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A Summary of Xiong Shili's Research on Philosophy Conducted in China

In China during the 1930s and 1940s, Xiong Shili was active in the field of philosophy. His "New Theory on Singular Intuition" won him a reputation that brought widespread attention from academic circles. While Xiong's system of philosophy came into being and matured, studies of and commentaries about his ideas continued. In the 1950s, however, the study of modern Chinese philosophy was almost nonexistent, and so it was for Xiong's philosophy. Although Xiong wrote more than a million characters in several works published over fifteen years after Liberation, he was completely ignored. Basically no one studied his work. Not only was his philosophy shunned, his name was never even mentioned. To compound this, he retired from the university, lived like a hermit, and no longer had contact with academic circles, until finally no one knew of his existence. Recently, with the deepening and expansion of study in the field of modern Chinese philosophy and a strengthening of exchanges with foreign cultures, scholars in China have begun paying attention to Xiong Shili's philosophy. The study of Xiong's philosophy has progressed from obscurity to active interest, and there are now brighter prospects than ever before.

Brighter prospects for wafer-scale integration

For over 20 years, wafer-scale integration (WSI) has remained a tantalising but elusive dream. A clearer understanding of the need to develop architectures matched to the special needs of WSI has brought commercial WSI systems significantly closer

Malignant ventricular arrhythmias early after myocardial infarction: Brighter prospects

Sustained ventricular arrhythmias (ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation) are among the most serious complications of acute myocardial infarction. Such arrhythmias occurring more than 48 hours after the acute infarction have an untreated recurrence rate of 30 to 80% (1-3) and have been associated with a high short-term mortality rate despite standard an• tiarrhythmic drug or surgical therapy (1-4). The report in this issue of the Journal by DiMarco et al. (5) concerning the occurrence and management of these life-threatening arrhythmias in the first 60 days after acute myocardial in• farction represents a significant improvement in the outlook for these patients. This is largely due to a number of recent innovations in both the medical and the surgical treatment of these arrhythmias. Medical therapy directed by electrophysiologic study. The medically treated patients in the series of DiMarco et al. generally had antiarrhythmic drug therapy directed by the results of electropharmacologic studies (as opposed to empiric antiarrhythmic drugs), a method that has gained widespread use in recent years. Of the medically treated patients, 75% were discharged from the hospital with no inducible ventricular arrhythmia on treatment with antiar• rhythmic drugs selected by electropharmacologic studies. On follow-up, most of these patients have remained well, and there has been only one sudden death. A major factor in the improved outcome with medical treatment compared with that in prior series is the use of amiodarone (75% of medically treated patients in the study by DiMarco et al. were treated with amiodarone alone or in combination with other antiarrhythmic agents). This drug can be used either

Liver cell cancer--intervention studies.

The field studies leading to possible intervention procedures are reviewed. Currently the most promising form of intervention is the prevention of aflatoxin contamination of foodstuffs. It is essential that these are monitored and their efficacy in lowering the incidence of liver cancer measured. The association of liver cancer with hepatitis B infection may be a confounding factor and the impact of this on the study population must also be considered. The imminent production of vaccines for hepatitis B infection may provide an alternative or additional mode of intervention. The possibilities for intervention in liver cell cancer appear one of the brighter prospects for primary prevention of a cancer.

