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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Jiang Wen"”.
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Wounds in time: the aesthetic afterlives of the Cultural Revolution
… Xiaogang, as well as filmmakers Jia Zhangke and Jiang Wen. Drawing on classical theory of trauma by Freud as well as works by subsequent theorists such as Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok, Cathy Caruth and Dominick LaCapra, I maintain that the Cultural Revolution is not a fixed temporal entity …
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Adaptive Spline-based Finite Element Method with Application to Phase-field Models of Biomembranes
<p>Interfaces play a dominant role in governing the response of many biological systems and they pose many challenges to traditional finite element. For sharp-interface model, traditional finite element methods necessitate the finite element mesh to align with surfaces of discontinuities. …
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Individualism and Sport in Modern China Beyond the Myth of Collectivism
"The findings of this study revealed that the respondents significantly favored collectivist beliefs regarding the functions of ""sport for all"", whereas they were motivated to take part in sport more for individualist reasons. Also, they endorsed collectivist values of sport and appeals of group …
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Simulations of Indentation at Continuum and Atomic levels
The main goal of this work is to determine values of elastic constants of orthotropic, transversely isotropic and cubic materials through indentation tests on thin layers bonded to rigid substrates. Accordingly, we first use the Stroh formalism to provide an analytical solution for generalized …