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Thesis (M.A.)?--Zhong guo wen hua xue yuan. / Cover title. Reproduced from typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-89).

Despite of the historical significance of Six Dynasties (220--589)---a turbulent time between Han and Tang Dynasty---research on jades of the period remains a neglected overlooked topic. Short of systematic studies, our understanding of the functional change of jades from religious rituals to daily life and decoration is greatly lacking. The current thesis studies jades excavated from tombs and collected in museums, by identifying their dates, characteristics, and styles through comparison and stylistic analysis, and discusses the use of jades through three centuries of change. / The thesis begins with an introduction of important jade finds from 1949 to 2009, followed by three chapters (chapter 2--4) illustrating the jade culture of the Six Dynasties. Chapter 2 is a case study of a jade pendant set. This examination provides important implications on the stylistic origin and changes of jades in the Six Dynasties. Chapter 3 explores the cause of functional differences in jades produced and used by Chinese and non-Chinese people and their influences on Tang Dynasty jades. Chapter 4 discusses ingestion of jade as a religious quest for immortality under the impact of Daoism. The final chapter concludes the thesis with an investigation into the scarcity of jades from this period to define the significance of Six Dynasties jades in the broader history of Chinese jades. / 褚馨. / Adviser: Jenny F. So. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-206). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Chu Xin.

Bergkvist insjön AB is a sawmill yard which is capable of producing 350,000 cubic meter of timber every year this requires lot of internal resources. Sawmill operations can be classified as unloading, sorting, storage and production of timber. In the company we have trucks arriving at random they have to be unloaded and sent back at the earliest to avoid queuing up of trucks creating a problem for truck owners. The sawmill yard has to operate with two log stackers that does several tasks including transporting the logs from trucks to measurement station where the logs will be sorted into classes and dropped into pockets from pockets to the sorted timber yard where they are stored and finally from there to sawmill for final processing. The main issue that needs to be answered here is the lining up trucks that are waiting to be unload, creating a problem for both sawmill as well as the truck owners and given huge production volume, it is certain that handling of resources is top priority. A key challenge in handling of resources would be unloading of trucks and finding a way to optimize internal resources.To address this problem i have experimented on different ways of using internal resources, i have designed different cases, in case 1 we have both the log stackers working on sawmill and measurement station. The main objective of having this case is to make sawmill and measurement station to work all the time. Then in case 2, i have divided the work between both the log stackers, one log stacker will be working on sawmill and pocket_control and second log stacker will be working on measurement station and truck. Then in case 3 we have only one log stacker working on all the agents, this case was designed to reduce cost of production, as the experiment cannot be done in real-time due to operational cost, for this purpose simulation is used, preliminary investigation into simulation results suggested that case 2 is the best option has it reduced waiting time of trucks considerably when compared with other cases and it showed 50% increase in optimizing internal resources.

Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2002--Aachen.

Thesis (Doctoral)--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, 1982.

1Lothar von Falkenhausen, Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 2006). / Furthermore, differentiation of jades used among different social classes is also considered throughout these discussions. Finally, this research concludes with the discussion of the discourse of the existence of regional differences of jade from the Eastern Zhou period; the outcome of the "Restructuring" and the characteristics of jade excavated from the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng. This research is the only in-depth study of the Marquis Yi's jades known to date and should fill a major gap thirty years after their excavation. / Lothar von Falkenhausen proposed that a political movement occurred around 600 B.C., which resembled the Late Western Zhou Ritual Reform (circa 850 B.C.). He entitled this movement "the Middle Springs and Autumns Ritual Restructuring." 1 This "Restructuring" was advocated by a group of rulers of local polities who wished to strengthen their newly established kingdoms and reinstate social order through the restoration of religious and ritual ceremonies of the Western Zhou period. The "Restructuring" was characterized by a shift of social hierarchy and a change in religious content which had significant impact on people's lives in Eastern Zhou society. The main intention of this research is to find out the characteristics of jades from the Eastern Zhou Period and their relationship with the "Restructuring". / The focus and starting point of this study is a group of jades excavated from the tomb of the Marquis Yi of Zeng (died 430 BC). This undisturbed tomb yielded nearly three hundreds pieces of jade; they were well preserved and were highly representative for their remarkable quality and workmanship. / The third section will look at the issues surrounding the use and understanding of archaic jades during this period. The "Restructuring" advocated the restoration of religious cult and ritual of Late Western Zhou period, which lead to the employment of archaic jade and motifs borrowed from bronzes as potent political symbol and legitimacy. The fourth section discusses the ways in which the emergence of new religious ideologies affected the manufacturing of jades for burial. The belief of the afterworld and the existence of soul affected the production of burial jades in terms of functions, form and style. These burial jades show that the religious transformation of the Qin and Han Dynasty was, in fact, originated during the Warring States Period. / This investigation proceeds from four major perspectives. The first section studies how the set of sumptuary rules in the ceremonial system established after the "Western Zhou Ritual Reform" have been restored by the ruling class after the "Restructuring". This research has revealed that a new ceremonial system has been established after the "Restructuring" to justify users' political and social status. The second section examines the changing roles of jade in everyday contexts after the "Restructuring", from the perspectives of its value, function, and significance in society. The research has shown that although the feudal system has collapsed gradually with rapid social mobilization, jades were mostly confined to the upper class during the entire Eastern Zhou period. Their marvelous craftsmanship and enormous size were used to display users' political power, extraordinary taste and wealth. / 邱嘉汶. / Adviser: Jenny F. So. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-01, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-315). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Qiu Jiawen.

