651 research outputs found
Book Talk with Author: Puan Faza Fayza Mohd Fawzy
No full textPenerbit UiTM dengan kerjasama Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak (PTAR) menjemput seluruh warga kampus dan masyarakat untuk menyertai secara langsung program Book Talk with Author, sebuah inisiatif kolaboratif dalam usaha membudayakan ilmu melalui pembacaan dan perbincangan buku
The metric tun : standardisation, quantification and industrialisation in the British brewing industry, 1760-1830
No full textThis thesis considers the British beer-brewing industry around 1800 as a case study exploring current themes in the history of science and technology: the imposition of
reliable standards, the use of instruments and quantities, and the nature of industrial growth. I begin by addressing Michael Combrune, author of the first thermometric
brewing account, showing the influence of Boerhaavian fermentation theory and the eighteenth-century agenda for "commercial chemistry" on his work: Combrune's
fellow brewers, however, did not generally rely on the chemical scheme of management he had established, developing instead highly localised thermometric
operations which did not challenge established understandings. Next, I consider the determination of beer strength, focusing here on the brewer John Richardson's
innovation of the saccharometer, a gravimetric philosophical instrument. I show how Richardson presented both the device and the quantity in which it was scaled, later termed the `brewer's pound, ' as offering brewery-specific advantages, in order to ensure its acceptance whilst at the same time denying its roots in the disputatious field of spirits hydrometry. Richardson did not achieve his wider goal of monopolist control over the device, but his project of saccharometric determination was widely taken up, contributing to a significant change in the composition of beer, as brewers moved from using traditional brown- malts to the saccharometrically preferable pales. This development is then reviewed in the context of an analysis of the identity of London porter, the staple brown beer of London: I investigate the relationship of porter's identity to the uniquely vast and industrialised plants which produced it. Finally, I highlight the ambiguous nature of appeals to `science' or `chemistry' before 1830 by discussing the widespread contemporary panic over adulteration, popularly assumed to
be practised by those who associated with chemists and did not pursue a `traditional' approach to brewing. This controversy was settled, I contend, only with the later
development of a common laboratory-analytical context between brewers, pharmacists and public analysts who were able to redefine the concept of adulteration itself
Tun hu: (du mu ju ji).
No full text復工之前 -- 母女們 -- 囤戶.吳天著.Drama.Wu Tian zhu.Fu gong zhi qian -- Mu nü men -- Tun hu
Endless Possibilities Await
No full textNaing Lin Tun was awarded Honorable Mention for his essay.
At the request of the author, this essay is not available for download
Intensity scaling of conventional brain magnetic resonance images avoiding cerebral reference regions : A systematic review
No full textPublisher Copyright: © 2024 Wiltgen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Background: Conventional brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) produces image intensities that have an arbitrary scale, hampering quantification. Intensity scaling aims to overcome this shortfall. As neurodegenerative and inflammatory disorders may affect all brain compartments, reference regions within the brain may be misleading. Here we summarize approaches for intensity scaling of conventional T1-weighted (w) and T2w brain MRI avoiding reference regions within the brain. Methods: Literature was searched in the databases of Scopus, PubMed, and Web of Science. We included only studies that avoided reference regions within the brain for intensity scaling and provided validating evidence, which we divided into four categories: 1) comparative variance reduction, 2) comparative correlation with clinical parameters, 3) relation to quantitative imaging, or 4) relation to histology. Results: Of the 3825 studies screened, 24 fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Three studies used scaled T1w images, 2 scaled T2w images, and 21 T1w/T2w-ratio calculation (with double counts). A robust reduction in variance was reported. Twenty studies investigated the relation of scaled intensities to different types of quantitative imaging. Statistically significant correlations with clinical or demographic data were reported in 8 studies. Four studies reporting the relation to histology gave no clear picture of the main signal driver of conventional T1w and T2w MRI sequences. Conclusions T1w/T2w-ratio calculation was applied most often. Variance reduction and correlations with other measures suggest a biologically meaningful signal harmonization. However, there are open methodological questions and uncertainty on its biological underpinning. Validation evidence on other scaling methods is even sparser.Peer reviewe
[[alternative]]The research about process of developing the environmental actions of ecological protection of Da-tun River
No full text[[abstract]]This research aimed at the process of developing the environment movements of ecological protection of Da-tun River and collected the information using a character-analysis method. As regards the informational analysis, this research consulted the classification and analysis of social environmental education participants from Wan, Jin-ming(1995) to classify the participants into six professional groups: 1.the local people; 2.the professionals and scholars; 3.the teachers; 4.the media; 5.the protection groups; 6.the government, and did the role analysis of the environmental actions with the theory of “giver”, “medium” and “acceptor”, and, in addition, classified the total 114 environmental actions related to Da-tun River which happened between Aug.1997-May 2002 into five types of environmental actions :1.educational guidance; 2.political movement; 3.legal movement; 4.ecological research; 5.ecological management, and illustrated their individual function and influence with true cases.
