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This two-volume set is a collection of articles that elucidate the
theory, practice, legal innovations, and codification experience of
the Law of Personality Rights in China. The Law of Personality
Rights was enacted in China in May 2020, the first time that a Law
has been legislated as an independent part of the Civil Code of the
People's Republic of China and an unprecedented step in protecting
the personality rights of citizens. The first volume examines the
legal and theoretical basis for the Law as a standalone part of the
Civil Code as well as practical issues including institutional
arrangements, the relationship between human rights and personality
rights and the relationship with laws on tort liability, as well as
those pertaining to marriage and the family. The second volume
explains the design and innovations of the Law and proposes
suggestions to refine it through evaluation of the attributes of
personality rights and the draft laws. The volumes will be an
essential reference for scholars and students studying civil law,
continental law, Chinese law, and the legal protection of
personality rights.
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This book investigates how schools, enterprises and families in
China have coped with the formal online education in the light of
government policy throughout the COVID-19 epidemic outbreak, with
special focus on the problems they have encountered and possible
solutions. Using grounded theory, over 1000 posts retrieved from
public online forums were analyzed under a 4*4 framework, referring
to four special time nodes (proposal period, exploratory period,
full deployed period, exiting period) and four major subjects
(government, schools, enterprises, families). The book identifies
four main issues faced by massive online education during the
epidemic: platform selection in proposal period, teacher training
in exploratory period, resource integration in full deployed
period, and flexibility of returning to schools in exiting period.
These findings enlighten us with a deeper understanding of the
process of online learning in an educational emergency, helping to
develop best countermeasures in similar situations, as well as to
provide paths to follow for other countries. The book will appeal
to teachers, researchers and school administrators of the online
education and education emergency management, as well as those who
are interested in Chinese education during the COVID-19 outbreak in
general.
Most European countries have experienced labour market reforms at
varying times leading to extended working life and a postponement
of retirement age. This book provides a gender perspective on the
impact of extended working life on the different dimensions of
well-being, the factors which can limit extended working life, and
the working conditions of older workers. Over the course of 11
chapters the book explores factors that can limit access to paid
work or affect working conditions for older workers, including care
for dependent individuals, negative stereotypes surrounding aged
workers and poor health. It also investigates differences in
working conditions for older workers by gender compared to other
groups of workers and across European countries including
case-studies from Austria, France, Spain, Poland, Croatia, Albania
and Turkey. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of
social policy, sociology, gender studies and labour studies more
broadly.
This volume is a collection of articles on the codification
experience of China's Law of Personality Rights, explaining the
design of the Law as well as its innovations. As the second volume
of a two-volume set that elucidates the theory, practice, and
codification of the Law in China, the book explains the legal
advancement of the Law of Personality Rights as a standalone part
of the Civil Code of China. This includes innovative legislative
thinking, law system arrangements, rule designs, and a systematic
refinement of the provisions of personality rights in terms of
nature, system, types, content, exercising rules and protection
methods. Regarding the implementation of the Law, the book points
out that personality rights are changing with the times so a more
complete system of legal interpretation should be built. The final
three chapters are appraisals of different versions of the draft
law, with amendments to some articles advanced based on
shortcomings and omissions. The book will be an essential reference
to scholars and students studying civil law, continental law,
Chinese law, and the legal protection of personality rights.
Latest and authoritative research findings, closely integrated with
the formulation of China's Civil Code, and based on extensive
reference to advanced foreign legislative experience and
theoretical achievements Provides a systematic and in-depth study
of the basic concept and system of personality rights, general
personality rights, various types of specific personality rights
and compensation for moral damages Covers theoretical research to
the current state of legislation and analysis of cutting-edge
issues The contributors of this book are all authoritative authors
in the field of personality law and are influential in the academic
community
This book investigates how schools, enterprises and families in
China have coped with the formal online education in the light of
government policy throughout the COVID-19 epidemic outbreak, with
special focus on the problems they have encountered and possible
solutions. Using grounded theory, over 1000 posts retrieved from
public online forums were analyzed under a 4*4 framework, referring
to four special time nodes (proposal period, exploratory period,
full deployed period, exiting period) and four major subjects
(government, schools, enterprises, families). The book identifies
four main issues faced by massive online education during the
epidemic: platform selection in proposal period, teacher training
in exploratory period, resource integration in full deployed
period, and flexibility of returning to schools in exiting period.
These findings enlighten us with a deeper understanding of the
process of online learning in an educational emergency, helping to
develop best countermeasures in similar situations, as well as to
provide paths to follow for other countries. The book will appeal
to teachers, researchers and school administrators of the online
education and education emergency management, as well as those who
are interested in Chinese education during the COVID-19 outbreak in
general.
