Wang Yuanqi and the orthodoxy of self-reflection in early Qing landscape painting

Wang, Shen University of Pennsylvania 2010 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation explores the life and art of Wang Yuanqi (1642-1715), one of the most influential literati artists of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). As a representative of the so-called "Orthodox Painting School," Wang considered himself the heir to the genuine thousand-year-old tradition of Chinese painting. Throughout his lifetime, he made every effort to establish and consolidate the authority of his school of painting. Since his early years, he had been trained as a traditional Chinese literatus. Under the direct supervision of his grandfather, he practiced landscape paintings in the style of ancient masters, especially that of the Yuan literati painter, Huang Gongwang (1269-1354). However, he was never satisfied with the facsimiles of the old masterpieces. Beyond his models, he created new theories of composition and brushwork; he introduced a new style of light color landscape with unique techniques. Moreover, benefiting from the lenient cultural policies of the Kangxi emperor (r. 1661-1722), he successfully led a movement of canon-formation in artistic circles. The research of this thesis is based on three types of sources: (1) Wang Yuanqi's published writings, (2) his paintings, and (3) publications and manuscripts by Wang's contemporaries. Different from previous scholarship which mainly focuses on the classicism of Wang Yuanqi's work, this dissertation provides a comprehensive study of Wang's life and his circle and investigates the reason and procedure of the rise of the Orthodox Painting School in the early eighteenth century.

Taxonomic Study of Genus Bryoria(Lichenized Ascomycota, Parmeliaceae) from the Sino-Himalays : Sino-Himalaya 지역에서의 Bryoria 속 지의류의 분류학적 연구

Wang, Li-Song The Graduate School Sunchon Nation Universty 2006 국내박사

Sino-Himalaya 지역에서 Bryoria 속에 속하는 20종을 기록하여 보고하였다. 그 중에서 Bryoria fastigiata Li S. Wang과 B. flocculosa Li S. Wang를 신종으로 보고하며, B. himalayana var. sorediata Li S. Wang은 새로운 변종으로 보고하며, B. nadvornikiana, B. trichodes subsp. trichodes와 B. tenuis종은 중국에서 최초로 보고하며, B. trichodes subsp. americana와 B. furcellata는 Sino-Himalaya 지역에서 최초로 보고하며, B. asiatica, B. himalayana와 B. poeltii는 신장자치구 지역에서 B. divergescens, B. lactinea, B. nitidula와 B. variabilis는 사천성 지역에서, B. bicolor는 신장과 사천성 지역, B. furcellata는 사천성과 운남성 지역에서 최초로 보고한다. 각 종에 대한 이차대사산물을 분석한 결과, usnic acid와 lobaric acid를 본 속에서 최초로 보고 하였다. 각 종에 대한 분류키와 형태, 서식처 및 분포에 대하여 기술하였다. Twenty taxa of the genus Bryoria were recognized and recorded in the Sino-Himalayas. Among them, Bryoria fastigiata Li S. Wang and B. flocculosa Li S. Wang are new species, B. himalayana var. sorediata Li S. Wang is a new variety; Bryoria nadvornikiana, B. trichodes subsp. trichodes and B. tenuis are new to China; B. trichodes subsp. americana and B. furcellata are new to the Sino-Himalayas; B. asiatica, B. himalayana and B. poeltii are new to Xizang; B. divergescens, B. lactinea, B. nitidula and B. variabilis are new to Sichuan; B. bicolor is new to Sichuan and Xizang; B. furcellata is new to Sichuan and Yunnan. Secondary chemical products were studied for each taxon. Among them, usnic and lobaric acids were first reported in the genus. A key to the species and notes on morphology, habitat and distribution are given. One of specimen was collected from the type locality of B. divergescens (Li-S. Wang 04-23413, in KUN-L), which was selected as an epitype of this species, because of the fragmental nature of the holotype (H-Nyl. 35972).

