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Wang Shuo and the commercialisation of contemporary Chinese culture
Get PDFThis 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
Get PDFThis 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
H ? filtering for stochastic singular fuzzy systems with time-varying delay
Get PDFThis paper considers the H? filtering problem
for stochastic singular fuzzy systems with timevarying
delay. We assume that the state and measurement
are corrupted by stochastic uncertain exogenous
disturbance and that the system dynamic is modeled
by Ito-type stochastic differential equations. Based on
an auxiliary vector and an integral inequality, a set of
delay-dependent sufficient conditions is established,
which ensures that the filtering error system is e?t -
weighted integral input-to-state stable in mean (iISSiM).
A fuzzy filter is designed such that the filtering
error system is impulse-free, e?t -weighted iISSiM and
the H? attenuation level from disturbance to estimation
error is belowa prescribed scalar.Aset of sufficient
conditions for the solvability of the H? filtering problem
is obtained in terms of a new type of Lyapunov
function and a set of linear matrix inequalities. Simulation
examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness
of the proposed filtering approach developed in
this paper
Mesophilic-hydrothermal-thermophilic (M-H-T) digestion of green corn straw
No full textMesophilic-hydrothermal (80-160 degrees C, 30 min)-thermophilic (M-H-T) digestion and control tests of mesophilic (M), thermophilic (T), hydrothermal-mesophilic (H-M), and mesophilic-thermophilic digestion (M-T) of green corn straw were conducted for a 20-day fermentation period. The results indicate that M-H-T is an efficient method to improve methane production. A maximum methane yield of 371.74 mL/g volatile solid was obtained by the M (3 days)-H (140 degrees C)-T (17 days) process, which was 20.44%, 16.55%, 31.44%, and 14.31% higher than the yields of the M, T, 140-M, and M-T processes. The enhanced methane production was attributed to (1) the improved hemicellulose degradation and lignin disorganization; (2) prevention of the degradation of soluble sugar, easily hydrolyzed hemicellulose and cellulose into furfural and methylfurfural; and (3) lack of formation of Maillard reaction products during initial hydrothermal treatment. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Significant formation of sulfate aerosols contributed by the heterogeneous drivers of dust surface
No full textThe data is coupled with the paper titled “Significant formation of sulfate aerosols contributed by the heterogeneous drivers of dust surface”. A preprint has been posted based on this dataset, as cited follows. The serial number of the sheet in dataset corresponds to that of the figure in preprint. Wang, T., Liu, Y., Cheng, H., Wang, Z., Fu, H., Chen, J., and Zhang, L.: Significant formation of sulfate aerosols contributed by the heterogeneous drivers of dust surface, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2022-227, in review, 2022
Letter from Carl T. Hayden to C. H. Gensler, Havasupai Reservation
No full textLetter from Carl T. Hayden to C. H. Gensler, Havasupai Indian Reservation, regarding Hualapai and Cataract Canyons geography
H? Control
No full textH? control has been one of the popular methods for stabilizing dynamic systems with externally finite energy or power disturbance, and great attention has been paid to this problem. This chapter focuses on the mode-independent H? control problem for SMJSs. When the TRM can be selected, several sets of sufficient conditions in terms of LMIs with equation constraints are presented, where control gains can be obtained directly. When MDCs have OMs disordered, sufficient conditions for such disordered controllers are given in terms of LMIs. Without designing NOM-dependent controller directly, a kind of controller only related to OOMs is developed. Especially, another method for designing an MIC is given, which requires that the state transition probability is known exactly. In the case when the state transition probability is unaccessible or unavailable, a unified approach to H? control problem is developed in the LMI setting, where the TRM can be uncertain, partially unknown and designed, and both H? MIC and MDCs are obtained simultaneously. Based on these methods, improved results in terms of considering the probabilities of MIC and MDCs taking place are presented. The available probability of system mode described by a Bernoulli variable is taken into account, which plays an important role in system design. Finally, an adaptive controller is developed to deal with a general case when the probability is inaccessible. All these conditions are expressed in terms of LMIs, and thus they can be solved easily using the existing software package
