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Ziran: Authenticity or Authority?

Religions, 2019
This essay explores the core Daoist concept of ziran (commonly translated as spontaneity, naturalness, or self-so) and its relationship to authenticity and authority. Modern scholarship has often followed the interpretation of Guo Xiang (d.
Misha Tadd
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The trifecta approach: a staged alternative to the extended iliofemoral approach for complex acetabular fractures—technique and case report [PDF]

OTA International
. The ilioinguinal, anterior intrapelvic (modified Stoppa), and Kocher-Langenbeck approaches are mainstays of acetabular fracture surgery. For select patterns involving the sciatic buttress or inferior sacroiliac joint, an extended iliofemoral approach ...
Navid Ziran, MD, FACS, FAAOS
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Terahertz-Sensitive Diagnosis of Charge Carriers for Thermoelectrics [PDF]

Research
This commentary highlights the importance and implications of the study “Quadruple-band synglisis enables high thermoelectric efficiency in earth-abundant tin sulfide crystals”, led by C. Chang and L. Zhao, published in Science.
Ziran Zhao
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From Noncoercive Action to Shapelessness: On the Ontological Ground of Laozi’s Political Philosophy

Religions, 2022
The theoretical proposition that sages or ideal rulers wuwei 無為 (act noncoercively) to achieve ziran 自然 of people has been clearly identified as the key claim in the political field, as posed by Laozi. However, this proposition leaves two questions worth
Yiming Wang
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The “Greening” of Daoism

Asian Studies, 2023
In recent decades there has been much discussion of Daoist thought in the light of environmental or ecological ethics. In this paper, I will discuss the meanings of ziran and wuwei, the two key terms in Daoism within its own tradition and then explore ...
Ellen Y. Zhang
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Nature Prescribes Laws to Humans: The Ziran of the Myriad Things in Early Daoism

Religions, 2023
This essay examines the nature of things in early Daoism via the lens of comparative philosophy. Daoism uses ziran 自然 (spontaneity) to express the nature of things.
Jing Liu
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The Translingual Ziran of Laozi Chapter 25: Global Laozegetics and Meaning Unbound by Language

Religions, 2022
Many scholars view translations of the Chinese classics as inevitably lacking fidelity to the “original,” asserting language difference as a fundamental impediment to cross-cultural understanding.
Misha Tadd
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A Humanist Reading of Wang Chong’s Defence of Divination

Asian Studies, 2023
In this article, I present a new perspective on the thought of Wang Chong (王充, 27 CE – ca 97 CE) by drawing on Chung-Ying Cheng’s understanding of inclusive or intrinsic humanism.
Mark Kevin Cabural
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An Optimal Energy Saving Real-time Task Scheduling Algorithm for Mobile Terminal [PDF]

Jisuanji gongcheng, 2017
This paper discusses the principle,mechanism and strategy of hard real-time task scheduling in mobile termind devices.The mobile terminal has not only the timeliness requirements of the task,but also management requirements on energy consumption.This ...
PENG Ziran,WANG Guojun
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Postoperative infection, wrong-site surgery, and patient death after elective low-value orthopedic surgery: the epitome of preventable surgical complications [PDF]

Patient Safety in Surgery
Philip F. Stahel, Navid Ziran
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