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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"yuyan"”.
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Aesop's fables in China: the transmission and transformation of the genre
… how these fables influenced Chinese writing of yuyan, an analogous genre in Chinese literature. It attempts to provide as comprehensive a picture as possible of the history of the transmissions and analyses of examples that are relatively representative in respect to the transformation of the …
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Acquisition of English morphosyntax : evidence from a Chinese-speaking child
This thesis aims to examine the development of morphosyntax with longitudinal English production from Diany, a Mandarin-speaking child, starting from the second week Diany arrived in the U.S.A. (age 4;9). The study is particularly interested in whether Diany’s acquisition of verbal morphemes and …
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Chemical synthesis of glycosylated oligoribonucleotides for siRNA development
In this study, an efficient methodology for the preparation of carbohydrate-RNA conjugates was established, which involved the use of 3,4~diethoxy-3-cyclobutene-l,2- dione (diethyl squarate) as the linking reagent. First, a glycan moiety containing an amino group reacted with diethyl squarate to …
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Young Infants' Knowledge About Self -Propelled Objects
These results thus provide further support to the domain-specific view of human cognition, which states that people tend to interpret the world within a few core domains, for example, the domains of psychological and biological knowledge. In addition, these results are in line with evidence …
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Linguistic relativity: Loci and conditions of emergence
This dissertation addresses the following questions through five studies using the randomized-controlled training paradigm: Can language learning lead to linguistic relativity effects – the effect of the language(s) we speak on our cognition of non-verbal stimuli even without verbalization or …
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A Modified Bayesian Power Prior Approach with Applications in Water Quality Evaluation
This research is motivated by an issue frequently encountered in environmental water quality evaluation. Many times, the sample size of water monitoring data is too small to have adequate power. Here, we present a Bayesian power prior approach by incorporating the current data and historical data …
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Examining media convergence : does it also converge good journalism, economic synergies, and competitive advantages?
This dissertation explores the "simple theory" (Murphy, 2002): Those most experienced in it expect that media convergence will create good journalism, generate the effects of scale and scope economies, and achieve competitive advantages for converged news organizations. Based on theories of scale …