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Discover the roots of international transracial adoption
International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of Policy and
Practice explores the long history of international transracial
adoption. Scholars present the expert multidisciplinary
perspectives and up-to-date research on this most significant and
longstanding form of international child welfare practice.
Viewpoints and research are discussed from the academic disciplines
of psychology, ethnic studies, sociology, social work, and
anthropology. The chapters examine sociohistorical background, the
forming of new families, reflections on Korean adoption, birth
country perspectives, global perspectives, implications for
practice, and archival, historical, and current resources on Korean
adoption. International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of
Policy and Practice provides fresh insight into the origins,
development, and institutionalization of Korean adoption. Through
original research and personal accounts, this revealing text
explores how Korean adoptees and their families fit into their
family roles-and offers clear perspectives on adoption as child
welfare practice. Global implications and politics, as well as the
very personal experiences are examined in detail. This source is a
one-of-a-kind look into the full spectrum of information pertaining
to Korean adoption. Topics in International Korean Adoption: A
Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice include: adoption from
the Korean perspective historical origins of Korean adoption in the
United States adjustments of young adult adoptees marketing to
choosy adopters ethnic identity perspectives on the importance of
race and culture in parenting birth mothers' perspectives
sociological approach to race and identity representations of
adoptees in Korean popular culture adoption in Australia and the
Netherlands much, much more International Korean Adoption: A
Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice is illuminating reading
for adoptees, adoptive parents, practitioners, educators, students,
and any child welfare professional.
In the past decade, the field of physics has witnessed renewed
advances in physical systems without mirror (parity) symmetry.
Experimentally, chiral magnetic skyrmions discovered in real
materials have stirred a great deal of interest in future
spintronic applications due to their nanoscale size, topological
protection, and energy efficiency. Theoretically, the Hall
viscosity, a new universal transport coefficient, through the
progress in hydrodynamics has triggered extensive theoretical
investigation in quantum Hall systems. This book provides an
extensive account of skyrmion dynamics, using various analytical
tools, especially the field theory Ward identity that is a first
principle method using symmetries and the associated conservation
equations. The identity revealed that Hall viscosity is a universal
part of skyrmion motion. This book leads readers to frontline
research in searching for the role of the mysterious Hall viscosity
in skyrmion physics, using the interdisciplinary point of view that
encompasses high-energy physics, condensed matter, and materials
science. It also provides the necessary backgrounds and physical
clarity for advanced undergraduates to meaningfully explore its
contents through mathematical expressions conveyed in both vector
and index notations.
Optical Imaging Devices: New Technologies and Applications delivers
a comprehensive introduction to optical imaging and sensing, from
devices to system-level applications. Drawing upon the extensive
academic and industrial experience of its prestigious editors and
renowned chapter authors, this authoritative text: Explains the
physical principles of optical imaging and sensing Covers topics
such as silicon-based imaging characteristics, nanophotonic phased
arrays, thin-film sensors, label-free DNA sensors, and in vivo flow
cytometry Presents the contributions of leading researchers,
real-world examples from biomedicine, recommendations for further
reading, and all measurements in SI units Optical Imaging Devices:
New Technologies and Applications provides an essential
understanding of the design, operation, and practical applications
of optical imaging and sensing systems, making it a handy reference
for students and practitioners alike.
Discover the roots of international transracial adoption
International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of Policy and
Practice explores the long history of international transracial
adoption. Scholars present the expert multidisciplinary
perspectives and up-to-date research on this most significant and
longstanding form of international child welfare practice.
Viewpoints and research are discussed from the academic disciplines
of psychology, ethnic studies, sociology, social work, and
anthropology. The chapters examine sociohistorical background, the
forming of new families, reflections on Korean adoption, birth
country perspectives, global perspectives, implications for
practice, and archival, historical, and current resources on Korean
adoption. International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of
Policy and Practice provides fresh insight into the origins,
development, and institutionalization of Korean adoption. Through
original research and personal accounts, this revealing text
explores how Korean adoptees and their families fit into their
family roles-and offers clear perspectives on adoption as child
welfare practice. Global implications and politics, as well as the
very personal experiences are examined in detail. This source is a
one-of-a-kind look into the full spectrum of information pertaining
to Korean adoption. Topics in International Korean Adoption: A
Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice include: adoption from
the Korean perspective historical origins of Korean adoption in the
United States adjustments of young adult adoptees marketing to
choosy adopters ethnic identity perspectives on the importance of
race and culture in parenting birth mothers' perspectives
sociological approach to race and identity representations of
adoptees in Korean popular culture adoption in Australia and the
Netherlands much, much more International Korean Adoption: A
Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice is illuminating reading
for adoptees, adoptive parents, practitioners, educators, students,
and any child welfare professional.
This book addresses a broad spectrum of areas in both hybrid
materials and hierarchical composites, including recent development
of processing technologies, structural designs, modern computer
simulation techniques, and the relationships between the
processing-structure-property-performance. Each topic is introduced
at length with numerous and detailed examples and over 150
illustrations.  In addition, the authors present a
method of categorizing these materials, so that representative
examples of all material classes are discussed.
This book addresses a broad spectrum of areas in both hybrid
materials and hierarchical composites, including recent development
of processing technologies, structural designs, modern computer
simulation techniques, and the relationships between the
processing-structure-property-performance. Each topic is introduced
at length with numerous and detailed examples and over 150
illustrations. In addition, the authors present a method of
categorizing these materials, so that representative examples of
all material classes are discussed.
