inside a semialgebraic region described by a constant number of polynomial inequalities of degree Δ can be found efficiently.
Relatively recently, several major advances were made on this problem. Using algebraic techniques, "near-linear space" data structures [Agarwal et al., 2013; Matoušek and Patáková, 2015] with almost optimal query time of Q(n) = O(n^{1-1/D+o(1)}) were obtained. For "fast query" data structures (i.e., when Q(n) = n^{o(1)}), it was conjectured that a similar improvement is possible, i.e., it is possible to achieve space S(n) = O(n^{D+o(1)}). The conjecture was refuted very recently by Afshani and Cheng [Afshani and Cheng, 2021]. In the plane, i.e., D = 2, they proved that S(n) = Ω(n^{Δ+1 - o(1)}/Q(n)^{(Δ+3)Δ/2}) which shows Ω(n^{Δ+1-o(1)}) space is needed for Q(n) = n^{o(1)}. While this refutes the conjecture, it still leaves a number of unresolved issues: the lower bound only works in 2D and for fast queries, and neither the exponent of n or Q(n) seem to be tight even for D = 2, as the best known upper bounds have S(n) = O(n^{m+o(1)}/Q(n)^{(m-1)D/(D-1)}) where m = binom(D+Δ,D)-1 = Ω(Δ^D) is the maximum number of parameters to define a monic degree-Δ D-variate polynomial, for any constant dimension D and degree Δ.
In this paper, we resolve two of the issues: we prove a lower bound in D-dimensions, for constant D, and show that when the query time is n^{o(1)}+O(k), the space usage is Ω(n^{m-o(1)}), which almost matches the Õ(n^{m}) upper bound and essentially closes the problem for the fast-query case, as far as the exponent of n is considered in the pointer machine model. When considering the exponent of Q(n), we show that the analysis in [Afshani and Cheng, 2021] is tight for D = 2, by presenting matching upper bounds for uniform random point sets. This shows either the existing upper bounds can be improved or to obtain better lower bounds a new fundamentally different input set needs to be constructed
Chinese Cooking with Theresa Cheng : Results
No full textStanding wok-adjacent, chef and cookbook author Theresa Cheng displays a dish made during the Chinese Cooking program, while another person eyes the demonstration table
[[alternative]]The Analysis of Master's Theses in Sport Management in Taiwan
No full text[[abstract]]The Analysis of Master’s Theses in Sport Management in Taiwan
Lin, Wen-Cheng
Advisor：Philip Cheng, Shao-Tung, Ph.D.
Abstract
The purposes of this study were to understand and analyze the contents and the status of the development of 398 master’s theses and their 26803 references in sport management during 1993-2003 in Taiwan. The Content Analysis was used as the study’s main research method, with the assistance of the Citation Analysis. The instrument “content analysis checklist of master’s theses in sport management in Taiwan” was used to collect data. The data was statistically analyzed in terms of Frequency Distribution and Percentage, Chi-square. The results showed as the followings：
1.The total number of master’s theses in sport management has been growing significantly since 1998. The total number of master’s theses in sport management in different areas has been in unbalanced distribution. There were six major universities playing the key roles in terms of sport management research.
2.The main three research topics of the master’s theses were Sport Marketing Management（Sponsorship included）, Sport Management, Organization and Leadership, Sport Leisure Management.
3.There was no significant correlation found among master’s theses in different years and research topics. The significant correlations were found between these master’s theses were correlations among research purposes, research areas, research instruments, and computerize statistical software.
4.There was no significant correlation found among master’s theses in different areas, research purposes, research areas, research instruments, and computerize statistical software. The significant correlations were found between these master’s theses and their respective research topics, and research instruments.
5.The quantity of references has been increasing. The languages of the references were mainly Chinese and English. Most of the references were published between the year of 1991 and 2003. The main types of the references were books and journals. The most cited English author was Chelladurai, P., and the Chinese counterpart was Ministry of Education（Taiwan）.
