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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
Texas Birdge M&R Data
No full textThe M&R dataset that included information of 489 bridges and bridge-class culverts that recevied M&R actions in the 2014-2016 time period
Arna bicostata Wang, Wang & Fan, sp. nov.
No full textArna bicostata Wang, Wang & Fan sp. nov. (Figs. 3–4, 28, 42) Diagnosis. Forewing length 10–14 mm. Forewing yellow, with two pale transverse lines medially; hindwing pale yellow. Description. Male and female. Vertex covered with pale yellow scales. Labial palpus short, upturned. Thorax and tegulae yellow. Forewing yellow, with a deep yellow band between two pale transverse lines medially, the band shaded grey in some specimens; venation with R 2, R 3, R 4 and R 5 stalked, R 2 branching off more distally than R 5, M 1 arising from upper angle of distal cell, M 3 from under angle of distal cell, M 2, M 3 and CuA 1 isolated, CuA 1 parallel to CuA 2. Hindwing paler yellow; venation with Rs stalked with M 1 at basal 1 / 4, M 2 arising from near under angle of distal cell, M 3 and CuA 1 short stalked. Male genitalia (Fig. 28): Uncus broad, apically divided in the dorso-ventral plane, triangular at apex of dorsal part; valva narrowed from apex of sacculus to costa; saccus small; aedeagus straight. Female genitalia (Fig. 42): Apophysis anterioris almost as long as apophysis posterioris, but thicker than the latter; ostium U-shaped; base of ductus inflated, lightly sclerotized; signum absent. Type material: Holotype: 3, Nanling National Nature Reserve, Guangdong, 7.V. 2009, leg. H.S. Wang. Paratypes: 4 3, 2 Ƥ, same data as the holotype; 2 3, same locality, 1.VI. 2006, leg. L.S. Chen, M. Wang. Distribution. China (Guangdong). Etymology. The specific name is derived from Latin, “bicostatus,” referring to the forewing with two pale lines medially. Remarks. The genus Arna Walker was reviewed by Holloway (1999) who reported 12 species. A Chinese species Euproctis pentamaculata described by Chao (1984) should also belong to this genus according to the male genitalia illustrated in his Fig. 230, along with A. pseudoconspersa (Strand) and the new species. As a result, 15 species of the genus are now recorded. The new species is similar to Arna bipunctapex, but can be easily separated from the latter by the following characters: forewing yellow with two pale transverse median lines; hindwing pale yellow; uncus less acute at apex of dorsal part, valva with shorter protrusion at apex of costa; female with a smaller ostium.Published as part of Wang, Houshuai, Wang, Min & Fan, Xiaoling, 2011, Notes on the tribe Nygmiini (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from Nanling National Nature Reserve, with description of a new species, pp. 57-68 in Zootaxa 2887 on page 58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20082
Laguerre geometry of hypersurfaces in R-n
No full textLaguerre geometry of surfaces in R-3 is given in the book of Blaschke [Vorlesungen uber Differentialgeometrie, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York (1929)], and has been studied by Musso and Nicolodi [Trans. Am. Math. soc. 348, 4321-4337 (1996); Abh. Math. Sem. Univ. Hamburg 69, 123-138 (1999); Int. J. Math. 11(7), 911-924 (2000)], Palmer [Remarks on a variation problem in Laguerre geometry. Rendiconti di Mathematica, Serie VII, Roma, vol. 19, pp. 281-293 (1999)] and other authors. In this paper we study Laguerre differential geometry of hypersurfaces in R-n. For any umbilical free hypersurface x:M -> R-n with non-zero principal curvatures we define a Laguerre invariant metric g on M and a Laguerre invariant self-adjoint operator S:TM -> TM, and show that {g,S} is a complete Laguerre invariant system for hypersurfaces in R-n with >= 4. We calculate the Euler-Lagrange equation for the Laguerre volume functional of Laguerre metric by using Laguerre invariants. Using the Euclidean space R-n, the semi-Euclidean space R-1(n) and the degenerate space R-0(n) we define three Laguerre space forms URn, UR1n and UR0n and define the Laguerre embeddings URn1 -> URn and UR0n -> URn, analogously to what happens in the Moebius geometry where we have Moebius space forms S-n, H-n and R-n (spaces of constant curvature) and conformal embeddings H-n -> S-n and R-n -> S-n[cf. Liu et al. in Tohoku Math. J. 53, 553-569 (2001) and Wang in Manuscr. Math. 96, 517-534 (1998)]. Using these Laguerre embeddings we can unify the Laguerre geometry of hypersurfaces in R-n, R-1(n) and R-0(n). As an example we show that minimal surfaces in R-1(3) or R-0(3) are Laguerre minimal in R-3.MathematicsSCI(E)0ARTICLE173-9512