The book provides an advanced vision and trends of computational
intelligence in cyberspace and cyber-enabled spaces. It reviews
architectures and models, as well as state-of-the-art computational
and interpretation capabilities for social, industrial, and
multimedia applications. Cyber-enabled intelligence involves the
design and development of intelligent and innovative application
scenarios in social networks, computer vision, multimedia, and
image processing. Application scenarios can also cover the
applicability of intelligent sensing, data collection and
predictive analysis in Internet of Things.
China's rapid and sustained growth over last thirty years has
propelled it to become the world's second largest economy today and
potentially the largest in the foreseeable future. As one of the
first major economies pulling out of recession and the last
remaining major socialist country in the world today, China
presents a challenge to established thinking on the essential
primacy of global capitalism and the settled nature of the world
system - as China becomes more integrated into the world economy
and the international system, both are themselves potentially
transformed as a result of China s involvement. This book explores
a wide range of issues connected with the impact of China on the
global economy and the prevailing international system. Subjects
covered include China s multinationals, international acquisitions,
the exchange rate, research and development and technology
transfer, China s emerging major business groupings, and small and
medium sized enterprises."
Although Chinese economic growth continues strong, and although
China coped very well with the recent global crisis, the Chinese
economy faces many challenges, including how to sustain growth, how
to rebalance the economy towards more domestic consumption, how to
accommodate rising wages, growing social and regional inequality,
and how to reform financial and monetary policies. This book
examines the key challenges currently facing the Chinese economy.
It considers Chinas' increasing global impact, discusses the
institutional drivers of China's economic growth, assesses
critically China's need for structural reform, and explores issues
related to sustainability and human rights.
China's rapid and sustained growth over last thirty years has
propelled it to become the world's third largest economy today and
potentially the largest in the foreseeable future. As one of the
first major economies pulling out of recession and the last
remaining major socialist country in the world today, China
presents a challenge to established thinking on the essential
primacy of global capitalism and the settled nature of the world
system - as China becomes more integrated into the world economy
and the international system, both are themselves potentially
transformed as a result of Chinaa (TM)s involvement. This book
explores a wide range of issues connected with the impact of China
on the global economy and the prevailing international system.
Subjects covered include Chinaa (TM)s multinationals, international
acquisitions, the exchange rate, research and development and
technology transfer, Chinaa (TM)s emerging major business
groupings, and small and medium sized enterprises.
This book was originally pubished in 2000. China is the largest
developing country in the world and is still heavily based on
agriculture. Currently, about 70 per cent of China's total of more
than one bilion people live in rural areas, and about half of the
total national labour force is involved in agricultural activities.
It is clear that agriculture is the foundation for the development
of the Chinese national economy. Within agriculture, the grain
economy is the most important sector: indeed it has been recognised
as a treasure in managing the country by all past Chinese
dynasties. Ensuring enough grain supply to meet the demands of such
a huge population seems to be a long-term goal for the Chinese
government and this book explores whether China will be able to
produce enough grain to keep pace with its population increases.
Integrated Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas in Central
European Countries presents the exciting results of original
research on the integrated development of agriculture and rural
areas in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. This edited
collection includes academics from both Western and Central
European Countries who worked together on a three-year research
project. The project yielded unique data that covers different
aspects of rural development-both agriculture and non-agricultural
activities-and is of special relevance owing to these countries'
status as new members of the European Union. Following an
introduction into the transition process and the current situations
in each country, variations in farm performance are analyzed, a
detailed look is taken at the rural development in the EU, the role
of non-agricultural farm diversification is analyzed, and the major
findings of the research are presented. This exceptional collection
compiled by Davidova, Bauer, and Cuddy, will appeal to scholars of
agriculture and rural economics and policy.
This book was originally pubished in 2000. China is the largest
developing country in the world and is still heavily based on
agriculture. Currently, about 70 per cent of China's total of more
than one bilion people live in rural areas, and about half of the
total national labour force is involved in agricultural activities.
It is clear that agriculture is the foundation for the development
of the Chinese national economy. Within agriculture, the grain
economy is the most important sector: indeed it has been recognised
as a treasure in managing the country by all past Chinese
dynasties. Ensuring enough grain supply to meet the demands of such
a huge population seems to be a long-term goal for the Chinese
government and this book explores whether China will be able to
produce enough grain to keep pace with its population increases.
