43,198 research outputs found
Wang Shuo and the commercialisation of contemporary Chinese culture
No full textThis thesis examines the commercialisation of Chinese culture that has taken place over the past twenty years in mainland China. It explores the contribution of Wang Shuo, a cultural figure who straddles different fields of culture, moving from literature to the ultimate mass culture medium of television, this study plots Wang Shuo' s development from educational failure, to business failure, to fiction writer, film & TV editor, film director and cultural critic and analyst. His stories, films, TV series and articles have caused shock-waves throughout national cultural circles as he has transformed the terms of the debate from academic discourse to a validation of the role of the market in the culture field. Although Wang Shuo has not been labelled as a dissident, his approach to the culture market has had a more subversive effect on official ideology that those overt dissidents who have had to live in exile or have been imprisoned. He has utilised the language of official ideology to satirise the authorities, turning the ideology and its supporters into figures of fun. Yet his own goals have been strictly personal and economic ones. The authorities recognize the value of Wang Shuo's work in the cultural market but at the same time distrust his works and place him under strict censorship. Examining the way Wang Shuo and people surround him have succeeded in different fields of cultural achievement is a mirror to understanding the process of the transformation of contemporary Chinese culture from a socialist state-controlled culture to a market-oriented mass culture industry
Redundant Residue Number System Assisted Multicarrier Direct-Sequence Code-Division Dynamic Multiple-Access for Cognitive Radios
No full textA redundant residue number system assisted multicarrier direct-sequence code-division dynamic multiple-access (RRNS MC/DS-CDDMA) scheme is proposed for application in cognitive radios (CRs). Taking the advantages of both the multicarrier direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (MC/DS-CDMA) and the RRNS, the RRNS MC/DS-CDDMA has a low-complexity for implementation, a high-flexibility for reconfiguration and is robust to dynamic spectrums. Associated with the RRNS MC/DS-CDDMA, in this paper, the so-called receiver multiuser diversity aided multi-stage minimum mean-square error multiuser detector (RMD/MS-MMSE MUD) is considered for signal detection. Specifically, three types of RMD/MS-MMSE MUDs are proposed, which are the Type-I.1, Type-II.1 and Type-I.2 RMD/MS-MMSE MUDs. In these MUD schemes, the Type-I.1 MUD carries out the joint detection of all the subcarrier signals using both the observations and the channel state information (CSI) of all the subcarriers. In the Type-I.2 and Type-II.1 RMD/MS-MMSE MUDs, the embedded MMSE-MUDs are implemented subcarrier-by-subcarrier independently. Furthermore, in the Type-I.2 RMD/MS-MMSE MUD, the autocorrelation matrices used by the MMSE-MUDs are free from the CSI. Explicitly, both the Type-II.1 and Type-I.2 RMD/MS-MMSE MUDs are suitable for operation in dynamic spectrum environments. Furthermore, our simulation results show that the above three types of RMD/MS-MMSE MUDs are capable of making the RRNS MC/DS-CDDMA systems achieve similar error and throughput performance. Owing to the above merits, the RRNS MC/DS-CDDMA employing either Type-I.2 or Type-II.1 RMD/MS-MMSE MUD may be considered one of the highly promising DMA schemes for application in CR systems
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
Zombie Firms and the Upgrading of Businesses in China —Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
No full textThis is the data in the paper "Zombie Firms and the Upgrading of Businesses in China —Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms."
