This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven geo-cultural areas of the world. The 16 chapters in this volume (Volume II) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 18 chapters comprising Volume I focus exclusively on Europe, Latin America, and North America. This volum...

隨著全球人口快速高齡化，台灣已邁入超高齡社會，高齡長者的健康餘命與生活品質成為當前社會最迫切的課題。作者王珈潔以國立臺北護理健康大學護理研究所的專業視野出發，針對長者常見的「口腔衰弱」與「肌少症」問題，編撰了這本兼具醫學衛教與實作技巧的指南。本書深入淺出地解析 65 歲後的身體變化，特別是咀嚼與吞嚥功能的退化如何影響營養吸收，進而導致老年衰弱症。為了解決長者「咬不動」卻又「不敢吃」的困境，書中詳細介紹了國際 IDDSI 飲食標準，並傳授多項料理祕訣--從軟化食材的天然酵素應用、切斷纖維的刀工技巧，到提升進食安全的勾芡與勾芡粉劑使用。手冊的核心亮點在於超過 30 道精心設計的照護食譜，涵蓋蔬菜、肉類、海鮮、豆類及甜點。無論是「紅燒滑蛋豆腐」還是「鮭魚番茄炊飯」，都旨在打破照護餐「外觀不佳、味道平淡」的刻板印象。這不只是一本工具書，更是一份讓長者重拾進食樂趣、守護尊嚴與健康的行動指南，陪伴每一位照顧者營造屬於長者的饗食天堂。▲王珈潔Wang Jia-Jie▲學歷：國立臺北護理健康大...

This SpringerBrief mainly focuses on effective big data analytics for CPS, and addresses the privacy issues that arise on various CPS applications. The authors develop a series of privacy preserving data analytic and processing methodologies through data driven optimization based on applied cryptographic techniques and differential privacy in this brief. This brief also focuses on effectively integrating the data analysis and data privacy preservation techniques to provide the most desirab...

Drawing on two decades of data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), this collection examines fundamental social transformations in contemporary China across gender, marriage, living arrangements, and subjective well-being from 2003 to 2021.The contributions utilise longitudinal CGSS data to analyse key dimensions of social change including women's labour force participation patterns, evolving school-to-work transitions, changing residential independence amongst young adul...

This edited volume provides an overview of inequality and stratification in contemporary China. A rare and timely resource, it presents key research on the topic published in Chinese Sociological Review from 2011 to 2023, using one or multiple waves of Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data, reflecting the advancement of the field over the past decade.The CGSS, launched in 2003 and modelled after the US General Social Survey, is an annual or biennial cross-sectional sur...

For study resources and the English-language Chinese Perpetual (Lunar) Calendar, please visit ichingstream.com.About “Principles and Odes of I Ching Divination” (Tong Xuan Miao Lun and Tian Xuan Fu) (English Edition)Composed in the Song to Yuan period (960 to 1368), “Mysterious and Subtle Discourse” (Tong Xuan Miao Lun) and “Celestial Mysteries Ode” (Tian Xuan Fu) are cornerstone texts of I Ching Divination...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2020, held in Xi'an, China, in August 2020.*The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: search and recommendation, NLP for IR, and IR in finance.* Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online supplemented with local on-site events.