This study provides the research information and analysis of Master’s Theses in Sport Management in Taiwan during recent 10 years, and expects the increasing application of qualitative research method in sport management. It would be combined together between Sport Marketing Management and Sport Leisure Management to create benefit for organization, and it would be a future trend.
Key words：Content Analysis, sport management.
A Study on Luo Zhi Cheng\ue2s Historical narrative poems
No full textLuo Zhi Cheng is an important poet in the field of Taiwanese modern poetry, who is known for distinctive linguistic style and intense creative consciousness that are respected. Based on his powerful imagination and flourishing creativity as two primary advantages, through the mediation of poetry, prose, remarks, and commentaries, he maximally amplifies the implication of literature, and thereby composes himself and enriches the character. Distinguished from the majority of researchers focusing on Luo\ue2s lyric works, this study particularly found a writing context of \ue2avoidance of lyric sensibility\ue2 in Luo\ue2s poems, that is, his series of works historical themes in the form of long poems utilizing narrative skills to exhibit the remarkable consistency between the internality and the externality of the author.
\ue3\ue3This study conducted a comparative investigation of Luo\ue2s poetry work (The Book of Zhuzi) and prose works (Austral Court\ue2s Notandum and The Initiation of Civilization) to build a relatively more multi-faceted \ue2author\ue2s image of Luo Zhi Cheng\ue2 according to the writing of works of historical themes. Using the methodology of narratology, I departed from the internality of the text (the collection of poems) to identify how Luo forms the ideal spectrum of character by shaping historical persons; and meanwhile, I equally departed from the collections of prose to grasp the external information of the texts, and thereby clarified that Luo may treat \ue2writing, individual, and society\ue2 as a process of self-fulfillment. It is the two corresponding identities \ue2poet\ue2 and \ue2the intellectual\ue2 that are the mechanism of his constructing self-justification. Such investigation of the internality and the externality of text confirmed the complex relationships of the sustained \ue2opposition,\ue2 \ue2coexistence,\ue2 and \ue2conflict\ue2 between Luo and his works of historical themes
[[alternative]]The Effect of Wai Tan Kung Exercise on Energy Expenditure And Heart Rate Variability
No full text[[abstract]]The Effect of Wai Tan Kung Exercise on
Energy Expenditure And Heart Rate Variability
Graduate student: Cheng-Kun Wu
Advisor: Cheng-Chung Lin ,Ph.D.
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of long-term Wai Tan Kung exercise on heart rate (HR), energy expenditure, oxygen uptake (VO2), ventilation (VE), heart rate variability and blood pressure. Two different groups of older adults were recruited. One group subjects (n =16; 65.0 ± 4.2 yrs, 163.3 ± 7.3 cm, 63.3 ± 7.3 kg) had been participated at least 10 years of regular Wai Tan Kung exercise (long-term group, LTG), and the other (n = 16; 59.0 ± 3.7 yrs, 162.0 ± 3.9 cm, 65.7 ± 3.6 kg) had been participated as same exercise as LTG but less than one year (short-term group, STG). The results of this study showed that there were significant differences (p < .05) in rest systolic pressure, and HR, energy expenditure, VO2, VE, high frequency power (HFP) and low frequency power (LFP) during exercise between LTG and STG (p < .05). LTG subjects had a significant lower in rest heart rate and blood pressure (p < .05) than STG subjects, and the former also reached higher (p < .05) exercise intensities during exercise testing than the latter. Moreover, there were significant higher heart rate, VO2 and VE during exercise testing for LTG than STG, suggesting that LTG subjects had higher metabolic rate. Additionally, LTG had a higher HFP than STG, suggesting that there was a significant increase in parasympathetic division of autonomic nervous activity during exercise testing for LTG than STG, indicating LTG subjects may prevent from coronary artery disease and improve functions of the heart. It is concluded that older adults participate in regular long-term of Wai Tan Kung exercise have a positive effect on their cardiovascular fitness. Therefore, such kind of exercise may especially fit for older adults.
Key words: oxygen uptake (VO2), ventilation (VE), heart rate, heart rate variability, Wai Tan Kung exercise.
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