1,638 research outputs found
Opening ceremony & welcome speeches = 開幕禮、致歡迎辭
No full textOpening ceremony & welcome speeches are given by the following guests: MOK Ka Ho Joshua (Vice-President, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China) Tejaswini NIRANJANA (Head, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China) WANG Hui (Tsinghua University, China) WEN Tiejun (Renmin University of China, China) DAI Jinhua (Peking University, China) Margo OKAZAWA-REY (San Francisco State University, USA; PeaceWomen Across the Globe) LAU Kin Chi (Lingnan University; Global University for Sustainability; ARENA
Process management.
No full textby Huang Zilong, Mok Gar Lon Francis, Yip Kin Keung.Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-67).Introduction / Forward --- p.1Methodology --- p.3What is Process Management --- p.4Definition of process --- p.4An overview of process management --- p.5Goals of process management --- p.6Benefits of process management --- p.6Process Assessment --- p.7Process Analysis --- p.12Process Improvement --- p.16Process Assessment Tools/Techniques --- p.18Process Analysis Tools/Techniques --- p.19Different Performance / Process Improvement Tools --- p.20TQM --- p.20IS09000 --- p.20Business Process Reengineering --- p.20Process Management --- p.21Comparison --- p.22Company Experience with Process Management --- p.23IBM experience --- p.23Background --- p.23Methodology --- p.24Current development --- p.26MTRC experience --- p.28Background --- p.28Methodology --- p.29Current development --- p.31Application of Process Management at CRC --- p.32Background --- p.32History of merging --- p.32Restructure --- p.33Difficulties encountered --- p.34Current Situation analysis --- p.36Structure --- p.36Practices --- p.38Human issues --- p.41Attitude --- p.41Motivation --- p.43Knowledge and Skills --- p.43Selecting the key process --- p.43Customer Service --- p.44Purchasing Management --- p.44Process Assessment --- p.44Process Analysis --- p.49Process Improvement --- p.58Key learning / Conclusion / Further discussion --- p.61Management Issues --- p.62Human Issues --- p.63"Integrating TQM, Process Management and BPR" --- p.64References --- p.66AppendicesAppendix I An example of Process MapAppendix II Retail Information & Management System
Why Do We Need to Coordinate When Classifying Kin?
No full textWe suggest that there are two coordination games when it comes to understanding kin terminology. Jones’ article focuses on the linguistic coordination inherent in developing meaningful kin terminologies, alluding briefly to the benefits of these kin terminologies for coordination in other domains. We enhance Jones’ discussion by tracing the links between the structure of kin terminologies and their functions.Open peer commentary on: Jones, Doug. "Human Kinship, From Conceptual Structure to Grammar." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33, no. 5 (2010): 367-416.Peer reviewe
Negotiating Elder Care in Akuapem, Ghana: Care-Scripts and the Role of Non-Kin
No full textIn contemporary Ghana, adult children are considered responsible for the care of aged parents. Within this idealized framework, two aspects of elder care are overlooked. First, such a narrative obscures the role of non-kin and extended kin in providing elder care in southern Ghana historically and in the present. Secondly, it hides the negotiations over obligations and commitments between those who manage elder care and those who help with an aging person’s daily activities. It is in this latter role in which non-kin and extended kin are significant in elder care, while closer kin maintain their kin roles through the more distant management, financial support, and recruitment of others. This paper examines recruitment to elder care and the role of kin and non-kin in elder care in three historical periods—the 1860s, the 1990s, and the 2000s—centered on Akuapem, in southern Ghana. In particular, I show that helping an aged person relies on previous and expected entrustments, in which more vulnerable, dependent, and indebted persons are most likely to be recruited to provide care
Paternal kin recognition in the high frequency / ultrasonic range in a solitary foraging mammal
No full textabstract: Background
Kin selection is a driving force in the evolution of mammalian social complexity. Recognition of paternal kin using vocalizations occurs in taxa with cohesive, complex social groups. This is the first investigation of paternal kin recognition via vocalizations in a small-brained, solitary foraging mammal, the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus), a frequent model for ancestral primates. We analyzed the high frequency/ultrasonic male advertisement (courtship) call and alarm call.
Results
Multi-parametric analyses of the calls’ acoustic parameters and discriminant function analyses showed that advertisement calls, but not alarm calls, contain patrilineal signatures. Playback experiments controlling for familiarity showed that females paid more attention to advertisement calls from unrelated males than from their fathers. Reactions to alarm calls from unrelated males and fathers did not differ.
Conclusions
1) Findings provide the first evidence of paternal kin recognition via vocalizations in a small-brained, solitarily foraging mammal. 2) High predation, small body size, and dispersed social systems may select for acoustic paternal kin recognition in the high frequency/ultrasonic ranges, thus limiting risks of inbreeding and eavesdropping by predators or conspecific competitors. 3) Paternal kin recognition via vocalizations in mammals is not dependent upon a large brain and high social complexity, but may already have been an integral part of the dispersed social networks from which more complex, kin-based sociality emerged.The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://bmcecol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6785-12-2
Martial arts fiction : translational migrations east and west
No full textThis thesis was motivated by Robert Chard's puzzlement over the translational
phenomenon of martial arts fiction in the West. It proposes to address how the
translational migration of martial arts fiction took place, first to other Asian countries in the
1920's, but to the West only after a lapse of a few decades beginning in the early 1990's.
