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Knowledge-Driven Governance

The Role of Experts and Scholars in Combating Desertification and Other Dilemmas of Collective Action

By: Lihua Yang

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Knowledge-Driven Governance

The Role of Experts and Scholars in Combating Desertification and Other Dilemmas of Collective Action

By: Lihua Yang

This book explores a new model for addressing the central issue of environmental and other collective actions. An alternative to the classical models: central authority, privatization, and self-governance, it has provisionally been named “expert and scholar-based-” or “knowledge-driven governance”. The book also identifies seven working rules (or design principles) for successful knowledge-driven governance, and argues that the more strictly these rules are abided by, the more successful this model of governance becomes. Lastly, it demonstrates that in addition to Lindblom’s observed intellectually guided society and preference-guided/volition-guided society, there may be the possibility of a knowledge-driven society in which knowledge or intellect plays a greater role. The results obtained are supplemented by numerical calculations, presented as tables and figures. This book is intended for graduate students, lecturers and researchers working in environmental management, environmental science and engineering, sustainable development, collective action, and public administration.

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9811329109

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Wavelet Theory And Its Application To Pattern Recognition

By: Jiming Liu,Hong Ma,Yuan Yan Tang,Lihua Yang

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Wavelet Theory And Its Application To Pattern Recognition

By: Jiming Liu,Hong Ma,Yuan Yan Tang,Lihua Yang

This is not a purely mathematical book. It presents the basic principle of wavelet theory to electrical and electronic engineers, computer scientists, and students, as well as the ideas of how wavelets can be applied to pattern recognition. It also contains many novel research results from the authors' research team.

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World Scientific

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9814495166

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Fifteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy

By: Lihua Yang

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Fifteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy

By: Lihua Yang

This book introduces fifteen representative philosophers in ancient China, including Confucius, Laozi, Mencius, Zhuangzi, influential Neo-Taoist scholars, and prominent Neo-Confucian thinkers. It reveals the fundamental problems of each philosopher, clarifies the connotation of the concept as well as the specific reference of the problem, and presents the inherent context and structure of each philosopher’s thoughts. Further, the author analyzes a selection of these ancient philosophers’ main propositions and demonstrates the argumentation and proof processes behind the basic philosophical insights. As such, this book is a valuable academic resource for scholars and the interested readers wanting to gain an in-depth understanding of ancient Chinese philosophy today.

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Springer Nature

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9811984816

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9789811984815

Higher Education in China

By: Jianmin Gu,Xueping Li,Lihua Wang

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Higher Education in China

By: Jianmin Gu,Xueping Li,Lihua Wang

This book offers international readers a comprehensive introduction to higher education in China, and will help readers around the globe make sense of the huge and complex machinery that makes up the university and college sector in China today. It accompanies readers step by step, allowing them to understand the most important aspects of this sector in China – its history and development, its scope and structure, its operational system and management, and its enrollment and employment processes. It also provides an overview of the various levels of higher education in China, namely: specialized higher education, undergraduate education, postgraduate education, research and faculty. In short, the book will tell you what higher education in China is and how it works. While economic globalization and internationalization of higher education have greatly reduced the differences among educational systems in various countries, it cannot be denied that any given country’s higher education system needs to be deeply rooted in its culture and traditions. In this book, we highlight several distinctive characteristics of higher education in China, including: the ancient roots and modern history, massive scale, diversity, and centralized management and pragmatic trends.

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Springer

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9811308454

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9789811308451

Chinese Home Remedies

Harnessing Ancient Wisdom For Self-Healing

By: Lihua Wang

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Chinese Home Remedies

Harnessing Ancient Wisdom For Self-Healing

By: Lihua Wang

An expert in traditional Chinese medicine shares more than 1,000 remedies in this A-to-Z guide to herbs, massage, food therapy, and more. A teacher and practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, Lihua Wang has spent decades perfecting and refining remedies for everything from acne to addiction. Now she offers her wealth of healing knowledge in this comprehensive reference guide covering more than a thousand ailments. Rooted in the ancient philosophy of Taoism, traditional Chinese medicine approaches the human body as an energy system that, when blocked, experiences imbalances that manifest as illness. The remedies found here provide an excellent complement to the modern treatments of Western medicine.

