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This book examines the popular, yet puzzling, Chinese saying Nande
hutu to uncover how the ancient Chinese wisdom of not knowing is
constructed, interpreted, practiced and valued in contemporary
society. Originating in the calligraphy of Qing-dynasty scholar
Zheng Banqiao, Nande hutu translates literally as: "hard to attain
muddle-headedness". Mieke Matthyssen traces the historical
development of this saying and related philosophies to reveal a
culturally conditioned, multi-layered inclination to different
forms of not knowing. In contemporary society, she argues, this
inclination forms part of a living art: in some respects, a
passive, evasive strategy for self-preservation; in other respects,
a strategy for coping with intrapersonal, interpersonal and social
complexities. Drawing on an extensive range of primary sources and
original research, the analysis skillfully combines philosophical
and socio-historical analysis with theory from Chinese philosophy,
philosophical psychology and the relatively new field of indigenous
psychology, to provide an in-depth understanding of how Nande hutu
has shaped, and continues to shape, the Chinese psyche and
behaviour. This book will appeal to all readers looking for fresh
insights into Chinese culture, and in particular to students and
scholars of Chinese and Asian studies, cultural and social
anthropology, and philosophical and indigenous psychology.
When thinking about the culture and economy of East Asia, many
attribute to the region a range of dispositions, including a
preference for consensus and social harmony, loyalty and respect
towards superiors and government, family values, collectivism, and
communitarianism. Affect is central to these concepts, and yet the
role of affect and its animated or imagined potentialities in the
political economy of East Asia has not been systematically studied.
The book examines the affective dimensions of power and economy in
East Asia. It illuminates the dynamics of contemporary governance,
and ways of overcoming common Western assumptions about East Asian
societies. Here, affect is defined as felt quality that gives
meaning and imagination to social, political, and economic
processes, and as this book demonstrates, it can provide an
analytical tool for a nuanced and enriched analysis of social,
political, and economic transformations in East Asia. Through
ethnographic and media analyses, this book provides a framework for
analyzing emerging phenomena in East Asia, such as happiness
promotion, therapeutic governance, the psychologization of social
issues, the rise of self-help genres, transnational labor
migration, new ideologies of gender and the family, and
mass-mediated affective communities. Through the lens of affect
theory, the contributors explore changing political configurations,
economic engagements, modes of belonging, and forms of subjectivity
in East Asia, and use ethnographic research and discourse analysis
to illustrate the affective dimensions of state and economic power
and the way affect informs and inspires action. This
interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of Asian studies, anthropology, sociology, media studies,
history, cultural studies, and gender and women's studies.
When thinking about the culture and economy of East Asia, many
attribute to the region a range of dispositions, including a
preference for consensus and social harmony, loyalty and respect
towards superiors and government, family values, collectivism, and
communitarianism. Affect is central to these concepts, and yet the
role of affect and its animated or imagined potentialities in the
political economy of East Asia has not been systematically studied.
The book examines the affective dimensions of power and economy in
East Asia. It illuminates the dynamics of contemporary governance,
and ways of overcoming common Western assumptions about East Asian
societies. Here, affect is defined as felt quality that gives
meaning and imagination to social, political, and economic
processes, and as this book demonstrates, it can provide an
analytical tool for a nuanced and enriched analysis of social,
political, and economic transformations in East Asia. Through
ethnographic and media analyses, this book provides a framework for
analyzing emerging phenomena in East Asia, such as happiness
promotion, therapeutic governance, the psychologization of social
issues, the rise of self-help genres, transnational labor
migration, new ideologies of gender and the family, and
mass-mediated affective communities. Through the lens of affect
theory, the contributors explore changing political configurations,
economic engagements, modes of belonging, and forms of subjectivity
in East Asia, and use ethnographic research and discourse analysis
to illustrate the affective dimensions of state and economic power
and the way affect informs and inspires action. This
interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of Asian studies, anthropology, sociology, media studies,
history, cultural studies, and gender and women's studies.
