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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"wu wei"”.
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Gelassenheit und Wu-Wei : Nähe und Ferne zwischen dem späten Heidegger und dem Taoismus
… seinen Begierden und seiner eingeengten Denkweise und dabei gegen die Natur des Lebens handelt. Um zu einem Leben zu gelangen, das mit der Natur im Einklang ist, muß der Mensch den Weg des Wu-Wei einschlagen. <br> <br>Aus der Sicht der traditionellen abendländischen Philosophie hat zwischen …
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‘Action through non-action’: self-transformation and social transformation at the PRC grassroots
… I examine the social life that unfolds via the ‘Wu-Wei School’, a private organisation that provides educative xiuxing retreats. The school claims to use an areligious rendering of Daoist ascetic techniques to help citizens live healthier, more fulfilling lives, thereby contributing to the …
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Dancing brush: an exploration of Taoist aesthetics
… the Taoist teachings of zi-ran (spontaneity) and wu-wei (non-action). I interpret it as “subtraction aesthetics: less is more”. The process is to eliminate interferences with restricted narrative format and visual effects, then to receive the immediate presentation of things as pure materials. …
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Being formless: a Daoist movement practice
… movement and energy involved in becoming a wu-wei (see Chapter 5).<br/><br/>DVD chapter 4: Practicing the self This video documents a session in which the focus was on an awareness of subtle changes and emergences. Documented by a still camcorder, this edited video is composed of footage of …
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Sequential Designs with Application in Software Engineering
Presented here is a Bayesian approach to test case allocation in the software reliability estimation. Bayesian analysis allows us to update our beliefs about the reliability of a particular partition as we test, and thus, dynamically re refine our allocation of test cases during the reliability …
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MICRO-CIRCUIT DIODE FOR ULTRA-LOW-POWER ENERGY HARVESTING
Harvesting energy from ultra-low-power vibration energy sources typically employs a rectifier circuit as the first power conditioning stage. The Schottky diode has a 0.15 V - 0.2 V threshold voltage and can not extract energy efficiently at low voltage. Other technologies such as MOSFET bridge or …
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Distortions in Perceived Direction of Motion Predicted by Population Response in Visual Cortex
<p>The visual system is thought to represent the trajectory of moving objects in the activity of large populations of cortical neurons that respond preferentially to the direction of stimulus motion. Here I employed in vivo voltage sensitive dye (VSD) imaging to explore how abrupt changes in the …
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Acceleration of Monte Carlo Value at Risk Estimation Using Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
"Value at Risk (VaR) is one of the most popular tools used to estimate the exposure to market risks, and it measures the worst expected loss at a given confidence level. Monte Carlo simulation is one of the best methods to calculate VaR and it is widely used in financial industry. Unfortunately, it …
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Observation and simulation of mid-latitude ice clouds
… individual ice crystals. For example, the mass-weighted mean diameter can vary by 2 times, the ice water content (IWC) by 3 times, and the mass-weighted terminal velocity by 6 times. Therefore, a consistent definition of Dmax should be used for all measurements and single particle properties. As …
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NMR studies of cobalt bleomycins and their complexes with DNA : a structural model for binding and cleavage specificity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry, 1996.
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An analysis of close seam interaction problems in the Appalachian coal fields
Mining into strata disturbed by previous mining operations either above or below may sometimes result in severe strata control problems. These interaction problems, associated with most multiple-seam mining operations, are very common in the Appalachian coal region and are the subject of this …
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Tail estimation of the spectral density under fixed-domain asymptotics
… $c$ and $theta$.One of them can be viewed as a weighted local Whittletype estimator. Under proposed approaches, the explicit form of $f$ and the restriction of the dimension are not necessary.The asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators under infill asymptotics (or fixed-domain …
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Epistemic Rationality and Justification
The main thesis of this dissertation is that epistemic rationality is different from justification. While justified beliefs must be likely to be true, a belief with low probability can nevertheless be epistemically rational because informativeness is an important factor to consider in assessing the …
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Part I. Molecular Tweezers: Synthetic Receptors for Nucleotide Bases. Part II. Molecular Self-Assembly: Design of a Helical Aggregate
In Part I, the design, syntheses, and complexation studies of molecular tweezers containing active site carboxylic acids are discussed. The strength, nature, stoichiometry, and geometry of the complex between molecular tweezer 28 and 9-propyladenine was studied. The cooperativity of hydrogen …
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Temperature effect of phase transition radiation of water
Phase transition radiation of water revealed in the past provides a possible idea to modify weather predictions nowadays into more accurate ones. With existence, characteristic wavelength, and mechanisms of this phase transition radiation presenting by scientists and engineers, temperature effect …
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An analysis of nine-ending pricing
Prices ending in 9 are ubiquitous. In this paper I first develop a theoretical model of the effect of such prices on sales and review the empirical literature on the topic. Then I use a data set from an online experiment run by Lau (2000) to conduct an empirical study of the effect. Analysis with a …