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1601635494

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9781601635495

Preference-based Spatial Co-location Pattern Mining

By: Lizhen Wang,Yuan Fang,Lihua Zhou

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Preference-based Spatial Co-location Pattern Mining

By: Lizhen Wang,Yuan Fang,Lihua Zhou

The development of information technology has made it possible to collect large amounts of spatial data on a daily basis. It is of enormous significance when it comes to discovering implicit, non-trivial and potentially valuable information from this spatial data. Spatial co-location patterns reveal the distribution rules of spatial features, which can be valuable for application users. This book provides commercial software developers with proven and effective algorithms for detecting and filtering these implicit patterns, and includes easily implemented pseudocode for all the algorithms. Furthermore, it offers a basis for further research in this promising field. Preference-based co-location pattern mining refers to mining constrained or condensed co-location patterns instead of mining all prevalent co-location patterns. Based on the authors’ recent research, the book highlights techniques for solving a range of problems in this context, including maximal co-location pattern mining, closed co-location pattern mining, top-k co-location pattern mining, non-redundant co-location pattern mining, dominant co-location pattern mining, high utility co-location pattern mining, user-preferred co-location pattern mining, and similarity measures between spatial co-location patterns. Presenting a systematic, mathematical study of preference-based spatial co-location pattern mining, this book can be used both as a textbook for those new to the topic and as a reference resource for experienced professionals.

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Springer Nature

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981167566X

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9789811675669

Intercultural Communication between Chinese and French

By: Lihua Zheng

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Intercultural Communication between Chinese and French

By: Lihua Zheng

When two people from different cultures meet, they both act in accordance with what is self-evident, that is to say natural, to them, The only problem is that the what is self-evident to some may not coincide with what is self-evident to others. Also, as people have a tendency to consider their way as going without saying or as universal, when others do not act in the same way as they do and there is conflict, they get easily annoyed. As a French businessman in China once cried out « The Chinese ask me if I eat snake. I say to them: ‘I do not eat snake, but swallow insults every day’ ». In fact, in intercultural contacts, when people seem strange to others, often, it is perhaps not that they are strange, but because others judge their behaviour with their own cultural criteria. Every culture has its own behavioural logic. However, the logic of some does not correspond to that of others. Individuals often have the same objectives, but to reach them, they take different cultural paths.

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Iggybook

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2304047491

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9782304047493

Discrete-Time and Discrete-Space Dynamical Systems

By: Kuize Zhang,Lijun Zhang,Lihua Xie

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Discrete-Time and Discrete-Space Dynamical Systems

By: Kuize Zhang,Lijun Zhang,Lihua Xie

Discrete-Time and Discrete-Space Dynamical Systems provides a systematic characterization of the similarities and differences of several types of discrete-time and discrete-space dynamical systems, including: Boolean control networks; nondeterministic finite-transition systems; finite automata; labelled Petri nets; and cellular automata. The book's perspective is primarily based on topological properties though it also employs semitensor-product and graph-theoretic methods where appropriate. It presents a series of fundamental results: invertibility, observability, detectability, reversiblity, etc., with applications to systems biology. Academic researchers with backgrounds in applied mathematics, engineering or computer science and practising engineers working with discrete-time and discrete-space systems will find this book a helpful source of new understanding for this increasingly important class of systems. The basic results to be found within are of fundamental importance for further study of related problems such as automated synthesis and safety control in cyber-physical systems using formal methods.

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Springer

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3030259722

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9783030259723

Pseudo-Authenticity and Tourism

Preservation, Miniaturization, and Replication

By: Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman,Andy Lihua Chen

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Pseudo-Authenticity and Tourism

Preservation, Miniaturization, and Replication

By: Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman,Andy Lihua Chen

This book explores the concept of authenticity in tourism through the analysis of six tourist sites in Guangdong Province and Macau, China. Through a review of tourism literature, it develops the concept of pseudo-authenticity in which tourist sites and cultural products function to give signs of authenticity for tourists. This is achieved through the influence of media, authentic fakery, and façadism. Readers will gain greater insight into tourist sites in China that operate through cultural preservation, the miniaturization of cultural assets, and the replication of foreign signs through reproductions of foreign cities. The authors outline the tourist sites, an aesthetic analysis, on-site interviews with tourists, and an examination of online reviews of the sites. This is a useful work for scholars and students of tourism studies in China and around the world, especially those concerned with issues of authenticity and the effects of commodification on cultural assets.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000998452

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9781000998450

Control over Communication Networks

Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Networked Control Systems and Multi-Agent Systems over Imperfect Communication Channels

By: Jianying Zheng,Liang Xu,Qinglei Hu,Lihua Xie

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Control over Communication Networks

Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Networked Control Systems and Multi-Agent Systems over Imperfect Communication Channels