This book examines the popular, yet puzzling, Chinese saying Nande
hutu to uncover how the ancient Chinese wisdom of not knowing is
constructed, interpreted, practiced and valued in contemporary
society. Originating in the calligraphy of Qing-dynasty scholar
Zheng Banqiao, Nande hutu translates literally as: "hard to attain
muddle-headedness". Mieke Matthyssen traces the historical
development of this saying and related philosophies to reveal a
culturally conditioned, multi-layered inclination to different
forms of not knowing. In contemporary society, she argues, this
inclination forms part of a living art: in some respects, a
passive, evasive strategy for self-preservation; in other respects,
a strategy for coping with intrapersonal, interpersonal and social
complexities. Drawing on an extensive range of primary sources and
original research, the analysis skillfully combines philosophical
and socio-historical analysis with theory from Chinese philosophy,
philosophical psychology and the relatively new field of indigenous
psychology, to provide an in-depth understanding of how Nande hutu
has shaped, and continues to shape, the Chinese psyche and
behaviour. This book will appeal to all readers looking for fresh
insights into Chinese culture, and in particular to students and
scholars of Chinese and Asian studies, cultural and social
anthropology, and philosophical and indigenous psychology.
Machine Learning Aided Analysis, Design, and Additive Manufacturing
of Functionally Graded Porous Composite Structures presents a
state-of-the-art review of the latest advances and cutting-edge
technologies in this important research field. Sections provide an
introduction to functionally graded porous structures and detail
the effects of graded porosities on bending, buckling, and
vibration behaviors within the framework of Timoshenko beam theory
and first-order shear deformable plate theory. Other sections cover
the usage of machine learning techniques for smart structural
analysis of porous components as an evolution from traditional
engineering and methods and focus on additive manufacturing of
structures with graded porosities for end-user applications. The
book follows a clear path from design and analysis to fabrication
and applications. Readers will find extensive knowledge and
examples of functionally graded porous structures that are suitable
for innovative research and market needs, with applications
relevant to a diverse range of industrial fields, including
mechanical, structural, aerospace, energy, and biomedical
engineering.
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MultiMedia Modeling - 21st International Conference, MMM 2015, Sydney, Australia, January 5-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part I (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
Xiangjian He, Suhuai Luo, Dacheng Tao, Changsheng Xu, Jie Yang, …
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The two-volume set LNCS 8935 and 8936 constitutes the thoroughly
refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on
Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2015, held in Sydney, Australia, in
January 2015. The 49 revised regular papers, 24 poster
presentations, were carefully reviewed and selected from 189
submissions. For the three special session, a total of 18 papers
were accepted for MMM 2015. The three special sessions are Personal
(Big) Data Modeling for Information Access and Retrieval, Social
Geo-Media Analytics and Retrieval and Image or video processing,
semantic analysis and understanding. In addition, 9 demonstrations
and 9 video showcase papers were accepted for MMM 2015. The
accepted contributions included in these two volumes represent the
state-of-the-art in multimedia modeling research and cover a
diverse range of topics including: Image and Video Processing,
Multimedia encoding and streaming, applications of multimedia
modelling and 3D and augmented reality.
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MultiMedia Modeling - 21st International Conference, MMM 2015, Sydney, Australia, January 5-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
Xiangjian He, Suhuai Luo, Dacheng Tao, Changsheng Xu, Jie Yang, …
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The two-volume set LNCS 8935 and 8936 constitutes the thoroughly
refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on
Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2015, held in Sydney, Australia, in
January 2015. The 49 revised regular papers, 24 poster
presentations, were carefully reviewed and selected from 189
submissions. For the three special session, a total of 18 papers
were accepted for MMM 2015. The three special sessions are Personal
(Big) Data Modeling for Information Access and Retrieval, Social
Geo-Media Analytics and Retrieval and Image or video processing,
semantic analysis and understanding. In addition, 9 demonstrations
and 9 video showcase papers were accepted for MMM 2015. The
accepted contributions included in these two volumes represent the
state-of-the-art in multimedia modeling research and cover a
diverse range of topics including: Image and Video Processing,
Multimedia encoding and streaming, applications of multimedia
modelling and 3D and augmented reality.