작곡가 주용(周龍)의 관현악작품 : "대곡(大曲)", "당시사수(唐詩四首)"와 "1911 서곡(序曲)"을 중심으로

WANG YANBING 경희대학교 일반대학원 2017 국내박사

국문초록 작곡가 주용(周龍)의 관현악작품 창작방법과 구성형태 연구 -"대곡(大曲)", "당시사수(唐詩四首)"와 "1911 서곡(序曲)"을 중심으로- 지도교수: 이 우 창 응용예술학과 작곡전공: WANG YANBING 주용(周龍)은 현대 유명한 작가 중의 한 사람이다. 중국작가로서 그의 창작이념 속에는 중국전통문화에 대한 추구가 충분히 체현되었으며, 또한 익숙한 창작기법을 통하여 표현되었다. 독특한 그의 창작 스타일은 중국작곡가로서 국제적으로도 명성을 누리고 있을 뿐만 아니라 새로운 시대의 음악 창작자들 한테도 영향을 주었다. 본 논문에서는 주용의 관현악작품“대곡(大曲)”,“당시사수(唐詩四首)”와 “1911 서곡(序曲)”을 연구대상으로 하여, 고금(古琴) 음악소재를 중심에 놓고, 시의의 음악적 표현을 의지하며, 경극(京劇)예술원소 등 각도, 작품 속 음악 재료, 음색, 음향형태와 구조배치에 대해 다방면에서 작곡기법을 분석하고, 관현악 작품의 음악언어를 탐구한다. 또한 이를 통하여 작품 속 중국전통문화의 표현에 대해서도 분석한다. 논문은 서론, 본론, 결론 세 부분으로 나누어진다. 서론부분에서는 작곡가 주용의 국제적 영향력, 주요 창작성과 관현악 작품 “대곡”, “당시사수”, “1911 서곡”의 창작배경, 연구목적 및 의의, 연구방법과 현재 상황 등의 방면에 대한 내용을 소개한다. 본론부분에서는 상술한 몇몇 관현악작품의 음악 언어에 대해 해부하고 분석하며, 작품음악재료의 출처와 작품 중의 표현형식을 탐구하고, 작품 중 고금음악표현과 시적 정취 표현의 음색, 음향형태, 음향조형의 표현을 분석함과 동시에 전체적 음향의 영향력을 분석하면서 음높이, 구조 속에서 나타나는 전통적 음악원소의 운용 및 크로스오버 문화의 융합과 심미 경향을 귀납한다. 결론부분은 주용의 관현악작품에 대한 심층분석연구 후의 총괄이다. Abstract A Study of the Composing Skill and Score Structure in Zhou Long's Orchestral Music -- Centred on ‘Daqu’, ‘Four Tang Poems’, and ‘1911 Overture’ Supervised by Prof. Woo-Chang Lee Yanbing Wang Major in Composition Graduate School of Applied Arts Department Zhou Long is one of the most distinguished contemporary composers. As a Chinese composer, Zhou embodies the pursuit of Chinese traditional culture in his composing concept, and expresses it through his exquisite composing skills. The unique composing style makes Zhou world-famous as a Chinese composer, which has inspired a new generation of music composers. This dissertation takes Zhou Long’s orchestral works Daqu, Four Tang Poems and 1911 Overture as the research objects, analyzes the composing skills like music material, timbre, sound pattern, pitch organization and structure arrangement from the perspectives of Guqin music material, poetic music performance and the Peking Opera art elements, probes into the music language of the orchestral works, and on this basis, discusses the performance of Chinese traditional culture in the works above. The dissertation is composed of three parts: introduction, main part and conclusion. Chapter one is a brief introduction to Zhou Long’s international influence, his main achievements, the composing background of his orchestral works – Daqu, Four Tang Poems and 1911 Overture, the research objectives, methods and the research background. In the main part, the author firstly analyzes the music language, music material sources and their representation forms in Zhou’s orchestral works, are explored by analyzing the music language of his orchestral works; secondly analyzes the timbre, the sound form and sound modelling involved in the Guqin music and poetry representation in his works and their influence in the overall sound tension; and thirdly analyzes the use of traditional music elements in the pitch and structure in Zhou’s works, and summarizes the cross-cultural fusion and aesthetic orientation. The last chapter is Conclusion, which is a summary of Zhou Long’s orchestral works on the basis of deep analysis above. Zhou Long is famous contemporary composer living in America. The composing skills and music thought in his orchestral works – Daqu, Four Tang Poems and 1911 Overture exhibits the excellence of the fusion of contemporary Chinese and western arts. The most outstanding of all in his works is the use, quotation, assimilation and absorbing of traditional Chinese music elements, and this is used to set off the musical imagery, and thus, to realize the virtual clashing and fusion of Chinese and western culture, and traditional and contemporary culture. As for the imagery presented, the composer makes a deep analysis of the Chinese traditional poetry and use the imagery in it into the musical composing process; as for the orchestra compilation, it is not merely a simple mixture of the full use of Chinese and western musical instruments; as for the composing skills, the composer absorbs the music material form the traditional folk, and connects it with the western modern music composing skills, and makes any single sound with the cavity features, and thus the treated sound may drift between sound image and meaning imagery, which exhibits a strong Chinese traditional music feature. Then, it comes to the change of instrumental performance by introducing western tablature, which means to use the western stringed instruments to simulate Chinese national musical instruments, and to make the music to present traditional Chinese charm. As for the score structures, the composer uses the principle of structural variable speed in traditional music composing to organize the structure in his own works, and makes appropriate adaptations on the basis, and makes a blending of the western music composing principles of juxtaposition, convolution, and representation so as to better fit the development of the musical contents. Zhou Long has accumulated a great number of musical works during his lifetime with a wide range of styles. Each of his works exhibits its unique artistic charm. However, what remains to be interlinked is the artistic concept behind his composing, which presents Zhou Long’s heartfelt salute to the traditional music culture and even to the traditional Chinese culture.

