Through the analysis of the cultural identity in Amy Tan’s novels,this paper probes into different aspects of Chinese and American cultures,and how Chinese-Americans struggle to realize their cultural identity,and fi...Through the analysis of the cultural identity in Amy Tan’s novels,this paper probes into different aspects of Chinese and American cultures,and how Chinese-Americans struggle to realize their cultural identity,and finally get a better understanding of cross-cultural communications.展开更多
With the increasing number of vehicles,manual security inspections are becoming more laborious at road checkpoints.To address it,a specialized Road Checkpoints Robot(RCRo)system is proposed,incorporated with enhanced ...With the increasing number of vehicles,manual security inspections are becoming more laborious at road checkpoints.To address it,a specialized Road Checkpoints Robot(RCRo)system is proposed,incorporated with enhanced You Only Look Once(YOLO)and a 6-degree-of-freedom(DOF)manipulator,for autonomous identity verification and vehicle inspection.The modified YOLO is characterized by large objects’sensitivity and faster detection speed,named“LF-YOLO”.The better sensitivity of large objects and the faster detection speed are achieved by means of the Dense module-based backbone network connecting two-scale detecting network,for object detection tasks,along with optimized anchor boxes and improved loss function.During the manipulator motion,Octree-aided motion control scheme is adopted for collision-free motion through Robot Operating System(ROS).The proposed LF-YOLO which utilizes continuous optimization strategy and residual technique provides a promising detector design,which has been found to be more effective during actual object detection,in terms of decreased average detection time by 68.25%and 60.60%,and increased average Intersection over Union(Io U)by 20.74%and6.79%compared to YOLOv3 and YOLOv4 through experiments.The comprehensive functional tests of RCRo system demonstrate the feasibility and competency of the multiple unmanned inspections in practice.展开更多
Culture,has the same characteristics with race,inherently speaking,without being superior or inferior in origin.However,when different kinds of cultures meet in one society,due to the economy,politics,the value concep...Culture,has the same characteristics with race,inherently speaking,without being superior or inferior in origin.However,when different kinds of cultures meet in one society,due to the economy,politics,the value conception systems in the society and other influential factors,there must exist the differences of being superior or not.Culture is thought to be a major element to influence people’s thinking modes and actions.In addition,with the great pressure of the white people and their culture,in black community,there are more and more cases of gender oppression and self-discrimination among the black people.展开更多
Signals from multi-sensor systems are often mixtures of （statistically） independent sources by unknown mixing method. Blind source separation（BSS） and independent component analysis（ICA） are the methods to ident...Signals from multi-sensor systems are often mixtures of （statistically） independent sources by unknown mixing method. Blind source separation（BSS） and independent component analysis（ICA） are the methods to identify/recover the channels and the sources. BSS/ICA of nonlinear mixing models are difficult problems. For instance, the post-nonlinear model has been studied by several authors. It is noticed that in most cases, the proposed models are always with an invertible mixing. According to this fact there is an interesting question, how about the situation of the non-invertible non-linear mixing in BSS or ICA？ A new simple non-linear mixing model is proposed with a kind of non-invertible mixing, the folding mixing, and method to identify its channel, blindly.展开更多
Impeached Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello was suspended on October 2 for 180 days pending his trial in the senate for corruption. Collor was replaced by Vice-President Itamar Franco. Nelson Mandela, Chair...Impeached Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello was suspended on October 2 for 180 days pending his trial in the senate for corruption. Collor was replaced by Vice-President Itamar Franco. Nelson Mandela, Chairman, of South Africa’s African National Congress, arrived in Beijing on October 4 on his first visit展开更多