By: Jianying Zheng,Liang Xu,Qinglei Hu,Lihua Xie

Control over Communication Networks Advanced and systematic examination of the design and analysis of networked control systems and multi-agent systems Control Over Communication Networks provides a systematic and nearly self-contained description of the analysis and design of networked control systems (NCSs) and multi-agent systems (MASs) over imperfect communication networks, with a primary focus on fading channels and delayed channels. The text characterizes the effect of communication channels on the stability and performance of NCSs, and further studies the joint impact of communication channels and network topology on the consensus of MASs. By integrating communication and control theory, the four highly-qualified authors present fundamental results concerning the stabilization of NCSs over power-constrained fading channels and Gaussian finite-state Markov channels, linear-quadratic optimal control of NCSs with random input gains, optimal state estimation with intermittent observations, consensus of MASs with communication delay and packet dropouts, and synchronization of delayed Vicsek models. Simulation results are given in each chapter to demonstrate the developed analysis and synthesis approaches. The references are comprehensive and up-to-date, enabling further study for readers. Topics covered in Control Over Communication Networks include: Basic foundational knowledge, including control theory, communication theory, and graph theory, to enable readers to understand more complex topics The stabilization, optimal control, and remote state estimation problems of linear systems over channels with fading, signal-to-noise constraints, or intermittent measurements Consensus problems of MASs over fading/delayed channels, with directed and undirected communication graphs Control Over Communication Networks provides a valuable unified platform for understanding the analysis and design of NCSs and MASs for researchers, control engineers working on control systems over communication networks, and mechanical engineers working on unmanned systems. Preliminary knowledge of linear system theory and matrix analysis is required.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119885817

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9781119885818

Interpersonal Rhetoric in the Editorials of China Daily

A Generic Perspective

By: Liu Lihua

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Interpersonal Rhetoric in the Editorials of China Daily

A Generic Perspective

By: Liu Lihua

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)-- Tsinghua University, 2007.

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Peter Lang

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3034300840

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9783034300841

Force Control Theory and Method of Human Load Carrying Exoskeleton Suit

By: Zhiyong Yang,Wenjin Gu,Jing Zhang,Lihua Gui

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Force Control Theory and Method of Human Load Carrying Exoskeleton Suit

By: Zhiyong Yang,Wenjin Gu,Jing Zhang,Lihua Gui

This book reports on the latest advances in concepts and further development of principal component analysis (PCA), discussing in detail a number of open problems related to dimensional reduction techniques and their extensions. It brings together research findings, previously scattered throughout many scientific journal papers worldwide, and presents them in a methodologically unified form. Offering vital insights into the subject matter in self-contained chapters that balance the theory and concrete applications, and focusing on open problems, it is essential reading for all researchers and practitioners with an interest in PCA

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Springer

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3662541440

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9783662541449

Modeling and Control of Vibration in Mechanical Systems

By: Chunling Du,Lihua Xie

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Modeling and Control of Vibration in Mechanical Systems

By: Chunling Du,Lihua Xie

From the ox carts and pottery wheels the spacecrafts and disk drives, efficiency and quality has always been dependent on the engineer’s ability to anticipate and control the effects of vibration. And while progress in negating the noise, wear, and inefficiency caused by vibration has been made, more is needed. Modeling and Control of Vibration in Mechanical Systems answers the essential needs of practitioners in systems and control with the most comprehensive resource available on the subject. Written as a reference for those working in high precision systems, this uniquely accessible volume: Differentiates between kinds of vibration and their various characteristics and effects Offers a close-up look at mechanical actuation systems that are achieving remarkably high precision positioning performance Includes techniques for rejecting vibrations of different frequency ranges Covers the theoretical developments and principles of control design with detail elaborate enough that readers will be able to apply the techniques with the help of MATLAB® Details a wealth of practical working examples as well as a number of simulation and experimental results with comprehensive evaluations The modern world’s ever-growing spectra of sophisticated engineering systems such as hard disk drives, aeronautic systems, and manufacturing systems have little tolerance for unanticipated vibration of even the slightest magnitude. Accordingly, vibration control continues to draw intensive focus from top control engineers and modelers. This resource demonstrates the remarkable results of that focus to date, and most importantly gives today’s researchers the technology that they need to build upon into the future. Chunling Du is currently researching modeling and advanced servo control of hard disk drives at the Data Storage Institute in Singapore. Lihua Xie is the Director of the Centre for Intelligent Machines and a professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

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CRC Press

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1351833952

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9781351833950

Development and Standardization of a Cryptosporidium Genotyping Tool for Water Samples

By: Lihua Xiao

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Development and Standardization of a Cryptosporidium Genotyping Tool for Water Samples

By: Lihua Xiao

CD-ROM contains data gathered in the research of this study.

