239 research outputs found
Early Short Stories by Taiwanese writer Huang Chunming
Get PDFHuang Chunming is an important author of modern Taiwanese literature, who was active in the second half of the twentieth century. The author's work has underwent a dramatic change in the course of the years - the thematic focus of his early works differs greatly from his later ones. In spite of the important position that this author's work holds among other Taiwanese classics, is the study of his work in western sinology very insufficient. This thesis presents a thematic and motivic analysis of six selected Huang Chunming's literary works created between the years 1967 and 1971. The primary focus lies on the ways of depicting the Taiwanese countryside and the literary characters, the so called "small people", which are inhabiting this fictional space and time. This work also considers the similarities between Huang Chunming's work and Taiwanese modernist literature as well as the work of some important modern Chinese authors (Lu Xun, Shen Congwen). Key words: Taiwanese literature, Chinese literature, Huang Chunming, literary character, short stor
Taiwan xiangtu writer Huang Chunming: Three short stories, with a critical introduction
No full textThis introduction serves to provide a sketch of the circumstances that led to the prominence of "nativist," or xiangtu literature from the Republic of China (i.e. Taiwan) in the late twentieth century. Huang Chunming, the author of the stories featured in this thesis, has been a prolific writer from the east of the Taiwan Straits since 1962, and has contributed to the popularization of Taiwanese xiangtu literature in the decades of the island's industrialization experience. In Huang's world of fictional characters, readers have multifaceted records of the Taiwanese people's lives and the culture of their native soil
Build a Dashboard Application for NOVs eVolve Automation System
Get PDFThe project is completed by cooperating with NOV. The purpose of the project is to make a dashboard application that gathers the essential information, monitors the running status of the devices, and presents an overview of the NOV eVolve Automation System.
NOV eVolve Automation System is a system that includes hardware and software to enable the integration between downhole tools and surface automation systems through Intelliserve Wired DrillPipe. Intelliserve Wired Drillpipe is a solution that enables high-speed data connection with sensors in the hole while drilling.
The goal is to make a dashboard application that shows hardware status, network communication status between the computers, and remote desktop connection from a Windows system machine to remote computers. The dashboard application will be installed and run on a Windows 10 machine, called a Wired Drill Pipe terminal (WDP terminal). C# is an object-oriented and component-oriented programming language studied by the author to build the dashboard application. Chapter 2 presents an introduction of C# and the history and features of the C# programming language.
Chapter 3 presents technology and methodology with the source code. Chapter 4 uses graphics to explain the relationships between the individual event handler and the components on the user interface of the dashboard application. There are two URL links attached in chapter 5. One links to a video for a demonstration of the dashboard application, and the other URL link points to the GitHub repository where all the source code files store.
Chapter 6 gives a conclusion for the project and provides suggestions for further development. The author independently writes fourteen pages of source code to implement the NOV Dashboard application. Besides, the author finishes the bachelor thesis on her own, which is 97 pages in total.
The completed dashboard application achieves all the goals above and is confirmed by NOV. Besides, the dashboard application can detect the offline time and the duration of the devices’ downtime. Moreover, the author adds an extra function to the dashboard application to establish a remote connection with any of the devices over the network communication and builds a JSON file that stores information for later investigation.
Running the completed dashboard application on the WDP terminal helps the NOV system engineers diagnose and resolve the potential problems once there are issues delivered from the offshore rig. Saving the time to identify the issue is the most significant benefit of using the dashboard application, especially when the rig is at downtime by accident
Development of Functional Microfold (M) Cells from Intestinal Stem Cells in Primary Human Enteroids.
Get PDFBACKGROUND & AIMS:Intestinal microfold (M) cells are specialized epithelial cells that act as gatekeepers of luminal antigens in the intestinal tract. They play a critical role in the intestinal mucosal immune response through transport of viruses, bacteria and other particles and antigens across the epithelium to immune cells within Peyer's patch regions and other mucosal sites. Recent studies in mice have demonstrated that M cells are generated from Lgr5+ intestinal stem cells (ISCs), and that infection with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium increases M cell formation. However, it is not known whether and how these findings apply to primary human small intestinal epithelium propagated in an in vitro setting. METHODS:Human intestinal crypts were grown as monolayers with growth factors and treated with recombinant RANKL, and assessed for mRNA transcripts, immunofluorescence and uptake of microparticles and S. Typhimurium. RESULTS:Functional M cells were generated by short-term culture of freshly isolated human intestinal crypts in a dose- and time-dependent fashion. RANKL stimulation of the monolayer cultures caused dramatic induction of the M cell-specific markers, SPIB, and Glycoprotein-2 (GP2) in a process primed by canonical WNT signaling. Confocal microscopy demonstrated a pseudopod phenotype of GP2-positive M cells that preferentially take up microparticles. Furthermore, infection of the M cell-enriched cultures with the M cell-tropic enteric pathogen, S. Typhimurium, led to preferential association of the bacteria with M cells, particularly at lower inoculum sizes. Larger inocula caused rapid induction of M cells. CONCLUSIONS:Human intestinal crypts containing ISCs can be cultured and differentiate into an epithelial layer with functional M cells with characteristic morphological and functional properties. This study is the first to demonstrate that M cells can be induced to form from primary human intestinal epithelium, and that S. Typhimurium preferentially infect these cells in an in vitro setting. We anticipate that this model can be used to generate large numbers of M cells for further functional studies of these key cells of intestinal immune induction and their impact on controlling enteric pathogens and the intestinal microbiome
Evaluation of the temperature downscaling performance of PRECIS to the BCC-CSM2-MR model over China
No full textIn recent years, the Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies (PRECIS) developed by the UK Met Office Hadley Centre has been used widely for climate downscaling and has demonstrated superior performance in reproducing the historical climatology in many regions around the world. However, all previous studies based upon PRECIS were solely driven by the GCMs from the Hadley Centre (i.e., HadCM3 and HadGEM2-ES). This inevitably limits its capability of exploring the uncertainties of regional climate projections caused by different boundary conditions from many other GCMs developed by different research centers around the world. Therefore, in this study, we attempt to investigate the downscaling performance of PRECIS to other GCMs for the first time. In particular, we use the CMIP6 boundary conditions from the BCC-CSM2-MR model from Beijing Climate Center to drive the PRECIS model in order to generate 25 km high-resolution climate scenarios for China. The downscaled temperature simulations from PRECIS for the baseline period (i.e., 1979–2004) are compared to the observational data (CN05.1) to help evaluate the downscaling performance. The results show that PRECIS can provide an obvious improvement in simulating the annual mean temperature over China, particularly in the east of China, with the bias of ~ 1 °C. Future changes in mean temperature over China under the SSP245 and SSP585 emission scenarios are further investigated with PRECIS. The downscaled projections by PRECIS show a smaller increase in temperature compared to its driving BCC-CSM2-MR, except for the late of this century under the SSP585. This study is the first attempt to use PRECIS to downscale a non-Hadley-Centre GCM and the evaluation results suggest that PRECIS does present a superior downscaling performance. The results from this study will provide a scientific basis for using PRECIS to downscale other GCMs in support of the exploration of regional climate projection uncertainties associated with different boundary conditions.Beijing Nova Program of Science and Technolog
Model and algorithm for inventory-transportation integrated optimization problem—in view of many-one distribution network
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