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PublicationCapability Brown, Royal Gardener: The Business of Place-Making in Northern Europe( 2020)Lancelot “Capability†Brown was one of the most influential landscape designers of the eighteenth-century at a time when Britain was changing radically from an agrarian to an industrial and colonial nation, whilst Europe was periodically convulsed by war and revolution. The extent and nature of his influence are, however, fiercely debated. Brown worked at hundreds of important sites across England and his name became synonymous with the “English Garden†style which was copied across Northern Europe and entranced Catherine the Great, who remodelled her landscapes in St Petersburg to reflect the new style. He was fêted in his time, and recognised by the Crown, but Brown’s style was readily copied over his later life and particularly after his death. Arguably, this ubiquity led to the denigration of his achievements and even his character, particularly by the agents of the Picturesque. The lack of any personal primary material from Brown - forcing scholars to rely on his landscapes, contracts and bank accounts - has hindered attempts to provide a rounded and credible account of the man and his works. However, by exploring his team of associates and his role as Royal Gardener, new light can be thrown on the man, his landscapes and his landscape legacy. Bringing together a number of perspectives from across Northern Europe, Capability Brown, Royal Gardener explores the lasting international impact of Brown. With Brown’s position as Royal Gardener at its heart, this book explores for the first time his business methods, working methods and European influence. It assesses how, crucially, Brown’s work practices placed him within the world of nurserymen and landscape designers, and how his business practices and long term relationships with draughtsmen and designers allowed him to manage a huge number of projects and a substantial financial turnover. This, in turn, allowed him to work in a way that promoted and advanced his style of landscape. Edited by Professor Jonathan Finch (University of York) and Dr Jan Woudstra (University of Sheffield), and with a varied range of engaging contributors drawn internationally from archaeology, art history, history and landscape architecture, Capability Brown, Royal Gardener weaves together strands from across a broad range of disciplinary interests. It makes an important contribution to the scholarly discussion of Brown’s work, the work of his collaborators, and legacy in the UK and across Northern Europe. Relevant to students and academics at all levels, this volume throws new light on Capability Brown and his impact on the business of place-making in Northern Europe.
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PublicationAssessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region: A Report of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India( 2020)This open access book discusses the impact of human-induced global climate change on the regional climate and monsoons of the Indian subcontinent, adjoining Indian Ocean and the Himalayas. It documents the regional climate change projections based on the climate models used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and climate change modeling studies using the IITM Earth System Model (ESM) and CORDEX South Asia datasets. The IPCC assessment reports, published every 6–7 years, constitute important reference materials for major policy decisions on climate change, adaptation, and mitigation. While the IPCC assessment reports largely provide a global perspective on climate change, the focus on regional climate change aspects is considerably limited. The effects of climate change over the Indian subcontinent involve complex physical processes on different space and time scales, especially given that the mean climate of this region is generally shaped by the Indian monsoon and the unique high-elevation geographical features such as the Himalayas, the Western Ghats, the Tibetan Plateau and the adjoining Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, and Bay of Bengal. This book also presents policy relevant information based on robust scientific analysis and assessments of the observed and projected future climate change over the Indian region.
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PublicationScriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics: Religious Sources of Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern Era( 2020)The effect of religious factors on politics has been a key issue since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent rise of religious terrorism. However, the systematic investigations of these topics have focused primarily on the effects of religion on domestic and international conflict. Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics offers a comprehensive evaluation of the role of religion in international relations, broadening the scope of investigation to such topics as the relationship between religion and cooperation, religion and conflict, and the relationship between religion and the quality of life. Religion is often manipulated by political elites to advance their principal goal of political survival. Zeev Maoz and Errol A. Henderson find that no specific religion is either consistently more bellicose or consistently more cooperative than other religions. However, religious similarity between states tends to reduce the propensity of conflict and increase the opportunity for security cooperation. The authors find a significant relationship between secularism and human security.
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PublicationSemantic differences in translation: Exploring the field of inchoativity( 2020)Although the notion of meaning has always been at the core of translation, the invariance of meaning has, partly due to practical constraints, rarely been challenged in Corpus-based Translation Studies. In answer to this, the aim of this book is to question the invariance of meaning in translated texts: if translation scholars agree on the fact that translated language is different from non-translated language with respect to a number of grammatical and lexical aspects, would it be possible to identify differences between translated and non-translated language on the semantic level too? More specifically, this books tries to formulate an answer to the following three questions: (i) how can semantic differences in translated vs non-translated language be investigated in a corpus-based study?, (ii) are there any differences on the semantic level between translated and non-translated language? and (iii) if there are differences on the semantic level, can we ascribe them to any of the (universal) tendencies of translation? In this book, I establish a way to visually explore semantic similarity on the basis of representations of translated and non-translated semantic fields. A technique for the comparison of semantic fields of translated and non-translated language called SMM++ (based on Helge Dyvik’s Semantic Mirrors method) is developed, yielding statistics-based visualizations of semantic fields. The SMM++ is presented via the case of inchoativity in Dutch (beginnen [to begin]). By comparing the visualizations of the semantic fields on different levels (translated Dutch with French as a source language, with English as a source language and non-translated Dutch) I further explore whether the differences between translated and non-translated fields of inchoativity in Dutch can be linked to any of the well-known universals of translation. The main results of this study are explained on the basis of two cognitively inspired frameworks: Halverson’s Gravitational Pull Hypothesis and Paradis’ neurolinguistic theory of bilingualism.
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PublicationThe Summa Halensis: Doctrines and Debates( 2020)The Summa Halensis (1236-45) was collaboratively authored by the founding members of the Franciscan school at Paris and represents not only the first official statement of Franciscan thought but also a defining text for the field of systematic theology. This volume brings together leading scholars who explore the diverse doctrines and debates, with a view to highlighting its innovativeness and influence on subsequent generations.
