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The Changing Legal Orders in Hong Kong and Mainland China: Essays on “One Country, Two Systems”

By: Albert H.Y. Chen

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The Changing Legal Orders in Hong Kong and Mainland China: Essays on “One Country, Two Systems”

By: Albert H.Y. Chen

This collection of selected works by Professor Albert H.Y. Chen shows the contours of the author’s scholarship as it developed over 35 years of his academic career, from 1984 to the present. The essays are divided into three sections which cover the three major domains of Professor Chen’s research. Part I covers the legal developments and controversies of “One Country, Two Systems” since the Hong Kong interpretation on “the right of abode” in 1999 to the anti-extradition movement of 2019. Part II shifts to focus on tradition and modernity in Chinese Law, including China’s Confucian and Legalist traditions and how the socialist legal system in China evolved and modernized in the era of “reform and opening”. Part III examines the transplantation of Western thinking and constitutionalism to East Asia in modern times and discusses the achievements and failures of these efforts. In conjunction with an introductory chapter that sets out the basic orientation and paradigm of these legal and constitutional studies and an epilogue that reflects on the main themes, this collection exemplifies the author’s important contributions to the field and provides insight into how the legal orders in Hong Kong and mainland China have changed over the course of Professor Chen’s academic career.

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City University of HK Press

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9629374501

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The Constitutional System of the Hong Kong SAR

A Contextual Analysis

By: Albert H Y Chen,Po Jen Yap

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The Constitutional System of the Hong Kong SAR

A Contextual Analysis

By: Albert H Y Chen,Po Jen Yap

This book provides an account of the evolving constitutional arrangement known as One Country, Two Systems, as practised in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The British colony of Hong Kong, one of the Four Little Dragons of East Asia, reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. Since then, Hong Kong has continued to be an international financial centre, a free market, and a cosmopolitan city. At the same time, the tensions and contradictions inherent in One Country, Two Systems have given rise to constitutional controversies and social movements, culminating in the Umbrella movement of 2014, the anti-extradition law movement of 2019, the enactment of a National Security Law in 2020, and the electoral overhaul of 2021. This book discusses the structure and operations of Hong Kong's legal, judicial and political systems and their interactions with the national authorities of the PRC. The book provides a useful case study in comparative constitutional law, especially on autonomy and devolution issues within sovereign States. This comparative study is particularly interesting because Hong Kong is a common law jurisdiction within the PRC's socialist legal system. It will therefore be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese law, Hong Kong law and comparative politics, as well as lawyers whose practice involves Hong Kong.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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150995631X

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9781509956319

Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam

A Comparison of Asian Communist Regimes

By: John Gillespie,Albert Chen

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Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam

A Comparison of Asian Communist Regimes

By: John Gillespie,Albert Chen

This book provides a comprehensive, comparative assessment of legal developments in China and Vietnam, examining similarities and differences, and highlighting the factors likely to promote, change or resist the spread of the Chinese model.

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Routledge

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1136978437

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Introduction to Green Chemistry

By: Albert Matlack

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Introduction to Green Chemistry

By: Albert Matlack

The book covers traditional green chemistry topics, including catalysis, benign solvents, and alternative feedstocks. It also discusses relevant but less frequently covered topics with chapters such as Chemistry of Longer Wear and Population and the Environment. This coverage highlights the importance of chemistry to everyday life and demonstrates the benefits the expanded exploitation of green chemistry can have for society. Copiously illustrated with over 800 figures, this second edition provides an update from the frontiers of the field.

