ALEA III: The Kucyna International Composition Competition Finalists Concert, September 24, 1988

This is the concert program of the ALEA III: The Kucyna International Composition Competition Finalists Concert performance on Saturday, September 24, 1988 at 7:00 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were String Quartet by Eleanor Cory, Erotic Trilogy by Dimitrios Minakkis, Sérénade Magique, Evocation et Apparitions by Kenneth Olson, Des Lebewohl by Sydney Hodkinson, Painting by Konstantin Bokas, Serenade and Tarantella by Hans Vogt, Dialoques Entre Mètropes by Pietro Borradori, Array! Surrection! by James W. Bennet, III, Twisted Figues by William Susman, and Sonchrivated by Chengyong Wang. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Progress Report to the TNRC for Analysis of the Economics of Atrazine Remediation for Representative Grain Farms in the Aquilla Watershed, Hill County, Texas: Subtasks 4.0-4.4

Four alternative BMPs for atrazine remediation were reported by Harmon and Wang for the study area. The BMPs involved alternative incorporation practices, tillage operations, and sediment ponds. Harmon and Wang reported no statistical difference in corn yields under the alternative BMPs. An economic analysis of four alternative best management practices (BMPs) for atrazine remediation in Hill County, Texas, was performed by the Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) at Texas A&M University. Using the farm-level economic simulation model FLIPSIM, AFPC scientists analyzed the financial effects of the alternative BMPs on the Texas Blackland Prairie representative farm. This farm consists of 2,000 dryland acres, divided among corn (600 acres), sorghum (750 acres), wheat (250 acres), and native pasture (150 acres). This farm also maintains a small beef cowherd. Regularly updated, the AFPC maintains more than 80 farms across the nation that form the basis for probabilistic-based agricultural policy evaluation.Agricultural and Food Policy, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

From demon to deity : Kang Wang in thirteenth-century Jizhou and beyond

This essay discusses the cult of a deity known as Kang Wang, worshipped throughout Jizhou in thirteenth-century Jiangxi. The identity of this deity remains to some extent mysterious; many different identifying stories for Kang Wang coexist. Underneath these guises, however, his origins as a fearsome and unnamed demon shine through. I argue that the various representations of Kang Wang must be understood as resulting from the very different agendas of the authors who created those identities, but they all share one aim: covering up the demonic roots of the deity. Providing a name and place of origin for the deity should be seen as attempts to exert authority over this demonic force

The Quest for Ethical Truth: Wang Yangming on the Unity of Knowing and Acting

Drawing an analogy between Wang Yangming’s endeavor to know ethical truth and Descartes’ quest for epistemic certainty, this paper proposes a reading of Wang\u27s doctrine of the unity of knowing and acting to the effect that the doctrine does not express an ethical teaching about how the knowledge that is already acquired is to be related to acting, but an epistemological claim as to how we know ethical truths. A detailed analysis of Wang’s relevant texts is offered to support the claim