In this paper, the relationships of the plunges and azimuths of T and P axes versus the strikes, dips, and rakes of two seismic nodal planes were derived to provide ref- erence for earthquake researchers. The independ...In this paper, the relationships of the plunges and azimuths of T and P axes versus the strikes, dips, and rakes of two seismic nodal planes were derived to provide ref- erence for earthquake researchers. The independence of the plunges and azimuths of T, B, and P axes in focal mech- anism solution was discussed, and it was concluded that three parameters, i.e., the azimuths of T, B and P axes, are completely independent. The focal mechanism solution representation based on Euler rotation was introduced, using three Euler angles in place of the plunges and azi- muths of T, B, and P axes, and three focal mechanism solution representations were briefly compared and ana- lyzed in respect of accuracy on the basis of the assumption of rounding; it was concluded that the Euler angle repre- sentation has better accuracy, compared with the azimuth representation and the traditional representation with T, B, and P axes.展开更多
The world entrepreneurial scenery, being under constant evolution because of globalization and the current international crisis, has changed corporate competition, requiring companies to meet such key-factors to succe...The world entrepreneurial scenery, being under constant evolution because of globalization and the current international crisis, has changed corporate competition, requiring companies to meet such key-factors to success as increased organizational flexibility and innovative development of their structures and products. Thus ＂NTBF＂ （New Technology Based Firms） are increasingly developing, that are able to act both as a major player in the innovation process, and as a link between the market and the production world and that need not only venture capital to cope with the large initial investment, but also such figures that, with their leadership qualities, are able to anticipate the market development. As a result, the emergence of the knowledge society has increasingly driven companies to search for new business figures, playing both the role of financing partners and of valuable support to the entrepreneur in running a business. Such distinguishing characteristics appear to be peculiar to the figure of the business angel that, thanks to the know-how and international contacts, acts not only as a simple partner but also as a leading force within the company, who is able to simplify the decision process of the business and drive it to plan profitable investment and winning strategies. Therefore, the present work is aimed at understanding how such a figure is crucial to the development of new companies operating in emerging economies being, as well, technologically advanced, as it is the case for Estonia, which is called the ＂Silicon Valley of the Baltic Sea＂. Thus, the work will first focus on the functions, organization and the benefits resulting from the involvement of business angels and, secondly, on the reasons why this figure is preferable to other operators involved in venture capital, namely venture capitalists. Finally, the good practices implemented in Europe by the various associations of business angels will be analyzed, paying particular attention to the Italian context, in order to conside展开更多
Charlotte Gilman＇s utopian masterpiece Herland （1915） dramatizes a confrontation between three men and an all-female society. Gilman not only creates a political vacuum, where the whole patriarchal civilization, in...Charlotte Gilman＇s utopian masterpiece Herland （1915） dramatizes a confrontation between three men and an all-female society. Gilman not only creates a political vacuum, where the whole patriarchal civilization, including patriarchal system, superstructure, ideology, influence, and consciousness have ceased to exist, but also men are done away with all together. Most reviews claim that Herland criticizes the patriarchal tradition and manifests concern for humanity and some even regard Herland as the first truly feminist work in the American tradition. But this supposedly utopian world is actually static, without possibilities of growth and even inhuman, gothic, and nightmarish. And this is because Gilman constructs the women＇s utopia out of the conviction in women＇s superiority over men. Herland is a little paradise that is designed too perfect. Women＇s utopias still need to promote social change in the real world展开更多
This paper brings the insight of Raymond Williams’concept of"structure of feeling"to explore ways in which self-entrapment of queer consciousness in AIDS victims has been brought into both conflicts and res...This paper brings the insight of Raymond Williams’concept of"structure of feeling"to explore ways in which self-entrapment of queer consciousness in AIDS victims has been brought into both conflicts and resolutions among different social hierarchies within Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.Angels in America has significance not only in accordance with its position as a successful popular production,but also in terms of its contribution to extensive conversations and controversial debates on identity politics,the definition of"democratic values",and domestic social conflicts that were initiated by the then mainstream politicians.Examined through the lens of critical works by Raymond Williams,Antonio Gramsci,Walter Benjamin,and David Savran,and extending Williams’definition of culture as an ideal sense of wholeness somehow connected to a particular historical context through social meanings,personal memories,and practices native to the text,this paper shares how AIDS victims’affirmation of life in Angels stages the homosexual community’s structure of feeling in its fight for life and also for citizenship in the face of heteronormative hegemony.展开更多
