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The Olympic torch relay held before the 2008 Games was the moment
when East met West on the media stage. This book analyses the torch
relay and its representation, offering a discursive construction of
Olympic ideology by and through the media in both East and West.
The author argues that the discourse used by the media in different
social contexts reflected the diversity of ideologies and cultural
values with which the Olympic flame was imbued. A corpus-based
Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis
(DHA-CDA) is applied to media discourse in the United Kingdom and
in China to examine the complexity, contradiction and conflicts in
linguistic interpretations of Olympic ideology. Corpora drawn from
the China Daily, BBC News and The Guardian are described,
interpreted in their linguistic contexts, and then explained in
terms of the broader historical and socio-political contexts
surrounding the dynamic life of the Olympic torch relay. This
unique study sheds light on the significance of the Olympic Games
for East-West media discourse and analysis.
Metamaterials: Beyond Crystals, Noncrystals, and Quasicrystals is a
comprehensive and updated research monograph that focuses on recent
advances in metamaterials based on the effective medium theory in
microwave frequencies. Most of these procedures were conducted in
the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University,
China. The book conveys the essential concept of metamaterials from
the microcosmic structure to the macroscopic electromagnetic
properties and helps readers quickly obtain needed skills in
creating new devices at microwave frequencies using metamaterials.
The authors present the latest progress on metamaterials and
transformation optics and provide abundant examples of
metamaterial-based devices accompanied with detailed procedures to
simulate, fabricate, and measure them. Comprised of ten chapters,
the book comprehensively covers both the fundamentals and the
applications of metamaterials. Along with an introduction to the
subject, the first three chapters discuss effective medium theory
and artificial particles. The next three chapters cover homogeneous
metamaterials (super crystals), random metamaterials (super
noncrystals), and inhomogeneous metamaterials (super
quasicrystals). The final four chapters examine gradient-index
inhomogeneous metamaterials, nearly isotropic inhomogeneous
metamaterials, and anisotropic inhomogeneous metamaterials, after
which the authors provide their conclusions and closing remarks.
The book is completely self-contained, making it easy to follow.
This book is mainly concerned with elaborating an account of the
unique theoretical essence and activities of philosophy. What
manner of civilization should modern humans forge? On what
developmental path should a nation embark? What lifestyle should
each individual choose? These are the most fundamental issues of
our time. Profoundly implicit in the choices outlined above is a
deeper question: What are the criteria of choice? An examination of
these criteria is a reflection on the premises constituting
thought, or a critique of the premises underlying thought. Using a
"critique of the premises underlying thought" as the basic idea and
hermeneutic principle in philosophy will open a wider theoretical
space for contemporary philosophy so as to avoid the predicament of
being "pseudo-scientific" or "pseudo-artistic." It will also
present contemporary philosophy with a realistic path of
development for the task of reflecting on the criteria of choice.
This book seeks to formulate concrete philosophical arguments for a
critique of the basic beliefs, logic, modes, concepts, and
philosophical ideas which constitute thought, with the aim of
demonstrating the vigorous self-critique and inexhaustible
theoretical space found in philosophical development. This book
provides a new principle of interpretation for understanding
philosophy and, in turn, uses this principle to develop a critique
of the premises underlying thought, thereby furthering the
contemporary development of philosophy. This book encompasses a
critique of the premises underlying thought, which mainly includes
the basic beliefs, logic, modes, concepts, and philosophical ideas
constituting thought. Such a critique should comprise five aspects:
First, the basic beliefs constituting thought propose a critique of
the identity of thought and being; second, the basic logic
constituting thought refers to a critique of the formal,
intensional, and practical logic of thought; third, the basic modes
constituting thought denote a critique of the basic modes by which
humans comprehend the world, including commonsense, religion, art,
and science; fourth, the basic concepts constituting thought entail
a critique centering on being, the world, history, truth, value,
and other basic concepts; and finally, the philosophical ideas
constituting thought indicate a critique of philosophy itself. A
critique aligned on these five aspects will provide a general
philosophical overview of the premise critique of thought.
Chinese traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism have a
profoundly philosophical dimension. The three traditions are
frequently referred to as three paths of moral teachings. In this
book, Mou provides a clear account of the textual corpus that
emerges to define each of these traditions and how this canonical
axis was augmented by a continuing commentarial tradition as each
generation reauthorized the written core for their own time and
place. Â In his careful exegesis, Mou lays out the
differences between the more religious reading of these traditions
with their defining practices that punctuate the human journey
through life, and the more intellectual and philosophical treatment
of the texts that has and continues to produce a first-order
culture of annotation that become integral to the traditions
themselves. Â At the center of the alternative religious
experience reflected throughout the teachings of Confucianism,
Daoism, and Buddhism is the project of personal cultivation as it
comes to be expressed as robust growth in family and communal
relations. For Mou, these three highly distinctive and yet
complementary ways of thinking and living constitute a kind of
moral ecology, wherein each of them complements the others as they
stand in service to a different dimension of the human need for an
educated spirituality.
