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This Modern Guide captures the evolution of foundational tenets,
theories, frameworks and models that buttressed tourism economics
into an evolving discipline, shining light on both new and old
approaches. It systematically examines current and future trends
and issues related to new economic perspectives, consolidating the
notion of tourism economics as a discipline. Chapters delve into
the theoretical underpinnings of specific topics within the field,
providing a range of examples of how to leverage economic theories
to better understand, manage, and promote tourism activities to
different stakeholders. Offering a kaleidoscope of economic
perspectives, the Modern Guide looks at tourism economics from
trade theory, choice theory, behavioural economics, public choice,
institutional economics, environmental economics, developmental
economics, cultural economics and more, with each chapter ending
with insights into future research and directions. Written in an
accessible style, this will be an invigorating read for hospitality
and tourism management scholars, as well as tourism geographies,
tourism marketing and sustainable tourism students. It will also be
a useful tool for tourism economists and applied economists looking
for a wide range of perspectives on the topic.
Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures focuses on
the research of advanced structures and anti-seismic design in
civil engineering. The proceedings present the most cutting-edge
research directions and achievements related to civil and
structural engineering. Topics covered in the proceedings include:
* Engineering Structure and Seismic Resistance * Structural
Mechanics Analysis * Components and Materials * Structural Seismic
Design * 3D Printing Concrete * Other Related Topics The works of
this proceedings will promote development of civil and structural
engineering, resource sharing, flexibility and high efficiency.
Thereby, promote scientific information interchange between
scholars from the top universities, research centers and high-tech
enterprises working all around the world.
Frontiers of Civil Engineering and Disaster Prevention and Control
is a compilation of selected papers from The 3rd International
Conference on Civil, Architecture and Disaster Prevention and
Control (CADPC 2022) and focuses on the research of architecture
and disaster prevention in civil engineering. The proceedings
features the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements
related to construction technology and prevention and control of
disaster. Subjects in this proceedings include: Construction
Technology Seismicity in Civil Engineering High-Rise Building
Construction Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction Smart
Post-Disaster Rescue These proceedings will promote development of
civil engineering and risk reduction, resource sharing, flexibility
and high efficiency. Moreover, promote scientific information
interchange between scholars from the top universities, research
centers and high-tech enterprises working all around the world.
This book is about contemporary senses of life after death in the
United States, Japan, and China. By collecting and examining
hundreds of interviews with people from all walks of life in these
three societies, the book presents and compares personally held
beliefs, experiences, and interactions with the concept of life
after death. Three major aspects covered by the book Include, but
are certainly not limited to, the enduring tradition of Japanese
ancestor veneration, China's transition from state-sponsored
materialism to the increasing belief in some form of afterlife, as
well as the diversity in senses of, or disbelief in, life after
death in the United States. Through these diverse first-hand
testimonies the book reveals that underlying these changes in each
society there is a shift from collective to individual belief, with
people developing their own visions of what may, or may not, happen
after death. This book will be valuable reading for students of
Anthropology as well as Religious, Cultural, Asian and American
Studies. It will also be an impactful resource for professionals
such as doctors, nurses, and hospice workers.
Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures focuses on
the research of advanced structures and anti-seismic design in
civil engineering. The proceedings present the most cutting-edge
research directions and achievements related to civil and
structural engineering. Topics covered in the proceedings include:
* Engineering Structure and Seismic Resistance * Structural
Mechanics Analysis * Components and Materials * Structural Seismic
Design * 3D Printing Concrete * Other Related Topics The works of
this proceedings will promote development of civil and structural
engineering, resource sharing, flexibility and high efficiency.
Thereby, promote scientific information interchange between
scholars from the top universities, research centers and high-tech
enterprises working all around the world.
