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Local Universities as Engines for Innovation and Regional Development in Southern Economies with Reference to MOROCCO
No full textAbstract: The objective of this paper is to show that universities can be engines for local development in Southern economies. Previous contributions to the literature on this subject have already shown the positive effects of regional sources of tacit knowledge on local development. Using data on developed, developing and emerging countries, regression analysis is pursued with the available data. The attained results show that developing economies do have room for local development as this can be further provided by regional universities and schools. These potential gains have been expressed to be higher for developing and emerging countries. These results imply that developing and emerging countries can enhance their local and overall development through the promotion of local universities and schools but these sources of skills and knowledge need to be tied with the local needs of the population as in developed countries. The case of Morocco illustrates the potential and positive effects of regional universities on local development. The transmission channel includes encouragement of skills, access to patents and intellectual property rights protection besides enterprise creation and implementation. These trends are likely to be accelerated within the regionalization process and the role of regional knowledge centers.universities-innovations-local development-Southern countries-Morocco
Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics/ Rong Chen.
No full textIn English.With the "discursive turn" has come a distrust - a complete rejection by some - of theories that seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, with its accompanying overemphasis on specificity and fluidity of linguistic meaning and social values, is unwarranted and unhelpful. Drawing on insights from social theories and various strands of pragmatics, he proposes a motivation model of pragmatics (MMP), contending that language use can be adequately, coherently, and elegantly studied via the motivation behind it in its varied and dynamic contexts. The model, with its well-laid out components, is then applied to (im)politeness research, cross-cultural pragmatics, diachronic pragmatics, discourse and genre analysis, conversation analysis, identity construction, and the study of metaphor, sarcasm, parody, and lying. MMP is thus a framework aimed at accounting for fluidity with stable notions, specificity with general principles, and differences with similar underlying factors. As such, the book should appeal to students of pragmatics, (im)politeness, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, communication, sociology, and psychology.Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Chapter 1 Pragmatics then and now -- Chapter 2 A motivation model of pragmatics (MMP) -- Chapter 3 MMP and (im)politeness -- Chapter 4 MMP and cross-/intercultural variation -- Chapter 5 MMP and diachronic pragmatics -- Chapter 6 MMP and discourse -- Chapter 7 MMP and metaphor -- Chapter 8 MMP and the non-literal -- Afterword -- References -- Appendix -- Subject index -- Author index1 online resource (XIII, 333 p.)
Jiang Rong, Le Totem du loup, (Wolf Totem) translated by Yan Hansheng and Lisa Carducci
No full textPublished in China in 2004 by Changjiang wenyi chubanshe, Jiang Rong’s novel Lang tuteng (Wolf Totem) was immediately a phenomenal success. I myself witnessed this success while in China, where bookshops displayed multiple stacks of the book. Its author, Jiang Rong, the pseudonym of Lu Jiamin, was an activist in the Tiananmen Square movement in 1989; now a researcher in social sciences and the husband of Zhang Kangkang, a well-known writer, Jiang Rong maintained a mystery surrounding his iden..
Chen Rong and the Transformation of Nine Dragons
No full textabstract: This dissertation is the first detailed and extensive study dedicated to the life and art of the master artist and scholar-official Chen Rong (active 13th century), and offers an expanded analysis of his most famous work, the Nine Dragons scroll (1244). It provides a reconstruction of Chen Rong's biography, character and political career, and discusses his significance and impact in the study of Chinese painting during the late Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) and beyond, by highlighting the reception and interpretation of the Nine Dragons scroll in the past and in modern times. This is achieved by addressing writings such as eulogies, poems and commentary about Chen Rong by his contemporaries and later biographers, and also analysis of recent works by contemporary Chinese artists that reinterpret Chen Rong's Nine Dragons motif directly. In addition to offering an expanded reading and interpretation of Chen Rong's inscriptions on the Nine Dragons scroll and inscriptions by subsequent viewers of the scroll, this study sheds light on the artistic context, significance, and historical development of dragons and dragon painting in China. This dissertation also offers the first full English transcription and translation of Emperor Qianlong's inscription on the Nine Dragons scroll, and that of his eight officials. Furthermore, this dissertation includes two detailed appendices; one is a detailed appendix of all of Chen Rong's paintings documented to exist today, and the second is a list of paintings attributed to Chen Rong that have been mentioned in historical documents that no longer appear extant. This interdisciplinary study provides insight into the processes that influence how an artist's work is transformed beyond his time to that of legendary status. This clarification of Chen Rong's biography and artistic activity, particularly with respect to his most famous work the Nine Dragons scroll, contributes to modern scholarship by providing an expanded understanding of Chen Rong's life and art, which in turn, adjusts prevailing perceptions of his life and work.Dissertation/ThesisPh.D. Art History 201
An odontometric biodistance analysis of the Rong and the A'chik