This paper proposes new ways to understand the sense of universality in music through a reflection and analysis of George Crumb＇s Black Angels （Images 1）： Thirteen lmages from the Dark Land, one of the defining mu...This paper proposes new ways to understand the sense of universality in music through a reflection and analysis of George Crumb＇s Black Angels （Images 1）： Thirteen lmages from the Dark Land, one of the defining musical expressions of the Vietnam War era. It centers on an analysis of the relationship of the body/self to an ＂ecology of war＂ produced through Crumb＇s music that renders these selves indistinct within this musical geography. The selves that inhabit Black Angels could be that of anybody in particular since Crumb seeks to invoke in his music the primeval experience of terror that inhabits in all of us as the inheritors of mankind＇s violence. This sense of the universal militates against the desirable qualities of popular music that rely on the production of autonomous and singular selves that make the distinction between enemy and friend possible and distinct. We focus on Crumb＇s use of archaisms, his construction of time in this piece, and the author＇s overall purpose to invoke a time of war rather than to reflect the conditions of war, in order to delineate the contours of the universal time and space producing the undifferentiated primeval self of war. We conclude that although Crumb＇s rejection of the national self deprives the piece of a salient place in the popular cannon of the war, it has left an intellectual legacy on the times of the Vietnam War that deserves to be preserved.展开更多
In December of 1906, on the southern edge of the Taklamakan desert, deep in the heart of present-day Xinjiang, archeologist Marc Aurel Stein saw an angel.
IT was an unusual Saturday this summer.Many Chinese childrenand their parents met the 15 American and Japanese children of thedelegation of Children As The Peacemakers Foundation fromAmerica, there with their mothers,...IT was an unusual Saturday this summer.Many Chinese childrenand their parents met the 15 American and Japanese children of thedelegation of Children As The Peacemakers Foundation fromAmerica, there with their mothers,fathers,grandmothers andgrandfathers at the China National Children’s Center in Beijing.展开更多
The roles and motives of the big three rating agencies need to be reconsidered Following the global financial crisis in 2008,rating agencies Moody’s,Standard&Poor’s and Fitch Ratings came under the limelight.The...The roles and motives of the big three rating agencies need to be reconsidered Following the global financial crisis in 2008,rating agencies Moody’s,Standard&Poor’s and Fitch Ratings came under the limelight.They were deeply implicated in the展开更多
Medical teams from China fight death and disease in the harshest environments in Africa One Sunday in early August,Chen Zhufeng,chief of a Chinese medical team in Tanzania,drove to check the water supply for his membe...Medical teams from China fight death and disease in the harshest environments in Africa One Sunday in early August,Chen Zhufeng,chief of a Chinese medical team in Tanzania,drove to check the water supply for his members in Tabora,a water-is-life place in Tanzania. Walking by a small reservoir,he was stopped by an old woman. She held up several eggs in her hands,begging Chen to accept them.展开更多
基金supported by Special Foundation for Seismic Research (Grant No.201208006)Director Foundation of Institute of Seismology,China Earthquake Adminstration (Grant Nos.IS201116013,IS201506220)National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.40974012,41304019)
文摘In this paper, the relationships of the plunges and azimuths of T and P axes versus the strikes, dips, and rakes of two seismic nodal planes were derived to provide ref- erence for earthquake researchers. The independence of the plunges and azimuths of T, B, and P axes in focal mech- anism solution was discussed, and it was concluded that three parameters, i.e., the azimuths of T, B and P axes, are completely independent. The focal mechanism solution representation based on Euler rotation was introduced, using three Euler angles in place of the plunges and azi- muths of T, B, and P axes, and three focal mechanism solution representations were briefly compared and ana- lyzed in respect of accuracy on the basis of the assumption of rounding; it was concluded that the Euler angle repre- sentation has better accuracy, compared with the azimuth representation and the traditional representation with T, B, and P axes.
