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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
Wang Meng and contemporary Chinese literature: the vicissitudes of a committed writer
No full textThis 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
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
Comprehensive kinetic modeling and experimental study of a fuel-rich, premixed n-heptane flame
No full textSeidel L, Moshammer K, Wang X, Zeuch T, Kohse-Höinghaus K, Mauss F. Comprehensive kinetic modeling and experimental study of a fuel-rich, premixed n-heptane flame. COMBUSTION AND FLAME. 2015;162(5):2045-2058
Isotopic dependence of residual zonal flows
No full textWe identify an isotopic dependence of residual zonal flows from an analytic calculation. While the well-known Rosenbluth-Hinton residual zonal flows with radial scale greater than the magnetically trapped ion radial width rho(bi) have no isotopic dependence (Rosenbluth and Hinton 1998 Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 724), we find that shorter radial scale (shorter than rho(bi), but larger than the magnetically trapped electron radial width rho(be)) residual zonal flows (Wang and Hahm 2009 Phys. Plasmas 16 062309) exhibit isotopic dependence. These finer scale zonal flows in deuterium (D) plasmas can be stronger than those of hydrogen (H) plasmas, and possibly lead to lower turbulence and transport and better confinement in qualitative agreement with experimental results
A 2 h periodic variation in the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1
No full textSpectroscopy of the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1 using the Gran Telescopio Canarias have revealed a ?2 h periodic variability that is present in the three strongest emission lines. We tentatively interpret this variability as due to orbital motion, making it the first indication of the orbital period of Ser X-1. Together with the fact that the emission lines are remarkably narrow, but still resolved, we show that a main-sequence K dwarf together with a canonical 1.4 M? neutron star gives a good description of the system. In this scenario, the most likely place for the emission lines to arise is the accretion disc, instead of a localized region in the binary (such as the irradiated surface or the stream-impact point), and their narrowness is due instead to the low inclination (?10°) of Ser X-1
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Enhanced colour encoding of materials discrimination information for multiple view dual-energy x-ray imaging
No full textThis thesis reports an investigation into dual-energy X-ray discrimination techniques. These techniques are designed to provide colour-coded materials discrimination information in a sequence of perspective images exhibiting sequential parallax. The methods developed are combined with a novel 3D imaging technique employing depth from motion or kinetic depth effect (KDE). This technique when applied to X-ray images is termed KDEX imaging and was developed previously by the university team for luggage screening applications at security checkpoints. A primary motivation for this research is that the dual-energy X-ray techniques, which are routinely incorporated into ‘standard’ 2D luggage scanners, provide relatively crude materials discrimination information. In this work it was critical that robust materials discrimination and colour encoding process was implemented as the sequential parallax exhibited by the KDEX imagery may introduce colour changes, due to the different X-ray beam paths associated with each perspective image. Any introduction of ‘colour noise’ into the resultant image sequences could affect the perception of depth and hinder the ongoing assessment of the potential utility of the dual-energy KDEX technique. Two dual-energy discrimination methods have been developed, termed K-II and W-E respectively. Employing the total amount of attenuation measured at each energy level and the weight fraction of layered structures, a combination of the K-II and the W-E techniques enables the computation and extraction of a target objects’ effective atomic number (Zeff) and its surface density (ρS) in the presence of masking layers
Gnathocinara boi Wang, X. & Zolotuhin, sp. nov.
No full text29. Gnathocinara boi Wang, X. & Zolotuhin, sp. nov. (FIGURES 18 C, 18 F) Type locality: T ongzhong Forest Farm, Shangsi County, Shiwandashan National NR, Fangchenggang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished easily from G. situla based on the following characters: wings pale gray with dark gray bands; dorsum of abdomen gray without black patches; apex of the abdomen covered with gray hairs; uncus bifid; gnathos slim; saccus swollen apically. Description. Male: wingspan 32–38 mm; forewing length 16–18 mm;, body length 12–15 mm. Head. Vertex densely covered with white scales; compound eyes large and elliptical dense black scales around them; labial palpus yellow, elongated downwards; antenna bipectinate, about 1 / 3 length of forewing, dark brown dorsally, basal 1 / 4 white. Thorax. Dorsum yellowish-brown, covered with dense yellow scales. Fore- and hindwings grayish-white, covered with dense white scales; antemedial line broad and gray, from CuA 2 to inner margin; discal cell with a reniform stigma and a small gray dot; postmedial line broad and curved from M 1 curved to inner margin, represented by black scaling on the veins from M 1 to the costa; terminal line broader and gray, along the outer margin. Postmedial and terminal lines of hindwing not incomplete, unclear; discal cell with a gray spot; inner margin with 3 black spots. Postmedial and terminal lines on forewing underside broad