Kotlin programming has been recognized as the main language for deploying Android projects, so this language has tremendous potential. In order to understand the main principles and best applications of Kotlin programming, further research is needed. Principles, Policies, and Applications of Kotlin Programming provides complete knowledge of Kotlin programming. It presents the latest technology of Vert.X, Restful API programming application by Kotlin, as well as authentication techniques for Restful APIs, which are new and important content in backend deployment for software. Covering topics such as array processing, graphic user interface, and string processing, this premier reference source is a valuable resource for software developers, programmers, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.
This book by Vietnamese and Russian authors is the first of its kind and combines the extensive knowledge on the petrology and metallogeny of the late Paleozoic – early Mesozoic and Cenozoic periods in North Vietnam. The Permian – Triassic and Paleogene volcano-plutonic and plutonic associations are two important geological events in the evolutionary history of Southeast Asia, including the 260 – 250 Ma Emeishan mantle plume and Indian-Eurasia collision at 60 – 55 M. The volume includes 9 chapters, divided into 3 parts. Part 1 introduces the geological structure of North Vietnam; Part 2 covers the Permian – Triassic magma associations and metallogeny; and Part 3 focuses on the Cenozoic magma associations and metallogeny. In each chapter, the geological setting of magmas, classification of different geological structures, and composition characteristics, such as mineralogy, geochemistry, isotope systematics and geochronology are discussed. This book represents an important reference document for international and Vietnamese geologists engaged in the geological history and metallogeny of Vietnam, an important area of the Asian continent. The monograph also has a practical significance in contributing new premises and to assess rare and precious mineral prospects. In addition, it can be regarded as a necessary data base for petrological and metallogenic projects and university courses.
Vietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad. Angie Ngọc Trần concentrates on ethnicity, class, and gender to examine how migrant workers belonging to the Kinh, Hoa, Hrê, Khmer, and Chãm ethnic groups challenge a transnational process that coerces and exploits them. Focusing on migrant laborers working in Malaysia, Trần looks at how they carve out a third space that allows them a socially accepted means of resistance to survive and even thrive at times. She also shows how the Vietnamese state uses Malaysia as a place to send poor workers, especially from ethnic minorities; how it manipulates its rural poor into accepting work in Malaysia; and the ways in which both countries benefit from the arrangement. A rare study of labor migration in the Global South, Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment answers essential questions about why nations export and import migrant workers and how the workers protect themselves not only within the system, but by circumventing it altogether.
This report identifies the driving forces for reforestation in three villages of Northern Vietnam. Using an institutional analysis focused on the rules governing upland access and use, the authors assess the relative impact of state policies (reforestation programs and forestland allocation) on land use change. Findings show that the latter are indirectly responsible for reforestation, but not because of the incentives they provided. Instead, they disrupted the local rules governing annual crop cultivation and grazing activities leading to the end of annual cropping. Tree plantation was chosen by farmers as a last resort option. Lessons learned highlight the importance of local level studies and collective rules for land management.
Chào Ban! is an interactive language program of introductory Vietnamese intended for use by non-native students, as well as students of Vietnamese heritage without a solid knowledge of the language. The entire program uses the communicative approach, which focuses on teaching the language for the ultimate purpose of using it in everyday settings. Chào Ban! consists of a textbook and workbook manual that adhere to the following practical objectives: to make the whole program straightforward in presentation, user-friendly, practical, interesting to students, and most importantly culture-based.
This book addresses the issue of graduate employability (GE) within the changing context of contemporary Vietnam. GE has become a highly topical and contested issue in Vietnam. Employers report that university students are not suitably prepared for work, and universities are often criticised for their poor commitment to developing student employability assets. However, it is suggested that enhancing GE in Vietnam involves many factors that are often underplayed in the general literature. In the Vietnamese context, both the education system and the economy remain relatively underdeveloped; students are schooled to be passive learners; and corrupt employment practices remain rife. Moreover, Confucian cultural features of face saving, hierarchical order in decision making, and the role of rumour and hearsay in a collectivist culture each play an important part in the different ways university graduates negotiate their transition to employment. Thus, in order to enhance the development of GE in Vietnam, all related stakeholders need opportunities to collaborate so that a mutual understanding of the problem is arrived at and feasible solutions are developed and implemented.