This Springer Brief provides a new approach to prevent user
spoofing by using the physical properties associated with wireless
transmissions to detect the presence of user spoofing. The most
common method, applying cryptographic authentication, requires
additional management and computational power that cannot be
deployed consistently. The authors present the new approach by
offering a summary of the recent research and exploring the
benefits and potential challenges of this method. This brief
discusses the feasibility of launching user spoofing attacks and
their impact on the wireless and sensor networks. Readers are
equipped to understand several system models. One attack detection
model exploits the spatial correlation of received signal strength
(RSS) inherited from wireless devices as a foundation. Through
experiments in practical environments, the authors evaluate the
performance of the spoofing attack detection model. The brief also
introduces the DEMOTE system, which exploits the correlation within
the RSS trace based on each device s identity to detect mobile
attackers. A final chapter covers future directions of this field.
By presenting complex technical information in a concise format,
this brief is a valuable resource for researchers, professionals,
and advanced-level students focused on wireless network security."
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Random Signal Analysis (Paperback)
Jie Yang, Congfeng Liu; Contributions by China Science Publishing & Media Ltd
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A fundamental introduction to the delopment of random signal
processing with an emphasis on analysis. Linear transformation,
nonlinear transformation, spectral analysis of stationary and
narrow band random process are discussed in detail. With abundant
exercises, this book is an essential reference for graduate
students, scientists and practitioners in electronical engineering
and signal processing.
The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of unique, standalone
introductions to JY Yang's Tensorate Series, which Kate Elliott
calls "effortlessly fascinating." For more of the story you can
read its twin novella The Red Threads of Fortune, available
simultaneously.Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the
Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children. While
Mokoya developed her strange prophetic gift, Akeha was always the
one who could see the strings that moved adults to action. While
his sister received visions of what would be, Akeha realized what
could be. What's more, he saw the sickness at the heart of his
mother's Protectorate.A rebellion is growing. The Machinists
discover new levers to move the world every day, while the Tensors
fight to put them down and preserve the power of the state.
Unwilling to continue to play a pawn in his mother's twisted
schemes, Akeha leaves the Tensorate behind and falls in with the
rebels. But every step Akeha takes towards the Machinists is a step
away from his sister Mokoya. Can Akeha find peace without
shattering the bond he shares with his twin sister?
Embodied theories claim that semantic representations are
grounded in sensorimotor systems, but the contribution of
sensorimotor brain areas in representing meaning is still
controversial. One current debate is whether activity in
sensorimotor areas during language comprehension is automatic.
Numerous neuroimaging studies reveal activity in perception and
action areas during semantic processing that is automatic and
independent of context, but increasing findings show that
involvement of sensorimotor areas and the connectivity between
word-form areas and sensorimotor areas can be modulated by
contextual information. "Context Effects on Embodied Representation
of Language Concepts "focuses on these findings and discusses the
influences from word, phrase, and sentential contexts that
emphasize either dominant conceptual features or non-dominant
conceptual features.
Reviews the findings about contextual modularityClarifies the
invariant and flexible features of embodied lexical-semantic
processing
You are reading this because I am dead. Something terrible happened
at the Rewar Teng Institute of Experimental Methods. When the
Tensorate's investigators arrived, they found a sea of blood and
bones as far as the eye could see. One of the institute's
experiments got loose, and its rage left no survivors. The
investigators returned to the capital with few clues and two
prisoners: the terrorist leader Sanao Akeha and a companion known
only as Rider. Investigator Chuwan faces a puzzle. What really
happened at the institute? What drew the Machinists there? What are
her superiors trying to cover up? And why does she feel as if her
strange dreams are forcing her down a narrowing path she cannot
escape?
Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its
state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new
class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological
disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this
understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid
off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using
fieldwork from reemployment programs, community psychosocial work,
and psychotherapy training sessions in Beijing between 2002 and
2013, Yang highlights the role of psychology in state-led
interventions to alleviate the effects of mass unemployment. She
pays particular attention to those programs that train laid-off
workers in basic psychology and then reemploy them as informal
"counselors" in their capacity as housemaids and taxi drivers.
