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Images of the Dai : the aesthetics of gender and identity in Xishuangbanna
No full textThis thesis is based on fieldwork carried out m Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. The main focus of the work is the Dai people, one of China's fifty-five so called 'Minority Nationalities'. I aim to paint a picture of the complex processes through which Dai ways of being and images of them are created and recreated. This is not to suggest that the Dai constitute a bounded group. Although Chinese official discourse presents a static, rigid picture of the so-called 'Minority Nationalities', I hope to have demonstrated that the everyday experiences of those in Banna are governed by a fluid and dynamic relationality. Images of 'Minority Nationalities' abound in China, these images are multiple and often contradictory. The Dai are known throughout China for their beauty, a beauty often portrayed as highly erotic. In this thesis I explore the implications of this image and the role of the Dai in its formation and continuity. With this in mind I examine the ways that the striking Dai aesthetic is used in the intricate power plays of Xishuangbanna. This work examines aspects of the Dai lived aesthetic and as such it has chapters on tattoo, architecture and feminine beauty. Dai aesthetic knowledge is interlaced with strands of moral, philosophical and cosmological insight, thus this work also includes a chapter on morality, autonomy and cooperation. The penultimate chapter uses vivid ethnography of the Water Splashing festival as a example of play of identities in Xishuangbanna. The Conclusion reiterates that the processes by which images, identities and aesthetic understandings are generated, and by which limits are explored and transgressed in Xishuangbanna are dialogic in character
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Feature disentangling and reciprocal learning with label-guided similarity for multi-label image retrieval
No full textImage retrieval usually faces scale-variance issues as the amount of image data is rapidly increasing, which calls for more accurate retrieval technology. Besides, existing methods usually treat pair-image similarity as a binary value which indicates whether two images share either at least one common label or none of shared labels. However, such similarity definition cannot truly describe the similarity ranking for different numbers of common labels when handling the multi-label image retrieval problem. In this paper, a Feature Disentangling and Reciprocal Learning (FDRL) method is introduced with label-guided similarity to solve the above multi-label image retrieval problem. Multi-scale features are first extracted by BNInception network and then disentangled to the corresponding high- and low-correlation features under the guidance of estimated global correlations. After that, the disentangled features are combined through a reciprocal learning approach to enhance the feature representation ability. Final hash codes are learned based on the global features derived from BNInception network and the combined features generated by reciprocal learning. The whole network is optimized by the proposed label-guided similarity loss function which aims to simultaneously preserve absolute similarity for hard image pairs and relative similarity for soft image pairs. Experimental results on three public benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms current state-of-the-art techniques. The code is online here: ‘https://github.com/Yong-DAI/FDRL’
Morphodynamics of a seasonal inlet: A case study using remote sensing and numerical modelling for cua dai inlet, central vietnam
No full textCua Dai Beach located adjacent to Cua Dai Inlet is a typical, seasonally varying tidal inlet. This famous beach has suffered extreme erosion since 1995 due to an apparent irregular-periodic process, a decrease of sediment supply from the river and its estuaries and increased squeeze by coastal developments. The main objective of this study is to unravel the physical processes that control the morphological development of Cua Dai Inlet while challenged by the fact that it is a data-limited environment. In order to identify and quantify the main processes governing the evolution of Cua Dai Beach and thereby aiming to explain the morphological changes and extreme erosion in recent years, a new approach was developed. Historical shoreline positions and sediment budget changes were derived from satellite images using empirical engineering assumptions. In addition, numerical models were used to investigate in detail sediment transports and morphodynamics under the influence of seasonal waves and rivers as well as the anthropogenically-driven impacts. Results of shoreline change rates indicate that Cua Dai Beach (located on the northern side of Cua Dai inlet) experienced an average erosion of 12m/y during the period from 2000 to 2010 and erosion continued further to the north while the southern coast of the inlet accreted with a mean rate of 11m/y. The overall system showed a significant sediment loss of about 243,000–310,000 m3/y. The annual cycle of two past morphological periods has been numerically simulated to evaluate the behavior of the system without and with human interventions. The first morphological simulation without the impact of the resorts successfully reproduced an overall erosion trend at the northern coast while the formation of an ebb tidal bar was also reproduced. The second morphological simulation reproduced the impact of the resorts that have been constructed along Cua Dai Beach. Simulations indicate that the presence of the resorts has enhanced the propagation of the existing erosion further to the north. The new approach of remote sensing combined with process-based modeling has been essential to investigate the main processes that govern the morphological changes and extreme erosion at Cua Dai inlet.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Coastal Engineerin
The activities of daily living of elders and the professional systems of nursing in Taiwan.
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Macropsis zizhongi Li, Dai et Li
No full textMacropsis zizhongi Li, Dai et Li, nom. nov. Macropsis gracilis Li et Liang, 2005: 578 –579, nom. preocc. (nec Macropsis gracilis Dubovskiy, 1966: 97) Distribution. China (Heilongjiang prov.). Etymology. The species is named in honour of Prof. Li Zizhong, the first author of the original species name.Published as part of Li, Hu, Dai, Ren-Huai, Li, Zi-Zhong & Yu, Dmitri, 2012, Taxonomic study of Chinese species of the genus Macropsis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Macropsinae): new species, new records, synonymy and replacement name, pp. 41-62 in Zootaxa 3420 on page 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21216
Characterizations of material constraint effect for creep crack in center weldment under biaxial loading
No full textMaterial mismatch effect on the cracking behavior is an important topic for those welding structures. Characterization of the material constraint effect based on rigorously asymptotic solution is studied in this paper. Based on decomposition of the second order term, the constraint effect characterization parameter is decomposed as material constraint parameter and geometry constraint parameter. In general, the total constraint level for crack tip under undermatch condition is higher than overmatch condition. The specimen with positive biaxiality could lead to a higher constraint level compared with that of negative biaxiality. Geometry constraint effect and material constraint effect could not be separated independently from rigorously asymptotic solution for those cases with positive biaxiality. For a crack tip field under non-positive biaxiality, the material constraint effect can be characterized independently although it is approximate. For these conditions, the proposed material constraint effect and geometry constraint effected characterized are approximately independent on material mismatch factor, crack depth ratio and stress biaxiality. An empirical formula has been presented to characterize the geometry constraint effect and material constraint effect for the crack tip in the weldment under biaxial loading, which has been verified with fine accuracy. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V
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