This multi-author contributed volume contains chapters featuring
the development of the DV-X method and its application to a variety
of problems in Materials Science and Spectroscopy written by
leaders of the respective fields. The volume contains a Foreword
written by the Chairs of Japanese and Korea DV-X alpha Societies.
This book is aimed at individuals working in Quantum Chemistry.
AfterasurveypaperbyUtkininthelate1970s, slidingmodecontrolmeth-
ologies emerged as an e?ective tool to tackle uncertainty and
disturbances which are inevitable in most of the practical systems.
Sliding mode control is a particular class of variable structure
control which was introduced by Emel'yanov and his colleagues. The
design paradigms of sliding mode c- trol has now become a mature
design technique for the design of robust c- troller of uncertain
system. In sliding mode technique, the state trajectory of the
system is constrained on a chosen manifold (or within some neighb-
hood thereof) by an appropriatecontrolaction. This manifold is also
called a switching surface or a sliding surface. During sliding
mode, system dynamics is governed by the chosen manifold which
results in a well celebrated inva- ance property towards certain
classes of disturbance and model mismatches. The purpose of this
monograph is to give a di?erent dimension to sl- ing surface design
to achieve high performance of the system. Design of the switching
surface is vital because the closed loop dynamics is governed by
the parameters of the sliding surface. Therefore sliding surface
should be - signed to meet the closed loop speci?cations. Many
systems demand high performance with robustness. To address this
issue of achieving high perf- mance with robustness, we propose
nonlinear surfaces for di?erent classes of systems. The nonlinear
surface is designed such that it changes the system's closed-loop
damping ratio from its initial low value to a ?nal high value.
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Geometric Modeling and Processing - GMP 2006 - 4th International Conference, GMP 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 26-28, 2006, Proceedings (Paperback, 2006 ed.)
Myung-Soo Kim, Kenji Shimada
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th
International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing, GMP
2006, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 2006. The book presents 36
revised full papers and 21 revised short papers addressing current
issues in geometric modeling and processing are addressed. The
papers are organized in topical sections on shape reconstruction,
curves and surfaces, geometric processing, shape deformation, shape
description, shape recognition, and more.
Optical Imaging Devices: New Technologies and Applications delivers
a comprehensive introduction to optical imaging and sensing, from
devices to system-level applications. Drawing upon the extensive
academic and industrial experience of its prestigious editors and
renowned chapter authors, this authoritative text: Explains the
physical principles of optical imaging and sensing Covers topics
such as silicon-based imaging characteristics, nanophotonic phased
arrays, thin-film sensors, label-free DNA sensors, and in vivo flow
cytometry Presents the contributions of leading researchers,
real-world examples from biomedicine, recommendations for further
reading, and all measurements in SI units Optical Imaging Devices:
New Technologies and Applications provides an essential
understanding of the design, operation, and practical applications
of optical imaging and sensing systems, making it a handy reference
for students and practitioners alike.
Advances in Quantum Chemistry presents surveys of current
developments in this rapidly developing field that falls between
the historically established areas of mathematics, physics,
chemistry, and biology. With invited reviews written by leading
international researchers, each presenting new results, it provides
a single vehicle for following progress in this interdisciplinary
area.
This volume concerns the proceedings of the 4th International
Conference on the DV-Xa Method. The focus is on key issues of
materials science, surfaces, boundaries, defects, metals,
ceramics and organic materials and spectroscopy.
The DV-Xa method is a Density Functional-like development, which
has reached an unparalleled theoretical and practical
sophistication in Japan and Korea.
* publishes articles, invited reviews and proceedings of major
international conferences and workshops
* written by leading international researchers in quantum and
theoretical chemistry
* highlights important interdisciplinary developments
This text advances fundamental knowledge in modeling in vitro
tissues/organs as an alternative to 2D cell culture and animal
testing. Prior to engineering in vitro tissues/organs,the
descriptions of prerequisites (from pre-processing to
post-processing) in modeling in vitro tissues/organs are discussed.
The most prevalent technologies that have been widely used for
establishing the in vitro tissue/organ models are also described,
including transwell, cell spheroids/sheets, organoids, and
microfluidic-based chips. In particular, the authors focus on 3D
bioprinting in vitro tissue/organ models using tissue-specific
bioinks. Several representative bioprinting methods and
conventional bioinks are introduced. As a bioink source,
decellularized extracellular matrix (dECM) are importantly covered,
including decellularization methods, evaluation methods for
demonstrating successful decellularization, and material safety.
Taken together, the authors delineate various application examples
of 3D bioprinted in vitro tissue/organ models especially using dECM
bioinks.
This text advances fundamental knowledge in modeling in vitro
tissues/organs as an alternative to 2D cell culture and animal
testing. Prior to engineering in vitro tissues/organs,the
descriptions of prerequisites (from pre-processing to
post-processing) in modeling in vitro tissues/organs are discussed.
The most prevalent technologies that have been widely used for
establishing the in vitro tissue/organ models are also described,
including transwell, cell spheroids/sheets, organoids, and
microfluidic-based chips. In particular, the authors focus on 3D
bioprinting in vitro tissue/organ models using tissue-specific
bioinks. Several representative bioprinting methods and
conventional bioinks are introduced. As a bioink source,
decellularized extracellular matrix (dECM) are importantly covered,
including decellularization methods, evaluation methods for
demonstrating successful decellularization, and material safety.
Taken together, the authors delineate various application examples
of 3D bioprinted in vitro tissue/organ models especially using dECM
bioinks.
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