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Implied Author, Overall Consideration, and Subtext of "Desiree's Baby"
No full textThis essay explores how to infer from a text the image of the implied author. It examines Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" (1893), which has been widely regarded as an indictment of racism but which an "overall consideration" of the implied author's choices will lead us to see as a racist text. Through the interaction of various details in the text, the implied author suggests three racist dichotomies: (1) white characters' nondiscrimination versus black characters' discrimination, (2) positive slavery under white masters versus negative slavery under a black master, and (3) superior whites versus inferior blacks. This implied racist stance reflects the historical context of Chopin's personal experiences, but it contrasts with the quite different racial stances of the implied authors of some other Chopin narratives with different thematic designs. The complexity of the narratives under the name "Kate Chopin" offers an opportunity not only to gain a better understanding of the concept of implied author but also to clarify the relations (connections as well as disparities) among textual, intertextual, and extratextual evidence in literary interpretation in general.LiteratureA&HCI4ARTICLE2285-3113
Qionemobius Shen & He 2020, gen. nov.
No full textGenus Qionemobius Shen & He gen. nov. (Fig. 2 C,D; Fig. 3) Type species: Qionemobius hsterus Including species: type species only Diagnosis. The new genus is similar to Pteronemobius, Dianemobius, Polionemobius, Speonemobius in appearance, but does not have forewings. It also differs from Marinemobius, Parapteronemobius, and Taiwanemobius by having short legs. In terms of habitat, the new species occupies leaf litter habitats, while the latter three genera live near sea. Genitalia: apical part of epiphallus with two rounded projections, ectoparamers with rather small apical part, not exceeding epiphallus (Fig. 3).Published as part of Shen, Chu-Ze, Guo, Pei-Kun & He, Zhu-Qing, 2020, A pilot phylogeny study of Nemobiinae inferred from 18 S, 28 S and genes, with descriptions of two new genera and a new species from Hainan, China (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Trigonidiidae), pp. 383-390 in Zootaxa 4778 (2) on page 387, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4778.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/382641
SENI OLAH NAFAS JIAN SHEN QI GONG (Pengamatan Victory Jian Shen Qi Gong Yogyakarta)
No full textThis final paper entitled Jian Shen Qi Gong Art Of Breathing (Observation Of
Yogyakarta Victory Jian Shen Qi Gong) aims to provide an overview of one of the
Chinese cultures related to health. The research method that is used in this final paper
is a library research, observation, participant, interviews, and questionnaires.
Jian Shen Qi Gong is one of traditional sport from China that is well-known
since then. Is an effective and efficient sport anyone can do. It is ot limited in the term
of place and time. Also, it can strength then one�s body, cure some illnesses, improve
one�s intelligence and create peace in one�s mind
Revisiting revisitation in computer interaction: organic bookmark management
No full textAccording to Milic-Frayling et al. (2004), there are two general ways of user browsing i.e. search (finding a website where the user has never visited before) and revisitation (returning to a website where the user has visited in the past). The issue of search is relevant to search engine technology, whilst revisitation concerns web usage and browser history mechanisms. The support for revisitation is normally through a set of functional built-in icons e.g. History, Back, Forward and Bookmarks. Nevertheless, for returning web users, they normally find it is easier and faster to re-launch an online search again, rather than spending time to find a particular web site from their personal bookmark and history records. Tauscher and Greenberg (1997) showed that revisiting web pages forms up to 58% of the recurrence rate of web browsing. Cockburn and McKenzie (2001) also stated that 81% of web pages have been previously visited by the user. According to Obendorf et al. (2007), revisitation can be divided into four classifications based on time: short-term (72.6% revisits within an hour), medium-term (12% revisits within a day and 7.8% revisits within a week), and long-term (7.6% revisits longer than a week
Chinese users’ preference for web browser icons
No full textThis paper compares the perspicacity, appropriateness and preference of web browser icons from leading software providers with those of a culture-specific design. The history and future direction of web browsers is outlined, together with the implications for the future growth of Chinese internet users. China, with its rapidly expanding young netizens has now overtaken the USA in terms of the number of internet users (253 million) and we predict it will reach saturation (?70% internet penetration rate) by 2012. If correct, this will have a dramatic effect on the use of English as the ‘Lingua Franca’ of the Internet. This online study was conducted in Taiwan and involved 103 participants (mean age 21 years), who were given three sets of web browser icons to review, namely Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, Macintosh Safari 3.0, and culturally specific icons created using the Culture-Centred Design methodology. The findings of the study show that all three sets have generally high recognition rates, but that some icon functions (e.g. Go/Visit and Favourite) in all three sets have poor recognition rates and are considered inappropriate. Furthermore, some significant differences were found when we analysed the level of user experience amongst several icon
Advanced stochastic control systems with engineering applications
No full textEditorialMing Liu, Peng Shi, Hamid Reza Karimi, Shen Yin, and Xiaojie S
Sathytes tianquanus Yin & Shen 2020, sp. nov.
