Can Christian identity and national identity be reconciled? For Christians in China, this question is particularly fraught. While Sinicization offers the indigenous church one path forward, it fails to provide a tenable solution for believers unwilling to submit their love of God under love of country. Dr. Jue Wang explores an alternative roadmap for Chinese Christian identity in the writings of Zhang Yijing. The editor of True Light, a Chinese Baptist publication, Zhang was also a Chinese...

This book introduces current perspectives on Rasch measurement theory with an emphasis on developing Rasch-based scales. Rasch measurement theory represents a paradigm shift in measurement theory away from classical test theory and creates a framework for scaling that can yield invariant measurement. Rasch Models for Solving Measurement Problems: Invariant Measurement in the Social Sciences is a broadly accessible text. Authors George Engelhard Jr and Jue Wang introduce Ra...

This is the second edition of an introductory text that describes the principles of invariant measurement; how invariant measurement can be achieved using Rasch measurement theory; and how to use invariant measurement to solve a variety of measurement problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Rasch models are used throughout the text, but brief comparisons of Rasch models to other item response theory (IRT) models are also provided.Written with students in mind, this...

Building on the recent initiative to truly globalize the field of international relations, this book provides an innovative interrogation of regionalism.The book applies a globalizing framework to the study of regional worlds in order to move beyond the traditional conception of regionalism, which views regions as competing blocs dominated by great powers. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, the book shows that regions are instead dynamic configurations of social and po...

This book presents the most recent state-of-the-art algorithms on robust environmental perception and reliability control for intelligent vehicle systems. By integrating object detection, semantic segmentation, trajectory prediction, multi-object tracking, multi-sensor fusion, and reliability control in a systematic way, this book is aimed at guaranteeing that intelligent vehicles can run safely in complex road traffic scenes.Adopts the multi-sensor data fusion-based neural n...

For study resources and the English-language Chinese Perpetual (Lunar) Calendar, please visit ichingstream.com.About "I Ching Divination: Complete and Restored" ("Zengshan Buyi") English EditionFirst compiled around 1690 from the experiential manuscript of Yehe Elder (Wild Crane Elder) and organised by the early Qing scholar Li Wenhui (styled Juezi), with later appraisal by his fellow townsman Chujiang Li Woping, "I Ching Divination: Comple...

For study resources and the English-language Chinese Perpetual (Lunar) Calendar, please visit ichingstream.com.About "I Ching Divination: Complete and Restored" ("Zengshan Buyi") English EditionFirst compiled around 1690 from the experiential manuscript of Yehe Elder (Wild Crane Elder) and organised by the early Qing scholar Li Wenhui (styled Juezi), with later appraisal by his fellow townsman Chujiang Li Woping, "I Ching Divination: Comple...

To thrive, every living cell must continuously gauge and respond to changes in its environment. These changes are ultimately implemented by modulating gene expression, a process that relies on transcription by Nature’s most multivalent molecular machine, the RNA polymerase. This book covers progress made over the past decade understanding how this machine functions to compute the cellular state, from the atomistic structural level responsible for chemistry to the integrative level at which...

The book builds an overview of Chinese financial development in the past 70 years since the founding of the PRC. China's finance has experienced a complex evolution process, which could be roughly divided into two major stages. In the 30 years before the reform and opening-up, China built a new financial system through integrating finance in the old and new liberated areas, based on the development of the financial industry during the revolutionary war, and then quickly established a finan...