When Chiang Kai-shek arrived at Sian in the fall of 1936 and laid plans for launching his last campaign against the Red Army with an expectation of exterminating it in a month, he badly misjudged the mood of the Tungpei (Northeast) Army and more so its leader, Chang Hsueh-liang, better known as the Young Marshal. Refusing to fight the Communists, Chang with the loyal support of his officers sta…
Access to university education in Africa was inadequate during the colonial period. With independence, various African countries moved away from the elitist colonial education system by embarking on programs designed to provide education to all, regardless of class, ethnicity, or creed. Nowhere in Africa has the question of access to university education reached such a crescendo of concern and …
The authors take a detailed look at the economic competence and financial literacy of young adults, especially of those who start an apprenticeship or who take up their studies at a university. Economic competence and financial literacy are of special interest within this group, because these young people are – mostly for the fi rst time in their lives – responsible for autonomously managin…
This book deals with the role of international standards for corporate governance in the context of corporate social responsibility. Based on the fundamentals of moral theory, the book examines governance and CSR in general, addressing questions such as: Is ℓ́ℓgood governanceℓ́ℓ not affected by moral concerns? How do the principles and practices of CSR standards adhere to or conflict …
This book explores the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in 24 European nations, examining the state of the development and practice of CSR and sustainability for organizations in these countries. The common denominator for all of the bookℓ́ℓs 25 chapters is a management perspective rather than an ethical discourse. The book therefore represents a comprehensive survey …
This book presents up-to-date research developments and novel methodologies on fuzzy control systems. It presents solutions to a series of problems with new approaches for the analysis and synthesis of fuzzy time-delay systems and fuzzy stochastic systems, including stability analysis and stabilization, dynamic output feedback control, robust filter design, and model approximation. A set of new…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Standard Conference on Trustworthy Computing and Services, ISCTCS 2014, held in Beijing, China, in November 2014. The 51 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 279 submissions. The topics covered are architecture for trusted computing systems; trusted computing platform; trusted system building;…
This volume focuses on modern computational and statistical tools for translational gene expression and regulation research to improve prognosis, diagnostics, prediction of severity, and therapies for human diseases. It introduces some of state of the art technologies as well as computational and statistical tools for translational bioinformatics in the areas of gene transcription and regulatio…
This textbook gives a comprehensive overview of the key principles of business marketing. The reader will be introduced into methods and theories in order to understand business markets and marketing better. Not only are the principles of business marketing addressed, but also deep knowledge of organizational buying and market research on business markets. The book sets the stage for develop…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2015, held in Beijing China, in May 2015. The 38 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. The regular papers are organized in topical sections named: system security, stream cipher, analysis, key exchange protocol, e…