In 1995 Ince[1] wrote an article for the Times Higher Educational Supplement noting that there was little theoretical understanding of software engineering and that therefore computer studies did not constitute an aca...In 1995 Ince[1] wrote an article for the Times Higher Educational Supplement noting that there was little theoretical understanding of software engineering and that therefore computer studies did not constitute an academic discipline.Computing departments should be balkanised.Computing staff should be dispersed to other departments such as maths,psychology and business studies.This contro.ersy has recently been rein.igorated by McBride’s article[2] in the same paper and on the British Computer Society web site[3] arguing that in face of the massi.e decline in computing student intake onto uni.ersity undergraduate courses that the future for traditional courses is bleak.The reaction generated[3-4] reflects the anxiety within computing departments.The concern is e.ident.展开更多
Cultural identity is the identity or feeling of belonging to a group.Individual,relational and communal identity are the three components of the cultural identity.Chinese cultural identity is an example of communal id...Cultural identity is the identity or feeling of belonging to a group.Individual,relational and communal identity are the three components of the cultural identity.Chinese cultural identity is an example of communal identity.A positive national cultural identity enhances national prestige,increases global understanding,reveals a unique value proposition and develops a competitive advantage in the world.However,in the wave of globalization and contemporary Chinese social transformation,Chinese cultural identity encounters some challenges.Cultural identity becomes fuzzy.The present paper attempts to make some suggestions to the construction and representation of Chinese cultural identity from an intercultural perspective.To construct Chinese cultural identity,we should try to accommodate Chinese cultural inheritance with contemporary culture and modern society,enhance full development of cultural products,rebuild people’s self-esteem on cultural identity,and improve the government’s identity-constructing ability.As for the representation of Chinese cultural identity,promoting the Chinese language,making use of mass media,performing national cultural identity in sports,encouraging heritage tourism and drawing upon other countries’ experience would be essential.展开更多
Cultural philosophy refers to the study of cultural principles with philosophical viewpoints and methods to form a theoretical system of cultural views and cultural activities.It mainly discusses the history and devel...Cultural philosophy refers to the study of cultural principles with philosophical viewpoints and methods to form a theoretical system of cultural views and cultural activities.It mainly discusses the history and development of culture,the motive force and conditions of culture,the role of tradition in social history,the comparison of various cultures,and the conflict and blending of cultures.This paper attempts to explore an effective way to integrate the two modes of thinking of Chinese and Western cultural philosophy through a comparative analysis of the differences and identity between Chinese and Western cultural philosophy.The study of cultural identity and differences between China and Western countries has a certain practical significance for cross-cultural communication in China.展开更多
Separatists won the elections in Quebec on the night of September 12. The Parti Quebecois is returning to power for the first time in nine years, planning once again to hold a referendum to ask Quebeckers if they want...Separatists won the elections in Quebec on the night of September 12. The Parti Quebecois is returning to power for the first time in nine years, planning once again to hold a referendum to ask Quebeckers if they want to break away from Canada. Quebec Premier-elect Jacques Parizeau, a die-hard separatist, told Quebeckers at a victory rally that they were on the way to forming their own country.展开更多
Swedes began voting on November 13 to decide whether to join the European Union. The vote, by 52.2 per cent to 46.9 per cent, means that Sweden will join,the Union on next January 1.
China and Slovakia signed a pact in Beijing on February 21 to promote their fledgling but increasing economic ties. Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar of Slovakia and Chinese Premier Li Peng attended the signing ceremony.
