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Information and Communications in the Chinese Countryside
A Study of Three Provinces
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- World Bank Studies
2014
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The report first summarizes the key findings from the following three studies in three provinces (Guizhou, Jilin, Shandong): (a) a demand survey to assess rural ICT access and attitudes; (b) a library study including scoping the status of ICT use in rural libraries; and (c) a limited impact evaluation to examine how ICT interventions have affected rural uers. Then the report addresses the challenges and policy recommendations of ICT use in the Chinese Countryside.
Factional Politics in the Liberal Democratic Party
Explaining Change and Continuity in Japan's Economic Statecraft
2025
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What explains change and continuity in Japan's economic statecraft? This Element examines the interplay between factional dynamics in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Japan's foreign policy through two cases: Japan's unprecedented decision to impose severe sanctions on Russia following its 2022 Ukraine invasion, and its decades-long ASEAN strategy amid political uncertainty and great power competition. The authors find that factional balance or the outsized influence of a large facti...
2005
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"Narrative and Experience in Multicultural Education provides compelling stories that raise questions, advance understandings, and promote insight into the challenges and hopes of teaching for diversity and democracy. The works contained are compelling for the stories they tell and, as such, there is value in their presence. That the thoughtful reader can glean important lessons with respect to multicultural education and the value of narrative inquiry as academic disc...
Digital Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities
16th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2017, Seoul, South Korea, December 10, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
2018
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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 16th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2017, which took place in Seoul, South Korea, in December 2017. The purpose of WeB is to provide an open forum for e-Business researchers and practitioners world-wide, to share topical research findings, explore novel ideas, discuss success stories and lessons learned, map out major challenges, and collectively chart future directions for e-Business. The WeB 2017 theme was “Digital transformation: chall...
Marketing
A Critical Textbook
2010
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Written by a team of renowned experts in the field, Marketing: A Critical Textbook provides a unique introduction and overview of critical approaches to marketing.Ideally suited to advanced students of marketing, the book uses examples and ′real world′ case studies to illustrate and discuss major alternative and critical perspectives on the subject, enabling students to constructively question the conventional assumptions, concepts and models with which they are al...
The Ecosystem of e-Business: Technologies, Stakeholders, and Connections
17th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2018, Santa Clara, CA, USA, December 12, 2018, Revised Selected Papers
2019
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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 17th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2018, which took place in Santa Clara, CA, USA, in December 2018.The purpose of WeB is to provide an open forum for e-Business researchers and practitioners world-wide, to share topical research findings, explore novel ideas, discuss success stories and lessons learned, map out major challenges, and collectively chart future directions for e-Business. The WeB 2018 theme was “The Ecosystem of e-Bu...
Smart Business: Technology and Data Enabled Innovative Business Models and Practices
18th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2019, Munich, Germany, December 14, 2019, Revised Selected Papers
2021
EN
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 18th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2019, which took place in Munich, Germany, in December 2019.The purpose of WeB is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss findings, novel ideas, and lessons learned to address major challenges and map out the future directions for e-Business. The WeB 2019 theme was “Smart Business: Technology and Data Enabled Innovative Business Models and Practices.”The 20 papers...
Treatment of Spine Disease in the Elderly
Cutting Edge Techniques and Technologies
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- Medicine (R0)
2023
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As the population continues to age worldwide, spinal disease will become more prevalent in the elderly population. The treatment of spinal disease requires an individual approach encorporating best practices. Optimal management in the elderly may differ from younger patients due to increased comorbidities, decreased bone health, and a higher risk of perioperative morbidity and mortality.While more and more elderly patients will require evaluation and management of their spinal dise...
Troubling (Public) Theologies
Spaces, Bodies, Technologies
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- Peter CruchleyJasmine DevadasonEricka Shawndricka DunbarEmmanuel GaribayAruna GogulamandaLalmuanpuii HmarJione HaveaBrian Fiu KoliaMaria Fe (Peachy) LabayoAnna Jane LagiJohn Robert LeeSu Chi LinPark IljoonRaj Bharat PattaChad RimmerKaren Georgia A. ThompsonShiju Sam VarugheseMutale Mulenga KaundaStephen Lim Chin MingMichael N. Jagessar
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- Theology in the Age of Empire
2023
EN
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Theologies, no matter their designations, are public measures—they disclose as well as gauge the publics (near and far) on which they stand, sit, lie, or fall. Because publics shift and mingle, theologies require reimagining, relocating, and embracing fresh insights and energies. The insights and energies embraced in this work are in three clusters: spaces, bodies, and technologies. The spotlighted spaces are in Africa, Asia, Black America, the Caribbean, and Pasifika—beyond the eyes of ma...
A River Forever Flowing
Cross-Cultural Lives and Identies in the Multicultural Landscape
2000
EN
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This work looks at cross-cultural lives and identities in the multicultural landscape. It covers such topics as: lives in China along the Yangtze River and the Yellow River before, during and after the cultural revolution; cross-cultural lives in China and Canada; and more.
The River Dragon Has Come!
Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People
2016
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In the ongoing courageous struggle of a relatively small group of Chinese to prevent the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China, Dai Qing is the outspoken leader whose eloquent voice is always heard despite threats and intimidation by the Chinese authorities to silence it. Dai Qing, an investigative journalist and author with a wide audience in China and abroad, compiled this book of essays and field reports assessing the impact of the Three Gorges megadam now under construction at Sa...
2022
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This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on infertility and other reproductive disorders in dairy cattle.The first chapter discusses the physiology of the main impediments to fertility and management issues that need to be addressed to ensure good fertility of dairy cows. The chapter focusses on parturition and uterine health, the importance of the post-partum environment and the role of oestrus, as well as methods of establishing pregnancy and the effec...











