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International Pressures, Strategic Preference, and Myanmar’s China Policy since 1988

By: Nian Peng

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International Pressures, Strategic Preference, and Myanmar’s China Policy since 1988

By: Nian Peng

This book mainly explored the driving forces and evolvement of Myanmar’s China policy since 1988 by adopting a neo-classical realist apporach, an emerging theoretical paradigm aiming at analyzing state’s foreign behaviour by connecting systemic and unit variables which refers to external environments and domestic restraints respectively. It is the first book that seeks to give a theoretical explanation of Myanmar’s diplomacy, thereby bridging the gap from basic research to the deep one with theories. It also introduced the concept of strategic preference and argued that the competing strategic preference that the Burmese leaders have, namely “integration” and “isolation”, determines Myanmar’s responses to China in the Post-Cold War era, which not only demonstrates the neo-classical realism as an useful instrument of looking into state’s foreign policy and deepens the understanding on Myanmar-China relations.The main content of this book is divided into seven parts, in which the first chapter introduces the background, the present study on Myanmar’s China policy and China’s Myanmar policy, the analytical framework, and the arrangement of the content. Chapter 2 focuses on the roots and changes of Myanmar’s competing strategic preference as well as its influences on Myanmar’s foreign policy. The following four chapters examine the international pressures and benefits imposed by systemic imperatives, and Burmese leaders’ specific strategic preference since 1988, and investigate Myanmar’s policy towards China in different periods. Finally, it provides a comprehensive conclusion that outlines and reviews the origins and evolution of Myanmar’s China policy, and predicts its future directions.This book is suitable for the graduates and experts who are interested in international relations, the Asian studies and neo-classical realism in particular, and Myanmar politics and foreign relations, as well as China’s relation with neighboring countries.

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Springer Nature

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9811578168

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Imperial Plot

Volume 3

By: Nian Chan

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Imperial Plot

Volume 3

By: Nian Chan

There was a saying that was widely spread throughout the capital.Admissions do not provoke Suze, thousand gold can not see Zhong Miaoyi.He was a powerful courtier, a deceitful courtier with a single hand.It was also the only thing she could rely on in this world."Miaoyi, you're a playboy." He had personally deceived everyone by putting on a beautiful facade for her.When use, betrayal, and hatred came.She spilled her blood on the palace walls and bathed in fire.It was a heart-piercing sword that had been specially prepared for him in this mortal world's purgatory.

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Funstory

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1647574986

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Tribo-Informatics

The Systematic Fusion of AI and Tribology

By: Zhinan Zhang,Nian Yin

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Tribo-Informatics

The Systematic Fusion of AI and Tribology

By: Zhinan Zhang,Nian Yin

This book details how artificial intelligence and other informatic methods can be applied to the field of tribology. Using problems often found within tribological condition monitoring, behaviour prediction, system optimization and mechanism analysis, the book covers methods used such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Including case studies throughout, the book offers an accessible introduction to tribological research, beginning with background on the theory behind tribo-informatics, and updates in the latest technology. It describes how to establish a tribo-informatics database, methods through which to express tribo-systems such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), and Random Forest (RF), and its applications. It can be used in state monitoring, behaviour prediction and system optimization. Through case studies, practical examples of how tribo-informatics can be implemented are shown throughout various industries. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the field of tribology, friction, wear and artificial intelligence.

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CRC Press

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1040013791

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36 Stratagems for Investors

Timeless Financial Wisdom from a Chinese Classic

By: Rena Hanxi He,Nian Liu,Joe Jiang Xing,HSBC Jintrust Fund Management

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36 Stratagems for Investors

Timeless Financial Wisdom from a Chinese Classic

By: Rena Hanxi He,Nian Liu,Joe Jiang Xing,HSBC Jintrust Fund Management

The 36 Stratagens are a collection of the military tactics and strategies employed in ancient China. Many of the terms coined for the stratagems have evolved into popular proverbs. More often than not, reverse psychology and divergent thinking are tactics used to take the enemy by surprise. In our attempt to incorporate such tactical moves into fund investment, we discover they make the key rationales for fund investment so much easier to comprehend and relate to. This book uses each of the 36 Stratagems to guide investors on how to identify and pick a trustworthy fund company as well as a suitable fund product, how to earn higher returns and avoid unnecessary losses, as well as how to avoid all sorts of common mistakes. —from the Forword by Steve Lee Investor education is not merely about how many lessons can be taught; but how much investors can learn from each lesson. This book combines modern investment and ancient Chinese wisdom in plain language and with interesting stories. It explores investment concepts yet opens your mind and shows you a new way of understanding fund investing. —Mark McCombe, Global Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Global Asset Management There is an old saying, "Gain knowledge for the preservation of wealth." Funds create value, and knowledge of funds will similarly enable investors to create value. The value of knowledge is no less important than the value of capital. For that reason, 36 Stratagems for Investors has set out to show the value of knowledge as a way to capital accumulation and preservation. Readers will benefit from stratagems explained in every page of the book to aid them in their financial investment. —Qin Shuo, Chief Editor, China Business News HSBC Jintrust’s 36 Stratagems for Investors is an eye-opener for readers, investors and non-investors alike. HSBC Jintrust has done an impressive job of creating a book with the retail investors in mind; as it puts itself in their shoes to explore issues and solutions as they would. Each of the 36 stratagems is clearly and succinctly told and explained to allow prompt application. May the stratagems depicted in this book gain popularity to become part of the fund culture and investment culture in China, to enable tens of millions of investors to profit by it. —Liu Dong, Deputy Editor, 21st Century Business Herald