This book is mainly concerned with elaborating an account of the
unique theoretical essence and activities of philosophy. What
manner of civilization should modern humans forge? On what
developmental path should a nation embark? What lifestyle should
each individual choose? These are the most fundamental issues of
our time. Profoundly implicit in the choices outlined above is a
deeper question: What are the criteria of choice? An examination of
these criteria is a reflection on the premises constituting
thought, or a critique of the premises underlying thought. Using a
"critique of the premises underlying thought" as the basic idea and
hermeneutic principle in philosophy will open a wider theoretical
space for contemporary philosophy so as to avoid the predicament of
being "pseudo-scientific" or "pseudo-artistic." It will also
present contemporary philosophy with a realistic path of
development for the task of reflecting on the criteria of choice.
This book seeks to formulate concrete philosophical arguments for a
critique of the basic beliefs, logic, modes, concepts, and
philosophical ideas which constitute thought, with the aim of
demonstrating the vigorous self-critique and inexhaustible
theoretical space found in philosophical development. This book
provides a new principle of interpretation for understanding
philosophy and, in turn, uses this principle to develop a critique
of the premises underlying thought, thereby furthering the
contemporary development of philosophy. This book encompasses a
critique of the premises underlying thought, which mainly includes
the basic beliefs, logic, modes, concepts, and philosophical ideas
constituting thought. Such a critique should comprise five aspects:
First, the basic beliefs constituting thought propose a critique of
the identity of thought and being; second, the basic logic
constituting thought refers to a critique of the formal,
intensional, and practical logic of thought; third, the basic modes
constituting thought denote a critique of the basic modes by which
humans comprehend the world, including commonsense, religion, art,
and science; fourth, the basic concepts constituting thought entail
a critique centering on being, the world, history, truth, value,
and other basic concepts; and finally, the philosophical ideas
constituting thought indicate a critique of philosophy itself. A
critique aligned on these five aspects will provide a general
philosophical overview of the premise critique of thought.
A multi-layered p-3D approach to design is proposed integrating
Unified Fracture Design (UFD), fracture propagation models and
Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM) relationship to generate
optimized fracture geometry, including fracture height, width and
half-length to achieve the maximized production. Containment layers
are discretized to allow for plausible fracture heights when
seeking convergence of fracture height and net pressure. Other than
the physical fracture geometry optimization, thus maximizing
production, another obvious application of this research is to
prevent the fracture from propagating into the unintended layers
(i.e. gas cap and aquifer). Therefore, this study can guide
fracture design job by pointing out: (1) what treating pressure is
needed to achieve the optimum fracture geometry; (2) at which
containment layers of the multi-layers will the vertical fracture
propagation stop, given the above treating pressure; (3) the layer
discretization will allow an approximate location of the fracture
top and bottom tips which is sufficient for the purposes of this
design.
Metamaterials: Beyond Crystals, Noncrystals, and Quasicrystals is a
comprehensive and updated research monograph that focuses on recent
advances in metamaterials based on the effective medium theory in
microwave frequencies. Most of these procedures were conducted in
the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University,
China. The book conveys the essential concept of metamaterials from
the microcosmic structure to the macroscopic electromagnetic
properties and helps readers quickly obtain needed skills in
creating new devices at microwave frequencies using metamaterials.
The authors present the latest progress on metamaterials and
transformation optics and provide abundant examples of
metamaterial-based devices accompanied with detailed procedures to
simulate, fabricate, and measure them. Comprised of ten chapters,
the book comprehensively covers both the fundamentals and the
applications of metamaterials. Along with an introduction to the
subject, the first three chapters discuss effective medium theory
and artificial particles. The next three chapters cover homogeneous
metamaterials (super crystals), random metamaterials (super
noncrystals), and inhomogeneous metamaterials (super
quasicrystals). The final four chapters examine gradient-index
inhomogeneous metamaterials, nearly isotropic inhomogeneous
metamaterials, and anisotropic inhomogeneous metamaterials, after
which the authors provide their conclusions and closing remarks.
The book is completely self-contained, making it easy to follow.
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