OPAL and More

We shall summarize some of the research activities performed in collaboration with Ben Shen in the OPAL experiment at LEP and in the CMS experiment at the LHC. And we shall recall the LEP legacy to particle physics in general and to the Standard Model in particular. Short recollections are made in other fields in which Ben was interested, in particular in Astroparticle Physics.Comment: Talk given at the Benjamin C. Shen Memorial Symposium, UCR, March 8, 2008. Changed reference

Hidden Spoor, Ruan Xiaoxu, And His Treatise On Reclusion

In early medieval China great attention was paid to compiling accounts of men in reclusion, yet the prefaces to these compilations often contain only vague or stale reasoning concerning the nature of reclusion itself. A preface by Shen Yue (441-513) is a notable exception: Shen differentiated between disengagement and reclusion. A slightly later contemporary of Shen, Ruan Xiaoxu (479-536), took issue with him in a unique and tightly constructed disquisition on what Ruan saw as a basic dichotomy in the Way of man: the root and overt traces. Ruan\u27s overlooked treatise is examined here, as are some relevant facets of his life

Calculation of light nucleus reaction cross sections in Geant4

Total reaction cross sections of light projectile nucleus (H-2, H-3, He-3 and He-4) interactions with nuclei are calculated using Geant4 models, and compared with experimental data. It is shown that the models give various predictions at low energies, in the region of the Coulomb barrier. "Shen model" (W.-Q. Shen et al., Nucl. Phys. {\bf A491} (1989) 130) is identified as an improvement over other models.Comment: 2 pages text, 8 figure

Fine recycled concrete aggregate as a material replacement in concrete production

As a fast and rapid growing nation, Malaysia undergoes a lot of development especially in construction field. Most of the building nowadays are being made mainly using concrete as it provides many favorable features such as satisfactory compressive strength, durability, availability, versatility and cost effectiveness. However, in pursuing the development era, sometimes the authorities overlooked about the construction and demolition (C&D) waste that had been created along the development progress. Construction and demolition waste is becoming a vital issue especially to the environmental aspect in many large cities in the world (Chen et al., 2002). Shen [1] describe C&D waste as the waste which generated from renovation, site clearing, demolition, construction, roadwork, land excavation and civil and building construction. Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste constitutes a major portion of total solid waste production in the world, and most of it is used in landfills .

Divide and Fuse: A Re-ranking Approach for Person Re-identification

As re-ranking is a necessary procedure to boost person re-identification (re-ID) performance on large-scale datasets, the diversity of feature becomes crucial to person reID for its importance both on designing pedestrian descriptions and re-ranking based on feature fusion. However, in many circumstances, only one type of pedestrian feature is available. In this paper, we propose a "Divide and use" re-ranking framework for person re-ID. It exploits the diversity from different parts of a high-dimensional feature vector for fusion-based re-ranking, while no other features are accessible. Specifically, given an image, the extracted feature is divided into sub-features. Then the contextual information of each sub-feature is iteratively encoded into a new feature. Finally, the new features from the same image are fused into one vector for re-ranking. Experimental results on two person re-ID benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework. Especially, our method outperforms the state-of-the-art on the Market-1501 dataset.Comment: Accepted by BMVC201

Vernunft leeren und Körper beruhigen. Synkretismus im Begriff der Selbstregulation im 22. Kapitel des Chunqiu fanlu

