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Saudi Reaction to Bab El Mandeb Attack Draws Attention to Iranian
UK £2 www.thearabweekly.com Issue 167, Year 4 July 29, 2018 EU €2.50 ISIS’s bloody The role of the Sheikh resilience in Zayed Grand Mosque Syria and Iraq in Abu Dhabi Pages 10-11 Page 20 Saudi reaction to Bab el Mandeb attack draws attention to Iranian, Houthi threats ► Experts saw Saudi Arabia as cautioning the international community against the risks posed by Iran and its Houthi proxies, whether in Yemen or in the proximity of Saudi borders. Mohammed Alkhereiji Force commander Major-General Qassem Soleimani. “The Red Sea, which was secure, London is no longer secure with the Ameri- can presence,” Soleimani said the he pro-Iran Houthi militia day after the attacks on the tank- carried through with threats ers. “[US President Donald] Trump to disrupt maritime naviga- should know we are a nation of mar- T tion in the Red Sea with at- tyrdom and that we await him.” tacks on two very large Saudi crude The Houthis had threatened to carriers. The July 25 attack, in which hinder traffic through Bab el Man- one of the two vessels was slightly deb into the Red Sea. The Iranians damaged, seemed an attempt to warned they could block shipping increase tension in the region but in the Strait of Hormuz. only to a certain point. Despite the threats and provoca- The Iranians and their proxies tions, the Iranians admit the bluster know that more serious incidents does not mean they think they can could draw a stronger international afford a war with the United States. -
Maria Khayutina • [email protected] the Tombs
Maria Khayutina [email protected] The Tombs of Peng State and Related Questions Paper for the Chicago Bronze Workshop, November 3-7, 2010 (, 1.1.) () The discovery of the Western Zhou period’s Peng State in Heng River Valley in the south of Shanxi Province represents one of the most fascinating archaeological events of the last decade. Ruled by a lineage of Kui (Gui ) surname, Peng, supposedly, was founded by descendants of a group that, to a certain degree, retained autonomy from the Huaxia cultural and political community, dominated by lineages of Zi , Ji and Jiang surnames. Considering Peng’s location right to the south of one of the major Ji states, Jin , and quite close to the eastern residence of Zhou kings, Chengzhou , its case can be very instructive with regard to the construction of the geo-political and cultural space in Early China during the Western Zhou period. Although the publication of the full excavations’ report may take years, some preliminary observations can be made already now based on simplified archaeological reports about the tombs of Peng ruler Cheng and his spouse née Ji of Bi . In the present paper, I briefly introduce the tombs inventory and the inscriptions on the bronzes, and then proceed to discuss the following questions: - How the tombs M1 and M2 at Hengbei can be dated? - What does the equipment of the Hengbei tombs suggest about the cultural roots of Peng? - What can be observed about Peng’s relations to the Gui people and to other Kui/Gui- surnamed lineages? 1. General Information The cemetery of Peng state has been discovered near Hengbei village (Hengshui town, Jiang County, Shanxi ). -
Fin Nal Pro Ogra Am
RAMADA PLAZA HOTEL – BEIRUT – LEBANON FINAL PROGRAM ICCA’18 Page 1 Welcome Message ICCA 2018 General Chairs Professor Dr. Amin Haj-Ali Professor Dr. Jihad M. Alja’am Welcome to the third edition of the International Conference on Computer and Applications, ICCA’18. This year’s edition, in Beirut, includes papers covering a vast range of topics from hardware implementations, to virtual reality, to cybersecurity and much more. With the ubiquity of computing in our lives, the opportunity to share and collaborate about these topics is valuable. ICCA’18 provides such an opportunity, as such, it’s no wonder that ICCA’18 received 128 paper submissions, with 84 being accepted for presentation. The world is on the cusp of technological revolutions driven by computing. Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things are two such computing based revolutions. We are about to become much more dependent on applications being designed and trialed today in our universities and research labs. With such a fast rate of development in these socially and economically influential fields, we would like to thank the International University of Beirut, BIU, for hosting this forum that allows international and Lebanese researchers to share ideas, experiences and opinions for the purpose of enhancing our knowledge and use of emerging computing technologies. Amin Haj-Ali, Jihad ALJa’am, ICCA’18 Page 2 Keynnote Speaker: Professor Dr. Alim Rüstem Aslan Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Department of Astronautical Engineering Prof. Aslan graduated as an Aeronautical Engineer from the ITU Department of Aeronautical Engineering. He received his MSc degree from the same department in 1985. -
The Rise of Agricultural Civilization in China: the Disparity Between Archeological Discovery and the Documentary Record and Its Explanation
SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS Number 175 December, 2006 The Rise of Agricultural Civilization in China: The Disparity between Archeological Discovery and the Documentary Record and Its Explanation by Zhou Jixu Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Chinese Department, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, Sichuan Victor H. Mair, Editor Sino-Platonic Papers Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA [email protected] www.sino-platonic.org SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series edited by Victor H. Mair. The purpose of the series is to make available to specialists and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished. The editor actively encourages younger, not yet well established, scholars and independent authors to submit manuscripts for consideration. Contributions in any of the major scholarly languages of the world, including Romanized Modern Standard Mandarin (MSM) and Japanese, are acceptable. In special circumstances, papers written in one of the Sinitic topolects (fangyan) may be considered for publication. Although the chief focus of Sino-Platonic Papers is on the intercultural relations of China with other peoples, challenging and creative studies on a wide variety of philological subjects will be entertained. This series is not the place for safe, sober, and stodgy presentations. Sino-Platonic Papers prefers lively work that, while taking reasonable risks to advance the field, capitalizes on brilliant new insights into the development of civilization. The only style-sheet we honor is that of consistency. Where possible, we prefer the usages of the Journal of Asian Studies. -
The Al Qaeda Network a New Framework for Defining the Enemy
THE AL QAEDA NETWORK A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR DEFINING THE ENEMY KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN SEPTEMBER 2013 THE AL QAEDA NETWORK A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR DEFINING THE ENEMY KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN SEPTEMBER 2013 A REPORT BY AEI’S CRITICAL THREATS PROJECT ABOUT US About the Author Katherine Zimmerman is a senior analyst and the al Qaeda and Associated Movements Team Lead for the Ameri- can Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project. Her work has focused on al Qaeda’s affiliates in the Gulf of Aden region and associated movements in western and northern Africa. She specializes in the Yemen-based group, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and al Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia, al Shabaab. Zimmerman has testified in front of Congress and briefed Members and congressional staff, as well as members of the defense community. She has written analyses of U.S. national security interests related to the threat from the al Qaeda network for the Weekly Standard, National Review Online, and the Huffington Post, among others. Acknowledgments The ideas presented in this paper have been developed and refined over the course of many conversations with the research teams at the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project. The valuable insights and understandings of regional groups provided by these teams directly contributed to the final product, and I am very grateful to them for sharing their expertise with me. I would also like to express my deep gratitude to Dr. Kimberly Kagan and Jessica Lewis for dedicating their time to helping refine my intellectual under- standing of networks and to Danielle Pletka, whose full support and effort helped shape the final product. -
