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Replication Data for "A Validation Study For A Bat-Inspired Sonar Sensing Simulator"
No full textThis dataset is used in the manuscript entitled "A validation study for a bat-inspired sonar sensing simulator" by H. Zhu, A. K. Gupta, X. Wu, M. Goldsworthy, R. Wang, M. Mikkilineni and R. Mueller. It contains the impulse response signals from experiments and simulation after all preprocessing and alignment steps. This data is used to produce statistics and plots in the manuscript
Microlejeunea indica Y. M. Wei & R. L. Zhu, comb. nov.
No full textMicrolejeunea indica (Udar & U.S.Awasthi) Y.M.Wei & R.L.Zhu, comb. nov. Basionym:— Lejeunea indica Udar & U.S.Awasthi, Cryptog., Bryol. Lichénol. 2: 345, 1981 (Udar & Awasthi 1981). Type:— INDIA. Darjeeling: prope Mungpoo, 1280 m, 1 January 1978, S. C . Srivastava & U.S. Awasthi LWU 3388 / 78 (holotype LWU).Published as part of Wei, Yu-Mei & Zhu, Rui-Liang, 2013, Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 39. Microlejeunea indica (Marchantiophyta, Lejeuneaceae), pp. 63-64 in Phytotaxa 97 (2) on page 63, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.97.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/507239
Using performance assessment in secondary school mathematics: an empirical study in a Singapore classroom
No full textThis article reports an exploratory study on using performance assessment in mathematics instruction in a high-performing secondary school in Singapore. An intact mathematics class participated in the study, and received chapter-based performance tasks as intervention during regular mathematics lessons for about one and a half school years. The performance tasks used included authentic and/or open-ended tasks. The students’ academic achievements and attitudes in mathematics were compared with a comparison class that did not receive the intervention. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected, mainly through questionnaire surveys, performance task tests, conventional school exams, and interviews with students and teachers. The results suggest that the students receiving the intervention performed significantly better than their counterparts in solving conventional exam problems, and in general they also showed more positive changes in attitudes towards mathematics and mathematics learning. The students from the experimental class also expressed positive views about the benefits of using performance tasks in promoting their ability in higher order thinking, though no statistically significant difference was detected between the two classes of students in solving unconventional tasks before and after intervention. Overall, the results appear to support teachers’ using contextualised problems in real life situations and open-ended investigations in students’ learning of mathematic
Amblypsilopus liui Zhu & Yang 2011
No full textAmblypsilopus liui Zhu & Yang, 2011 Amblypsilopus liui Zhu & Yang in Yang et al. 2011: 155. Diagnosis. Fore tibia with 1 long curved pale posterior bristle at apical quarter. Male hypopygium small. Sixth segment of abdomen elongated. Surstylus elongate, wide and segmental at apical 1/3. Hypandrium thin, long, bifurcated. Cercus small, only inner branch hanging up from epandrium (Yang et al. 2011, fig. 79). Materials examined. China. Tibet: 5 ♂, Nyingchi, Medog, Beibeng [N29°24'10'' E95°17′57''], 859 m, 2017. VI. 10–11, sweep nets, Qicheng Yang (CAU). Remarks. The specimens were collected in broad-leaf forests. Distribution. China (Tibet, Guangxi).Published as part of Tang, Chufei, Zhu, Yajun & Yang, Ding, 2019, Sciapodinae from the Himalayan region with description of nine new species from Tibet (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 4577 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262849
In search of new meanings for the Chinese garden in early reform-era China, 1978-2000 : I. M. Pei's Fragrant Hill Hotel and Zhu Guangya's Shen Garden
No full textThis research explores interpretations and transformations of Chinese garden philosophy, aesthetics, and theory through an in-depth analysis of architectural and landscape design practices situated within dual international and domestic historical contexts. Combining oral history interviews, field studies, and design archive research, it examines the design processes of two key projects by highly regarded architects, I. M. Pei and Zhu Guangya during the early stages of China’s Reform and Opening-Up era since 1978: the Fragrant Hill Hotel and its garden in Beijing, and the Shen Garden project in Shaoxing. Through an analysis of three representative themes closely tied to gardens—space, city, and narrativity—the study explores the transformation of traditional Chinese garden philosophy in practice and its societal significance during this era of intellectual, cultural, and institutional collisions.
The study first analyzes two parallel intellectual trajectories shaped by international politics and World War II prior to China’s Reform and Opening-Up era, and their relationships with gardens: first, the reflections of international modernist architects such as Walter Gropius on Eastern gardens and modernity, along with the intersections of said reflections with I. M. Pei’s personal journey and practices regarding courtyards and gardens; second, within Zhu Guangya’s local Chinese context, the study briefly reviews the architects’ exploration of Chinese gardens, centered on surveying, spatial interpretation, and cultural analysis, as well as their interactions with and influences on shifts in Chinese social ideologies and intellectual trends.
