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Wang Shuo and the commercialisation of contemporary Chinese culture
Full text linkThis 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
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
Resisting the author: JT LeRoy's fictional authorship
Full text linkIn the last decade, the interest in the relation between author and text, author and autobiography, seems to have grown. In my article, I use the story of the author JT LeRoy as a framework to analyse what this growing interest means for our understanding of the word "author." JT LeRoy’s work was considered to be autobiographical or, perhaps, autofictional. However, the authorship of LeRoy appeared to be based on a hoax; JT LeRoy proved to be a fictitious persona, made up by the writer Laura Albert. How does the unmasking of an author influence the reception of his/her work? And what does it teach us about the relation between reader and text, reader and author? In my article, I attempt to answer these questions, and, furthermore, I discuss how LeRoy’s mixed gender relates to the question of the dead male author and the hyped "constructed" female author
Space-time coding with receive combiner bank for multiple-input-multiple-output system under multi-user cochannel interference
No full text[[abstract]]Space-time coding with receive combiner bank (STC-RCB), in which a bank of receive combiners is added before the space-time decoder for interference-plus-noise suppression, is proposed. Without loss of generality, the author consider space-time block code (STBC) to be the representative of STC and study the performance for (STBC-RCB). The author derive the output signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) (of the space-time decoder) for STBC-RCB under multi-user cochannel interference. By regarding STBC as a special case of STBC-RCB, the author also derive the output SINR for STBC under multi-user cochannel interference. Simulation results show that the output SINR of STBC-RCB can be much larger than that of STBC, also, they show that STBC-RCB can adopt the appropriate receive combining strategy in the RCB to further improve the performance.[[note]]SC
Supplement_Material_1 - Utility of the JT Peak Interval and the JT Area in Determining the Proarrhythmic Potential of QT-Shortening Agents
No full textSupplement_Material_1 for Utility of the JT Peak Interval and the JT Area in Determining the Proarrhythmic Potential of QT-Shortening Agents by Bo Qiu, Yuhong Wang, Congxin Li, Huicai Guo, and Yanfang Xu in Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics</p
Acid-Induced Gene Expression in Helicobacter Pylori: Study in Genomic Scale by Microarray
No full textTo understand the RNA expression in response to acid stress of Helicobacter pylori in genomic scale, a microarray membrane containing 1, 534 open reading frames (ORFs) from strain 26695 was used. Total RNAs of H . pylori under growth conditions of pH 7.2 and 5.5 were extracted, reverse transcribed into cDNA, and labeled with biotin. Each microarray membrane was hybridized with cDNA probe from the same strain under two different pH conditions and developed by a catalyzed reporter deposition method. Gene expression of all ORFs was measured by densitometry, Among the 1,534 ORFs, 53 ORFs were highly expressed (greater than or equal to 30% of rRNA control in densitometry ratios). There were 445 ORFs which were stably expressed (<30% of rRNA in densitometry) under both pH conditions without significant variation. A total of 80 ORFs had significantly increased expression levels at low pH, while expressions of 4 ORFs were suppressed under acidic condition. The remaining 952 ORFs were not detectable under either pH condition. These data were highly reproducible and comparable to those obtained by the RNA slot blot method. Our results suggest that microarray can be used in monitoring prokaryotic gene expression in genomic scale
Assessment of the parcel model in evaporating turbulent diluted sprays within a Large-Eddy-Simulation approach
Full text linkThe parcel concept has been exploited in the Eulerian-Lagrangian framework to alleviate the computational cost of tracking an enormous number of particles/droplets in the perspective of dispersed two-phase flows. In this work, with fully systematic analysis, we present a numerical investigation of the reliability of this parcel approach in turbulent flows bearing evaporating droplets. To fulfil this task, we address Large-eddy Simulations (LESs) of a turbulent diluted acetone jet-spray in conjunction with two filtering widths and various numbers of parcels, in which the latter is achieved by reducing the ensemble of all physical droplets with a coarsening factor varying from 0(1) to 0(1000), i.e. parcel ratio (PR). By comparing different realizations of parcel in LESs against that with PR = 1, as well as a fully resolved Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS), our numerical results demonstrate the robustness of the parcel concept only when the ratio between the computational and physical droplets is carefully implemented, depending on the grid spacing. In particular, a significant underestimation of the evaporation process is anticipatable if the parcel ratio exceeds a specific threshold which is much larger in the case of a coarse mesh than a fine one. We propose that the appropriate parcel ratio should be of the order of the filtering width and the dissipative length ratio, thus of the same order as the coarsening factor of the Eulerian mesh spacing with respect to the reference DNS
Identification and characterization of an organic solvent tolerance gene in Helicobacter pylori.
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Centralized and distributed joint dual transmitter receiver diversity and power control for wireless networks
No full text[[abstract]]Centralized and distributed algorithms, which aim to derive the optimal feasible power and weight for joint dual transmitter receiver diversity and power control, are proposed in this paper. We first show that the optimal feasible power and weight can be obtained by executing the centralized algorithm. Then we propose the distributed algorithm that simulates the operation of the centralized algorithm and iteratively adjusts the power and weight of each individual. It is shown that the power and weight obtained from the distributed algorithm converge to the optimal feasible power and weight, and simulation results also coincide with this fact. Furthermore, we also found that the centralized algorithm outperforms the previous approach in the average power level per user and the probability of feasibility. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.[[note]]SC
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