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Engineering Technology and Applications contains the contributions
presented at the 2014 International Conference on Engineering
Technology and Applications (ICETA 2014, Tsingtao, China, 29-30
April 2014). The book is divided into three main topics: - Civil
and environmental engineering - Electrical and computer engineering
- Mechanical engineering Considerable attention is also paid to big
data, cloud computing, neural network algorithms and social network
services. The book will be invaluable to professionals and
academics in civil, environmental, electrical, computer and
mechanical engineering.
Education reform has become a highly political issue in the Hong
Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) since the transfer of
sovereignty to the People's Republic of China (PRC). Lo and Hung
focus on the political struggles among stakeholders, including the
government of Hong Kong, the Catholic Church, parents, students,
teachers, the central authorities of Beijing, and even the
bureaucratic politics between Beijing, the Hong Kong government and
the Examination Authority. They examine the key elements of
education reform in the HKSAR, including language and curriculum
reform, national security education, civic and patriotic education,
the rise of the pro-Beijing education elites and interest groups,
and the revamp of examination questions and examination authority.
The entire education reform in the HKSAR has pushed the Hong Kong
education system toward a process of mainlandization, making Hong
Kong's education system more similar to the mainland system with
emphasis on political "correctness" in the understanding of Chinese
national security, history and culture. Highlighting the political
struggles among the various stakeholders, this book is essential
for scholars of Hong Kong and China, especially those with an
interest in the relationship between education and politics.
Containing method descriptions and step-by-step procedures, the
Spatial Epidemiological Approaches in Disease Mapping and Analysis
equips readers with skills to prepare health-related data in the
proper format, process these data using relevant functions and
software, and display the results as mapped or statistical
summaries. Describing the wide range of available methods and key
GIS concepts for spatial epidemiology, this book illustrates the
utilities of the software using real-world data. Additional topics
include geographic data models, address matching, geostatistical
analysis, universal kriging, point pattern analysis, kernel
density, spatio-temporal display, and disease surveillance.
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