The differences in these trajectories and contexts provide an in-depth explanation of the reasons behind the distinct yet interconnected positions adopted by Pei and Zhu in their practices during the Reform and Opening-Up era. The significance of further discussion on Pei and Zhu’s cases through the three aspects of space, city, and narrativity lies in its ability to break away from a single, state-centric, continuous grand narrative. Instead, the study uncovers and interprets shifts in thought through the details of decision-making and conflicts within specific design cases, By interviews with Tan Xin, a Chinese landscape architect who collaborated with Pei, as well as Zhu, the chief designer of Shen Garden, this study connects their personal experiences and careers with the wider epoch, offering alternative insight into interpreting and understanding the transformative era of their time.
The dramatic intersection of Pei and Zhu in their courtyard practices for the Suzhou Museum serves as a pivotal point in the thesis, informing the collisions, integrations, and transformations that occurred as China reconnected with the world.
Through textual and contextual analyses of the design cases of these two architects, this thesis argues that the transformation of garden philosophy during the Reform and Opening-Up era was an interactive process shaped by the evolving values of the time. While Pei and Zhu adopted different strategies, their practices consistently engaged with tradition as a starting point, actively responded to the zeitgeist and sought to leverage gardens as a driving force for China’s societal progress.published_or_final_versionArchitectureDoctoralDoctor of Philosoph
Liu, Y.L., Zhu, X.X., Peng, Y.L. & Tang M. (2021) Synotis jinshajiangensis (Asteraceae: Senecioneae), a new species from northwestern Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 478 (1): 162-170.
No full textLiu, Y.L., Zhu, X.X., Peng, Y.L. (2021): Liu, Y.L., Zhu, X.X., Peng, Y.L. & Tang M. (2021) Synotis jinshajiangensis (Asteraceae: Senecioneae), a new species from northwestern Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 478 (1): 162-170. Phytotaxa 489 (1): 109-109, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.489.1.12, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.489.1.1
Pholcus kimi Song & Zhu 1994
No full textPholcus kimi Song & Zhu, 1994 (Figs. 21–22) Pholcus kimi Song & Zhu 1994: 37, f. 2A–D. Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 58, f. 24I–J. Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004: 77, f. 1A–G. Diagnosis. Very similar to P. bidentatus, but can be distinguished from it by the shape of the tip of the procursus (Figs. 21F–G) and by the appendix without two thorn-shaped apophyses centrally (Fig. 21F). Redescription. Male: A specimen measured (Huangguoshu Waterfall), total length 6.1: cephalothorax 1.6 long, 1.7 wide; abdomen 4.5 long, 1.3 wide. Leg I: 47.7 (12.3+0.7+11.5+21.6+2.7), tibia II: 7.9, tibia III: 5.6, tibia IV: 7.2; tibia I L/D: 76. Prosoma shape as in Fig 21D. Carapace short, broad and almost circular, ochre, with pair of brown butterfly-shaped mark broadly connecting to ocular area. Cephalic region raised, with brown stripe centrally and two pairs of brown dots posteriorly, ocular area dark yellow. Clypeus 0.75, slightly ochre, with brown marks. Distance AME–AME 0.08. Diameter AME 0.09, ALE 0.21, PME 0.19, PLE 0.20. Chelicerae as in Fig. 21C, with pair of black serrated apophyses distally and two pairs of unsclerotized round apophyses proximolaterally. Labium light yellow. Endites yellow. Sternum almost dark ochre, without markings as in Fig. 21E. Femora, patellae and tibiae brown, with dark rings, metatarsi and tarsi brown. Tarsus with several pseudosegmentations as in Fig. 22E. Abdomen cylindrical, pale ochre, dorsum with numerous brown spots as in Fig. 21D. Venter pale brown, without marks. Male gonopore with four epiandrous spigots. Six spinnerets, ALS with six piriform gland spigots (Fig. 22H), and PMS with two spigots (Fig. 22I). Palps as in Figs. 21F and 21G, bulb with cleaver-shaped uncus, tip of appendix split into two parts, trochanter with short ventral apophysis. Palpal tarsal organ capsulate, on conical projection of cymbium (Fig. 22F). Variation. Body length in other males 5.4–6.3. Color of specimens from Huangguoshu Waterfall more pronounced than in the holotype. Female: in general very similar to male. Total length of bodies 5.6–7.2. A specimen measured (Huangguoshu Waterfall), total length 7.2, cephalothorax 1.3 long, 1.6 wide; abdomen 5.9 long, 2.1 wide. Tibia I: 6.4. Distance AME–AME 0.05. Diameter AME 0.10, ALE 0.21, PME 0.19, PLE 0.21. Tarsal organ capsulate on tarsus 1 as in Fig. 22A. Epigynum roughly triangular with swollen lateral edges as in Figs. 21A and 22B, a knob-shaped apophysis on the top. Dorsal view as in Fig. 21B, with a wavy sclerotized arch anteriorly and a pair of shoe-shaped pore plates. Distribution. Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei. Material examined. CHINA: Yunnan, Hekou County, collected from a cave, male holotype, 1♂ paratype, April 8, 1992, leg. M. S. Zhu (MHBU). Guizhou: Huangguoshu Waterfall, Anshun County, August 15, 2000, leg. J. X. Zhang, 1♂, 4♀ (MHBU); same data as above, but in October 1, 1997, 1♂, 4♀ (MHBU); Chishui County, Chishui Natural Reserve, May 27, 2005, leg. H. M. Chen, 3♂, 11♀ (MHBU); Daozhen County, Dashahe Natural Reserve, May 26, 2004, leg. H. M. Chen and Z. S. Zhang, 4♂, 7♀ (MHBU). Hunan: Chenzhou City, Wugaishan State Forest Farm, May 19, 2002, leg. J. Y. Yang and Z. S. Zhang, 1♂ (MHBU). Hubei: Badong County, Bashan Forest Park, August 20, 2003, leg. J. X. Zhang, 1♂, 1♀ (MHBU). Remark. The most important characters of this species are the conical projection of the cymbium and an arm-shaped procursus. Similar species, such as P. bidentatus and P. gui, are also distributed in southern China. We suggest they have a relatively close phylogenetic relationship.Published as part of Zhang, Feng & Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2009, A review of the genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 2037 (1) on pages 43-47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2235.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/531760
Pholcus taishan Song & Zhu 1999
No full textPholcus taishan Song & Zhu, 1999 (Fig. 53) Pholcu s taishan Song & Zhu, 1999, in Song, Zhu & Chen 1999: 63, f. 25L–S. Diagnosis. Among its near Pholcus relatives (see the remark of P. henanensis), this species is very similar to P. henanensis in the shape of the palpal bulb and epigynum, both with long necktie-shaped epigynal apophysis (Fig. 53A). It can be distinguished from P. henanensis by the shape of procursus tip and the appendix tip (Figs. 53F–G), and by the round pore plates of the epigynum (Fig. 53B). Redescription. Male (holotype), total length 4.7: cephalothorax 1.4 long, 1.5 wide; abdomen 3.3 long, 1.7 wide. Leg I: 38.5 (9.8+0.8+9.6+16.1+2.2), tibia II: 7.3, tibia III: 4.9, tibia IV: 6.8; tibia I L/D: 64. Prosoma shape as in Fig. 53C. Carapace short, broad and almost circular, ochre, with brown marks broadly connecting to ocular area. Cephalic region raised, with brown longitudinal stripes centrally, ocular area dark yellow. Clypeus 0.56, slightly ochre, without mark centrally. Distance AME–AME 0.04. Chelicerae as in Fig. 53E, with pair of black serrated apophyses distally and pair of unsclerotized thumb-shaped apophyses proximolaterally. Labium and endites yellowish brown. Sternum yellow, with regular light brown spots. Femora, patellae and tibiae ochre, with dark rings, metatarsi and tarsi light brown. Abdomen cylindrical, fawn, dorsum with numerous small blackish brown spots as in Fig. 53C. Venter pale brown, without markings. Palps as in Figs. 53F–G, bulb with axe-shaped uncus, appendix with swollen tip, trochanter with long ventral apophysis. Variation. Tibia I in two male paratypes (other two males missing Leg I): 9.3, 9.4. Body length in four male paratypes: 4.3–4.7. Female: in general very similar to male. Total length of bodies 4.7–5.3. A paratype measured (Mt. Taishan), total length 5.3: cephalothorax 1.5 long, 1.9 wide; abdomen 3.8 long, 2.2 wide. Tibia I: 8.6. Distance AME–AME 0.05. Epigynum roughly triangular as in Fig. 53A, with a long necktie-shaped apophysis on the top. Dorsal view as in Fig. 53B, with a short sclerotized arch anteriorly and a pair of round pore plates posteriorly. Distribution. Known from type locality only. Material examined. CHINA: Shandong: Tai’an City, Mt. Taishan, August 5, 1988, leg. M. S. Zhu, male holotype, 4♂, 6♀ paratypes (MHBU).Published as part of Zhang, Feng & Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2009, A review of the genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 2037 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2235.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/531760
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