Identity Politics Related to the Yao Muslims through A Post-Colonial Theoretical Framework

The study seeks to assess an important question that needs to be asked How can we get a clearer picture of the socio-cultural history of the Yao than that that exists in general among Yaos themselves as well as people who oppose the Yao This is a very large topic and this study will only start to trace some of the important historical facts and perception

Book review: China’s next strategic advantag: from imitation to innovation by George S. Yip and Bruce McKern

In China’s Next Strategic Advantage: From Imitation to Innovation, George S. Yip and Bruce McKern suggest that China has leapt successfully from being an imitative to an innovative country. As Chinese companies become increasingly innovative and perform better in domestic and international markets, the authors argue that other countries need to learn from China or risk lagging behind. Besides analysing both Chinese firms and MNCs in China, the book also taps into questions of open innovation and intellectual property protection practices. Yao Han appreciates the use of detailed examples and cases in illustrating the process towards innovation in China

The Society for Vascular Surgery: As I remember – An interview with Dr. Michael E. DeBakey

AbstractAs part of the activities to celebrate the first fifty years of the Society, the Celebration Committee decided to conduct a videotape interview of the two surviving founding members: Drs. Michael E. DeBakey and Harris B. Shumacker, Jr. Part of these two interviews will be shown at the 50th Annual Meeting in Chicago. The following transcript is from the interview with Dr. DeBakey conducted by Dr. F. William Blaisdell, Calvin B. Ernst, and James S. T. Yao

Comparison of the Poetics between British Ballads and Yao Ballads

Although British ballads and Yao ballads are created in different backgrounds of language and culture, they all come from the folk and are characterized by the folk songs, not only following the principles of traditional poetry composing, but also reflecting the social reality in an easy-to-understand language. Actually they are rare intangible cultural heritages retained by human beings. In this paper, poetic characteristics of British ballads and Yao ballads are analyzed from three aspects of meter, rhythm, rhyme and poetic style. The purpose is to explain the commonality and uniqueness of different national literary systems, and to sum up the aesthetic value and development law of literary works. Meanwhile, it also expounds the similarities or unique features between British ballads and Yao ballads by discussing the typical composing techniques and poetic structure characteristics of the ballads of the two nationalities, so that a useful conclusion is drawn for philosophical, aesthetic and critical comparative research as well as a new comparative perspective is explored for comparative literature research

On the maximal energy tree with two maximum degree vertices

For a simple graph $G$, the energy $E(G)$ is defined as the sum of the absolute values of all eigenvalues of its adjacent matrix. For $\Delta\geq 3$ and $t\geq 3$, denote by $T_a(\Delta,t)$ (or simply $T_a$) the tree formed from a path $P_t$ on $t$ vertices by attaching $\Delta-1$ $P_2$'s on each end of the path $P_t$, and $T_b(\Delta, t)$ (or simply $T_b$) the tree formed from $P_{t+2}$ by attaching $\Delta-1$ $P_2$'s on an end of the $P_{t+2}$ and $\Delta -2$ $P_2$'s on the vertex next to the end. In [X. Li, X. Yao, J. Zhang and I. Gutman, Maximum energy trees with two maximum degree vertices, J. Math. Chem. 45(2009), 962--973], Li et al. proved that among trees of order $n$ with two vertices of maximum degree $\Delta$, the maximal energy tree is either the graph $T_a$ or the graph $T_b$, where $t=n+4-4\Delta\geq 3$. However, they could not determine which one of $T_a$ and $T_b$ is the maximal energy tree. This is because the quasi-order method is invalid for comparing their energies. In this paper, we use a new method to determine the maximal energy tree. It turns out that things are more complicated. We prove that the maximal energy tree is $T_b$ for $\Delta\geq 7$ and any $t\geq 3$, while the maximal energy tree is $T_a$ for $\Delta=3$ and any $t\geq 3$. Moreover, for $\Delta=4$, the maximal energy tree is $T_a$ for all $t\geq 3$ but $t=4$, for which $T_b$ is the maximal energy tree. For $\Delta=5$, the maximal energy tree is $T_b$ for all $t\geq 3$ but $t$ is odd and $3\leq t\leq 89$, for which $T_a$ is the maximal energy tree. For $\Delta=6$, the maximal energy tree is $T_b$ for all $t\geq 3$ but $t=3,5,7$, for which $T_a$ is the maximal energy tree. One can see that for most $\Delta$, $T_b$ is the maximal energy tree, $\Delta=5$ is a turning point, and $\Delta=3$ and 4 are exceptional cases.Comment: 16 page

Relative clauses in Xong (Miao-Yao)

This paper provides an overview of relative clause constructions in Xong (Miao-Yao). Xong features an unusual number of distinct relative clause types, including some that obligatorily precede their head noun, others that obligatorily follow it, and still others that occur in either position. They occur with zero, one, or two relative clause markers. These formal variations are often accompanied by varying restrictions on possible roles of the head noun. Typologically rare aspects of Xong relative clauses – including pre-head relative clauses in a VO language, and pre-head relative clauses marked with an initial relativizing particle – are also discussedAustralian National Universit