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This book is an exploration of the concept of in-betweenness, as it
occurs within the process of moving between the author’s root
culture and adopted culture, from her perspective as an immigrant
creative arts therapist. Through the critical autoethnographic
voice and a/r/tographic inquiry, she introduces a unique
exploration site within the process of Guqin-making, an ancient
Chinese art form. Through the creation of images and poetry, and
through Guqin-making and music-making/playing, the book expands the
discussion of in-betweenness by re-theorising ancient Chinese
philosophical perspectives on harmonic space. This contribution to
arts-based research provides a unique standpoint to explore
research methods of moving, walking, making, resting and awakening.
It showcases how other researchers can transfer the invisible and
intangible embodied feelings, memories and emotions arising from
moving between two or more cultures into visible and tangible
images, narrative, poetry, craft and music-playing to conduct
powerful, interdisciplinary arts-based research.
This book explores language ideologies in China, which encounters
the unprecedented global spread of English as a lingua franca,
against the backdrop of globalisation where China emerges as a
rapidly developing economy with vigorous promotion of Chinese
around the world. The book addresses Chinese speakers' ideologies
in relation to ELF and provides insights into non-native English
speakers' engagement in the development of English in the future.
Polyamines are organic cations found in all eukaryotic cells and
intimately involved in, and required for, distinct biological
functions. An increasing body of evidence indicates that the
regulation of cellular polyamines is a central convergence point
for the multiple signaling pathways driving various cellular
functions. Over the last decade, considerable progress has been
made in und- standing the molecular functions of cellular
polyamines. These significant findings provide a fundamental basis
to not only define the exact role of polyamines in physiology, but
also to develop new therapeutic approaches for cancers and other
diseases. The major objective of this book is to provide a timely
and long lasting guide for investigators in the fields of
polyamines, physiology, pharmacology, and cancer research. It will
provide a foundation based on research and address the potential
for subsequent applications in clinical practice. Polyamine Cell
Signaling: Physiology, Pharmacology, and Cancer Research is divided
into four main parts: Part I: Polyamines in Signal Transduction of
Cell Proliferation Part II: Polyamines in Cellular Signaling of
Apoptosis, Carcinogenesis, and Cancer Therapy Part III: Polyamines
in Cell Motility and Cell-Cell Interactions Part IV: Polyamine
Homeostasis and Transport This book not only covers the current
state-of-the-art findings relevant to cellular and molecular
functions of polyamines, but also provides the underlying
conceptual basis and knowledge regarding potential therapeutic
targeting of polyamines and polyamine metabolism. These points are
addressed by int- nationally recognized experts in their
contributions to this book.
Can your job change your personality? While traditionally
personality has been considered fixed and stable, recent thinking
indicates that this is not the case. Personality can be changed by
various work and vocational experiences, such as employment
conditions, career roles, job characteristics and training or
interventions. Drawing on a wide array of research in the field,
Wang and Wu provide a conceptual overview on how personality can be
changed at work by societal, organisational and job-related
factors, while considering how individuals can take an active
approach in changing their personality at work.
Volume 8 of Advances in Global Leadership includes timely and
impactful chapters on various concepts and processes associated
with leading across cultures and other boundaries. In these times
of accelerating complexity and global inter-connectedness, a deeper
understanding of the multiple contextual, organizational, and
individual variables and processes associated with effective
international leadership is ever more important. This volume,
drawing on authors from many different cultures and contexts,
contributes to bridging and integrating conceptual and practitioner
perspectives in pursuing this deeper understanding.
Volume 7 of "Advances in Global Leadership" includes timely and
impactful chapters on various concepts and processes associated
with leading across cultures and other boundaries. In these times
of accelerating complexity and global inter-connectedness, a deeper
understanding of the multiple contextual, organizational, and
individual variables and processes associated effective
international leadership is ever more important. This Volume,
drawing on authors from many different cultures and contexts,
contributes to bridging and integrating conceptual and practitioner
perspectives in pursuing this deeper understanding.
