How do you cope when you face leadership challenges? Are you really the best leader you can be in your role or organization? Where are the places that you could improve your performance?Being a great leader comes naturally to just a few. For others, it takes hard work, practice and a lot of failures before they can truly be regarded as what could be termed a great leader. This inspiring collection of 11 stories is part of the hugely successful A Journey of Riches series that provid...

This book confronts the overlooked mental health challenges within one of the largest Asian American subgroups in the United States.Although Korean Americans are often characterized as a “model minority” due to high levels of academic and professional achievement, this book reveal a more complex reality marked by issues such as depression, suicide, substance abuse, and trauma. The contributors compellingly link these concerns to the intersecting forces of cultural s...

This book deepens scholarly understandings of how digital technologies reconfigure civic engagement by examining the distinctive trajectories of online activism in the Korean context.Drawing on a diverse set of case studies-including SNS-driven political participation, the 2008 U.S. beef protests, the 2016–2017 candlelight vigils, and the #MeToo movement-the volume situates these movements within the dynamic interplay of evolving media infrastructures and Korea's so...

The Audience and Business of YouTube and Online Videos is a thorough analysis of YouTube audiences and creators of online videos that considers how the coexistence of user-generated and professional media content on YouTube makes the site a unique platform in the ever-expanding online video industry. Using a mixed method approach, the authors examine the underexplored business side of YouTube with a focus on product review videos, brand videos, sponsored videos, and online video advertisin...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of plant omics and big data in the fields of plant and crop biology. It discusses each omics layer individually, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and covers model and non-model species. In a section on advanced topics, it considers developments in each specialized domain, including genome editing and enhanced breeding strategies (such as genomic selection and high-throughput phenotyping), with the aim of providing tools to help ta...

Jugendbuchautorin Kim Kestner beGEISTERT ihre Leserinnen mit einem neuen romantischen Fantasyroman – denn wo der Himmel endet, beginnt die Welt der Geister ...In Heaven's End, einem kleinen schottischen Küstenort, lebt die fünfzehnjährige Jojo mit ihrer Familie – der lebenden und der toten. Denn Jojo kann Geister sehen und wohnt mit einer ganzen Horde verrückter Vorfahren unter einem Dach. Von ihrer besonderen Fähigkeit aber darf niemand etwas wissen. Erst recht nicht Zack, der Schu...

This book describes carbon nanothreads with complete and comprehensive knowledge covering theories, numerical methods, and properties comparisons with other carbon-based nanomaterials. For one thing, the main theoretical aspects in this book include: First-Principle Calculation, Density Functional Theory, Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulation, and Coarse Grained Simulation. For another thing, the main research contents include: Fundamental M...

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Since the late 1980s, many East Asian countries have become more multicultural, a process marked by increased democracy and pluralism despite the continuing influence of nationalism, which has forced these countries in the region to re-envision their nations. Many such countries have had to reconsider their constitutional make-up, their terms of citizenship and the ideal of social harmony. This has resulted in new immigration and border-control policies and the revisiting of laws regarding...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Third International Workshop on Computational Mathematics Modeling in Cancer Analysis, CMMCA 2024, held in Marrakesh, Morocco, on October 6, 2024, in conjunction with MICCAI 2024.The 12 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. CMMCA serves as a platform for collaboration among professionals in mathematics, engineering, computer science, and medicine, focusing on innovative mathemat...

La revue semestrielle Jentayu (ISSN 2426-2536) est dédiée à la traduction de textes courts ou d’extraits de roman. À chaque numéro, entre douze et quinze textes provenant d’une variété de pays et de régions d’Asie sont sélectionnés sur un thème donné et traduits par des traducteurs chevronnés. Pour certains de ces textes, ils sont aussi mis en contexte sur le site internet par le biais d’un entretien avec l’auteur, le traducteur, ou d’une présentati...

By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls “the international literary space”, their power does not operate unilaterally and modes of intercultural circulation do exist beyond their control. The title “World Literature in Motion” highlights the fact that world literature is always already the product of certain modes of conceptual and material mobility and medi...