An improvement of tolerance relation is proposed in regard to rough set model based on connection degree by which reflexivity of relation can be assured without loss of information. Then, a method to determine optimal...An improvement of tolerance relation is proposed in regard to rough set model based on connection degree by which reflexivity of relation can be assured without loss of information. Then, a method to determine optimal identity degree based on relative positive region is proposed so that the identity degree can be computed in an objective method without any preliminary or additional information about data, which is consistent with the notion of objectivity in rough set theory and data mining theory. Subsequently, an algorithm is proposed, and in two examples, the global optimum identity degree is found out. Finally, in regard to optimum connection degree, the method of rules extraction for connection degree rough set model based on generalization function is presented by which the rules extracted from a decision table are enumerated.展开更多
(November 16-30, 1992) The UN Security Council imposed a mandatory arms embargo on Liberia, on November 19 in an effort to cut off weapons to rebel fighters battling West African peacekeepers in the wartorn country, T...(November 16-30, 1992) The UN Security Council imposed a mandatory arms embargo on Liberia, on November 19 in an effort to cut off weapons to rebel fighters battling West African peacekeepers in the wartorn country, The resolution,adopted by a 15-O unanimous vote, was the Council(?)s first step towards involvement in Liberia.展开更多
China and Uruguay, in a joint press communique released on December 5 in Beijing, urged all signatories to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to complete the Uruguay Round of Gatt talks within the year. The co...China and Uruguay, in a joint press communique released on December 5 in Beijing, urged all signatories to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to complete the Uruguay Round of Gatt talks within the year. The communique was issued at the end of Uruguayan President Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera’s week-long China visit.展开更多
Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 6 on the first leg of a four-nation tour in East Africa. The rest of Qian’s tour will cover Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Christian busi...Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 6 on the first leg of a four-nation tour in East Africa. The rest of Qian’s tour will cover Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Christian businessman Jorge Serrano Elias claimed victory in the second round of Guatemala’s presidential elections on January 6. He was inaugurated on January 14 for a five-year term.展开更多
文摘Through the analysis of the cultural identity in Amy Tan’s novels,this paper probes into different aspects of Chinese and American cultures,and how Chinese-Americans struggle to realize their cultural identity,and finally get a better understanding of cross-cultural communications.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(grant number:2017YFC0806503)。
文摘With the increasing number of vehicles,manual security inspections are becoming more laborious at road checkpoints.To address it,a specialized Road Checkpoints Robot(RCRo)system is proposed,incorporated with enhanced You Only Look Once(YOLO)and a 6-degree-of-freedom(DOF)manipulator,for autonomous identity verification and vehicle inspection.The modified YOLO is characterized by large objects’sensitivity and faster detection speed,named“LF-YOLO”.The better sensitivity of large objects and the faster detection speed are achieved by means of the Dense module-based backbone network connecting two-scale detecting network,for object detection tasks,along with optimized anchor boxes and improved loss function.During the manipulator motion,Octree-aided motion control scheme is adopted for collision-free motion through Robot Operating System(ROS).The proposed LF-YOLO which utilizes continuous optimization strategy and residual technique provides a promising detector design,which has been found to be more effective during actual object detection,in terms of decreased average detection time by 68.25%and 60.60%,and increased average Intersection over Union(Io U)by 20.74%and6.79%compared to YOLOv3 and YOLOv4 through experiments.The comprehensive functional tests of RCRo system demonstrate the feasibility and competency of the multiple unmanned inspections in practice.
文摘Culture,has the same characteristics with race,inherently speaking,without being superior or inferior in origin.However,when different kinds of cultures meet in one society,due to the economy,politics,the value conception systems in the society and other influential factors,there must exist the differences of being superior or not.Culture is thought to be a major element to influence people’s thinking modes and actions.In addition,with the great pressure of the white people and their culture,in black community,there are more and more cases of gender oppression and self-discrimination among the black people.
基金This project was supported by the Talent Foundation of Anhui Province(2004Z025)
文摘Signals from multi-sensor systems are often mixtures of （statistically） independent sources by unknown mixing method. Blind source separation（BSS） and independent component analysis（ICA） are the methods to identify/recover the channels and the sources. BSS/ICA of nonlinear mixing models are difficult problems. For instance, the post-nonlinear model has been studied by several authors. It is noticed that in most cases, the proposed models are always with an invertible mixing. According to this fact there is an interesting question, how about the situation of the non-invertible non-linear mixing in BSS or ICA？ A new simple non-linear mixing model is proposed with a kind of non-invertible mixing, the folding mixing, and method to identify its channel, blindly.
文摘Impeached Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello was suspended on October 2 for 180 days pending his trial in the senate for corruption. Collor was replaced by Vice-President Itamar Franco. Nelson Mandela, Chairman, of South Africa’s African National Congress, arrived in Beijing on October 4 on his first visit
文摘In 1995 Ince[1] wrote an article for the Times Higher Educational Supplement noting that there was little theoretical understanding of software engineering and that therefore computer studies did not constitute an academic discipline.Computing departments should be balkanised.Computing staff should be dispersed to other departments such as maths,psychology and business studies.This contro.ersy has recently been rein.igorated by McBride’s article[2] in the same paper and on the British Computer Society web site[3] arguing that in face of the massi.e decline in computing student intake onto uni.ersity undergraduate courses that the future for traditional courses is bleak.The reaction generated[3-4] reflects the anxiety within computing departments.The concern is e.ident.
