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International Communication Strategies of Chinese Radio and TV Networks
Initial Observations
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
This book discusses the effect of communication strategies in the course of China’s national image building from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. The research data are collected via researcher’s in-depth observation as well as focus group analysis and case study of selected Chinese...
Critical Literacies
Global and Multicultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
This book offers comprehensive coverage of critical literacies by pursuing a balanced approach to theory, research, and practice. By clarifying the gaps among the frameworks of critical literacies, the author discusses new ways of approaching them from global and multicultural perspectives and provides...
Early Study-Abroad and Identities
Korean Early Study-Abroad Undergraduates
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
This book investigates how transnational English learning experiences can influence students’ identities. More specifically, it delineates how Korean early study abroad undergraduates perceive English and how they have formed their ethnic identities based on their early study abroad experiences....
by (Mark) Feng Teng
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book discusses the importance of autonomy, agency, and identity in teaching and learning English as a foreign language, all of which are central themes in the educational domain. By linking theory with practice to appeal to researchers as well as classroom practitioners, it provides an overview...
Judging the State in International Trade and Investment Law
Sovereignty Modern, the Law and the Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
This book addresses concerns with the international trade and investment dispute settlement systems from a statist perspective, at a time when multilateralism is deeply questioned by the forces of mega-regionalism and political and economic contestation. In covering recent case law and theoretical...
Teachers as Self-directed Learners
Active Positioning through Professional Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This book redefines teacher in-service education as being less about participation in a program and more about the opportunity for teachers to experience a process of learning that is personally meaningful and contextually relevant to their own teaching practice. The research presented here reveals...
Implementing Cross-Culture Pedagogies
Cooperative Learning at Confucian Heritage Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
During the last two decades Confucian heritage culture countries have widely promoted teaching and learning reforms to advance their educational systems. To skip the painfully long research stage, Confucian heritage culture educators have borrowed Western philosophies and practices with the assumption...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Given the increasing global interest in Chinese culture, this book uses case studies to describe and interpret Chinese cultivation in contemporary Taiwanese schools. Cultivation is a concept unique to Chinese culture and is characterized by different attitudes towards teaching and learning compared...
by Huchang Liao, Zeshui Xu
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the latest research on hesitant fuzzy decision-making theory. It includes six parts: the hesitant fuzzy set and its extensions, novel hesitant fuzzy measures, hesitant fuzzy hybrid weighted aggregation operators, hesitant fuzzy multiple-criteria...
by David Zhang, Dongmin Guo, Ke Yan
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
This book describes breath signal processing technologies and their applications in medical sample classification and diagnosis. First, it provides a comprehensive introduction to breath signal acquisition methods, based on different kinds of chemical sensors, together with the optimized selection...
Green Intelligent Transportation Systems
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Green Intelligent Transportation System and Safety
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
These proceedings collect selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Green Intelligent Transportation System and Safety held in Nanjing on July 1-4, 2016. The selected works, which include state-of-the-art studies, are intended to promote the development of green mobility and intelligent...
by Xiaolong Guo
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
This book studies storage policies in warehousing systems and maintenance-support strategies for critical operational systems in warehouses, which are the most important issues affecting operational efficiency of warehousing systems. It expands on the theory of class-based storage by considering a...
Statistical Modelling of Survival Data with Random Effects
H-Likelihood Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book provides a groundbreaking introduction to the likelihood inference for correlated survival data via the hierarchical (or h-) likelihood in order to obtain the (marginal) likelihood and to address the computational difficulties in inferences and extensions. The approach presented in the book...
GI Surgery Annual
Volume 22
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
The twenty-second volume of GI Surgery Annual covers a gamut of topics from oesophageal adenocarcinoma, to motility disorders of the colon and rectum, mesenteric tumours as well as the contemporary technique of ALPPS, acute portal vein thrombosis and small for size syndrome in live donor liver transplant.
The...