The Case of the Missing Indigene: Debate Over a 'Second-Generation'
The Case of the Missing Indigene: Debate Over a “Second-Generation” Ethnic Policy .BSL&MMJPUU ABSTRACT The last few years have seen a vigorous public policy debate emerge over a “second- generation” ethnic policy (di’erdai minzu zhengce) which, if implemented, would constitute a major revision of ethnic politics in China. Despite the fact that nationalities policy is a notoriously sensitive subject within China, the debate is happening openly in newspapers, academic journals and on the Internet. The prominence accorded to anthropological theory and international comparison is a notable feature of the debate. This article first explores the main positions in the ongoing policy discussion, then goes on to argue that, rather than comparing China’s non-Han peoples to minority immigrant populations in the industrial- ized democracies, a better comparison is to indigenous peoples. It then considers why this perspective is completely missing from the present debate. n recent years, a debate has arisen among intellectuals and officials in the IPeople’s Republic of China over the proper framework for managing the affairs of the country’s roughly 114 million citizens who identify themselves ethnically other than as Han Chinese (Hanzu 汉族).1 The earliest questioning of the present system for determining minority nationality status (shaoshu minzu chengfen 少数 民族成分) dates from about a decade ago, but the discussion has become greatly amplified since 2008, as the situation in many of the country’s ethnically dis- tinct frontier regions—notably, Tibet, Xinjiang and Mongolia—has deteriorated, * A version of this article was first presented at an international conference on the “second-generation” policy held at Shiga University (Japan) in December 2012. -
Download PDF Conference Programme
CVM 2020 Programme Conference venue: Online Conference by Tencent/VooV + Bilibili Download PDF conference programme Day One Thursday, 3 September 2020 9:00 - 9:20 Opening session Keynote 1 9:20-10:05 Gordon Wetzstein (Stanford University) Towards Neural Imaging and Display Session 1 Cognitive Media 10:05 - 10:25 Qiang Fu, Hongbo Fu, Hai Yan, Bin Zhou, Xiaowu Chen, Xueming Li Human-Centric Metrics for Indoor Scene Assessment and Synthesis 10:25 - 10:45 Rui-Song Zhang, Wei-Ze Quan, Lu-Bin Fan, Li-Ming Hu, Dong-Ming Yan Distinguishing Computer-Generated Images from Natural Images Using Channel and Pixel Correlation 10:45 - 11:05 Song-Hai Zhang, Zheng-Ping Zhou, Bin Liu, Xi Dong, Peter Hall What and Where: A Context-based Recommendation System for Object Insertion Session 2 Neural Rendering 11:05 - 11:25 Zheng Zeng, Lu Wang, Beibei Wang, Chunmeng Kang, Yanning Xu Denoising Stochastic Progressive Photon Mapping Renderings Using a Multi-Residual Network 11:25 - 11: 45 Weiheng Lin, Beibei Wang, Lu Wang, Nicolas Holzschuch A Detail Preserving Neural Network Model for Monte Carlo Denoising Session 3 Detection, Classification and Recognition 14:00-14:20 Ruochen Fan, Xuanrun Wang, Qibin Hou, Hanchao Liu, Tai-jiang Mu SpinNet: Spinning convolutional network for lane boundary detection 14:20-14:40 Jin-Gong Jia, Yuan-Feng Zhou, Xing-Wei Hao, Feng Li, Christian Desrosiers, Cai-Ming Zhang Two-Stream Temporal Convolutional Networks for Skeleton-Based Human Action Recognition 14:40-15:00 Xinxin Liu, Yunfeng Zhang, Fangxun Bao, Kai Shao, Ziyi Sun, Caiming -
Once Upon a Time... Aleppo Page 2 |No
