150,147 research outputs found
Chinese cities exhibit varying degrees of economic growth and CO2 emission decoupling between 2005 to 2015
No full textThis dataset provides 1) CO2 emissions, GDP, and population of Chinese cities 2005, 2010, and 2015; 2) supporting tables of published in One Earth, 2021.
Detailed information could be required from [email protected] (Dr Yuli Shan) and [email protected] (professor Bofeng Cai)
Glaciological results of the 2005 expedition to Inylchek Glacier, Central Tian Shan
No full textLike many other glaciers in Central Asia, Southern Inylchek glacier in the Kyrgyz Tian Shan is covered by supraglacial moraine, which drastically influences melt rates and complicates the estimation of ablation. The quantification of sub-debris melt from simple parameters is still an unsolved problem, but also essential to predict future yield from high mountains. Snow cover and glacier ice are the main water storages for the surrounding arid lowlands and a better understanding of ablation processes is the prerequisite for a sustainable water resources management. Another interesting feature of Southern Inylchek glacier is the existence of an ice dammed lake in a tributary valley, which is drained regularly by outburst floods. Improvements in predicting these floods would lower the risk potential for the downstream population. The main objectives of a group of glaciologists which participated in an expedition to the glacier in 2005 were to investigate melt rates on debris covered glacier parts and to quantify the ice flux into the glacier lake. The results of their field experiments are reported in this paper
Buddhism and Tourism at Pu-Tuo-Shan, China
No full textThis thesis is a study of pilgrimage and religious tourism in a Chinese Buddhist context, with a focus on both the host monastic community and visitors. The selected research site is Pu-Tuo-Shan, one of the Four Buddhist Sacred Mountains of China. While the Western literature on pilgrimage and religious tourism in the context of Buddhism in China remains thin and the many studies in Chinese have their research focus primarily on how to make use of religions to develop tourism and stimulate economic growth, this thesis aims to present the perceptions of Buddhist monks and nuns towards receiving visitors and tourism. The perceptions of religious hosts towards tourism development, and how they cope with the subsequent challenges created by tourism in China, are subjects that have not been studied. Additionally the thesis analyses data derived from a survey of 777 visitors to the island; the quantitative analysis sheds light on the profile of visitors. As elsewhere in the world, the religious sites of China attract not only believers, but also leisure and cultural tourists. The popularity of Pu-Tuo as a tourist destination inevitably disturbs the serenity of the monastic life of the approximately thousand monks and nuns who live there in their monasteries and nunneries. The first objective of this research is to generate a typology of visitors, and this was done through a quantitative approach grounded in post-positivism. The visitor survey was used to construct a visitor typology. The second objective of this thesis, to address how Buddhist monks and nuns perceive receiving visitors and tourism, and their ways to manage visitors’ behaviours, is achieved by adopting a qualitative approach grounded in an interpretive-constructivist paradigm. In-depth interviews with 25 monks and nuns were conducted to capture rich contextual data of their understandings. The two objectives of the thesis are related in the sense that the impact of the visitors on the monastic community and how the monks and nuns perceive their presence in Pu-Tuo depend on the visitors’ reasons for their visits, their behaviour and the strength of their belief in Buddhism. The findings provide insight into how the concepts of ‘pilgrimage’ and ‘pilgrim’ are understood from a Buddhist perspective. The attitudes of the Pu-Tuo Buddhist monks and nuns towards receiving visitors and tourism are found to be mostly welcoming and supportive. This contrasts with the literature on sites belonging to religions other than Buddhism which indicates that tourism is perceived by religious hosts as a burden and as a threat to the sanctity of their religious/sacred sites. Yet, there are challenges created by the visitors in Pu-Tuo and these are noted by the monks and nuns. Their ‘Buddhist way’ of undertaking visitor management is found to be different from what is described in the existing literature about non-Buddhist sites. It is suggested that the empathetic nature of Buddhism is at the root of the visitor management strategies adopted at Pu-Tuo. The findings thereby contribute to the existing scholarly knowledge of how Buddhist sites are managed in the Buddhist way
Corporate governance outcomes in China's listed non financial companies: impact of board composition and ownership concentration, using bad debt ratios as a metric
No full textY. Shan & R. P. McIve
