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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
Oceanogaphical and geological background
No full textThe South China Sea (SCS) embraces an area of about 3.5 x 106 km2 and extends from the Tropic of Cancer to the Equator, across over 20 degrees of latitude in the west Pacific. Since the last decade, the SCS has become the focus in studying the East Asian monsoon, like the Arabian Sea for the Indian monsoon (Wang B. et al. 2003). The SCS offers an ideal locality for high-resolution paleoceanographic researches in the low-latitude western Pacific because its hemipelagic sediments often register higher deposition rates and its carbonate compensation depth (CCD) is generally deeper than neighboring sea basins (Wang P. 1999).Pinxian Wang and Qianyu L
Charippus yinae Wang & Li 2020
No full textCharippus yinae Wang & Li, 2020 Figs 195– 213 Charippus yinae Wang & Li, 2020: 45, figs 1A–D, 2A–G. Material examined. 1♀ 15 juveniles (MHBU-ARA-00023589), CHINA: Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna, Mengla County, Menglun Town, XTBG, tropical rainforests, 21°55’12.38’’E, 101°16’4.88’’E, 554 m elev., 4 August 2021, leg. K. Yu, W. Wang, L. Zhang & J. Zhang. Diagnosis. See Wang & Li (2020). Description. See Wang & Li (2020). Natural history. The type material of C. yinae was collected from leaf litter (Wang & Li 2020; Wang, pers. comm.). We also collected this species from tree trunks in XTBG. Distribution. China (Yunnan).Published as part of Yu, Kun, Wang, Weihang, Maddison, Wayne P. & Zhang, Junxia, 2022, Revision of the genus Charippus Thorell, 1895, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Salticidae, Euophryini), pp. 151-198 in Zootaxa 5129 (2) on page 189, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5129.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/650073
Measurements of K S 0 - K L 0 asymmetries in the decays Λ c + → p K L , S 0 , p K L , S 0 π + π − and p K L , S 0 π 0
No full textAbstract Using e + e − annihilation data sets corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.5 fb −1, collected with the BESIII detector at center-of-mass energies between 4.600 and 4.699 GeV, we report the first measurements of the absolute branching fractions B Λ c + → p K L 0 = (1.67 ± 0.06 ± 0.04)%, B Λ c + → p K L 0 π + π − = (1.69 ± 0.10 ± 0.05)%, and B Λ c + → p K L 0 π 0 = (2.02 ± 0.13 ± 0.05)%, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic. Combining with the known branching fractions of Λ c + → p K S 0 , Λ c + → p K S 0 π + π − , and Λ c + → p K S 0 π 0 , we present the first measurements of the K S 0 - K L 0 asymmetries R Λ c + K S , L 0 X = B Λ c + → K S 0 X − B Λ c + → K L 0 X B Λ c + → K S 0 X + B Λ c + → K L 0 X in charmed baryon decays: R Λ c + p K S , L 0 = − 0.025 ± 0.031 , R Λ c + p K S , L 0 π + π − = − 0.027 ± 0.048 and R Λ c + p K S , L 0 π 0 = − 0.015 ± 0.046 . No significant asymmetries with statistical significance are observed
Brachytarsophrys orientalis Li, Lyu, Wang & Wang 2020
No full text<p> <b> 2) <i>Brachytarsophrys orientalis</i> group</b> </p> <p> Five species: <i>Brachytarsophrys orientalis</i> Li, Lyu, Wang & Wang, 2020; <i>Brachytarsophrys chuannanensis</i> Fei, Ye & Huang, 2001; <i>Brachytarsophrys feae</i> (Boulenger, 1887); <i>Brachytarsophrys platyparietus</i> Rao & Yang, 1997; <i>Brachytarsophrys popei</i> Zhao, Yang, Chen, Chen & Wang, 2014.</p>Published as part of <i>Qi, Shuo, Lyu, Zhi-Tong, Wang, Jian, Mo, Yun-Ming, Zeng, Zhao-Chi, Zeng, Yang-Jin, Dai, Ke-Yuan, Li, Yuan-Qiu, Grismer, L. Lee & Wang, Ying-Yong, 2021, Three new species of the genus Boulenophrys (Anura, Megophryidae) from southern China, pp. 401-438 in Zootaxa 5072 (5)</i> on page 430, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5072.5.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5748979">http://zenodo.org/record/5748979</a>
Hollow Gold Cages and Their Topological Relationship to Dual Fullerenes
No full textGolden fullerenes have recently been identified by photoelectron spectra by Bulusu et al. [S. Bulusu, X. Li, L.-S. Wang, X. C. Zeng, PNAS 2006, 103, 8326–8330]. These unique triangulations of a sphere are related to fullerene duals having exactly 12 vertices of degree five, and the icosahedral hollow gold cages previously postulated are related to the Goldberg–Coxeter transforms of C20starting from a triangulated surface (hexagonal lattice, dual of a graphene sheet). This also relates topologically the (chiral) gold nanowires observed to the (chiral) carbon nanotubes. In fact, the Mackay icosahedra well known in gold cluster chemistry are related topologically to the dual halma transforms of the smallest possible fullerene C20. The basic building block here is the (111) fcc sheet of bulk gold which is dual to graphene. Because of this interesting one-to-one relationship through Euler's polyhedral formula, there are as many golden fullerene isomers as there are fullerene isomers, with the number of isomers Nisoincreasing polynomially as (Formula presented.)). For the recently observed (Formula presented.), (Formula presented.), and (Formula presented.) we present simulated photoelectron spectra including all isomers. We also predict the photoelectron spectrum of (Formula presented.) . The stability of the golden fullerenes is discussed in relation with the more compact structures for the neutral and negatively charged Au12to Au20and Au32clusters. As for the compact gold clusters we observe a clear trend in stability of the hollow gold cages towards the (111) fcc sheet. The high stability of the (111) fcc sheet of gold compared to the bulk 3D structure explains the unusual stability of these hollow gold cages
Some Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities for L p radial Blaschke-Minkowski homomorphisms
Full text linkAbstract Schuster introduced radial Blaschke-Minkowski homomorphisms. Recently, they were generalized to L p radial Blaschke-Minkowski homomorphisms by Wang et al. In this paper, we first establish Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities for some L q radial sums of L p radial Blaschke-Minkowski homomorphisms. Further, we consider monotonic inequalities for L p radial Blaschke-Minkowski homomorphisms
Lasioseius yadongensis Ma & Wang 1997
No full text<p> <b> <i>Lasioseius yadongensis</i> Ma & Wang</b> , <b>1997</b></p> <p> <i>Lasioseius yadongensis</i> Ma & Wang, 1997: 29.</p> <p> NOTE: this species was transferred to <i>Mirabulbus</i> Liu & Ma (Bulbogamasidae Gu, Wang & Duan, 1991) by Liu & Ma (2001: 356).</p>Published as part of <i>De Moraes, Gilberto J., Britto, Erika P. J., Mineiro, Jefferson L. De C. & Halliday, Bruce, 2016, Catalogue of the mite families Ascidae Voigts & Oudemans, Blattisociidae Garman and Melicharidae Hirschmann (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 1-299 in Zootaxa 4112 (1)</i> on page 249, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4112.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/399477">http://zenodo.org/record/399477</a>
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
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