by Yong Qi, Shuo Yang and Yudi Yang.The sample data of this study is comprised of data from Chinese A-share listed companies between 2008 and 2017. TFP_OP and TFP_LP represent the level of firm upgrading. zombieratio represents the proportion of zombie firms in an industry using the revised identification method.The firm control variables are size (the natural logarithm of the employees), age (the natural logarithm of the year of listing), growth (income growth rate), lev (asset-liability ratio), stockratio (shareholdings of the top ten shareholders), and cashflow (net cash flow from business activities / business income). The industry control variables are sales (growth rate of industrial sales), and wage (growth rate of industrial average wage). The province control variables are firstgdp (contribution to GDP by the primary industry), secondgdp (contribution to GDP by the secondary industry), and pergdp (GDP per capita)
Evolving Process Maintenance through Human-Robot Teaming: An Integrated System Performance Analysis
No full textL'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachmen
Redundant Residue Number System Based Multicarrier DS-CDMA for Dynamic Multiple-Access in Cognitive Radios
No full textRedundant residue number system (RRNS)-based multicarrier DS-CDMA (MC/DS-CDMA) is proposed for dynamic multiple-access (DMA) in cognitive radios (CRs). The proposed RRNS-based MC/DS-CDMA DMA has the merits of low-complexity for implementation, high-flexibility for reconfiguration and spectrum handoff, robustness to spectrum varying, and fault-tolerance to errors. Specifically, in our RRNS-based MC/DS-CDMA DMA system, RRNS-based orthogonal modulation aided by MC/DS-CDMA is employed for information transmission. At the receiver, signals are detected subcarrier-by-subcarrier independently based on suboptimum MMSE interference cancellation (SMMSE-IC). In performance study, we model the arrival process of primary users (PUs) in primary radios (PRs) as a Poisson process. Both the bit error rate (BER) performance and throughput performance are investigated. Our studies and performance results show that the RRNS-based MC/DS-CDMA constitutes one of the highly promising DMA schemes for application in CRs. It is capable of achieving a substantial throughput with required quality for the CR systems, while without degrading the quality-of-services (QoS) of the PR systems
The Current State of the OBI DICT Project: A Bilingual e-Dictionary of Oracle-Bone Inscriptions with AI Image Recognition
No full textThis article reports on the current state of the OBI DICT project, a bilingual e-dictionary of oracle-bone inscriptions (OBI), incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) image recognition technology. It first provides a brief overview of the development of the lexicographical works on oracle bones. Subsequently, it identifies deficiencies in existing oracle-bone dictionaries and underscores the pressing demand for the compilation of a new dictionary. In the subsequent two sections, the article delineates the project's initiation and objectives and then outlines its design. The four principal phases of the project, that is, material collection, literature review, content and user interface design, and search engine and AI image recognition design, are described in detail in the third section. In the concluding section, it expounds on how the OBI DICT addresses users' search requirements and maximizes usability, thereby offering substantial support to contemporary oracle-bone research, streamlining the learning process for novices, and expanding the readership interested in oracle bones.MLBI
Fast Frequency-Hopping Dynamic Multiple-Access for Cognitive Radios: Detection and Performance
No full textThis paper proposes a fast frequency-hopping -ary frequency-shift keying dynamic multiple-access (FFH/MFSK DMA) scheme for application in cognitive radios (CRs). For characterising the performance of the FFH/MFSK DMA systems, primary users (PUs) are assumed to become active according to a Poisson process. In our FFH/MFSK DMA system, the noncoherent majority vote assisted single-user detector (MV-SUD) or noncoherent iterative interference cancellation assisted multiuser detector (IIC-MUD) is employed, in order to implement low-complexity detection. The bit error rate (BER) and throughput performance of the FFH/MFSK DMA systems are investigated, when assuming communications over Nakagami- fading channels. Our studies show that the FFH/MFSK DMA is a high-flexibility scheme for application in CRs. It is capable of attaining a substantial throughput without degrading the quality-of-service (QoS) of primary radios (PRs)
A data-driven narratives skeleton pattern recognition from accident reports dataset for human-and-organizational-factors analysis
No full textAccidents in the process industry involve several interacting factors, including human and organizational factors (HOFs). A long-standing obstacle to HOFs analysis is lack of data. Accident reports are an essential data source to learn from the past and contain HOFs-related data, but they are usually unstructured text in a not standardized format. Some studies have explored the extraction of information automatically from accident reports based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. However, they were not dedicated to HOFs. Risk communication is considered an essential pillar in safety and risk science. This research develops a HOFs-focused risk communication framework based on the NLP techniques that can support risk assessment and mitigation. The proposed approach automatically extracts the target groups oriented “Who, When, Where, Why” (4Ws) information from accident reports.
This framework was applied to explore the eMARS database. The results show that the “4Ws” skeleton of narratives has appreciated performance in pattern recognition and holistic information analysis. The graphical representation interfaces are designed to display the features of HOFs-related accidents, which can better be communicated to the sharp-end operators and decision-makers
Fast Frequency-Hopping Dynamic Multiple-Access for Cognitive Radios: Suboptimum Noncoherent Maximum-Likelihood Multiuser Detection
No full textWe propose a novel dynamic multiple-access (DMA) scheme for application in cognitive radios (CRs). This DMA scheme is implemented by fast frequency hopping with -ary frequency-shift keying (FFH/MFSK) associated with suboptimum noncoherent maximum-likelihood multiuser detection (ML-MUD). In our studies, we assume that the primary users (PUs) and the cognitive radio users (CRUs) are operated in the interweave paradigm. The PUs activate to communicate according to a Poisson process and the duration of an activation obeys exponential distribution. The bit error rate (BER) and throughput performance of the dynamic FFH/MFSK systems are investigated by simulations, when assuming communications over Rayleigh fading channels. Our studies and simulation results demonstrate that the dynamic FFH/MFSK with suboptimum noncoherent ML-MUD constitutes one of the promising candidates for DMA in CRs. It has low-complexity and employs high-flexibility for DMA and seamless transition between different frequency bands
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