Based on eight in-depth interviews, this article analyses the quandary faced by liberal mainland Chinese student migrants in Hong Kong. On one hand, pro-democracy movements Kong are deeply intertwined with rise of localism, which is based a dichotomy between and China. other rising, development-centric nationalism China reduces protesters to unemancipated British colonial subjects. However, con...

nowadays “design” is considered as an independent discipline which is neither a science, nor an art, but an interdiscipline with strong relations with both art and science. therefore, this new understanding demands reidentifying all design sub-disciplines. “space” as one of this sub-disciplines, has a pivotal role in shaping form in both design and architecture. while concrete understanding of ...

considering the increasing interest in fuzzy theory and possible applications,the concept of fuzzy metric space concept has been introduced by severalauthors from different perspectives. this paper interprets the theory in termsof metrics evaluated on fuzzy numbers and defines a strong hausdorff topology.we study interrelationships between this theory and other fuzzy theories suchas intuitionis...

Mean time to failure (MTTF ) is one of the most frequently used dependability measures in practice. By convention, MTTF is the expected time for a system to reach any one of the failure states. For some systems however, the mean time to absorb to a subset of the failure states is of interest. Therefore, the concept of conditional MTTF may well be useful. In this paper, we formalize the de nitio...