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470824336

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9780470824337

Cold Temptation: My Beautiful Boss

Volume 2

By: Shi Nian

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Cold Temptation: My Beautiful Boss

Volume 2

By: Shi Nian

When I met my sister, who was driving a red Hummer, I didn't expect her to be the elegant, cool female boss of the new concept fashion brand I was going to be in. That night, when I was obliged to send her home, there was a series of unexpected and extreme temptations. This was a grand emotional drama about human nature, madness, thinking, reality, and flashy feelings. It was a huge drama about love and emotion, and it was a fashion show in real life. The curtain was about to open ...

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1647810027

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Coldly Elegant Female Boss

Volume 3

By: Shi Nian

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Coldly Elegant Female Boss

Volume 3

By: Shi Nian

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Funstory

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164781281X

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Fundamentals of Multimedia

By: Ze-Nian Li,Mark S. Drew,Jiangchuan Liu

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Fundamentals of Multimedia

By: Ze-Nian Li,Mark S. Drew,Jiangchuan Liu

This textbook introduces the “Fundamentals of Multimedia”, addressing real issues commonly faced in the workplace. The essential concepts are explained in a practical way to enable students to apply their existing skills to address problems in multimedia. Fully revised and updated, this new edition now includes coverage of such topics as 3D TV, social networks, high-efficiency video compression and conferencing, wireless and mobile networks, and their attendant technologies. Features: presents an overview of the key concepts in multimedia, including color science; reviews lossless and lossy compression methods for image, video and audio data; examines the demands placed by multimedia communications on wired and wireless networks; discusses the impact of social media and cloud computing on information sharing and on multimedia content search and retrieval; includes study exercises at the end of each chapter; provides supplementary resources for both students and instructors at an associated website.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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331905290X

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Insights on Education Reform in China

By: Zhiying Nian

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Insights on Education Reform in China

By: Zhiying Nian

Since the late 1970s, China has initiated landmark reforms in education resulting in great strides in international rankings.. Unlike many recent books on Chinese educational reform, which examine macroscopic policies, this book examines the universalization of pre-school education, school selection in elementary education, attractiveness of vocational education, the operational mode of university charters, the development of open universities, the credit bank system in building the learning society, and other aspects of education, and only analyzes one specific problem in each of these contexts for the purpose of comparing China’s educational reforms to their overseas counterparts through microscopic study.Insights on Education Reform in China is not intended to provide a complete picture of China’s educational reform. Rather, it addresses the types of complicated circumstances under which China has made achievements in educational reform, and the conflicts arising in the context of that reform.Topics covered include: Education Reform, Equality, Standardization, Governance, Learning Society

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1000796019

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Doomed Marriage of Rich Family

Volume 4

By: Chu Nian

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Doomed Marriage of Rich Family

Volume 4

By: Chu Nian

She was considered a woman who wanted to climb into her brother-in-law's bed because of a glass of milk. In order to reassure her parents, she had to hand in a fake marriage certificate, but ... Why did this man want her to really fulfill her duties as a husband and wife?

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Funstory

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1649911777

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My Aloof Beautiful CEO

Volume 3

By: Shi Nian

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My Aloof Beautiful CEO

Volume 3

By: Shi Nian

I was forced to work overtime, but I was so unlucky that I had to buy an oversized Band-Aid for the Devil's female boss that I was unexpectedly transferred to the hot sales department the next day. From then on, I had to work with the noble and beautiful vice president of Icemountain and the cunning regional director, nicknamed "Sagittarius," to see how the clerks would march around the smoky mass of the Tengduo Group.

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1648973000

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Computer Vision

Statistical Models for Marr's Paradigm

By: Song-Chun Zhu,Ying Nian Wu

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Computer Vision

Statistical Models for Marr's Paradigm

By: Song-Chun Zhu,Ying Nian Wu

As the first book of a three-part series, this book is offered as a tribute to pioneers in vision, such as Béla Julesz, David Marr, King-Sun Fu, Ulf Grenander, and David Mumford. The authors hope to provide foundation and, perhaps more importantly, further inspiration for continued research in vision. This book covers David Marr's paradigm and various underlying statistical models for vision. The mathematical framework herein integrates three regimes of models (low-, mid-, and high-entropy regimes) and provides foundation for research in visual coding, recognition, and cognition. Concepts are first explained for understanding and then supported by findings in psychology and neuroscience, after which they are established by statistical models and associated learning and inference algorithms. A reader will gain a unified, cross-disciplinary view of research in vision and will accrue knowledge spanning from psychology to neuroscience to statistics.

