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This book identifies factors of information system (IS) integration that influence supply chain agility and illustrates how IS integration can achieve greater supply chain agility. Also considering the consequent operational impacts that arise from IS-enabled supply chain agility, the author presents real-life examples through interviews and surveys to explore how IS integrations affect supply chain agility in the context of the Chinese automotive industry. The ability to swiftly respond t...

When a tsunami sends a massive island made entirely of trash crashing into the Taiwanese coast, two very different people—an outcast from a mythical island and a woman on the verge of suicide—are united in ways they never could have imagined. Here is the English-language debut of a new and exciting award-winning voice from Taiwan, who has written an “astonishing” novel (The Independent) that is at once fantasy, reality, and dystopian environmental saga.Fifteen-year-old Ati...

Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch'an master Hongzhi's Extensive Record.First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi is one of the most influential poets in all of Zen literature. This translation of Hongzhi's poetry, the only such volume available in English, treats readers to his profound wisdom and beautiful literary ...

Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China offers the first comprehensive analysis of how China’s current system of land ownership has evolved over the past six decades. Based on extended fieldwork in Yunnan Province, the author explores how the three major rural actors—local governments, village communities, and rural households—have contested and negotiated land rights at the grassroots level, thereby transforming the structure of rural land ownership in the People’s Re...

This book is based on the research conducted by the authors over a substantial period in the field of power-switching apparatuses. It encompasses recent advances and future development trends. Considering practical experience, this book focuses on theoretical studies to establish a framework for computing methodology for switchgear by accurately modeling the key functional components of switchgear products. The book provides case studies closely related to practical engineering application...

This book CCIS 2497 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th CCF China Blockchain Summit on Blockchain Technology and Application, CBCC 2024, held in Shanghai, China, during December 13–15, 2024.The 13 full papers and 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 151 submissions. The proceedings focused on discussing the latest developments in blockchain theory and technology, exchanging the latest application achievements of blockchain in distributed systems, cryp...

This book CCIS 2498 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th CCF China Blockchain Summit on Blockchain Technology and Application, CBCC 2024, held in Shanghai, China, during December 13–15, 2024.The 15 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 151 submissions. The proceedings focused on discussing the latest developments in blockchain theory and technology, exchanging the latest application achievements of blockchain in distributed systems, cryptography, data ele...

This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"(fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She draws on a rich array of medical writings that circulated in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century China to analyze the points of convergence and contention that shaped people's views of women's rep...

"Dry Eye Syndrome in the Digital Era: Transformation and Future of Treatment and Management" is one volume of the series "From Ocular Surface to Fundus: A Guide to Intelligent Technology Applications" (6 Volumes in Total), focusing on technological innovation and management upgrading in the field of dry eye syndrome diagnosis and treatment in the digital age. The book systematically sorts out the application of intelligent technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, 5G telemedi...

This book brings together the insights from professional associations who involved in developing relevant national standards in China, domestic and international scholars who are dedicated to research in related fields, and industry practitioners who have the most hands-on experience. Synthesizing their perspectives, this book discusses the advanced technologies that can meet the requirements for energy efficiency, building performance monitoring and management, and user-centric building s...

This book aims to build a framework for understanding how to achieve new business growth through digital intelligence. It reveals the driving force and commercial logic behind the technology upgrade and transformation for enterprises, analyzes how to improve enterprises' branding, product, distribution channel, marketing, logistics, and organization under the new context, and studies the successful cases in digital intelligence of 6 Chinese enterprises. For business school students, resear...

The World Health Organization's post-World War II work on the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders and its vision of a "world psyche."In 1948, the World Health Organization began to prepare its social psychiatry project, which aimed to discover the epidemiology and arrive at a classification of mental disorders. In Mad by the Millions, Harry Y-Jui Wu examines the WHO's ambitious project, arguing that it was shaped by the postwar faith in tec...