A valuable overview covering important fundamental and applicative aspects of amorphous nanomaterials!Amorphous nanomaterials are very important in non-crystalline solids, which have emerged as a new category of advanced materials. Compared to the crystalline counterpart, amorphous nanomaterials with isotropic nature always exhibit fast ion diffusion, relieved strain, and higher reactivity, enabling such materials to exhibit high performance in mechanics and cataly...

The First Line of Code is a must-have for developers who want to learn Android and Kotlin, and the best-seller in China. Knowledge between Android and Kotlin is interspersed in a way that readers are easy to understand and get start:· Android part covers all the important aspects of the Android platform, such as activity, service, content provider, broadcast receiver, fragment, basic UI, data storage, network, Jetpack and other application-level knowledge.· Kotlin ...

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In this book, the authors describe how designers evolve their designs through the Design Evolution Cycle. It identifies challenges associated with designing complex systems, such as dealing with multiple conflicting goals, evolving design preferences, nonlinear and nonconvex constraints and goals, continuous and discrete variables, coupled decisions, sub-models with different levels of fidelity, and emergent properties.The book empowers designers to make robust, informed, and itera...

Developing Advanced Proficiency in Chinese through Debate provides lesson plans for holding high-level debates in the classroom.The lesson plans in this textbook were created based on the standards of the Oral Proficiency Interview held by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. These lesson plans train students in advanced language tasks such as giving thorough descriptions and narrations, comparing abstract concepts, and establishing hypotheses. The le...

Dès que vous entendez votre prof’ s’exprimer en espagnol, ça vous effraie ? Il ne vous reste plus qu’un mois avant votre examen et vous ne vous sentez pas prêt.e, mais alors pas prêt.e du tout ? Vous avez la chance de prochainement partir en Espagne mais vous passez des nuits blanches rien qu’à l’idée de ne pas pouvoir aligner trois mots dans la langue ?Vous pouvez souffler, tous ces problèmes ont une solution ! Grâce aux méthodes ludiques et intéressantes de ce livre, vous verrez ...

Wirksame Hilfe durch medizinisches QigongGuolin Qigong ist eine Form des medizinischen Qigong, vielfach bewährt und wirksam bei chronischen Krankheiten wie Asthma, Diabetes, Multipler Sklerose, Parkinson und Rheuma, aber auch bei Krebs. Die Zahl der Krebserkrankungen steigt jährlich. Gleichzeitig wächst die Anzahl der Patienten, die sich nicht mehr ausschließlich auf die oft begrenzten schulmedizinischen Therapiemöglichkeiten verlassen, sondern diese mit alternativ...

This book delivers a rigorous, evidence-based analysis of Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) policy in the United States, with a strong focus on state-level programs developed in the absence of a federal mandate. Drawing on extensive real-world data, empirical research, and detailed case studies — including a comprehensive cost and sustainability analysis of Maryland's PFML program — it seeks to inform policymaking and public discourse with robust, data-driven insights. The volume integr...

Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and how the countries have dealt with the expansion of the world, as a consequence of the world market. The other angle is the social and economic consequences of globalization for agricultural and r...

Toward Better Governance in China takes a fresh look at the latest efforts made by Chinese leaders to promote governance-based reform. It asserts that the improvement of governance has now become one of the breakthrough points of the much anticipated political reform. Although the Chinese government continues to play down expectations about political reform, many small-scale reform experiments have been quietly undertaken by Chinese leaders at various levels in recent years, inclu...

This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, “Imagining Chinese Citizenship,” analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined by means of translation and education at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Chinese citizenship was then compared with the concept of Western citizenship and that of other Asian count...

For study resources and the English-language Chinese perpetual calendar, please visit ichingstream.com.About “Collected Insights on I Ching Divination” (Yi Donglin): English EditionCollected Insights on I Ching Divination (Yi Donglin) （易洞林 Yi Donglin – including 洞林秘诀 Donglin Secret Manual, 郭氏洞林 Guo Shi Donglin, and 周易洞林 Zhouyi Donglin） is a reconstructed anthology of early I Ching divination case records linked to Guo Pu (276–324 CE, Jin Dy...