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Inheritance and Innovation in the Traditional Jewelry Manufacturing Industry: A Case Study of Yan Cheng Metal Workshop
No full textTraditional crafts industries have been facing difficulties in passing on skills and businesses to the next generation. The major issue is how the inheritors can successfully take over and innovate the industry. Yan Cheng Metal Workshop, located in the Pier-2 art center in Kaohsiung, is a successful case of how a traditional crafts industry has been transformed into a cultural and creative business.
The Hong brothers, the founders of Yan Cheng Metal Workshop, were trained by their father and inherited his business. They have devoted themselves to creating a novel consumer experience focusing on customer skills training and a jewelry DIY production experience. During the golden era of the jewelry making industry in Xinle Street in Yancheng, their father was a jeweler at a jewelry store. Later, he was dedicated himself to metal jewelry crafts education, working as an teacher in vocational schools, as well serving as coach for Taiwan's national representatives in competitions. Later the Hong brothers also studied metal jewelry making. The elder brother, who as a student excelled in art and business management, is a certified Class B technician. While the younger brother was selected as Taiwan's national representative of metal jewelry craftsmen, specializes in metalwork techniques. Both of them participated in the city government's "The Return of Creative Talents Program" and founded Yan Cheng Metal Workshop in 2016.
In this paper, a brief summary of the transformation in inheritance of the metal jewelry-making crafts industry in Taiwan is presented. From the perspective of the politics of cultural work and crafts activities, the paper illustrates how the modern mentorship was transformed. It points out that a tipping point occurred between the 1980s and 1990s, when traditional apprenticeship was transformed into a new educational mode. The case study shows that the Hong brothers not only make a living by metal jewelry making, but are also dedicated to skills training, taking the jewelry metal crafts industry to a new level.
The unique characteristic of the cultural work of Yan Cheng Metal Workshop, combines sales with consumer \ue2self-manufacturing\ue2, developing an experience economy as well as the cultivation of the talents, making them different from other traditional metal craftsmen and jewelry shops whose production process and sale activities are separate. This is how they innovated their metal jewelry making business.
We found that the metal jewelry making business model has transformed from one generation to the next, especially with regard to how technique and know-how are now informally passed on and taught to the broader community. The differences are as follows. Firstly, traditional apprenticeship is replaced with a new combined teacher-student/consumer relationship. Second, the apprentices mainly learn their skills in tacit learning; however, the tacit knowledge is more explicit step-by-step instruction. Lastly, traditional metal artworks are made of gold while Yan Cheng Metal Workshop only use silver to produce their metal jewelry products. Moreover, the finished product has added value due to it's custom-made style and the consumer manufacturing experience
Two genera Foersteria Szépligeti, 1896 and Polydegmon Foerster, 1862 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Brachistinae) from China, with description of a new species
No full textYan, Cheng-Jin, He, Jun-Hua, Chen, Xue-Xin (2013): Two genera Foersteria Szépligeti, 1896 and Polydegmon Foerster, 1862 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Brachistinae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3683 (2): 178-184, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3683.2.
A model reduction procedure based on the ps-FEM for postbuckling analysis of composite shells
No full textThis paper presents a new computational framework for the efficient postbuckling analysis of laminated shell-like structures. The proposed approach is a two-step model reduction procedure that integrates the global/local refinement capabilities of the ps-Finite Element Method (ps-FEM) with a Ritz-based projection technique. First, the ps-FEM is used with a perturbation procedure to generate Ritz vectors with global/local representation capabilities. Then, the finite element equations are projected onto the reduced subspace spanned by these vectors, yielding a low-dimensional yet high-fidelity reduced-order model. The resulting reduced-order nonlinear equations are solved via the Asymptotic Numerical Method to ensure robustness and performance, even in the presence of strong nonlinearities. To further enhance the level of fidelity of the reduced solution, a subspace updating strategy is activated during the nonlinear solution process. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is demonstrated through a series of numerical benchmarks featuring bifurcation behavior, mode interaction, and unstable postbuckling responses. The results highlight the ability of the method to accurately capture both global and localized nonlinear structural phenomena, while requiring limited computational resources
The genus Aspicolpus Wesmael, 1838 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Brachistinae) from China, with descriptions of four new species
No full textYan, Cheng-Jin, Wu, Qiong, He, Jun-Hua, Chen, Xue-Xin (2020): The genus Aspicolpus Wesmael, 1838 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Brachistinae) from China, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 4743 (3): 391-401, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4743.3.
Application of the ps−Version of the Finite Element Method to the Analysis of Laminated Shells
Full text linkThe development of accurate and efficient numerical methods is of crucial importance for the analysis and design of composite structures. This is even more true in the presence of variable stiffness (VS) configurations, where intricate load paths can be responsible for complex and localized stress profiles. In this work, we present the ps−version of the finite elements method (ps−FEM), a novel FE approach which can perform global/local analysis through different refinement strategies efficiently and easily. Within this framework, the global behavior is captured through a p−refinement by increasing the polynomial order of the elements. For the local one, a mesh−superposition technique, called s−refinement, is used to improve locally the solution by defining a local/fine mesh overlaid to the global/coarse one. The combination of p− and s−refinements enables us to achieve excellent accuracy−to−cost ratios. This paper aims to present the numerical formulation and the implementation aspects of this novel approach to VS composite shell analysis. Numerical tests are reported to illustrate the potential of the method. The results provide a clear insight of its potential to guarantee fast convergence and easy mesh refinement where needed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
sj-tex-1-smm-10.1177_09622802221122795 - Supplemental material for Power prior models for estimating response rates in a small n, sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trial
No full textSupplemental material, sj-tex-1-smm-10.1177_09622802221122795 for Power prior models for estimating response rates in a small n, sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trial by Yan-Cheng Chao, Thomas M Braun, Roy N Tamura and Kelley M Kidwell in Statistical Methods in Medical Research</p
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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