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Employability in Context

Labour Market Needs, Skills Gaps and Graduate Employability Development in Regional Vietnam

By: Ly Thi Tran,Nga Thi Hang Ngo,Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen,Truc Thi Thanh Le

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Employability in Context

Labour Market Needs, Skills Gaps and Graduate Employability Development in Regional Vietnam

By: Ly Thi Tran,Nga Thi Hang Ngo,Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen,Truc Thi Thanh Le

This book explores the issue of graduate employability in regional Vietnam. It provides a critical discussion of not only the demands of the labour market but also the practices and challenges in the development of graduate employability and career capacity building at the national, institutional and individual levels. It discusses graduate employability in Vietnam by analysing government and institutional policies and taking into account the perspectives and experiences of three key stakeholders: employers, graduates and universities. The book highlights the development of ‘employability in context’ for graduates in regional Vietnam to be able to adapt to the specific social, cultural and demographic conditions of the region and tackle new employment challenges.

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Springer Nature

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3031041445

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9783031041440

Steel and Blood

South Vietnamese Armor and the War for Southeast Asia

By: Ha Mai Viet

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Steel and Blood

South Vietnamese Armor and the War for Southeast Asia

By: Ha Mai Viet

When South Vietnam was abandoned by its American allies and consequently defeated by the North Vietnamese in 1975, all its military records were lost to the enemy. This has led to a paucity of factually based analyses of the war by South Vietnamese authors. In a project lasting some ten years, and financed by his own hard-earned resources, Colonel Viet has researched, documented, and analyzed the Vietnam War from the perspective of South Vietnamese armor forces, elements in which he himself played an important role as leader, teacher, and innovator. His travels to interview hundreds of people with first-hand knowledge of these matters took him back and forth across the United States (and to Canada, France and Australia) and enabled him to piece together the story as recalled by virtually every senior South Vietnamese who was involved, along with many of lesser rank but important experience, and many Americans as well. The result is a unique and invaluable work, one recounting from the early days of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam its organization and development, its combat operations, and its interaction with American advisors and then later with deployed American units. Viet tells this story as an historian would, not glossing over the shortcomings and failures of his fellow Vietnamese soldiers (or of the Americans), but also providing definitive accounts of their successes, their innovations, their courage and determination, and the hardships experienced and survived in the course of a long, difficult, and ultimately unsuccessful struggle. In Colonel Viet's words: "In order to give the truth back to history, we did not hide anything, whether it be victory or defeat." Finally, in a very touching portion of the work, Colonel Viet memorializes his fallen comrades of the armored force and commemorates the service of all the American advisors to the armored force he was able to identify.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612514332

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9781612514338

Hmong in Wisconsin

By: Mai Zong Vue

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Hmong in Wisconsin

By: Mai Zong Vue

Unknown to many Americans at the time, the Hmong helped the US government fight Communists in Laos during the Secret War of the 1960s and 1970s, a parallel conflict to the Vietnam War. When Saigon fell and allies withdrew, the surviving Hmong fled for their lives, spending years in Thai refugee camps before being relocated to the United States and other countries. Many of these families found homes in Wisconsin, which now has the third largest Hmong population in the country, following California and Minnesota. As one of the most recent cultural groups to arrive in the Badger State, the Hmong have worked hard to establish a new life here, building support systems to preserve traditions and to help one another as they enrolled in schools, started businesses, and strived for independence. Told with a mixture of scholarly research, interviews, and personal experience of the author, this latest addition to the popular People of Wisconsin series shares the Hmong’s varied stories of survival and hope as they have become an important part of Wisconsin communities.

