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Thai Food in Taiwan: Tracing the Contours of Transnational Taste
This essay examines the recent proliferation of Thai restaurants in Taiwan, relating their development to different streams of transnational migration from Thailand, Myanmar and mainland China. Thai restaurants in Taiwan take many forms from low-cost 'ethnic' restaurants around the Taoyuan train station and in more peripheral areas, catering mainly to migrant workers from Thailand, to upmarket restaurants in city centre locations, catering to a 'cosmopolitan' clientele with high levels of economic and cultural capital. The paper traces the contours of transnational taste in Taiwan where Thai food has been adapted to suit local demand. In this context, as elsewhere, notions of culinary authenticity are contested, revolving around specific ingredients, recipes and dishes as well as notions of provenance, décor and other aspects of material culture. The paper examines the process of authentication, focusing on the culinary claims made by differently-located stakeholders. It also considers the material as well as the symbolic construction of 'taste', a term whose multiple meanings provide a valuable way of rethinking transnationality. As well as providing a case study of the evolution of culinary culture in a non-Western context, the paper sheds light on the role of food in defining Taiwan's contemporary political culture through notions of cosmopolitanism and modernity
Growth and nonvanishing of restricted Siegel modular forms arising as Saito-Kurokawa lifts
We study the analytic behavior of the restriction of a Siegel modular form to
in the case that the Siegel form is a
Saito-Kurokawa lift. A formula of Ichino links this behavior to a family of
-functions.Comment: 28 page
Detrended fluctuation analysis on the correlations of complex networks under attack and repair strategy
We analyze the correlation properties of the Erdos-Renyi random graph (RG)
and the Barabasi-Albert scale-free network (SF) under the attack and repair
strategy with detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA). The maximum degree k_max,
representing the local property of the system, shows similar scaling behaviors
for random graphs and scale-free networks. The fluctuations are quite random at
short time scales but display strong anticorrelation at longer time scales
under the same system size N and different repair probability p_re. The average
degree , revealing the statistical property of the system, exhibits
completely different scaling behaviors for random graphs and scale-free
networks. Random graphs display long-range power-law correlations. Scale-free
networks are uncorrelated at short time scales; while anticorrelated at longer
time scales and the anticorrelation becoming stronger with the increase of
p_re.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
DEVS-based intelligent control of space adapted fluid mixing
The development is described of event-based intelligent control system for a space-adapted mixing process by employing the DEVS (Discrete Event System Specification) formalism. In this control paradigm, the controller expects to receive confirming sensor responses to its control commands within definite time windows determined by its DEVS model of the system under control. The DEVS-based intelligent control paradigm was applied in a space-adapted mixing system capable of supporting the laboratory automation aboard a Space Station
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