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3030965309

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Rural Doctor's Romantic Affairs

Volume 5

By: Yi Nian

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Rural Doctor's Romantic Affairs

Volume 5

By: Yi Nian

After graduation, I became a little doctor in the village. I accidentally touched Second Sister-in-law when I was drunk that day. She told me to go to her house at night to give her an injection ...

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1649915128

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Quark--Gluon Plasma 3

By: Rudolph C. Hwa,Xin-Nian Wan

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Quark--Gluon Plasma 3

By: Rudolph C. Hwa,Xin-Nian Wan

Annotation. Text reviews the major topics in Quark-Gluon Plasma, including: the QCD phase diagram, the transition temperature, equation of state, heavy quark free energies, and thermal modifications of hadron properties. Includes index, references, and appendix. For researchers and practitioners.

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World Scientific

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9812795537

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The Political Economy of Press Freedom

The Paradox of Taiwan versus China

By: Jaw-Nian Huang

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The Political Economy of Press Freedom

The Paradox of Taiwan versus China

By: Jaw-Nian Huang

This book offers a political economy analysis of the development and degradation of freedom of the press in Taiwan since 1949, exploring how state-business elites and foreign hegemons interacted to shape the evolution of Taiwan’s media. It examines why freedoms increased alongside democratization in the 1990s but deteriorated after the second peaceful turnover of power in 2008 and why significant improvements accompanied Taiwan’s close economic connections with the US during the Cold War, only to become eroded as the country developed deeper economic ties with China in the 21st century. Presenting both a domestic and international perspective, this study of the controversial case of Taiwan ultimately argues in favor of three factors. First, state power is not the only threat to press freedom, as corporate organizations and market forces may also play a role in curtailing it. Second, cross-national economic connections do not always improve human and civil rights but may cause damage when they involve more powerful authoritarian countries. Third, just as norms diffuse from liberal contexts to repressive states, repressive norms are also likely to diffuse from powerful authoritarian countries to more liberal but politically and economically weaker ones. Providing a new viewpoint on China’s media control overseas, The Political Economy of Press Freedom will be useful for students and scholars of Chinese Studies and Taiwan Studies as well as comparative politics, international relations and Media Studies.

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Routledge

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0429939345

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Rebirth: Sweet Divine Doctor Wife

Volume 2

By: Nian Xi

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Rebirth: Sweet Divine Doctor Wife

Volume 2

By: Nian Xi

in her previous life she had countless doctors but they were unable to cure her own illness in this life she had been reborn into the food industry for the past few years and now she was wearing a blind little military servant girl even though she was handicapped her battalion commander husband was very capable even if she had a domineering and stubborn temper he never left her and he never disliked her being blind one day the genius doctor would make a move and cure her eye disease she looked at the handsome and majestic man with a smile battalion commander yan let's get to know each other again i'm your wife the man threw his arms around her i think we should get to know each other better don't you from then on the commander would accompany her in torturing the scum of the world working together for a hundred years deeply loving without regrets

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University-Industry Collaboration and the Success Mechanism of Collaboration

By: Nian Zhiying

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University-Industry Collaboration and the Success Mechanism of Collaboration

By: Nian Zhiying

In recent years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the transformation of academic research at universities into the development of advanced technologies in industry, therefore enabling a full role of the university as a center of knowledge-creation.University-Industry Collaboration and the Success Mechanism of Collaboration presents recent developments in university-industry-collaborations, using case studies from Japan, and showing the mutual needs from both universities and enterprises in the knowledge-based society. Technical topics discussed in this book include: • Development of University-Industry Collaboration (UIC) in the world• Development of UIC in Japan• Case studies of UIC in Japan• Contribution of UIC from Japan to the world

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Rebirth: Sweet Divine Doctor Wife

Volume 2

By: Nian Xi

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Rebirth: Sweet Divine Doctor Wife

Volume 1

By: Nian Xi

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Rebirth: Sweet Divine Doctor Wife

Volume 5

By: Nian Xi

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Rebirth: Sweet Divine Doctor Wife

Volume 5

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In her previous life, she had countless doctors, but they were unable to cure her own illness in this life. She had been reborn into the food industry for the past few. Years and now she was wearing a blind little military servant girl even though she was handicapped. Her battalion commander husband was very capable, even if she had a domineering and stubborn temper, he never left her and he never disliked her being blind. One day the genius doctor would make a move and cure her eye disease, she looked at the handsome and majestic man with a smile battalion commander yan let's get to know each other again, i'm your wife the man threw his arms around her, i think we should get to know each other better don't you from then on the commander would accompany her in torturing the scum of the world working together for a hundred years deeply loving without regrets.

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