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Showing 1 to 20 of 386 for “"Shi"”.
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Shi in Architecture: the Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Doors
This dissertation explores the concept of shi manifested in traditional Chinese architecture by examining the efficacy of the traditional Chinese house doors. Three connotations of the concept of shi derived from different philosophical schools of thought during the Warring States Period: the …
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Building Blocks of Chinese Historiography: A Narratological Analysis of Shi Ji
In Shi ji studies, scholars from both the East and West have predominantly taken one particular approach: the psychological reading of its author, Sima Qian. Since the author suffered penal castration when he was writing the Shi ji, this approach has been summarized as “the theory of conveying …
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The concept of Khilafah according to selected Sunni and Shi I Quranic Commentaries
… conception of khiläfah from selected Sunni and ShiCI points of view, in both the classical and modern periods. The term khiläfah, widely used by the Sunnis, is inseparable from imämah, the term which the ShiCis prefer. The concept arose very early in Islam and has continued to provoke discussion …
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Ijtihad in Twelver Shi-ism : the interpretation and application of Islamic law in the context of changing Muslim society
… of modem Muslim societies. The focus is on the Shi'ites' approach to the law with special reference to the debates in Iran following Imam Khomeini's emphasis on the "role of the time and place in Utihad". The thesis suggests that scientific knowledge in different areas should play a role in …
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Music for Two Pianos by Taiwanese Composers Mao-Shuen Chen, Gordon Shi-Wen Chin, Pey-Wen Yen, Ching-Wen Chao
… Chen (b. 1936), Quiet Joy (1999) by Gordon Shi-Wen Chin (b. 1957), Piano Duet (2005) by Pey-Wen Yen (b. 1966) and Studies No.1-3 (1999) by Ching-Wen Chao (b. 1973). The two male and two female composers have been and continue to be prominent figures in the development of contemporary music …
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Discovering from tradition : lessons for new shopping center designs in Beijing, drawn from the traditional Da Shi-la shopping district
… retail requirements. I use the Beijing's Da Shi-La Traditional Shopping District as a primary case to comprehensively examine the urban and architectural essence of the Beijing merchandising tradition. Following the case analysis, I will recommend seven design principles which aim to guide …
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The School Health Environment and Student Outcomes Related to Childhood Overweight in Southwest Virginia
… the association between School Health Index (SHI) scores and student health outcomes related to physical activity (PA) and nutrition. Design: Cross-sectional design utilized to collect SHI scores and administer questionnaires regarding nutrition and PA behaviors, knowledge and the home …
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Quantifying the Environmental Performance of a Stream Habitat Improvement Project
… projects focus on stream habitat improvement (SHI), and an estimated 60%of the 37,000 projects listed in the National River Restoration Science Synthesis Program focus on SHI for salmon and trout species. These projects frequently lack a sufficient monitoring program or account for the …
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New techniques in calculation of sutured instanton Floer homology: by Heegaard diagrams, Euler characteristics, and Dehn surgery formulae
… that sutured instanton Floer homology $SHI(M,\gamma)$ has the same dimension as the sutured Floer homology $SFH(M,\gamma)$ constructed by Juh\'{a}sz for any balanced sutured manifold $(M,\gamma)$. Motivated by their conjecture, we introduce new techniques for calculations of sutured …
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从“心智习性”看《世说新语》中魏晋士人的人伦鉴识活动 = The Habits of Mind Manifested in "Shi Shuo Xin Yu": A Study of Character Appraisal of the Wei-Jin Intellectuals
… through the manifestation of Habits of Mind in Shi Shuo Xin Yu. Shi Shuo Xin Yu is a collection of anecdotes, short conversations, and pithy observations on personalities who lived in China between late Han and Wei-Jin. In the chaotic era of Wei-Jin, the Intellectuals were under challenging …
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Willingness to pay for social health insurance : a case study of Kampala (Uganda)
… willingness to pay for Social Health Insurance (SHI), and to identify the factors that influence their willingness to contribute to a SHI scheme. Through the study I was also interested in establishing the extent to which employees' socio-economic characteristics and the SHI attributes affect …
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Willingness to pay for social health insurance in Zambia a two-stage regression approach
… additional financial resources and foster partnerships between users and providers. The choice of the financing mechanism(s) therefore becomes critical in ensuring that objectives in the health sector are met. SHI is one financing method that can help meet the objectives of the health sector. This …
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Resource Efficient Parallel VLDB with Customizable Degree of Redundancy
… replication technologies by Justin Y. Shi and Suntain Song; and b) Stateless Parallel Processing principle pioneered by Justin Y. Shi. These breakthroughs enable scalable performance and reliability of database service using multiple redundant shared-nothing database servers. This …
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Feasibility study of growing bioenergy crop along Illinois highway right of way
The student, Sijie Shi, accepted the attached license on 2016-12-05 at 10:09.
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TEMPORAL PROPERTIES IN JAPANESE (TENSE, CONDITIONALS).
This dissertation is concerned with the relationship between morphological tense forms of Japanese, such as (r)u ("non-past") and ta ("past"), and their temporal interpretation. The goal of the research reported here is to establish a simple overall theory. The analysis focuses on the following …
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Microstructural and mechanical characterization of silicon carbide irradiated with 158 MeV xenon swift heavy ions.
… subjected to 158 MeV Xe²⁶⁺ swift heavy ion (SHI) irradiation at different fluences were investigated. To study the changes induced by irradiation 3C-SiC was irradiated with swift heavy ions (SHI) to fluences of 1×10¹⁰, 1×10¹¹, and 1×10¹³ ions/cm² at room temperature (RT). To achieve this, …
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Der Mönchsgelehrte Yinshun (1906*) und seine Bedeutung für den Chinesisch-Taiwanischen Buddhismus des 20. Jahrhunderts
… Vorwort von Yindu fojiao sixiang shi [Geistesgeschichte des Indischen Buddhismus]; Kapitel 4 daraus (in English); Essay Yi fofa yanjiu fofa [Buddhadharma durch Buddhadharma erforschen] 5.Ausführliche Bibliographie
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What does it mean to have private health insurance coverage?
… sectors. While the statutory health insurance (SHI) sector provides two types of insurance, compulsory and voluntary, the private health insurance (PHI) sector offers only voluntary health insurance. The compulsory health insurance of the (SHI) is obligatory for people whose annual pre-tax …
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Spatial characteristics of the remotely-sensed surface urban heat island in Baton Rouge, LA: 1988-2003
… urban regions known as surface heat islands (SHI). The study area for this research endeavor is Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Whereas the surface air temperature-derived UHI did not portray an accurate representation of distinct changes in surface temperature across the study area, the …
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