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Big Data and Social Computing - 8th China National Conference, BDSC 2023, Urumqi, China, July 15–17, 2023, Proceedings (1st ed. 2023)
Xiaofeng Meng, Yang Chen, Liming Suo, Qi Xuan, Zi-Ke Zhang
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This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 8th China
National Conference on Big Data and Social Computing, BDSC
2023, held in Urumqi, China, from July 15–17, 2023. The 23
full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were
carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 141 submissions.
The papers in the volume are organized according to the following
topical headings:Â Digital Technology and Sustainable
Development;Â Social Network and Group Behavior;Â Digital
infrastructure and the Intelligent Society;Â Digital Society
and Public Security;Â Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive
Science; and Internet Intelligent Algorithm Governance.
This book states that a space-induced crisis is recognized as the
cause of trouble that Moore’s Law is currently facing. The
contemporary practice of this empirical law can be considered as
happening within a space-dominant paradigm. An alternative of
exploiting potential in the dimension of time is identified as an
emerging paradigm in microelectronics. The new practice is termed a
time-oriented paradigm. It is justified as the turn of Moore’s
Law from space to time. The resultant Time-Moore strategy is
envisioned as the next-generation enabler for continuing Moore’s
Law’s pursuit of everhigher information processing power and
efficiency. It also serves as the perpetuation of the spirit that
Moore’s law is nothing but a collective storied history of
innovations. In the first part of this book, by following Thomas
Kuhn’s seminal work around the concepts of paradigm and
scientific revolution, the argument for the Time-Moore strategy
(Time-Moore: to use time more) and the paradigm shift from space to
time is carried out heavily through philosophical persuasion rather
than technical proof due to the difficult challenge of
change-of-mindset. The second part of the book provides solid
technical materials for supporting this transition from the old
paradigm to the new one. In short, the goal of this book is to
reevaluate the contemporary practice of microelectronics, identify
the cause of the current crisis, advocate a change-of-mindset to
circumvent the crisis, and ultimately point out a new route for
advancing. After achieving so many unprecedented accomplishments
through several decades of relentless endeavor, it’s time for the
big ship of Moore’s Law (i.e., the art of microelectronic system
design) to make a turn.
Although Chinese economic growth continues strong, and although
China coped very well with the recent global crisis, the Chinese
economy faces many challenges, including how to sustain growth, how
to rebalance the economy towards more domestic consumption, how to
accommodate rising wages, growing social and regional inequality,
and how to reform financial and monetary policies. This book
examines the key challenges currently facing the Chinese economy.
It considers Chinas' increasing global impact, discusses the
institutional drivers of China's economic growth, assesses
critically China's need for structural reform, and explores issues
related to sustainability and human rights.
Concise, thorough, and easy to use, Handbook of Nephrology and
Hypertension 7th Edition, provides authoritative guidance on
diagnosing and treating patients with a wide range of kidney
disorders and hypertension, including coverage of dialysis and
transplantation. Lead editor Dr. Christopher Wilcox and his team of
section editors Drs. Michael Choi, Limeng Chen, Winfred N.
Williams, and Mark S. Segal oversee a group of expert authors, both
faculty and fellows, who focus on common problems and challenges in
this complex field. Brief, focused chapters contain abundant
figures and algorithms and have been updated to reflect new
findings in renal cystic diseases, new drugs used for hypertension,
transplantation and renal protection, and much more. Includes new
chapters on Urinalysis and Hematuria, Hypertensive Nephropathy,
Drug Use in Kidney Disease, Resistant and Secondary Forms of
Hypertension, and Medical Reimbursement and Economics of Nephrology
Practice Contains dedicated chapters on drugs for edema,
hypertension, and glomerulonephritis, as well as drugs pertaining
to renal transplant, covering how to select and use drugs, doses,
and adverse effects, and how prescribing should be altered in
patients with renal insufficiency Features a new four-color design
and more figures and algorithms throughout Shares the experience
and knowledge of distinguished international authors from top
universities in both the U.S. and China, with many chapters
co-authored by a faculty and a fellow Enrich Your eBook Reading
Experience Read directly on your preferred device(s),such as
computer, tablet, or smartphone. Easily convert to
audiobook,powering your content with natural language
text-to-speech.
This book analyzes the updated principles and applications of
nonlinear approaches to solve engineering and physics problems. The
knowledge on nonlinearity and the comprehension of nonlinear
approaches are inevitable to future engineers and scientists,
making this an ideal book for engineers, engineering students, and
researchers in engineering, physics, and mathematics. Chapters are
of specific interest to readers who seek expertise in optimization,
nonlinear analysis, mathematical modeling of complex forms, and
non-classical engineering problems. The book covers methodologies
and applications from diverse areas such as vehicle dynamics,
surgery simulation, path planning, mobile robots, contact and
scratch analysis at the micro and nano scale, sub-structuring
techniques, ballistic projectiles, and many more.