This book is about contemporary senses of life after death in the
United States, Japan, and China. By collecting and examining
hundreds of interviews with people from all walks of life in these
three societies, the book presents and compares personally held
beliefs, experiences, and interactions with the concept of life
after death. Three major aspects covered by the book Include, but
are certainly not limited to, the enduring tradition of Japanese
ancestor veneration, China's transition from state-sponsored
materialism to the increasing belief in some form of afterlife, as
well as the diversity in senses of, or disbelief in, life after
death in the United States. Through these diverse first-hand
testimonies the book reveals that underlying these changes in each
society there is a shift from collective to individual belief, with
people developing their own visions of what may, or may not, happen
after death. This book will be valuable reading for students of
Anthropology as well as Religious, Cultural, Asian and American
Studies. It will also be an impactful resource for professionals
such as doctors, nurses, and hospice workers.
* Innovative clinical trial design * Regulatory approval * Real
world evidence
Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures focuses on
the research of advanced structures and anti-seismic design in
civil engineering. The proceedings present the most cutting-edge
research directions and achievements related to civil and
structural engineering. Topics covered in the proceedings include:
* Engineering Structure and Seismic Resistance * Structural
Mechanics Analysis * Components and Materials * Structural Seismic
Design * 3D Printing Concrete * Other Related Topics The works of
this proceedings will promote development of civil and structural
engineering, resource sharing, flexibility and high efficiency.
Thereby, promote scientific information interchange between
scholars from the top universities, research centers and high-tech
enterprises working all around the world.
Demonstrates China's reform and opening-up and formation of BRI A
full pictory of the backstory, concept and framework of BRI
Includes China's nternational action plans relevant and similar to
the BRI Covers case studies of the BRI implementation and promotion
132 entries in total reflect the latest progress, with 19 new
entries added and 14 updated compared to the first edition
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Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical
Applications is based on a decade of the authors' collaborative
work in age-period-cohort (APC) analysis. Within a single,
consistent HAPC-GLMM statistical modeling framework, the authors
synthesize APC models and methods for three research designs:
age-by-time period tables of population rates or proportions,
repeated cross-section sample surveys, and accelerated longitudinal
panel studies. The authors show how the empirical application of
the models to various problems leads to many fascinating findings
on how outcome variables develop along the age, period, and cohort
dimensions. The book makes two essential contributions to
quantitative studies of time-related change. Through the
introduction of the GLMM framework, it shows how innovative
estimation methods and new model specifications can be used to
tackle the "model identification problem" that has hampered the
development and empirical application of APC analysis. The book
also addresses the major criticism against APC analysis by
explaining the use of new models within the GLMM framework to
uncover mechanisms underlying age patterns and temporal trends.
Encompassing both methodological expositions and empirical studies,
this book explores the ways in which statistical models, methods,
and research designs can be used to open new possibilities for APC
analysis. It compares new and existing models and methods and
provides useful guidelines on how to conduct APC analysis. For
empirical illustrations, the text incorporates examples from a
variety of disciplines, such as sociology, demography, and
epidemiology. Along with details on empirical analyses, software
and programs to estimate the models are available on the book's web
page.
Frontiers of Civil Engineering and Disaster Prevention and Control
is a compilation of selected papers from The 3rd International
Conference on Civil, Architecture and Disaster Prevention and
Control (CADPC 2022) and focuses on the research of architecture
and disaster prevention in civil engineering. The proceedings
features the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements
related to construction technology and prevention and control of
disaster. Subjects in this proceedings include: Construction
Technology Seismicity in Civil Engineering High-Rise Building
Construction Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction Smart
Post-Disaster Rescue These proceedings will promote development of
civil engineering and risk reduction, resource sharing, flexibility
and high efficiency. Moreover, promote scientific information
interchange between scholars from the top universities, research
centers and high-tech enterprises working all around the world.
Frontiers of Civil Engineering and Disaster Prevention and Control
is a compilation of selected papers from The 3rd International
Conference on Civil, Architecture and Disaster Prevention and
Control (CADPC 2022) and focuses on the research of architecture
and disaster prevention in civil engineering. The proceedings
features the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements
related to construction technology and prevention and control of
disaster. Subjects in this proceedings include: Construction
Technology Seismicity in Civil Engineering High-Rise Building
Construction Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction Smart
Post-Disaster Rescue These proceedings will promote development of
civil engineering and risk reduction, resource sharing, flexibility
and high efficiency. Moreover, promote scientific information
interchange between scholars from the top universities, research
centers and high-tech enterprises working all around the world.