文摘The world entrepreneurial scenery, being under constant evolution because of globalization and the current international crisis, has changed corporate competition, requiring companies to meet such key-factors to success as increased organizational flexibility and innovative development of their structures and products. Thus ＂NTBF＂ （New Technology Based Firms） are increasingly developing, that are able to act both as a major player in the innovation process, and as a link between the market and the production world and that need not only venture capital to cope with the large initial investment, but also such figures that, with their leadership qualities, are able to anticipate the market development. As a result, the emergence of the knowledge society has increasingly driven companies to search for new business figures, playing both the role of financing partners and of valuable support to the entrepreneur in running a business. Such distinguishing characteristics appear to be peculiar to the figure of the business angel that, thanks to the know-how and international contacts, acts not only as a simple partner but also as a leading force within the company, who is able to simplify the decision process of the business and drive it to plan profitable investment and winning strategies. Therefore, the present work is aimed at understanding how such a figure is crucial to the development of new companies operating in emerging economies being, as well, technologically advanced, as it is the case for Estonia, which is called the ＂Silicon Valley of the Baltic Sea＂. Thus, the work will first focus on the functions, organization and the benefits resulting from the involvement of business angels and, secondly, on the reasons why this figure is preferable to other operators involved in venture capital, namely venture capitalists. Finally, the good practices implemented in Europe by the various associations of business angels will be analyzed, paying particular attention to the Italian context, in order to conside
文摘Charlotte Gilman＇s utopian masterpiece Herland （1915） dramatizes a confrontation between three men and an all-female society. Gilman not only creates a political vacuum, where the whole patriarchal civilization, including patriarchal system, superstructure, ideology, influence, and consciousness have ceased to exist, but also men are done away with all together. Most reviews claim that Herland criticizes the patriarchal tradition and manifests concern for humanity and some even regard Herland as the first truly feminist work in the American tradition. But this supposedly utopian world is actually static, without possibilities of growth and even inhuman, gothic, and nightmarish. And this is because Gilman constructs the women＇s utopia out of the conviction in women＇s superiority over men. Herland is a little paradise that is designed too perfect. Women＇s utopias still need to promote social change in the real world
文摘This paper brings the insight of Raymond Williams’concept of"structure of feeling"to explore ways in which self-entrapment of queer consciousness in AIDS victims has been brought into both conflicts and resolutions among different social hierarchies within Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.Angels in America has significance not only in accordance with its position as a successful popular production,but also in terms of its contribution to extensive conversations and controversial debates on identity politics,the definition of"democratic values",and domestic social conflicts that were initiated by the then mainstream politicians.Examined through the lens of critical works by Raymond Williams,Antonio Gramsci,Walter Benjamin,and David Savran,and extending Williams’definition of culture as an ideal sense of wholeness somehow connected to a particular historical context through social meanings,personal memories,and practices native to the text,this paper shares how AIDS victims’affirmation of life in Angels stages the homosexual community’s structure of feeling in its fight for life and also for citizenship in the face of heteronormative hegemony.
文摘This paper proposes new ways to understand the sense of universality in music through a reflection and analysis of George Crumb＇s Black Angels （Images 1）： Thirteen lmages from the Dark Land, one of the defining musical expressions of the Vietnam War era. It centers on an analysis of the relationship of the body/self to an ＂ecology of war＂ produced through Crumb＇s music that renders these selves indistinct within this musical geography. The selves that inhabit Black Angels could be that of anybody in particular since Crumb seeks to invoke in his music the primeval experience of terror that inhabits in all of us as the inheritors of mankind＇s violence. This sense of the universal militates against the desirable qualities of popular music that rely on the production of autonomous and singular selves that make the distinction between enemy and friend possible and distinct. We focus on Crumb＇s use of archaisms, his construction of time in this piece, and the author＇s overall purpose to invoke a time of war rather than to reflect the conditions of war, in order to delineate the contours of the universal time and space producing the undifferentiated primeval self of war. We conclude that although Crumb＇s rejection of the national self deprives the piece of a salient place in the popular cannon of the war, it has left an intellectual legacy on the times of the Vietnam War that deserves to be preserved.
文摘In December of 1906, on the southern edge of the Taklamakan desert, deep in the heart of present-day Xinjiang, archeologist Marc Aurel Stein saw an angel.
文摘IT was an unusual Saturday this summer.Many Chinese childrenand their parents met the 15 American and Japanese children of thedelegation of Children As The Peacemakers Foundation fromAmerica, there with their mothers,fathers,grandmothers andgrandfathers at the China National Children’s Center in Beijing.
文摘The roles and motives of the big three rating agencies need to be reconsidered Following the global financial crisis in 2008,rating agencies Moody’s,Standard&Poor’s and Fitch Ratings came under the limelight.They were deeply implicated in the
文摘Medical teams from China fight death and disease in the harshest environments in Africa One Sunday in early August,Chen Zhufeng,chief of a Chinese medical team in Tanzania,drove to check the water supply for his members in Tabora,a water-is-life place in Tanzania. Walking by a small reservoir,he was stopped by an old woman. She held up several eggs in her hands,begging Chen to accept them.
