This book presents a new conceptualization of the idea of legacy in a family business setting as an educational experience of teaching and learning between generations.Using the lived experience of the author, it combines autoethnography with a discussion on the influence of Chinese culture on family business and expectations placed on the eldest son, as well as Bill Pinar’s model of Currere, to investigate the processes around intergenerational learning. The auth...

It’s been hard to maintain a thriving dictatorship over the past 100 years as the United States of America has sought to clamp down on authoritarian regimes.But that changed with the election of Donald J. Trump as president, who continues to influence America’s political climate. Trump stepped away from the world stage, turning his attention to the United States of America instead.Shisheng Chen, who escaped from China after being forbidden to leave, calls out the folly of T...

The Mekong River is a vital and valuable resource, with huge development potential for the six states through which it flows. Given the significant asymmetry of power between those states, however, there is a real risk that some might utilise it to the detriment of others.Without a sense of regional belonging, it is difficult to imagine that these states and their constituent communities will take regional imperatives to heart, participate in joint regulatory frameworks, or adopt b...

In this text, modern applied mathematics and physical insight are used to construct the simplest and first nonlinear dynamical model for the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO), i.e. the stochastic skeleton model. This model captures the fundamental features of the MJO and offers a theoretical prediction of its structure, leading to new detailed methods to identify it in observational data. The text contributes to understanding and predicting intraseasonal variability, which remains a challeng...

This book is a war novel; of course, it is also a love novel. The main content is a pair of young lovers; the gentleman is Ukrainian, an architect in New York, and the lady is an American, a doctor in New York. They fell in love and got married. Unexpectedly, last year, the Ukraine war broke out. The gentleman insisted on leaving his newly married wife and returning home to fight. The lady finally decided to follow him and accompany him to fight in Ukraine. So the newlyweds went back to Uk...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Quantum AI and NLP, QNIP 2025, held in Bloomington, Indianna, USA, during August 6–9, 2025.The 17 full papers, one short paper and one abstract included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They were organized in following topical sections: Artificial Intelligence for Quantum Computing; Quantum Computing for Artificial Intelligence; Quantum Natural Language Pr...

This book provides an overview of the emerging topics in biostatistical theories and methods through their applications to evidence-based global health research and decision-making. It brings together some of the top scholars engaged in biostatistical method development on global health to highlight and describe recent advances in evidence-based global health applications. The volume is composed of five main parts: data harmonization and analysis; systematic review and statistical meta-ana...

Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.How families are formed, lived and understood has shifted dramatically—yet legal frameworks often still reflect outdated norms. This collection brings together a diverse team of international contributors to explore what a family is through a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including law, psychology, economics, family science and history, inviting transdisciplinary reflections on family regulation.By examining how legal ...