As a masculine-feminine pairing comparable to butch-femme lesbian genders in Euro-American societies, T-P gender roles constitute lively elements the lesbian, or lala, subculture contemporary mainland China. Based on an ethnographic study conducted mid-2010s Shanghai and Yunnan Province, China, applying theoretical framework of ‘passionate aesthetics’, this article I investigate discourses prac...

As passionate readers, occasional writers, reviewers, and editors with different experiences, when we were asked to participate in shaping proposing a new journal, the first question that had deal was, of course, “do really need nephrology journal [...]

According to the Dualistic Model of Passion (39), passion entails valuing, liking, and spending time on an activity. The Dualistic Model also posits two types of passion for activities: harmonious passion (individual voluntarily engages in the activity) and obsessive passion (individual is compelled to engage in the activity). The purpose of the present study was to examine the possible links b...

We obtain a criterion for pulsating front speed-up by general periodic incompressible flows in two dimensions and in the presence of KPP nonlinearities. We achieve this by showing that the ratio of the minimal front speed and the effective diffusivity of the flow is bounded away from zero and infinity by constants independent of the flow. We also study speed-up of reaction-diffusion fronts by v...