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Images of the Dai : the aesthetics of gender and identity in Xishuangbanna
No full textThis thesis is based on fieldwork carried out m Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. The main focus of the work is the Dai people, one of China's fifty-five so called 'Minority Nationalities'. I aim to paint a picture of the complex processes through which Dai ways of being and images of them are created and recreated. This is not to suggest that the Dai constitute a bounded group. Although Chinese official discourse presents a static, rigid picture of the so-called 'Minority Nationalities', I hope to have demonstrated that the everyday experiences of those in Banna are governed by a fluid and dynamic relationality. Images of 'Minority Nationalities' abound in China, these images are multiple and often contradictory. The Dai are known throughout China for their beauty, a beauty often portrayed as highly erotic. In this thesis I explore the implications of this image and the role of the Dai in its formation and continuity. With this in mind I examine the ways that the striking Dai aesthetic is used in the intricate power plays of Xishuangbanna. This work examines aspects of the Dai lived aesthetic and as such it has chapters on tattoo, architecture and feminine beauty. Dai aesthetic knowledge is interlaced with strands of moral, philosophical and cosmological insight, thus this work also includes a chapter on morality, autonomy and cooperation. The penultimate chapter uses vivid ethnography of the Water Splashing festival as a example of play of identities in Xishuangbanna. The Conclusion reiterates that the processes by which images, identities and aesthetic understandings are generated, and by which limits are explored and transgressed in Xishuangbanna are dialogic in character
Drabescoides complexa Qu, Li & Dai 2014
No full textDrabescoides complexa Qu, Li & Dai, 2014 Drabescoides complexa Qu, Li & Dai, 2014: 348, Fig. 2. Distribution: China (Zhejiang, Fujian).Published as part of Qu, Ling, Webb, M. D. & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2015, A new genus and species of the leafhopper subtribe Paraboloponina from China (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), pp. 260-270 in Zootaxa 3919 (2) on page 262, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/24119
Analysis of the Cambodian bagnet ("dai") fishery data
No full textThis report summarises general and detailed features of catches from the bagnet ("dai") fishery in Cambodia between 1995 and 1999, as monitored by the MRC/DoF/DANIDA Management of the Freshwater Capture Fisheries Project (MFCFP) in Phnom Penh.Fishery data, Cambodia,
The Grouped Author-Topic Model for Unsupervised Entity Resolution
No full textThis paper describes a generative approach for tackling the problem of identity resolution in a completely unsupervised context with no fixed assumption regarding the true number of identities. The problem of entity resolution involves associating different references to authors (in a paper's author list, for example) with real underlying identities. The references may be written in differing forms or may have errors, and identical references may refer to different real identities. The approach taken here uses a generative model of both the abstract of a document and its list of authors to resolve identities in a corpus of documents. In the model, authors and topics are associated with latent groups. For each document, an abstract and an author list are generated conditioned on a given group. Results are presented on real-world datasets, and outperform the best performing unsupervised methods.</p
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No full textMap of Hawaii published in Japan in 1943.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn6451628. 880-04 Inset: Shinjuwan oyobi Honoruru fukin -- Hawai shoto fukin (Sandoicchi shoto). Scale 1:9,000,000.880-04 Inset: 1-MO!KB'IC!5#i%[i%Ni%ki%k!0o
No full textSiamiassus constanti sp. nov. (Figs 5 C, D, 20 A–D, 23 A) Male 8.4 mm long, 3.9 mm wide across humeral angles. Color dull olive green; forewing densely marked with small black spots in basal 2 / 3 and along veins near apex; front and middle femur black in distal half, front tibia dark brown (Fig. 5 C, D). Structural features as described for genus (Fig. 20 A–D). Type material. Holotype ♂ THAILAND: Loei, Na-Haeo (edge pond) 17.v. 2003, J. Constant & K. Smets, light trap [RISB]. Notes. This species is named in honor of Dr. Jerome Constant, Auchenorrhyncha expert at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, collector of the holotype and host to CHD during a recent visit to Brussels. Siniassus nom. nov. (replacement for Sinojassus Dai, Zhang, Zhang & Dietrich 2010, nec Sinojassus Zhang 1985) Notes. The genus was described by Dai et al. (2010) and given the name Sinojassus, but this name is a junior homonym of an older fossil