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American Water Works Association

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1583214410

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9781583214411

The Multilingual Instructor

By: Claire Kramsch,Lihua Zhang

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The Multilingual Instructor

By: Claire Kramsch,Lihua Zhang

Claire Kramsch and Lihua Zhang use an ecological approach and a complexity thought model to examine the identities, experiences, and practices of foreign language teachers as native or non-native speakers, multilingual instructors, and professional educators. What is their sense of legitimacy? How do they bridge the historical and cultural gaps between them and their students? What stories do they share in the classroom? Which do they not share? How do they view their ethical responsibility? Drawing on primary research with teachers at the college level in the US, the book explores some of the key issues related to teaching languages in an era of increasing global mobility, institutional control, and educational uncertainty. “In this landmark publication, Kramsch and Zhang show us the challenges facing the multilingual instructor and the importance of understanding their experiences in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning as transformative practices. The ecological framework provides a very useful model for future studies, while the attention to the ethical role of the multilingual instructor is a timely reminder to us all.” Li Wei, Chair of Applied Linguistics, UCL Institute of Education, University College London Claire Kramsch is Emerita Professor of German and Professor of the Graduate School of Education at University of California, Berkeley Lihua Zhang is Lecturer of Chinese and Chinese Language Program Coordinator at University of California, Berkeley Oxford Applied Linguistics Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen-Freeman

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Oxford University Press

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0194217353

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9780194217354

New Method Chinese

By: Jenwei Kuo,Judy Chen,Lihua Zhang

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New Method Chinese

By: Jenwei Kuo,Judy Chen,Lihua Zhang

The Δ-Lingual(TM) Learning Content Creation System is an innovative system that compares students' native language X (e.g. English) and the target language Y (e.g. Mandarin). The Δ-Lingual(TM) Learning Content Creation System finds the similarity and difference (Delta ∆) between the two languages in the areas such as: vowel, consonant, intonation, syllable, grammar structure, number system, usage, etc., and presents the results in a systematic manner as illustrated in the book. The more similar X is to Y, the less effort is required of the students to absorb the difference ∆. As a result, Δ-Lingual(TM) Learning Content Creation System places students in a familiar and comprehensible environment, making the acquisition of a new language much easier, faster, and inspiring more confidence.

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Lulu.com

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1312291036

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9781312291034

Analysis and Design of Networked Control Systems

By: Keyou You,Nan Xiao,Lihua Xie

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Analysis and Design of Networked Control Systems

By: Keyou You,Nan Xiao,Lihua Xie

This monograph focuses on characterizing the stability and performance consequences of inserting limited-capacity communication networks within a control loop. The text shows how integration of the ideas of control and estimation with those of communication and information theory can be used to provide important insights concerning several fundamental problems such as: · minimum data rate for stabilization of linear systems over noisy channels; · minimum network requirement for stabilization of linear systems over fading channels; and · stability of Kalman filtering with intermittent observations. A fundamental link is revealed between the topological entropy of linear dynamical systems and the capacities of communication channels. The design of a logarithmic quantizer for the stabilization of linear systems under various network environments is also extensively discussed and solutions to many problems of Kalman filtering with intermittent observations are demonstrated. Analysis and Design of Networked Control Systems will interest control theorists and engineers working with networked systems and may also be used as a resource for graduate students with backgrounds in applied mathematics, communications or control who are studying such systems.

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1447166159

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Knowledge-Driven Governance

The Role of Experts and Scholars in Combating Desertification and Other Dilemmas of Collective Action

By: Lihua Yang

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The Role of Experts and Scholars in Combating Desertification and Other Dilemmas of Collective Action

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Wavelet Theory And Its Application To Pattern Recognition

By: Jiming Liu,Hong Ma,Yuan Yan Tang,Lihua Yang

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Wavelet Theory And Its Application To Pattern Recognition

By: Jiming Liu,Hong Ma,Yuan Yan Tang,Lihua Yang

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Culture et management

By: Lihua Zheng,Xiaomin Yang

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Culture et management

By: Lihua Zheng,Xiaomin Yang

La diversité n'est pas seulement une source potentielle de conflits mais aussi un trésor enrichissant : elle fait découvrir des solutions différentes à un même problème fondamental de l'humanité et permet de connaître les autres cultures mais surtout de reconnaître la sienne propre et d'aller au-delà de celle-ci. Ces débats et discussions entre universitaires et entrepreneurs chinois et français s'attachent aux problèmes observés dans les coopérations interculturelles, le management et l'internationalisation de grands groupes.

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