721 research outputs found
Tea Tales – India’s ever evolving chai culture
No full textAs we observed International Tea Day on May 21, to peek into the vibrant history of chai and chai tapris in India, Village Square spoke to Arup K Chatterjee, professor of English at OP Jindal Global University. He is the author of widely acclaimed books including, The Purveyors of Destiny: A Cultural Biography of the Indian Railways and The Great Indian Railways
Jia ru ju he wu dui jun yun tuan liu ji jun yun tuan liu dui liu de ying xiang
No full textWong, Chai Kwok = 加入聚合物對均勻湍流及均勻湍流對流的影響 / 黃濟國.Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2013.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-91).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 01, November, 2016).Wong, Chai Kwok = Jia ru ju he wu dui jun yun tuan liu ji jun yun tuan liu dui liu de ying xiang / Huang Jiguo
The palace of Pak Tai: a study of the historyand architecture of Pak Tai Temple in Wan Chai
No full text“The historic environment is part of everyday life. It is accessible to everyone. It is around us every time we travel to work, drive to the supermarket or go to school. Studying it, being able to read and interpret it, enriches people’s lives as much as literature, music, or history. Access creates interest, interest stimulates understanding, understanding brings enjoyment, enjoyment leads to commitment. All contribute to the quality of life.”
Alison Hems
(Blockley 2006: 5)
What Alison said above is really the author’s passion to study the Architectural Conservation Programme (ACP) and the aspiration for writing this dissertation. The Pak Tai Temple in Wan Chai is a heritage place in urban area where it is accessible to every one. However, many people live in Wan Chai do not know the Temple. As a novice of architectural conservation, the author attempts to explore the tangibles as well as intangibles on a fundamental basis to collect all available data and information for this research. As far as possible, the author collects the primary information from the temple keeper, the local residents, worshippers and other stakeholders. At the same time, the author searches archival documents from public library websites as well as historic records from the Hong Kong Public Records Office.
The author hopes that this dissertation would not be an inventory record of the Pak Tai Temple on architecture. He wants it to be a collection of real life stories about the activities occurred in the Temple and its neighbouring community. It is the stories about the people and the changing social life here composite the heritage of the Temple. Of course, the essential tangible items for heritage conservation have been recorded in details.
The author regrets that he is not a graduate of architecture, so this dissertation will not provide too much technical information.published_or_final_versionConservationMasterMaster of Science in Conservatio
Chai Jing: The Power of Vulnerability
No full textIn the past seventeen years Chai Jing has risen from China’s official media to become a recognized investigative journalist, public intellectual, author, and more recently, an independent filmmaker and environmental activist. Her experience and work reflect how China’s news apparatus has reformed to adapt to the drastic societal changes with emotion being used to open up new ways of news communication. Her documentary Under the Dome further shows how the internet has transformed the ecology of media and provided innovative platforms for social engagement. Chai’s embracing her own feelings of vulnerability, which dominated the beginning of her career, and using it to channel public feelings and drive news reporting has made her a distinctively controversial media personality. Her leaving the CCTV can be viewed as a self-marginalization that helps her sustain that vulnerability, through which she gains resilience and critical power. The use of maternal voice in Under the Dome exemplifies her use of the power of vulnerability in its most mature form. The controversiality about that voice signals that post-socialist China remains a space where environmental and gender discourses are contested and negotiated
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Overview of van chai in Thue Thien Hue, Vietnam: Tradition, present and future challenges
No full textDuring process of seeking methods of advanced fishery management experience to apply into small-scale fishery in Thua Thien Hue – Viet Nam, the author is surprised that some advanced countries also apply similar methods that the traditional fishing village associations (Van Chai) has been managed fishery activities in lagoons in Thua Thien Hue since feudal times. The changes by returning back to original points in order to connect and glue the traditional quintessences of fisheries management, to advanced management in foreign countries is a core in an argued approach as well as in reality of managing small - scale fishery in Thua Thien Hue- Viet Nam presently.
Based on that, this report has introduced previous fishery management in Tam Giang lagoon based on traditional fishery villages, to research ways to reform the management of small scale fisheries based upon local fisher’s associations; outlined a scenarios for fishery management patters for future based on local community in Thua Thien Hue. The system expect to solve disputes in term of fishermen, fishing grounds and fishery resources.
The report is a synthesized collection from researches of the author and relevant documents available. The findings show that fishery villages in Thua Thien Hue used to be successfully managed fishery resources through its own mechanism (regulations) and actively support of feudal authorities (a form of primary co-management) and practical experience derived from efforts to manage modern fishery. In Thua Thien Hue at present, the selectively inheritance of traditional values of fishery villages is one of potential ways in managing fishery in Tam Giang lagoon specifically.KEYWORDS: Van Chai, Fishery management, Thue Thien Hue, Vietnam, Small-scale fishery, Fisheries economics, Fishery resource
Improving intercultural communication skills: A challenge facing institutions of higher education in the 21st century
No full textFollowing discussion of the rationales for improving students' intercultural communication skills, this article described how the professors at the University of Rhode Island and their counterparts around the world use the Internet as a mechanism for improving a student's intercultural awareness and sensitivity. Using the Internet, students here and abroad debate on timely, relevant topics to become aware of how people of different cultures see things differently. In addition, they write and exchange cross-cultural dialogues and explanatory notes to become interculturally sensitive. In this way, the students meet with their future partners of the global workplace, while honing their computer skills, writing skills, and enhancing their intercultural awareness and sensitivity. However, those in higher education who want to implement this kind of Internet-based teaching technique on a permanent basis must first address several difficult issues, including how to find like-minded professors here and abroad who are willing to participate. If correctly used over time, these techniques (international e-mail debate and cross-cultural dialogues) can improve students' intercultural awareness and sensitivity. Assessment of whether or not this improvement lasts over a period of time presents a quantitative problem. Defining intercultural sensitivity practically and satisfactorily is the first task facing educators interested in following this path toward improved communication. One of the greatest challenges facing the institutions of higher education of the 21st Century is how to improve intercultural communication skills of their students. Accompanied by a yet-to-be-developed instrument for quantitative measurement of long-term outcomes, projects like the international e-mail debate and cross-cultural dialogue may well become the tools for understanding and negotiation in the new global environment. --
Purification of laboratory chemicals / Wilfred L.F. Armarego, Christina Li Lin Chai.
