863,115 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
Wang Meng and contemporary Chinese literature: the vicissitudes of a committed writer
No full textThis 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
First person – Yihua Wang
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Yihua Wang is the first author on ‘Nuclear entry and export of FIH are mediated by HIF1α and exportin1, respectively’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Yihua is a Lecturer in Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton, studying cell signalling in lung fibrosis and cancer, drug target validation and gene function analysis
Academic Library, e-Science/e-Research, and Data Services in a Broader Context
No full textIn North America, academic libraries’ data services have recently emerged as a new field during a very interesting time when academic libraries are adjusting themselves to be able to deal with more digital material and at the same time trying to be further involved in the academic research process. The academic world is also undergoing a transformation into a new paradigm of doing research called e-science, which is characterized by data-intensive and networked research. Managing and curating the ever-increasing amount of data seems to be a natural extension of the established function of libraries. However, if we look at the broader landscape of e-science and all the supporting systems that are under development accordingly, we will see more than one model of data services provided by different institutions, or by different combinations of institutions. This paper will summarize these two major e-science support models, both in North America and in Europe. For both data services planners and practitioners, we need more contextual learning about the academic world and the emergence of the e-science paradigm, and a more visionary view of libraries among all the services departments/agencies around us so that we all can better design our academic library services and continue to promote and develop it.Paper presented at the ACRL 2013 Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 10-13, 2013.Wang, Minglu. Academic Library, e-Science/e-Research, and Data Services in a Broader Context. ACRL 2013 Proceedings. http://www.ala.org/acrl/acrl/conferences/2013/paper
taiyi-wang/seis3D: v1.0.0
No full textCode that accompanies the publication of:
Wang, T. A., Dunham, E. M., Hindcasting injection-induced aseismic slip and microseismicity at the Cooper Basin Enhanced Geothermal Systems Project: Scientific Reports (2022)
Designing role-based view for object-relational databases
No full textIn a federated database system, a view mechanism is crucial since it is used to define exportable subsets of data ; to perform a virtual restructuring d ataset; and to construct the integrated schema. The view service in federated databa se systems must be capable of retaining as much semantic information as possible. The object-oriented ( 0 - 0 ) model was considered the suitable canonical data model since it meets the original criteria for canonical model selection. However, with the emergence of stronger object-relational (0 -R ) model, the re is a clear argument for using an 0 - R canonical model in the federation. Hence, research should now focus on th e development of semantically powerful view mechanism for th e newer model. Meanwhile, the availability of real 0 -R technologies offers researchers the opportunity to develop different forms of view mechanisms.
The concept of roles has been widely studied in 0 - 0 modelling and development. The role model represents some characteristics that the traditional 0-0 model lacked, such as object migration, multiple occurrences and context-dependent access. While many forms of 0-0 views were designed for the 0-0 canonical model, one option was to extend the 0-0 model to incorporate a role model. In a role model, the real entity is modelled in the form of a role rather than an object. An object represents the permanent properties of an entity is a root object; and an object represents the temporary properties of an entity is a role object.
The contribution of this research is to design a view system that employees the concept of roles for the 0 -R canonical model in a federated database system. In this thesis, an examination of the current 0 -R metamodel is provided first in order to provide an environment for recognising the roleview metadata and measuring the view performance; then a Roleview Definition Language (RDL) is introduced, along with the semantics for defining virtual classes and generating virtua l extents; finally, a working prototype is provided to prove th e role-based view system is implementable and the syntax is semantically correct
Embedded Data Librarianship: A Case Study of Providing Data Management Support for a Science Department
No full textThis case study details how a data services librarian and a science librarian collaborate to provide embedded data management support for the research-oriented Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University–Newark. Combining their familiarity with emerging professional practices and resources, their efforts to gain a deeper understanding of the specific data management needs of researchers in the department, and their research into the evolving research data infrastructure in that particular discipline, the two are able to successfully connect researchers with the best practices in data management, suitable data repositories, and experts in the campus’ Computing Services unit.This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Science & Technology Libraries, published online on 24 September 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0194262X.2015.1085348.Peer reviewe
Liocrobyla indigofera Liu, Wang & Wang 2018
No full textLiocrobyla indigofera Liu, Wang & Wang, 2018 Liocrobyla indigofera Liu, Wang & Wang, 2018: 313. TL: Shandong (Qingdao), China. TD: SDNU. Diagnosis. The species resembles L. lobata in the male genitalia, but can be separated by the phallus longer than the valva and the minute cornutus; In L. lobata, the phallus is shorter than valva and the cornutus is more than 1/12 length of the phallus (Liu et al. 2018). In L. indigofera, the head is dark grey and the forewing ground colour is blackish fuscous, while in L. lobata, the head is white and the forewing ground colour is brownish grey. Material examined. Shandong: 1♂, holotype, Mt. Laoshan, Qingdao, 120.609°E, 36.204°N, 400 m, 2017.VII.01, leaf mine collected on Indigofera kirilowii, pupated VII.05, emerged VII.18, leg. Tengteng Liu & Zhenquan Gao, genitalia slide no. LIU0030, registration no. SDNU. QD170710.2. Paratype. 1♀, genitalia slide no. LIU0029, registration no. SDNU. QD170710.1, other data same as holotype. Others. 1♂, Mt. Laoshan, Qingdao, 120.593°E, 36.211°N, 390 m, 2015.VII.10, leg. Tengteng Liu, registration no. SDNU. Ent 150092; 1♂, Mt. Laoshan, Qingdao, 120.605°E, 36.211°N, 600 m, 2018.VII.02, leaf mine collected on Indigofera kirilowii, leg. Tengteng Liu, registration no. SDNU. Ent 001220. Host plants. Indigofera kirilowii Palib., I. tinctoria L. (Fabaceae). Distribution. China (Shandong). Notes. This species was well described and illustrated in the recent open access publication (Liu et al., 2018).Published as part of Jiang, Yurong, Zhao, Yang, Wang, Encui, Zhang, Tongyou & Liu, Tengteng, 2021, Taxonomic review on Acrocercopinae, Gracillariinae and Ornixolinae from Shandong, China, with new data on distribution and host associations (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), pp. 240-257 in Zoological Systematics 46 (3) on page 253, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021306, http://zenodo.org/record/717609
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
- …
