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Pension Policy and Governmentality in China
Rapid economic growth is often a disruptive social process threatening the social relations and ideologies of incumbent regimes. Yet far from acting defensively, the Chinese Communist Party has lead a major social and economic transformation over forty years, without yet encountering fundamental challenges subverting its rule. A key question for political sociology is thus - how have the logics…
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Assessing Instructional Leadership with the Principal Instructional Managemen…
This volume provides a succinct up-to-date summary of global research on principal instructional leadership as it has evolved over the past 50 years. The book’s particular focus is on the development and use of the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS). The PIMRS is the most widely used survey instrument designed for assessing instructional leadership for research and practi…
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- 978-3-319-15533-3
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- XVII, 204
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- 303.3 HAL a
Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks
This brief examines recent developments in the Heterogeneous Vehicular NETworks (HETVNETs), integrating cellular networks with Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) for meeting the communications requirements of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS)services. Along with a review of recent literature, a unified framework of the HetVNET is presented. The brief focuses on introducing efficien…
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- 978-3-319-25620-7
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- XI, 82
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- 621 ZHE h
Water and Earthquakes
This open access book explores the interactions between water and earthquakes, including recent concerns about induced seismicity. It further highlights that a better understanding of the response of the water system to disturbances such as earthquakes is needed to safeguard water resources, to shield underground waste repositories, and to mitigate groundwater contamination. Although the effect…
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Degrees of affinity : studies in comparative literature and translation
This book combines two collections of essays written by the late professor Zuoliang Wang, works that explore the affinity between literatures and peoples, with special attention given to that between Chinese literature and western literature in the 20th century, and which underscore the role of translation therein. Both collections have been previously published in book form: Degrees of Affinit…
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- 9783662454756
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- vi, 193 pages
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- China Academic Library
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- 920
Approximation of Stochastic Invariant Manifolds: Stochastic Manifolds for Non…
This first volume is concerned with the analytic derivation of explicit formulas for the leading-order Taylor approximations of (local) stochastic invariant manifolds associated with a broad class of nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations. These approximations take the form of Lyapunov-Perron integrals, which are further characterized in Volume II as pullback limits associated wit…
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- 978-3-319-12496-4
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- XV, 127
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- SpringerBriefs in Mathematics
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- 519 CHE a
Innovation, PBL and Competences in Engineering Education : 7th International …
Today’s students will perform in a technology-based society and contribute to a global economy. Technologies, like automation, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), come with promise of transforming deeply the work places and creating new business models. In addition, the sustainability crises is threatening the future of planet earth and human society. These trends posed ne…
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- 9788772100029
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- 370 INN
Building Autonomous Learners : Perspectives from Research and Practice using …
This edited work presents a collection of papers on motivation research in education around the globe. Pursuing a uniquely international approach, it also features selected research studies conducted in Singapore under the auspices of the Motivation in Educational Research Lab, National Institute of Education, Singapore. A total of 15 chapters include some of the latest findings on theory an…
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- 978-981-287-630-0
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- XVII, 302
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- 150.7
Pains and Gains of Ethnic Multilingual Learners in China : An Ethnographic Ca…
This book introduces an ethnographic case study of two English majors of ethnic minority at YUN, a local university of nationalities in southwest China. Drawing on the theories of post-structuralism and critical multiculturalism, this book mainly studies two female multilingual individuals in Yunnan, China. By scrutinizing university policies, curriculum, personal learning histories, and by dis…
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- 978-981-10-0661-6
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- XXV, 202 halaman
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- Multilingual Education
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- 404.2 WAN p
Deformation and Failure Mechanism of Excavation in Clay Subjected to Hydrauli…
This book presents the latest experimental and numerical analysis work in the field of ground deformation and base instability of deep excavations in soft clay subjected to hydraulic uplift. The authors? latest research findings, based on dimensional analyses, well-instrumented full-scale field tests, systematic coupled-consolidation finite element analyses and centrifuge tests are reported. Th…
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- 9783662465073
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- XIV, 156
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- Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China
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- 413
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