Influence of silicate modified expansion agent on engineering performance of ultra-high-strength concrete

Wang, Yi-Sheng 강원대학교 대학원 2022 국내석사

At an early age, ultra-high-strength concrete (UHSC) exhibits a large autogenous shrinkage, which easily leads to matrix shrinkage and cracking. This poses a significant threat to the service life of a building structure. In this study, the effects of silicate modified expansive agents (SMEAs) on the engineering performance of UHSC were systematically investigated. The compressive strength, ultrasonic pulse velocity, and surface resistivity were determined. Moreover, Heat of hydration, TG, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and other microscopic analyses were used to characterize the chemical composition of the UHSC. It can be seen from the test results that the compressive strength of UHSC tends to decrease with the increase of SMEA addition. The results of TG, X-ray diffraction, and other microscopic analyses indicated that the main composition of the UHSC was a mixture of calcium (aluminate) silicate hydrate, calcium hydroxide, and ettringite.

A Minkowski-type inequality for hypersurfaces in the Reissner-Nordstrom-anti-deSitter manifold

Wang, Zhuhai Columbia University 2015 해외박사(DDOD)

We prove a sharp Minkowski-type inequality for hypersurfaces in the n-dimensional Reissner-Nordstrom-Anti-deSitter (AdS) manifold for n ≥ 3. This inequality generalizes the one for hypersurfaces in the uncharged AdS-Schwarzschild manifold proved in [5]. With the Minkowski inequality, we prove a charged Gibbons-Penrose inequality for a large class of (n - 1)-dimensional spacelike surfaces in the Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime. [5] S. Brendle, P. Hung and M. Wang, A Minkowski-type inequality for hypersurfaces in the anti-deSitter-Schwarzschild manifold, To appear in Comm. Pure. Appl. Math.

Thermal Characterization of Nm-thick Black Phosphorus Based on Raman Spectroscopy

Wang, Tianyu Iowa State University ProQuest Dissertations & The 2018 해외박사(DDOD)

As a new two-dimensional material, black phosphorus has attracted worldwide attention due to its extraordinary electronic and optoelectronic properties. Despite its importance for the performance of electronic devices, thermal properties of blac. In this work, the crystalline orientation of black phosphorus is identified with a newly developed technique, optothermal Raman spectroscopy. This technique utilizes the anisotropic heating effect of a linear polarized laser for crystalline orie.

