Overseas Communication and Acceptance of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Films-Centering on Franch Cahiers Du Cinéma

The criticism on Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s films of the French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma is an important landscape for oversea propagation of Chinese cinemas. The attention to Hou Hsiao-Hsien lies mainly in his naturalism lens style and realistic poetic characteristics. The present article tries to restore the Cahiers du Cinéma’s critical standpoint, scale and reason on Hou Hsiao-Hsien film, and also answer the three questions: In what ways do the French critics pay attention to the Chinese films? What is their focus? And, why do they keep such a watchful eye on Chinese cinema? The logic and angle as well as the ways of criticism behind their attention can provide many inspirations for Chinese-language cinemas studies.     Keywords: Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Cahiers du Cinéma, overseas communicatio

Distribution and Dynamics in a Simple Tax Regime Transition

We examine transitions between excise tax and license fee regimes in the laboratory. The regimes have matched equilibrium Marshallian surplus, but license fees generate more tax revenue. The license fees are large “avoidable costs,” known to hamper competitive equilibrium convergence. With moderately experienced subjects, the prolonged transition to the license fee equilibrium has these features: (1) Prices below equilibrium levels, resulting in firm losses; (2) Marshallian surplus above equilibrium levels; and (3) transitional windfalls for the tax authority. With highly experienced subjects, license fees lead to the instability and lower seller profits and efficiency observed in past avoidable cost markets.Tax Regime Transitions, Avoidable Costs, Double Auctions, Experimental Methods.

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Hands-On Universe: A Global Program for Education and Public Outreach in Astronomy

Hands-On Universe (HOU) is an educational program that enables students to investigate the Universe while applying tools and concepts from science, math, and technology. Using the Internet, HOU participants around the world request observations from an automated telescope, download images from a large image archive, and analyze them with the aid of user-friendly image processing software. This program is developing now in many countries, including the USA, France, Germany, Sweden, Japan, Australia, and others. A network of telescopes has been established among these countries, many of them remotely operated, as shown in the accompanying demo. Using this feature, students in the classroom are able to make night observations during the day, using a telescope placed in another country. An archive of images taken on large telescopes is also accessible, as well as resources for teachers. Students are also dealing with real research projects, e.g. the search for asteroids, which resulted in the discovery of a Kuiper Belt object by high-school students. Not only Hands-On Universe gives the general public an access to professional astronomy, but it is also a more general tool to demonstrate the use of a complex automated system, the techniques of data processing and automation. Last but not least, through the use of telescopes located in many countries over the globe, a form of powerful and genuine cooperation between teachers and children from various countries is promoted, with a clear educational goal.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the ADASS X conference, Boston, October 2000, ASP conf. pro

Hands-On TAROT: Intercontinental use of the TAROT for Education and Public Outreach

The TAROT telescope has for primary goal the search for the prompt optical counterpart of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts. It is a completely autonomous 25cm telescope installed near Nice (France), able to point any location of the sky within 1-2 seconds. The control, scheduling, and data processing activities are completely automated, so the instrument is completely autonomous. In addition to its un-manned modes, we added recently the possibility to remotely control the telescope, as a request of the "Hands-On Universe" (HOU) program for exchange of time within automatic telescopes for the education and public outreach. To this purpose we developed a simple control interface. A webcam was installed to visualize the telescope. Access to the data is possible through a web interface. The images can be processed by the HOU software, a program specially suited for use within the classroom. We experienced these feature during the open days of the University of California Berkeley and the Astronomy Festival of Fleurance (France). We plan a regular use for an astronomy course of the Museum of Tokyo, as well as for French schools. Not only does Hands-On TAROT gives the general public an access to professional astronomy, but it is also a more general tool to demonstrate the use of a complex automated system, the techniques of data processing and automation. Last but not least, through the use of telescopes located in many countries over the globe, a form of powerful and genuine cooperation between teachers and children from various countries is promoted, with a clear educational goal.Comment: 4 pages, Based on a demonstration presented at the ADASS X Conference, Boston, MA, USA, October 2000, to appear in ASP Conf. Serie

