Shifting Production to Southeast Asia: Electronics Transnational Corporations Moving to Vietnam since the 2000s explores how a labor-intensive industry has been expanded from the ‘World Factory’ - China to developing Southeast Asia under the changing dynamics in the global and regional production networks, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical tension, by using the case study of the production relocations of the consumer electronics manufacturing industry to Viet...

O jovem nobre Toh Ryung se apaixona por Chun Yang, filha de uma gisaeng, após encontrá-la em plena primavera. Unidos por um pacto secreto de amor e casamento, eles enfrentam a diferença social e a separação quando ele é chamado para Seul. Em meio a dúvidas, promessas e injustiças, a história revela a força de um amor que resiste ao destino.

内容简介：四月，正当缅甸新年，西南山区上吉村一百多人全部死于SARS病毒，病毒在8小时内将蔓延到香港机场，24小时之内，将有两亿人受到威胁。同时，欧洲发现就在该处存有十万多吨黄金，数量超过了全球现有黄金的总量，一旦流入市场，将会对全球经济造成毁灭性的破坏。作为中国神秘组织墨龙的成员，李古力带着由生物专家高雅妮、前特种兵关凯、信息技术专家王贵华组成的四人精英小队秘密前往缅甸调查。

This book provides an overview of the history, basic concepts, and provision models of infrastructure, significant theories on infrastructure economics, practices at home and abroad that reflect the economic development effects of infrastructure, and four infrastructure economic growth models. Great attention is placed on the domestic front. This book describes and discusses in detail the historical background, development trends, achievements, and challenges of China’s infrastructure from...

In real-world applications, new data, patterns, and categories that were not covered by the training data can frequently emerge, necessitating the capability to detect and adapt to novel characters incrementally. Researchers refer to these challenges as the Open-Set Text Recognition (OSTR) task, which has, in recent years, emerged as one of the prominent issues in the field of text recognition. This book begins by providing an introduction to the background of the OSTR task, covering essen...

This book presents modeling methods and algorithms for data-driven prediction and forecasting of practical industrial process by employing machine learning and statistics methodologies. Related case studies, especially on energy systems in the steel industry are also addressed and analyzed. The case studies in this volume are entirely rooted in both classical data-driven prediction problems and industrial practice requirements. Detailed figures and tables demonstrate the effectiveness and ...

Chinese Sociolinguistics examines the ways in which language contributes to shaping social, cultural, and ethnic identities in Greater China.This book is the first textbook to be exclusively devoted to the issues of language, society, and identity in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and overseas Chinese communities (the Greater China). The book includes topics on the role of language in Chinese culture; the linguistic indexing of socioeconomic class; dialects ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author of the Soul Power Series, Dr. Zhi Gang Sha offers listeners a musical treasure straight from the divine with Soul Symphony of Yin Yang .Yin Yang is the first divine universal law. Everything can be described by yin and yang. Everything can be divided into yin and yang. Important yin-yang pairs include woman and man, the sun and the moon, night and day, Heaven and Earth, light and dark, body and soul.The ...

Inequality in health reflects the deeper social and economic structures shaping everyday life.This edited volume investigates the complex and uneven landscape of health disparities in contemporary Korean society, demonstrating how rapid economic and social transformations have produced unequal health outcomes across diverse populations. The collection highlights how factors such as employment conditions, social capital, and access to healthcare contribute to differe...

This book presents the state-of-the-art-knowledge on corrosion of steel, cast iron and ductile iron with a focus on corrosion-induced degradation of their mechanical properties. The information presented in the book is largely derived from the most current research on the effect of corrosion on degradation of mechanical properties. The book covers the basics of steel corrosion, including that of cast iron and ductile iron, that are not well covered in most literature. Models for corrosion-...

In biotechnology and bioengineering, small molecules can be used to increase the efficiency reduce the cost and damage to the environment of certain bioprocesses. This book introduces readers to the important field of chemically promoted biotechnology and bioengineering and presents the theory behind the biotechnology of enzymatic reactions and how they can be chemically enhanced. The book covers chemical modulators for enzymatic reactions, chemically promoted biotechnology in plant cell c...

This book introduces the Chinese boletes, including the history, ecological and economic values, as well as the geographical distribution patterns with a highlight on the Tylopilus species. Species in Tylopilus s.l. are not only of important ecological values but also of scientific interests. They are very diverse in morphology, complex in structure and wide in ecological niches. China is one of the diverse hotspots of boletes, and many boletes were traditionally treated ...