This research discovered from the process of developing the environmental actions of Da-tun River that the Ministry of Education once entrusted the Environmental Education Certre of National Taiwan Normal University to visit and conduct the environmental protection teams in high schools of North Taiwan, and that just served as a catalyst to make the professionals and scholars join the performance of environmental protection of Da-tun River. Under the guidance of the professionals and scholars, the local people and teachers began to unite with the local power to push the government into dredging the Da-tun River in a most harmless way. Moreover, the establishment of the Taipei Institute of Rivers’ Ecological Protection also helped the design for riverside communities and the work for environmental education become more and more active.
This research shows the chief among the environmental actions of the Da-tun River is the “educational guidance” at present, which offers the participants a new stage to communicate face to face. The “political movement” is actually a service to support the ecological protection, so the participants are going on a soft political route, but not a violent one. The main group to develop the “ecological research” around Da-tun River is the teachers, who have been engaging in local investigations to do the researches concerning the people, the plants, and the environment around the costal small areas. The destination of the “legal movement” is to expose and correct the groups and individuals who illegally destroy the river’s environment, and, hopefully, to build a legal supervision system as soon as possible. The “ ecological management” is working on enforcing a blockade around the river to protect the fishes at present, and hope to specially work on the ecological protection through the cooperation between the six professional groups and seven managing institutions in future.
As to the analysis of participants, most of the local people are used to play the role of “acceptor”. The professionals, as well as the scholars, play the roles of “giver” and “medium”. They have been striving for support and help for Da-tun River for long, thus Da-tun River will still need and depend on them deeply in a short time. The teachers play the roles of “medium” and “ acceptor”, and are learning actively to play the “giver” with the help of the professionals and scholars, as well as the ecological protection groups. The media play the role of “medium”. They give full play to their strong and professional communicating power to affect the related policies and to supervise the performance. The protection groups play the role of “medium” for Da-tun River. They play a medium to communicate, coordinate and organize six participants groups. In the respect of educational guidance, they’ve gradually developed the ability to be a “giver”. The government is the “giver” of the related information, the “medium” of administration, as well as the “acceptor” of the concepts of ecological protection.
At the end, this research summed up the experiences of the environmental actions happening in different phases in two patterns: 1.the experiential pattern of participating the dredging engineering of Da-tun River and preparing and arranging the Taipei Institute of Rivers’ Ecological Protection; 2.the experiential pattern of developing environmental education of Da-tun River, to offer a valuable practical experience to all the participants who dedicate to rivers’ ecological protection.
A study of Operation on Multi-author Blogs - A case study of TechSea Blog
No full textMulti-Author Blog is a kind of blog which is an important source of information on the internet. Unlike the Single-Author Blog that is managed by one author, two or more authors cooperate to write the Multi-Author Blog that becomes popular especially in the online community with the interest on Internet Communication Technology. However, there is none research about the Multi-Author Blog.
The aim of this research is to study the operation and management of the Multi-Author Blog. The author performed a case study and operated a Multi-Author Blog for seven months to approach the research purpose. For the case study, the author designed a field interview with the management team of \ue2TechOrange\ue2 that is a famous IT Multi-Author Blog in Taiwan in order to understand the related issues. For the implementation, the author built of a Multi-Author Blog named \ue2TechSea\ue2 and collected associated website data.
The research observed that the number of words in an article and the link to news have influences on the blog pageviews. In addition, the social media like Facebook helps to increase pageviews. Furthermore, the case study of TechOrange summarized the experiences and insights of the editorial team. The research results provide authors or managers of Multi-Author Blogs some answers about business operation of the online social media
The Origins of the Tun-Huang Popular Narratives and Their Influences on Later Vernacular Literature.