Characterization of the Human Uterus Using Single Cell RNASeq for Mechanistic Elucidation and Clinical Tool Development

Wang, Wanxin ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Stanford Universit 2020 해외박사(DDOD)

Single cell RNAseq (scRNAseq) has been available to general laboratories for only a few years. The technology, however, has revolutionized our understanding of cellular hierarchies of primary tissues and advanced the completeness and accuracy of human transcriptomics. As one of the first generation researchers who were equipped with this technology, I spent my PhD evaluating methods to be incorporated into the scRNAseq pipeline as well as leveraging the resolution of scRNAseq to better understand biology and to create diagnostic and therapeutic tools for clinics.In the enclosing dissertation, you will first find my evaluation of a novel strategy for preserving primary tissue specimen, as we came to realize the importance of this seemingly trivial step in the entire scRNAseq pipeline for high fidelity and high quality data procurement. You will then see that I settled in the niche of female reproductive health to explore and utilize the analytical potential of scRNAseq, as I started to become aware of the unique complexity of the human uterus - which is unlike any other human organs and unparalleled by most animal models.I was able to delve deep into two processes in the human uterus, one physiologically normal (menstrual cycle) and the other pathological (uterine fibroids). In one project, I profiled the transcriptomic dynamics of the human endometrium across an entire menstrual cycle at single cell resolution, and captured the unique transcriptomic characteristics of the window of implantation (WOI), which points towards a simpler and more accurate diagnostics of WOI for embryo transfer in in vitro fertilization. In another project, I dissected the cellular hierarchy of uterine fibroids, a benign yet prevalent uterine tumor that inflicts women worldwide in their reproductive age with surgeries being the current gold standard for treatments. By comparing the cellular hierarchies of tumor and tumor-free tissues, I identified candidate cell states and markers that are unique to the tumor, which can be used to eliminate the tumor in a more direct and targeted manner.Through my PhD, I came to realize and was often challenged by the striking contrast between the importance of female reproductive health and our lack of understanding of the human uterus with molecular details, due to reasons including but not limited to cultural taboos, lack of scientific attentions, technological limitations, and a lack of systematic theoretical unification as well as stratification. The studies herein are therefore an enthusiastic, sincere and early attempt to facilitate the advance of this research domain in these various directions.

Design and control of a novel Bearingless witched reluctance motor

Wang, Huijun 경성대학교 대학원 2009 국내석사

Resource Allocation for Energy Harvesting Communications

Wang, Zhe Columbia University ProQuest Dissertations & These 2015 해외박사(DDOD)