Trong Hòai Niệm is Novel Love Story This story telling about a young girl and her family who were boat people, fled Vietnam after North Vietnamese communist took over the South Vietnam in 1975, at that time she was 11 years old. In 1987 her family fled the country for seeking freedom by fishing boat. Her boat was floating in Pacific Ocean for almost two weeks, finally her boat that has arrived Philippine refugee camp on PULAU Island. Her parent was a wealthy business man. They have lived under Communist regime for 3 years. They knew that they can’t survive any more under communist regime. Her parent decided to escape from Vietnam with any cost even though they die in ocean. They tempted fate to across the Pacific Ocean by fishing boat that caused 80% of escapees were killing by gale and 20% of survival, but they thought that a fate worse than death to live with the communist. Otherwise, the boat people were also raped and killed by Sea pirates in Thailand’s water. Her parent has had accepted any catastrophe to his family on the way to escape Vietnam. They were very lucky not to be killed in the ocean by gale or sea pirates, finally, her boat to arrive Philippine Island. They were resided temporarily in refugee camp from 3 years in a very bad situation in materially and spiritually such as food was not supplied enough to eat, they didn’t know what their fate will be? Their future was very far from their hands, they didn’t know where and when they will go to, for making their new life for themselves.1982 her family was sponsored to the United States. Her family was settled down in Texas, she has had an opportunity to go to school again at the age of 17. She had enrolled for s high school class in a High School at Southwest Houston area. After graduated from high school she has worked in banking, she continued to work for her college degree at night. She has worked in banking for 14 years as a senior vice president position. She went to the park that closes to her resident quarter to jog every morning. One day she met a man whose name Vu, was a college teacher. They felt in love with each other and her wedding will be taken in a near future. But they could not predict what was happen to them. Suddenly, in a day she had been hospitalized because she suffered from terminal cancer. She asked her young sister to notify immediately to her fiancé about her serious health situation, and she wanted to meet him as soon as possible. Vu was shocked at the news from his fiancé’s sister. His heart broken and he was going to faint. He hurried to ask his administrator for 4 weeks off from work. He booked an emergency air ticket and left his home right away to Texas. When he’s arrived Houston airport, he took a taxi to hospital. At hospital he has guided by nurse to his fiancée room then the nurse walked back to her office. Walking into his fiancée room in the fluorescent light, he looked at her face she was very pale. When Vu looked at his fiancé face thoughtfully, he could not hold his tears. He bent his face down close to his fiancé chest he busted into a convulsive sob. Her Doctor was walking in coming close to Vu. The doctor slightly put his hand on Vu’s shoulder and spoke in a low voice to bring Vu back to reality. Vu turned back to the doctor and shook hand with him. Vu showed his deep gratitude to the doctor. Doctor told Vu that his fiancé who was in a worse situation. So the doctor has tried to keep her with oxygen breathing equipment to expect Vu came back to see her in a last moment on time. Before she has hospitalized, she wrote a long letter to Vu. She asked her young sister to hand over her letter to Vu when he came back to see her. She told her fiancé everything from first minute she met him till to present moment. Finally, she told Vu she has loved him forever...ever...and ever and her last words to her fiancé: I have given you my life, but my life is no longer any more I have given you a dream, but the dream wo
ABOUT THE BOOK: This book introduces and teaches the clinical applications of acupuncture. Using the theory of traditional Chinese medicine from the previous study such as the Classic of Internal Medicine (Nei Jing), Treatise on Cold Damage (Shang Han Lun), Synopsis of the Golden Chamber (Jin Kui Yao Lue), and Warm Disease Theory (Wen Bing Xue). Learners will be introduced to the integration of all aspects of access to various diseases and to identify the status of the diseases. This book covers the basic concepts and study of various medical conditions. Through the study of this book, learners will be expected to demonstrate the ability to diagnose and determine treatment based on the diagnosis. They will also be expected to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment and its implementation for each patient. The