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  Xia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Xia (philosophy) is a Chinese philosophy similar (but not identical) to the chivalrous code of European knights.
The "Empire" of Xia of the Hunnic Tiefu during the era of Sixteen Kingdoms in China.
The Xia regime by Dou Jiande during the turbulent transition from the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xia   (176 words)

  
 Biology: Tianbing Xia
Xia said he realizes a great deal is expected of him now that he has the tools needed to conduct his research.
Xia explained that molecules are not static; they are moving and changing shapes all the time.
Tianbing Xia, Ph.D., is preparing two labs – one for biology and one for ultrafast laser spectroscopy – to explore molecular recognition and conformational dynamics.
www.utdallas.edu /biology/faculty/profiles/xia.html   (1570 words)

  
 Zhang Ziyi CSC: Introduction To Wuxia Genre: The Origin of the Xia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The xia were a disruptive force in society, and their activities were seen as a challenge to Han authority.
The common xia who lived up to the ideals of chivalry still existed, but the haoqiang xia (local bully) who used his physical strength to exploit the defenseless, and to carry out the whims of his patron became the rule.
Xia were called upon to lead village militias against oppressive landlords and their private armies (min tuan), rapacious tax collectors, as well as against bandits.
csc.ziyi.org /filmography/cthd/wuxiafiction/origin.html   (1441 words)

  
 XIA - McKae Technologies
XIA (XPath In Ada) is a native implementation of XPath 1.0 querying.
The XIA implementation uses Simon Wright's implementation of the Booch Components, a subset of which is included in the distribution.
AdaGOOP was used to create the XIA XPath parsing implementation (Thanks also goes to Dr. Martin Carlisle of the US Air Force Academy for his suggestion on how to accommodate in the grammar XPath keywords showing up as XML document elements).
www.mckae.com /xia.html   (764 words)

  
 An Introduction to the Wuxia Genre
As hired swords, xia resolved conflict through use of force, but their actions were tempered by a personal sense of justice and honor.
This type of xia is the idealized version of the heroic xia, and is primarily encountered in modern fiction and cinema.
Thus the xia in his youth, frequently becomes a scholar as he matures and gains wisdom, and the magistrate who uses his wits to maintain order also employs xia when physical force is required.
www.heroic-cinema.com /eric/xia.html   (5032 words)

  
 Xia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
For many years, the Xia Dynasty was thought to be a part of a myth that the Chinese tell as part of their history.
The Xia Dynasty was in oral histories, but no archaeological evidence was found of it until 1959.
The Xia were agrarian people, with bronze weapons and pottery.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/china/ancient_china/xia.html   (146 words)

  
 Chinese Xia Shang History -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
Xia people, who later moved from Shanxi to Henan Prov and founded the dynasty of Xia, certainly brought with them the important dragon totem, a mark that would also be observed among the Huns of Mongolia and the Tungus of Manchuria for the thousands of years to come.
Xia people hence was taken as the original Mongoloid ethnic Chinese whose name was carried on for the next 4500 years as 'hua', 'xia' or 'huaxia'.
Xia Chinese remnants, in the opinion of Wang Zhonghan, would evolve into Gui-gang [ghost domain] barbarians who were to fight the Shang Dynasty for hundreds of years till being subdued and then acting as a vassal together with Zhou people's ancestor Count Xi-bo.
www.republicanchina.org /XiaShang.html   (11874 words)

  
 Xia Liu: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Xia Liu's summary was automatically generated using 3 references found on the Internet.
Xia is the co-translator of Patent Case Yearbook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 1998 and 1999.
Xia is not admitted to practice law in the United States.
www.zoominfo.com /people/liu_xia_501407590.aspx   (452 words)

  
 UCLA Physician Victor Xia, M.D.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Victor Xia, MD is a clinical faculty in the Department of Anesthesiology at UCLA.
Xia V, Liu L, Tran A, Hu K, Kyulo N, Busuttil R and Steadman R. Intraoperative potassium disturbances are common in patients undergoing liver retransplantation.
Xia V, Liu L, Tran A, Hu K, Kyulo N, Hiatt J, Busuttil R and Steadman R Intraoperative potassium disturbances in pediatric patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation-a retrospective study of consecutive 219 cases in a single center.
www.healthcare.ucla.edu /institution/physician?personnel_id=10142   (672 words)

