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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"dao"”.
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Dao as a verbal suffix in Chinese verbs
This thesis focuses on the resultative ending dao as a suffix to Chinese verbs. Although dao is commonly understood as a mono-morphemic verb, a preposition or a verbal complement, little attention has been given to its function as a verbal suffix. This study attempts to highlight the inflectional …
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Small-Scale Microgrid Energy Market Based on PILT-DAO
… Integrity, Longevity, and Transparency (PILT-DAO) of the features of the blockchain. The microgrid owners can complete the transaction in the PILT-DAO market.</p> <p>In order to implement this energy trading platform, the first step is to simulate a modified distributed IEEE 13 node test …
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A New Perspective to Consider Rationality in Business Negotiation: Dao and the Doctrine of the Mean
… analyzes significant pieces (related to Dao and the Doctrine of the Mean) of some ancient Chinese literary works that are masterpieces of Taoism and Confucianism. Although society, science, and technology are developing rapidly, the central wisdom of Dao in Taoism and the Doctrine of the …
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A Dynamic Ankle Orthosis for Alleviating Mechanical Foot and Ankle Pain, Preserving Joint Motion, and Restoring Patient Function
… and limit function. The Dynamic Ankle Orthosis (DAO) was created with the intent to alleviate pain using an offloading mechanism without interfering with natural joint motion. This dissertation presents the development, benchtop validation, functional assessment, and clinical evaluation of this …
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Comparison of a Dynamic Ankle Orthosis to a Walking Boot for Preserving Ankle Joint Motion and Reducing Tibial Bone Load and Strain
… limb muscle atrophy. A Dynamic Ankle Orthosis (DAO) provided a distractive force that offloaded the ankle and retained sagittal ankle excursion during walking. It remains unclear how tibial loading is affected by a walking boot or the DAO. This thesis presents a feasibility study confirming the …
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Direct optimization of 3D dose distributions using collimator rotation
… and implementing a direct aperture optimization (DAO) platform where the multileaf collimator (MLC) is rotated between each aperture. The approach is referred to as rotating aperture optimization (RAO). A series of tests is performed to evaluate how a final optimized plan depends on MLC …
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Histamine Metabolism During Asthma Induced By Inhalation Challenge
… induced asthma, HM and Diamine Oxidase activity (DAO) were determined serially in plasma together with the Forced Expiratory Volume in the first second (FEV(,1)) in 18 subjects inhaling methacholine(MCH) by increments to permissible limits of 224 cumulative units (cu). HM was measured in plasma …
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An Attempt at Democratizing Resource Allocation for Social Movements Using Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
… a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), can act as this network and ensure that each organization can scale at its own rate and that the donors who participate in the DAO can better and more effectively coordinate their support. My goal is for small and local organizations with a …
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Realizing the Human Unity with the Universe by way of Letting Go and Emptying: Martin Heidegger and the Zhuangzi at the Crossroads of Being and Dao
The scholarship that surrounds the relation or comparability of Martin Heidegger’s and Asian thought asks questions of comparability and influence, but the body of literature that has been produced over the last several decades has failed to fully engage Heideggerian and any particular Asian …
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The Zhuangzi and Nourishing Xin: Causes of Strife, Positive Ideals of Caring for Living, and Therapeutic Linguistic Practice
… his conscious attention and bodily activity to dao. Integrating mind, body and spirit with dao allows the sage to wander effortlessly through the emergent processes of yin and yang. Not only does this mean paying attention to the changes of dao, but also means acclimating to those changes.
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A transnational poetics of place: identity, otherness and the meaning of home in the poetry of Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, Bei Dao, Hannah Lowe and Sarah Howe
… and Sarah Howe (both UK-based), as well as Bei Dao (China-based), I analyse how a writer’s poetic language is reshaped by his ethnic and socio-historical environments, and examine the reimagining(s) of home among contemporary Chinese diasporic poets. I also connect these readings and theorising …
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Cultivating Sagehood in the Zhuangzi: Hanshan Deqing's Unified Reading of the Inner Chapters
… one must find nourishment in the body of the Dao and via a process of cultivation learn to forget the self, forget merit, and forget name. Highlighting the primary characteristics of the Sage, namely no self, no merit, and no name, I demonstrate how one or more of these characteristics are …
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Being formless: a Daoist movement practice
This study aims to develop a Daoist movement practice. Based on qi-energy, Daoism, a Chinese ontological study of being, suggests that Dao is the formless changing of in-between being. I explore how the formless nature of Dao informs my own creative practice. I argue that formlessness signifies an …
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Effects of Variables on a Soaker-Stripper Reactor for Thermal Cracking of Deasphalted Oil
… from the feedstock, producing Deasphalted Oil (DAO), a stream with reduced asphaltenes and metal content. In that industrial scheme DAO is thermally cracked to generate distillates with conversion of the 553 °C+ fraction over 50%. One important current challenge is to increase that conversion …
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The Implications of A Distributed Autonomous Organization On Political Campaign Finance Regulations
… such as distributed autonomous organizations (DAO) and smarts contracts can be leveraged to further cripple the credibility and integrity of the political process and create a wider avenue for foreign interference in political races as seen in the 2016 presidential elections. Four use cases in …
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On the Flow and Structure of Process: An Inquiry into Changes of Things, or Shifts of Systems
… frontiers of physics. Finally, I turn to the two Daoist classics, Dao De Jing and Zhuangzi, for their profound insights into the question “Do things change for better or worse”, i.e., the direction of the process, by way of Dao. </p>
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Nature Naturing Ziran in Early Daoist Thinking
… is nature? My thesis shows that ziran in early Daoism offers us an alternative to the modern concept of nature as an object to be controlled and exploited for human purposes. Ziran is the very process of the transformation of dao and things, in which the intimacy of dao, things and humans is …
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Estudio histórico-tecnológico y representación gráfica de los molinos de viento de La Mancha, en la España de los siglos XVI al XIX, mediante técnicas de dibujo asistido por ordenador (DAO)
… mediante técnicas digitales actuales (EFD, GNSS, DAO, Infografía) sirva de motivación a las autoridades regionales, para que tomen las medidas oportunas en aras a una mejor preservación y divulgación de este Patrimonio Histórico Nacional.
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LÜ DONGBIN und sein LAOZI-Kommentar
… 1984. Die Arbeit behandelt die vermeintlich dem daoistischen Meister Lü Dongbin (Tang-Dynastie) zugeschriebenen Kommentare zum Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching, Laozi, Lao-Tzu). Diese reichen in ihrem Spektrum von philosophischen Spekulationen zu handfesten und praktischen Anweisungen alchemischer bzw. …
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Analysis of HOXA5 expression and function in development of the central nervous system
… dorsal lamella of the dorsal accessory olive (DAO) subnucleus. Furthermore, the ION can be transiently defined by a combinatorial expression of BRN3A and LIM1/2 transcription factors that may belong to a new dorsal neuron cell type in the caudal hindbrain defined in this study. Although HOXA5 …
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