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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
Designing role-based view for object-relational databases
Get PDFIn 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
Scleromitrion diffusum (Willd.) R. J. Wang Inhibits Gastric Cancer via ERBB2/ERBB3/PI3K/AKT Pathway
No full textBackground/Aims: This study aimed to evaluate the anticarcinogenic potential of Scleromitrion diffusum (Willd.) R. J. Wang (SD) extracts in vitro, along with exploring the underlying compatibility mechanisms.
Materials and Methods: Scleromitrion diffusum (Willd.) R. J. Wang extract was prepared and gastric cancer (GC) cells were treated to detect the half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50)/proliferation and migration/invasion by MTS method and transwell assay. The compatibility mechanisms of SD were analyzed by systems pharmacology strategy, combined with cellular experimental validation.
Results: Scleromitrion diffusum (Willd.) R. J. Wang extract showed inhibitory ability on the proliferation of the GC cell lines dose- and time-dependently. A total of 3 active ingredients are involved in anti-gastric cancer effects of SD, based on the top 50 pathways. The “herb-composition-target-pathway” network showed the multi-target and multi-pathway characteristics of SD. There were 52 related targets shared by SD and GC. The cellular experiments supported that SD significantly reduced ERBB2 and ERBB3 expression levels in GC cells. The overexpression of ERBB2 or ERBB3 partially offset the anti-tumor effects of SD.
Conclusion: Scleromitrion diffusum (Willd.) R. J. Wang inhibited gastric cancer growth and metastasis in vitro, which may be related to the inhibition of the ERBB2/ERBB3/PI3K/AKT pathway
Quadraticossus fangi Wang & Ren 2007
No full textQuadraticossus fangi Wang & Ren, 2007 (Fig. 3) 2007 Quadraticossus Wang Y & Ren, p. 41. figure 1 (A–F) Remarks. This species was erected based on both complete forewings and hind wings (Wang & Ren, 2007 a). After re-examining part and counterpart of the holotype, we have reconstructed the hind wing of Q. fangi (Fig. 3). Sc and R are similar to those of Q. eumorphus: Sc parallel with R at base, fused with R at point of origin of Rs, then confluent with R 1 + 2 for short interval, then extended to costal margin at indentation.Published as part of Wang, Ying, Wang, Lin & Ren, Dong, 2008, Revision of genera Quadraticossus, Martynovocossus and Fletcheriana (Insecta, Hemiptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China with description of a new species, pp. 56-64 in Zootaxa 1855 on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18352
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
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
Mucor tofus Y. N. Wang & R. Y. Zheng 2022, sp. nov.
No full textMucor tofus Y. N. Wang & R. Y. Zheng, sp. nov. Fig. 3 Index Fungorum: IF559755 Etymology:— Referring to the substrate tofu, a soft white or brown food made from soybeans, from which the species was first isolated. Typification:— CHINA. Anhui Province: Xiuning County, Lantian Town, from raw Mao-tofu, 5 April 2021, Yaning Wang, HMAS 352141 (holotype); prepared from CGMCC 3.16317 (ex-holotype). Description: — Colonies on PDA attaining 9 cm diam. and 25 mm in height after 4 days incubation at 24 °C, growing well at 20–26 °C, development ceased at 33 °C or above, deep olive-buff (Ridgway Plate XL); reverse olivebuff (Ridgway Plate XL). Tall sporangiophores arising directly from the substrate, erect, (10–)15–30 µm in diam. and up to 10 mm in length, often with irregular swelling and no septation when young, then smooth and septate with age, with or without yellowish contents, numerous droplets adhering to walls; lateral sporangiophores sympodially branched, (3–)5–10 µm diam. and 80–340 µm long, smooth, with one septum, hyaline. Sporangia globose and multispored, initially yellowish then yellowish-brown, axial ones 70–260 µm, lateral ones 40–100 µm, walls covered with fine spines, breaking. Columellae obovoid, 30–170 × 35–210 µm, pyriform to cylindric, 50–190 × 70–120 µm, mostly hyaline, rarely yellowish. Collars present or absent. Sporangiospores irregular in shape and size, 8–20(–25) × 5–15(– 20) µm when ovoid to cylindrical-ellipsoid, 10–25 × 8–20 µm when irregular, hyaline, smooth. Chlamydospores not observed. Zygospores unknown. Material examined: — CHINA. Anhui Province: Xiuning County, Lantian Town, from the surface of raw Maotofu, 5 April 2021, Ya-ning Wang, cultures CGMCC 3.16316 and CGMCC 3.16317.Published as part of Wang, Ya-Ning & Zheng, Ru-Yong, 2022, Mucor tofus, a new species isolated from Mao-tofu (a fermented soybean food) in China, pp. 233-244 in Phytotaxa 567 (3) on pages 238-239, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.567.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/715668
Author Correction: Caspase-11 signaling enhances graft-versus-host disease (Nature Communications, (2019), 10, 1, (4044), 10.1038/s41467-019-11895-2)
Get PDF© 2020, The Author(s). In the original version of this Article, the following author affiliations were inadvertently switched. Affiliation of Qingde Wang and Timothy R. Billiar should be: “Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 USA”. Haichao Wang\u27s affiliation should be: “The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, 350 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY11030, USA”. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of this article
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
Dataset for Planar Array with Bidirectional Elements for Tunnel Environments
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Wang, R., Wang, B-Z., Ding, X., & Ou, J-Y. (2017). Planar array with bidirectional elements for tunnel environments. Scientific Reports 7, 15421(2017)
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