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Doctoral thesis recital (piano) chamber
No full textPiano trio in C minor, op. 1 no. 3 / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Piano trio no. 2 in E minor, op. 67 / Dmitri Shostakovich. (Grace Youn, violin ; Cory Blais, cello ; Shih-Ting Wu, piano).Musi
Geração e distribuição de sinais ROF
Full text linkMestrado em Engenharia Electrónica e TelecomunicaçõesO trabalho apresentado nesta dissertação incidiu no estudo de técnicas de geração e distribuição de sinais rádio sobre fibra (RoF).
Numa primeira fase estudaram-se os vários componentes associados ao canal óptico, para se perceber de que forma cada um deles afecta os sinais RoF que se propagam, e quais serão as principais limitações associadas.
No seguimento desse estudo inicial, efectuou-se trabalho experimental, de transmissão de sinais rádio (3G) sobre um sistema óptico mono-canal, para se observar e verificar os fenómenos limitativos identificados anteriormente.
Posteriormente, foi abordada a geração de sinais rádio por multiplicação de frequência no domínio óptico, com reduzido custo e complexidade, utilizando um modulador Mach-Zhender em regime não-linear, considerando diferentes formatos de modulação. As simulações efectuadas incidiram na optimização das topologias e parâmetros associados aos diferentes componentes envolvidos, em particular na emissão e recepção.
Este trabalho serviu de base ao apresentado no capítulo 5, em que se simulou e optimizou um cenário de distribuição em rede óptica passiva multi-canal, de sinais OFDM, compatíveis com UWB, gerados por multiplicação de frequência no domínio óptico.The work presented in this dissertation focused on the study of techniques for the generation and distribution of radio signals over fiber (RoF).
Initially the various components associated to the optical channel were studied, to conclude how each of them affects the propagated RoF signals, and what are the key limitations associated.
Following this initial study, experimental work was carried out, the transmission of radio signals (3G) on a single-channel optical system was studied, to observe and verify the limiting phenomena identified earlier.
The next step was the generation of radio signals by frequency multiplication in the optical domain, with reduced cost and complexity, by using a Mach-Zehnder modulator in non-linear regime, considering different modulation formats. Several simulations were performed, focusing on optimizing topologies and parameters associated to the different components involved, especially in the transmitter and receiver.
The performed work was the basis to the concepts presented in Chapter 5, in which a distribution scenario involving a passive optical network with multi-channel OFDM signals, compatible with UWB, generated by frequency multiplication in the optical domain was simulated and optimized
Assessing Alternative Policies for Reducing Household Waste in Taiwan
Full text linkIn the last few years, the three major cities in Taiwan have been experimenting with two different demand-side management approaches to reduce the waste generated by households and to promote the recycling of recyclables. Thus, there are three different kinds of approaches of waste management that are concurrently used in Taiwan: fee-per-bag, mandatory recycling with free waste collection services, and the zero price of trash collection. We performed a comparative analysis of these policy instruments to take advantage of this important social experiment. We first developed an economic model for the three different waste charging programs concurrently in use and then performed an empirical study based on the implications from the theoretical analysis. It is clearly seen that the traditional approach of zero pricing of trash collection is very ineffective in terms of waste reduction and recycling. Households have all changed their behavior significantly in those cities with two new approaches. However, of the two, the fee-per-bag program is clearly the most effective approach. The results have important policy implications.
Re-examining the Spiritual World of Han-Yu: Discussion on The Criticisms of Han-Yu from the Period of late Qing to early Republic China
No full text本文旨在認識清末民初之際「抑韓」現象，並且由「抑韓」諸面向來探索韓愈內在的心路。研究過程著重資料的蒐集、統整與分析，期能掌握清末民初時期的韓愈形象；亦重回歸文本的解讀，期能釐清前者與文本中的韓愈形象的異同。韓愈評價在清末民初的低落，反映的是社會人心對「道」的認知產生了變化。當民主成為新的政治理想，西學成為新的學術追求，「韓愈」遂成清末民初人們用來析辨古今之異同、取捨中西之本末的論述符碼。本文首先大幅探索清末民初政治社會文學教化人心之情勢，接著以議題為核心的方式呈現韓愈批評的重要細節，最後站在回應批評的角度重探韓愈的個性情感之心路歷程。韓愈的爭議性即是人的複雜性，故他招致批評之處，也往往是他多情真率的地方。故歷來無論尊韓或抑韓，終不可動搖其歷史地位。The aim of this dissertation is to comprehend and analyze the phenomenon of the “degradation of Han-Yu” and through this degradation, explore the inner world of Han-Yu. This study will be focusing on the collection, integration and analysis of the documents in order to create and grasp a clear image of Han-Yu during the late Qin and early Republic periods. Furthermore, this essay will be reviewing the original text and doing a comparison with the image of Han-Yu at the time. The low popularity / bad reputation of Han-Yu during the late Qin and early Republic periods revealed that the meaning of “Dao” changed in people’s minds. When Democracy became the new ideal polity and people embarked on the pursuit of the “western knowledge,” Han-Yu served as the paradigm in order to differentiate the ideas and teachings of the ancient times with the modern new ones and was used in order to compare the Chinese and Western ideologies. This dissertation will be firstly exploring the way in which politics, society and literature affected people and continue with issuing the details of Han-Yu’s criticism. The study will conclude with the revealing of his sentiments/feelings/spirit and the characteristics of his life by replying to this criticism. The controversy of Han-Yu is in truth the complexity of humanity, so the reasons for which he had been degraded tend to reveal his forthright, sincere and passionate personality. This is the reason why, although there are various reviews which either admired or degraded him, he still holds a principal position throughout history
A research guide to English translation of Chinese verse : Han Dynasty to T'ang Dynasty /
No full textTitle on verso of t.p.: Zhong shi Ying yi suo yin; Han zhi Tang."For each entry, the name of the poet and the title of the poem are given, both as the Chinese original and the English translation. Sequence of the poets and poems follows that of the Chʻuan Han San-kuo Chin Nan-Pei-chao shih ... by Ting Fu-pao ..., 1959 edition, and the Chʻuan Tʻang shih ..., 1960 edition."Bibliography: p. ix-xi
