As a work that reflects culture differences between China and America, the Joy Luck Club has drawn a wide attention from scholars whose researches are more of holistic analyses from a macro perspective of cross-cultur...As a work that reflects culture differences between China and America, the Joy Luck Club has drawn a wide attention from scholars whose researches are more of holistic analyses from a macro perspective of cross-cultural communication. In accordance with the degree of dependence of semantic on dialogue context and dialogue language itself, Edward Hall divides culture into high-context culture and low-context culture, and holds that Chinese culture is a high-context culture, while American culture is a low- context one. According to Hall's theory, the Sino- US cultural conflicts reflected by the mother- daughter conflicts in the Joy Luck Club can be analyzed from high-context and low-context culture perspective. And after conflicts, there finally will be a harmonious trend of Sino-US culture development, changing from clash and conflict to convergence and integration.展开更多
The Wedding Banquet is a movie about a gay Taiwan Residents immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. His plan backfires and things get out of hand when his pa...The Wedding Banquet is a movie about a gay Taiwan Residents immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. His plan backfires and things get out of hand when his parents arrive in the United States to plan his wedding banquet. Based on Hall's theory of high-context and low-context culture, this paper analyzes the cultural conflicts in the movie from six perspectives, and offers suggestions to the harmonious development of China and America. It is hoped that the paper can help readers get an in-depth comprehension of Hall's theory of high-context and low-context culture and discover some invisible conflicts between China and the West and finally raise people's consciousness of cultural conflicts and ways of handling the conflicts. With the advancement of globalization, intercultural communicative competence is becoming more and more important, and social communication between China and the West will become more relaxed and fruitful if people acquire more knowledge in intercultural communication.展开更多
In order to enhance the image information from multi-sensor and to improve the abilities of the information analysis and the feature extraction, this letter proposed a new fusion approach in pixel level by means of th...In order to enhance the image information from multi-sensor and to improve the abilities of the information analysis and the feature extraction, this letter proposed a new fusion approach in pixel level by means of the Wavelet Packet Transform (WPT). The WPT is able to decompose an image into low frequency band and high frequency band in higher scale. It offers a more precise method for image analysis than Wavelet Transform (WT). Firstly, the proposed approach employs HIS (Hue, Intensity, Saturation) transform to obtain the intensity component of CBERS (China-Brazil Earth Resource Satellite) multi-spectral image. Then WPT transform is employed to decompose the intensity component and SPOT (Systeme Pour I'Observation de la Therre ) image into low frequency band and high frequency band in three levels. Next, two high frequency coefficients and low frequency coefficients of the images are combined by linear weighting strategies. Finally, the fused image is obtained with inverse WPT and inverse HIS. The results show the new approach can fuse details of input image successfully, and thereby can obtain a more satisfactory result than that of HM (Histogram Matched)-based fusion algorithm and WT-based fusion approach.展开更多
People with different cultural backgrounds would inevitably encounter contradictions and conflicts in their communication due to their different values and lifestyles.This paper draws on the research findings of high-...People with different cultural backgrounds would inevitably encounter contradictions and conflicts in their communication due to their different values and lifestyles.This paper draws on the research findings of high-low context and high-low power distance theories to analyze the cultural contradictions and conflicts in The Joy Luck Club.The result shows that mutual respect and understanding are needed in intercultural communication and to achieve cultural fusion,people should absorb new culture on the basis of inheriting their traditional culture.展开更多
