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A Study of the Classical Landscape at the Wang River Villa of Wang Wei
No full textThe landscape of Wang Wei's Wang River Villa is examined by reviewing the essays and papers written about the poetical collaboration, the “Wang River Collection.” The purpose of this paper is to clarify the meaning of villa architecture in China. The author expects that this research will contribute to a mutual understanding between cultures. The villa was a Utopia for Wang. On the other hand, he was a pious Buddhist and Buddhistic concepts are reflected in the landscape. I consider the features of the classical landscape of Xie Lingyun and "Chu Ci," as written in “The Collection,” a reflection of the Buddhistic concept. When considering what the classics meant to Wang Wei, it is apparent that his villa is a representation of the classical landscape. It is not an imitation of the classical landscape, but a unique and original creation of art by Wang.departmental bulletin pape
First person – Yihua Wang
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Yihua Wang is the first author on ‘Nuclear entry and export of FIH are mediated by HIF1α and exportin1, respectively’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Yihua is a Lecturer in Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton, studying cell signalling in lung fibrosis and cancer, drug target validation and gene function analysis
Cursed yet Satisfied Agents
No full textIn real-life auctions, a widely observed phenomenon is the winner’s curse - the winner’s high bid implies that the winner often overestimates the value of the good for sale, resulting in an incurred negative utility. The seminal work of Eyster and Rabin [Econometrica'05] introduced a behavioral model aimed to explain this observed anomaly. We term agents who display this bias "cursed agents." We adopt their model in the interdependent value setting, and aim to devise mechanisms that prevent the agents from obtaining negative utility. We design mechanisms that are cursed ex-post incentive compatible, that is, incentivize agents to bid their true signal even though they are cursed, while ensuring that the outcome is ex-post individually rational (EPIR) - the price the agents pay is no more than the agents' true value.
Since the agents might overestimate the value of the allocated good, such mechanisms might require the seller to make positive (monetary) transfers to the agents in order to prevent agents from over-paying for the good. While the revenue of the seller not requiring EPIR might increase when agents are cursed, when imposing EPIR, cursed agents will always pay less than fully rational agents (due to the positive transfers the seller makes). We devise revenue and welfare maximizing mechanisms for cursed agents. For revenue maximization, we give the optimal deterministic and anonymous mechanism. For welfare maximization, we require ex-post budget balance (EPBB), as positive transfers might cause the seller to have negative revenue. We propose a masking operation that takes any deterministic mechanism, and masks the allocation whenever the seller requires to make positive transfers. The masking operation ensures that the mechanism is both EPIR and EPBB. We show that in typical settings, EPBB implies that the mechanism cannot make any positive transfers. Thus, applying the masking operation on the fully efficient mechanism results in a socially optimal EPBB mechanism. This further implies that if the valuation function is the maximum of agents' signals, the optimal EPBB mechanism obtains zero welfare. In contrast, we show that for sum-concave valuations, which include weighted-sum valuations and _p-norms, the welfare optimal EPBB mechanism obtains half of the optimal welfare as the number of agents grows large
Supporting the research process through expanded library data services
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how the authors gained a better understanding of the variety of library users' data needs, and how gradually some new data services were established based on current capabilities.Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses a case study of the new data services at the John Cotton Dana Library, at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark campus, to demonstrate the possible ways to extend data reference services and provide data computing services. A content analysis of services records shows how each user group falls into the multiple data services levels and subcategories.Findings – Library users can be classified into many different categories, and each of these may have different needs. Research centers might have big projects involving data gathering and applications where a librarian can mainly provide consultation; while an individual faculty member or student might need the librarians as research partners, with help for their specific problems. Computing data services can involve group training and statistical analysis assistance, where researchers need emergent help. Data librarians can take various opportunities for data management education, thereby gradually raising awareness and cultivating better research habits among researchers.Originality/value – Library data computing services can make unique contributions to faculty and students' research and study. Institution, library and users' interaction determines the levels and extent of data services and is generalized from the description and analysis of typical data service examples. Classic concept of data services levels is applied to a concrete case of data services program, and sub-categories of each data services level and user types are developed based on the authors' services record.This article is (c) Emerald Group Publishing and permission has been granted for this version to appear here at the RUcore: Rutgers University Community Repository . Emerald does not grant permission for this article to be further copied/distributed or hosted elsewhere without the express permission from Emerald Group Publishing Limited.Peer reviewe
