This article attempts to explain how Li Yu 李漁 (1611–80), China’s “first professional writer,” made himself indispensable to the literati culture upon which he socially and financially depended by writing, commenting on, and performing chuanqi傳奇, or plays in the characteristic Southern style. This article analyzes four plays based on Li’s own short stories and theorizes their appeal to seventeen...

This article deals with relaxation approximations of nonlinear systems of hyperbolic balance laws. We introduce a class of relaxation schemes and establish their stability and convergence to the solution of hyperbolic balance laws before the formation of shocks, provided that we are within the framework of the compensated compactness method. Our analysis treats systems of hyperbolic balance law...

~ ~ ~ I ne of the critical elements that under 1 1 girds my commitment to patient care \ ^ J is the vantage point I have had in wit± nessing the human spirit . Harry Truman once said, "The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself." Patients in acute care facilities experience crises in varying degrees of severity. Some patients meet this challe...

the newly established system of islamic economy in iran, specifically the non-usury banking system is in need of appropriate conditions to attain its goals. the special economic conditions of iran (stagflation conditions) after the islamic revolution which was rooted in weak pre-revolutionary situation made non-usury banking system encounter problems and people have great doubt about the semi-u...

Most experienced negotiators are comfortable working out the terms of the “economic contract,” or the “letter of the deal” around issues such as price, investment, equity splits, governance provisions, warrantees, and exit clauses. Yet even where the economics are compelling, the “spirit of the deal” or “social contract” can get short shrift. Though the parties sign the same deal, their minds m...

The Spirit of the Laboratory: PROFESSOR CHARLES Special Articles: R. STOCKARD ........ 343 Magnetic Anomalies near Wilmington, N. C.: DR. The American Association for the Advancement of GERALD R. MACCARTHY and H. W. STALEY, III. Science: Effect of Certain Enzymes and Amino-Acids on Agricultural Besearch in China. II: H. K. HAYES 347 Crown Gall Tissues: DR. P. A. ARK. Sex Differences in Anemic B...

  The purpose of this paper is to explore the influential factors on entrepreneurial spirit of wood and paper industries students in two universities, namely Agriculture and natural resources faculty of Tehran University and Shahid Rajaiee teacher training University. A sample of 100 students were selected from a target population of 572 students using the Cochran formula. The respondents were...