Objective Adipose tissue distributes widely in human body. The irradiation response of the adipose cells in vivo remains to be investigated. In this study we investigated irradiation response of adipose-derived stem c...Objective Adipose tissue distributes widely in human body. The irradiation response of the adipose cells in vivo remains to be investigated. In this study we investigated irradiation response of adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) under three-dimensional culture condition. Methods ASCs were isolated and cultured in low attachment dishes to form three-dimensional (3D) spheres in vitro. The neuronal differentiation potential and stem-liked characteristics was monitored by using immunofluoresence staining and flow cytometry in monolayer and 3D culture. To investigate the irradiation sensitivity of 3D sphere culture, the fraction of colony survival and micronucleus were detected in monolayer and 3D culture. Soft agar assays were performed for measuring malignant transformation for the irradiated monolayer and 3D culture. Results The 3D cultured ASCs had higher differentiation potential and an higher stem-like cell percentage. The 3D cultures were more radioresistant after either high linear energy transfer (LET) carbon ion beam or low LET X-ray irradiation compared with the monolayer cell. The ASCs’ potential of cellular transformation was lower after irradiation by soft agar assay. Conclusion These findings suggest that adipose tissue cell are relatively genomic stable and resistant to genotoxic stress.展开更多
This paper discusses the criteria according to which literature iscategorized as ＂high （-brow） literature＂ or ＂low （-brow） literature＂ in modem China. I suggest that these standards change over time and are in...This paper discusses the criteria according to which literature iscategorized as ＂high （-brow） literature＂ or ＂low （-brow） literature＂ in modem China. I suggest that these standards change over time and are intimately tied to the problematics of canonization, legitimization, and cultural hegemony. In modem China, the criteria are also closely related to class differentiation. Furthermore, I contend that, in the Chinese academic world, there is often a tendency to interpret certain forms of middle-brow literature as belletristic literature that breaks though the boundary between ＂high （-brow） literature＂ and ＂low （-brow） literature.＂ In discussing ＂middle-brow＂ literature in modem China, this paper takes ＂Mandarin Ducks and Butterfly＂ literature as the object of its analysis and proposes that middle-brow literature is essentially the moralization of political and social issues, which serves to displace social-economic and political concerns. This is usually accomplished through the glorification of conservative ethical-moral viewpoints.展开更多
文摘As a work that reflects culture differences between China and America, the Joy Luck Club has drawn a wide attention from scholars whose researches are more of holistic analyses from a macro perspective of cross-cultural communication. In accordance with the degree of dependence of semantic on dialogue context and dialogue language itself, Edward Hall divides culture into high-context culture and low-context culture, and holds that Chinese culture is a high-context culture, while American culture is a low- context one. According to Hall's theory, the Sino- US cultural conflicts reflected by the mother- daughter conflicts in the Joy Luck Club can be analyzed from high-context and low-context culture perspective. And after conflicts, there finally will be a harmonious trend of Sino-US culture development, changing from clash and conflict to convergence and integration.
文摘The Wedding Banquet is a movie about a gay Taiwan Residents immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. His plan backfires and things get out of hand when his parents arrive in the United States to plan his wedding banquet. Based on Hall's theory of high-context and low-context culture, this paper analyzes the cultural conflicts in the movie from six perspectives, and offers suggestions to the harmonious development of China and America. It is hoped that the paper can help readers get an in-depth comprehension of Hall's theory of high-context and low-context culture and discover some invisible conflicts between China and the West and finally raise people's consciousness of cultural conflicts and ways of handling the conflicts. With the advancement of globalization, intercultural communicative competence is becoming more and more important, and social communication between China and the West will become more relaxed and fruitful if people acquire more knowledge in intercultural communication.
文摘In order to enhance the image information from multi-sensor and to improve the abilities of the information analysis and the feature extraction, this letter proposed a new fusion approach in pixel level by means of the Wavelet Packet Transform (WPT). The WPT is able to decompose an image into low frequency band and high frequency band in higher scale. It offers a more precise method for image analysis than Wavelet Transform (WT). Firstly, the proposed approach employs HIS (Hue, Intensity, Saturation) transform to obtain the intensity component of CBERS (China-Brazil Earth Resource Satellite) multi-spectral image. Then WPT transform is employed to decompose the intensity component and SPOT (Systeme Pour I'Observation de la Therre ) image into low frequency band and high frequency band in three levels. Next, two high frequency coefficients and low frequency coefficients of the images are combined by linear weighting strategies. Finally, the fused image is obtained with inverse WPT and inverse HIS. The results show the new approach can fuse details of input image successfully, and thereby can obtain a more satisfactory result than that of HM (Histogram Matched)-based fusion algorithm and WT-based fusion approach.
