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Health Technology Assessment, Courts and the Right to Healthcare

by Daniel Wang ...

Both developing and developed countries face an increasing mismatch between what patients expect to receive from healthcare and what the public healthcare systems can afford to provide. Where there has been a growing recognition of the entitlement to receive healthcare, the frustrated expectations with regards to the level of provision has led to lawsuits challenging the denial of funding for ... Read more

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Both developing and developed countries face an increasing mismatch between what patients expect to receive from healthcare and what the public healthcare systems can afford to provide. Where there has been a growing recognition of the entitlement to receive healthcare, the frustrated expectations with regards to the level of provision has led to lawsuits challenging the denial of funding for
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The Confucian Mind

A Historical and In-Depth Look at Asian Culture and Psyche

by Daniel Wang ...

Publication Date: July 2006The Confucian civilization is thoroughly examined and explained in this volume, historically, philosophically and psychologically, by its two most prominant examples (Chinese and Japanese cultures), after a multi-year research effort, with ground breaking findings and analyses not available elsewhere.Historically Asian civilizations followed a dramatically different path ... Read more

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Publication Date: July 2006The Confucian civilization is thoroughly examined and explained in this volume, historically, philosophically and psychologically, by its two most prominant examples (Chinese and Japanese cultures), after a multi-year research effort, with ground breaking findings and analyses not available elsewhere.Historically Asian civilizations followed a dramatically different path
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Open Architecture Curricular Design in World Language Education

by Andrew R. Corin, Betty Lou Leaver, Christine M. Campbell, Jae Sun Lee, Irene Krasner, Kueilan Chen, Kassema Jones, Daniel Wang0, E. J. Gregory1, Sherry A. Maggin2, Zachary F. Miller3, Joshua Enslen4, John Pendergast5, Olga Dobrunoff6, Jeff R. Watson7, Emily Heidrich Uebel8, Luca Giupponi9, Rossina Soyan0, Sang Yee Cheon1, Maria Bondarenko2, Reem Dababneh3, Rong Yuan4, Wendy Ashby5, Yaniv Oded6, Ilknur Oded7, Koen Van Gorp9 ...

A guide to a textbook-free approach to world languages curriculums that will improve learning outcomesOpen architecture curricular design (OACD) is a textbook-free curricular design framework for teaching and learning world languages that integrates all the best practices in world language education to enhance learning efficiency and effectiveness. As editors and pioneers of this method, Corin, ... Read more

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A guide to a textbook-free approach to world languages curriculums that will improve learning outcomesOpen architecture curricular design (OACD) is a textbook-free curricular design framework for teaching and learning world languages that integrates all the best practices in world language education to enhance learning efficiency and effectiveness. As editors and pioneers of this method, Corin,
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Hybrid Organizations

New Business Models for Environmental Leadership

by Brewster Boyd, Nina Henning, Emily Reyna, Daniel Wang, Matthew Welch, Andrew J. Hoffman ...

This book offers a glimpse into the future. The companies it describes are pioneers, the first-movers in market shifts that will eventually become mainstream. These "hybrid organizations" – or what others call "values-driven" or "mission-driven" organizations – operate in the blurry space between the for-profit and non-profit worlds. They are redefining their supply chains, their sources of ... Read more

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This book offers a glimpse into the future. The companies it describes are pioneers, the first-movers in market shifts that will eventually become mainstream. These "hybrid organizations" – or what others call "values-driven" or "mission-driven" organizations – operate in the blurry space between the for-profit and non-profit worlds. They are redefining their supply chains, their sources of
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Just Hierarchy

Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World

by Daniel A. Bell, Wang Pei ...

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and Wang Pei show, it is neither possible nor advisable to do away ... Read more

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A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and Wang Pei show, it is neither possible nor advisable to do away
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Deep IV in Law

Appellate Decisions and Texts Impact Sentencing in Trial Courts

by Zhe Huang, Xinyue Zhang, Ruofan Wang, Daniel L. Chen ...

Series series Elements in Law, Economics and Politics
Do US Circuit Courts' decisions on criminal appeals influence sentence lengths imposed by US District Courts? This Element explores the use of high-dimensional instrumental variables to estimate this causal relationship. Using judge characteristics as instruments, this Element implements two-stage models on court sentencing data for the years 1991 through 2013. This Element finds that Democratic, ... Read more

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Do US Circuit Courts' decisions on criminal appeals influence sentence lengths imposed by US District Courts? This Element explores the use of high-dimensional instrumental variables to estimate this causal relationship. Using judge characteristics as instruments, this Element implements two-stage models on court sentencing data for the years 1991 through 2013. This Element finds that Democratic,
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Maoism at the Grassroots

Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism

by Jacob Eyferth, Wang Haiguang, Kuisong Yang, Daniel Leese, Sha Qingqing, Sigrid Schmalzer, Michael Schoenhals, Vivienne Shue, Cao Shuji, Steve (S.A.) Smith, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zhe Wu ...

