146 research outputs found
Assessing library web page usability: how benchmarking can help
No full textThis article looks at how the ‘Mystery Shopper’ methodology used by a consortium of universities was adapted to assess the usability of the library web pages of all four universities. Using a methodology refined from a previous web usability exercise, the various elements in the process are described. The outcomes of the project are briefly discussed, along with lessons learnt from the process
The Lisu: far from the ruler
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Descriptive accounts of Lisu individuals, communities, regions, and practices brings the Lisu and their distinct, ironic worldview to life. A view of humanity's transition from border-free tribal groupings into today's nation-states and global market economy.--Provided by publisher.Lisu world -- Mythic origins -- History and origin theories -- Modern times (opium/heroin sidebar somewhere in here) -- Migration -- Identity and flux -- View from the village. The village ; a temporary encampment. The village ; social organization and symbolic significance. The village ; dispute solving -- Being a Lisu. -- Childhood ; learning by doing (childhood, girls, boys) -- Men, women, courtship and marriage. New year celebrations: setting the stage for romance. Gender roles, courtship, and sexuality. Negotiating bride wealth. -- Household: the place for family and work. Dualism in division of labor. Food, feasts, and liquor. clothes. Home/field/jungle connection -- Cosmic views. Spiritual and physical worlds converge. Lisu curing and dealing with spirits on a daily basis. Impact of Christianity. . . just one more influence? -- Economy. economic activities in the forest. sweat: the Lisu capital. Lisu women ; economic partners. The lure of the land. Book II. Lisu by country, sketches of Thailand, Myanmar, and China -- Comparing national scenes: full of opportunities to be wrong -- Thailand -- Burma/Myanmar -- China. Conclusions, and notes on where Lisu might go from here
An Introduction to the Ritual Music of Lisu Nationality in Weixi, Yunan Province: Hunt and Sacrifice to the Tree God
No full textBased on the preliminary record and simple analysis of the ritual music of Lisu nationality for hunting and sacrificing to tree god in Weixi, Yunnan Province, this article summarizes some features of the ritual music of Lisu nationality in Weixi, and hopes to attract more interests on in-depth study of Lisu ritual music
Sarbanissa gentilis Kishida, Eda & Wang 2018
No full textSarbanissa gentilis Kishida, Eda &Wang, 2018 (Figs. 15, 32) Sarbanissa gentilis Kishida, Eda & Wang, 2018, Tinea 24 (3): 152–155. TL: China (Yunnan). Material examined. 1 male. CHINA, Yunnan province, Drung-Nu Autonomous county of Gongshan, Lisu Autonomous Prefecture of Nujiang, 21-VII-2006, leg. Xiao-ling Fan and Min Wang (SCAU). Identification notes. Wingspan 57 mm. Forewing black, reniform and orbicular stigma brownish black with white edge. Hindwing with subterminal band in zigzag, discal spot obscure. Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from other Sarbanissa species by the following combination of characters: forewing with apical and inner margin area dark black; hindwing with discal spot almost invisible, subterminal band continuous and narrow from costa to anal angle, with the inner margin and outer margin zigzagging. Distribution. China (Yunnan) (Kishida, Eda & Wang 2018).Published as part of Wei, Fu-Hong, Kishida, Yasunori & Wang, Min, 2019, A review of the genus Sarbanissa Walker, 1865 in China, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Agaristinae), pp. 354-370 in Zootaxa 4648 (2) on page 358, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/335493
Dental caries status of the Lisu and Han preschool children
No full textObjectives: To compare the dental caries status of the Lisu and Han ethnic preschool children in Yunnan, China, and to study the factors affecting their oral health status.
Methods: A sample of Lisu and local Han children aged 5 years old was selected using a cluster sampling method. Two calibrated dentists examined the participants with dental mirrors and CPI probes under artificial light. Dental caries was measured using dmft index. Oral health education was provided to all participating children. A questionnaire survey was conducted on the children and their parents to study their related oral health behaviours.
Results: A total of 762 5-year-old children were examined, including 404 Lisu and 358 Han children. Local Han children shouldered higher caries prevalence than that of the Lisu children, with 83% versus 77%, respectively, while the two ethnic minority children had similar dmft scores (5.5 vs. 5.0). Most of their caries (80%) were left untreated. There were still around one fourth (21%) of the children didn’t or seldom brushing their teeth, and visible plaque was found almost on all of them. A multi-factor ANCOVA analysis found that the children who lived in Kunming, Chuxiong, Nujiang and Diqing districts, who had visited the dentist within the last two years, had higher VPI scores had higher mean dmft scores.