causes and treatments of the diseases are explained and discussed in the book include: Abdominal Pain, Abdominal Distension, Asthma, Arthralgia (Paralysis /Muscular Atrophy), Common cold, Cough, Constipation, Diarrhea, Dysentery, Deviation of eye and mouth, Dizziness, Edema, Epilepsy, Epigastric Pain, Facial pain, Headache, Hiccup, Impotence, Insomnia, Jaundice, Malaria, Melancholia, Manic-Depression disorder, Low back pain, Nocturnal Enuresis Prolapsed of Rectum, Palpitation, Pain in Hypochondriac region, Retention of Urine, Syncope, Stroke, Suns Stroke, Urination Disturbance and Vomiting. It also combines the supplementary acupuncture meridians and points, list of medicinal herbals and other applications: • The eight extraordinary vessels: 1. The Conception Vessel 2. The Governing Vessel 3. The Penetrating Vessel 4. The Girdling Vessel 5. The Yin Motility Vessel 6. The Yang Motility Vessel 7. The Yin Linking Vessel 8. The Yang Linking Vessel • 12 primary Meridians and figures (309 acupuncture points) • Front Mu and Back Shu points of the Meridians • 147 medicinal herbal names and figures • Method of acupuncture measurement • Tongue and pulse diagnosis
Scientific Study from the year 2007 in the subject Engineering - Communication Technology, grade: none, Ton Duc Thang University, language: English, abstract: This book is resulted from an electrical engineering research project at Ton Duc Thang University – Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. In this book, the authors introduce both fundamental theory and practical issues about mobile communication networks, including GSM networks, CDMA-based networks, MC-CDMA and MTC-MC-CDMA networks. Each issue is introduced together with simulation model written in MATLAB and/or SIMULINK. Most part of this book (chapters 2-5) can be used as a useful reference book for undergraduate students who are studying mobile communication, especially about simulation aspect. Other remaining parts is dedicated for graduate students, that is, some sections in chapter 4,5 and the whole chapter 6.
Higher and tertiary education are crucial to modern nations. Vietnam has great potential, but its universities and colleges are poor-performing, under-funded and slow to change compared to those in neighbouring East Asian nations. This book analyses the problem and provides constructive solutions for the reform of higher education.
Though a minority religion in Vietnam, Christianity has been a significant presence in the country since its arrival in the sixteenth-century. Anh Q. Tran offers the first English translation of the recently discovered 1752 manuscript Tam Gi o Chu Vong (The Errors of the Three Religions). Structured as a dialogue between a Christian priest and a Confucian scholar, this anonymously authored manuscript paints a rich picture of the three traditional Vietnamese religions: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. The work explains and evaluates several religious beliefs, customs, and rituals of eighteenth-century Vietnam, many of which are still in practice today. In addition, it contains a trove of information on the challenges and struggles that Vietnamese Christian converts had to face in following the new faith. Besides its great historical value for studies in Vietnamese religion, language, and culture, Gods, Heroes, and Ancestors raises complex issues concerning the encounter between Christianity and other religions: Christian missions, religious pluralism, and interreligious dialogue.
Located within the global changing contexts of higher education in the 21st century, this book examines the reform of the teaching and learning practices in Vietnamese universities under the Higher Education Reform Agenda and the influence of internationalization on the higher education sector. Specifically, it analyses the motives, current implementation, effectiveness, and challenges of these reforms, especially from student perspectives. Analyzing approximately 4300 survey responses and interviews with students, the book covers a range of key issues related to teaching and learning in higher education which have attracted attention in recent years, including: The learning environment Student support and first-year transition Student-centred teaching The use of credit-based curricula The use of information and communication technology At-home internationalization of higher education Assessment and feedback Work placements Informal learning via extra curricular activities Students’ perception of the values of university education.
This book traces the life of Cuong De, pretender to the Vietnamese throne and provides many fascinating insights on a wide range of historical developments in Asia from the perspective of an interesting and undeservedly neglected figure.
