Merit and Mothering: Women and Social Welfare in Taiwanese Buddhism

This is a publisher's version of an article published in The Journal of Asian Studies in 1998. The offprint is posted here in accordance with existing publisher policy, or by special permission via correspondence.tru

Notes from the field: how Durga Puja helps and hinders informal workers and ethnographers alike

As LSE’s Julia Huang continues her fieldwork among Assam’s cycle-rickshaw pullers, she discovers the extent of India’s informal economy and starts making difficult decisions about her research process. Click here for her first post from the field

Notes from the field: social entrepreneurship and urban livelihoods in Assam

As LSE’s Julia Huang commences her fieldwork in Assam, she finds that social enterprise development initiatives such as Rickshaw Bank tend to ignore the relational and sociopolitical aspects of poverty

Search and Result Presentation in Scientific Workflow Repositories

We study the problem of searching a repository of complex hierarchical workflows whose component modules, both composite and atomic, have been annotated with keywords. Since keyword search does not use the graph structure of a workflow, we develop a model of workflows using context-free bag grammars. We then give efficient polynomial-time algorithms that, given a workflow and a keyword query, determine whether some execution of the workflow matches the query. Based on these algorithms we develop a search and ranking solution that efficiently retrieves the top-k grammars from a repository. Finally, we propose a novel result presentation method for grammars matching a keyword query, based on representative parse-trees. The effectiveness of our approach is validated through an extensive experimental evaluation

“I manage the fear” : being a dissident writer in China

As the UK government receive Chinese president Xi Jinping on his state visit this week, Julia Ziemer and Yanning Huang meet dissident writer Murong Xuecun at Asia House to hear about his experience of challenging authority in today’s China. backyard, could it suddenly feel like it didn’t

Electronic-Mechanical Coupling in Graphene from in situ Nanoindentation Experiments and Multiscale Atomistic Simulations

We present the in situ nanoindentation experiments performed on suspended graphene devices to introduce homogeneous tensile strain, while simultaneously carrying out electrical measurements. We find that the electrical resistance shows only a marginal change even under severe strain, and the electronic transport measurement confirms that there is no band gap opening for graphene under moderate uniform strain, which is consistent with our results from the first-principles informed molecular dynamics simulation