The concept of shen 身, meaning a person in all his or her physiological, psychological, and sociological aspects, is an important concept in Chinese philosophy. What the nature of shen is, and consequently how to maintain, regulate, and cultivate one’s own body/self/ person, has been a prominent philosophical issue in China. This article examines how this issue was comprehended in Chapter 22, the “Tong guo shen” 通 國身 (“Linking the State and the Body”) chapter, of the important Chinese philosophical compendium the Chunqiu fanlu 春秋繁露, traditionally ascribed to Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒 (c. 179 to 104 BCE). This article follows and expands upon research conducted by Sarah Queen, who suggested that some of the chapters of the unit to which the “Tong guo shen” belongs are characterised by a syncretic approach and suggest familiarity with inner-cultivation techniques. This article particularly focuses on syncretism in the notion of selfregulation in the “Tong guo shen” chapter. It examines the core principles, values, concepts, and ideas of self-regulation in the context of the Chunqiu fanlu’s earlier sources. Through an examination of texts and documents produced from the Spring and Autumn period to the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, this paper reconstructs the idea of self-regulation through a mutually corroborative philological and philosophical analysis. The purpose of this research is to contribute to our academic understanding of the concept of selfregulation in Chinese philosophy as well as of the nature of the Chunqiu fanlu in general.Pojam shen 身, koji označava osobu u svim fiziološkim, psihološkim i sociološkim aspektima, važan je pojam kineske filozofije. Koja je narav shena i posljedično kako održavati, regulirati i kultivirati vlastito tijelo/sebstvo/osobu, tj. shen, jedno je od vodećih filozofskih problema u Kini. U ovome članku ispituje se način na koji je ovaj problem razmatran u 22. poglavlju, »Tong guo shen« 通國身 (»Povezivanje države i tijela«), važnog filozofijskoga kompendija Chunqiu fanlu 春秋繁露 koji se tradicionalno pripisivao Dong Zhongshuu 董仲舒 (c. 179.–104. pr. Kr.). Prateći i proširujući istraživanja Sare Queen, koja je sugerirala da su neka poglavlja cjeline kojoj pripada “Tong guo shen” obilježena sinkretističkim pristupom te su bliska tehnikama unutarnje kultivacije, u ovom se radu posebno istražuje sinkretizam u pojmu samoregulacije u navedenom poglavlju. Ispituju se temeljni principi, vrijednosti i ideje samoregulacije u kontekstu ranijih izvora Chunqiu fanlu. Iščitavanjem tekstova i dokumenata nastalih od Razdoblja proljeća i jeseni do kraja dinastije Istočni Han, članak rekonstruira ideju samoregulacije kroz međusobno potkrjepljujuće filološke i filozofske analize. Namjera je ovog istraživanja doprinijeti akademskom razumijevanju pojma samoregulacije u kineskoj filozofiji kao i prirodi teksta Chunqiu fanlu.Le concept de shen 身, qui désigne une personne dans tous ses aspects physiologiques, psychologiques et sociologiques, est un concept important dans la philosophie chinoise. Se questionner sur la nature du shen, et partant de là, savoir comment maintenir, réguler et cultiver son propre corps/soi/personne, est un des problèmes philosophiques majeurs en Chine. Cet article examine comment ce problème a été abordé au chapitre 22 (« Tong guo shen » 通國身, « union de l’Etat et du corps ») de l’important compendium philosophique chinois Chunqiu fanlu 春秋繁露 qui a traditionnellement été attribué à Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒(vers 179–104 av. J.-C.). Dans ce travail, suivant et élargissant les recherches de Sarah Queen, qui a suggéré que certains chapitres appartenant à la totalité « Tong guo shen » (« union de l’ État et du corps ») sont caractérisés par une approche syncrétique et sont proches des techniques internes de cultivation, le syncrétisme est particulièrement recherché dans le concept d’auto-régulation. Les principes fondamentaux, les valeurs et les idées d’auto-régulation sont interrogés dans le contexte des premières sources du Chunqiu fanlu. A travers l’examen de textes et de documents conçus à partir de la période de printemps et d’automne et allant jusqu’à la fin de la dynastie Han orientale, l’article reconstruit l’idée d’auto-régulation à travers l’analyse philologique et philosophique qui se corroborent mutuellement. L’intention de cet article est de contribuer à la compréhension académique de l’idée d’auto-régulation dans la philosophie chinoise, mais aussi à la nature du texte Chunqiu fanlu.Der Begriff shen 身, der eine Person unter allen physiologischen, psychologischen und soziologischen Aspekten bezeichnet, ist ein bedeutsamer Begriff der chinesischen Philosophie. Welche die Natur des shen ist und wie sich der eigene Körper/das Selbst/die Person, d. h. shen, nachfolgend instand halten, regulieren und kultivieren lassen, ist eines der führenden philosophischen Probleme in China. In diesem Artikel wird die Art examiniert, auf welche dieses Problem im 22. Kapitel („Tong guo shen“ 通國身, „Verbindung von Staat und Körper“) des gewichtigen philosophischen Kompendiums Chunqiu fanlu 春秋繁露 betrachtet wurde, welches traditionell Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒 (ungef. 179–104 v. Chr.) zugeschrieben wurde. Sarah Queen hat suggeriert, dass einige Kapitel der Einheit, der „Tong guo shen“ angehört, durch den synkretistischen Ansatz geprägt sind und den Techniken der inneren Kultivierung nahestehen. Indem man die Erforschungen Sarah Queens verfolgt und erweitert, durchforscht man in dieser Arbeit insbesondere den Synkretismus im Begriff der Selbstregulation im erwähnten Kapitel. Man geht den Grundprinzipien, Werten und Ideen der Selbstregulation im Kontext der früheren Quellen von Chunqiu fanlu auf den Grund. Indem man Texte und Dokumente durchgeht, die von der Frühlings- und Herbstperiode bis zum Ende der Östlichen Han-Dynastie verfasst wurden, rekonstruiert man in diesem Paper die Idee der Selbstregulation durch gegenseitig bekräftigende philologische und philosophische Analysen. Es ist das Bestreben dieser Erforschung, dem akademischen Verständnis des Begriffs der Selbstregulation innerhalb der chinesischen Philosophie sowie in der Natur des Textes Chunqiu fanlu einen Beitrag zu leisten