This book focuses on the planning, marketing, and management of
Asian tourism destinations, and evaluates current developments
within Southeast-Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. As more
Asian destinations enter the global tourism arena and more Asian
travellers look to explore destinations in Asia and beyond, an
understanding of how Asian destinations practice tourism is crucial
to the future sustainable development of global tourism. This book
provides an invaluable stock of research and knowledge based on the
Asian practice and experience in destination planning, marketing,
and management, offering insights into the latest development and
trends in the region.
Volume 6 of "Advances in Global Leadership" includes timely and
impactful chapters on various concepts and processes associated
with leading across cultures and other boundaries. In these times
of accelerating complexity and global inter-connectedness, a deeper
understanding of the multiple contextual, organizational, and
individual variables and processes associated effective
international leadership is ever more important. This Volume,
drawing on authors from many different cultures and contexts,
contributes to bridging and integrating conceptual and practitioner
perspectives in pursuing this deeper understanding. Volume 6
includes chapters on: global mindset; leading innovation across
cultures; virtual team leadership; leading sustainability; leader
and expert selection; organizational culture across cultures and
contexts; the future of corporate leadership development processes
and practices; proactive leadership; and, coaching. Academics,
management and leadership development professionals, consultants,
coaches, leaders and would-be-leaders will be informed by the
chapters in this Volume.
The urgency of a deeper understanding of the nature and development
of leaders who can be effective across multiple contexts and
national boundaries has never been more apparent. "The Advances in
Global Leadership Series" seeks to contribute to this understanding
by presenting original papers by academics, practitioners and
consultants actively engaged in global leadership from multiple
perspectives. Volume 5 of this series includes chapters on:
personality, leadership and globalization; the roles of
international experience, experiential learning, and cultural
intelligence in developing global leaders; an integrative framework
for assessing, coaching and developing global leaders; developing
balanced global leadership teams; leadership in strategic
alliances; leadership in the Mid-East, Korea and Europe; leadership
and environmental scanning; and, ethical leadership. Authors of
this title come from China, Ireland, Korea, Singapore, U.K. and
USA.
This SpringerBrief presents research results on QoE management
schemes for mobile services, including user services, and resource
allocation. Along with a review of the research literature, it
offers a data-driven architecture for personalized QoE management
in wireless networks. The primary focus is on introducing efficient
personalized character extraction mechanisms, e.g., context-aware
Bayesian graph model, and cooperative QoE management mechanisms.
Moreover, in order to demonstrate in the effectiveness of the QoE
model, a QoE measurement platform is described and its collected
data examined. The brief concludes with a discussion of future
research directions. The example mechanisms and the data-driven
architecture provide useful insights into the designs of QoE
management, and motivate a new line of thinking for users'
satisfaction in future wireless networks.
Two young gentry women meet by chance at a nunnery in Yangzhou,
where they fall in love at first sight. After they exchange poetry
and recognize each other's literary talents, their emotional bond
deepens. They conduct a mock wedding ceremony at the nunnery and
hatch a plan to spend the rest of their lives together. Their
schemes are stymied by a series of obstacles, but in the end the
two women find an unlikely resolution-a menage-a-trois marriage.
The Fragrant Companions is the most significant work of literature
that portrays female same-sex love in the entire premodern Chinese
tradition. Written in 1651 by Li Yu, one of the most inventive and
irreverent literary figures of seventeenth-century China, this play
is at once an unconventional romantic comedy, a barbed satire, and
a sympathetic portrayal of love between women. It offers a
sensitive portrait of the two women's passion for each other,
depicts their intellectual pursuits and resourcefulness, and
celebrates their partial triumph over social convention. At the
same time, Li caustically mocks the imperial examination system and
deflates the idealized image of the male scholar. The Fragrant
Companions is both an indispensable source for students and
scholars of gender and sexuality in premodern China and a
compelling work of literature for all readers interested in China's
rich theatrical traditions.