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PublicationEffects of Several Organic Extracts on the Growth, Yield and Quality of Anoectochilus Formosanus Biomass( 2018)Anoectochilus formosanus is a high economic value herbal remedy, the oldest in herbal medicine. Nowadays, A. formosanus has been applied in many products of caring human health. However, A. formosanus in nature have slow growth characteristics, restrictive adapting conditions and susceptible to fungal diseases. Application of plant tissue culture technology can help to produce a large amount of A. formosanus biomass in controllable conditions. To be able to use A. formosanus biomass for serving human, plant growth regulators should not be used because of their disadvantageous affected on production quality. This topic surveys the effects of some organic extracts, using traditional plant tissue culture, on growing ability, yield and quality of A. formosanusbiomass. Some residual minerals which are useless for our health, such as NO3-, heavy metals (Cu, Zn, etc.) were also investigated for evaluating the quality of A. formosanusbiomass. After 60 days of culture, media supplementing with coconut water, yeast extract or Spirulina extract separately influenced positively to the growth and development of in-vitro A. formosanus. Yeast extract with the concentration of 2 g/l obtained the highest results in all targets, average height of explant was 11.69 cm/explant, average fresh weight was 2.57 g/explant. Contents of NO3-, Cu2+, Zn2+ are lower than the allowed threshold of FAO in all treatments. This study also examines the influence of culture density effecting on the yield capacity of A. formosanus. Results showed that, when cultured at a density of 10 explants per sigma box, their growth and development were better than others, achieved 251.44 g/L (total biomass/medium)
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PublicationNhân tố ảnh hưởng đến quyết định chọn mua thực phẩm sạch của người tiêu dùng tại Tp. Hồ Chí Minh( 2018)Bài viết xác định những nhân tố ảnh hưởng đến quyết định chọn mua thực phẩm sạch của người tiêu dùng tại TP. Hồ Chí Minh từ đó đo lường xác suất của người tiêu dùng khi quyết định chọn mua. Nghiên cứu cho thấy, quyết định chọn mua thực phẩm sạch của người tiêu dùng tại TP. Hồ Chí Minh vẫn còn rất thấp vì sự hoài nghi về thực phẩm trên thị trường cũng như sự hiểu biết về thực phẩm sạch chưa sâu sắc. Kết quả nghiên cứu cho thấy có 4 nhân tố ảnh hưởng đến quyết định chọn mua thực phẩm sạch tại TP. Hồ Chí Minh, đó là: Truyền thông, đặc điểm thực phẩm sạch, Xã hội và Nhận thức cá nhân. Bài viết đưa ra một số khuyến nghị đối với Nhà nước và doanh nghiệp nhằm nâng cao quyết định tiêu dùng thực phẩm sạch.
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PublicationDownlink Resource Allocation Maximized Video Delivery Capacity over Multi-hop Multi-path in Dense D2D 5G Networks( 2020)One of the significant challenges to 5G networks is how to serve a proliferation of dense mobile users (MUs) various video applications and services (VASs) at high delivery capacity under a scarcity of resources. In this paper, we exploit the resources of dense MUs to establish a set of device-to-device (D2D) multi-hop multi-path (MHMP) communications that can assist the macro base station (MBS) to offload the videos. Particularly, there are three types of MUs including cellular MUs (CUs), source MUs (SUs), and relay MUs, which are willing to share the downlink spectrum resources, provide the cached videos, and forward the videos, respectively. A downlink resource allocation for D2D MHMP communications (DRA-DMC) optimization problem is formulated to find the optimal allocation pairs of CUs and D2D hops in each path from the SUs to a destination MU (DU). Consequently, the DU can receive the videos flexibly from both the MBS and the SUs over D2D MHMP communications by reusing the downlink resources of the CUs, at maximum delivery capacity. Simulation results are performed to demonstrate the benefits of the DRA-DMC solution compared to other conventional schemes.
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PublicationThe Application of Metacognitive Strategies in Computer-Assisted Listening Comprehension Class( 2021)Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in listening comprehension courses has long been proved effective in enhancing EFL learner's listening proficiency as it creates enough space for students to individualize their learning process. However, it is a need to provide students appropriate strategies to help them overcome various difficulties in their listening practice. This quasi-experimental research aims at investigating the influence of metacognitive strategies on EFL learner's listening comprehension performance in CALL listening class. Forty-nine Vietnamese English major freshmen from two intact classes at Van Lang University, participated in the study. During the 10-week listening comprehension course, learners in the experimental group were instructed to use metacognitive strategies, while those in the control group received no strategy instruction. The collected data from the pre-test and post-test were analyzed by t-test using SPSS software. Students were also required to complete the Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire (MALQ), adopted from Vandergrift (2004). The findings suggested that metacognitive strategy instruction positively affects students' listening comprehension competence.
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PublicationDiscovery & Perceptions of Champa: the Đồng Dương Complex of Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam( 2021)Typical scholarly portrayals of the Đồng Dương site refer to a “Buddhist Monastery” of the classical Champā civilization, found in present-day Vietnam. French Orientalist research has strongly shaped scholarly focus on the monastery itself for the past century, informing the most recent English language scholarly production. However, more recent Vietnamese scholarship has begun to revise this portrayal, although most publications are archaeological reports for field experts and thus do not give a holistic understanding of Đồng Dương’s total archaeological footprint within a broader historical context. We bring English, French, and Vietnamese scholarship together in our analysis with field research and knowledge gleaned from indigenous Cham community members. We examine watchtowers, a citadel, relations with nearby ports, religious sites, a production site, and funerary sites while also noting challenges for ongoing research and providing recommendations for preserving the site in our conclusion.