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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0870209434

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9780870209437

The Human Nervous System

By: George Paxinos,Juergen K Mai

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The Human Nervous System

By: George Paxinos,Juergen K Mai

This long-awaited update of the classic, The Human Nervous System, stands as an impressive survey of our knowledge of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system. The book has been completely redone and brought up-to-date. An impressive and respected cast of international authors have contributed 37 chapters on topics ranging from Brain Evolution, all phases of Brain Development, to all areas of the adult brain and peripheral pathways, along with careful descriptions of the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system, brainstem and cerebellum. The Human Nervous System, Second Edition will again serve as the gold standard, providing a one-stop source of up-to-date information about our knowledge of the human nervous system.This second edition of the standard reference on the human nervous system is extensively and completely revised and updated from the 1990 first edition. Written by the leading researchers, many chapters have been completely rewritten, new chapters have been added. A new section on Evolution and Development provides a broader perspective, and all chapters include references and perspectives to neurological disease.

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Elsevier

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0080495311

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9780080495316

The Secret of Hoa Sen

By: Nguyen Phan Que Mai

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The Secret of Hoa Sen

By: Nguyen Phan Que Mai

Poems by Nguyen Phan Que Mai Translated from the Vietnamese by Bruce Weigl and Nguyen Phan Que Mai Nguyen Phan Que Mai is among the most exciting writers to emerge from post-war Vietnam. Bruce Weigl, driven by his personal experiences as a soldier during the war in Vietnam, has spent the past 20 years translating contemporary Vietnamese poetry. These penetrating poems, published in bilingual English and Vietnamese, build new bridges between two cultures bound together by war and destruction. The Secret of Hoa Sen, Que Mai's first full-length U.S. publication, shines with craft, art, and deeply felt humanity. I cross the Lam River to return to my homeland where my mother embraces my grandmother's tomb in the rain, the soil of Nghe An so dry the rice plants cling to rocks. My mother chews dry corn; hungry, she tries to forget.

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BOA Editions, Ltd.

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1938160533

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9781938160530

Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom

The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960

By: Mai Na M. Lee

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Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom

The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960

By: Mai Na M. Lee

Authoritative and original, Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom is among the first works of its kind, exploring the influence that French colonialism and Hmong leadership had on the Hmong people's political and social aspirations.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299298841

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9780299298845

Science and Engineering of Short Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites

By: Shao-yun Fu,Bernd Lauke,Y.-W. Mai

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Science and Engineering of Short Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites

By: Shao-yun Fu,Bernd Lauke,Y.-W. Mai

When fibres in a composite are discontinuous and are shorter than a few millimetres, the composite is called a 'short fibre reinforced composite (SFRP)'. SFRPs have found extensive applications in automobiles, business machines, durable consumer items, sporting goods and electrical industries owing to their low cost, easy processing and superior mechanical properties over the parent polymers. The book summarises recent developments in this area, focusing on the fundamental mechanisms that govern the mechanical properties including strength, modulus, fracture toughness and thermal properties of SFRP materials.This book covers the following topics: extrusion compounding and injection moulding, major factors affecting mechanical performance, stress transfer, strength, elastic modulus flexural modulus, thermal conductivity and expansion, non-linear stress-strain behaviour and fracture mechanics of short fibre reinforced polymers.With its distinguished team of authors, Science and engineering of short fibre reinforced polymer composites is a standard reference for anyone involved in the development, manufacture and use of SFRPs. It will also provide an in-depth understanding of the behaviour of these versatile materials. - Reviews the mechanical properties and functions of short fibre reinforced polymer composites (SFRP) - Examines recent developments in the fundamental mechanisms of SFRP's - Assesses major factors affecting mechanical performance such as stress transfer and strength

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363

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Elsevier

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1845696492

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9781845696498

Long Time No See, We Meet Again

Volume 1

By: Mai Sui

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Long Time No See, We Meet Again

Volume 1

By: Mai Sui

He whispered in her ear while they were still in love: "Beppi, let's get married after we graduate!"The next second, however, he was with her best friend.She turned, like a stranger.Four years later, she reappeared with a small oil bottle."Why did you come back? Did that man not satisfy you?" He lifted her chin and trampled on her dignity."CEO Lu, are we very familiar with each other?" She gritted her teeth and retreated step by step."Did you sleep well?

