Springer Singapore: 3660 books
China’s Macroeconomic Outlook
Quarterly Forecast and Analysis Report, September 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
This book is a quarterly forecast and analysis report on the Chinese economy. It is published twice a year and presents ongoing results from the “China Quarterly Macroeconomic Model (CQMM),” a research project at the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at Xiamen University. Based on the CQMM...
In Pursuit of Presence or Prominence?
The Prospect of Chinese Banks' Global Expansion and Their Benchmarks
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
This book summarizes Chinese banks’ achievements in global markets and examines the differences between Chinese and foreign banks. It also explores the future roadmap of internationalization and the risks involved in the process, in order to provide reference resource for Chinese banks.
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Crowdsourced Data Management
Hybrid Machine-Human Computing
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
This book provides an overview of crowdsourced data management. Covering all aspects including the workflow, algorithms and research potential, it particularly focuses on the latest techniques and recent advances. The authors identify three key aspects in determining the performance of crowdsourced...
Industrial Organization in Iran
The Weakly Organized System of the Iranian Apparel Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This book focuses on Iran to explore the question of how the nature of industrial organizations and the whole system they constitute can exert a great influence on an industry’s competitiveness and resilience. The author examines what happens if firms and companies participating in the manufacturing...
Industrial Safety Management
21st Century Perspectives of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This edited volume focuses on research conducted in the areas of industrial safety. Chapters are extensions of works presented at the International Conference on Management of Ergonomic Design, Industrial Safety and Healthcare Systems. The book addresses issues such as occupational safety, safety...
by Gulnura Issanova, Jilili Abuduwaili
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book highlights the aeolian processes in the desert zone of Kazakhstan and Central Asian Deserts, and analyzes the current status of dust and sand storms in Central Asia and Kazakhstan.
It also highlights the analyses, dynamics and long-term observations of storms on the basis of numerous...
Advances in Computer and Computational Sciences
Proceedings of ICCCCS 2016, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Exchange of information and innovative ideas are necessary to accelerate the development of technology. With advent of technology, intelligent and soft computing techniques came into existence with a wide scope of implementation in engineering sciences. Keeping this ideology in preference, this book...
Developing Critical Thinking in EFL Classes
An Infusion Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book presents an innovative teaching experiment and an analytical study of critical thinking and the sociocultural theory of learning to illustrate the cognitive learning development mechanisms. It addresses the issues in developing critical thinking, including the controversy surrounding the...
The Value of Wellness in the Workplace
A Perspective of the Employee-Organisation Relationship in the South African Labour Market
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
This book examines the links between employee-organisation relationships, work wellness and the impact thereof on the labour market from a South African perspective. By employing this focus, the book explains the role of the employment relationship and the psychological contract in improving work...
Mindfulness Among Students
The Impact of Faculty and Demography in Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This book utilizes quantitative research methods to identify the relationship between the level of mindfulness and demographic factors among university students in Malaysia. More specifically, it explores the mindfulness, its benefits and relationship with demography, and the field of study of university...
by Sheela Saravanan
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
This book takes a reproductive justice approach to argue that surrogacy as practised in the contemporary neoliberal biomarkets crosses the humanitarian thresholds of feminism. Drawing on her ethnographic work with surrogate mothers, intended parents and medical practitioners in India, the author shows...
CO2, Temperature, and Trees
Experimental Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This comprehensive book discusses the ecophysiological features of trees affected by the two most prominent factors of climate change: atmospheric CO2 concentration and temperature. It starts with the introduction of experimental methods at the leaf, branch, the whole-tree, and tree group scales,...
Intergenerational Consequences of Lifestyle Migration
German-speaking Immigrants in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
This book explores the adaptation processes of German-speaking immigrants and their descendants into New Zealand’s predominantly Anglophone society. Specifically, it considers the experiences and long-term consequences of the migration of more affluent European immigrants to New Zealand, where migration...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
This book delivers timely research on the various interfaces of family and work, and their impacts on individual wellbeing in East and Southeast Asia. It highlights changing family structures and processes, with special attention to inter-generational relationships, gender roles, cultural norms and...