The Pictorial Form of a Zoomorphic Ecology: Dragons and Their Painters in Song and Southern Song China

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Purtle
Keyword(s):  
Water Cycle ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
Human Intervention ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Southern Song ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
Pictorial Form

This essay studies painted dragons, zoomorphic tools of human intervention in the water cycle without correlative in empirical science. By demonstrating the relation of pictorial form to meteorological phenomena in dragon paintings used to summon rain, by arguing that the process of painting dragons mimicked, and thus effected, atmospheric events, and by suggesting how artistic repetition and repeated spectatorship of efficacious dragon paintings produced predictable meteorological outcomes, this essay shows how iconology and ecology converged in dragon painting during the Song and Yuan dynasties. This essay reveals that artistic and meteorological correspondences of form, process, and repetition aligned representational and climatological concerns, the shared language of art-historical description and ritual prescription establishing the painter as rainmaker and the rainmaker as painter. Ultimately, this essay suggests that control over the production, reproduction, and viewing of dragon images constituted the power to produce atmospheric events on demand.

scholarly journals Monitoring Tasks in Aerospace

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Shashank Pant ◽  
Zahra Sharif Khodaei ◽  
Mohamad Ghazi Droubi
Keyword(s):  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Operating Cost ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Condition Based Maintenance ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Human Intervention ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Maintenance Practice ◽  
Inspection And Maintenance ◽  
Monitoring Technologies

AbstractApproximately up to one-fifth of the direct operating cost of a commercial civilian fixed-wing aircraft is projected to be due to inspection and maintenance alone. Managing aircraft health with minimal human intervention and technologies that can perform continuous or on-demand monitoring/evaluation of aircraft components without having to take the aircraft out of service can have a significant impact on increasing availability while reducing maintenance cost. The ambition of these monitoring technologies is to shift aircraft maintenance practice from planned maintenance (PM), where the aircraft is taken out of service for scheduled inspection/maintenance, to condition-based maintenance (CBM), where aircraft is taken out of service only when maintenance is required, while maintaining the required levels of safety. Structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques can play a vital role in progressing towards CBM practice. Therefore, this chapter aims to provide the reader with a brief overview of the different SHM techniques and their use, as well as, challenges in implementing them for aircraft applications.

Psychology 101, on demand

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Chamberlin
Keyword(s):  
On Demand

Haemophilia Registry of the Medical Committee of the Swiss Haemophilia Society

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (S 01) ◽  
pp. S16-S18 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Brand ◽  
N. von der Weid
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Mutation Analysis ◽  
Clinical Data ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Global Survey ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Severity Of The Disease

SummaryThe Swiss Haemophilia Registry of the Medical Committee of the Swiss Haemophilia Society was established in 2000. Primarily it bears epidemiological and basic clinical data (incidence, type and severity of the disease, age groups, centres, mortality). Two thirds of the questions of the WFH Global Survey can be answered, especially those concerning use of concentrates (global, per capita) and treatment modalities (on-demand versus prophylactic regimens). Moreover, the registry is an important tool for quality control of the haemophilia treatment centres.There are no informations about infectious diseases like hepatitis or HIV, due to non-anonymisation of the data. We plan to incorporate the results of the mutation analysis in the future.

On-Line Calculation of Pulmonary Mechanics by Digital Computer

1978 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 261-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Brault ◽  
G. Atlan ◽  
H. Lorino ◽  
A. Harf ◽  
A.-M. Lorino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Pressure ◽  
Lung Compliance ◽  
Pulmonary Mechanics ◽  
Close Correspondence ◽  
Standard Equipment ◽  
On Demand ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ventilatory Mechanics ◽  
Computerized System

A system was built up around a minicomputer to process in real time pressure and flow signals collected during the course of three ventilatory mechanics tests: the calculation of the lung volume, the evaluation of the static lung compliance, the analysis of the forced expiratory performance. The subject is seated in an open body Plethysmograph, which allows for the instantaneous calculation of changes in the volume of his thorax and abdomen. The system is controlled through a graphics console which displays the sampled curves and the results of data processing. In addition, the signals can be stored on demand onto a magnetic tape so that the method can be tested and improved off line. The results obtained in healthy volunteers are highly reproducible. A close correspondence is found both in patients and volunteers between computer-derived and hand-calculated results. The computerized system has become a standard equipment of our Lung Function Department, where it allows for a rapid quantitative analysis of lung volumes, lung elasticity and bronchial airflow.

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