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Funstory

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1647812445

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9781647812447

The Sacred Willow

Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family

By: Mai Elliott

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The Sacred Willow

Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family

By: Mai Elliott

Tied in to Ken Burns' forthcoming (2017) TV series on Vietnam, to which the author is a major contributor, the reissue of a Pulitzer finalist memoir of a Vietnamese family in the 20th century

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Oxford University Press

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019061451X

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9780190614515

War and Shadows

The Haunting of Vietnam

By: Mai Lan Gustafsson

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War and Shadows

The Haunting of Vietnam

By: Mai Lan Gustafsson

Vietnamese culture and religious traditions place the utmost importance on dying well: in old age, body unblemished, with surviving children, and properly buried and mourned. More than five million people were killed in the Vietnam War, many of them young, many of them dying far from home. Another 300,000 are still missing. Having died badly, they are thought to have become angry ghosts, doomed to spend eternity in a kind of spirit hell. Decades after the war ended, many survivors believe that the spirits of those dead and missing have returned to haunt their loved ones. In War and Shadows, the anthropologist Mai Lan Gustafsson tells the story of the anger of these spirits and the torments of their kin. Gustafsson's rich ethnographic research allows her to bring readers into the world of spirit possession, focusing on the source of the pain, the physical and mental anguish the spirits bring, and various attempts to ameliorate their anger through ritual offerings and the intervention of mediums. Through a series of personal life histories, she chronicles the variety of ailments brought about by the spirits' wrath, from headaches and aching limbs (often the same limb lost by a loved one in battle) to self-mutilation. In Gustafsson's view, the Communist suppression of spirit-based religion after the fall of Saigon has intensified anxieties about the well-being of the spirit world. While shrines and mourning are still allowed, spirit mediums were outlawed and driven underground, along with many of the other practices that might have provided some comfort. Despite these restrictions, she finds, victims of these hauntings do as much as possible to try to lay their ghosts to rest.

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Cornell University Press

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0801457459

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9780801457456

RAND in Southeast Asia

A History of the Vietnam War Era

By: Duong Van Mai Elliott

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RAND in Southeast Asia

A History of the Vietnam War Era

By: Duong Van Mai Elliott

This book is for RAND, and the people who want to understand what the alumni of this organization remembered about their experiences working for the U.S. government on research and analysis of what remains some of the most controversial foreign and military policy of the 20th century.

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Rand Corporation

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083304754X

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9780833047540

Fracture Mechanics of Electromagnetic Materials

Nonlinear Field Theory and Applications

By: Xiaohong Chen,Y. W. Mai

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Fracture Mechanics of Electromagnetic Materials

Nonlinear Field Theory and Applications

By: Xiaohong Chen,Y. W. Mai

Fracture Mechanics of Electromagnetic Materials provides a comprehensive overview of fracture mechanics of conservative and dissipative materials, as well as a general formulation of nonlinear field theory of fracture mechanics and a rigorous treatment of dynamic crack problems involving coupled magnetic, electric, thermal and mechanical field quantities. Thorough emphasis is placed on the physical interpretation of fundamental concepts, development of theoretical models and exploration of their applications to fracture characterization in the presence of magneto-electro-thermo-mechanical coupling and dissipative effects. Mechanical, aeronautical, civil, biomedical, electrical and electronic engineers interested in application of the principles of fracture mechanics to design analysis and durability evaluation of smart structures and devices will find this book an invaluable resource.