The Maoist state’s dominance over Chinese society, achieved through such watersheds as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, is well known. Maoism at the Grassroots reexamines this period of transformation and upheaval from a new perspective, one that challenges the standard state-centered view. Bringing together scholars from China, Europe, North America, and Taiwan, this volume ... Read more

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The Maoist state’s dominance over Chinese society, achieved through such watersheds as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, is well known. Maoism at the Grassroots reexamines this period of transformation and upheaval from a new perspective, one that challenges the standard state-centered view. Bringing together scholars from China, Europe, North America, and Taiwan, this volume
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State Estimation Strategies in Lithium-ion Battery Management Systems

by Kailong Liu, Yujie Wang, Daniel-Ioan Stroe, Carlos Fernandez, Josep M. Guerrero, Shunli Wang ...

State Estimation Strategies in Lithium-ion Battery Management Systems presents key technologies and methodologies in modeling and monitoring charge, energy, power and health of lithium-ion batteries. Sections introduce core state parameters of the lithium-ion battery, reviewing existing research and the significance of the prediction of core state parameters of the lithium-ion battery and ... Read more

$161.99 USD

State Estimation Strategies in Lithium-ion Battery Management Systems presents key technologies and methodologies in modeling and monitoring charge, energy, power and health of lithium-ion batteries. Sections introduce core state parameters of the lithium-ion battery, reviewing existing research and the significance of the prediction of core state parameters of the lithium-ion battery and
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Social Edge Computing

Empowering Human-Centric Edge Computing, Learning and Intelligence

by Dong Wang, Daniel 'Yue' Zhang ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) leads to the emergence of edge computing systems that push the training and deployment of AI models to the edge of networks for reduced bandwidth cost, improved responsiveness, and better privacy protection, allowing for the ubiquitous AI that can happen anywhere and anytime. Motivated by the above trend, this book ... Read more

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The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) leads to the emergence of edge computing systems that push the training and deployment of AI models to the edge of networks for reduced bandwidth cost, improved responsiveness, and better privacy protection, allowing for the ubiquitous AI that can happen anywhere and anytime. Motivated by the above trend, this book
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Maoism at the Grassroots

Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism

by Jacob Eyferth, Wang Haiguang, Kuisong Yang, Daniel Leese, Sha Qingqing, Sigrid Schmalzer, Michael Schoenhals, Vivienne Shue, Cao Shuji, Steve (S.A.) Smith, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zhe Wu ...

The Maoist state’s dominance over Chinese society, achieved through such watersheds as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, is well known. Maoism at the Grassroots reexamines this period of transformation and upheaval from a new perspective, one that challenges the standard state-centered view. Bringing together scholars from China, Europe, North America, and Taiwan, this volume ... Read more

$53.99 USD

The Maoist state’s dominance over Chinese society, achieved through such watersheds as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, is well known. Maoism at the Grassroots reexamines this period of transformation and upheaval from a new perspective, one that challenges the standard state-centered view. Bringing together scholars from China, Europe, North America, and Taiwan, this volume
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The Go Workshop

Learn to write clean, efficient code and build high-performance applications with Go

by Delio D'Anna, Andrew Hayes, Sam Hennessy, Jeremy Leasor, Gobin Sougrakpam, Dániel Szabó, Philipp Mieden, David Parker, Gwenn Etourneau, Arpit Aggarwal, Eugene Wang ...

Get started with Go and learn how to leverage its simplicity and flexibility to solve real-world problems and build practical softwareKey FeaturesBuild a comprehensive foundation in Go and focus on developing real-world applicationsExplore the Go Standard Library and learn how to structure your codeLearn how to efficiently interact with files, databases and REST APIsBook DescriptionThe Go Workshop ... Read more

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Get started with Go and learn how to leverage its simplicity and flexibility to solve real-world problems and build practical softwareKey FeaturesBuild a comprehensive foundation in Go and focus on developing real-world applicationsExplore the Go Standard Library and learn how to structure your codeLearn how to efficiently interact with files, databases and REST APIsBook DescriptionThe Go Workshop
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Precarious Belongings

Affect and Nationalism in Asia

Edited by Chih-ming Wang, Daniel PS Goh ...

Series series Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches
In the midst of refugee crises, terrorist attacks and territorial disputes across the globe, nationalism remains a powerful force in generating affects of inclusion and exclusion. In Asia, inter-Asian migration, enabled and disrupted by a history of colonialism, capitalist globalization and political conflicts, has rendered the idea of nation as both politically distinct and culturally malleable ... Read more

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In the midst of refugee crises, terrorist attacks and territorial disputes across the globe, nationalism remains a powerful force in generating affects of inclusion and exclusion. In Asia, inter-Asian migration, enabled and disrupted by a history of colonialism, capitalist globalization and political conflicts, has rendered the idea of nation as both politically distinct and culturally malleable
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