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Wang Meng and contemporary Chinese literature: the vicissitudes of a committed writer
Full text linkThis thesis examines the way Wang Meng has developed as a writer from the 1950s to the 1990s in the context of New China's political and literary background. It looks at the compromises he was forced to make between his political beliefs in the Communist Party and his chosen role as a professional writer. After his disastrous early foray into what was deemed to be unacceptable political criticism with The Young Newcomer in the Organisation Department in the 1950s, when the opportunity came to start publishing again in the late 1970s he was boldly innovative in style, helping to transform New Period literature, but conservative in content, sticking to politically acceptable topics. It was only with Hard Porridge in 1989 that he ventured again, and very successfully, into political comment. There is no outstanding leading writer in contemporary China, but Wang Meng is a leading contender for the title
Isolation and characteri-zation of Bdellvibrio; parasitic to gram-negative fish pathogenic bacterium.
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Sectoral allocation by gender of Latin American workers over the liberalization period of the 1990s
Full text linkThe recent restructuring of Latin American economies has renewed interest in the effects of trade liberalization, on labor markets, and on the gender division of labor. The author does not attempt to establish casuality between economic reforms, and the types of jobs that men and women hold. Instead, she provides a detailed description of the trends in male, and female formal, and informal sector participation during the economic reform period in Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica. The author first compares the gender composition of the formal, informal wage, and self-employment sectors in a year before reforms (1988 for Argentina, 1989 for Brazil, and Costa Rica), and a year after reforms implementation (1997 for Argentina, 1995 for Brazil and Costa Rica). Although women continued to be more likely than men to work in the informal wage sector, there is no trend of"masculinization"or"feminization"of the informal sector, or any other. Instead, in Argentina men have overtaken women as the most prevalent workers in the informal wage sector, while in Brazil, the opposite has occurred (as men move into self-employment). In Costa Rica there have been no statistical, observable changes. The author then considers the distribution across sectors within each gender group, to identify whether men, and women are more likely to select different sectors in the post-reform period relative to the pre-reform period. Among both men, and women in all three countries (except Brazilian men), workers have become more likely to hold informal wage jobs, and less likely to hold formal sector jobs. Trends in human capital accumulation explain these changes for both men, and women, while changes in gender roles, primarily in homecare and marriage, do not seem to have an effect.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Labor Policies,Population&Development,Public Health Promotion,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Population&Development,Banks&Banking Reform,Work&Working Conditions
Punctulata ningshanensis Wang 2006
No full textPunctulata ningshanensis Wang, 2006 (Figs 7, 12) Punctulata ningshanensis Wang, 2006: 159. TL: China (Shannxi). TD: NKU. Material examined. Type material. CHINA, Shaanxi: Holotype ♂, Ningshan County (33.19 °N, 108.20°E), 880 m, 18.VI.1987, leg. HH Li, slide No. 89255. Paratype: 1♂, 18.VI.1987, other same data as holotype. Diagnosis. Punctulata ningshanensis has a similar forewing pattern with its congeners (Fig. 7), but it can be distinguished from them by the saccus narrowed to a round apex (Fig. 12). It is similar to P. guangxiensis sp. nov. and P. fusciptera, and the diagnoses between them are stated under each of the latter two species. Distribution. China (Shaanxi).Published as part of Tao, Zhulin & Wang, Shuxia, 2021, Taxonomic study of the genus Punctulata Wang (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae) from China, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 376-386 in Zootaxa 5027 (3) on page 384, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5027.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/544970
Differentiation and grouping of isolates of the Ganoderma lucidum complex by random amplified polymorphic DNA-PCR compared with grouping on the basis of internal transcribed spacer sequences
No full textReliability, sensitivity, and responsiveness of the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales-Second Edition for children with cerebral palsy
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A numerical comparison of the uniformly valid asymptotic plate equations with a 3D model: Clamped rectangular incompressible elastic plates
No full textIn this paper, we derive the weak form for clamped plates composed of incompressible neo-Hookean material from the uniformly valid asymptotic plate theory. By using the finite-element software COMSOL, we study the numerical solutions of the weak form. We show the accuracy and the efficiency of the weak form by comparing the numerical results for the two-dimensional weak form and a three-dimensional model. As a basis for comparison we choose numerical values of the displacement, the second Piola-Kirchhoff stress, and the Green-Lagrange strain at the bottom. The numerical simulations are performed for three different cases of thickness-span ratios, including (1) very thin plate, (2) thin plate, and (3) moderately thick plate. The results show that the uniformly valid plate theory is a reliable and implementable plate theory for even moderately thick plates with large deformations
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