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Master Questions, Student Questions, and Genuine Questions: A Performative Analysis of Questions in Chan Encounter Dialogues
I want to know whether Chan masters and students depicted in classical Chan transmission literature can be interpreted as asking open (or what I will call “genuine”) questions. My task is significant because asking genuine questions appears to be a decisive factor in ascertaining whether these figures represent models for dialogue—the kind of dialogue championed in democratic society and valued by promoters of interreligious exchange. My study also contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of early Chan not only by detailing contrasts between contemporary interests and classical Chan, but more importantly by paying greater attention to the role language and rhetoric play in classical Chan. What roles do questions play in Chan encounter dialogues, and are any of the questions genuine? Is there anything about the conventions of the genre that keeps readers from interpreting some questions in this way? To address these topics, I will proceed as follows. First, on a global level and for critical-historical context, I survey Chan transmission literature of the Song dynasty in which encounter dialogues appear, and their role in developments of Chan/Zen traditions. Second, I zoom in on structural elements of encounter dialogues in particular as a genre. Third, aligning with the trajectory of performative analyses of Chan literature called for by Sharf and Faure, I turn to develop and criticize a performative model of questions from resources in recent analytic and continental philosophy of language and I apply that model to some questions in encounter dialogue literature
Aveline Chan, Piano
Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846 / Johann Sebastian Bach; Sonata No. 24, Op. 78 / Ludwig van Beethoven; Van der Jaargetijden / Henri Zagwijn; Estampes / Claude Debussy; Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31 / Frédéric Chopi
Approximation by Several Rationals
Following T. H. Chan, we consider the problem of approximation of a given
rational fraction a/q by sums of several rational fractions a_1/q_1, ...,
a_n/q_n with smaller denominators. We show that in the special cases of n=3 and
n=4 and certain admissible ranges for the denominators q_1,..., q_n, one can
improve a result of T. H. Chan by using a different approach
Asteroseismic constraints on the OPAL opacity interpolation
The frequency difference between a model used only two-point interpolation of
opacity and a model used piecewise linear interpolation of opacity is of the
order of several microHertz at a certain stage, which is almost 10 times worse
than the observational precision of p-modes of solar-like stars. Therefore, the
two-point interpolation of opacity is unsuitable in modelling of solar-like
stars with element diffusion.Comment: 2 pages, 1 figure; to appear in the Proceedings of IAU Symp. 252 "The
Art of Modelling Stars in the 21st Century", Sanya, China, 6th-11th April
2008, (L. Deng, K.L. Chan & C. Chiosi, eds.
Boston Hospitality Review: Winter 2019
TABLE OF CONTENTS: "Training: The Necessity of Error Management Training in the Hospitality Industry" by Priyanko Guchait; "Trends: Green Hotels: An Overview" by Minu Agarwal and Prashant Das; "Tourism: Panacea or peril? The implications of Neolocalism as a more intrusive form of tourism" by Makarand Mody and Kyle Koslowsky; "Restaurants: How Can Single-Unit Restaurants Strive for Powerful Online Presence?" by Leora Lanz and Jenna Berry; "Retention: Why Hoteliers Stay and Go: Future Oriented Thinking" by Sean McGinley; "Service Recovery: Failure is Not Fatal: Actionable Insights on Service Failure and Recovery for the Hospitality Industry" by Lisa C. Wan and Elisa Chan; "Research: A Detailed Study of the Expected and Actual Use of Hotel Amenities" by Chekitan S. Dev and Prateek Kumar
The Future of Confucian Political Philosophy
On February 14, 2017, Joseph Chan and Stephen Angle convened a Roundtable on the Future of Confucian Political Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. Eight invited speakers each offered thoughts on the main topic, followed by discussion among the panelists and responses to questions from the audience. This transcript has been reviewed and edited by the main participants. Much of the discussion revolves around the relations and tensions between Confucian political philosophy as academic theory-construction and the lived realities of citizens in the modern world, especially in East Asia. How is Confucian theorizing connected to Confucian activism? Another central concern is democracy—as value or as institution, as necessary in pluralistic societies or as problematic monopolizer of political discourse. We also discuss translation, republicanism, meritocracy, the proposals of Jiang Qing and Daniel Bell, and the role of Confucianism in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea
Introduction
With this issue we continue the proceedings of the 50th Annual McGuire Lecture Series on Cardiology in Primary Care. In Our Scripta Medica section we present a paper by Dr. James C. M. Chan on hyperuricemic nephropathy
Fermion mass and mixing patterns from a rotating mass matrix
It is shown that all existing data on mixing between up and down fermion
states (i.e. CKM matrix and neutrino oscillations) and on the hierarchical
quark and lepton mass ratios between generations are consistent with the two
phenomena being both consequences of a mass matrix rotating in generation space
with changing energy scale. As a result, the rotation of the mass matrix can be
traced over some 14 orders of magnitude in energy from the mass scale of the
-quark at 175 GeV to below that of the atmospheric neutrino at 0.05 eV. This
is a summary of recent work done in collaboration with Chan Hong-Mo and Jose
Bordes.Comment: 12 pages latex, 6 figures, talk given at the International Symposium
on Frontiers of Science - In Celebration of the 80th Birthday of C N Yang,
June 2002, Beijin
Improved depth recovery in consumer depth cameras via disparity space fusion within cross-spectral stereo.
We address the issue of improving depth coverage in consumer depth cameras based on the combined use of cross-spectral stereo and near infra-red structured light sensing. Specifically we show that fusion of disparity over these modalities, within the disparity space image, prior to disparity optimization facilitates the recovery of scene depth information in regions where structured light sensing fails. We show that this joint approach, leveraging disparity information from both structured light and cross-spectral sensing, facilitates the joint recovery of global scene depth comprising both texture-less object depth, where conventional stereo otherwise fails, and highly reflective object depth, where structured light (and similar) active sensing commonly fails. The proposed solution is illustrated using dense gradient feature matching and shown to outperform prior approaches that use late-stage fused cross-spectral stereo depth as a facet of improved sensing for consumer depth cameras
An Octree-Based Approach towards Efficient Variational Range Data Fusion
Volume-based reconstruction is usually expensive both in terms of memory
consumption and runtime. Especially for sparse geometric structures, volumetric
representations produce a huge computational overhead. We present an efficient
way to fuse range data via a variational Octree-based minimization approach by
taking the actual range data geometry into account. We transform the data into
Octree-based truncated signed distance fields and show how the optimization can
be conducted on the newly created structures. The main challenge is to uphold
speed and a low memory footprint without sacrificing the solutions' accuracy
during optimization. We explain how to dynamically adjust the optimizer's
geometric structure via joining/splitting of Octree nodes and how to define the
operators. We evaluate on various datasets and outline the suitability in terms
of performance and geometric accuracy.Comment: BMVC 201
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