Adopting a descriptive approach as described by Gideon Toury, the thesis is intended to
add further to the limited inventory of case studies in urgent demand to test the polysystem
theory propounded by Even-Zohar.
The thesis is made up of two parts. Part I is a macro-level study of martial arts fiction,
intended to contribute to testing the limits of the polysystem theory. After examining
Chinese fiction as a low form in the Chinese literary polysystem and its weak function as
translated literature in the Western literary polysystem, the study explores the translational
phenomenon of martial arts fiction in the West as well as the concurrent phenomenon as to
why so little of martial arts fiction has been translated into Western languages, compared to
the copious amount into other Asian languages, to the extent of stimulating a new literary
genre or (re)writing martial arts fiction in indigenous languages in Indonesia, Vietnam and
Korea, sinicized countries or countries boasting large overseas Chinese communities.
Issues and problems related to these translational activities and cultural phenomena are
presented as tools to test the limits of the polysystem theory.
Part II is a micro-level study focussing on the specifics of rendering Fox Volant of the
Snowy Mountain by Jin Yong into English. I will argue, in the main, that many difficulties,
inherent in both the translating and reading processes, can be constructed within the
theoretical framework of Andre Lefevere's concept of "constraint", particularly that of the
universe of discourse. Lefevere's connotation of the universe of discourse will be expanded
to embrace different cultural presuppositions and literary assumptions underlying two
divergent world cultures, hence different reader expectations in the reading process.
It is hoped that the findings and results of this descriptive case history of martial arts fiction
as a literary genre in translational migrations will contribute to the accumulation of
knowledge
What Are Kinship Terminologies, and Why Do We Care? A Computational Approach to Analyzing Symbolic Domains
No full textKinship is a fundamental feature and basis of human societies. We describe a set of computational tools and services, the Kinship Algebra Modeler, and the logic that underlies these. These were developed to improve how we understand both the fundamental facts of kinship, and how people use kinship as a resource in their lives. Mathematical formalism applied to cultural concepts is more than an exercise in model building, as it provides a way to represent and explore logical consistency and implications. The logic underlying kinship is explored here through the kin term computations made by users of a terminology when computing the kinship relation one person has to another by referring to a third person for whom each has a kin term relationship. Kinship Algebra Modeler provides a set of tools, services and an architecture to explore kinship terminologies and their properties in an accessible manner
ʻAṣabīya bil-Walā’: An Analysis of Non-Kin Relationships in Ibn Khaldūn’s Dynastic Theory
No full textIn this article, the author reappraises the significance of non-kin ties according to ‘ilm al-‘umrān al-basharī (the science of human civilization), advocated by Arab historian Ibn Khaldūn in the Muqaddima, an introduction and volume I of his historical work, the Kitāb al-‘Ibar. Ibn Khaldūn’s dynastic theory, which constitutes the substance of his science of human civilization, has been regarded as a product of his political experience in Maghrib society, giving him insights into its organization, and is considered to be “tribal” in character. However, after reading through Ibn Khaldūn’s historical narrative, the author has found that the phenomenon of a transition from kin to non-kin ties in dominant groups is also laid out as a critical dynastic phenomenon, bringing into doubt the conventional interpretation that the theory is no more than “tribal.”
Thus the author examines Ibn Khaldūn’s Kitāb al-‘Ibar, focusing on a kind of his notions of social ties, ‘aṣabīya bil-walā’ (solidarity based on clientage), in order to clarify the function of non-kin ties in his dynastic theory and historical narrative. Chapter I outlines Ibn Khaldūn’s historical narrative up to the Abbasid era according to his historical perspective. Chapter II examines Ibn Khaldūn’s method of applying his own dynastic theory to the Mamluk sultanate, which has been considered not to conform to his “tribal” dynastic theory because its dominant group, mamluks, are intrinsically non-kin and non-tribal.
In conclusion, the author argues that while Ibn Khaldūn’s dynastic theory emphasizes the significance of kin and tribal ties as applied to historical dynasties in general, his historical narrative reflects the principles of transitions from kin and tribal to non-kin, which takes place in the character of social relationships in dominant groups.journal articl
Zi wo yong you, gong ping yu ping deng
No full textLeung, Kin Wai.Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2014.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-50).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 06, January, 2017).Leung, Kin Wai
Opening ceremony & welcome speeches
No full textOpening Ceremony & Welcome Speeches
Moderators: LAU Kin Chi (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China) SIT Tsui (Southwest University, China) YAN Xiaohui (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China)
Figures of Hope
Photos: Patrick CHOW (Hong Kong, China)
Music: YU Siu Wah (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China)
Speakers (3-5 mins each): Joshua MOK (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China) Gustavo ESTEVA (Earth University, Mexico) Maria Lucia teixeira garcia (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil) Ruth-Gaby vermot mangold (PeaceWomen Across the Globe, Switzerland) Samuel LEE (Forum for Democracy and Peace, South Korea) Ebrima SALL (Trust Africa, Senegal) WEN Tiejun (Southwest University, China) WANG Hui (Tsinghua University, China) DAI Jinhua (Peking University, China
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