基金a periodical achievement of the projects:On the Communicative Competition of Chinese National Discourse and Its English Translations(Ministry of Education Youth Project of Humanities and Social Sciences,18YJC740137)On the Communicative Competition and English Translation Strategies of International Discourse(2019WP05)On College English Teachers’Roles in International Communication of Chinese Culture(2018180011)
文摘Cultural identity is the identity or feeling of belonging to a group.Individual,relational and communal identity are the three components of the cultural identity.Chinese cultural identity is an example of communal identity.A positive national cultural identity enhances national prestige,increases global understanding,reveals a unique value proposition and develops a competitive advantage in the world.However,in the wave of globalization and contemporary Chinese social transformation,Chinese cultural identity encounters some challenges.Cultural identity becomes fuzzy.The present paper attempts to make some suggestions to the construction and representation of Chinese cultural identity from an intercultural perspective.To construct Chinese cultural identity,we should try to accommodate Chinese cultural inheritance with contemporary culture and modern society,enhance full development of cultural products,rebuild people’s self-esteem on cultural identity,and improve the government’s identity-constructing ability.As for the representation of Chinese cultural identity,promoting the Chinese language,making use of mass media,performing national cultural identity in sports,encouraging heritage tourism and drawing upon other countries’ experience would be essential.
基金Major teaching reform project of Tianjin Agricultural University:College English Module Teaching Practice Research,Project number:2017-E-00
文摘Cultural philosophy refers to the study of cultural principles with philosophical viewpoints and methods to form a theoretical system of cultural views and cultural activities.It mainly discusses the history and development of culture,the motive force and conditions of culture,the role of tradition in social history,the comparison of various cultures,and the conflict and blending of cultures.This paper attempts to explore an effective way to integrate the two modes of thinking of Chinese and Western cultural philosophy through a comparative analysis of the differences and identity between Chinese and Western cultural philosophy.The study of cultural identity and differences between China and Western countries has a certain practical significance for cross-cultural communication in China.
文摘Separatists won the elections in Quebec on the night of September 12. The Parti Quebecois is returning to power for the first time in nine years, planning once again to hold a referendum to ask Quebeckers if they want to break away from Canada. Quebec Premier-elect Jacques Parizeau, a die-hard separatist, told Quebeckers at a victory rally that they were on the way to forming their own country.
文摘Swedes began voting on November 13 to decide whether to join the European Union. The vote, by 52.2 per cent to 46.9 per cent, means that Sweden will join,the Union on next January 1.
文摘China and Slovakia signed a pact in Beijing on February 21 to promote their fledgling but increasing economic ties. Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar of Slovakia and Chinese Premier Li Peng attended the signing ceremony.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (70571032)
文摘An improvement of tolerance relation is proposed in regard to rough set model based on connection degree by which reflexivity of relation can be assured without loss of information. Then, a method to determine optimal identity degree based on relative positive region is proposed so that the identity degree can be computed in an objective method without any preliminary or additional information about data, which is consistent with the notion of objectivity in rough set theory and data mining theory. Subsequently, an algorithm is proposed, and in two examples, the global optimum identity degree is found out. Finally, in regard to optimum connection degree, the method of rules extraction for connection degree rough set model based on generalization function is presented by which the rules extracted from a decision table are enumerated.
文摘(November 16-30, 1992) The UN Security Council imposed a mandatory arms embargo on Liberia, on November 19 in an effort to cut off weapons to rebel fighters battling West African peacekeepers in the wartorn country, The resolution,adopted by a 15-O unanimous vote, was the Council(?)s first step towards involvement in Liberia.
文摘China and Uruguay, in a joint press communique released on December 5 in Beijing, urged all signatories to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to complete the Uruguay Round of Gatt talks within the year. The communique was issued at the end of Uruguayan President Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera’s week-long China visit.
文摘Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 6 on the first leg of a four-nation tour in East Africa. The rest of Qian’s tour will cover Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Christian businessman Jorge Serrano Elias claimed victory in the second round of Guatemala’s presidential elections on January 6. He was inaugurated on January 14 for a five-year term.
