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Soft Power to Whom? A Critical Analysis of the Publicity Film “CPC (Communist Party of China) is With You Along the Way” in Relation to China’s Soft Power Project
The existing literature on China’s soft power is mainly concerned with its success or failure, ignoring the ideological tensions between the Chinese state's international pursuit of soft power and its efforts at reviving the popularity of socialist ideology at home in a country profoundly transformed by modernisation and globalisation processes. This article argues that such ideological tensions should be contextualised and critically analysed by employing an approach informed by critical globalisation studies, particularly by the power-to-whom critique. It offers a critical analysis of the CPC is With You Along the Way film, a notable recent example of the CPC’s publicity videos in the context of its pursuit of soft power. Borrowing Reisigl and Wodak’s discourse-historical approach (DHA) in addition to the analytical devices for the study of ideology from Eagleton and van Dijk, the article argues that CPC is With You Along the Way illustrates a shift in the party’s ideological approach to the question ‘(soft) power to whom?’
A systematic algorithm development for image processing feature extraction in automatic visual inspection : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Technology in the Department of Production Technology, Massey University
Image processing techniques applied to modern quality control are described together with the development of feature extraction algorithms for automatic visual inspection. A real-time image processing hardware system already available in the Department of Production Technology is described and has been tested systematically for establishing an optimal threshold function. This systematic testing has been concerned with edge strength and system noise information. With the a priori information of system signal and noise, non-linear threshold functions have been established for real time edge detection. The performance of adaptive thresholding is described and the usefulness of this nonlinear approach is demonstrated from results using machined test samples. Examination and comparisons of thresholding techniques applied to several edge detection operators are presented. It is concluded that, the Roberts' operator with a non-linear thresholding function has the advantages of being simple, fast, accurate and cost effective in automatic visual inspection
3D Textured Model Encryption via 3D Lu Chaotic Mapping
In the coming Virtual/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) era, 3D contents will be
popularized just as images and videos today. The security and privacy of these
3D contents should be taken into consideration. 3D contents contain surface
models and solid models. The surface models include point clouds, meshes and
textured models. Previous work mainly focus on encryption of solid models,
point clouds and meshes. This work focuses on the most complicated 3D textured
model. We propose a 3D Lu chaotic mapping based encryption method of 3D
textured model. We encrypt the vertexes, the polygons and the textures of 3D
models separately using the 3D Lu chaotic mapping. Then the encrypted vertices,
edges and texture maps are composited together to form the final encrypted 3D
textured model. The experimental results reveal that our method can encrypt and
decrypt 3D textured models correctly. In addition, our method can resistant
several attacks such as brute-force attack and statistic attack.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures, under review of SCI
The gravitational field of a global monopole
We present an exact solution to the non-linear equation which describes a
global monopole in the flat space. We re-examine the metric and the geodesics
outside the global monopole. We will see that a global monopole produces a
repulsive gravitational field outside the core in addition to a solid angular
deficit. The lensing property of the global monopole and the global
monopole-antimonopole annihilation mechanism are studied.Comment: 8 pages, no figure
Energy Dependence of Jet Quenching and Life-time of the Dense Matter in High-energy Heavy-ion Collisions
Suppression of high hadron spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions
at different energies is studied within a pQCD parton model incorporating
medium induced parton energy loss. The dependence of the nuclear
modification factor is found to depend on both the energy
dependence of the parton energy loss and the power-law behavior of the initial
jet spectra. The high hadron suppression at GeV and its
centrality dependence are studied in detail. The overall values of the
modification factor are found to provide strong constraints on the lifetime of
the dense matter.Comment: 6 pages in RevTex with 3 postscript figure
Dark viscous fluid described by a unified equation of state in cosmology
We generalize the CDM model by introducing a unified EOS to describe
the Universe contents modeled as dark viscous fluid, motivated by the fact that
a single constant equation of state (EOS) () reproduces the
CDM model exactly. This EOS describes the perfect fluid term, the
dissipative effect, and the cosmological constant in a unique framework and the
Friedmann equations can be analytically solved. Especially, we find a relation
between the EOS parameter and the renormalizable condition of a scalar field.
We develop a completely numerical method to perform a minimization to
constrain the parameters in a cosmological model directly from the Friedmann
equations, and employ the SNe data with the parameter measured
from the SDSS data to constrain our model. The result indicates that the
dissipative effect is rather small in the late-time Universe.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. v2: new materials added. v3: matches the version
to appear in IJMP
Gauged Q ball in a piecewise parabolic potential
Q ball solutions are considered within the theory of a complex scalar field
with a gauged
U(1) symmetry and a parabolic-type potential. In the thin-walled limit, we
show explicitly that there is a maximum size for these objects because of the
repulsive Coulomb force. The size of Q ball will increase with the decrease of
local minimum of the potential. And when the two minima degenerate, the energy
stored within the surface of the Q ball becomes significant.
Furthermore, we find an analytic expression for gauged Q ball, which is
beyond the conventional thin-walled limit.Comment: 1 figure
Massive Overlap Fermions on Anisotropic Lattices
We formulate the massive overlap fermions on anisotropic lattices.
We find that the dispersion relation for the overlap fermion resembles the
continuum form in the low-momentum region once the bare parameters are properly
tuned. The quark self-energy and the quark field renormalization constants are
calculated to one-loop in bare lattice perturbation theory.
We argue that massive domain wall quarks might be helpful in lattice QCD
studies on heavy-light hadron spectroscopy.Comment: 21 pages, 5 figures, one reference added compared with v.
Erosion-induced massive organic carbon burial and carbon emission in the Yellow River basin, China
Soil erosion and terrestrial deposition of soil organic carbon (SOC) can
potentially play a significant role in global carbon cycling. Assessing the
redistribution of SOC during erosion and subsequent transport and burial is
of critical importance. Using hydrological records of soil erosion and
sediment load, and compiled organic carbon (OC) data, estimates of the eroded
soils and OC induced by water in the Yellow River basin during the period
1950–2010 were assembled. The Yellow River basin has experienced intense
soil erosion due to combined impact of natural process and human activity.
Over the period, 134.2 ± 24.7 Gt of soils and 1.07 ± 0.15 Gt of
OC have been eroded from hillslopes based on a soil erosion rate of
1.7–2.5 Gt yr<sup>−1</sup>. Approximately 63% of the eroded soils were
deposited in the river system, while only 37% were discharged into the
ocean. For the OC budget, approximately 0.53 ± 0.21 Gt (49.5%) was
buried in the river system, 0.25 ± 0.14 Gt (23.5%) was delivered
into the ocean, and the remaining 0.289 ± 0.294 Gt (27%) was
decomposed during the erosion and transport processes. This validates the
commonly held assumption that 20–40% of the eroded OC would be oxidized
after erosion. Erosion-induced OC redistribution on the landscape likely
represented a carbon source, although a large proportion of OC was buried. In
addition, about half of the terrestrially redeposited OC (49.4%) was
buried behind dams, revealing the importance of dam trapping in sequestering
the eroded OC. Although several uncertainties need to be better constrained,
the obtained budgetary results provide a means of assessing the
redistribution of the eroded OC within the Yellow River basin. Human
activities have significantly altered its redistribution pattern over the
past decades
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