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Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract Fly ash foam composite concrete (FFC) is a sustainable, lightweight alternative to traditional concrete. However, accurately predicting its compressive strength (CS) through conventional laboratory methods is challenging due to its non‐linear behavior induced by the addition of foam content and fly ash. Also, the laboratory determination of CS
Atta Ullah +5 more
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, 2012 This is the introduction to the content of the jounrnal\u27s special issue (vol. 4 no. 1 / January 2013) celebrating the tenth anniversary of the International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP), which includes five
Tan, Sor-hoon
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This classroom study explored the effects of vocabulary support on collocation learning and affective responses in task‐based language teaching (TBLT) among English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners at a Japanese university. For this purpose, 68 EFL learners completed two interactive information‐gap tasks under either vocabulary‐support or ...
Yuichi Suzuki, Sachiko Nakamura
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Ascetical and mystical experience in Chinese Buddhism [PDF]
Kom: Časopis za Religijske NaukeThe oldest religious beliefs of the ancient China were characterized by personification of natural phenomena, cult of ancestors with a developed magical element and frequent practice of alchemical experimentation. Sorcery continues to exist in later ages,
Dabetić Ilija
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LIGHT AND AFFECTS FROM A COMPARATIVE POINT OF VIEW [PDF]
, 2014 Light metaphors occurring in Chinese philosophy and Stoicism are of special interest for the unique ways they channel potentialities of the self. In this paper I apply ideas from cognitive linguistics to examine selected structural features of these ...
Takaki, Kyle
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Cyberspace and the Emerging Chinese Religious Landscape – Preliminary Observations [PDF]
, 2004 It is still too early to assess the full impact of the Internet on China’s rapidly evolving religious landscape. The effectiveness of Falun Gong’s cyber-militancy has, however, underscored the role new information technologies are playing in the ...
Palmer, DA
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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
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Critical analysis of the philosophical conception of dao in Laozi's Daodejing and being in Heidegger's “Being and Time” [PDF]
That dao and being are correct as written about by Laozi and Heidegger respectively is exposed through eight focal ...
Green, Lucian
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Deconstructing a Discipline. A Review of Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto by Bryan Van Norden (Columbia University Press, 2017) [PDF]
, 2019 A review of Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto by Bryan Van Norden (Columbia University Press, 2017).Page numbers for this review were updated on 01/05 ...
Levine, Jill
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