The urban heat island and its impact on heat waves and human health in Shanghai Jianguo Tan & Youfei Zheng & Xu Tang & Changyi Guo & Liping Li & Guixiang Song & Xinrong Zhen & Dong Yuan & Adam J. Kalkstein & Furong Li & Heng Chen Received: 17 December 2008 / Revised: 29 July 2009 / Accepted: 3 August 2009 / Published online: 1 September 2009 # ISB 2009 Abstract With global warming forecast to continue into the foreseeable future‚ heat waves are very likely to increase in both frequency
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titled The Great Wave‚ was painted by the artist Katshushika Hokusai during the edo period around 1831. It is nearly 10” x 15” in size and is currently located at the Honolulu Academy of Art in Hawaii. 2. The great wave is Hokusai’s most famous work of art. It is composed of one huge wave and a couple smaller waves. There are two boats with about eight passengers in the foreground. The passengers have anonymous faces and are huddled together‚ bracing for the impending impact of the wave. Mount Fuji
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French-New Wave Introduction This essay is about the influence of the French-New Wave on contemporary cinema. It begins by the brief introduction to French-New Wave‚ of which the influence on will emerge without strain in the process of analysis. Arising From time to time‚ filmmakers‚ film critics‚ and film buffs will make references to a period in film history known as the French New Wave. For some people this is a term to throw out just to sound impressive‚ while for others it carries
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The French New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) emerged in the 1950s as a core of articulate young film-makers. Amongst the most successful of the group were soon to be famous names such as Claude Chabrol‚ Francois Truffaut and Jean Luc Godard and to a lesser extent Jacques Rivette‚ Jacques Daniol-Valcroze and Eric Rohmer. All were critics for the influential film magazine ’Cahiers du Cinema’‚ where they worked under the guidance of film theorist and co-founder of ’Cahiers’‚ André Bazin. Intellectual
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Do you agree with the view that the British New Wave cinema of the late 1950s and early 1960s were part of a wider social revolution that was taking place in British society? The British New Wave was characterised by many of the same stylistic and thematic conventions as the French New Wave. Usually in black-and-white‚ these films had a spontaneous quality‚ often shot in pseudo style on real locations and with real people rather than extras‚ apparently capturing life as it happens. Source 2 says
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The Big Wave The artwork “The Big Wave Off Kanagawa” was made by Katsushika Hokusai in the nineteenth century and it’s eye-grabbing factor is a large tidal wave. This print continues to be an iconic piece of art and can be found in a number of museums and is an element of common knowledge when referring to artwork. It is one of the most popular pieces of Japanese art and can be associated with many other widely known pieces such as Mona Lisa‚ The Starry Night‚ and The Scream. When first looking
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Westernization of the ruling powers and the highly religious sects led by Ayatollah Khomeini resulted in works such as The Cow by Dariush Mehrjui and Qeysar by Masoud Kimiai. Nevertheless‚ it was following the Popular Revolution in 1979 that the Iranian New Wave movement (as it is known today) began to truly take shape. In parts two and three‚ I am going to ask how and why the post-revolution cinema‚ particularly works from auteur Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi‚ took on its genre defining conventions.
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10: 419-428 DOI: 10.1007/s11804-011-1087-9 Comparison of the Performance of Two Direct Wave Energy Conversion Systems: Archimedes Wave Swing and Power Buoy Jawad Faiz1* and M. Ebrahimi-Salari2 1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering‚ University of Tehran‚ Tehran‚ Iran 2. Department of Electrical Engineering‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Najafabad Branch‚ Najafabad‚ Isfahan‚ Iran Abstract: Many wave energy conversion devices have not been well received. The main reasons are that they are
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai is a famous woodcut print that is commonly referred to as The Great Wave. Hokusai Katsushika was one of the greatest Japanese printmakers of the 19th century. The print‚ The Great Wave‚ is a part of a 36-piece series of the views of Japan’s most famous mountain; Mount Fuji. Hokusai’s series was very popular and sold rather quickly. Due to its popularity‚ Hokusai decided to extend the series to 46 pieces. The original piece was created around 1830 and was published
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Standing Parvati The Standing Parvati originated in the Chola Period circa 880-1025 AD‚ a time when bronze statues grew increasingly in number to meet the demands of a changing religious and social lifestyle. Alterations within the Hindu religion called for moveable statues that could be carried outside of temples to participate in rituals. The old stone sculptures of Hindu deities were stationary‚ so artisans turned to the casting of metal as a new approach to creating religious art patronized
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