On the Relationship between the Shih-chi 史記, Bk.123 and the Han-shu 漢書, Bk.61 anad 96
Full text linkThere are two opposite opinions concerning the relationship between the Shih-chi, Bk. 123 and the Han-shu, Bk. 61 and 96. The author in this article tries to establish that, as traditionally believed, these books of Han-shu were compiled utilizing the Shih-chi as one of the main sources, by presenting evidence which has hitherto been overlooked.(1) The Chinese are called Ch’in-jên 秦人 in the Shih-chi, and Han-jên 漢人 in the Han-shu. The term Ch’in-jên is an older designation of the Chinese people in Central Asia than Han-jên. Central Asia is called Hsi-yü 西域 in the Han-shu, but no such name appears in the Shih-chi, in which Central Asia is referred to as Hsi-kuo 西国 and Hsi-pei 西北. The Gate of Jade or Yü-mên玉門 is used to designate the province of Yü-mên in the Shih-chi, while the term Barrier of Gate of Jade or Yü-mên-kuan 玉門関 is employed in the Han-shu according to later usage. These examples show that the Shih-chi follows the older usage of appellations, and the Han-shu the later one.(2) There is a big difference between the accounts of the ancient history of Central Asian peoples in the Shih-chi and the Han-shu. The difference arose because the compilers of Han-shu had access to new information on Central Asia which was not available to Ssu-ma Chicn. The Han-shu revised the accounts given in the Shih-chi on the basis of this new information. This difference is clearly evident in the Han-shu’s descriptions of the struggles and migration of the Hsiung-nu 匈奴, the Ta-yueh-shih 大月氏, the Wu-sun 烏孫, and the Saka 塞 which are not recorded in the Shih-chi. Such a difference shows that the accounts of Central Asian peoples in the Shih-chi cannot be regarded as being copied from the Han-shu.(3) There also are other points which make us realize that the Shih-chi accounts were not copied from the Han-shu, but vice versa.(4) The question of misplacement of written strips, which is said to exist in both the Shih-chi, Bk. 123, and the Han-shu, Bk. 61, and which Professor A. F. P. Hulsewé and Dr. M. A. N. Loewe insist are only understandable if the Shih-chi accounts were copied from the Han-shu, the text of which was not original and already damaged at the time. The strongest reason is that such an eminent scholar as Pan Ku would never have blindly followed the Shih-chi 'text if it was out of order. However, the author of the present article believes that there is no misplacement of written strips in the text examined by the two learned scholars. One can easily read the text as it is. Pan Ku found no misplacement of written strips in the Shih-chi text, because he was an eminent scholar, and he must have copied it.journal articl
The political role of the people's liberation army 1949-1973
Full text linkThis thesis is to study the political role of the People's Liberation Army from the approach of structure and function. The framework of the thesis consists of three major parts, first, the influence of Chinese traditional political culture on, and the formation of, the political role of the PL A; second, the influence of domestic political struggles and external military conflicts on the development of the political role of the PLA; and the third, the analysis of the transition of the PLA's political role from the structure and personnel arrangements of the CCPCC Within the above-mentioned three scopes, this thesis make a thorough discussion on the following: (1) The relationship between the structure of the PRC and the formation of the PLA's political role; (2) How has ideology influenced the army's political role; (3) What is Mao's viewpoint and his influence on the development of the army's political role; (4) What is the link between the army and the party, and how has this developed; (6) What accounts for the expansion of the PLA's political functions; (7) What is the influence of political factional struggles on the PLA's political role; (8) Is it political institution or military institution that controls the recruitment of the military elite; (9) What are the disparities between the military elite in handling international conflicts and what are their political considerations; (10) What is the Party's position in the army; (11) How have the Party’s important meetings and personnel arrangements influenced the rise and fall of the PLA's political role
A Study of the Han-shih wai-chuan : Its Significance as a Collection of Anecdotes
Full text linkThe Han-shih wai-chuan is the oldest commentary on the Book of Odes still in existence. Though in the form of a commentary, the main interest of the work, as an examination of the contents will show, is actually in the numerous anecdotes which it contains, and the brief quotations from the Odes which are used to complete each anecdote are fragmentary and taken out of context. The reason that the book has been handed down for over two thousand years, and continues to attract readers today, is not that it is important as a commentary on the Odes, but that it constitutes an interesting collection of stories. This aspect of the work--its nature as a collection of stories--serves not only to attract the interest of the reader today, but may have a special significance in explaining how the book happened to come into being. The present writer, taking a hint from the biography of Han Ying 韓嬰, the author of the Han-shih wai-chuan, has put forward the hypothesis that the work was produced with one pariticular reader in mind. The anecdotes of which the work is made up are on the whole interesting and easy to read, picturing the famous men of early history involved in various incidents and activities. The stories are varied in subject and thought, while the quotations from the Odes which close them tend to follow a fixed pattern. Han Ying, we are told, was appointed tutor to Liu Shun 劉舜, the young king of Ch'ang-shan 常山. Considering the form of the Han-shih waichuan, the present writer wonders if Han Ying did not produce the book specifically for the instruction of his royal pupil. If this hypothesis is correct, it will help to explain why Han Ying, a recognized authority on the Book of Odes, should have put his hand to the compilation of a collection of stories of this type
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