This paper applies a hermeneutic approach to analyze, and a comparative approach to examine, Bai Juyi’s poems referenced in Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon, Tongguk Yi Sang-guk Chip by Yi Kyu-bo and Kyewŏn Pilgyŏngjip by Ch’oe Ch’i-wŏn. Through exploring Bai’s poetry in these texts, the author discovers how Murasaki, Sei, Ch’oe, and Yi contributed to transculturuation in Korea and Japan. Furthermore, the transculturation demonstrated by these literati shows a diversity of patterns: cultural mobilization from west to east; the emergence of overlapping histories in different eras and locations; a disappeared culture, recovered through being transmitted to other regions; cultural transplantation or transformation resulting from cultural contacts; and cultural products helped to stimulate economic growth. Subsequently, Bai Juyi’s works stand as a testament to the power of great poetry to improve and enhance cultures across a broad span of time and space.

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The Laplacian energy of a graph is the sum of the distances of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix of the graph to the graph's average degree. The maximum Laplacian energy over all graphs on n nodes and m edges is conjectured to be attained for threshold graphs. We prove the conjecture to hold for graphs with the property that for each k there is a threshold graph on the same number of nodes and edges whose sum of the k largest Laplacian eigenvalues exceeds that of the k largest Laplacian eigenvalues of the graph. We call such graphs spectrally threshold dominated. These graphs include split graphs and cographs and spectral threshold dominance is preserved by disjoint unions and taking complements. We conjecture that all graphs are spectrally threshold dominated. This conjecture turns out to be equivalent to Brouwer's conjecture concerning a bound on the sum of the k largest Laplacian eigenvalues.

The purpose of this master thesis in history was to examine the use of history of an Indian queen, the Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi. The Rani Lakshmi Bai was born in Banaras and married a king – the Raja of Jhansi. The Rani Lakshmi Bai fought against the British during the first war of independence year 1857-58. Recently, a memorial has been built at her supposed birthplace in Banaras, more than 150 years after her death. This development has raised several questions about the use of history of the Rani Lakshmi Bai. How has the use of history of Rani Lakshmi Bai changed? Why has it become relevant to build a statue of the Rani now and not before? The purpose of this study has been answered with the help of oral history and text analysis. Firstly, this has been done, by examining the knowledge of people from Banaras and Jhansi as well as through their perceived image of the Rani Lakshmi Bai. Twenty people from Banaras and four people from Jhansi have been interviewed. Secondly, the institutional level information has been examined which is presented in educational textbooks and newspapers like the local newspaper Aaj and the national newspapers The Hindu as well as The Times of India. The results show that the level of historical knowledge about the Rani is low, though the love and affection for her are great. The use of history of the Rani Lakshmi Bai has been as a freedom fighter, a role model in different contexts and a symbol, as well as an inspirational source of women empowerment. There is also a political use of the Rani. All these uses of history in combination with the increased economic interest in the neighbourhood of Assi in the city of Banaras made it relevant and possible to build a monument of the Rani Lakshmi Bai in present time.

Thesis (PhD (Pscychology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.

張惠玲. / "二〇〇八年十一月". / "2008 nian 11 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-105). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Zhang Huiling. / Chapter 第一章 --- 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節 --- 選題意義 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二節 --- 前人硏究成果 --- p.2 / Chapter 第三節 --- 本文硏究範圍及方法 --- p.2 / Chapter 第二章 --- 現存元明清李白戲作品敘錄 --- p.4 / Chapter 第一節 --- 王伯成《李太白眨夜郎》 --- p.8 / Chapter 第二節 --- 屠隆《綵毫記》 --- p.9 / Chapter 第三節 --- 尤侗《清平調》 --- p.10 / Chapter 第四節 --- 張韜《李翰林醉草清平調》 --- p.11 / Chapter 第五節 --- 楊潮觀《賀蘭山謫仙贈帶》 --- p.12 / Chapter 第六節 --- 蔣士銓《采石磯》 --- p.13 / Chapter 第三章 --- 元明清李白戲中相同關目之源流及發展梳理 --- p.15 / Chapter 第一節 --- 生應長庚 --- p.16 / Chapter 第二節 --- 謫仙人 --- p.18 / Chapter 第三節 --- 醉草〈清平調〉 --- p.24 / Chapter 第四節 --- 力士脫靴 --- p.26 / Chapter 第五節 --- 貴妃捧硯 --- p.28 / Chapter 第六節 --- 起草「嚇蠻書」 --- p.34 / Chapter 第七節 --- 賞識郭子儀 --- p.36 / Chapter 第八節 --- 逝世 --- p.38 / Chapter 第九節 --- 小結 --- p.39 / Chapter 第四章 --- 元明清李白戲中李白形象硏究 --- p.40 / Chapter 第一節 --- 李白戲中李白形象之共性分析 --- p.40 / Chapter 甲、 --- 歷劫紅塵的仙人形象 --- p.40 / Chapter 乙、 --- 傲岸疏狂的才子形象 --- p.42 / Chapter 丙、 --- 深識遠慮的忠臣形象 --- p.46 / Chapter 丁、 --- 飄然出世的隱士形象 --- p.49 / Chapter 第二節 --- 李白戲中李白形象之殊性分析 --- p.52 / Chapter 甲、 --- 元代李白戲 --- p.52 / Chapter 乙、 --- 明代李白戲 --- p.54 / Chapter 丙、 --- 清代李白戲 --- p.55 / Chapter 丁、 --- 小結 --- p.62 / Chapter 第五章 --- 元明清李白戲之鋪演與作家、時代之關係 --- p.64 / Chapter 第一節 --- 高壓政治下的王伯成 --- p.64 / Chapter 第二節 --- 自況雪冤的屠隆 --- p.66 / Chapter 第三節 --- 蹭蹬場屋的尤侗 --- p.71 / Chapter 第四節 --- 無限牢騷的張韜 --- p.79 / Chapter 第五節 --- 以古賢自期的楊潮觀 --- p.80 / Chapter 第六節 --- 以曲爲教化的蔣士銓 --- p.83 / Chapter 第七節 --- 小結 --- p.88 / Chapter 第六章 --- 餘論：現存唯一能演出之崑劇李白戲´ؤ´ؤ〈太白醉寫〉 --- p.91 / Chapter 第七章 --- 結論 --- p.96 / 參考書目 --- p.97