Polyamines are organic cations found in all eukaryotic cells and
intimately involved in, and required for, distinct biological
functions. An increasing body of evidence indicates that the
regulation of cellular polyamines is a central convergence point
for the multiple signaling pathways driving various cellular
functions. Over the last decade, considerable progress has been
made in und- standing the molecular functions of cellular
polyamines. These significant findings provide a fundamental basis
to not only define the exact role of polyamines in physiology, but
also to develop new therapeutic approaches for cancers and other
diseases. The major objective of this book is to provide a timely
and long lasting guide for investigators in the fields of
polyamines, physiology, pharmacology, and cancer research. It will
provide a foundation based on research and address the potential
for subsequent applications in clinical practice. Polyamine Cell
Signaling: Physiology, Pharmacology, and Cancer Research is divided
into four main parts: Part I: Polyamines in Signal Transduction of
Cell Proliferation Part II: Polyamines in Cellular Signaling of
Apoptosis, Carcinogenesis, and Cancer Therapy Part III: Polyamines
in Cell Motility and Cell-Cell Interactions Part IV: Polyamine
Homeostasis and Transport This book not only covers the current
state-of-the-art findings relevant to cellular and molecular
functions of polyamines, but also provides the underlying
conceptual basis and knowledge regarding potential therapeutic
targeting of polyamines and polyamine metabolism. These points are
addressed by int- nationally recognized experts in their
contributions to this book.
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The second part of the epic Chinese trilogy set during the Nanchang
uprising of the Chinese Civil War in 1927. After his father is
killed in a bombing raid, Rui enlists with a group of revolutionary
forces and joins them as they march on the capital with scant
resources and little ammunition.
This book focuses on the planning, marketing, and management of
Asian tourism destinations, and evaluates current developments
within Southeast-Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. As more
Asian destinations enter the global tourism arena and more Asian
travellers look to explore destinations in Asia and beyond, an
understanding of how Asian destinations practice tourism is crucial
to the future sustainable development of global tourism. This book
provides an invaluable stock of research and knowledge based on the
Asian practice and experience in destination planning, marketing,
and management, offering insights into the latest development and
trends in the region.
Two young gentry women meet by chance at a nunnery in Yangzhou,
where they fall in love at first sight. After they exchange poetry
and recognize each other's literary talents, their emotional bond
deepens. They conduct a mock wedding ceremony at the nunnery and
hatch a plan to spend the rest of their lives together. Their
schemes are stymied by a series of obstacles, but in the end the
two women find an unlikely resolution-a menage-a-trois marriage.
The Fragrant Companions is the most significant work of literature
that portrays female same-sex love in the entire premodern Chinese
tradition. Written in 1651 by Li Yu, one of the most inventive and
irreverent literary figures of seventeenth-century China, this play
is at once an unconventional romantic comedy, a barbed satire, and
a sympathetic portrayal of love between women. It offers a
sensitive portrait of the two women's passion for each other,
depicts their intellectual pursuits and resourcefulness, and
celebrates their partial triumph over social convention. At the
same time, Li caustically mocks the imperial examination system and
deflates the idealized image of the male scholar. The Fragrant
Companions is both an indispensable source for students and
scholars of gender and sexuality in premodern China and a
compelling work of literature for all readers interested in China's
rich theatrical traditions.
"Tribology in Environmental Design" is an indispensable collection
of chapters exploring the life cycle of all stages of tribological
issues for product design. The contributors for this edition are
from a wide range of disciplines and countries ensuring a
comprehensive overview of "Tribology in Environment Design". This
well renowned second international conference explores the role of
tribology in the context of product design and how this influences
environmental, as well as product life cycle, consequences. The
topics covered include: Sustainable Design; Life oriented Products;
Life cycle Assessment for Optimized Products; Surface Engineering;
Lubricants; Test Methods; Advanced Materials; and, Analytical
Studies.
A varied and engaging collection of contemporary stories for the
advanced language student This reader for advanced students of
Chinese presents ten post-1990 short stories by prominent writers
such as Su Tong and Yu Hua, whose novels Raise the Red Lantern and
To Live served as the basis for internationally acclaimed films.
With its captivating content dealing with current social issues, it
fills a gap in the literature for advanced language students who
are eager to read extensively in real literature. Vocabulary lists
free the student from the chore of constantly consulting a
dictionary while reading, grammar and usage examples highlight new
patterns, and questions for discussion explore the literary
content. This all-fiction collection of contemporary works can be
used as a text in language or literature courses or can be read
independently.
