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Research Data: High-Dimensional Codebook Design for the SCMA Down Link
No full textThis is the dataset of the accepted paper (1 Aug 2018): L. Li, P. Z. Fan and L. Hanzo, "Research Data: High-Dimensional Codebook Design for the SCMA Down Link"</span
Using performance assessment in secondary school mathematics: an empirical study in a Singapore classroom
No full textThis article reports an exploratory study on using performance assessment in mathematics instruction in a high-performing secondary school in Singapore. An intact mathematics class participated in the study, and received chapter-based performance tasks as intervention during regular mathematics lessons for about one and a half school years. The performance tasks used included authentic and/or open-ended tasks. The students’ academic achievements and attitudes in mathematics were compared with a comparison class that did not receive the intervention. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected, mainly through questionnaire surveys, performance task tests, conventional school exams, and interviews with students and teachers. The results suggest that the students receiving the intervention performed significantly better than their counterparts in solving conventional exam problems, and in general they also showed more positive changes in attitudes towards mathematics and mathematics learning. The students from the experimental class also expressed positive views about the benefits of using performance tasks in promoting their ability in higher order thinking, though no statistically significant difference was detected between the two classes of students in solving unconventional tasks before and after intervention. Overall, the results appear to support teachers’ using contextualised problems in real life situations and open-ended investigations in students’ learning of mathematic
Lan tai gui fan
No full textV.1. 難經經釋 : [二卷] / 扁鵲著 ; 徐大椿釋 -- v.2-3. 醫學源流論 : [二卷] / 徐靈胎著 -- v.4. 神農本草經百種錄 / 徐靈胎著 -- v.5. 醫貫砭 : [二卷] / 徐靈胎著 -- v.6. 傷寒論類方 / 徐大椿編輯 -- v.7-10. 蘭臺軌範 : 八卷 / 徐靈胎著.V.1. Nan jing jing shi : [er juan] / Bianque zhu ; Xu Dachun shi -- v.2-3. Yi xue yuan liu lun : [er juan] / Xu Lingtai zhu -- v.4. Shennong ben cao jing bai zhong lu / Xu Lingtai zhu -- v.5. Yi guan bian : [er juan] / Xu Lingtai zhu -- v.6. Shang han lun lei fang / Xu Dachun bian ji -- v.7-10. Lan tai gui fan : ba juan / Xu Lingtai zhu.[徐大椿].綫裝.框18x12公分, 9行25字, 小字雙行同. 白口, 左右雙邊, 單黑魚尾. 版心上鐫子目題, 中鐫卷次, 下鐫葉次.題名據叢書書名頁.書名頁印"徐氏醫書六種. 同治十二年夏湖北崇文書局重雕". 又有紅色戳記"漢口東壁垣選辦各直省宮書局並家藏一切善本書籍發兌"《中國叢書綜錄》(p.723)著錄.鈐"莊兆祥印", "莊兆祥".Xian zhuang.Kuang 18 x 12 gong fen, 9 hang 25 zi, xiao zi shuang hang tong. Bai kou, zuo you shuang bian, dan hei yu wei. Ban xin shang juan zi mu ti, zhong juan juan ci, xia juan ye ci.Ti ming ju cong shu shu ming ye.Detailed notes in vernacular field only.Detailed notes in vernacular field only.[Xu Dachun].Qian "Zhuang Zhaoxiang yin", "Zhuang Zhaoxiang"
The politics of fashion: perceptions of power in female clothing and ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei
No full textThis thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty. Using aspects of a New Historicist approach, information from contemporary literary and historical sources are analysed alongside each other. With its emphasis on the lives of women and preoccupation with the description of material objects, the late Ming novel Jin Ping Mei forms an important element in the thesis. China in the sixteenth century saw expanding urbanisation, the emergence of a new wealthy merchant class, increasing visibility of women and a questioning of traditional morality. Fashion consciousness, as one of the most conspicuous aspects of the new material culture, is a possible indicator of these trends. Traditional Western theories contend that fashion began in the particular context of Renaissance Europe. However, this study argues that a similar fashion awareness existed in China too, and was manifested in a competitive striving for social status, in this case specifically among women. In contrast to previous studies which downplayed the impact women had on defining traditional Chinese culture, this thesis demonstrates how women and their sartorial choices began to redefine the boundaries of material culture, influencing literati discourse which, in turn, re- influenced female behaviour
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
The Effect of B2B Social Media Management Strategy on Advertising & Communicating Effect and Fan Page Preference\ue2 A Case Study Of Intel Taiwan Fan Page
No full textIntel, a non-consumer goods manufacturer, actually operates facebook and work hard to communicate with the general consumers recently. As a non-consumer goods manufacturer, what kinds of messages should be released in fan page, and how to maintain the fan page are important issues. The purposes of this study include "Exam the management strategy of Intel Taiwan facebook fan page and the performance of Intel Taiwan facebook fan page ", "Understand how does the management strategy of Intel Taiwan facebook fan page influence facebook users\ue2preferences to the facebook fan page "and "Learn about the facebook advertising effectiveness of brand preferences, brand awareness, brand association and consumer purchase intention. "This research investigates facebook users who is in 18-34 age and understands Intel Taiwan fan page the near 3 months posts. In addition, the study conducted the survey by internet questionnaire and acquired 297 valid samples.