No full textThesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2023Little is known about the population history and genetic affinities of many of the tribal groups of northeastern India, including the Rong and the A'chik. Previous linguistic and genetic studies have suggested that these non-Hindu tribal groups may be descendants of East Asian immigrants. Due to the linguistic and genetic research, cultural differences between the groups, and geographic barriers it was hypothesized that members of these two tribal groups share a population history different from that of ethnic groups of other regions of the subcontinent. This study employs tooth size allocation analysis to test hypotheses concerning the origins of the Rong and the A'chik as well as the nature and extent of odontometric variation found among members of both tribes. The author took measurements of the mesiodistal and buccolingual dimensions of the permanent teeth among 166 A'chik and 185 Rong individuals. The author compared the aforementioned data with measurements obtained among 1,151 members of seven ethnic groups from other regions of South Asia. Group centroids from canonical variates analysis were plotted in three dimensions to assess patterns of similarities among samples. Canonical variates, from both sex-pooled and non-pooled analyses, identify the Rong and A'chik as possessing closer affinities to each other than to members of the other groups, thereby supporting the hypothesis of separate population origins from members of other South Asian ethnic groups. Overall, the results suggest the Rong and A'chik have a different geographic origin than, and little admixture with, the other population groups from elsewhere on the subcontinent.UAF Graduate School, the UAF College of Liberal Arts, and the Alaska NSF EPSCoRChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Rationale -- 2.1 Genetic background -- 2.1.1 Genetic variation -- 2.1.2 Heritability -- 2.1.3 Gene flow -- 2.1.4 Genetic drift -- 2.1.5 Mutation -- 2.1.6 Natural selection -- 2.2 Dental anthropology -- 2.2.1 Dental development -- 2.2.2 Field theory and clone model -- 2.2.3 Mouse models -- 2.2.4 Dental genetic variance -- 2.2.5 Fluctuating asymmetry -- 2.2.6 Sexual dimorphism -- 2.3 Biodistance analysis -- 2.3.1 A history and overview of statistical approaches (dentition) -- 2.3.2 Tooth size apportionment. Chapter 3: History and ethnography -- 3.1 Population history -- 3.1.1 Background -- 3.1.2 Early population history of the subcontinent -- 3.1.3 Tibeto-Burman population history of the Northeast -- 3.2 The Rong -- 3.2.1 The People and habitation -- 3.2.2 Kinship and marriage systems -- 3.2.3 Language and religion -- 3.2.4 Economy -- 3.2.5 History of migration -- 3.2.6 Recent history -- 3.3 The A'chik -- 3.3.1 The people and habitation -- 3.3.2 Kinship and marriage systems -- 3.3.3 Language and religion -- 3.3.4 Economy -- 3.3.5 History of migration -- 3.3.6 Recent history. Chapter 4: Description of materials and methods -- 4.1 Materials -- 4.1.1 Exclusions -- 4.2 Methods -- 4.2.1 Data collection -- 4.3 Statistical analysis -- 4.3.1 Inter- and Intra-observer reliability -- 4.3.2 Odontometrics. Chapter 5: Results -- 5.1 Paired-samples t-test and antimeres -- 5.2 Descriptive statistics -- 5.3 EM estimation -- 5.4 Levene's test -- 5.5 Principal components analysis -- 5.6 MANOVA -- 5.7 Canonical variate analysis -- 5.8 Classification matrices -- 5.9 Correlation matrices. Chapter 6: Discussion -- 6.1 Sexual dimorphism -- 6.2 Dental correlations -- 6.3 Tooth size -- 6.4 Residence patterns and limitations -- 6.5 Genetic studies -- 6.6 Linguistic evidence -- 6.7 Rong and A'chik origins. Chapter 7: Conclusions -- 7.1 Future research -- Appendices -- Bibliography
Highly conductive flexible transparent polymeric anode and its application in OLEDs
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: Guang-Feng WangAuthor name used in this publication: Xiao-Ming TaoAuthor name used in this publication: Rong-Xin WangVersion of RecordPublishedVoR allowe
Diffusion in Large Graphs: Models and Applications
No full textRong, Yu.Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2016.Includes bibliographical references (leaves ).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on …)
CUHK electronic theses & dissertations collection
No full textRong, Shisong.Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2014.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 240-283).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 16, November, 2016)
Distinct myeloid population phenotypes dependent on TREM2 expression levels shape the pathology of traumatic versus demyelinating CNS disorders
No full text(Cell Reports 42, 112629; June 27, 2023) In the originally published version of this article, Han Gao, the first author of this paper, was given the position of corresponding author as well as lead contact due to a misunderstanding regarding these roles. After an explanation of the roles were given, the three original corresponding authors (Han Gao, Roberta Brambilla, and Limin Rong) agreed that corresponding author duties should be limited to Brambilla and Rong. Furthermore, the position of lead contact should be given to Limin Rong, who is designated as corresponding author and has accepted responsibility of handling communications about the paper from readers. The article has since been updated to reflect the accurate responsibilities of each author. The authors regret this error and any confusion that it may have caused
Female Characters in Jin Yong's Martial Arts Novels: Taking Huang Rong and Xiao Long Nu as Examples
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The purpose of this study is to address how the author Jin Yong(\ue9\ue5\uba\ub8) sets up the two main female characters\ue2 images, Huang Rong(\ue9\ubb\ue8) and Xiao Long Nu(\ue5\ub0\ue9\ube\ue5\ua5\ub3), through Shediao Yingxiong Zhuan (\ue5\ub0\ue9\ub5\ub0\ue8\ub1\ue9\ue5\ub3) and Condor Heroes(\ue7\ua5\ue9\ub5\ub0\ue4\ubf\ua0\ue4\ube\ub6).
This thesis paragraphed into four stages as shown below. Analysis begins with verifying the research motivation, aim, scope and method over enormous former monographs related to similar discussion. Secondly, comparison of plot\ue2s background description, character\ue2s growth background, home education and personal characteristics are observed to generalize the image of Huang Rong. The comparison of similar personal characteristics in previous literature is reviewed afterwards. Furthermore, a through investigation of the intentionally connection between imagery and atmosphere summarized the image of Xiao Long Nu. The comparison of similar personal characteristics in previous literature is reviewed afterwards. The result indicates better future aspects.
Keywords: Jin Yong, female image, Huang Rong, Xiao Long N
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