Modelling of hydrological response to climate change in glacierized Central Asian catchments
No full textThe arid lowlands of Central Asia are highly dependent on the water supplied by the Tien Shan mountains. Snow and ice storage make large contributions to current runoff, particularly in summer. Two runoff models with different temporal resolutions, HBV-ETH and OEZ, were applied in three glaciated catchments of the Tien Shan mountains. Scenario runs were produced for a climate change caused by the doubling of atmospheric CO2 as predicted by the GISS global circulation model and assuming a 50% reduction of glaciation extent, as well as a complete loss of glaciation. Agreement of the results was best for runs based on 50% glaciation loss, where both models predict an increase in spring and summer runoff compared to current levels. Scenarios for complete loss of glaciation predict an increase in spring runoff levels, followed by lower runoff levels for July and August. Model predictions differ concerning the degree of reduction of late summer runoff. These scenarios are sensitive to model simulation of basin precipitation, as well as to reduction of glaciation extent
The Effect of Industry Specialization on Audit Fees in Taiwan: The Role of Industry Type
No full textUnderstanding sedimentation in the Song Hong–Yinggehai Basin, South China Sea
No full textThe Cenozoic Song Hong–Yinggehai Basin in the South China Sea contains a large volume of sediment that has been used in previous studies, together with regional geomorphology, to argue for the existence of a large palaeodrainage system that connected eastern Tibet with the South China Sea. To test this and to understand the significance of sediment volumes deposited in the Song Hong–Yinggehai Basin, this study compared erosion histories of source regions with sediment volumes deposited during the two main stages in basin evolution spanning active rifting and subsidence (30–15.5 Ma) and postrift sedimentation (15.5 Ma to present). The study of basin provenance by detrital zircon U-Pb dating revealed Hainan was an important and continuous source of sediment, and a bedrock thermochronological study quantified its overall contribution to basin sedimentation. Comparison between the accumulated mass of basin sediment and volumes of eroded bedrock, calculated from apatite thermochronometry across the modern Red River drainage in northern Vietnam as well as Hainan Island, accounted for the bulk of sediment deposited since 30 Ma. Consequently, if an expanded paleodrainage ever existed it must have predated the Oligocene
Morphometric study of the benthic foraminiferal clade Gaudryina in an Oligocene-Miocene Series of the Kouhsing area in central Taiwan.
No full textLow-temperature thermochronology
No full textThe Huangling dome is one of the largest tectonic domes in the South China continent. According to previous geological mapping results, the dome was formed between the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, when regional compression was eventually replaced by regional extension. This transition fuels a dispute about whether the dome was generated by compression or extension. This study carried out single-grain zircon (U–Th)/He (ZHe) dating for samples collected from the dome and adjacent synclines. All measured ZHe ages are younger than the depositional or crystallization ages of the sampled rocks, and the western and eastern dome sides have much older ZHe mean ages than those of the dome and synclines' cores. These reflect an complex interactions between uplift, denudation and heating processes during dome formation. In order to explore the exhumation history of the dome, we developed one-dimensional heat-conduction models that cover a wide range of heating and exhumation scenarios (assuming that uplift rate equals denudation rate) within an interval of 152.1–121.4 Ma. These models were solved and searched for the predictions of the measured ages. The best models have a fast decrease in uplift rate with time and a constant heating rate, indicative of an early-interval shaping of the dome in a compressional setting
Bestiary in Modern Media Art (Based on the Tales of P. P. Bazhov and the “Shan Hai Jing” Materials)
No full textThe relevance of the study of bestiar y in media art is due to the need to trace the links between traditional and digital culture in the modern world. The methodology of semiotic analysis of wild culture codes is used. Bestiary codes of the Ural and Chinese cultures are considered as such codes. The subject of the research focus is the bestiary of Bazhov’s tales and “Shan Hai Jing” in media art. The goal is to identify the forms of existence of the Ural and Chinese tales in contemporary media art. The conclusion is made about the content continuity of traditional and modern media art. Bazhov’s tales are reinterpreted in the form of literary and pictorial works of modern authors, and the Chinese legends “Shan Hai Jing” in the form of animated films, com puter games and serials
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