文摘People with different cultural backgrounds would inevitably encounter contradictions and conflicts in their communication due to their different values and lifestyles.This paper draws on the research findings of high-low context and high-low power distance theories to analyze the cultural contradictions and conflicts in The Joy Luck Club.The result shows that mutual respect and understanding are needed in intercultural communication and to achieve cultural fusion,people should absorb new culture on the basis of inheriting their traditional culture.
基金supported by grants from the National Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Project of China[2012YQ03014210]Major Project Specialized for Infectious Diseases of the Chinese Health and Family Planning Commission[2014ZX10004002-004-002]National Natural Science Foundation of China[31170803]to BH
文摘Objective Adipose tissue distributes widely in human body. The irradiation response of the adipose cells in vivo remains to be investigated. In this study we investigated irradiation response of adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) under three-dimensional culture condition. Methods ASCs were isolated and cultured in low attachment dishes to form three-dimensional (3D) spheres in vitro. The neuronal differentiation potential and stem-liked characteristics was monitored by using immunofluoresence staining and flow cytometry in monolayer and 3D culture. To investigate the irradiation sensitivity of 3D sphere culture, the fraction of colony survival and micronucleus were detected in monolayer and 3D culture. Soft agar assays were performed for measuring malignant transformation for the irradiated monolayer and 3D culture. Results The 3D cultured ASCs had higher differentiation potential and an higher stem-like cell percentage. The 3D cultures were more radioresistant after either high linear energy transfer (LET) carbon ion beam or low LET X-ray irradiation compared with the monolayer cell. The ASCs’ potential of cellular transformation was lower after irradiation by soft agar assay. Conclusion These findings suggest that adipose tissue cell are relatively genomic stable and resistant to genotoxic stress.
文摘跨模态行人重识别技术在公共安全、灾难响应、犯罪现场勘查等方面有广阔的应用前景。为了高效利用不同模态之间多样化信息,探索有效的行人重识别方法,提出一种结合低高频信息的多尺度融合(multiple frequence multi-scale embedding,MFME)模型。通过多尺度信息融合(multi-scale information fusion,MIF)模块从多个尺度捕获行人特征,分别获得图像的全局结构和局部细节特征;通过低高频特征聚合(multi frequency feature embedding,MFFE)模块聚合行人的多频信息,确保模型在面对环境变化和不同光照条件下依然能保持高准确度以适应模态变化。实验结果表明,提出的模型在公开数据集SYSU-MM01上Rank-1和mAP识别率分别达到75.79%和72.02%。该模型有效挖掘和利用了跨模态间的多样化信息,提高了行人的重识别率,能更好地适应多变的实际应用环境。
文摘This paper discusses the criteria according to which literature iscategorized as ＂high （-brow） literature＂ or ＂low （-brow） literature＂ in modem China. I suggest that these standards change over time and are intimately tied to the problematics of canonization, legitimization, and cultural hegemony. In modem China, the criteria are also closely related to class differentiation. Furthermore, I contend that, in the Chinese academic world, there is often a tendency to interpret certain forms of middle-brow literature as belletristic literature that breaks though the boundary between ＂high （-brow） literature＂ and ＂low （-brow） literature.＂ In discussing ＂middle-brow＂ literature in modem China, this paper takes ＂Mandarin Ducks and Butterfly＂ literature as the object of its analysis and proposes that middle-brow literature is essentially the moralization of political and social issues, which serves to displace social-economic and political concerns. This is usually accomplished through the glorification of conservative ethical-moral viewpoints.