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to understand as much as possible of the history of the popular Chinese literary genre called pien-wen. These texts date from the eighth through the tenth centuries and are important because they represent the earliest surviving examples of extended vernacular narrative known in China. The thesis begins with a brief discussion of the discovery of the pien-wen manuscripts at Tun-huang in the northwestern province of Kansu. The author then turns to an intensive philological study of the term pien-wen and thereby justifies his translation of it as "transformation text." Having completed this analysis, he is in a position to delineate the corpus of pien-wen. In the process, he distinguishes it from other types of popular literary texts discovered at Tun-huang such as sutra lectures (chiang- ching-wen). The author then moves on to the significant questions of who wrote the pien-wen and why. He marshals evidence that most of the copyists were lay students studying at Buddhist monasteries in Tun-huang. The author proceeds to show that pien-wen were the written descendants of a type of oral performance called chuan-pien ("turning transformation [scrolls]"). This was a folk entertainment in which a storyteller used a picture scroll to illustrate his or her tale. The sudden and mysterious disappearance of pien-wen during the first half of the eleventh century is then explained. The last major section of the thesis deals with the effects of pien-wen on later Chinese popular literature, chief among these being the adoption of the prosimetric form and the use of vernacular language. The thesis concludes with an assessment of the current state of research on pien-wen
Banner Paintings Representing Buddha’s Life from Tun-huang (Part II)
No full textThe author, in Part I of this paper, listed and briefly commented on the banner paintings representing Buddha's life among the pictorial materials brought from Tun-huang by Sir Aurel Stein and Paul Pelliot. Here in Part II she discusses the problems of their subject matter and style.
As for the subject matter, the author points out an interesting fact that certain themes in particular from Buddha's life are taken up. Episodes in the early part of his life ranging from the story before his birth to the Grand Departure (departure from his home castle), that is, miracles concerning his birth, training in literary and military arts in his princely days, horseback ride out of the four palace gates and departure from the castle, are especially frequently painted. On the other hand, there are almost no depictions of his career after the attainment of Buddhahood. The present author, who studied this problem comparatively through existing examples from various areas of Asia including Tun-huang mural paintings, arrived at the view that certain dramatic and pictorially effective scenes were liberally adopted from preceding illustrated sutra scrolls. That means that the Chinse selected these scenes according to their interest without feeling bound strictly to the sutra contents. It is interesting enough that the stories are arranged downward from the top in these banners, in clear contrast with the Indian manner in which the stories of Buddha's life are arranged upward from the bottom. The author interprets this difference as due to the visual inclination of the Chinese in relation to their way of reading and writing. It seems that such banners were used in pairs hung on both sides of a Buddhist carved image. They show diverse painting techiniques. As for their decorative patterns, a noticeable fact is that two kinds of purplish colours are used depending on the painting, that is, purple in the ordinary sense of the word, and mauve (a pale bluish-purple). The author considers the former to be a colour peculiar to China and the latter to be a colour characteristic of Central Asia and thinks that the colours found their contact point right here at Tun-huang. The head was first painted in white in oval form before its details were added and this rendition method may be seen in the Turfan district as well. In No. 249 of this Bijutsu Kenkyu in which a painting of two women excavated at Toyuk was discussed, the author suggested that this method of painting was due to the artist's original intention of showing figures of monks. She now corrects this view to conform with the ideas presented above.
The dates of the banner paintings vary. The fragment called No. 99 of Stein Painting from Tun-huang (SPT hereafter) has an inscription of 左一将, which is a term meaning a Tibetan settlement, on a flag held by a warrior in its upper part, indicating that the painting is of the Tibetan Period or around A. D. 800. SPT No. 492 is believed to have formed a pair with SPT No. 99. SPT Nos. 89/90, Pelliot Collection OE 1154 and SPT No. 224 which formed a pair, and SPT No. 95 show earlier techniques than SPT Nos. 99/492, and are therefore supposed to be from various phases of the eighth century. SPT Nos. 100/85, 97/510 and 96/509, on the other hand, are perhaps from the first half of the ninth century. As for the other specimens, the author recognizes them to be of the period from the end of the ninth century to the tenth century judging from comparisons with figures and other elements in the datable silk and mural paintings of Tun-huang.
Finally, the specific importance of re-examining Central Asian painting for the proper understanding of Tun-huang paintings is emphasized.第287号、p.40に本論文の正誤表掲載。journal articl
Industrial training report: Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak (PTAR) UiTM Cawangan Perak, Seri Iskandar / Ruhi Imani Mokhtar
No full textThis report is contained information about the industrial training of Ruhi Imani Binti Mokhtar in Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak (PTAR) library, UiTM Perak Campus Seri Iskandar starts from 01 August until 31 December 2017. A detailed information about the organization background and PTAR library UiTM Perak is stated by the author. All the activities that happened during the industrial training is also been explained according to the department of the library. A special project for this industrial industry is also been explained by the author in detail. This report also did explain about the reflection that has been got by the author during of his internship. Appendices that related to the industrial training is also included
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