  
 Chinese History -Western Xia Dynasty (Xixia) 西夏 event history (www.chinaknowledge.de)
Li Yichao 李彝超 was able to defend the kingdom of Xia against the Later Tang Dynasty 後唐 and was therefore acknowledged as the supremate head of all Tangut tribes in th 930s.
Western Xia forged an alliance with Jin 金, the succession state of Liao, but in vain: In 1227 Li Xian 李睍, the Last Emperor (Xixia Modi 西夏末帝), submitted to the Mongols and was killed on the way to their headquarters.
Note: The short-lived Eastern Xia empire (Dongxia 東夏) was founded by a sideline of the Silla (Chinese: Xinluo æ—°ç¾…) empire in Korea and occupied the territory of modern Jilin province.
www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Song/xixia-event.html   (1154 words)

  
 Xia Dynasty (2205-1806 B.C.)
Xia Yu was first awarded the land of Xia Bo by Di Shun.
Xia Qi Xia Yu gave his throne to his follower Yi, but he did not win popularity among his people.
A official Guan-Long Feng urged Xia Jie to repent and was imprisoned and executed.
www.yutopian.com /history/xia.html   (384 words)

  
 Haematologic Technologies - Human Factor XIa
Factor XIa catalyzes the proteolytic conversion of factor IX to factor IXa either in solution phase or when bound to a negatively charged surface.
Factor XIa is a serine protease which participates in the intrinsic pathway of coagulation by catalyzing the conversion of factor IX to factor IXa.
Because factor XI is a homodimer, the enzyme, factor XIa, is composed of two identical heavy chains (Mr=50,000), and two identical light chains (Mr=30,000), all of which are held together by disulfide bonds.
www.haemtech.com /Enzymes/Factor_XIa.htm   (468 words)

  
 Xia Nai: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Xia Nai's summary was automatically generated using 7 references found on the Internet.
Graduating in 1934, Xia won a scholarship, but only two fields that could be applied to with this scholarship: archaeology and American history, and Xia chose archaeology.
In his Origin of Chinese Civilization, the late renowned archaeologist Xia Nai wrote of the Yinxu culture of the Shang as a truly glorious ancient civilization, which was significant for three distinctive features.
www.zoominfo.com /people/nai_xia_301158975.aspx   (376 words)

  
 Xia Yongnan, MarineTalk Advisory Board
Xia graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1962.
As a Senior Engineer, Xia continues the research work, actively contributes to standardization work in the international arena and promotes application of ISO and IEC standards by shipbuilding industry in China.
Xia published over 100 papers and was awarded prizes for his work.
www.marinetalk.com /ab-xia-yongnan.asp   (385 words)

  
 Chinese history:Xia Dynasty
The Xia Dynasty is traditionallly supposed to have begun with the reign of Yu the Great and ended with the fall of Jie,lasting for more than 400 years, from approximately the 21st century BC to a little earlier to the 16th century BC.
Towards the end of the Xia Dynasty, social contradictions and confict grew sharper.
Tradition has it that in the 16th century BC, the last ruler of Xia, Jie, abused his power and increased oppression.
www.chinavoc.com /history/xia.htm   (325 words)

  
 Type 92 Xia - China Nuclear Forces
Somewhat surprisingly, the Xia was sighted during PLAN exercises in December 2000.
This is the first time the Xia had been sighted at sea since it was upgraded in 1995.
As of March 2001 the US Defense Intelligence Agency reported that the single XIA class SSBN was "not operational." The boat, fitted with 12 JL-1 or JL-1A missiles, had been expected to return to service in mid-1999.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/china/type_92.htm   (471 words)

  
 Xia Dynasty - (BC 2183 -1752 - 431 Years)
The first prehistoric dynasty is said to be the Xia, from about the twenty-first to the sixteenth century BC.
But since then, and in the 1960s and 1970s, archaeologists have uncovered urban sites, bronze implements, and tombs that point to the existence of Xia civilization in the same locations cited in ancient historical texts.
Tradition names the Xia Dynasty as the first hereditary Chinese Dynasty, which ended only when a Xia ruler fell into debauchery, mistreated his people, and was subsequently overthrown.
www.paulnoll.com /China/Dynasty/dynasty-Xia.html   (182 words)

  
 IBM Research | Cathy Honghui Xia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Cathy H. Xia is a research staff member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, specializing in Performance Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization.
Xia received her B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Peking University, Beijing, China, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics and Operations Research respectively in 1996 and 1999, both from Stanford University.
Xia is the current chair of the Professional Interest Community on Performance Modeling and Analysis at IBM Research.
domino.research.ibm.com /comm/research_people.nsf/pages/cathyx.index.html   (246 words)

