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Cheng Xirong died accidentally in an explosive scene. What was even more surprising was that he was reborn.Although his new body was not effective, his identity was not useful. But that didn't matter. He had a former fan by his side. He could write plays, direct plays, run errands, and cook.Cheng Xi... More

Cheng Xirong died accidentally in an explosive scene. What was even more surprising was that he was reborn.Although his new body was not effective, his identity was not useful. But that didn't matter. He had a former fan by his side. He could write plays, direct plays, run errands, and cook.Cheng Xi... More

Cheng Xirong died accidentally in an explosive scene. What was even more surprising was that he was reborn.Although his new body was not effective, his identity was not useful. But that didn't matter. He had a former fan by his side. He could write plays, direct plays, run errands, and cook.Cheng Xi... More

Cheng Xirong died accidentally in an explosive scene. What was even more surprising was that he was reborn.Although his new body was not effective, his identity was not useful. But that didn't matter. He had a former fan by his side. He could write plays, direct plays, run errands, and cook.Cheng Xi... More

Cheng Xirong died accidentally in an explosive scene. What was even more surprising was that he was reborn.Although his new body was not effective, his identity was not useful. But that didn't matter. He had a former fan by his side. He could write plays, direct plays, run errands, and cook.Cheng Xi... More

The focus of this book is on exploring effective strategies in higher education that promote meaningful learning and go beyond discipline boundaries, with a special emphasis on Subjectivity Learning, Refreshing Lecturing, Learning through Construction, Learning through Transaction, Transformative Le... More

This book gathers selected original papers presented at the Sixth Beijing Normal University - University College London, Institute of Education International Conference in Education, a biennial event organised in partnership between this two universities. Readers will find a wealth of papers and rep... More

The symbiosis between the law, economics and finance is evidenced in our daily lives. This book elucidates the relationship between these factors in Singapore and Hong Kong in direct and indirect real estate market. In Singapore, for example, there is an inseparable relationship between law, econo... More

This monograph presents an analysis of construction safety problems and on-site safety measures from an economist's point of view. The book includes examples from both emerging countries, e. g. China and India, and developed countries, e. g. Australia and Hong Kong. Moreover, the author covers a... More

This book examines construction safety from the perspective of informatics and econometrics. It demonstrates the potential of employing various information technology approaches to share construction safety knowledge. In addition, it presents the application of econometrics in construction safety st... More

First published in 1999, this volume represents Kit-Man Li’s attempt to wrestle with the complicated issues and ideas drawn from Habermas’ theory of communicative action, Weber’s studies of western civilization and Elias’ insights on sociological theory. Li examines Weber, Habermas and Elias in turn... More

This book covers the economics of construction safety, such as the asymmetric information of different construction practitioners in Hong Kong, studies feminism in Australia’s traditionally male-dominated construction industry, and researches an efficient Small-Scale Contractors’ construction health... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of five workshops symposia, held at the 37th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2018, in Xi’an, China, in October 2018. The 42 papers promote and disseminate research on theories of concepts underlying conceptual modeling, methods and t... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2015, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in October 2015. The 26 full and 19 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 131 submissions. The papers are organized in topical ... More

This book constitutes the workshop proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2014, held in Bali, Indonesia, in April 2014. The volume contains papers from 4 workshops, each focusing on hot topics related to database systems and applicatio... More

The book reviews the literature on the ecological succession of plants on fallowed swiddens in tropical forests. Patterns of ecological succession in tropical forests are insufficiently understood, partly because results are scattered through a large number of case studies reported in academic arti... More

This book explores how econometric modelling can be used to provide valuable insight into international housing markets. Initially describing the role of econometrics modelling in real estate market research and how it has developed in recent years, the book goes on to compare and contrast the impac... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2018, held in XI'an, China, in October 2018.The 30 full and 13 short papers presented together with 3 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 151 submissions.This events covers a... More

The Dirichlet distribution appears in many areas of application, which include modelling of compositional data, Bayesian analysis, statistical genetics, and nonparametric inference. This book provides a comprehensive review of the Dirichlet distribution and two extended versions, the Grouped Dirichl... More

A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

The three-volume set LNCS 13245, 13246 and 13247 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2022, held online, in April 2021. The total of 72 full papers, along with 76 short papers, are presented in this three-volume set... More

The three-volume set LNCS 13245, 13246 and 13247 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2022, held online, in April 2021. The total of 72 full papers, along with 76 short papers, are presented in this three-volume set... More

The three-volume set LNCS 13245, 13246 and 13247 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2022, held online, in April 2021. The total of 72 full papers, along with 76 short papers, are presented in this three-volume set... More

This book covers artificial intelligence and ubiquitous cities. It discusses the applications of the relevant tools in bringing revolutionary new lives to mankind. It showcases various applications of artificial intelligence in benefiting human society. For example, AI classification shortens the hu... More

South Asia, which is home to more than 40 percent of the world s absolute poor, will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the world s working age population over the next several decades. More and Better Jobs in South Asia attempts to answer three questions: # Has South Asia been cre... More