Conclusions: Dental caries was prevalent in both Lisu and local Han children. The children’s caries experience was associated with geography, oral hygiene and the child’s dental visit behaviour, but not ethnicity
Dental caries status of Lisu preschool children in Yunnan Province, China: a cross-sectional study
No full textAbstract Background Dental caries is still considered a major public health concern for human beings, especially minority groups and those living in disadvantaged communities. The Lisu is a minority group in China of more than 702,000 people located primarily in Yunnan Province. The present study was aimed at studying the status of dental caries status, as well as its risk factors, among Lisu children aged 5 years in Yunnan Province, China. Methods A multistage cluster sampling method was employed for participants’ recruitment. Two calibrated dentists carried out the clinical examination with dental mirrors and CPI probes under an LED headlight. The dental caries experience was assessed by the dmft index. Oral hygiene status was evaluated using the visible plaque index (VPI). Information on the child’s socio-demographic characteristics and oral health-related practices were collected using a parental questionnaire. A zero-inflated negative binomial regression (ZINB) was employed to analyse the associations between the dental caries status and the children’s social-demographic status and their oral health–related behaviours. Results In all, 470 Lisu children aged 5 were invited, and 404 were examined. Their mean dmft (±SD) and caries prevalence were 5.6 ± 4.8 and 80%, respectively. Their mean VPI scores were 58% ± 21%. Lisu children who brushed their teeth at least once daily had higher dmft scores, and children from high-income families were more likely to have dental caries. Conclusion The prevalence of dental caries among Lisu children aged 5 years in Yunnan, China was high, and their caries status was severe, with a majority of carious teeth untreated. The dental caries experience of Lisu children aged 5 was related to their brushing frequency and families’ economic backgrounds
Breaking the Borders: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Travel, ‘French Life’ and its Spatial Intertextuality
No full textAccording to the nineteenth-century ideology of separate spheres, women were supposed to avoid the public sphere and to stay at home, as depicted in most artistic and literary representations. Even though much content in her travel writing represented by letters and the journal article ‘French Life’ is about daily living in ordinary foreign societies, I argue that Elizabeth Gaskell is treating some basic questions of human and social values such as class differences and gender distinctions. This paper emphasizes the significance of travel and travel-writing in Gaskell's personal and professional life, examining how her exposure to other cultures shapes her novels and positions her as a cross-cultural literary figure. Combining ESRI technology, I apply the old map (1864, Paris) to it and draw a GIS picture. The route is based on the journal article ‘French Life’ by Gaskell: by comparing it with the locations and landscapes mentioned in Charles Dickens’s The Tale of the Two Cities, I find there is only one overlapping place: Faubourg Saint-Germain. However, the narratives of the two writers about this same place are so different. Multiple layers of mobility are uncovered in ‘French Life’: starting with Gaskell's physical mobility in Paris and the Mohls' residence, followed by an exploration of her social activities within the salon setting as a British writer, and culminating in an analysis of Gaskell's professional development exemplified through her creation during her time with the French families
Sarbanissa pseudassimilis Wei & Kishida & Wang 2019, sp. nov.