No Man an Island: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien

Hou Hsiao-hsien is arguably the most celebrated Chinese-language film director in the international film festival realm. However, this is not due to an inert cultural tradition so much as to numerous historical/contextual factors – most of all his being from Taiwan -- which together explain the accomplishments of Hou.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1051/thumbnail.jp

PENGARUH ELEKTRO AKUPUNKTUR TERHADAP KADAR KOLESTEROL DARAH PADA KUCING DOMESTIK (FELIS DOMESTICUS)

ABSTRAKElektro akupunktur adalah bentuk modifikasi akupunktur manual tradisional yang mempunyai kelebihan memiliki efek terapi gabungan stimulasi saraf listrik transkutan. Kolesterol merupakan metabolit yang mengandung lemak sterol. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui pengaruh dari elektro akupunktur terhadap penurunan kadar kolesterol darah kucing domestik. Sampel penelitian ini menggunakan 10 ekor kucing betina domestik dengan dibagi menjadi 2 kelompok. Kelompok A menggunakan 5 ekor kucing dengan titik akupunktur kombinasi 1 yang terdiri dari titik BL-18 (Gan Shu), SP-6 (San Yin Jiao) , SI-3 (Hou-xi ). Kelompok B menggunakan 5 ekor kucing dengan titik akupunktur kombinasi 2 yang terdiri dari titik BL-19 (Dan shu), ST-36 (Hou-san-li) dan LIV-3(Tai-chong). Pemeriksaan kolesterol sebelum dan sesudah akupunktur dengan menggunakan alat Easy Touch GCU. Data dianalisis menggunakan uji paired sample t test dengan program SPSS 25.0. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa adanya penurunan kadar kolesterol secara signifikan pada kelompok B setelah diberikan perlakuan elektro akupunktur . Elektro akupunktur mempengaruhi penurunan kadar kolesterol darah pada kucing domestik (Felis domesticus). Kata kunci : Elektro akupunktur, kolesterol, hiperkolesterolemia, kucing domestik. ABSTRACTElectroacupuncture is a modified form of traditional manual acupuncture that has the advantage of having a combined therapeutic effect stimulation of transcutaneous electrical nerves. Cholesterol is metabolic that contains sterol fat. This study aims to determine the effect of electro-acupuncture on the reduction blood cholesterol levels in domestic cats. The sample of this study used 10 domestic female cats divided into 2 groups. Group A used 5 cats with a combination of 1 acupuncture point which are point BL-18 (Gan Shu), SP-6 (San Yin Jiao), SI-3 (Hou-xi ). Group B used 5 cats with combination 2 acupuncture point which are point BL-19 (Dan shu), ST-36 (Hou-san-li) and LIV-3 (Tai-Chong). Cholesterol tests are carried out before and after acupuncture using the Easy Touch GCU. Data were analyzed using paired sample t-test with SPSS 2.50 program. The result showed that there was significant decrease in cholesterol levels in group B after treatment was given electro acupuncture. Electroacupuncture affects the reduction blood cholesterol levels in domestic cats (Felis domesticus).Keywords : Electro acupuncture, Cholesterol, Hypercholesterolemia, domestic cat

Agrarian Structure and Endogenous Financial System Development

The development of the financial system is shown, both historically and in contemporary data, to be adversely affected by inequality in the distribution of land. To accommodate these empirical findings, a theory is developed that highlights the incentives of landowners to oppose competition in the financial sector. The theory provides an explanation for the co-incident development of the financial sector and overall economy.Land distribution, financial development, overlapping generations, financial institutions

Mortality Change, the Uncertainty Effect, and Retirement

We examine the role of declining mortality in explaining the rise of retirement over the course of the 20th century. We construct a model in which individuals make labor/leisure choices over their lifetimes subject to uncertainty about their date of death. In an environment in which mortality is high, an individual who saved up for retirement would face a high risk of dying before he could enjoy his planned leisure. In this case, the optimal plan is for people to work until they die. As mortality falls, however, it becomes optimal to plan, and save for, retirement. We simulate our model using actual changes in the US life table over the last century, and show that this “uncertainty effect” of declining mortality would have more than outweighed the “horizon effect” by which rising life expectancy would have led to later retirement. A calibration exercise, allowing for heterogeneity in tastes and other non-mortality factors influencing retirement, shows that falling mortality plausibly had a quantitatively significant effect on retirement.