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  • GENDERED LABOUR, EVERYDAY SECURITY AND MIGRATION
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    GENDERED LABOUR, EVERYDAY SECURITY AND MIGRATION
    SHIH JOO TAN
    Drawing on original empirical research from Singapore and Hong Kong, Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration interrogates women migrant domestic workers’ experiences of work and workplace exploitation. It examines the ways in which these women negotiate everyday security and safe work against the backdrop of affective employment relations and institutional structures o...

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  • REPRESENTATIONS OF CHILDREN AND SUCCESS IN ASIA
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    REPRESENTATIONS OF CHILDREN AND SUCCESS IN ASIA
    CHEN, SHIH-WEN SUE AND LAU, SIN WEN
    This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education, family, gender, race, class, community, and the nation. It answers the following questions: How is success for children represented in literature, cinema, and popular media? In what ways...

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  • STATISTICAL DESIGN, MONITORING, AND ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL TRIALS
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    STATISTICAL DESIGN, MONITORING, AND ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL TRIALS
    WEICHUNG JOE SHIH / JOSEPH AISNER
    Statistical Design, Monitoring, and Analysis of Clinical Trials, Second Edition concentrates on the biostatistics component of clinical trials. This new edition is updated throughout and includes five new chapters. Developed from the authors’ courses taught to public health and medical students, residents, and fellows during the past 20 years, the text shows how biostatistics i...

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  • IMPROVING LEARNER REFLECTION FOR TESOL
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    IMPROVING LEARNER REFLECTION FOR TESOL
    LI-SHIH HUANG
    Presenting comprehensive research conducted with learners and educators in a range of settings, this volume showcases self-reflection as a powerful tool to enhance student learning. The text builds on empirical insights to illustrate how language professionals can foster critical self-reflection amongst learners of English as an additional language. This text uses ecologically ...

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  • SOCIAL CAPITAL IN SINGAPORE
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    SOCIAL CAPITAL IN SINGAPORE
    VINCENT CHUA / GILLIAN KOH / ERN SER TAN / DREW SHIH
    How can social cohesion be achieved in a meritocratic and multicultural global city-state? Meritocracy poses a paradox: On one hand, it integrates individuals through frameworks of equal treatment, equal justice and opportunity regardless of race, language or religion. On the other hand, individuals are then segregating through academic sorting, they are rewarded based on crede...

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  • PLANNING WITHIN COMPLEX URBAN SYSTEMS
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    PLANNING WITHIN COMPLEX URBAN SYSTEMS
    SHIH-KUNG LAI
    Imagine living in a city where people could move freely and buildings could be replaced at minimal cost. Reality cannot be further from such. Despite this imperfect world in which we live, urban planning has become integral and critical especially in the face of rapid urbanization in many developing and developed countries. This book introduces the axiomatic/experimental approa...

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  • AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM OPTICS
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM OPTICS
    YANHUA SHIH
    This book offers a complete revision for its introduction to the quantum theory of light, including notable developments as well as improvements in presentation of basic theory and concepts, with continued emphasis on experimental aspects. The author provides a thorough overview on basic methods of classical and quantum mechanical measurements in quantum optics, enabling reader...

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  • DIVERSE QUANTIZATION PHENOMENA IN LAYERED MATERIALS
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    DIVERSE QUANTIZATION PHENOMENA IN LAYERED MATERIALS
    CHIUN-YAN LIN / CHING-HONG HO / JHAO-YING WU / THI-NGA DO / PO-HSIN SHIH / SHIH-YANG LIN / MING-FA LIN
    This monograph offers a comprehensive overview of diverse quantization phenomena in layered materials, covering current mainstream experimental and theoretical research studies, and presenting essential properties of layered materials along with a wealth of figures. This book illustrates commonly used synthesis methods of these 2D materials and compares the calculated results a...

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  • LORD SALISBURY AND NATIONALITY IN THE EAST
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    LORD SALISBURY AND NATIONALITY IN THE EAST
    SHIH-TSUNG WANG
    This study explains how Salisbury viewed cultural conflicts between the East and the West, how he treated Oriental nationality and nationalist aspirations in British dominions in the East, and how he directed British policy in the Eastern world in a time when the Western Powers were plunging into a struggle for spheres of predominance. In pursuit of British imperial interests, ...

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  • CHINA AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY
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    CHINA AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY
    CHIH-YU SHIH ET AL.
    Major IR theories, which stress that actors will inevitably only seek to enhance their own interests, tend to contrive binaries of self and other and ‘inside’ and ‘outside’. By contrast, this book recognizes the general need of all to relate, which they do through various imagined resemblances between them. The authors of this book therefore propose the ‘balance of relationship...

