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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"guan"”.
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The Spirit of Guan Yu
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Baiyun guan: the Development and Evolution of a Quanzhen Daoist Temple
… and evolution of the Daoist temple Baiyun guan in Beijing, China. Based on textual sources combined with the analysis of architectural and sculptural features, this study provides the comprehensive history of the temple focusing on its growth, change, and its religious identity. A detailed …
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Flowing Waters and the Flow of Time: Guan Pinghu's Interpretation of Flowing Waters
The search for alternative approaches to time outside of the Western concert music tradition has provided inspiration for many contemporary composers. This essay is a brief examination of temporal models taken from traditional Chinese guqin music. Focusing on the famous composition Flowing Waters, …
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Changing the image: the presentation of Christianity in Yu Guan and Deep River
… and Japanese writer Endo Shusaku (1923-1996), Yu Guan and Deep River. As a religion brought by Western missionaries, Christianity is considered “foreign” in both writers’ contexts and is not welcomed. As the two writers in the discussion are both affiliated with Christianity and are supportive of …
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GUAN AND SHAMING AMONG CHINESE FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES: THE MODERATING EFFECTS OF PERCEIVED CULTURAL NORMATIVENESS
… (1) What was the prevalence of the use of guan and shaming among Chinese-American mothers and did they vary by generational status and socio-economic status? (2) What were the direct associations between maternal use of guan and shaming and Chinese American 9th and 10th grade children’s …
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Forecasting volatility in Canadian markets
This study applies the methodology of Guan and Ederington (1998) to Canadian data. Historical volatility is estimated then forecast to examine the comparative performance of various time series models in forecasting volatility. Statistically significant regressions were provided that showed that …
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Accommodate street vendors during the urban development process : with two empirical cases of Zhu Lian (ZL), and Guan Dong (GD) public markets in Hsinchu City, Taiwan
… replicate this success in another instance (the Guan Dong market). The review of literature illustrates that street vendor relocating processes face three major barriers: (1) ill-conceived location; (2) bureaucratic conformity; and (3) customer base loss. In these two cases, the street vendors …
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Choice of one factor interest rate term structure models for pricing and hedging Bermudan swaptions
… pricing and hedging differences presented by Z. Guan, et. al., 2008 from a South African context. The Asset Liabilities Management (ALM) departments in large financial institutions are plagued by a number of problems. Among them is the choice of interest rate model for managing the risks …
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Aspectos da ontogenia do Jacu-guaçu (Penelope obscura bronzina Hellmayr, 1914), segundo levantamento em cativeiro
… presents data on the biology of the Dusky-legged Guan (Penelope obscura bronzina Heflmayr, 1914) in captivity, with special emphasis on its ontogeny. Nutrition seemed to have a direct influence on the size of the eggs. ln 3 years 279 eggs were recorded, 36% of which were fertile. From these, 77% …
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El deporte escolar en Asturias y su papel educativo
… las siguientes pruebas: Persistencia y esfuerzo Guan y cols. (2006), Meta de logro 2×2 (AGQ). Elliot y Mc Gregor (2001) en la versión adaptada al contexto de Educación Física (AGQ-PE) por Guan y cols. (2006) y Wang, Biddle y Elliot (2007), Cuestionario de diversión de los sujetos con la práctica …
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Enchufad@s : representations of the internet and new technologies in queer Latin American literature
… vacía (2000) by Ángel Lozada and Keres cojer? = Guan tu fak (2005) by Alejandro López as well as Cristina Peri Rossi's poetry collection, Playstation (2008) -- relies on queer aesthetics and themes in order to convey the experience of three unique individuals who, through the utilization of …
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Understanding Chinese American Parents: The Interplay of Chinese Tradition and Early Childhood Music Education in the United States
… the importance of the traditional concept of guan in Chinese American parenting, the high value that Chinese Americans place on education, the function of music in Chinese culture, and the value of music education as moral cultivation. Considered within the context of the Chinese Americans' …
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Properties and environmental impact of recycling cigarette butts (CBs) in fired clay brick
… Therefore, clay soil samples obtained from Hoe Guan Brick Sdn Bhd were used as control in this research while 2.5% and 5.0% by weight of CBs were incorporated into the clay bricks for subsequent experiments. Different heating rates were used during the firing processes which are 1 C/min …
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Outcomes of patients with COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome requiring Invasive Mechanical Ventilation admitted to an Intensive Care Unit in South Africa
… require ICU admission or mechanical ventilation [Guan et al., 2020; Huang et al., 2020]. Data from low- and middle-income countries for COVID-19 ARDS are limited. Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa expanded its ICU service to support patients with COVID-19 ARDS requiring invasive …
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Machine Learning for Improvement of Ocean Data Resolution for Weather Forecasting and Climatological Research
… study e.g. Patil Iiyama (2022), and Wei Guan (2022) in their work proposed the use of deep learning models for sea surface temperature (SST) prediction in the Tohoku region with very low errors ranging from 0.35°C to 0.75°C and the root-mean-square error increases from 0.27°C to 0.53°C …
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The processing of two types of Chinese idioms by L1 and L2 speakers
… there are two major categories of idioms: 惯用语 guan-yong-yu (GYY) conventional-use-language, and 成语 cheng-yu (CY) fixed-language. GYYs are often used in informal and spoken contexts, and CYs in formal and written contexts (Chen & Chen, 1994). How do native speakers of Chinese process the two …
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INCORPORATING EMR AND GENOMIC DATA USING NLP AND MACHINE LEARNING TO REFINE CANCER TREATMENT
Electronic medical records (EMR) have collected vast amounts of clinical data, including genomic testing results. In contrast to numerical data, majority of EMR are unstructured free text and not easy to be processed by computers. In this study, we explored how natural language processing (NLP) and …
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Evaluation of genetic variants for Type 2 diabetes associated kidney disease in African Americans
End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is a significant public health problem in the U.S., disproportionately affecting African Americans (AAs; 1,003 per million/year) at 3.3-fold higher incidence rate than European Americans (301 per million/year), and 2-fold higher than Native Americans (499 per …
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MODELING HEART DISEASE OF PATIENTS WITH MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY USING INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS
Dystrophin deficient cardiomyopathy is a hereditary disorder resulting from dystrophin gene mutation. All patients inevitably develop cardiomyopathy and 30%-50% of them succumb to congestive heart failure. The mechanism of dystrophic cardiomyopathy is still elusive, partly due to the scarce human …
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Pedestrian Safety and Level of Service at Uncontrolled Crosswalks - Advanced Data to Enhance Evaluations
Pedestrian safety and mobility assessment at uncontrolled crossings is often hindered by the limitations of crash-based evaluation and the inconsistent quality of high-resolution all-traffic trajectory data collected from emerging sensing technologies. As agencies increasingly rely on behavioral …
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