It is 30 years after Post-Mao reforms, 20 years after Tiananmen Square demonstrations, and the next generation of “comrades” are emerging in China. They are called the Balinghou or “Post80s” generation, referring to the cohort born between 1980 and 1989. This study addresses an empirical gap by exploring the narrative resources Shanghai’s Post-80s young adults call on to construct their identit...

We study analytic properties of the Witten zeta function W(r, s, t), which is also named after Mordell and Tornheim. In particular, we evaluate the function W(s, s, τs) (τ > 0) at s = 0 and, as our main result, find the derivative of this function at s = 0. Our principal tool is an identity due to Crandall that involves a free parameter and provides an analytic continuation. Furthermore, we der...

Studies have shown /s/ variation to be a powerful social cue, indexing gender, social class, and age (Stuart-Smith 2007), as well as sexual orientation or non-normative masculinity (Pharao et al. 2014; Zimman 2017). Based on speech data from nineteen gay and straight French and German bilingual men this paper explores the social meaning of /s/ variation across three task types: an L2 (English) ...

The bidirectional coroutine is introduced as a mechanism for overcoming a shortcoming in the method of specification of the transfer of control between coroutines. An analogy is drawn between subroutines and coroutines by observing that coroutines, like subroutines, should not have to know with whom they are interacting. At present, most coroutine implementations require specific mention of the...

Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), which emerged in the United States in 2013, has spread throughout North America. Limited availability of PEDV complete genomes worldwide has impeded our understanding of PEDV introduction into the United States. To determine the relationship between the North American strains and global emerging and historic PEDV strains, we sequenced and analyzed complet...

The impact of the season on flowering time and the organization and morphogenesis of the reproductive structures are described in three tomato mutants: compound inflorescence (s), single flower truss (sft), and jointless (j), respectively, compared with their wild-type cultivars Ailsa Craig (AC), Platense (Pl), and Heinz (Hz). In all environmental conditions, the sft mutant flowered significant...

The fundamental concept of a fuzzy set, introduced by Zadeh in his classic paper [5] of 1965, has been applied by many authors to generalize some of the basic notions of algebra. In this note we characterize the semigroups for which each fuzzy ideal is prime, also the semigroups for which each fuzzy right ideal is prime. In Section 2, we prove that a semigroup is fully fuzzy prime if and only i...

one of the main issues faced by the north atlantic treaty organization (nato) in the post-cold war period has been the continued existence of the organization and accommodating its goals and agenda with the new world conditions. nato in this relation has made utmost efforts within the past two decades and by making a kind of identity transformation in its functions and missions, not only did no...