Every year, the Vietnamese people reportedly burned about 50,000 tons of joss papers, which took the form of not only bank notes, but iPhones, cars, clothes, even housekeepers, in hope of pleasing ...the dead. The practice was mistakenly attributed to traditional Buddhist teachings but originated in fact from China, which most Vietnamese were not aware of. In other aspects of life, there were many similar examples of Vietnamese so ready and comfortable with adding new norms, values, and beliefs, even contradictory ones, to their culture. This phenomenon, dubbed "cultural additivity", prompted us to study the co-existence, interaction, and influences among core values and norms of the Three Teachings –Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism–as shown through Vietnamese folktales. By applying Bayesian logistic regression, we evaluated the possibility of whether the key message of a story was dominated by a religion (dependent variables), as affected by the appearance of values and anti-values pertaining to the Three Teachings in the story (independent variables). Our main findings included the existence of the cultural additivity of Confucian and Taoist values. More specifically, empirical results showed that the interaction or addition of the values of Taoism and Confucianism in folktales together helped predict whether the key message of a story was about Confucianism, β{VT ⋅ VC} = 0.86. Meanwhile, there was no such statistical tendency for Buddhism. The results lead to a number of important implications. First, this showed the dominance of Confucianism because the fact that Confucian and Taoist values appeared together in a story led to the story’s key message dominated by Confucianism. Thus, it presented the evidence of Confucian dominance and against liberal interpretations of the concept of the Common Roots of Three Religions ("tam giáo đồng nguyên") as religious unification or unicity. Second, the concept of "cultural additivity" could help
We have developed a processor (SH-MobileR2) optimized for both low power and high performance. SH-MobileR2 includes a 32-bit RISC type SuperH CPU with 720 MIPS performance at 400 MHz operating ...frequency, and a Floating Point unit with 2.8 GFLOPS performance. The CPU also has a 256-KByte secondary unified cache on top of the 64-KByte primary split cache. Compared to the previous SH-MobileR processor, SH-MobileR2 introduces four peripheral modules: a DDR-SDRAM controller, an Interconnect Buffers with 128-Kbyte embedded Media RAM, an improved Video Processing unit (VPU5F), and an enhanced 2-D Graphics accelerator for higher performance in map rendering and graphic applications. Low-power consumption is achieved by optimizing blends of a 90 nm CMOS triple Vth cells, and applying four power-down modes. The low-power consumption and the high performance of SH-MobileR2 processor is the most suitable for portable navigation devices.
The temperature-pressure phase diagram of the ferromagnet LaCrGe\(_3\) is determined for the first time from a combination of magnetization, muon-spin-rotation and electrical resistivity ...measurements. The ferromagnetic phase is suppressed near \(2.1\)~GPa, but quantum criticality is avoided by the appearance of a magnetic phase, likely modulated, AFM\(_Q\). Our density functional theory total energy calculations suggest a near degeneracy of antiferromagnetic states with small magnetic wave vectors \(Q\) allowing for the potential of an ordering wave vector evolving from \(Q=0\) to finite \(Q\), as expected from the most recent theories on ferromagnetic quantum criticality. Our findings show that LaCrGe\(_3\) is a very simple example to study this scenario of avoided ferromagnetic quantum criticality and will inspire further study on this material and other itinerant ferromagnets.
Since a few last decades in Vietnam, offshore structure engineering has been strongly developed to meet the demand of the oil and gas exploitation. This paper deals with some main research results ...performed by the authors as follows: (1) Wave loads acting on the jacket elements taking into account of the marine growth in Vietnam sea conditions; (2) Reliability of offshore steel jacket structures basing on the fatigue failure; (3) Reliability of offshore concrete gravity structures basing on the fatigue failure; (4) New concept for estimating the total reliability of offshore structures basing on the combination of the ULS and FLS; (5) Applying this new concept to designing offshore structures installed in Vietnam sea. This study is useful for installing offshore structures with better safety in harsh sea of a tropical country with many storms every year as Vietnam.
We report here a lateral magnetometer fabricated on SOI using 6 masks. The sensor operates similar to a thyristor. With a supply voltage of 0.9 V and a total biasing current of 25 /spl mu/A, the ...magnetometer achieves a relative sensitivity of 210%/Tesla and an absolute sensitivity of 105%/Tesla.< >
In this paper an investigation on buried oxide effects in SOI lateral n-p-n bipolar transistors is presented. An anomalous buried oxide induced punchthrough effect is observed even for uniformly ...doped base and zero back-gate bias in SOI bipolar transistor. A better explanation for this effect is presented. This punchthrough is attributed to increased depletion widths compared to the bulk at collector and emitter junctions due to the presence of buried oxide in SOI substrates. The widely accepted depletion approximation fails to predict the depletion widths in SOI p-n junctions. Finally, a quasi-two-dimensional model is presented to model the potential distribution in the depletion region of SOI p-n junctions. Model predictions are found to be in good agreement with simulation data. Also the model is applied to design a lateral n-p-n transistor.< >
