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Wang Shuo and the commercialisation of contemporary Chinese culture
No full textThis 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
Object orientation without extending Z
No full textThe good news of this paper is that without extending Z,
we can elegantly specify object-oriented systems, including encapsulation,
inheritance and subtype polymorphism (dynamic dispatch). The
bad news is that this specification style is rather different to normal
Z specifications, more abstract and axiomatic, which means that it is
not so well supported by current Z tools such as animators. It also enforces
behavioural subtyping, unlike most object-oriented programming
languages. This paper explains the proposed style, with examples, and
discusses its advantages and disadvantages
A Triangular Periodic Table of Elementary Circuit Elements
No full textChua proposed an Elementary Circuit Element
Quadrangle including the three classic elements (resistor, inductor,
and capacitor) and his formulated, named memristor as
the fourth element. Based on an observation that this quadrangle
may not be symmetric, I proposed an Elementary Circuit Element
Triangle, in which memristor as well as mem-capacitor and mem-inductor lead three basic element classes, respectively. An intrinsic mathematical relationship is found to support this new classification. It is believed that this triangle is concise, mathematically
sound and aesthetically beautiful, compared with Chua’s quadrangle. The importance of finding a correct circuit element table is similar to that of Mendeleev’s periodic table of chemical elements in chemistry and the table of 61 elementary particles in physics, in terms of categorizing the existing elements and predicting new elements. A correct circuit element table would also request to rewrite the 20th century textbooks
Wang Li (1900-1986)
No full textWang Li (Wang Liaoyi) was one of the three most prominent linguists in China in the 20th century. He was born August 10, 1900, in what is now Bobai County of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Area
Berosus tayouanus Ueng, Wang & Wang 2007
No full texttayouanus Ueng, Wang & Wang, 2007 Berosus (Enoplurus) salinus Ueng, Wang & Wang, 2006: 63. – China, Taiwan, Tainan City, Shihchu Wildlife Reserve. Berosus tayouanus Ueng, Wang & Wang, 2007: 88 (replacement name for B. salinus Ueng, Wang & Wang, 2006 due to its homonymy with Berosus salinus Fall, 1901 [= B. metalliceps Sharp, 1882]). Distribution. China (Fujian, Taiwan, Zhejiang).Published as part of Short, Andrew E. Z. & Fikáček, Martin, 2011, World catalogue of the Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera): additions and corrections II (2006 - 2010), pp. 83-122 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) (suppl.) 51 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.446817
Sample images of Wang-B dataset (reprinted from [3] under a CC BY license, with permission from J. Z. WANG, original copyright [2003]).
No full textSample images of Wang-B dataset (reprinted from [3] under a CC BY license, with permission from J. Z. WANG, original copyright [2003]).</p
Nucleation in A/B/AB blends: Interplay between microphase assembly and macrophase separation
No full textWe study the interplay between microphase assembly and macrophase separation in A/B/AB ternary polymer blends by examining the free energy of localized fluctuation structures (micelles or droplets), with emphasis on the thermodynamic relationship between swollen micelles (microemulsion) and the macrophase-separated state, using self-consistent field theory and an extended capillary model. Upon introducing homopolymer B into a micelle-forming binary polymer blend A/AB, micelles can be swollen by B. A small amount of component B (below the A-rich binodal of macrophase coexistence) will not affect the stability of the swollen micelles. A large excess of homopolymer, B, will induce a microemulsion failure and lead to a macrophase separation. Between the binodal and the microemulsion failure concentration, macrophase separation in A/B/AB occurs by a two-step nucleation mechanism via a metastable microemulsion droplet of finite size. Our results illustrate a recently proposed argument that the two-step nucleation via a metastable intermediate is a general phenomenon in systems involving short-range attraction and long-range repulsion
Dataset for Planar Array with Bidirectional Elements for Tunnel Environments
No full textDataset supports:
Wang, R., Wang, B-Z., Ding, X., & Ou, J-Y. (2017). Planar array with bidirectional elements for tunnel environments. Scientific Reports 7, 15421(2017)
Funded by University of Southampton Zepler Institute Research Collaboration Stimulus Fund.</span
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