Way of Great Clarity

In his summary of the Taiqing texts, Ge Hong quotes a passage from the Scripture of Great Clarity not found in any extant source of the Taiqing corpus, which asserts that the Way of long life does not consist in making cer-... 

Elsewhere in the Huainan zi, the inner condition of Great Clarity is projected into the indefinite past, so that the original state of being is represented as the way of life enjoyed by human beings in primordial times ... 

Clarity in expressing information (including information about assumptions and uncertainties) can be greatly facilitated by using a good data model . A data model is a standard way of expressing information it includes both the format and the relationships between various data objects. 

FLOW PATTERNS IN MEMBRANE SEPARATORS. There are several ways of arranging the surface area in a gas separator, and some of these are illustrated in Fig. 26.5 for hollow-fiber membranes with an external skin. Only a few fibers are shown, and their si2S is greatly exaggerated for clarity. A commercial separator has up to a million fibers in a shell several inches in diameter. The fibers are sealed... 

Various normalization techniques are available to achieve the first objective [ 1,2,10,76-78]. For example, environmental quahty is scaled from 0 (very bad) to 1 (very good) by the use of value functions. Very bad and very good can be defined in various ways. For a qualitative variable such as water clarity that has been ranked from 1 to 5 or from 1 to 10 by the environmental impact assessor, the scales are simply transformed arithmetically to the range from 0 to 1. For quantitative variables such as water or air quality, very bad could be the maximum permissible concentrations established by law, while very good could be the background concentrations found at great distances from sources. 

In Chapter 1 the importance of the various classes of colloidal systems to modern science and technology was indicated in a general way. Because of the wide variety of colloidal systems one encounters, each having certain unique features that distinguish it from the others, it is convenient to discuss each major classification separately. For that reason, chapters have been devoted to specific systems such as solid dispersions, aerosols, emulsions, foams, lyophilic colloids (i.e., polymer solutions), and association colloids. There is a great deal of overlap in many aspects of the formation, stabilization, and destruction of those systems, and an effort will be made not to repeat more than is necessary. However, for purposes of clarity, some repetition is unavoidable. 

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