Nietzsche and the Ascent of Man in a Cyclical Cosmos

I. ANYONE WHO IS either innocent or determined enough to take the myriad speculative genealogies and prophesies of Nietzsche's work at face value will readily allow that it tenders an evolutionary theory of history. The Birth of Tragedy claims that we are nearing the end of a Socratic era and that the change impending will be for the better as we overcome in ourselves a debilitating, scientific outlook and acquire a more healthy mode of perception drawn from the arts. Later books insist on parallel historical divisions and make similar, equally celebrated prophesies. On the Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Antichrist all identify our earliest ancestors as pagan, naive, innocent beasts whose Christian descendants, owing in part to the harsh repressions of military and priestly elites, have evolved into self-conscious, guilty in need of redemption. These same works suggest that that redemption will come to our own descendants only by way of further evolution in an age now beginning that will result in self-conscious, but innocent supermen. According to Thus Spake Zarathustra man is but a bridge between the prehuman and the posthuman, and the great noon that will mark the second advance of the race is upon us.l A new habit, Nietzsche speculates in Human, All-too-Human, is forming in us that in time may be powerful enough to give humanity the strength to produce conscious, wise, innocent men as it now produces conscious, unwise, guilty men. 2 Our old sick ideals are now fighting their last fight, he avows in The Joyful Wisdom. 3 Indeed, according to The Antichrist* and On the Genealogy of Morals s a new age of emancipation and innocence has already begun. Thus it would seem transparently clear that for Nietzsche we live at a pivotal point in our race's history, with a grim era behind us but with brighter prospects before us . It would seem, too, that that assessment of our age allowed him to flirt with a sense of historical mission, for--al though one may find an element of ironic bravado in his boasts he was ready to claim for his writings a millennial import in marking the end of one stage in our development and the beginning of another. I might shoot the history of mankind into two halves, he wrote to his friend Overbeck, 6 thereby commenting in private on his public, Messianic stance

Does Unemployment Affect Migration? Evidence from Micro Data

Migration is a means of improving the allocation of human resources. People living in places where they are not fully employed or most highly valued are expected to move to destinations having brighter prospects but both policymakers and migration analysts seem to have mixed opinions as to whether private market forces alone are sufficient to induce them to do so. On the one hand there has been considerable discussion of policies (e.g. relocation assistance programs) designed to affect migration directly by enabling or inducing the unemployed to move to more promising labor markets the implication being that the unemployed are not themselves sufficiently responsive to economic conditions. On the other hand policies of investment in depressed areas are based largely on the premise that expanded local economic opportunities will reduce economically forced outmigration. Available evidence has provided little guidance to policymakers and others concerned with the influence of personal and area unemployment on outmigration. Several studies using survey data (e.g. Saben 1964; Lansing and Mueller 1967) have confirmed that certain unemployed workers are more likely to migrate than employed workers; but because these studies do not use adequate controls for other characteristics that may affect migration the direct contribution of unemployment to migration cannot be determined. Studies using aggregate data to assess the relationship between unemployment and migration (e.g. Lowry 1966) have obtained mixed results but unemployment is often measured at the end of the migration period an hence may have been affected by the intervening migration. (excerpt)

Brighter prospects for Electricals

The Stock Market suffered a good deal from nervousness at the fag‐end of January — depressed by the 70 points drop in the Dow Jones Index since the year‐end and the prospects of labour problems with the power workers and tanker drivers.

The Role of the Specialized Educateur in the Socialization of Maladjusted Youth

I shall attempt to delineate the approach to the socialization of maladjusted youth in Africa, first trying to specify the activities involved in this task, and then briefly discussing what is expected of an educateuror, more precisely, what role the educateur plays in African society. But let me, before all else, try to provide a general perspective on the problem of maladjusted children in developing countries. In the past, the closely knit structure of our traditional societies, with their tight, independent, family units, permitted a more casual attitude to be taken toward maladjusted children. Parental authoritypaternal or maternal, depending on the social structurethe influence of aunts and uncles, and adoption systems (i.e., the tacit assumption of guardianship by a friend or relative) all exercised a positive influence in matters of youthful maladjustment. Unfortunately, these family structures have greatly deteriorated, even in the most secluded villages; and in the urban or industrial centers, the problems of childhood and adolescence are becoming particularly acute. The schools and the socio-economic development programs of which they are an integral part are uprooting children from the countryside and attracting them to the towns; and the manpower demands in the urban and industrial centers are gradually eroding the integral family unit, the result sometimes being that children are abandoned. The continued existence of polygamy also has important consequences in this regard. The uprooting of village populations leads to increasing unemployment in urban centers and gives rise to an unstable situation in rural areas, thus accentuating both sides of the general problem of underdevelopment. This aspect of underdevelopment has occupied the full attention of African nations in their efforts to provide brighter prospects for maladjusted youth. Not only those problems specific to maladjusted children but also those relating to youth as a whole must be given adequate consideration within the long-range programs of social and economic development.