H∞ fuzzy control for systems with repeated scalar nonlinearities and random packet losses
No full textCopyright [2009] IEEE. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of Brunel University's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to [email protected]. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.This paper is concerned with the H∞ fuzzy control problem for a class of systems with repeated scalar nonlinearities and random packet losses. A modified Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model is proposed in which the consequent parts are composed of a set of discrete-time state equations containing a repeated scalar nonlinearity. Such a model can describe some well-known nonlinear systems such as recurrent neural networks. The measurement transmission between the plant and controller is assumed to be imperfect and a stochastic variable satisfying the Bernoulli random binary distribution is utilized to represent the phenomenon of random packet losses. Attention is focused on the analysis and design of H∞ fuzzy controllers with the same repeated scalar nonlinearities such that the closed-loop T-S fuzzy control system is stochastically stable and preserves a guaranteed H∞ performance. Sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of admissible controllers, and the cone complementarity linearization procedure is employed to cast the controller design problem into a sequential minimization one subject to linear matrix inequalities, which can be readily solved by using standard numerical software. Two examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed design method
Periacma zhouzhiensis Wang & Zheng 1995
No full textPeriacma zhouzhiensis Wang & Zheng, 1995 (Figures 10 and 39) Periacma zhouzhiensis Wang & Zheng, 1995: 9. Wing expanse: 14.0–16.0 mm. Female genitalia (Figure 39): Papilla analis caudally rounded. Apophysis posterioris thicker and longer than apophysis anterioris. Lamella postvaginalis wrinkly, caudally with median 1/3 protruded backward. Ostium bursae small. Antrum anteriorly produced into two triangular processes; caudal margin rounded, concave at middle. Ductus bursae a little longer than corpus bursae. Corpus bursae elliptical; signum a minute thorn. Material examined: Holotype: „, Zhouzhi (34 ° 10 9 N, 108 ° 12 9 E), Shaanxi Province, 1000 m, 13 July 1987, coll. Houhun Li. Additional material: 3 „„, Neixiang (33 ° 02 9 N, 111 ° 50 9 E), Henan Province, 1350 m, 13 July 1998, coll. Houhun Li; 2 „„, Xixia (33 ° 18 9 N, 111 ° 29 9 E), Henan Province, 890 m, 16–17 July 1998, coll. Houhun Li; 1 „, Lushi (34 ° 03 9 N, 111 ° 02 9 E), Henan Province, 650 m, 12 July 1998, coll. Dandan Zhang; 1 „, 2 ♀♀, Dengfeng (34 ° 27 9 N, 113.02 ° E), Henan Province, 700–800 m, 9–15 June 2000, coll. Haili Yu; 1 „, Jiyuan (35 ° 04 9 N, 112 ° 35 9 E), Henan Province, 700 m, 7 June 2000, coll. Haili Yu; 2 „„, 4 ♀♀, Huixian (35 ° 27 9 N, 113 ° 47 9 E), Henan Province, 780 m, 12–13 July 2002, coll. Xinpu Wang; 2 „„, Songxian (34 ° 28 9 N, 112 ° 55 9 E), Henan Province, 580 m, 18–20 July 2002, coll. Xinpu Wang; 1 „, 1 ♀, Shennongjia (31 ° 45 9 N, 110 ° 40 9 E), Hubei Province, 950 m, 3–4 July 1980, collector unknown; 1 „, 1 ♀, Shennongjia, Hubei Province, 1100–1200 m, 17–19 July 2003. Distribution: China (Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi). Remarks: This species is distinguished by the gnathos more or less T-shaped, the valva with distal two-thirds nearly parallel-sided and the dorso-proximal process distally bulbous in the male genitalia. The female of this species is described for the first time.Published as part of Wang, S. X. & Li, H. H., 2006, Review of the genus Periacma Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae) from China, with descriptions of four new species, pp. 2371-2393 in Journal of Natural History 40 (41 - 43) on pages 2379-2380, DOI: 10.1080/00222930601088123, http://zenodo.org/record/523174
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