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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
Electrophoresis of a Cylindrical Particle with a Nonuniform Zeta Potential Distribution Parallel to a Charged Plane Wall
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Performances of Wang-Landau algorithms for continuous systems.
No full textInternational audienceThe relative performances of different implementations of the Wang-Landau method are assessed on two classes of systems with continuous degrees of freedom, namely, two polypeptides and two atomic Lennard-Jones clusters. Parallel tempering Monte Carlo simulations serve as a reference, and we pay particular attention to the variations of the multiplicative factor f during the course of the simulation. For the systems studied, the Wang-Landau method is found to be of comparable accuracy as parallel tempering, but has significant difficulties in reproducing low-temperature transitions exhibited by the Lennard-Jones clusters at low temperature. Using a complementary order parameter and calculating a two-dimensional joint density of states significantly improves the situation, especially for the notoriously difficult LJ(38) system. However, while parallel tempering easily converges for LJ(31), we have not been able to get data of comparable accuracy with Wang-Landau multicanonical sampling
HMSIW Cavity Filters Employing Various Complementary Split-Ring Resonators for Microwave Remote Sensing Applications
No full textIn this work, bandpass filters employing half-mode substrate integrated waveguide (HMSIW) cavities and various modified complementary split-ring resonators (CSRRs) are presented. The two modified CSRRs, which are called as Type-I and Type-II CSRRs, can exhibit larger effective inductance and capacitance, and eventually to contribute to the size miniaturization of the resonators. Thereafter, as the two CSRRs are independently loaded into HMSIW cavities, the newly- formed HMSIW-CSRR cavity resonators can achieve more size reduction as compared with the HMSIW cavity with the conventional CSRR. To demonstrate the proposed concept, two HMSIW cavity bandpass filters independently loaded with the proposed Type-I and Type-II CSRRs are implemented. Experimental results shows that measurements of the proposed filters agree with their corresponding simulations well. Meanwhile, as compared with some similar works, the two proposed filters achieve size reduction of 76.8% and 78.6%, respectively, as well as good selectivity, illustrating their suitability for the system integration application in microwave remote sensing and radar systems
Cellular fatty acid analysis of glucose-negative species of nonfermentative gram-negative bacilli isolated from clinical specimens
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