Cladotanytarsus parvus Wang & Zheng
No full textCladotanytarsus parvus Wang & Zheng (Fig. 12) Cladotanytarsus parvus Wang & Zheng 1993: 2 (Figs. 1, 2) Material examined. Holotype male (04819), China, Guangdong Province, Fengkai County, 23.4 ºN / 111.4 ºE, IV. 20.1988. Leg. X. Wang. Diagnosis. Apex of superior volsella bent. Digitus tapering to pointed apex. Anal point tapering gradually to pointed apex and with 5 scattered spinules between crests. The species was described in detail by Wang & Zheng 1993: 2 (Figs. 1, 2). Additional description of wing: Macrotrichia on membrane: R 4 + 5 80; M 1 + 2 72; M 3 + 4 12. Setae on veins: R 4 + 5 30; M 1 + 2 29; M 3 + 4 8; Cu 1 6. R and R 1 with setae but difficult to count. Distribution. The species is known from Guangdong Province (Oriental China).Published as part of Wang, Xinhua & Guo, Yuhong, 2004, A review of the genus Cladotanytarsus Kieffer from China, with the description of three new species (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanytarsini), pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 750 on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15814
Designing role-based view for object-relational databases
Full text linkIn 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
Panolis xundian An & Owada & Wang & Wang 2019, sp. nov.
No full textPanolis xundian An, Owada, Wang & Wang, sp. nov. Diagnosis. The new species (Figs 1–2) is superficially similar to P. pinicortex (Figs 3–4), but can be easily separated from the latter by a well-developed pollex and a broad, ventrally concave cucullus in the male genitalia (Figs. 7–8), and corpus bursae with four long signum-stripes in the female genitalia (Figs. 10–11). It is also similar to P. ningshan Wang, Fan, Owada, Wang & Nylin, 2014 (Figs. 5–6) in wing patterns, but can be clearly distinguished from the latter by the male genitalia without a long digitiform process on juxta (Figs. 7, 9) and the female genitalia with a shorter anterior apophysis and the much longer signum-stripes (Figs. 10, 12). Description. Male and female (Figs. 1–2). Forewing length 15–17 mm. Frons and vertex off-white, decorated with brick-red hairs. Compound eyes small. Proboscis well developed. Antenna filiform, with fine white cilia. Labial palpus short. Thorax and tegulae densely covered with yellow brown, purplish red and off-white hairs. Forewing ground color reddish orange, scattered with grey white scales, basal area of forewing ornamented with blood red patch and speckled with grey white scales; orbicular stigma orange; reniform stigma pale reddish orange, encircled with grey white scales; subterminal area with irregular, wavy, pale yellow stripe; fringe pale yellow between veins, reddish orange on veins; venation with R 1 arising near middle of costa of discal cell; R 2 and R 3+4 shortly stalked, R 3 stalked with R 4 about ½ length of R 3+4, R 2+3+4 and R 5 branching from upper angle of areole; M 1 arising from upper angle of discal cell; M 2, M 3 and CuA 1 originating from lower angle of discal cell. Hindwing and fringe pink white; venation with R s and M 1 short stalked, M 3 and CuA 1 arising from lower angle of discal cell. Tibial spur formula: 0-2-4. Abdomen orange yellow. Male genitalia. (Fig. 7). Uncus digitiform, apical part somewhat dilated, rounded terminally. Tegumen small and narrow. Valva broad, with well-developed pollex at distal end of sacculus; cucullus blunt round, obtuse-angled, concave at ventral margin; corona absent; ampulla short, weakly sclerotized, curved medially, acute apically; harpe present, slender, needle-like. Saccus small, V-shaped. Aedeagus cylindrical, carina with sclerotized, approximately triangular lateral plate; vesica tubular distally, with small terminal cornutus. Female genitalia. (Fig. 10). Anal papillae small, densely setose. Posterior apophysis approximately