Mo Yan in Context: Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller

In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that “with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary.” The announcement marked the first time a resident of mainland China had ever received the award. This is the first English-language study of the Chinese writer’s work and influence, featuring essays from scholars in a range of disciplines, from both China and the United States. Its introduction, twelve articles, and epilogue aim to deepen and widen critical discussions of both a specific literary author and the globalization of Chinese literature more generally. The book takes the “root-seeking” movement with which Mo Yan’s works are associated as a metaphor for its organizational structure. The four articles of “Part I: Leaves” focus on Mo Yan’s works as world literature, exploring the long shadow his works have cast globally. Howard Goldblatt, Mo Yan’s English translator, explores the difficulties and rewards of interpreting his work, while subsequent articles cover issues such as censorship and the “performativity” associated with being a global author. “Part II: Trunk” explores the nativist core of Mo Yan’s works. Through careful comparative treatment of related historical events, the five articles in this section show how specific literary works intermingle with China’s national and international politics, its mid-twentieth-century visual culture, and its rich religious and literary conventions, including humor. The three articles in “Part III: Roots” delve into the theoretical and practical extensions of Mo Yan’s works, uncovering the vibrant critical and cultural systems that ground Eastern and Western literatures and cultures. Mo Yan in Context concludes with an epilogue by sociologist Fenggang Yang, offering a personal and globally aware reflection on the recognition Mo Yan’s works have received at this historical juncture.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_ebooks/1039/thumbnail.jp

Mo Yan in Context

This is the first English-language study of the Chinese writer’s work and influence, featuring essays from scholars in a range of disciplines, from both China and the United States. Its introduction, twelve articles, and epilogue aim to deepen and widen critical discussions of both a specific literary author and the globalization of Chinese literature more generally. The book takes the “root-seeking” movement with which Mo Yan’s works are associated as a metaphor for its organizational structure. The four articles of “Part I: Leaves” focus on Mo Yan’s works as world literature, exploring the long shadow his works have cast globally

Solving the Problem of Silicon Dioxide Melting Based on Deviation Model

In order to reveal the dissolution behavior of iron tailings in blast furnace slag, we studied the main component of silica in iron tailings. First, edge contour features need to be established to represent the melting process of silica. We choose shape, perimeter, area and generalized radius as objects. By independently analyzing the influence of these four indexes on the melting rate, the area and shape were selected as the characteristic parameters of the edge contour of the silica particles. Then, the actual melting rate of the silica is estimated by the edge contour feature index. Finally, we can calculate the melting rate of the first second of three time periods of 0.00010312mm3/s, 0.0002399mm3/s, 0.0000538mm3/s

Best Determined Position of Vents Based on Jet Cooling Model

In some data centers, cold air is required to act on the cabinet to achieve cooling requirements, and the mixing of cold air and hot air reduces the utilization efficiency of cold air. In order to solve this problem, a jet cooling model is established to solve the optimal position of the outlet through the movement of cold air

Towards the Development of Thermoresponsive Starch Films

Wound dressings are an important part of the global wound care market. In addition to having desirable physical properties such as flexibility and gas permeability, it is also important that they be easily removed. As wound dressings tend to stick to wounds due to the reduction of exudate, the removal of the dressing can be painful and cause secondary injuries. This issue can be minimized by using thermoresponsive (TR) materials. At body temperature, TR dressings are designed to be hydrophobic and adhere strongly to a wound, but upon cooling below body temperature they become hydrophilic and adhere less strongly thus allowing for easy removal of the dressing without causing damage to the wound. The TR films/membranes that have been examined for TR wound dressings are derived from synthetic polymers. Synthetic polymers can have environmental and health concerns when it comes to medical applications. An alternative to using TR synthetic polymers is TR biopolymers which have the advantages of low-cost and biocompatibility. TR hydroxybutylated starch nanoparticles (HBSNPs) have been developed in the Taylor group. The objective of this work is to develop TR hydroxybutyl starch-based films with mechanical properties that are favorable for wound dressing applications. Films prepared from HBSNPs and using glycerol (GY) as plasticizer lacked stability in that they tended to become brittle even when stored in an environment with controlled humidity. Different approaches to improving their stability were examined. Sorbitol or mixtures of sorbitol and GY were examined as plasticizers but the resulting films still readily cracked and were opaque. Blending the HBSNPs with different amounts of poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and GY generally did not produce stable films unless the amount of GY and PVA was very high (40 wt.% compared to the SNPs). The mechanical properties of the more stable HBSNP/PVA/GY films were determined by dynamic mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA) via tensile testings. Under 50 % RH, films with higher PVA had greater tensile strength and could be extended longer. No thermal transitions of these films or of the HBSNPs themselves were detected by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). mPEG-grafted HBSNPs were developed in order to prepare a stable and thermoresponsive film. However, this approach was ultimately abandoned as the mPEG-grafted HBSNPs were difficult to purify and the starting material was expensive. Hydroxybutylated corn starch (HBCS) films reinforced with unmodified SNPs were prepared. Incorporation of the SNPs enhanced the physical properties of the HBCS films. Attempts to determine their thermoresponsivity by measuring their water contact angles were unsuccessful as the films were not stable to water. It was concluded that crosslinking of the HBCS films would be necessary to provide the needed water stability for contact angle measurements. Gels were obtained when using hexamethylene diisocyanate (HMDI) to crosslink the HBSNPs. The gels appeared to be thermoresponsive as determined by DSC; however, the results were difficult to reproduce possibly due to different crosslink densities within the gels. HBCS films crosslinked with glyoxal (GX) or oxidized sucrose (OS) were also prepared. Although the GX and OS crosslinks appeared to increase the stability of the HBCS films in water, they were still not highly stable

A ROLE OF PRL-3 IN AUTOPHAGY AND ITS REGULATION IN HUMAN CANCERS

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Ramp Climbing Electric Car Based on MSP430F5529

The system uses MSP430F5529 as the control core, TPS63070 and TPS61088 as the voltage boost and step-down modules, and the black-and-white squares of the track are detected by the grayscale sensor to complete the tracking. The system is divided into 2 parts: software and hardware. The hardware part of the system includes 5 parts: motion chassis, MSP430F5529 MCU, power supply module, sensor module and motor-driven module. The software part makes logical judgments by collecting the digital signal returned by the grayscale sensor, obtains the deviation through weight comparison, and then GPIO outputs the corresponding PWM wave to control the direction of the car