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This book aims to contribute to the discipline of teaching English as an international language by exploring teachers’ reflections on the recent changes within the English language for their teaching profession. It presents a comprehensive and thorough examination of the place of English as an int... More

A Vintage Shorts "Short Story Month" Selection They call it an office job--being a sicario, a hit man--because the sicario is always waiting by the phone. In Medellín, Colombia, there's always one more job to do. Juan Pablo Merendez is a young sicario just trying to get by, but when he's summoned to... More

n 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world. The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Columbia; from an aging New York artist to a boy c... More

This new book addresses three key issues: What has changed in Chinese civil-military relations? What can account for changes? And what are the implications for Chinese security policy and strategic behaviour? It tackles these questions by sharply assessing civil-military dynamics in elite politi... More

Connecting theory with numerical techniques using MATLAB®, this practical textbook equips students with the tools required to solve finite element problems. This hands-on guide covers a wide range of engineering problems through nine well-structured chapters including solid mechanics, heat transfer ... More

Bong Joon Ho won the Oscar® for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes. These achievements mark a new career peak for the director, who first ach... More

This book demonstrates that civil-military relations have evolved beyond symbiosis to quasi-institutionalization in post-Deng Xiaoping China. As the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is a Leninist party-army, it is commonly assumed that the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the... More

Global simultaneous development is becoming more necessary as the cost of developing medical products continues to grow. The strategy of using multiregional clinical trials (MRCTs) has become the preferred method for developing new medicines. Implementing the same protocol to include subjects from m... More

This book presents an important technique to process organic photovoltaic devices. The basics, materials aspects and manufacturing of photovoltaic devices with solution processing are explained. Solution processable organic solar cells - polymer or solution processable small molecules - have the p... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security, ATIS 2015, held in Beijing, China, in November 2015.   The 25 revised full papers and 10 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submiss... More

This book presents review papers and research articles focusing on the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China, discussing cross-disciplinary and multiple thematic aspects of modern seismological, geophysical, geological and stochastic methodology and technology. Resulting from international and ... More

A comprehensive book focusing on the Force Analogy Method, a novel method for nonlinear dynamic analysis and simulation This book focusses on the Force Analogy Method, a novel method for nonlinear dynamic analysis and simulation. A review of the current nonlinear analysis method for earthquake engin... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security, ATIS 2020, held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in November 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was be held online. The 8 full papers presented in th... More

Longitudinal studies often incur several problems that challenge standard statistical methods for data analysis. These problems include non-ignorable missing data in longitudinal measurements of one or more response variables, informative observation times of longitudinal data, and survival analysis... More

This book presents various computationally efficient component- andsystem-level design optimization methods for advanced electrical machines anddrive systems. Readers will discover novel design optimization conceptsdeveloped by the authors and other researchers in the last decade, includingapplicat... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing, IIP 2016, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in October 2016. The 24 full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 40 s... More

Tourism demand is the foundation on which all tourism-related business decisions ultimately rest. Governments and companies such as airlines, tour operators, hotels, cruise ship lines, and recreation facility providers are interested in the demand for their products by tourists. The success of many ... More

Community colleges face pressure to “do more with less” that have prompted many college leaders to consider fundamental changes to the ways they have typically done business. Because piecemeal solutions have not often been effective or efficient, colleges are moving far beyond discreet “programs” or... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security, ATIS 2021, held as a virtual event in December 2021. The 9 full papers along with the 5 short papers presented in the volume were carefully reviewed and selecte... More

This book introduces an integrated conceptual framework of the China Seismic Experimental Site (CSES), describes its scientific challenges and research priorities, and reports preliminary results coming out of observational infrastructure in seismology, tectonophysics, geodesy, geophysics and geoche... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First MICCAI Workshop on Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer, DART 2019, and the First International Workshop on Medical Image Learning with Less Labels and Imperfect Data, MIL3ID 2019, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2019, in Shenzhen,... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2015, held in Chongqing, China, in October 2015. The 57 revised full papers presented together with 22 short papers and 5 keynotes were carefully selected and re... More

This book focuses on differential privacy and its application with an emphasis on technical and application aspects. This book also presents the most recent research on differential privacy with a theory perspective. It provides an approachable strategy for researchers and engineers to implement d... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security, ATIS 2015, held in Beijing, China, in November 2015.   The 25 revised full papers and 10 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submiss... More

Discover BIM: A better way to build better buildings Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers a novel approach to design, construction, and facility management in which a digital representation of the building product and process is used to facilitate the exchange and interoperability of informat... More