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  • STRUCTURE- AND ADATOM-ENRICHED ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS
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    STRUCTURE- AND ADATOM-ENRICHED ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS
    SHIH-YANG LIN / NGOC THANH THUY TRAN / SHENG-LIN CHANG / WU-PEI SU / MING-FA LIN
    Structure- and Adatom-Enriched Essential Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons offers a systematic review of the feature-rich essential properties in emergent graphene nanoribbons, covering mainstream theoretical and experimental research. It includes a wide range of 1D systems; namely, armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons with and without hydrogen terminations, curved and zip...

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  • TIBETAN STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
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    TIBETAN STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
    CHIH-YU SHIH
    Politics, history, and religion have long lent Tibet a glamorous air, particularly in the West. But Tibet can be understood in an astonishingly wide variety of other ways, including linguistic, ecological, environmental and climatological, geographical, geological, economic, biologic, sociologic, medicinal. Tibetan Studies in Comparative Perspective touches on all the elements ...

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  • PIG HEALTH
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    PIG HEALTH
    JOHN CARR / SHIH-PING CHEN / JOSEPH F. CONNOR / ROY KIRKWOOD / JOAQUIM SEGALÉS
    Maintaining the health of pigs is vital in pig farming and production. This new book written by experts from around the world focuses on the health of pigs, first with coverage of the disorders of pigs organised by clinical sign and body system. The book explores environmental medicine and then health maintenance. Treatment options are discussed, emphasizing a reduction in anti...

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  • MULTIMEDIA SECURITY
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    MULTIMEDIA SECURITY
    FRANK Y. SHIH
    Multimedia Security: Watermarking, Steganography, and Forensics outlines essential principles, technical information, and expert insights on multimedia security technology used to prove that content is authentic and has not been altered. Illustrating the need for improved content security as the Internet and digital multimedia applications rapidly evolve, this book presents a w...

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  • GEOMETRIC AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE-RELATED SYSTEMS
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    GEOMETRIC AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE-RELATED SYSTEMS
    NGOC THANH THUY TRAN / SHIH-YANG LIN / CHIUN-YAN LIN / MING-FA LIN
    Due to its physical, chemical, and material properties, graphene has been widely studied both theoretically and experimentally since it was first synthesized in 2004. This book explores in detail the most up-to-date research in graphene-related systems, including few-layer graphene, sliding bilayer graphene, rippled graphene, carbon nanotubes, and adatom-doped graphene, among o...

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  • RE-PRODUCING CHINESENESS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
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    RE-PRODUCING CHINESENESS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
    CHIH-YU SHIH
    Identity politics can impede Chinese identification in southeast Asia because the migrant population, particularly the intellectual aspect of that population, have to consider the political effects of their intellectual and social activities on the survival of Chinese communities. Similarly, these communities have to deal with the necessity of nation-building in the aftermath o...

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  • IMAGE PROCESSING AND MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY
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    IMAGE PROCESSING AND MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY
    FRANK Y. SHIH
    In the development of digital multimedia, the importance and impact of image processing and mathematical morphology are well documented in areas ranging from automated vision detection and inspection to object recognition, image analysis and pattern recognition. Those working in these ever-evolving fields require a solid grasp of basic fundamentals, theory, and related applicat...

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  • DIGITAL WATERMARKING AND STEGANOGRAPHY
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    DIGITAL WATERMARKING AND STEGANOGRAPHY
    FRANK Y. SHIH
    This book intends to provide a comprehensive overview on different aspects of mechanisms and techniques for information security. It is written for students, researchers, and professionals studying in the field of multimedia security and steganography. Multimedia security and steganography is especially relevant due to the global scale of digital multimedia and the rapid growth...

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  • KANGZHAN
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    KANGZHAN
    LELAND NESS / BIN SHIH
    Kangzhan: Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937–45 is the first ready reference to the organization and armament of Chinese ground forces during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45. The work integrates Chinese, Japanese and Western sources to examine the details of the structure and weapons of the period. Recent scholarship has contributed greatly to our understanding of China's rol...

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  • CHINA'S RETREAT FROM EQUALITY
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    CHINA'S RETREAT FROM EQUALITY
    CARL RISKIN / ZHAO RENWEI / LI SHIH
    A collection of 13 essays based on two national surveys of household income in China - in 1985 and 1995 - and prepared and carried out by the research team. These essays explore a wide range of aspects of the rapidly changing income distribution during this period. ...