No full textSarbanissa pseudassimilis sp. nov. (Figs. 13, 33) Type material. Holotype: male, CHINA, Yunnan province, Drung-Nu Autonomous county of Gongshan, Lisu Autonomous Prefecture of Nujiang, 21-VII-2006, leg. Min Wang and Xiao-ling Fan. (SCAU). Paratypes: two males. 1 male: CHINA, Yunnan province, Midu county, Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Dali, 24-VII-2016, leg. Hou-shuai Wang. 1 male: CHINA, Yunnan province, Qinglong Gorge, Anning county, Kunming city, altitude 1800 m, 26-VII-2016, leg. Hideki Kobayashi and Min Wang. The two paratypes are deposited in the Insect Collection of South China Agricultural University (SCAU), Guangzhou, P. R. China. Diagnosis. The new species is characterized by four black spots at submarginal line area of hindwing and the forewing ground color purplish black and the reniform and orbicular stigma relatively obscure. Externally, S. pseudassimilis sp. nov. is similar to S. assimilis, but the new species is larger in size; ground color purplish black rather than purplish red; reniform and orbicular stigma relatively obscure; submarginal series of stigmae smaller. In male genitalia, S. pseudassimilis and S. assimilis markedly differ by the valva and sacculus. In S. pseudassimilis the valva with broad and blunt apex, but in S. assimilis, the valva with narrow and acute apex; the saccular process is long in S. pseudassimilis, it is short in S. assimilis. Description. Male. The body is slender, length of forewing 26 mm. Head: antennae filiform, blackish brown; labial palpus brownish. Thorax: black; tegulae blackish brown with long tufts; abdomen apricot, slender; forewing long and narrow, triangular. Forewing ground color purplish black with grey patchs at apex, outer margin and inner margin area, and densely covered with numerous brown dots at costa and medial part; reniform and orbicular stigma obscure, brown with black edge; antemedial line black, double line, straight from median nervure to inner margin; medial line invisible; postmedial line double lined, convex at vein M 3 and concave towards wing base at vein CuA 2; fringes brownish black, short and dense. Hindwing ground color apricot, with submarginal series of spots that connected by four black spots; discal spot black and small. Male genitalia. Uncus long and slender, curved at basal part, spinous at apex. Tegumen long and broad. Juxta funnel-shaped, slightly transparent in the medial part. Valvae long spoon-shaped, pointed at apex and membranous at medial part of outer margin. Costa curved outward at medial part. Saccular process horn-like, long and thick, strongly sclerotized and curved inwards. Vinculum U-shaped. Saccus short with blunt end. Aedeagus small, slightly curved, without cornuti. Distribution. This species is only known to occur in Gongshan county in Yunnan province at present. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The specific name pseudassimilis is derived from the other specific name assimilis due to the resemblance of the present new species in external characters to the species S. assimilis Orhant. List of the sixteen other species known from ChinaPublished as part of Wei, Fu-Hong, Kishida, Yasunori & Wang, Min, 2019, A review of the genus Sarbanissa Walker, 1865 in China, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Agaristinae), pp. 354-370 in Zootaxa 4648 (2) on pages 355-356, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/335493
Trajectory design and resource allocation for UAV energy minimization in a rotary-wing UAV-enabled WPCN
No full textDue to the low efficiency of energy harvest (EH) for the traditional wireless powered communication network (WPCN), we propose a communication scheme based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled WPCN, which can greatly improve the EH efficiency problem. In this paper, the UAV trajectory, time allocation, transmit power of UAVs, scheduling of wireless information transfer (WIT) and wireless power transfer (WPT) are jointly optimized to minimize the whole energy consumption. To solve the formulated non-convex problem with multiple constraints and attain locally optimal solution, an iterative algorithm is proposed. Simulations show that our proposed algorithm is superior to other benchmark algorithms.The work of Z. Wang was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61661029, 61761030, and 62001201. The work of M. Wen was supported in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant 2019SJ02. The work of L. Yu was supported in part by the State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture (ICT, CAS) Open Project under Grant CARCHB202019. The work of Y. Wang was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62061030 and 61661028, the National Key Research and Development Project under Grant 2018YFB1404303 and 2018YFB14043033
A study of Cranf 1927: Woo Kwang Kien and Translation-cultural Capital
No full textLargely ignored by Gaskell scholars, the early Chinese translations of Gaskell’s works have not been carefully looked at. From 1920 to 1945, the publication of four stories by Gaskell-- Cranford, Cousin Phillis, Hand and Heart, and The Old Nurse’s Story, witnessed the transformation from politics-orientated to independence in China’s publishing history. With their growing understanding of foreign literature, Chinese scholars had been translating and criticizing Gaskell’s works, and gradually formed a focus on Cranford. It was not by accident that Cranford has received great popularity: there is no similar novella in contemporary Chinese literature that has ever treated the topic ‘balance and modernization’ so gently and delicately, yet the translators’ handling of the texts indicates cultural compromise too. As a result of that, I argue: the reception of Gaskell in China, especially during this period, sheds light on how western literature has been domesticated and accepted in another language, which also showcases why in that way could Gaskell become popular in an eastern country
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