This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of
cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the
establishment of policy models and practices against the backdrop
of a globalizing world, and considers the dynamic relationship
between powerful actors and resources that impact Asian cities.
Making Cultural Cities in Asia approaches this dynamic process
through the lens of assemblage: how the policy models of
cultural/creative cities have been extracted from the flow of
ideas, and how re-invented versions have been assembled,
territorialized, and exported. This approach reveals a spectrum
between globally circulating ideals on the one hand, and the
place-based contexts and contingencies on the other. At one end of
the spectrum, this book features chapters on policy mobility, in
particular the political construction of the "web" of communication
and the restructuring or rescaling of the state. At the other end,
chapters examine the increasingly fragmented social forces, their
changing roles in the process, and their negotiations, alignments,
and resistances. This book will be of interest to researchers and
policy-makers concerned with cultural and urban studies, creative
industries and Asian studies.
This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of
cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the
establishment of policy models and practices against the backdrop
of a globalizing world, and considers the dynamic relationship
between powerful actors and resources that impact Asian cities.
Making Cultural Cities in Asia approaches this dynamic process
through the lens of assemblage: how the policy models of
cultural/creative cities have been extracted from the flow of
ideas, and how re-invented versions have been assembled,
territorialized, and exported. This approach reveals a spectrum
between globally circulating ideals on the one hand, and the
place-based contexts and contingencies on the other. At one end of
the spectrum, this book features chapters on policy mobility, in
particular the political construction of the "web" of communication
and the restructuring or rescaling of the state. At the other end,
chapters examine the increasingly fragmented social forces, their
changing roles in the process, and their negotiations, alignments,
and resistances. This book will be of interest to researchers and
policy-makers concerned with cultural and urban studies, creative
industries and Asian studies.
Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical
Applications is based on a decade of the authors' collaborative
work in age-period-cohort (APC) analysis. Within a single,
consistent HAPC-GLMM statistical modeling framework, the authors
synthesize APC models and methods for three research designs:
age-by-time period tables of population rates or proportions,
repeated cross-section sample surveys, and accelerated longitudinal
panel studies. The authors show how the empirical application of
the models to various problems leads to many fascinating findings
on how outcome variables develop along the age, period, and cohort
dimensions. The book makes two essential contributions to
quantitative studies of time-related change. Through the
introduction of the GLMM framework, it shows how innovative
estimation methods and new model specifications can be used to
tackle the "model identification problem" that has hampered the
development and empirical application of APC analysis. The book
also addresses the major criticism against APC analysis by
explaining the use of new models within the GLMM framework to
uncover mechanisms underlying age patterns and temporal trends.
Encompassing both methodological expositions and empirical studies,
this book explores the ways in which statistical models, methods,
and research designs can be used to open new possibilities for APC
analysis. It compares new and existing models and methods and
provides useful guidelines on how to conduct APC analysis. For
empirical illustrations, the text incorporates examples from a
variety of disciplines, such as sociology, demography, and
epidemiology. Along with details on empirical analyses, software
and programs to estimate the models are available on the book's web
page.
This book is a collection of 12 academic papers published in
Chinese Theatre Arts, a journal of the Shanghai Theatre Academy.
They include pieces on contemporary theatre, modern drama, foreign
drama, stage art, acting, and directing. The Editor in Chief,
Professor Yang Yang, is Vice President of Shanghai Theatre Academy.
In this English translation, the book introduces the outstanding
academic achievements of Chinese theatre research to readers in the
English world so they can better understand Chinese theatre and
Chinese culture.
This book brings audiences the enchanting melodies passing down
from generation to generation in the Zhuang community, which are on
the brink of extinction. Specifically, it sheds light on the
origin, evolution and artistic features of Zhuang folk song in the
first place, and then it shifts to their English translation based
on meta-functional equivalence, through which the multi-aesthetics
of Zhuang folk song have been represented. At length, forty classic
Zhuang folk songs have been selected, and each could be sung
bilingually in line with the stave. This book benefits researchers
and students who are interested in music translation as well as the
Zhuang ethnic music, culture and literature. It also gives readers
an insight into musicology, anthropology and intercultural study.