Genetic background analysis and breed evaluation of Yiling yellow cattle
No full textAbstract: Traditionally, Chinese indigenous cattle is geographically widespread. The present study analyzed based on genome-wide variants to evaluate the genetic background among 157 individuals from four representative indigenous cattle breeds of Hubei Province of China: Yiling yellow cattle (YL), Bashan cattle (BS), Wuling cattle (WL), Zaobei cattle (ZB), and 21 individuals of Qinchuan cattle (QC) from the nearby Shanxi Province of China. Linkage disequilibrium (LD) analysis showed the LD of YL was the lowest (r2=0.32) when the distance between markers was approximately 2 kb. Principle component analysis (PCA), and neighbor-joining (NJ)-tree revealed a separation of Yiling yellow cattle from other geographic nearby local cattle breeds. In PCA plot, the YL and QC groups were segregated as expected; moreover, YL individuals clustered together more obviously. In the NJ-tree, the YL group formed an independent branch and BS, WL, ZB groups were mixed. We then used the FST statistic approach to reveal long-term selection sweep of YL and other 4 cattle breeds. According to the selective sweep, we identified the unique pathways of YL, associated with production traits. Based on the results, it can be proposed that YL has its unique genetic characteristics of excellence resource, and it is an indispensable cattle breed in China
The supporting information for Spatial Changes of Late Quaternary Slip Rates along the Gyaring Co Fault: Implications for Strain Partitioning and Deformation Modes in Central Tibet
No full textAuthor: Wang Duo, Hong Chang, Gongming Yin, Fei Han, Zebin Mao, Jinhua Du Wenjun Zheng and Xulong Wang
Corresponding author: Xulong Wang ([email protected])
Contents of this file
Text S1
Figures S1 to S3
Table S1
Introduction
The supporting information including sampling, pretreatments, all details of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating and collected rates and ages along strike-slip and normal faults in central Tibet.
Text S1 shows detailed OSL dating processing and analysis procedures.
Figures S1, S2 and S3 show OSL dating details at Kong Co, Aruo and Nacha site, respectively.
Table S1 shows the rates and ages of strike-slip and normal faults and their corresponding references in central Tibet
The supporting information for Spatial Changes of Late Quaternary Slip Rates along the Gyaring Co Fault: Implications for Strain Partitioning and Deformation Modes in Central Tibet
No full textAuthor: Wang Duo, Hong Chang, Gongming Yin, Fei Han, Zebin Mao, Jinhua Du Wenjun Zheng and Xulong Wang
Corresponding author: Xulong Wang ([email protected])
Contents of this file
Text S1
Figures S1 to S3
Table S1
Introduction
The supporting information including sampling, pretreatments, all details of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating and collected rates and ages along strike-slip and normal faults in central Tibet.
Text S1 shows detailed OSL dating processing and analysis procedures.
Figures S1, S2 and S3 show OSL dating details at Kong Co, Aruo and Nacha site, respectively.
Table S1 shows the rates and ages of strike-slip and normal faults and their corresponding references in central Tibet
The Supporting Information for Spatial Changes in Late Quaternary Slip Rates along the Gyaring Co Fault: Implications for Strain Partitioning and Deformation Modes in Central Tibet
No full textAuthor: Wang Duo, Hong Chang, Gongming Yin, Fei Han, Zebin Mao, Jinhua Du Wenjun Zheng and Xulong Wang
Corresponding author: Xulong Wang ([email protected])
Contents of this file
Text S1
Figures S1 to S3
Table S1
Introduction
The supporting information including sampling, pretreatments, all details of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating and collected rates and ages along strike-slip and normal faults in central Tibet.
Text S1 shows detailed OSL dating processing and analysis procedures.
Figures S1, S2 and S3 show OSL dating details at Kong Co, Aruo and Nacha site, respectively.
Table S1 shows the rates and ages of strike-slip and normal faults and their corresponding references in central Tibet
Serving the Future E-Science Researchers: Library Computing Data Services for Graduate Students on the Rutgers Newark Campus
No full textThis article was published in Synergy: News from ARL Diversity Programs, Issue 7, and can be accessed at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/synergy1011.pd
Beyond Technical Instruction
No full textAs a data services librarian, I teach workshops on how to use statistical software. In addition to demonstrate step by step techniques and let the students do hands-on exercises, I point them to additional online tutorials and other resources. I also introduce them to principles and best practice of data analysis. Library guides are also set up for students to come back later reviewing the class notes or looking for links to other resources. Based on a feedback survey, this poster will reveal how students think of the usefulness of these different types of contents.Poster Presented in VALE/NJ ACRL/NJLA CUS Fourteenth Annual Users' Conference: Demonstrating Value for Every User, January 2013
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