The main results of the research are as follows:
1. The types and the content of messages do not affect facebook users\ue2 preference to fan page. But fan page users of different motivations have different degrees of preferences to specific types and the content of messages.
2. The advertising and communicating messages can raise the brand awareness, have positive impacts on brand preference, and increase the potential fans\ue2 purchase intention. But users\ue2 brand association between brand and product is weak.
3. \ue2Give-away\ue2, \ue2new product and technology\ue2, and \ue2activity announcements\ue2 are top three important messages in Intel Taiwan fan page , Intel should pay attention to the maintenance and management of the project
Mechatronic Experiments Course Design: A Myoelectric Controlled Partial-Hand Prosthesis Project
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Prolixus Beard, Fan & Walter 2005
No full textGenus Prolixus Beard, Fan & Walter, 2005 Prolixus Beard, Fan & Walter, 2005: 164; Mesa et al., 2009: 111; Beard & Ochoa, 2011: 32; Xu & Zhang, 2014: 2; Xu et al., 2017b: 1522. Type species: Prolixus forsteri Beard, Fan & Walter, 2005.Published as part of Xu, Yun, Zhang, Fei-Ping & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2018, Description of a new species of Prolixus (Acari: Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae from Austroderia splendens (Poaceae) in New Zealand, with discussion of its ontogenetic patterns in chaetotaxy, pp. 158-177 in Zootaxa 4540 (1) on page 159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4540.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/261609
Development of a rotor model for the numerical simulation of helicopter exterior flow-fields
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 84-85).A numerical methodology is developed to model the effect of a rotor on the surrounding flow-field. The model calculates the time-averaged aerodynamic forces exerted on the air by the fan blades within the blade-swept region, and permits the user to specify blade properties such as cross-sectional profile and orientation at a particular radial and azimuthal location. The calculated forces are included as source terms within the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible fluid, which are solved by the commercial CFD solver, FLUENT. The effects of turbulence are incorporated through the use of Launder and Spalding's k-g turbulence model. This method is selected as being the most efficient use of the resources available, giving the economic advantages of a steady simulation, while allowing radial and azimuthal variations of rotor characteristics. In order to validate the accuracy of the numerical model for both aligned and non-aligned inflow conditions, results are compared with experimental data reported for an axial flow fan. Agreement between experimental and numerical results is excellent to good. Fan static pressure rise is closely predicted by the numerical solution, while fan power consumption and fan static efficiency are under and over-predicted respectively. This error may be attributed to frictional losses not accounted for in the numerical model. These include physical rotational instabilities, leading to increased mechanical losses, and tip effects due to the clearance between the fan blade tips and the fan casing. Trends are nevertheless consistently predicted by the numerical model for inflow angles up to 45°, and for the range of blade pitch settings used. The adverse effect of off-axis inflow on the fan static pressure rise is numerically predicted, while fan power consumption is found to remain independent of inflow angle, as had been experimentally observed. The rotor model is finally integrated with the fuselage of the CIRSTEL (Combined Infra-Red Suppression and Tail rotor Elimination) prototype in an analysis of the helicopter exterior flow-field. No experimental data for this configuration was available for validation purposes. However, the model is used in the simulation of several common helicopter flight conditions. Results are presented graphically, and generally indicate good agreement with physically observed phenomena
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