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  • HARMONIOUS INTERVENTION
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    HARMONIOUS INTERVENTION
    CHIUNG-CHIU HUANG / CHIH-YU SHIH
    Two major features of international relations at the beginning of the 21st century are global governance and the rise of China. Global governance, advocating global norms, requires intervention into sovereign domains in defiance of those norms. However, an ascendant China adheres to a classic stance on sovereign integrity which prohibits such intervention. Whether or not China...

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  • ROBOT DEVELOPMENT USING MICROSOFT ROBOTICS DEVELOPER STUDIO
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    ROBOT DEVELOPMENT USING MICROSOFT ROBOTICS DEVELOPER STUDIO
    SHIH-CHUNG KANG / WEI-TZE CHANG / KAI-YUAN GU / HUNG-LIN CHI
    The Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MSRDS) and LEGO robots together offer a flexible platform for creating robotic systems. Designed for novices with basic programming skills, Robot Development Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio provides clear instructions on developing and operating robots. It includes an extensive array of examples, w ...

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  • REPRESENTATIONS OF CHINA IN BRITISH CHILDREN'S FICTION, 1851-1911
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    REPRESENTATIONS OF CHINA IN BRITISH CHILDREN'S FICTION, 1851-1911
    SHIH-WEN CHEN
    In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children’s literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating ideas and knowledge about China. Chen considers a range of different genres and types of publication-travelogue storyboo...

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  • URBAN COMPLEXITY AND PLANNING
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    URBAN COMPLEXITY AND PLANNING
    SHIH-KUNG LAI / HAOYING HAN
    In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity. The crux of this view is that cities are created by differentiated actors involved in individual, small-scale projects interacting in a complex way in the urban development process. This 'bottom up' approach to urban modeling not only trans...

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  • MARITIME TAIWAN
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    MARITIME TAIWAN
    SHIH-SHAN HENRY TSAI
    For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pirates and military schemers from around the world. Unlike China, with its long tradition of keeping foreigners out, Taiwan has a long history of interaction, both hostile and friendly, with other seafaring nations near and far. "Maritime Taiwan" captures the f...

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  • BRIDGING RESEARCH AND GOOD PRACTICES TOWARDS PATIENTS WELFARE
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    BRIDGING RESEARCH AND GOOD PRACTICES TOWARDS PATIENTS WELFARE
    SHIH
    Ergonomics is a human-centered discipline. This is particularly true for healthcare systems and patient safety where the human‘s well-being will undergo critical impacts if solutions are not properly designed and practiced. Effective handling of these concerns involves knowledge from healthcare work (e.g., shift work, patient handling, and medical ...

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  • COMPARATIZING TAIWAN
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    COMPARATIZING TAIWAN
    SHIH, SHU-MEI / LIAO, PING-HUI
    As the site of crossings of colonizers, settlers, merchants, and goods, island nations such as Taiwan have seen a rich confluence of cultures, where peoples and languages were either forced to mix or did so voluntarily, due largely to colonial conquest and their crucial role in world economy. Through an examination of socio-cultural phenomena, Comparatizing Taiwan situates Taiw...

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  • COASTAL METEOROLOGY
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    COASTAL METEOROLOGY
    SHIH-ANG HSU
    Coastal meteorology is an integral part of the total system approach to understanding coastal environments. This book provides information for students who are not necessarily majoring in meteorology or atmospheric sciences but who nonetheless have need of such knowledge. Scientists, engineers, and coastal planners will also find this book a useful resource for familiarizing th...

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  • CIVILIZATION, NATION AND MODERNITY IN EAST ASIA
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    CIVILIZATION, NATION AND MODERNITY IN EAST ASIA
    CHIH-YU SHIH
    This book explores the crisis of cultural identity which has assaulted Asian countries since Western countries began to have a profound impact on Asia in the nineteenth century. Confronted by Western 'civilization' and by 'modernity', Asian countries have been compelled to rethink their identity, and to consider how they should relate to Western 'civilization' and 'modernity'. ...

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  • IMS
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    IMS
    MARK WUTHNOW / JERRY SHIH / MATTHEW STAFFORD
    IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) technology, which merges the Internet with interactive telecommunications, represents the here and now for today’s packet-switched networks. Consequently, anyone working with or around these converging fields needs to possess a fundamental understanding of IMS and how this technology is poised to change the way new applications are designed and dep...

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