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A Study of the Classical Landscape at the Wang River Villa of Wang Wei
Full text linkThe landscape of Wang Wei's Wang River Villa is examined by reviewing the essays and papers written about the poetical collaboration, the “Wang River Collection.” The purpose of this paper is to clarify the meaning of villa architecture in China. The author expects that this research will contribute to a mutual understanding between cultures. The villa was a Utopia for Wang. On the other hand, he was a pious Buddhist and Buddhistic concepts are reflected in the landscape. I consider the features of the classical landscape of Xie Lingyun and "Chu Ci," as written in “The Collection,” a reflection of the Buddhistic concept. When considering what the classics meant to Wang Wei, it is apparent that his villa is a representation of the classical landscape. It is not an imitation of the classical landscape, but a unique and original creation of art by Wang.departmental bulletin pape
Downlink Space–Time Spreading Using Interference Rejection Codes
No full textIn this paper, the authors will investigate the performance of a loosely synchronized (LS) code-based space–time spreading (STS) scheme in comparison to that of classic Walsh code and pseudonoise code-based STS when communicating over dispersive Nakagami-m multipath channels. Closed-form formulas are derived for characterizing the bit-error-rate performance as a function of the number of resolvable paths L and the number of users K. Our numerical results suggest that the employment of LS code-based STS scheme is beneficial in a low-user-load and low-dispersion channel scenario, where a near-single-user performance can be achieved without a multiuser detector. Index Terms—Code-division multiple access (CDMA), Gaussian approximation, interference-free window (IFW), large area synchronized (LAS) codes, loosely synchronized (LS) codes, Nakagami-m fading
Relationship of grain weight variation to grain-yield and the related physiological-characteristics in rice
No full textNotes on the Peerage of the Ts'ao-Wei Dynasty
Full text linkWith a view to clarifying a few interesting points on the peerage system of the Wei of the Three Dynasties period, firstly the author takes up the process of formation of the Ts'ao-Wei peerage, where it consisted of the five-grade peerage of the Chou period, the lieh-hou 列侯 and khuan-nei-hou 關内侯 titles after the Ch'in-Han system, and the peerage created by Wei itself. Secondly, the author discusses the size of the lieh-hou and khuan-nei-hou fiefs in terms of household and their inner structure. Lastly, the author points out that heir apparency was widened under the Wei, though the "inheritance by real son" principle of the Han period was still in practice. In view of the fact that fiefs were sometimes divided even in the life-time of lord the author relates the Wei peerage to its noble lineage system
MLTK01: A Prototyping Toolkit for Tangible Learning Things
No full textThis work illustrates and reflects on the design process of MLTK01, an open-source toolkit for fast prototyping tangible learning things, built on top of Arduino and ml5js. The toolkit was developed as a response to the current lack of fast and easy to use tools for tangible experiments with machine learning. Learning from insights gained through previous projects, we defined a set of basic building blocks necessary to enable such experiments and engaged in an iterative process of sketching, prototyping and preliminary testing of the toolkit. MLTK01 includes a custom PCB, a software library and accessories. Together with a descriptive account of the design process we also discuss possible applications of the toolkit and its implications for a design process of tangible learning thingsGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Design Aesthetic
Using Google Analytics for improving library website content and design: a case study
No full textGoogle Analytics is a free web analytics solution that provides webmasters with insightful information about how visitors find and interact with their websites. In this case study, we have experimented in using Google Analytics to analyze two of our websites: The Rutgers-Newark Law Library main website and The New Jersey Digital Legal Library website. It was used to monitor our visitors' browsing activities and viewing behaviors for three months. Based on our findings from Google Analytics reports, we have redesigned our website. Subsequent data collected by Google Analytics have confirmed that our new design better fits the information needs of our visitors and librarians. Google Analytics is very powerful and can be used for almost any website. We believe that other libraries will benefit from using Google Analytics as well. Limitations of Google Analytics are also discussed based on our experience with it.The published version of this article is available at: http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/lpp2007.htm"June, 2007
Juvenalia, or How I came to own a Blu-Ray of Point Break
Full text linkAgony Klub and Publication Studio Vancouver are pleased to present Whitney Houston, vol. 2. A continuation of Whitney Houston, et. al., editor/author Casey Wei invites six writers to reflect on their relationship to popular music in film, keeping in mind that popular music has always been as much about the desire for an image as about the catchiness of a song. The resulting essays on Elliot Smith, Amélie, Real Genius, The Pixies, Drive, and The Conversation explore themes of time, love, and evolution.final article publishedReal Genius (1985
Corrigendum to “Screening for sustainable and lead-free perovskite halide absorbers – A database collecting insight from electronic-structure calculations” [Mater. & Des. 234 (2023) 112324]
No full text"In the list of authors the second affiliation of the third author Wei Wei is missing. The correct affiliation is Wei Wei." The authors apologise for the mistake.24
Comrade Te Wei
No full textThe article discusses a subject that has not been examined in Polish Film Studies yet, namely the specifics of the classic animated film from the People’s Republic of China (1957-1989) through the prism of the life and work of Te Wei, a doyen of Chinese animation. The author aims to define a category of the "Shanghai School of Animation" and to coin the term "minzu style" which refers both to aesthetics and the ideological assumptions of Chinese animation art. As early as in the 1930s Te Wei was engaged in propaganda activities on behalf of the Communist Party of China realizing patriotic manhua. In 1949, he led the animation department at Changchun Film Studio and from 1957 he was the head of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS). In 1957, Te Wei called animators to undertake the challenge of constructing a specifically Chinese style of animation and to use Western medium (cinematograph) in order to transmit Chinese "essence" through new techniques (e.g. ink-wash animation) and references to traditional symbolics (among others, Peking Opera). In this way, animated film production was adapted to the paradigm of Maoist propaganda that glorified Chinese cultural supremacy. For Chinese authors, veiled philosophical reflection of the relations between man and nature became the only available way of smuggling "artistic contraband" under totalitarian censorship, the possibility of expression that was fully exploited in the last film of the Chinese master (Feelings from Mountains and Water, 1988), completed in a period of modernization
Does corruption relieve foreign investors of the burden of taxes and capital controls?
Full text linkIn a sample of fourteen source countries making bilateral investments in forty five countries, the author finds that taxes, capital controls, and corruption, all have large, statistically significant negative effects on foreign investment. Moreover, there is no robust support in the data for the"efficient grease"hypothesis - that corruption helps attract foreign investment by reducing firms'tax burden and the irritant of capital controls.International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Capital Markets and Capital Flows,Decentralization,Fiscal&Monetary Policy,Economic Theory&Research,Economic Theory&Research,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Governance Indicators,National Governance,Capital Flows
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