  
 Poet: Lu Xia - All poems of Lu Xia
Xia Lu is an adorable two years old girl.
Xia Bao is a two and a half years old boy.
lu xia - 13 · lu xia - 14 · lu xia - 15 · lu xia - 16 · lu xia - 17 · lu xia - 18 · lu xia - 21 · lu xia - 22 · lu xia - 24...
www.poemhunter.com /lu-xia/poet-51418   (208 words)

  
 History of Ancient China: Prehistoric China
The hereditary dynasty established by Qi is known as the Xia Dynasty, which was the first dynasty in China.
The Xia Dynasty lasted over 400 years from the 21st century BC to the 17th century BC.
Although the ideal Society of Great Harmony was replaced with an autocratic regime, the establishment of the Xia Dynasty represents a huge advancement in the evolution of China.
www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/history/xia/index.htm   (427 words)

  
 Xia Dynasty in Chinese History
Primarily, the Xia Dynasty was in oral histories, but there was no substantiated evidence of this era until 1959 during an unprecedented archeological find.
Evidence of the Xia was confirmed utilizing radiocarbon mechanisms that indicated that the Xia existed from 2205 - 1766 B.C. However, despite this new archaeological evidence of the Xia, they are not universally accepted as a true dynasty.
It is widely believed that the Xia were agrarian, and developed an agrarian calendar, making use of bronze weapons, ceramics and pottery.
www.dynastiesofasia.com /asian-history-references/xia-dynasty-period-in-chinese-history.htm   (370 words)

  
 Nebraska Center for Virology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Xia, Y., Y. Ling, P. Dobos, J. Van Etten, and P. Krell.
Xia, Y., R. Morgan, I. Schildkraut, and J. Van Etten.
Xia, Y., D. Burbank, L. Uher, D. Rabussay, and J. Van Etten.
www.unl.edu /virologycenter/faculty/xia.html   (304 words)

  
 Xi Xia or Western Xia Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
Xixia Dynasty, or Western Xia Dynasty, lasting hundreds of years, was the exception in Chinese history chronicles, namely, there was no separate volume for this dynasty.
In Jan of AD 1210, the siege of Tangut capital was released when the waters, breached by the Mongols for flooding the Xia capital, flowed to the Mongol camp instead.
Since Western Xia had refused to provide troops in the war against the Khwarizm, and more over, signed another alliance treaty with Jurchen Jin, Genghis Khan led a force of 180,000 troops for a new campaign against the Tanguts in AD 1225.
www.republicanchina.org /XiXia.html   (8261 words)

  
 MUSIC at MANOA - Trio Xia
Trio Xia, whose name is derived from the Chinese words for summer and Hawai`i, was founded in March 2002.
Trio Xia moves beyond the artificial gap between Asian and Western and challenges musical stereotypes that relegate Asian music to the past.
Trio Xia is committed to promoting traditional repertory, new compositions for this ensemble, music for youth, and outreach to the community.
www.hawaii.edu /uhmmusic/trioxia.htm   (224 words)

  
 Younan Xia
The Xia group is exploring opportunities in three major frontiers: materials chemistry, photonic devices, and nanotechnology.
Students work collaboratively, develop fundamental skills of these areas, and emerge as generalists.
A myriad of opportunities come directly from the ability to produce nanomaterials with well-controlled properties, or to generate structures in down-sized versions.
faculty.washington.edu /~yxia   (65 words)

  
 Automated Microcode Management System - Mt Xia: Technical Consulting Group
One of the most difficult administration tasks in an AIX environment is attempting to keep the firmware and microcode up-to-date.
Mt Xia has devised an automated method of gathering the Microcode information, determining which microcode needs to be updated, generating reports, and uploading the required microcode updates to each individual system.
If desired, this firmware/microcode management system can be configured to notify the administrator of systems that have been prepared for firmware/microcode updates, and automatically send a change request to schedule the firmware/microcode update.
www.mtxia.com /css/Standards/microcode.shtml   (648 words)

  
 XIA LLC - Manufacturer of state-of-the-art digital spectrometers
XIA LLC (formerly X-ray Instrumentation Associates) produces advanced X-ray and gamma-ray detector electronics and related instruments with applications in research and industry.
Click here to view a summary of XIA's Corporate Capabilities (PDF format here).
Attendees are invited to visit the XIA booth at upcoming events, including:
www.xia.com   (178 words)

  
 Ancient Dynasties
At minimum, the Xia period marked an evolutionary stage between the late neolithic cultures and the typical Chinese urban civilization of the Shang dynasty.
) dynasty in its later stages) is believed to have been founded by a rebel leader who overthrew the last Xia ruler.
Its civilization was based on agriculture, augmented by hunting and animal husbandry.
www-chaos.umd.edu /history/ancient1.html   (838 words)

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