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Dynamics and Policy Implications of the Global Reforms at the End of the Second Millennium
In most parts of the world, especially in developing countries, governmental and people's expectations have been that reforms rather than revolutions are likely to produce more appropriate and acceptable results. Reforms are gradual in implementation and respectful to past policy fabrics of a society. At the same time, spread of communication technology, global liberalization of the market and peripheral homogenization of cultures have caused tensions in the developing countries. In this book scholars from different countries highlight the reforms and tensions: what has been achieved, what has failed and what is still needed? Experiences from Nigeria, Ghana, Guatemala, South Korea, Taiwan, Zimbabwe and Tanzania are combined with more general observations from around the world.
LISS 2023
The proceeding volume focuses on the “AI and data driven technical and management innovation in logistics, informatics and services”. In detail the included scientific papers analyze the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of logistics, informatics, service operations and service science. The proceedings volume is documentation of LISS 2023 at Beijing and Hong Kong in July 26-28, 2023. It is co-organized by Beijing Jiaotong University and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Emerging Information Security and Applications
This volume constitutes the proceedings presented at the 4th International Conference on Emerging Information Security and Applications, EISA 2023, held in Hangzhou, China, in December 2023. The 11 full papers presented in this volume were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 35 submissions. The topics of the book are related but not limited to cyber intelligence techniques, multimedia security, blockchain and distributed ledger technology, malware and unwanted software, vulnerability analysis and reverse engineering, usable security and privacy, intrusion detection and prevention, authentication and access control, anonymity and privacy, cryptographic protection, digital forensics, cyber physical systems security, adversarial learning, security measurement, security management and policies, hardware and physical security.
Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Applications
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming an inescapable part of modern life, and the fact that AI technologies and applications will inevitably bring about significant changes in many industries and economies worldwide means that this field of research is currently attracting great interest. This book presents the proceedings of ICAITA 2023, the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Applications, held as a hybrid event from 30 June to 2 July 2023 in Changchun, China. The conference provided an international forum for academic communication between experts and scholars in the field of AI, promoting the interchange of scientific information between pa...
Public-Private Partnerships
Public-Private Partnerships aims to discover the conditions under which public private partnerships may provide a viable alternative to the provision of public services and infrastructures by the state, while achieving efficient, sustainable, peaceful, and equitable development in four transition countries: China, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. These countries have experienced command economy under communist rule for at least thirty years. They have only recently introduced market mechanisms. In spite of a huge literature in favor of public private partnerships in the west, scientific empirical evidence is generally mixed and balanced. Success or failure depends upon many factors that need to ...
1,000 Product Designs
DIVProduct design has changed dramatically in recent years as everything, from computers to microwaves to MP3 players, has become more compact and more powerful. Less seems to be more, as everything becomes portable and more user friendly. 1,000 Product Designs features the most innovative designs in recent years. This unprecedented collection of products from all over the globe is a window into different cultures and societies, featuring everything from furnishings to personal items and accessories to electronics./div
Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 vols)
The subject of this two-volume publication is an inventory of manuscripts in the book treasury of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II from his royal librarian ʿAtufi in the year 908 (1502–3) and transcribed in a clean copy in 909 (1503–4). This unicum inventory preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény, MS Török F. 59) records over 5,000 volumes, and more than 7,000 titles, on virtually every branch of human erudition at the time. The Ottoman palace library housed an unmatched encyclopedic collection of learning and literature; hence, ...
The New Social Policy Agenda in Asia
This memorandum requests the immediate reallocation of a total of SDR8.1 million (US$ , 1115 million equivalent) of Credit proceeds under eight operations to support the SARS and Infectious Diseases Response Program (hereafter referred to as the "Program"). The objective of the Program is to: (1) address emergency needs for W&S-related diagnosis, clinical management, and personal protection that are necessary to bring the current epidemic fully under control; and (2) support the Government's efforts to strengthen the capacity of the public health system more generally so that China's health system is prepared to combat the possible re-emergence of SARS and, equally important, similar infecti...
Education and the Politics of Language
Language policies and practices are controversial in many parts of the world, and are an important focus for comparative study in the field of education. This book makes a major contribution to conceptual debates and understanding. The book is grounded in the broad, international literature on this topic, and presents deep insights from the case of Cambodia during the decade from 1979. During this period, key elements of Cambodia's governance were controlled by the authorities in neighboring Vietnam. The type of linguistic and cultural dominance brought by this control was substantially different from that in most other parts of the world. As noted by Mark Ginsburg in the Foreword, Clayton's analysis of hegemony and pragmatism will attract a broad audience in the fields of language policy studies and comparative education, as well as among scholars concerned specifically with Cambodia.
Policy as Practice
This volume brings together scholars working the relatively new terrain of ethnographic policy studies to debate and provisionally chart the methodological and theoretical parameters of such a project. The opening section on theory will survey the conceptual antecedents of qualitative policy studies, citing the relevant literature and laying out an agenda for research. The section on methods will consist of accounts of innovative field experiences and analytic approaches that can illuminate the new field. The final section on experiences will extend the reflections in the methods section with concrete case studies.