Mehr Vision|No.6|October 2016 Once Upon a Time... Aleppo Page 2 |No. 6| October 2016 MEHR NEWSAGENCY Contents Nojeh airbase; climax of Iran-Russia defense cooperation 3 World seeking power shift towards Iran-Russia alliance 5 Impotent rage of Washington 6 US apology for Deir Ezzor episode ‘unavailing’ 7 US call for no-fly zone in Syria foil to protect its terrorist proxies 8 Will US-Russia fragile deal on Syria survive? 10 Syrian ceasefire or shortcut to Aleppo? 11 Blindsiding game of Erdogan;Op Euphrates Shield 13 Syrian and Iraqi crisis post-US presidential elections 15 Media blackout on Saudi Yemen invasion; UN’s futile shouts 19 Yemen rallies: For democracy, against Saudi Arabia 22 Why encroaching on Iranian soil is an unattainable dream? 24 Merkel under fire over ‘open-door’ refugee policy 28 When cultural courtesy becomes diplomacy 29 Politics DAPL: A broken treaty, a lost promise 30 Once Upon a Time... Aleppo Why has Trump never been a postmodern candidate? 32 Iran’s constructive role in Iraq 35 New chapter of ties between Iran-Latin America 36 Bright future on Iran-France relations 38 Mehr Vision Renewal of Tehran-Ankara relations 39 Bright future ahead of Tehran-Berlin economic ties 40 Managing Director: Ali Asgari Iran Foreign Relations Iran Foreign EU–Iran Relations after Brexit 41 Editorial Board: Seyed Amir Hassan Dehghani, Winners and losers of cheap oil ahead of OPEC summit 46 Mohammad Ghaderi, HamidReza Gholamzadeh Kimia’s bronze shines golden in Iranian women’s eyes 50 Editorial Coordinator: Marjohn Sheikhi Puppet theater -
Putin Dönemi Rusya Iran Arasindaki Askeri Ilişkiler
T.C. SAKARYA ÜNİVERSİTESİ ORTADOĞU ENSTİTÜSÜ PUTİN DÖNEMİ RUSYA İRAN ARASINDAKİ ASKERİ İLİŞKİLER YÜKSEK LİSANS TEZİ Hoshimjon MAHMADOV Enstitü Anabilim Dalı: Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Tez Danışmanı: Doç. Dr. İsmail Numan TELCİ OCAK - 2019 T.C. SAKARYA ÜNİVERSİTESİ ORTADOĞU ENSTİTÜSÜ PUTİN DÖNEMİ RUSYA İRAN ARASINDAKİ ASKERİ İLİŞKİLER YÜKSEK LİSANS TEZİ Hoshimjon MAHMADOV Enstitü Anabilim Dalı: Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Tez Danışmanı: Doç. Dr. İsmail Numan TELCİ OCAK - 2019 TEŞEKKÜR Bu tez çalışmanın gerçekleştirilmesinde, kıymetli zamanını ayırıp bana destek olan danışman hocam Doç. Dr. İsmail Numan TELCİ’ye ve yüksek lisans eğitimimin esnasında tecrübe ve bilimlerinden yararlandığım Ortadoğu Enstitüsü’nün tüm öğretim üyelerine ve burada eğitim almam için vesile olan “Yurtdışı Türkler ve Akraba Topluluklar Başkanlığı’na teşekkür ve minnetlerimi sunarım. Hoshimjon MAHMADOV 14/01/2019 ii İÇİNDEKİLER BEYAN ............................................................................................................................. I TEŞEKKÜR ................................................................................................................... II KISALTMALAR ............................................................................................................ V TABLOLAR LİSTESİ ............................................................................................... VII ÖZET..………………………… ................................................................................ VIII ABSTRACT………...........………… .......................................................................... -
Indo-Europeans in the Ancient Yellow River Valley
SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS Number 311 April, 2021 Indo-Europeans in the Ancient Yellow River Valley by Shaun C. R. Ramsden Victor H. Mair, Editor Sino-Platonic Papers Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA [email protected] www.sino-platonic.org SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS FOUNDED 1986 Editor-in-Chief VICTOR H. MAIR Associate Editors PAULA ROBERTS MARK SWOFFORD ISSN 2157-9679 (print) 2157-9687 (online) SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series dedicated to making available to specialists and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished. The editor-in-chief actively encourages younger, not yet well established scholars and independent authors to submit manuscripts for consideration. Contributions in any of the major scholarly languages of the world, including romanized modern standard Mandarin and Japanese, are acceptable. In special circumstances, papers written in one of the Sinitic topolects (fangyan) may be considered