Since the 1950s, the domestic politics of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) has puzzled outside observers. To these external analysts, the American-backed regime seemed to be plagued by instability and factionalism for no apparent reason. Their bewilderment, however, has obscured a deep and complex history. In Disunion, Nu-Anh Tran shows how factional struggles in the Saigon-based republic reflected serious disagreements about political ideas at a pivotal moment in the lead-up to the Vietnam War. The book traces the emergence of Vietnam’s anticommunist nationalists back to the struggle for independence and explores how their alliances were tested and then broken during the rule of the RVN’s first president, Ngô Đình Diệm. The anticommunists rejected the authoritarianism and ideology of the Vietnamese communists and dreamed of building an independent, democratic government that would unite the Vietnamese nation. The RVN was supposed to be the fulfillment of this long-cherished vision. But discord soon erupted among the anticommunists. Politicians fiercely debated to what extent the government should be democratic and which groups had a legitimate place in political life. The unresolved disagreements provoked intense and continuous infighting that troubled the RVN throughout the regime’s existence. Ultimately, the animosity undermined any possibility of realizing the anticommunists’ shared vision for the country. Based on previously neglected primary sources and extensive research in Vietnamese and American archives, Disunion paints a rich and sensitive portrayal of leaders and activists in the RVN. Anticommunist nationalists were deeply devoted to their homeland and inspired by forward-looking visions, but they were also hobbled by their failure to live up to their lofty ideals. By examining these historical figures on their own terms, the book offers a fresh perspective on the political history of South Vietnam that has remained misunderstood to this day.
This intermediate textbook continues to develop students’ skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Vietnamese at the second-year language learning level. The book is presented as a linguistic and cultural journey of a family through twelve selected cities in Vietnam. Each chapter is organized into sections on dialogue, grammar, reading, practice exercises, and vocabulary.
Post-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, and print media—all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. This new generation of intellectuals established Vietnam’s modern anticolonial literature. The term “post-mandarin” illuminates how Vietnam’s deracinated figures of intellectual authority adapted to a literary field moving away from a male-to-male literary address toward print culture. With this shift, post-mandarin intellectuals increasingly wrote for and about women. Post-Mandarin illustrates the significance of the inclusion of modern women in the world of letters: a more democratic system of aesthetic and political representation that gave rise to anticolonial nationalism. This conceptualization of the “post-mandarin” promises to have a significant impact on the fields of literary theory, postcolonial studies, East Asian and Southeast Asian studies, and modernist studies.
The perfect book for beginners to learn all the basics of Vietnamese! Reading & Writing Vietnamese offers an easy way to learn how to speak, read and write in Vietnamese. Often a difficult language to learn, this book is specially designed for beginners with no previous experience in studying or speaking the language guides learners through all the sounds of Vietnamese, including consonants, vowels and tones, the Vietnamese alphabet and more. This easy-to-use workbook includes lessons comes with free native-speaker audio recordings that allow you to practice hearing and speaking the sounds and basic vocabulary and phrases, as well as flash cards to download and print from home. Author Tri C. Tran has over 20 years of experience as a Vietnamese language teacher and has designed a series of lessons that are perfect for beginners. The book includes: A basic introduction to all the sounds of the language and how to read and write them The system of Vietnamese tones--how to distinguish them and pronounce them correctly Free audio recordings by native speakers help you accurately pronounce Vietnamese Free downloadable flashcards to help you learn the Vietnamese alphabet and basic vocabulary Extensive exercises (including dialogues, listening drills, building sentences, fill-in-the blanks, readings, and multiple-choice) to reinforce each lesson Interesting cultural information on Vietnamese customs, pastimes, foods and everyday life An index of grammatical terms and a Vietnamese-English glossary .
This monograph forms part of the Indochina Monograph series written by senior military personnel from the former Army of the Republic of Vietnam who served against the northern communist invasion. During the Vietnam conflict, the long and destructive war, Communist subversion, an unstable economy, several changes in government and the extended presence of Free World Military Forces combined to accentuate the basic weaknesses of South Vietnamese society: divisiveness and infighting. To evaluate the effect that South Vietnamese society had on the conduct of the war, this monograph seeks to present the Vietnamese point of view on the joint U.S.-RVN efforts to build a strong and viable South Vietnam, the impact of U.S. aid and the American presence on the South Vietnamese society, the most significant social problems that South Vietnam faced during and as a result of the war, and finally the viability of the U.S.-supported regime and its leadership. To provide this in-depth analysis we, the authors, have drawn primarily on our own experience as major witnesses of South Vietnam’s politico-social tragedy and participants in the war effort. Constructed from the combined vantage points of our positions, one in the field and exposed to the rural scene and the other in the very heart of the urban mainstream, this work thoroughly reflects the insider’s viewpoint and intimate knowledge of South Vietnamese political and social life.