This book expands on the subject matter of 'Computational
Electromagnetics and Model-Based Inversion: A Modern Paradigm for
Eddy-Current Nondestructive Evaluation.' It includes (a)
voxel-based inversion methods, which are generalizations of
model-based algorithms; (b) a complete electromagnetic model of
advanced composites (and other novel exotic materials), stressing
the highly anisotropic nature of these materials, as well as giving
a number of applications to nondestructive evaluation; and (c) an
up-to-date discussion of stochastic integral equations and
propagation-of-uncertainty models in nondestructive evaluation. As
such, the book combines research started twenty-five years ago in
advanced composites and voxel-based algorithms, but published in
scattered journal articles, as well as recent research in
stochastic integral equations. All of these areas are of
considerable interest to the aerospace, nuclear power, civil
infrastructure, materials characterization and biomedical
industries. The book covers the topic of computational
electromagnetics in eddy-current nondestructive evaluation (NDE) by
emphasizing three distinct topics: (a) fundamental mathematical
principles of volume-integral equations as a subset of
computational electromagnetics, (b) mathematical algorithms applied
to signal-processing and inverse scattering problems, and (c)
applications of these two topics to problems in which real and
model data are used. It is therefore more than an academic exercise
and is valuable to users of eddy-current NDE technology in
industries as varied as nuclear power, aerospace, materials
characterization and biomedical imaging.
This book focuses on the latest applications of nonlinear
approaches in engineering and addresses a range of scientific
problems. Examples focus on issues in automotive technology,
including automotive dynamics, control for electric and hybrid
vehicles, and autodriver algorithm for autonomous vehicles. Also
included are discussions on renewable energy plants, data modeling,
driver-aid methods, and low-frequency vibration. Chapters are based
on invited contributions from world-class experts who advance the
future of engineering by discussing the development of more
optimal, accurate, efficient, cost, and energy effective systems.
This book is appropriate for researchers, students, and practising
engineers who are interested in the applications of nonlinear
approaches to solving engineering and science problems. Presents a
broad range of practical topics and approaches; Explains approaches
to better, safer, and cheaper systems; Emphasises automotive
applications, physical meaning, and methodologies.
The book provides an overview of bio-manufacturing techniques for
the production, purification, characterization and modification of
chito/chitin oligosaccharides and their monomers. In addition, it
explores potential applications in the food, biomedical and
agricultural industry on the basis of their bioactivities and
biomaterial properties. Lastly, it shares a range of cutting-edge
insights to help solve problems in industrial processes and promote
further academic investigation. Given its scope, it offers a
valuable resource for researchers and graduate students in the
fields of bioengineering, food science, biochemistry, etc.
Smart Homes (SH) offer a promising approach to assisted living for
the ageing population. Yet the main obstacle to the rapid
development and deployment of Smart Home (SH) solutions essentially
arises from the nature of the SH field, which is multidisciplinary
and involves diverse applications and various stakeholders.
Accordingly, an alternative to a one-size-fits-all approach is
needed in order to advance the state of the art towards an open SH
infrastructure. This book makes a valuable and critical
contribution to smart assisted living research through the
development of new effective, integrated, and interoperable SH
solutions. It focuses on four underlying aspects: (1) Sensing and
Monitoring Technologies; (2) Context Interference and Behaviour
Analysis; (3) Personalisation and Adaptive Interaction, and (4)
Open Smart Home and Service Infrastructures, demonstrating how
fundamental theories, models and algorithms can be exploited to
solve real-world problems. This comprehensive and timely book
offers a unique and essential reference guide for policymakers,
funding bodies, researchers, technology developers and managers,
end users, carers, clinicians, healthcare service providers,
educators and students, helping them adopt and implement smart
assisted living systems.
This book focuses on the latest applications of nonlinear
approaches in engineering and addresses a range of scientific
problems. Examples focus on issues in automotive technology,
including automotive dynamics, control for electric and hybrid
vehicles, and autodriver algorithm for autonomous vehicles. Also
included are discussions on renewable energy plants, data modeling,
driver-aid methods, and low-frequency vibration. Chapters are based
on invited contributions from world-class experts who advance the
future of engineering by discussing the development of more
optimal, accurate, efficient, cost, and energy effective systems.
This book is appropriate for researchers, students, and practising
engineers who are interested in the applications of nonlinear
approaches to solving engineering and science problems. Presents a
broad range of practical topics and approaches; Explains approaches
to better, safer, and cheaper systems; Emphasises automotive
applications, physical meaning, and methodologies.
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