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Interview with Shen Hui
Full text linkInterview with Shen Hui recorded on March 25, 2024 at Forest Hills Northern High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ms. Hui is interviewed by Forest Hills Northern High School students Rohan Bennett, Christian Granstrom, and Peyton Pascoe as a part of WMU’s Telling Our Stories: A Video Collection Celebrating AAPI Heritage. During the interview Ms. Hui discusses the following topics: A brief overview of her immigration history; Her English-learning journey; Experiences in both Chinese and American education systems; Coming to the U.S. without a plan and how she found her career path; Being a professor at Van Andel; The complications of coming and going to and from the U.S. on a student visa; Experiences with prejudice against Chinese people and academics; Encouraging students to come to the U.S. to study; Differences between American and Chinese culture; Reminiscing on her trips to Italy; Hopes for better attitudes and ideologies toward Asians in America; and Views on U.S.-China relations and ideologies.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/our-stories-aapi/1007/thumbnail.jp
Genome-wide Linkage Studies for Bone Mineral Density, Areal Bone Size, and Cross-sectional Bone Geometry
No full textOsteoporosis is a major public health problem, mainly characterized by compromised bone strength. The bone strength is determined by many skeletal factors, including bone mineral density (BMD), geometric structure, microarchitecture, and intrinsic material properties. The BMD and geometric structure have been demonstrated to be under strong genetic controls. Identification of genetic determinants for these skeletal factors will lead to a better understanding of osteoporosis pathophysiology and to the development of new diagnostic tools and therapeutic agents. A large number of linkage and association studies have been conducted on BMD and several on bone geometry, however, relatively little success has been achieved and inconsistent results have accumulated. Though the lack of inconsistence may be due to a number of factors, one of the main reasons is that most of the previous studies are lack of sufficient statistical power to generate reliable and reproducible results. Therefore, in the present project, I onducted powerful genome-wide linkage scans for areal BMD, areal bone size, and femoral neck cross-sectional geometry in a sample of 79 multigenerational Caucasian pedigrees. Several promising genomic regions have been identified for various skeletal traits. For instance, genomic regions at llq23, 20pl2-ql2 and on chromosome X may contain genes influencing BMD variation. In addition, the regions on 20pl2-ql2 and chromosome X also showed linkage evidence for several femoral neck cross-sectional geometric variables, suggesting that these potential quantitative trait loci (QTLs) may regulate bone geometric structure as well. Moreover, gender-specific linkage analyses suggested that some of these QTLs may affect these bone phenotypes in a sex-specific manner.The significance of these regions was further corroborated by earlier findings or by the candidate genes within the regions. Further explorations of these regions are warranted. I also identified significant/suggestive linkage evidences at several other genomic regions, such as 3p26 for spine BMD, 15q23 for hip BMD, 14qll for hip bone size, and 8q24 and 10q26 for femoral neck cross-sectional geometry. Together with the findings from other studies, the current study has further delineated the genetic basis of several osteoporosis-related skeletal traits and highlighted the importance of increasing sample size to confirm linkage findings and to identify new regions of linkage.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optionviii, 176 page
Abkai enduri hūi-i kicen-i yarugan. [Tian shen hui ke 天神會課 par le P. Francesco Brancati, nom chinois Pan Guo-guang 潘國光.]
No full textAbkai enduri hūi-i kicen-i yaruganTian shen hui keNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.Préface de l'auteur, incomplète. Variantes par rapport au texte chinois (cp. Chinois 6946) : le texte du hui zui jing 悔罪經 manque et le texte du Tumen irgen-i duin duben [Wan min si mo 萬民四末] est donné ici sur le dernier f. (201 r°-v°). Texte mandchou ; numérotation des f. inscrite en chinois dans la marge intérieure
Effects of Oral Clonidine on the Secretion of Serum Growth Hormone in Children and Adolescents in Short Stature
No full textImprove TCP performance in Ad Hoc netwoks
Full text linkStandard TCP misinterpret mobility loss in Ad hoc network as congestion loss, thus, it reduce the TCP performance by invoking unnecessary congestion control action. In this paper, we propose two approaches, simELFN (an variation of TCP-ELFN) and TCP-FSR (an variation of TCP-F). They can distinguish the essence of packet loss and avoid multiple consecutive dupACKs. Analyses and simulations show that they can achieve better TCP performance in Ad hoc network.Keywords: Ad hoc Networks; simELFN; TCP-FSR; TCP performance
Religion as Revolution in Chinese Historiography: Hu Shih (1891-1962) on Shen-hui (684-758)
No full textMême s'il a rarement été reconnu en tant que tel, Hu Shih (1891- 1962) a apporté une importante contribution aux études sur le bouddhisme chan en Chine. Son intérêt portait sur le moine Shenhui (684 - 758) dont il avait découvert les écrits parmi les collections de manuscrits de Dunhuang conservés à Paris et à Londres. Outre ses recherches sur la biographie et la pensée de Shenhui, Hu présenta une interprétation du rôle historique de ce moine novateur qui devait exercer une profonde influence sur la constitution moderne de la compréhension du bouddhisme chinois. Cet article résume et critique les travaux de Hu sur Shenhui. Pour ce faire, il analyse son interprétation dans les termes de son programme historiographique, et aussi d'après sa projection rétrospective sur l'histoire religieuse et intellectuelle chinoise du huitième siècle et des siècles suivants, de la situation délicate de la Chine à l'orée du vingtième siècle. L'interprétation très imparfaite de Shenhui faite par Hu contribua de façon fondamentale à sa théorie de la "Renaissance chinoise". Nos images de révolution du chan en Chine et du rôle du bouddhisme dans l'histoire chinoise ont besoin d'être réévaluées afin d'éviter des erreurs d'interprétation de même nature.McRae John R. Religion as Revolution in Chinese Historiography: Hu Shih (1891-1962) on Shen-hui (684-758). In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 12, 2001. Religions chinoises : nouvelles méthodes, nouveaux enjeux. pp. 59-102
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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