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Han Fei's Enlightened Ruler [PDF]
, 2013 In this essay I revise, based on the notion of the ‘enlightened ruler’ or mingzhu and his critique of the literati of his time, the common belief that Han Fei was an amoralist and an advocate of tyranny.
Bárcenas, Alejandro
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2006 Zvi Ben-Dor Benite has contributed an important piece to the history of Muslims in imperial China, centered on a seventeenth-century Muslim genealogy known as the Jing Xue Xi Chuan Pu (hereinafter Genealogy), which has been recently discovered ...
Haiyun Ma
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QCD axion from a spontaneously broken B − L gauge symmetry
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 In this paper, we show that the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry with a good quality can be realized in a simple B −L extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model.
Gongjun Choi +2 more
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Momentum Strategies with L1 Filter [PDF]
, 2014 In this article, we discuss various implementation of L1 filtering in order to detect some properties of noisy signals. This filter consists of using a L1 penalty condition in order to obtain the filtered signal composed by a set of straight trends or ...
Dao, Tung-Lam
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Modeling and Characterization of a Self‐Sensing Soft Hydraulic Muscle
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This article presents the self‐sensing soft hydraulic muscle (SSHM), a novel soft actuator capable of simultaneously sensing force and length without external sensors. A comprehensive model accurately predicts SSHM behavior, validated experimentally with minimal errors. Using propylene glycol enhances durability and reduces hysteresis.
Nhu An Phan +8 more
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LikeStarter: a Smart-contract based Social DAO for Crowdfunding
, 2019 Crowdfunding has become a popular form of collective funding, in which small donations or investments, made by groups of people, support the development of new projects in exchange of free products or different types of recognition. Social network sites,
Contu, Michele +3 more
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Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView.Selenomethionine can ameliorate arachidonic acid‐induced colonic injury through synergistic mechanisms, including alleviating inflammatory responses, improving barrier integrity, enhancing antioxidant capacity by upregulating selenoprotein expression, selectively regulating AA metabolism to reduce pro‐inflammatory oxylipins and promote the production ...
Huihui Tian +8 more
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.This systematic review identified 112 population pharmacokinetic models of vancomycin in neonates and children. To support rational model selection for model‐informed precision, we developed and applied expert‐driven, transparent criteria that integrate both methodological rigour and clinical relevance.
Zoë Vander Elst +8 more
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The negative words and religious turn of Laozi’s Dao theory
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesBesides concepts such as ‘being’ (有 [you]) and ‘non-being’ (无 [wu]), nature and the One to reveal the relationship between Dao and the phenomenal world from a positive perspective, Laozi used negative words, forming a speech system comprising ‘opposite ...
Youdong Yang
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