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CRC Press

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1439882118

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Principles of Airway Management

By: Brendan T. Finucane,Ban C.H. Tsui,Albert Santora

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Principles of Airway Management

By: Brendan T. Finucane,Ban C.H. Tsui,Albert Santora

Principles of Airway Management, 4th Edition, reviews the essential aspects of airway management: anatomy, equipment, intubation, fiberoptic endoscopy, surgical approaches, intubating LMA (lightwand), pediatric airway, CPR, and mechanical ventilation. The book features well-balanced discussions of the complexities and difficult issues associated with airway management; excellent organization that ensures the material can be learned and applied to various situations; the latest equipment and techniques; summary boxes which highlight the most important points of each chapter; and more than 400 illustrations (many in color, for the first time), tables, and boxes.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387095586

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9780387095585

Computational Paradigm Techniques for Enhancing Electric Power Quality

By: L. Ashok Kumar,S Albert Alexander

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Computational Paradigm Techniques for Enhancing Electric Power Quality

By: L. Ashok Kumar,S Albert Alexander

This book focusses on power quality improvement and enhancement techniques with aid of intelligent controllers and experimental results. It covers topics ranging from the fundamentals of power quality indices, mitigation methods, advanced controller design and its step by step approach, simulation of the proposed controllers for real time applications and its corresponding experimental results, performance improvement paradigms and its overall analysis, which helps readers understand power quality from its fundamental to experimental implementations. The book also covers implementation of power quality improvement practices. Key Features Provides solution for the power quality improvement with intelligent techniques Incorporated and Illustrated with simulation and experimental results Discusses renewable energy integration and multiple case studies pertaining to various loads Combines the power quality literature with power electronics based solutions Includes implementation examples, datasets, experimental and simulation procedures

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0429809905

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Edge Intelligence

From Theory to Practice

By: Javid Taheri,Schahram Dustdar,Albert Zomaya,Shuiguang Deng

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Edge Intelligence

From Theory to Practice

By: Javid Taheri,Schahram Dustdar,Albert Zomaya,Shuiguang Deng

This graduate-level textbook is ideally suited for lecturing the most relevant topics of Edge Computing and its ties to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) approaches. It starts from basics and gradually advances, step-by-step, to ways AI/ML concepts can help or benefit from Edge Computing platforms. The book is structured into seven chapters; each comes with its own dedicated set of teaching materials (practical skills, demonstration videos, questions, lab assignments, etc.). Chapter 1 opens the book and comprehensively introduces the concept of distributed computing continuum systems that led to the creation of Edge Computing. Chapter 2 motivates the use of container technologies and how they are used to implement programmable edge computing platforms. Chapter 3 introduces ways to employ AI/ML approaches to optimize service lifecycles at the edge. Chapter 4 goes deeper in the use of AI/ML and introduces ways to optimize spreading computational tasks along edge computing platforms. Chapter 5 introduces AI/ML pipelines to efficiently process generated data on the edge. Chapter 6 introduces ways to implement AI/ML systems on the edge and ways to deal with their training and inferencing procedures considering the limited resources available at the edge-nodes. Chapter 7 motivates the creation of a new orchestrator independent object model to descriptive objects (nodes, applications, etc.) and requirements (SLAs) for underlying edge platforms. To provide hands-on experience to students and step-by-step improve their technical capabilities, seven sets of Tutorials-and-Labs (TaLs) are also designed. Codes and Instructions for each TaL is provided on the book website, and accompanied by videos to facilitate their learning process.

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Springer Nature

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3031221559

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9783031221552

Studies in Natural Products Chemistry

Chapter 4. Catalytic Asymmetric Strategies for the Synthesis of 3,3-Disubstituted Oxindoles

By: Albert Moyano,Xavier Companyó

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Studies in Natural Products Chemistry

Chapter 4. Catalytic Asymmetric Strategies for the Synthesis of 3,3-Disubstituted Oxindoles