This book aims to analyze how China's firms in the consumer
electronics (CE) sector have developed their business strategy and
corporate governance during the reform process. This book examines
the CE sector in particular because it is one of the country's most
important and dynamic manufacturing sectors and one of the earliest
market-oriented sectors.
The mammalian gastrointestinal mucosa is a rapidly self-renewing
tissue in the body, and its homeostasis is preserved through the
strict regulation of epithelial cell proliferation, growth arrest,
and apoptosis. The control of the growth of gastrointestinal mucosa
is unique and, compared with most other tissue in the body,
complex. Mucosal growth is regulated by the same hormones that
alter metabolism in other tissues, but the gastrointestinal mucosa
also responds to host events triggered by the ingestion and
presence of food within the digestive tract. These gut hormones and
peptides regulate the growth of the exocrine pancreas, gallbladder
epithelium, and the mucosa of the oxyntic gland region of the
stomach and the small and large intestines. Luminal factors,
including nutrients or other dietary factors, secretions, and
microbes that occur within the lumen and distribute over a
proximal-to-distal gradient, are also crucial for maintenance of
normal gut mucosal regeneration and could explain the
villous-height-crypt-depth gradient and variety of adaptation,
since these factors are diluted, absorbed, and destroyed as they
pass down the digestive tract. Recently, intestinal stem cells,
cellular polyamines, and noncoding RNAs are shown to play an
important role in the regulation of gastrointestinal mucosal growth
under physiological and various pathological conditions. In this
book, we highlight key issues and factors that control
gastrointestinal mucosal growth and homeostasis, with special
emphasis on the mechanisms through which epithelial renewal and
apoptosis are regulated at the cellular and molecular levels.
This book explores the fate of H isotopes in organic molecules from
the perspective of equilibrium isotope fractionation. Using a novel
combination of theoretical and experimental methods, it
quantitatively investigates the magnitude of equilibrium H isotope
fractionation and its temperature dependence, as well as the
underlying chemistry, for various organic H sites common to
sedimentary organic matter. The results serve as building blocks to
calculate accurate fractionation factors for geo-relevant organic
molecules without resorting to further molecular modeling. This
knowledge has broad impacts on paleoclimate reconstructions,
ecological studies, petroleum generation processes, and studies in
biochemistry and astrobiology. This book also contributes to the
methodology of compound-specific H isotope analysis by
quantitatively evaluating the isotopic memory effects. Data has
been organized in comprehensive tables and figures to facilitate
use. Geochemistry, geobiology and environmental science researchers
and students will find this book a valuable source of information.
The rapid growth of the Internet has drastically altered the scene
of human communication and presented new challenges to traditional
cross-cultural adaptation (CCA) research. This book is intended to
bridge CCA and Internet research by examining the role of the
Internet in the cross-cultural adaptation process. The researcher
explored how different Internet use patterns, in terms of amount
and type (host Internet use and ethnic Internet use), affect
Chinese students' sociocultural and psychological adaptation to the
American culture. A model of Internet use in CCA was proposed and
tested. The results showed that individual differences, Internet
use motives and host Internet use are significant predictors for
psychological adaptations. It is hoped that the study will not only
draw more attention from intercultural communication scholars in
studying CCA in the new media environment, but also will shed some
light on the social and cultural consequences of Internet use in a
unique context.
"Literature and Society," a textbook designed for upper-level
students, usually in their fourth year of studying Chinese,
contains literary works and essays related to the social sciences.
It reflects the social issues China has faced in recent years and
represents a new approach to introducing students to various
aspects of Chinese society. The textbook contains two sections. The
first, entitled "Literature," includes works by Lu Xun, Lin Yutang,
Liang Shiqiu, Wang Li, Xie Bingying, and Wang Meng. The selections
include essays, short stories, and one play. Each selection
reflects a different side of Chinese life, from offering
hospitality to guests and haggling over prices to philosophical
issues. The second section of the textbook, entitled "Society,"
includes essays by Fei Xiaotong, Ma Yinchu, Wu Han, Liang Sicheng,
and Chen Hengzhe. These works cover six issues: marriage and
family, population and ethics, urbanization, intellectuals,
minorities, and the preservation of ancient architecture in a
modern city. The textbook provides a brief introduction to each
author and discussion questions at the end of each piece.
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