genus, Sinojassus Zhang (1985) and, therefore, must be given a new replacement name. Siniassus resembles Trocnadella in overall body form and the absence of a separately articulated connective in the male genitalia, but may be distinguished by the presence of numerous dark spots on the dorsum and the elongate style apodeme. Included species: Siniassus aspinus (Dai, Zhang & Zhang), comb. n. (Fig. 4 A, B) Sinojassus aspinus Dai, Zhang & Zhang 2010 in Dai, Zhang, Zhang & Dietrich (2010) Siniassus compressus (Dai, Zhang & Zhang), comb. n. (Fig. 4 C, D) Sinojassus compressus Dai, Zhang & Zhang 2010 in Dai, Zhang, Zhang & Dietrich (2010) Siniassus loberus (Dai, Zhang & Zhang 2010), comb. n. (Fig. 4 E, F) Sinojassus loberus Dai, Zhang & Zhang 2010 in Dai, Zhang, Zhang & Dietrich (2010) Material examined. CHINA: Yunnan, Xishuanbanna, Mengla 1050–1080 m, 20 May 1958, 1 male; Yunnan, Menghai, 1250 m, 27 Feb. 1957 [IOZB]. Siniassus webbi (Dai & Dietrich 2010), comb. n. (Fig. 4 G, H) Sinojassus webbi Dai & Dietrich, in Dai, Zhang, Zhang & Dietrich (2010)Published as part of Dai, Wu, Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zhang, Yalin, 2015, A review of the leafhopper tribe Hyalojassini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Iassinae) with description of new taxa, pp. 1-142 in Zootaxa 3911 (1) on pages 32-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3911.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/25371
Macropsis zizhongi Li, Dai et Li
No full textMacropsis zizhongi Li, Dai et Li, nom. nov. Macropsis gracilis Li et Liang, 2005: 578 –579, nom. preocc. (nec Macropsis gracilis Dubovskiy, 1966: 97) Distribution. China (Heilongjiang prov.). Etymology. The species is named in honour of Prof. Li Zizhong, the first author of the original species name.Published as part of Li, Hu, Dai, Ren-Huai, Li, Zi-Zhong & Yu, Dmitri, 2012, Taxonomic study of Chinese species of the genus Macropsis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Macropsinae): new species, new records, synonymy and replacement name, pp. 41-62 in Zootaxa 3420 on page 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21216
Coordination Techniques for Distributed Artificial Intelligence
No full textCoordination, the process by which an agent reasons about its local actions and the (anticipated) actions of others to try and ensure the community acts in a coherent manner, is perhaps the key problem of the discipline of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI). In order to make advances it is important that the theories and principles which guide this central activity are uncovered and analysed in a systematic and rigourous manner. To this end, this paper models agent communities using a distributed goal search formalism, and argues that commitments (pledges to undertake a specific course of action) and conventions (means of monitoring commitments in changing circumstances) are the foundation of coordination in all DAI systems
AWINHorse app
No full textL'applicazione AWINHorse è uno strumento per valutare il benessere dei cavalli. La app è stata sviluppata nell'ambito del progetto AWIN (www.animal-welfare-indicators.net), finanziato dal VII Programma Quadro dell'Unione Europea, dai ricercatori dell'Università degli Studi di Milano (Italia) e realizzato da Daia Intelligent Solutions (www.daiasolutions.com).
L'applicazione AWINHorse consente ad allevatori, veterinari e tecnici di raccogliere, archiviare e scaricare i dati relativi agli indicatori di benessere inclusi nel protocollo AWIN welfare assessment protocol for horses (protocollo di primo livello) (10,13130 / AWIN_horses_2015).
L'applicazione permette di generare un grafico relativo ai dati appena raccolti, fornendo così un feedback visivo riguardo il benessere dei cavalli valutati, evidenziando le condizioni positive e permettendo il confronto con una popolazione di riferimento. Il database completo, costituito da tutti i dati raccolti, può essere scaricato in formato CSV.
L'applicazione AWINHorse è stata sviluppata con il finanziamento del VII programma quadro dell' Unione Europea (FP7-KBBE-2010-4) sovvenzione # 26621
Inter-Jurisdiction Migration and the Fiscal Policies of Local Governments
No full textHealthCare|PublicFinanceThe relationship between migration and the economy is of great interest to researchers, especially where migration and local government fiscal policy intersect. In order to attract immigrants or retain current residents, how do local governments choose to spend, and how do they choose to finance their spending? This article summarizes PERC working paper 1901, where Dennis W. Jansen, PERC��������s director, and PERC Research Scientist Liqun Liu, along with co-author Darong Dai analyze the effects of non-tax/debt-driven migration on the fiscal policies of local governments using a two-period model of two identical local governments that are connected by mutual migration
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