This book focuses on the human side of organizational culture. The authors approach organizational culture from the perspective of alignment to mission, vision, and values. Using a Lean Six Sigma structure, the sequence of chapters begins with the organization and its structure, then drills through strategic, operational, and tactical levels of process and behavior which establish and grow the overall culture of the organization over time. The book begins with foundational principles of or...

Consisting of two parts, the first part of this volume is an essentially self-contained exposition of the geometric aspects of local and global regularity theory for the Monge–Ampère and linearized Monge–Ampère equations. As an application, we solve the second boundary value problem of the prescribed affine mean curvature equation, which can be viewed as a coupling of the latter two equations. Of interest in its own right, the linearized Monge–Ampère equation also has deep connections and ...

Lunar New Year is just around the corner and Finn cannot wait to celebrate.With the help of his family, Finn counts down the days by tying lucky cord knots, practising for the kid’s parade and testing oolong for a traditional tea ceremony.However, with only ten more sleeps left to go until the special day arrives, will all these preparations go to plan?Packed full of joyful festive rhyme and a celebratory gatefold, ...

This book presents empirical and conceptual manuscripts across contexts and disciplines, offering insights into how AI has been applied in teaching, learning, and research practices. This book, with eleven chapters spanning different aspects of AI use in educational settings, contributes to the knowledge of how AI can be responsibly and effectively incorporated into educational and research practices that foster innovation, inclusivity, and lifelong learning. As the landscape of AI integra...

This book discusses the threats and impacts of flash floods in Vietnam on environmental, human, and socio-economic resources, and covers monitoring, forecasting, warning, urgent action plans, and prevention solutions. While the work focuses on cases in Vietnam, it is applicable to many regions in the world that experience flash flooding as a common occurrence. Through data collection, field surveys, and investigational statistics from a specialized group of authors, the book provides compr...

This book, belonging to energy discipline, summarized the latest research progress in the development of microbial lipids and biodiesel technologies. This book introduced the concept and development of microbial lipids and biodiesel technologies, the microbial lipid technology based on oleaginous yeasts, filamentous fungi, microalgae, bacteria, and thraustochytrids. Meanwhile, this book introduced the inhibition and removal of lignocellulosic hydrolysis inhibitors on microbial fermentation...

This book is a selected collection of 54 peer-reviewed original scientific research papers of the 5th International Conference on Green Technology and Sustainable Development (GTSD2020) organised in Vietnam in 2020. It highlights the importance of sustainability as well as promotes up-to-date innovation and research for green development in technologies, economics and education among countries. The conference provides an international platform for researchers, practitioners, policymakers a...

In a series of essays based on original ethnographic research, Pyong Gap Min and his contributors examine the unique identity issues for second generation ethnic Asians, from Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Indian, and Vietnamese descent. They describe how societal expectations and structural barriers have a powerful influence on the formation of ethnic identities in a strongly racialized American society. Key factors discussed are the importance of culture and language retention, eth...

One Health, the concept of combined veterinary and human health, has now expanded beyond emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses to incorporate a wider suite of health issues. Retaining its interdisciplinary focus which combines theory with practice, this new edition illustrates the contribution of One Health collaborations to real-world issues such as sanitation, economics, food security and vaccination programmes. It includes more non-infectious disease issues and climate change discus...

Translation Studies, one of the fastest developing fields in the humanities since the early 1980s, has so far been Euro-centric both in its theoretical explorations and in its historical grounding. One of the major reasons for this is the unavailability of reliable data and systematic analysis of translation activities in non-Eurpean cultures. While a number of scholars in the Western tradition of translation studies have become increasingly aware of this bias and its problems, practically...

Joe has a secret: he likes to wear panties and dream about being with large black men while his wife sleeps. He wants to kick the habit, but every attempt leads him further down the rabbit hole. When he accidentally leaves evidence in his home office, his wife taken it into her hands to out his sissy ways and make sure he's punished by being cuckolded, forced to clean up, and speared by her lover.

This book studies Indonesian and Philippine English-language printed media outlets to examine how regional public opinions of China and China-made vaccines progressed amid the coronavirus pandemic.By quantifying the presence of certain words, themes, and concepts within the qualitative, textual data of news articles from the most prominent English newspapers in Indonesia (i.e. The Jakarta Post) and the Philippines (i.e. The Philippine Daily Inquirer), the...