With the rapid development of energy harvesting technologies, a new paradigm of wireless communications that employs energy harvesting transmitters has become a reality. The renewable energy source enables the flexible deployment of the transmitters and prolongs their lifetimes. To make the best use of the harvested energy, many challenging research issues arise from the new paradigm of communications. In particular, optimal resource (energy, bandwidth, etc.) allocation is key to the design of an efficient wireless system powered by renewable energy sources. In this thesis, we focus on several resource allocation problems for energy harvesting communications, including the energy allocation for a single energy harvesting transmitter, and the joint energy and spectral resource allocation for energy harvesting networks. More specifically, the resource allocation problems discussed in this thesis are summarized as follows. •We solve the problem of designing an affordable optimal energy allocation strategy for the system of energy harvesting active networked tags (EnHANTs), that is adapted to the identification request and the energy harvesting dynamic. We formulate a Markov decision process (MDP) problem to optimize the overall system performance which takes into consideration of both the system activity-time and the communication reliability. To solve the problem, both a static exhaustive search method and a modified policy iteration algorithm are employed to obtain the optimal energy allocation policy. •We develop an energy allocation algorithm to maximize the achievable rate for an access-controlled energy harvesting transmitter based on causal observations of the channel fading states. We formulate the stochastic optimization problem as a Markov decision process (MDP) with continuous states and define an approximate value function based on a piecewise linear fit in terms of the battery state. We show that with the approximate value function, the update in each iteration consists of a group of convex problems with a continuous parameter and we derive the optimal solution to these convex problems in closed-form. Specifically, the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm is significantly lower than that of the standard discrete MDP method. •We propose an efficient iterative algorithm to obtain the optimal energy-bandwidth allocation for multiple flat-fading point-to-point channels, maximizing the weighted sum-rate given the predictions of the energy and channel state. For the special case that each transmitter only communicates with one receiver and the objective is to maximize the total throughput, we develop efficient algorithms for optimally solving the subproblems involved in the iterative algorithm. Moreover, a heuristic algorithm is also proposed for energy-bandwidth allocation based on the causal energy and channel observations. •We consider the energy-bandwidth allocation problem in multiple orthogonal and non-orthogonal flat-fading broadcast channels to maximize the weighted sum-rate given the predictions of energy and channel states. To efficiently obtain the optimal allocation, we extend the iterative algorithm originally proposed for multiple flat-fading point-to-point channels and further develop the optimal algorithms to solve the corresponding subproblems. For the orthogonal broadcast channel, the proportionally-fair (PF) throughput maximization problem is formulated and we derive the equivalence conditions such that the optimal solution can be obtained by solving a weighted throughput maximization problem. The algorithm to obtain the proper weights is also proposed. •We consider the energy-subchannel allocation problem for energy harvesting networks in frequency-selective fading channels. We first assume that the harvested energy and subchannel gains can be predicted and propose an algorithm to efficiently obtain the energy-subchannel allocations for all links over the scheduling period based on controlled water-filling. The proposed algorithm is shown to be asymptotically optimal when the bandwidth of the subchannel goes to zero. A causal algorithm is also proposed based on the Q-learning technique that makes use of the statistics of the energy harvesting and channel fading processes.

Economic Analyses of Business Decisions, Environmental Sustainability, and Policies

Wang, Yanbing Purdue University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 2017 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation investigates the interactions among business decisions, the environment outcomes of such decisions, and environmental policies. In three essays, I address two topics regarding decisions by industrial firms and agricultural producers and the environment. The first two essays are concerned with environmental self-regulation of public firms, in which I explore the potential for financial incentives to motivate voluntary environmental abatement in the short run and the long run. In the third essay, I investigate the impact of energy policies on agricultural producers' planting decisions. The first essay addresses the financial incentives driving firm disclosure of positive environmental information and the link to environmental outcomes. I classify positive environmental disclosure by informational content, and find that forward-looking announcements and recognition by a third party bear the largest financial incentives, though only the latter has a discernible link to environmental outcomes. Beyond valuing firm financials, the stock market values firm social, environmental, and corporate governance performance as a whole. The results identify third-party recognition as a channel through which environmental information may induce self-regulation. The second essay investigates the long-term financial incentives of corporate environmental responsibility by examining whether an environmentally responsible firm benefits from a lower cost of equity capital, focusing on a particular channel: sustainable and responsible investing (SRI). Using treatment effect models, I test whether investments from SRI mutual funds with environmental screening criteria impact firm cost of equity capital. The results indicate that accounting for interactions between firms and non-shareholder stakeholders and potential agency costs associated with certain environmentally responsible activities of the firm, SRI investing can facilitate the alignment of firms' environmental and financial goals. In the third essay I assess corn planting decisions of agricultural producers in response to the increased spatial competition among ethanol plants in the Midwestern United States, following the energy policies that mandate the use of renewable fuels. I develop a spatial competition model which yields an index of spatial competition that incorporates determinants of local corn prices: the number of plants, distance between competing plants, and production capacity in local ethanol markets, considering three types of market structures: monopsony, duopsony, and oligopsony. I find that a change in the distance between two competing ethanol plants, a plant's own capacity, and a competitor's capacity all influence a plant's intensity of spatial competition. Econometric analyses further show that the intensity of spatial competition has a positive and significant effect on corn production.