自清代吳大澂《古玉圖考》以來，中國玉器研究便與社會、禮制等相關聯，隨著20世紀下半葉良渚文化、紅山文化、興隆窪文化等遺址史前精美玉器的發現，玉器研究也逐漸從傳統金石學轉向考古學研究的方向，集中於聚落或墓葬研究。 / 源於石器研究領域的操作鏈方法為玉器技術研究提供了新的方向和視角。它注重動態性、持續性和完整性，將靜態遺存轉變為動態過程，還原某一特定的生產流程，通過比較不同群體的技術系統還原其背後社會、認知層面的異同。 / 操作鏈方法應用於玉器研究主要可以從聚落和作坊遺址兩個角度展開，本文以後者為重，選取環珠江口地區的白芒遺址個案分析，將操作鏈概念應用於玉石飾物作坊研究中，並進而尋找環珠江口地區不同遺址之間存在的生產消費關係，以及環珠江口地區作坊遺址所代表的技術與文化特徵。 / Since Wu Da-zheng’s Catalogue of Ancient Jades (Gu yu tu kao) in the Qing Period, research of Chinese jades has largely focused on analyses of their social and ritual significances. In latter half of the 20th century, excavations in Liangzhu, Hongshan, and Xinglongwa culture sites discovered many prehistoric jades. These important discoveries gradually shifted ancient jade studies to an archaeological approach, focusing on the settlement and burial contexts of the jades. / The use of the Chaîne Opératoire (French for "operational sequence") method in lithic studies has provided us a new research perspective and direction in the study of jades. This method pays attention to the full life history of the jades, from production to consumption and abandonment, which is treated as a dynamic and continuous process. Furthermore, it allows us to analyze the social and cognitive dimensions of the jade users through comparisons of the jades’ production technologies and use wear. / This paper applies the chaîne opératoire method to study jades by analyzing related settlements and lapidary workshops, especially the latter. Using the lapidary workshop at Pak Mong site on Lantau Island as the main case study, this study will examine the production and consumption of the Pearl River Delta region, and discuss the technological and cultural characteristics that these lapidary workshops represent. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 温雅棣. / Thesis (M.Phil.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-88). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Wen ya di.

The von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor pVHL is lost in 90% of clear-cell renal-cell carcinomas (ccRCCs). Jade-1 is a renal tumor suppressor that is normally stabilized by pVHL. MutS Homolog2 (MSH2) is a key initiator in DNA mismatch repair (MMR). Defects in MMR are associated with genome-wide instability and predisposition to certain types of cancer. Mass spectrometry data of immunoprecipitated Flag-tagged Jade-1 lysates showed signal for MSH2, suggesting Jade-1 may participate in MMR. Here, we confirmed an interaction between endogenous MSH2 and endogenous Jade-1 by coimmunoprecipitation. Using cell fractionation, we found that MSH2 and Jade-1 translocated to the nucleus in response to alkylating agent MNNG in kidney proximal tubule cells. We also visualized the translocation of Jade-1 by immunofluorescence. Silencing JADE1 also influenced the kinetics of MSH2 translocation. In addition, by colony forming assay, JADE1-silenced cells were resistant to mismatch damage induced by MNNG, which is a feature of cells with an MMR defect. Furthermore, reintroducing pVHL into renal cancer cells also changed the amount of translocated MSH2 and Jade-1. In contrast to wild-type mice, Jade1 heterozygous mice got spontaneous tumors, and those tumors continued to show heterozygosity for Jade1. Taken together, our results identify a mechanism for Jade-1 regulation of MMR through its nuclear translocation. pVHL may also contribute to MSH2 and Jade-1 translocation by increasing Jade-1 abundance. These findings establish an early role for Jade-1 in MMR, provide further indication that Jade-1 helps maintain genomic stability in the kidney and support that Jade-1 is a haploinsufficient renal tumor suppressor.

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