By: Albert Moyano,Xavier Companyó

Functional diversity and molecular architecture in biologically active oxindoles. Transition metal-catalyzed intramolecular Heck reactions and amide alpha-arylations. Asymmetric rearrangements of O-carbonylated oxindoles and related processes. Amination, hydroxylation, and halogenation reactions of 3-substituted oxindoles. Conjugate addition and alkylation reactions of 3-substituted oxindoles. Asymmetric aldol and Mannich reactions of isatins. Michael additions to isatin-derived electron-deficient alkynes. Nucleophilic substitution reactions of functionalized 3-substituted oxindoles. Enantioselective construction of spirooxindoles by cycloaddition, annulation, and cascade cyclization reactions of methyleneindolinone derivatives. The 3,3-disubstituted-2-oxindole moiety is present in many chiral alkaloids that exhibit interesting biological activities. The enantioselective synthesis of chiral oxindole derivatives has been mainly achieved by asymmetric catalytic methods. In this review we highlight the most important catalytic methods relevant to the synthesis of chiral, non-spirocyclic 3,3-disubstituted oxindoles.

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Elsevier Inc. Chapters

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0128084693

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9780128084694

Introduction to Green Chemistry

By: John Andraos,Albert S. Matlack

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Introduction to Green Chemistry

By: John Andraos,Albert S. Matlack

Interest in green chemistry and clean processes has grown so much in recent years that topics such as fluorous biphasic catalysis, metal organic frameworks, and process intensification, which were barely mentioned in the First Edition, have become major areas of research. In addition, government funding has ramped up the development of fuel cells and biofuels. This reflects the evolving focus from pollution remediation to pollution prevention. Copiously illustrated with more than 800 figures, the Third Edition provides an update from the frontiers of the field. It features supplementary exercises at the end of each chapter relevant to the chemical examples introduced in each chapter. Particular attention is paid to a new concluding chapter on the use of green metrics as an objective tool to demonstrate proof of synthesis plan efficiency and to identify where further improvements can be made through fully worked examples relevant to the chemical industry. NEW AND EXPANDED RESEARCH TOPICS Metal-organic frameworks Metrics Solid acids for alkylation of isobutene by butanes Carbon molecular sieves Mixed micro- and mesoporous solids Organocatalysis Process intensification and gas phase enzymatic reactions Hydrogen storage for fuel cells Reactive distillation Catalysts in action on an atomic scale UPDATED AND EXPANDED CURRENT EVENTS TOPICS Industry resistance to inherently safer chemistry Nuclear power Removal of mercury from vaccines Removal of mercury and lead from primary explosives Biofuels Uses for surplus glycerol New hard materials to reduce wear Electronic waste Smart growth The book covers traditional green chemistry topics, including catalysis, benign solvents, and alternative feedstocks. It also discusses relevant but less frequently covered topics with chapters such as "Chemistry of Long Wear" and "Population and the Environment." This coverage highlights the importance of chemistry to everyday life and demonstrates the benefits the expanded exploitation of green chemistry can have for society.

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1000542343

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Molecular Communications

An Analysis from Networking Theories Perspective

By: Yesenia Cevallos,Cristian Vacacela Gómez,Luis Tello-Oquendo,Talia Tene,Deysi Inca,Ivone Santillán,Albert Espinal,Nicolay Samaniego

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Molecular Communications

An Analysis from Networking Theories Perspective

By: Yesenia Cevallos,Cristian Vacacela Gómez,Luis Tello-Oquendo,Talia Tene,Deysi Inca,Ivone Santillán,Albert Espinal,Nicolay Samaniego

This book provides a complete analysis of molecular communications systems from the paradigm of TCP/IP network stack, and it exploits network theories (e.g. independent functions of a layer into a stack, addressing, flow control, error control, and traffic control) and applies them to biological systems. The authors show how these models can be applied in different areas such as industry, medicine, engineering, biochemistry, biotechnology, computer sciences, and other disciplines. The authors then explain how it is possible to obtain enormous benefits from these practices when applied in medicine, such as enhancing current treatment of diseases and reducing the side effects of drugs and improving the quality of treatment for patients. The authors show how molecular communications systems, in contrast to existing telecommunication paradigms, use molecules as information carriers. They show how sender biological nanomachines (bio-nano machines) encode data on molecules (signal molecules) and release the molecules into the environment. They go on to explain how the molecules then travel through the environment to reach the receiver bio-nano machines, where they biochemically react with the molecules to decipher information. This book is relevant to those studying telecommunications and biomedical students, engineers, masters, PhDs, and researchers.