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World Scientific

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184816663X

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9781848166639

Empirical Likelihood Method in Survival Analysis

By: Mai Zhou

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Empirical Likelihood Method in Survival Analysis

By: Mai Zhou

Empirical Likelihood Method in Survival Analysis explains how to use the empirical likelihood method for right censored survival data. The author uses R for calculating empirical likelihood and includes many worked out examples with the associated R code. The datasets and code are available for download on his website and CRAN. The book focuses on all the standard survival analysis topics treated with empirical likelihood, including hazard functions, cumulative distribution functions, analysis of the Cox model, and computation of empirical likelihood for censored data. It also covers semi-parametric accelerated failure time models, the optimality of confidence regions derived from empirical likelihood or plug-in empirical likelihood ratio tests, and several empirical likelihood confidence band results. While survival analysis is a classic area of statistical study, the empirical likelihood methodology has only recently been developed. Until now, just one book was available on empirical likelihood and most statistical software did not include empirical likelihood procedures. Addressing this shortfall, this book provides the functions to calculate the empirical likelihood ratio in survival analysis as well as functions related to the empirical likelihood analysis of the Cox regression model and other hazard regression models.

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CRC Press

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1466554932

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9781466554931

The Mountains Sing

By: Que Mai Phan Nguyen

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The Mountains Sing

By: Que Mai Phan Nguyen

The International Bestseller A New York Times Editors’ Choice SelectionA Winner of the 2020 Lannan Literary Awards Fellowship "[An] absorbing, stirring novel . . . that, in more than one sense, remedies history." —The New York Times Book Review “A triumph, a novelistic rendition of one of the most difficult times in Vietnamese history . . . Vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . . Moving and riveting.” —VIET THANH NGUYEN, author of The Sympathizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore apart not just her beloved country, but also her family. Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Việt Nam, The Mountains Sing brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese people themselves, while showing us the true power of kindness and hope. The Mountains Sing is celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s first novel in English.

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Algonquin Books

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1643751352

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Record of the Listener

Selected Stories from Hong Mai's Yijian Zhi

By: Hong Mai

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Record of the Listener

Selected Stories from Hong Mai's Yijian Zhi

By: Hong Mai

Scholars who know classical Chinese have been reading and citing Hon Mai's wonderful collection for many years. Now students can access these informative materials through Zhang's lively English translations. They are both fun to read and deeply informative about daily life, religion, markets, and multiple social groups in the twelfth century. The comprehensive thematic guide allows readers to locate tales by subject matter, making this collection of 100 narratives ideal for classroom use." —Valerie Hansen, Yale University

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Hackett Publishing

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1624666868

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9781624666865

The Real Exchange Rate and Employment in China

By: Ms.Ruo Chen,Mai Dao

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The Real Exchange Rate and Employment in China

By: Ms.Ruo Chen,Mai Dao

We examine the impact of real exchange rate fluctuations on sectoral and regional employment in China from 1980 to 2008. In contrast to theoretical predictions, employment in both the tradable and non-tradable sectors contracts following a real appreciation. Our results are robust across different sub-samples, levels of sectoral disaggregation, and are more pronounced for regions with higher export exposure. We attribute our findings to the importance of services as intermediate input in exportable production. We test this channel of exchange rate transmission using regional input-output tables linked with employment data at the region-sector level. The results of this paper have important implications for China's labor market adjustment should the Chinese RMB strengthen in the future. To mitigate the costs of short-run labor market adjustment, appropriate demand management and structural reforms in the non-traded sectors should play an important role.

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International Monetary Fund

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1455269468

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9781455269464

Book's by Mai Dao

Employability in Context

Employability in Context

Steel and Blood

Steel and Blood

Hmong in Wisconsin

Hmong in Wisconsin

The Human Nervous System

The Human Nervous System

The Secret of Hoa Sen

The Secret of Hoa Sen

Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom

Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom

Science and Engineering of Short Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites

Science and Engineering of Short Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites

Long Time No See, We Meet Again

Long Time No See, We Meet Again

The Sacred Willow

The Sacred Willow

War and Shadows

War and Shadows

RAND in Southeast Asia

RAND in Southeast Asia

Fracture Mechanics of Electromagnetic Materials

Fracture Mechanics of Electromagnetic Materials

Empirical Likelihood Method in Survival Analysis

Empirical Likelihood Method in Survival Analysis

The Mountains Sing

The Mountains Sing

Record of the Listener

Record of the Listener

The Real Exchange Rate and Employment in China

The Real Exchange Rate and Employment in China

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