No full textSathytes tianquanus sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 3303B110-9BE0-49BE-B87D-6E22C868629F Fig. 12 Differential diagnosis The male of S. tianquanus sp. nov. is morphologically close to that of S. obliquus Shen & Yin, 2020 (Zhejiang) and S. longitrabis (Shaanxi) in the apophysis of antennomere 9 located at anterior half of the segment. It differs from S. obliquus by the much more transverse antennomere 9; and from S. longitrabis by the larger body size (2.92 mm vs 2.21–2.42 mm), more elongate antennomere 11 and more transverse antennomere 9. Etymology The new species is named after Tianquan County, where the type locality of this species is situated. Type material (5 specimens) Holotype CHINA • ♂; Sichuan, Tianquan (XAEn), Er’lang Shan (ĹḇƜ); 29°52′23″ N, 102°48′34″ E; alt. 2200–2300 m; 13 Jul. 2012; Z. Peng and Z.-W. Yin leg.; old pass; leaf litter, sifted; SNUC. Paratypes CHINA • 4 ♀♀; same collection data as for holotype; SNUC. Description Male MEASUREMENTS. AeL = 0.32 mm; AnL = 1.34 mm; AL = 0.79 mm; AW = 0.92 mm; TBL = 2.92 mm; EL = 0.89 mm; EW = 1.07 mm; HL = 0.61 mm; HW = 0.58 mm; LE = 0.19 mm; LT = 0.18 mm; PL = 0.63 mm; PW = 0.63 mm. Body (Fig. 12A) reddish-brown, mouthparts and tarsi paler. Head slightly longer than wide. Each eye composed of about 22 facets; LE:LT = 1.1. Antennal clubs (Fig. 12B) formed by antennomeres 9–11; antennomere 9 (Fig. 12C) broadest at apical ¼, each with semi-membranous apophysis at apex of mesal expansion; antennomere 10 strongly transverse, obconical; antennomere 11 (Fig. 12B) about 1.6 times as long as wide, each with large basal protuberance bearing tuft of long apical setae at apex (Fig. 12D). Pronotum about as long as wide. Elytra moderately transverse. Abdomen widest at tergite 1 (IV) and narrowing apically. Aedeagus (Fig. 12E) slightly asymmetrical at apex. Female MEASUREMENTS.AnL= 1.20–1.21 mm; AL = 0.90–0.91 mm; AW = 0.89–0.90 mm; TBL = 2.81–2.85 mm; EL = 0.74–0.75 mm; EW = 0.96–0.97 mm; HL = 0.57–0.58 mm; HW = 0.53–0.54 mm; LE = 0.15 mm; LT = 0.16 mm; PL = 0.60–0.61 mm; PW = 0.60–0.61 mm. Slightly smaller than male in size. Each eye composed of about 16 facets; LE: LT = 0.9. Antennal clubs lacking modifications. Distribution China: Sichuan.Published as part of Yin, Zi-Wei & Shen, Qi, 2020, Fifteen new species of Sathytes Westwood from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), with an updated checklist of world species, pp. 37-74 in European Journal of Taxonomy 722 on pages 57-58, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.722.1133, http://zenodo.org/record/413433
Including design in e-manufacturing
No full textThis paper reviews major issues in the implementation of e-manufacturing, particularly the design aspects. It will examine recent progress, drawing out particular issues that are being addressed. Use will be made of the work by the author and colleagues to devise rule-based design and Internet-based control of machines to illustrate how these developments affect the integrated e-manufacturing environment. A dynamic Simulink model of the way e-manufacture is affected by overall design delays is used to evaluate general solutions for partial and complete e-based companies. These models show how changing to improved designs reduces WI
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