and gray; discal cell with a small dot. Fore- and midlegs black, hindleg orange; tibia covered in brown scales. Abdomen. Dorsum gray, without black patches, apex covered with gray long scales. Male genitalia. Uncus bifurcate, each branch with a dorsal, sharply pointed process; valvae fused basally, deeply bifid to near the base, costa long and sickle-shaped; sacculus apically blunt, with sparse long scales, clearly thinner than costa; saccus well-developed, swollen distally, about 2 / 5 length of the whole male genitalia; aedeagus slender and long, smooth, the middle thinner than either end; coecum penis with a bifurcate apical process. Tergite VIII goblet-shaped, anterior margin with two long, very thin, laterally directed bars. Sternite VIII broad, posterior margin medially invaginated, V-shaped, apically with two pairs of processes, the outer broad and apically blunt, the inner longer, curved and sharply pointed; anterior margin with two long processes, apically curved outward and expanded. Female. Unknown. Specimens examined. Holotype, male, Dongzhong Forest Farm, Shangsi County, Shiwandashan National NR, Fangchenggang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 8.IV. 2002, light trapping, Min Wang & Guo- Hua Huang leg. (HUNAU). Paratypes: 1 male, same data as holotype (HUNAU); 3 males, Milv Village, Shiwandashan National NR, Fangchenggang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 6.IV. 2002, light trapping, Min Wang & Guo-Hua Huang leg. (SCAU); 5 males, Renzhuang Village, Jingxi County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 10–15.VII. 2006, Wei Xiong & Liu-Sheng Chen leg. (SCAU); 1 male, Daoyin Village, Yinggeling National NR, Hainan Province, China, 4.XII. 2005, Min Wang & Wei Xiong leg. (KUM); 1 male, Jianfengling National NR, Ledong County, Hainan Province, China, 23.X. 2007, Min Wang leg. (HUNAU). Bionomics. The larval host is unknown. Adults fly from late spring to winter. Etymology. The species is named in honor of Dr. L.-Y. Bo, who was the supervisor of the senior author during her postdoctoral fellowship. Distribution. Mainland China (Guangxi) and Hainan. Remarks. The new species appears to be endemic to South China.Published as part of Wang, Xing, Wang, Min, Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Hirowatari, Toshiya, Wu, Shipher & Huang, Guo-Hua, 2015, The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands, pp. 1-138 in Zootaxa 3989 (1) on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/23871
REDESCRIPTION AND SYSTEMATIC STATUS OF NEOCAPILLARIA PHOXINI YU ET WANG, 1994 (NEMATODA: CAPILLARIIDAE)
No full textRe-examination of the syntypes of the capillariid nematode Neocapillaria phoxini Yu et Wang, 1994, the type species of Neocapillaria Yu et Wang, 1994, described from the intestine of the freshwater fish Phoxinus lagowskii variegatus Gunther (Cyprinidae) from China, confirmed its morphological similarity with species of Freitascapillaria Moravec, 1987, to which it is transferred as Freitascapillaria phoxini (Yu et Wang, 1994) comb. n. Consequently, Neocapillaria Yu et Wang, 1994 (a homonym to Neocapillaria Moravec, 1987) and Sinocapillaria Moravec et Spratt, 1998 become junior synonyms of Freitascapillaria. Skrjabinocapillaria gigantea is transferred to Freitascapillaria as F. gigantea (Wang, 1984) comb. n.Re-examination of the syntypes of the capillariid nematode Neocapillaria phoxini Yu et Wang, 1994, the type species of Neocapillaria Yu et Wang, 1994, described from the intestine of the freshwater fish Phoxinus lagowskii variegatus Gunther (Cyprinidae) from China, confirmed its morphological similarity with species of Freitascapillaria Moravec, 1987, to which it is transferred as Freitascapillaria phoxini (Yu et Wang, 1994) comb. n. Consequently, Neocapillaria Yu et Wang, 1994 (a homonym to Neocapillaria Moravec, 1987) and Sinocapillaria Moravec et Spratt, 1998 become junior synonyms of Freitascapillaria. Skrjabinocapillaria gigantea is transferred to Freitascapillaria as F. gigantea (Wang, 1984) comb. n
Operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy investigations on NaxNi1/3Fe1/3Mn1/3O2 positive electrode materials for sodium and sodium ion batteries
No full textNaxMn1/3Fe1/3Ni1/3O2 (x = 2/3 and 1) layered oxides are synthesized and applied as positive electrode materials for sodium batteries. The crystal structure of the material changes from the O3 single phase to P2/O3 mixed phases as the Na content decreases from 1 to 2/3. The mixed-phases Na2/3Mn1/3Fe1/3Ni1/3O2 shows superior cycling performance compared to the single-phase NaMn1/3Fe1/3Ni1/3O2 due to different redox process and structural change that are demonstrated by operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The Na2/3Mn1/3Fe1/3Ni1/3O2 experiences redox reactions of Ni3+|Ni4+ and Fe3+|Fe4+ with inactive Mn ions during the charge/discharge processes, while the NaMn1/3Fe1/3Ni1/3O2 undergoes deeper redox reactions from Ni2+|Ni3+|Ni4+ and Fe3+|Fe4+ that Mn ions are irreversibly oxidized to Mn4+ in the 1st charge process. In addition, the mixed-phases material has smaller changes in the transition metal oxygen bond lengths during cycling, corresponding to less distortions of TMO6 units in the crystal structure. The better reversibility of the redox reactions and the occurrence of less structural changes are both responsible for the enhanced cycling performance obtained from the mixed-phases material compared to the single-phase material. These results strengthen the understanding of interactions of transition metals in the layered cathode and provide guidelines for designing positive electrode materials for sodium batteries
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