This book first provides a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art
IoT technologies and applications in different industrial sectors
and public services. The authors give in-depth analyses of fog
computing architecture and key technologies that fulfill the
challenging requirements of enabling computing services anywhere
along the cloud-to-thing continuum. Further, in order to make IoT
systems more intelligent and more efficient, a fog-enabled service
architecture is proposed to address the latency requirements,
bandwidth limitations, and computing power issues in realistic
cross-domain application scenarios with limited priori domain
knowledge, i.e. physical laws, system statuses, operation
principles and execution rules. Based on this fog-enabled
architecture, a series of data-driven self-learning applications in
different industrial sectors and public services are investigated
and discussed, such as robot SLAM and formation control, wireless
network self-optimization, intelligent transportation system, smart
home and user behavior recognition. Finally, the advantages and
future directions of fog-enabled intelligent IoT systems are
summarized. Provides a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art IoT
technologies and applications in different industrial sectors and
public services Presents a fog-enabled service architecture with
detailed technical approaches for realistic cross-domain
application scenarios with limited prior domain knowledge Outlines
a series of data-driven self-learning applications (with new
algorithms) in different industrial sectors and public services
This book presents the design, development and field trials of
radio frequency based wireless monitoring system for sleep apnoea
patients. It contains 4 major areas including general background of
wireless monitoring technology and MIMO in wireless body area
network (WBAN), microwave hardware designs, virtual MIMO in WBAN
and hardware system level implementation and field trials. At
components level, this book presents the design theory, process and
examples of bandpass filters, lowpass filters, low profile patch
antennas, power amplifiers and oscillators which are the key
elements in transducer designs in the body area network and
cooperative communication wireless sensor network system. At system
level, this book features the hardware integration, field trial and
network coding techniques. This book also gives a presentation of
virtual MIMO applications, e.g. MIMO implementation using FPGA,
correlation coefficient measurement. The book will create impact in
the fields of wireless monitoring technology in biomedical
engineering, which have been growing exponentially.
This book focuses on key simulation and evaluation technologies for
5G systems. Based on the most recent research results from academia
and industry, it describes the evaluation methodologies in depth
for network and physical layer technologies. The evaluation methods
are discussed in depth. It also covers the analysis of the 5G
candidate technologies and the testing challenges, the evolution of
the testing technologies, fading channel measurement and modeling,
software simulations, software hardware cosimulation, field testing
and other novel evaluation methods. The fifth-generation (5G)
mobile communications system targets highly improved network
performances in terms of the network capacity and the number of
connections. Testing and evaluation technologies is widely
recognized and plays important roles in the wireless technology
developments, along with the research on basic theory and key
technologies. The investigation and developments on the multi-level
and comprehensive evaluations for 5G new technologies, provides
important performance references for the 5G technology filtering
and future standardizations. Students focused on
telecommunications, electronic engineering, computer science or
other related disciplines will find this book useful as a secondary
text. Researchers and professionals working within these related
fields will also find this book useful as a reference.
This book presents the design, development and field trials of
radio frequency based wireless monitoring system for sleep apnoea
patients. It contains 4 major areas including general background of
wireless monitoring technology and MIMO in wireless body area
network (WBAN), microwave hardware designs, virtual MIMO in WBAN
and hardware system level implementation and field trials. At
components level, this book presents the design theory, process and
examples of bandpass filters, lowpass filters, low profile patch
antennas, power amplifiers and oscillators which are the key
elements in transducer designs in the body area network and
cooperative communication wireless sensor network system. At system
level, this book features the hardware integration, field trial and
network coding techniques. This book also gives a presentation of
virtual MIMO applications, e.g. MIMO implementation using FPGA,
correlation coefficient measurement. The book will create impact in
the fields of wireless monitoring technology in biomedical
engineering, which have been growing exponentially.
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