These views informed Warring States accounts of dietary practices, exercise regimens, breath meditation, sexual cultivation techniques, and other technical traditions associated with fang shi.
First of all, the fourth helix could not be reduced to 'culture', to national scientific and technical traditions, because it explains little besides what history and sociology of science have been studying for years.
Between those extremes stand the mostly lost arts of technical traditions described in the Han shu Bibliographic Treatise: astronomy, medical, pharmacological, and mantic arts, whose practitioners were the counterparts and potential competitors of the Masters textualists or philosophers (Lloyd and Sivin 2002).
The local technical ceramic traditions buried inside the funerary contexts of the Late period and represented in particular by the famous Mochica fineline painted vessels were possibly subject to technological modifications due to the influence of numerous foreign highland ceramic traditions and technical styles (i.e. Cajamarca and Wari) in the region.
But today, saving this diversity does not mean securing or protecting an imagined historical scientific or technical identity or tradition (disparity).
This process hinges on the deployment of legitimacy claims, which may appeal to cultural tradition, technical expertise, community engagement, and dominant scientific narratives on climate change.
Given their tradition of technical expertise and proven ability to solve some of the most challenging technical problems, I hope that a new generation of entrepreneurial engineers will seize these opportunities to help make the world a better place.
"But it is a very technical point, brushing aside tradition and the legal occupation of the land until the 1950s".
The facility was an homage to G.M.'s tradition of technical innovation, begun by its first research director, Charles Kettering, whose inventions included the electric starter.