for publication. Although the chief focus of Sino-Platonic Papers is on the intercultural relations of China with other peoples, challenging and creative studies on a wide variety of philological subjects will be entertained. This series is not the place for safe, sober, and stodgy presentations. Sino-Platonic Papers prefers lively work that, while taking reasonable risks to advance the field, capitalizes on brilliant new insights into the development of civilization. Submissions are regularly sent out for peer review, and extensive editorial suggestions for revision may be offered. Sino-Platonic Papers emphasizes substance over form. We do, however, strongly recommend that prospective authors consult our style guidelines at www.sino-platonic.org/stylesheet.doc. -
USAF Counterproliferation Center CPC Outreach Journal #1038
Issue No. 1038, 21 December 2012 Articles & Other Documents: Featured Article: Russia Designs New Types of Intercontinental Missiles 1. Iranian First VP: Atomic Bomb No Point of Dispute 2. Iran, IAEA Satisfied with Outcome of Talks in Tehran: Lawmaker 3. Salehi: Iran Deeply Distrustful of US Officials' Offer of Direct Talks 4. Iran Defiant on Enrichment Ahead of Possible Nuclear Talks 5. Russian Foreign Ministry: Meeting of Six-Party Iran Group may Take Place in January 2013 6. Panetta Expresses Concern over N. Korea's Unpredictability 7. State-level Lab on Nuclear, Biochemical Disaster Protection Founded 8. U.S. Pressing China to Back U.N. Punishment for N. Korea: Source 9. China Must Not Make Nuclear Aircraft Carriers Recklessly: Expert 10. S. Korea's Defense Paper Reaffirms Commitment to Western Sea Border, Dokdo 11. Nuclear Capable Prithvi-II Missile Test Successful 12. Russia Designs New Types of Intercontinental Missiles 13. Russia to Put 100 Strategic Missiles on Service by Yearend 14. Russia to Float Out New Borey Class Sub on Dec. 30 15. Euro ABMs Wipe Russia’s Nuclear Potential Out 16. Fewer Russian Tactical Nukes Are Battle-Ready than Widely Thought: Expert 17. U.K. Has 1,000 Developing Trident Successor 18. Three Documents Implementing Romania-US Ballistic Missile Defence Agreement, Signed on Tuesday 19. Iran Missile Work Likely to Impact Rollout of ICBM Interceptor: Ex-U.S. Envoy 20. US Has World’s Fastest Supercomputer Used for Nuclear Weapons Simulations and Modeling 21. House Approves Sweeping Defense Spending Bill 22. Has Syria Become Al-Qaeda's New Base For Terror Strikes On Europe? 23. -
The Interaction of Cello and Chinese Traditional Music
The Interaction of Cello and Chinese Traditional Music BY LAN JIANG Submitted to the graduate degree program in Music and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts. Dr. Paul Laird Mr. Edward Laut Mr. David Leslie Neely Dr. Martin J. Bergee Dr. Bryan Kip Haaheim Defense Date: May 25, 2017 i The Dissertation Committee for Lan Jiang certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: The Interaction of Cello and Chinese Traditional Music Chairperson Dr. Paul Laird Date approved: May 30, 2016 ii Abstract This document concerns the interaction of the cello and Chinese traditional music with an emphasis on three major areas. An historical introduction to western music in China includes descriptions of its early appearances and development, musical education influences, and how the cello became an important instrument in China. The second section is a discussion of techniques of western music and Chinese traditional music as used by Chinese composers, who write works in both styles separately and in admixtures of the two. The third section is a description of four Chinese works that include cello: “《二泉印月》” (Reflection of Moon in Er-Quan Spring), 《“ 川腔》” (The Voice of Chuan), “《渔舟唱晚》” (The Melodies of the Fishing Night), and “《对话集 I》” (Dialogue I). Analysis of these four works helps show how the cello has been assimilated into Chinese traditional music in both solo and ensemble fields, with specific looks at incorporating traditional performing techniques on the cello, the imitation of programmatic themes and aspects of Chinese culture in such works, and complex issues concerning aspects of performance.