Brighter prospects for Ulster industry?

Brighter prospects for Ulster industry?

The potential for reuse of plastics recovered from solid wastes

AbstractPlastics in solid wastes is a problem of growing concern. Recycling of wastes is currently believed to be the most acceptable form of disposal in the long run; however, this route is known to be especially difficult for plastics. Recycling would be easier if the various generic types present in solid wastes, mainly polyethylene, polystyrene and poly (vinyl chloride), could be isolated; however, this would be very difficult and expensive. This is a first report on research aimed at evaluating the potential of recycling plastics as a polymer blend of the various generic types. This approach suffers from the difficulty that the different plastics are incompatible and the blend has poor mechanical properties. The extent of this problem is documented with data on many ternary blends employing virgin polyethylene, polystyrene and poly (vinyl chloride) of numerous grades likely to be found in solid wastes. Property degradation was found to be more severe as the complexity of the blend increased, indicating that general municipal wastes could be reused only in very low grade applications, whereas certain commercial wastes might have brighter prospects. Strategies for improving blend properties are outlined.

Sweden: Secrecy and Neutrality

As is well known, this incident was fully disclosed only when, on his own initiative, Mr Prytz made his report known to the Swedish public in September I965, a quarter of a century after the event.1 The possible significance of this piece of evidence will of course not be discussed in this context. The episode has been cited only because it provides, in at least two respects, an appropriate starting point for a survey of recent Swedish research on the diplomatic aspects of contemporary history. In the first place, it brings up the question of the extent to which a small power's diplomatic source material may contain relevant information even on great issues in which it was not directly involved. This will of course largely depend on sheer chance, and on the abilities of individual diplomatic representatives; there are, however, some indications that a non-aligned position of the Swedish kind may often provide brighter prospects for comprehensive information than might be expected from a consideration of its power potential. Some recent diplomatic memoirs seem to bear this out,2 although we will know nothing for certain until we are given access to the archives. 1 The Times, 9 September I965. A complete account in Dagens Nyheter, 8 September I965. 2 Vilhelm Assarsson, I skuggan av Stalin (In the Shadow of Stalin: Moscow memoirs 1940-43), (Stockholm, I963); Erik Boheman, Pd vakt: Kabinettssekreterare under andra varldskriget (On Duty: Foreign Under-Secretary in World War II), (Stockholm, I964); Sven Allard, Ryskt utspel i Wien (Stockholm, I965); German transl. Diplomat in Wien: Erlebnisse, Begegnungen und Gedanken um den Osterreichischem Staatsvertrag (Cologne, 1965).

Operating Economics

OF all the civil aircraft currently being produced in Europe none would appear to have brighter prospects of success in the international market than the BAC One‐Eleven airliner. With the first flight still some weeks ahead, seven different operators have placed firm orders for forty‐five aircraft and a number of other airlines have declared their intention of con‐cluding purchases once the approval of the appropriate authorities have been obtained.

Brighter Prospects for Color TV

Brighter Prospects for Color TV

N. F. S. Grundtvig: "Indfald". Af Grundtvigarkivets fasc. 327, udgivet med kommentarer

N. F. S. Grundtvig: "Indfald". Af Grundtvigarkivets fasc. 327, udgivet med kommentarer

Siam Begins 1937 with Brighter Prospects

Other| March 03 1937 Siam Begins 1937 with Brighter Prospects C. P. C. P. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1937) 6 (5): 57–58. https://doi.org/10.2307/3021984 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation C. P.; Siam Begins 1937 with Brighter Prospects. Far Eastern Survey 3 March 1937; 6 (5): 57–58. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3021984 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Siam Begins 1937 with Brighter Prospects

Siam Begins 1937 with Brighter Prospects