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Springer Nature

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3031368827

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9783031368820

Empirical Likelihood Methods in Biomedicine and Health

By: Albert Vexler,Jihnhee Yu

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Empirical Likelihood Methods in Biomedicine and Health

By: Albert Vexler,Jihnhee Yu

Empirical Likelihood Methods in Biomedicine and Health provides a compendium of nonparametric likelihood statistical techniques in the perspective of health research applications. It includes detailed descriptions of the theoretical underpinnings of recently developed empirical likelihood-based methods. The emphasis throughout is on the application of the methods to the health sciences, with worked examples using real data. Provides a systematic overview of novel empirical likelihood techniques. Presents a good balance of theory, methods, and applications. Features detailed worked examples to illustrate the application of the methods. Includes R code for implementation. The book material is attractive and easily understandable to scientists who are new to the research area and may attract statisticians interested in learning more about advanced nonparametric topics including various modern empirical likelihood methods. The book can be used by graduate students majoring in biostatistics, or in a related field, particularly for those who are interested in nonparametric methods with direct applications in Biomedicine.

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1351001507

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Real-Time Systems

Scheduling, Analysis, and Verification

By: Albert M. K. Cheng

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Real-Time Systems

Scheduling, Analysis, and Verification

By: Albert M. K. Cheng

The first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject rather than a collection of papers. The author is a recognized authority in the field as well as an outstanding teacher lauded for his ability to convey these concepts clearly to many different audiences. A handy reference for practitioners in the field.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471460842

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9780471460848

Transporters and Drug-Metabolizing Enzymes in Drug Toxicity

By: Albert P. Li

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Transporters and Drug-Metabolizing Enzymes in Drug Toxicity

By: Albert P. Li

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the relationship between drug metabolism enzymes and transporters on drug toxicity, along with methods to investigate their role on adverse drug reactions. Unites both the metabolism and transporter components of drug toxicity – two aspects not normally connected and the latter often neglected Familiarizes readers with the mechanism and species differences in drug metabolizing enzymes and transporters Discusses promising approaches to accurately predict human drug toxicity via the incorporation of human drug metabolism in toxicity evaluation

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119170990

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Lower Genital Tract Precancer

Colposcopy, Pathology and Treatment

By: Albert Singer,John M. Monaghan,Swee Chong Quek

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Lower Genital Tract Precancer

Colposcopy, Pathology and Treatment

By: Albert Singer,John M. Monaghan,Swee Chong Quek

The new Second Edition of Lower Genital Tract Precancer has been extensively revised and expanded to provide a definitive and contemporary reference on this subject. Providing a comprehensive examination of the applications and benefits of modern diagnostic and therapeutic practices in managing lesions of the female lower genital tract, the book is presented in a clear, easy-to-read style and is extensively illustrated. The text covers investigative procedures and techniques, reviews the normal and abnormal cervix and fully appraises the diagnosis and management of both benign and malignant lesions. Vaginal, vulvular and perianal premalignant diseases are discused, and a separate section is devoted to those conditions which mimic, and can thus be confused with, precancer. A new section on AIDS has been included and an entire chapter on pathology is also incorporated.

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0470759828

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Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care

By: Nancy M Albert,Sharon Pappas

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Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care

By: Nancy M Albert,Sharon Pappas

Explores leadership within the context of a new understanding of complex adaptive systems and complex responsive processes. The leader is seen through a new lens of relational leadership in a way that emphasizes numerous skill sets for managing increasingly complex and diverse healthcare delivery systems in an era of constant movement and change. Emphasizes the characteristics and role of the complexity leader through both describing the context of complexity and the application of the role as a leader of these complex systems. Addresses postindustrial, complex and highly mobile organizational systems, and integrates the essential requirements for Quality Matters certification of online courses"--

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