These laid-off workers are filling a niche market created by both
economic restructuring and the shortage of professional counselors
in China, helping the government to defuse intensified class
tension and present itself as a nurturing and kindly power. In
reality, Yang argues, this process creates both new political
complicity and new conflicts, often along gender lines. Women are
forced to use the moral virtues and work ethics valued under the
former socialist system, as well as their experiences of overcoming
depression and suffering, as resources for their new psychological
care work. Yang focuses on how the emotions, potentials, and
"hearts" of these women have become sites of regulation, market
expansion, and political imagination.
Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its
state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new
class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological
disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this
understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid
off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using
fieldwork from reemployment programs, community psychosocial work,
and psychotherapy training sessions in Beijing between 2002 and
2013, Yang highlights the role of psychology in state-led
interventions to alleviate the effects of mass unemployment. She
pays particular attention to those programs that train laid-off
workers in basic psychology and then reemploy them as informal
"counselors" in their capacity as housemaids and taxi drivers.
These laid-off workers are filling a niche market created by both
economic restructuring and the shortage of professional counselors
in China, helping the government to defuse intensified class
tension and present itself as a nurturing and kindly power. In
reality, Yang argues, this process creates both new political
complicity and new conflicts, often along gender lines. Women are
forced to use the moral virtues and work ethics valued under the
former socialist system, as well as their experiences of overcoming
depression and suffering, as resources for their new psychological
care work. Yang focuses on how the emotions, potentials, and
"hearts" of these women have become sites of regulation, market
expansion, and political imagination.
Science and engineering disciplines are provoking fundamental and
applied discoveries in numerous applications, such as to deeply
understand brain functions, precisely diagnose diseases, and to
then properly address these. The later advances call upon
biomedical integrated circuits and systems (BioCAS) to provide
needed research tools. In fact, with the increase of the
personalized healthcare market and BioCAS featuring wearability,
implantability and intelligence, it has become significantly more
important to address these emerging trends. These circuits and
systems deal with various signals and images such as
electrophysiological, electrochemical, optical, and magnetic, which
require various front-end circuits to acquire signals and usually
cancel out the noise. With the booming artificial intelligence
methods, these biosignals became mandatory for the monitoring,
detection, diagnosis and even prediction of diseases for
example.This monograph focusses on the current research activities
and emerging trends that relate to the above-mentioned
functionalities, and it should be of interest to students,
researchers and engineers active in the fields related to Circuits
and Systems for Biomedical Engineering. Section I is a summary of
the main BioCAS research interests, and in Section II various
biosignal acquisition circuits techniques are discussed. In Section
III the authors cover circuits for biosignal processing, with
emphasis on the newly emerging artificial intelligence. Sections IV
and V contain a review of wireless power harvesting and
communication circuits. Sections VI and VII represent circuits that
help miniaturizing biomedical imaging systems, and other systems
intended for the detection of chemical and molecular assays.
Section VIII describes one of the main neural prostheses intended
to address vision disorders, whilst the last section reviews
electrode-tissue interfaces that essentially bridge the circuits
and systems with the human body.
The Red Threads of Fortune is one of a pair of unique, standalone
introductions to JY Yang's Tensorate Series, which Kate Elliott
calls "effortlessly fascinating." For more of the story you can
read its twin novella The Black Tides of Heaven, available
simultaneously.Fallen prophet, master of the elements, and daughter
of the supreme Protector, Sanao Mokoya has abandoned the life that
once bound her. Once her visions shaped the lives of citizens
across the land, but no matter what tragedy Mokoya foresaw, she
could never reshape the future. Broken by the loss of her young
daughter, she now hunts deadly, sky-obscuring naga in the harsh
outer reaches of the kingdom with packs of dinosaurs at her side,
far from everything she used to love.On the trail of a massive naga
that threatens the rebellious mining city of Bataanar, Mokoya meets
the mysterious and alluring Rider. But all is not as it seems: the
beast they both hunt harbors a secret that could ignite war
throughout the Protectorate. As she is drawn into a conspiracy of
magic and betrayal, Mokoya must come to terms with her
extraordinary and dangerous gifts, or risk losing the little she
has left to hold dear.
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