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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
AAS227 - Synthesizing Understanding from Data with yt
No full textThis is a talk I gave at the AAS227 about yt. yt is available at yt-project.org.<div><br></div><div>While I am listed as the author of this talk, the yt community is composed of more than a hundred code contributors and mailing list participants, and we are grateful to their involvement and support.</div><div><br></div><div>Additionally, the yt project is built on other members of the scientific software ecosystem such as Jupyter, NumPy, Cython, h5py and hdf5, Matplotlib, and Sympy.</div
Physical Therapy Intervention and Effect for a Patient With Juvenile Form α—Glucosidase Deficiency Disease—Case Report.
No full textThe relationship between exercise performance and peripheral circulation in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease
No full textDesigning Stable ABR Flow Control with Rate Feedback and Open-Loop Control: First-Order Control Case
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Designing stable ABR flow control with rate feedback and open-loop control: first-order control case
Get PDFIn this paper we present a control-theoretic approach to design stable rate-based Bow control for ATM ABR services. The flow control algorithm that we consider has the most simple form among all the queue-length-based flow control algorithms, and is referred to as first-order rate-based flow control (FRFC) since the corresponding closed loop can be modeled as a first-order retarded differential equation. We analyze the equilibrium and the asymptotic stability of the closed loop for the case of multiple connections with diverse round-trip delays. We also characterize the asymptotic decay rate at which the stable closed loop tends to the equilibrium. The decay rate is shown to be a concave function of control gain with its maximum being the inverse of round-trip delay. We also consider an open loop control in which the queue control threshold is dynamically adjusted according to the changes in the available bandwidth and the number of connections. This open loop control is shown to be necessary and effective to prevent the closed loop from converging to an undesirable equilibrium point. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
First-order rate-based flow control with dynamic queue threshold for high-speed wide-area ATM networks
No full textIn this paper we present a new rate-based flow control scheme for ATM ABR, services and analyze its performance. The proposed algorithm, which we refer to as first-order rate-based flow control (FRFC) is the most simple form of queue-length-based flow control. The asymptotic stability, the steady-state throughput, queue length and fairness, and the transient behavior are analyzed for the case of multiple connections with diverse round-trip delays. We also consider novel approach to dynamically adjust a queue threshold in the FRFC according to the changes in the available bandwidth, and the arrival and departure of connections. Simulations show that the simple FRFC with dynamic queue threshold (DQT) effectively maintains high throughput, small loss and a desired fairness in these dynamic environments and is a promising solution for ABR flow control in ATM networks. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.
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