The practice of sex-selective abortion is on the rise globally, stirring debates about gender inequality, medical ethics and reproductive autonomy. This book is the first ethnography to document practices of sex selection in Viet Nam. It shows how and why abortions are used to select the sex of children and how Vietnamese individuals and health professionals are implicated in this illicit and controversial practice. Telling the stories of women who have undergone sex-selective abortions, it traces their passage through sex determination and abortion decision-making phases, and investigates their experiences during and after their sex-selective abortions. It describes the turmoil experienced by individuals who undergo such abortions and explores their interactions with the spectrum of social actors and health institutions that facilitate practices of sex selection. As the first ethnographic study on sex-selective abortions in Viet Nam, this book delves into socially sensitive terrain and sheds light on personally fraught individual experiences of reproductive agency. It documents societal responses to sex-selective abortions in Viet Nam and identifies gaps in the state’s capacity to regulate reproductive desire in a marketised economy. A resource for researchers, it contributes to ongoing debates on sex selection and provides a framework for developing relevant social policies, interventions and support services. ‘This pioneering study offers a nuanced and sensitive account of sex-selective abortion as human experience. Through thought provoking case studies, the book provides rare ethnographic documentation of the complex quandaries that arise as selective reproductive technologies are routinised across the globe.’ — Tine M. Gammeltoft, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
Despite decades of research and progress in the theory of generalized solutions to first-order nonlinear partial differential equations, a gap between the local and the global theories remains: The Cauchy characteristic method yields the local theory of classical solutions. Historically, the global theory has principally depended on the vanishing viscosity method. The authors of this volume help bridge the gap between the local and global theories by using the characteristic method as a basis for setting a theoretical framework for the study of global generalized solutions. That is, they extend the smooth solutions obtained by the characteristic method. The authors offer material previously unpublished in book form, including treatments of the life span of classical solutions, the construction of singularities of generalized solutions, new existence and uniqueness theorems on minimax solutions, differential inequalities of Haar type and their application to the uniqueness of global, semi-classical solutions, and Hopf-type explicit formulas for global solutions. These subjects yield interesting relations between purely mathematical theory and the applications of first-order nonlinear PDEs. The Characteristic Method and Its Generalizations for First-Order Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations represents a comprehensive exposition of the authors' works over the last decade. The book is self-contained and assumes only basic measure theory, topology, and ordinary differential equations as prerequisites. With its innovative approach, new results, and many applications, it will prove valuable to mathematicians, physicists, and engineers and especially interesting to researchers in nonlinear PDEs, differential inequalities, multivalued analysis, differential games, and related topics in applied analysis.
The timeless charm and wisdom of Vietnamese folktales in parallel English and Vietnamese versions! These ten delightful stories bring Vietnam's rich culture and traditions vividly to life. This volume is perfect for story time and read-alouds, and for anyone who loves the imaginative leaps and moral lessons in traditional myths and legends. This essential anthology includes: Thach Sung and the Cracked Earthen Pot — A greedy man learns that it's better to be satisfied with what you have than to yearn for the unattainable The Carp and the Dragon's Gate — A fish turns into a dragon, showing that with hard work and perseverance seemingly impossible goals can be achieved The Toad Is Sir Sky's Uncle — A brave toad saves the world from drought, showing that we should never judge someone by their looks And seven more fascinating tales! Sure to delight readers of all ages, Vietnamese Folktales for Children is perfect for parents who want their children to absorb the wisdom of Vietnamese folk stories while becoming familiar with the Vietnamese language along the way.
Structure- and Adatom-Enriched Essential Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons offers a systematic review of the feature-rich essential properties in emergent graphene nanoribbons, covering mainstream theoretical and experimental research. It includes a wide range of 1D systems; namely, armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons with and without hydrogen terminations, curved and zipped graphene nanoribbons, folded graphene nanoribbons, carbon nanoscrolls, bilayer graphene nanoribbons, edge-decorated graphene nanoribbons, and alkali-, halogen-, Al-, Ti, and Bi-absorbed graphene nanoribbons. Both multiorbital chemical bondings and spin arrangements, which are responsible for the diverse phenomena, are explored in detail. First-principles calculations are developed to thoroughly describe the physical, chemical, and material phenomena and concise images explain the fundamental properties. This book examines in detail the application and theory of graphene nanoribbons, offering a new perspective on up-to-date mainstream theoretical and experimental research.
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