twice as long as anterior apophysis. Ostium bursae medium-sized, scalelike. Ductus bursae moderately long, entirely ribbed and sclerotized, posterior part broad, anterior part slender. Appendix bursae relatively short, twisted, ribbed. Corpus bursae somewhat oval-shaped, with four long signum-stripes. Type material. Holotype: 3, Laocun, Liushao, Xundian county, Kunming city, Yunnan province, China, 25° 41' 34.51'' N, 102° 54' 16.96'' E,altitude of 2510 m, 8. IV. 2013, leg. Min Wang & Mamoru Owada. Paratypes: 4 3, 2♀, same data as the holotype; 1♀, Samage, Tacheng, Weixi county, Lijiang city, Yunnan province, China, 27° 32' 48.68'' N, 99° 21' 15.59'' E, altitude of 2150 m, 16–19. V. 2017, leg. Min Wang. Distribution. China (Yunnan province). Etymology. The new species is named after its type locality: Xundian county.Published as part of An, Xuan, Owada, Mamoru, Wang, Min & Wang, Hou-Shuai, 2019, Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of the genus Panolis Hübner, [1821] (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), pp. 523-530 in Zootaxa 4565 (4) on pages 525-526, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4565.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/259134
Leucoma sichuana Xie & Wang & Chen & Wang 2022, sp. nov.
No full textLeucoma sichuana Xie & H. Wang sp. nov. (Figs 17–18, 29, 35) Diagnosis. The new species resembles L. ochripes and L. niveata in male genitalia, but can be easily separated from the latter two by the following characters: labial palpus white; middle and hind tarsi wihte, mixed with pale yellow scales; the left valva nearly rectangle, with a tiny plate of setea on inner surface; the right valva broad at basal half, narrow at distal half, densely covered with setea on cucullus; saccus small. Description. Adult. Forewing length: 32–33mm in male holotype, 40–42mm in female paratypes. Head: Antennae bipectinate, fuscous; frons and vertex covered with white dense hairs; labial palpi white, short. Thorax: dorsally and ventrally covered with white scales, tegula white. Forewing white, R 1 and R 2 almost parallel, R 3, R 4 and R 5 stalked, M 1 arising from upper angle of discal cell, M 2 and M 3 arising from the lower angle of discal cell respectively, Cu 1 and Cu 2 approximately parallel, fringe white. Hind wing white; Rs and M 1 short stalked, M 2 and M 3 arising from the lower angle of discal cell respectively, fringe white. Legs densely covered with white hairs, except forelegs mixed with yellow scales. Male genitalia. Uncus triangular basally, digitate apically; tegumen broad; valvae strongly asymmetric, left valva approximately rectangle, its inner surface with a tiny plate of setae; the right valva broad at basal half, narrow at distal half, densely covered with setae on cucullus; saccus small; aedeagus short, distal gradually slightly curve toward distal; vesica sclerotized at base, without spines. Female genitalia. The anterior apophysis and the posterior apophysis almost equal in length; the ostium small; the ductus short, basally sclerotized; the bursa long oval-shaped, with a M-shaped signum. Material examined. Holotype: 1♂, Longcanggou National Forest Park, Yingjing County, Ya’an City, Sichuan, 2.VII.2016, leg. M. Wang. Paratypes: 1♀, same data as holotype; 1♀, same locality as the holotype, 31.VII.2015, leg. M. Wang. Distribution. China (Sichuan). Etymology. The species name after the type locality Sichuan Province.Published as part of Xie, Linzhe, Wang, Ming, Chen, Yusi & Wang, Houshuai, 2022, Review of the genus Leucoma Hübner, 1822 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from China, with description of two new species, pp. 361-380 in Zootaxa 5115 (3) on pages 371-372, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5115.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/635837
Microlepidoptera of Hong Kong: Oecophoridae II: description of three new species of the genus Va r i a c m a Wang
No full textWang, Shu-Xia, Yuan, Gai-Xia, Kendrick, Roger C. (2011): Microlepidoptera of Hong Kong: Oecophoridae II: description of three new species of the genus Va r i a c m a Wang. Zootaxa 2762: 31-36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20144
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