Composed for soprano, tenor, and baritone voices, woodwind, percussion, and string instruments, Three Voices is a polyglotic work that includes German, Chinese, and Spanish texts. The texts are chosen from Brecht Bertolt's Das Schiff, Po Chu I's Lang T'ao Sha, and Frederico Garcia Lorcá's Mar. Significant features of the piece are 1) application of Chinese operatic singing methods to vocal material in the sections that use Chinese text, 2) use of western instruments to emulate the sound of certain Chinese instruments, and 3) employment of Sprechstimme and dramatically inflected speech to create theatrical effects and highlight the sections that use German and Spanish texts.

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Depuis 1990, bon nombres de pays industrialisés et émergents ont adopté la politique de ciblage d’inflation. Ce régime monétaire a été adopté sans théorie adjacente dans la mesure où il a démarré comme une solution alternative à la recherche sans fin d’un système d’ancrage nominal suite aux échecs répétés des politiques antérieurs. Ce retard théorique fait naître de nombreux débats économiques sur la conduite de ce régime monétaire dont les plus importants feront l’objet d’une discussion approfondie au sein de cette thèse. Dans un premier chapitre, nous définissons la politique de ciblage d’inflation. Dans un second chapitre nous abordons la question de la conduite optimale de ce régime d’un point de vue théorique et empirique. Nous montrons que la règle optimale est une règle à la Taylor de type Forward-Looking dont elle peut avoir un comportement asymétrique. Dans un troisième chapitre, nous abordons la question de l’efficacité de la politique de ciblage d’inflation. Pour ce faire, nous avons étudié l’effet d’intervention de ce régime sur la dynamique d’inflation. Nous avons recours à la théorie spectrale évolutive afin de modéliser la série de l’inflation dans le but de tester son évolution. Les résultats sont en faveur de l’efficacité de ciblage d’inflation. Le dernier axe de cette thèse s’intéresse à la question de la performance économique de ce régime monétaire. Pour ce faire nous développons une méthodologie originale évaluée selon une approche économétrique originale. En effet, nous qualifions le ciblage d’inflation comme économiquement performant s’il génère une stabilité de l’environnement de la politique monétaire. Le fondement de cette idée fera l’objet du quatrième chapitre. Quant au chapitre cinq, il développera l’approche économétrique basée sur la théorie co-spectrale pour mesure le degré de stabilité de cet environnement. Les résultats montrent que le ciblage d’inflation est économiquement performant. / The inflation targeting policy (ITP) was born after the failure of many monetary policies. However, the ITP was adopted without inherent theory which raised many discussions. In this dissertation, we study the most important debates. In the first chapter, we defined the ITP. Then, we treat the question of the optimal rule conduct. We show that the optimal monetary rule is a type Taylor rule under a Forward-Looking version and which can be linear or nonlinear. In the third chapter, we focus on the discussion about the relevance of the inflation targeting policy. To study this point we use the evolutionary spectral analysis to model the inflation series and we test then, if the ITP cause a structural break. Our results show the relevance of the ITP. The last discussion in this work is to check the macroeconomic performance of the ITP. The main idea is to consider the ITP as economically efficient when it generates a stable monetary environment. The latter is considered as stable when a long-run equilibrium exists to which the paths of economic variables (inflation rate, interest rate and GDP growth) converge. The convergence of the variables’ paths implies that these variables are more predictable and implies a less uncertainty in the economic environment. To measure the degree of convergence between economic variables, we propose, in this paper, a dynamic time-varying variable presented in the frequency approach named cohesion. This variable is estimated from the evolutionary co-spectral theory. The results show that the ITP is a relevance policy and generate a good performance.