No full textpharmacy bookfair2015Includes bibliographical references and index.xxii, 1002 pages
Label-free Immunosensor for Toxin Detection in Food Matrix
No full textA method for the detection of biological toxins in foods has to be sensitive, rapid, and field-applicable since toxin detection is on the front line of food safety and food protection against bioterrorism. In this thesis a sensitive, rapid, and label-free electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) immunosensor was developed and its performance in real foods was demonstrated. To improve the sensitive of EIS immunosensor, nanoporous aluminum was applied as the substrate of EIS immunosensor. Well ordered nanoporous aluminum having ~30nm in pore diameter was obtained by anodizing food grade aluminum in 0.3M oxalic acid at 40V. EIS immunosensor for the detection of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) or ricin was developed by immobilizing anti-SEB or ricin on nanoporous aluminum using 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES). Particularly efficient immobilization of antibody (Ab) was attained by silanization of aluminum in 2 % APTES for 4hrs. A time-resolved EIS of immunosensor was performed to investigate the effect of immunoreaction on impedimetric signal outputs. Immunoreaction between immobilized i
Correction to: International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU) consensus on miniaturized percutaneous nephrolithotomy (Military Medical Research, (2024), 11, 1, (70), 10.1186/s40779-024-00562-3)
No full textAfter publication of the article, it was brought to our attention that the author name Otas Durutovic was duplicated in the author list and the second one should be replaced by the author Chu Ann Chai, and the affiliations of Ji-Wen Cheng and Chu Ann Chai are incorrect, the correct author list with correct affiliations is shown below: Guo-Hua Zeng, Wen Zhong, Giorgio Mazzon, Wei Zhu, Sven Lahme, Sanjay Khadgi, Janak Desai, Madhu Agrawal, David Schulsinger, Mantu Gupta, Emanuele Montanari, Juan Manuel Lopez Martinez, Shabir Almousawi, Vincent Emanuel F. Malonzo, Seshadri Sriprasad, Otas Durutovic, Vimoshan Arumuham, Stefania Ferretti, Wissam Kamal, Ke-Wei Xu, Fan Cheng, Xiao-Feng Gao, Ji-Wen Cheng, Bhaskar Somani, Mordechai Duvdevani, Kah Ann Git, Christian Seitz, Norberto Bernardo, Tarek Ahmed Amin Ibrahim, Albert Aquino, Takahiro Yasui, Cristian Fiori, Thomas Knoll, Athanasios Papatsoris, Nariman Gadzhiev, Ulanbek Zhanbyrbekuly, Oriol Angerri, Hugo Lopez Ramos, Iliya Saltirov, Mohamad Moussa, Guido Giusti, Fabio Vicentini, Edgar Beltran Suarez, Margaret Pearle, Glenn M. Preminger, Qing-Hui Wu, Chu Ann Chai, Khurshid Ghani, Marcus Maroccolo, Marianne Brehmer, Palle J. Osther, Marek Zawadzki, Azimdjon Tursunkulov, Monolov Nurbek Kytaibekovich, Abdusamad Abdukakhorovich Abuvohidov, Cesar Antonio Recalde Lara, Zamari Noori, Stefano Paolo Zanetti, Sunil Shrestha, Jean de la Rosette, John Denstedt, Zhang-Qun Ye, Kemal Sarica & Simon Choong. The original publication has been updated. © The Author(s) 2024
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Serial Killers ::Psychiatry, Criminology, Responsibility /
No full textFrancesca Biagi-Chai's book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are nonetheless deemed to be answerable before the law. The author, a Lacanian psychoanalyst and senior psychiatrist in France, with extensive experience working in institutional settings, analyses the logic informing the crimes of famous serial killers. Addressing the Landru case (which was the inspiration for Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux), as well as those of Pierre Rivière and Donato Bilancia, Biagi-Chai casts light on the confusion that pervades forensic psychiatry and criminal law as to the distinction between mental illness and 'madness'. She then elaborates the consequences of her argument in a sustained critique of the insanity defence. The book includes a Foreword by the renowned psychoanalyst, Jacques-Alain Miller, and an introduction by the translators on the question of insanity before the law in the US and in the UK, which considers the pertinence of Biagi-Chai's argument for forensic psychiatry, for criminal law, and for the increasing contemporary focus on the assessment of dangerousness and risk-management strategies in crime control practices
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