Jing Li Boeken

The story delves into Jing Li's tumultuous beginnings, marked by her mother's desperate attempt to abort her and her subsequent abandonment to a resentful grandmother. This grandmother, burdened by her own painful past and cultural expectations, embodies the harsh realities of a peasant life, including a history of tragic choices. The narrative explores themes of survival, familial bonds, and the impact of societal pressures on women's lives in a deeply personal and historical context.

Exploring the nuances of Chinese views on the United States, this book delves into the cultural and political contexts that shape these perceptions. It offers insights into the historical relationships and contemporary issues that influence how China sees America, providing a comprehensive understanding of the complexities involved in this dynamic.

Focusing on the IELTS Listening test, the book investigates the varying strategies employed by students studying in China compared to those in the UK. It examines how studying in the UK may impact listening skills and contrasts the approaches of students who completed an IELTS preparation course with those who did not. Offering a comprehensive perspective on listening strategies, it serves as a valuable resource for ESL/EFL teachers and students, highlighting the importance of employing diverse strategies in language learning.

Focusing on the impact of point systems in immigration policy, this study analyzes how these systems influence the flow of international students to host countries. By comparing international student stock before and after the implementation of point systems, the research demonstrates that such policies significantly increase the number of international students. The findings provide valuable insights into the relationship between migration policy and academic mobility, making it a crucial resource for professionals in International Education and those interested in education and migration dynamics.

The book investigates how different types of policies affect coordination in governance, specifically comparing regulatory policies like food safety with distributive policies such as infectious disease management in China. It reveals that tailored coordination structures that align with the unique characteristics of each policy type lead to better intergovernmental and intersectoral collaboration. Conversely, using the same coordination approach for diverse policies yields minimal improvements. The findings emphasize the necessity for governments to adopt varied coordination strategies based on policy type.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2014, held in Shenzhen, China, in April 2014. The 29 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics in health information sciences and systems that support the health information management and health service delivery. They deal with medical/health/biomedicine information resources, such as patient medical records, devices and equipments, software and tools to capture, store, retrieve, process, analyse, and optimize the use of information in the health domain; data management, data mining, and knowledge discovery, all of which play a key role in the decision making, management of public health, examination of standards, privacy and security issues; computer visualization and artificial intelligence for computer-aided diagnosis; and development of new architectures and applications for health information systems.

Wu Jing's eighth-century collection of dialogues between Emperor Taizong and his officials is a seminal work in Chinese literature addressing core themes of East Asian thinking about the politics of power. This accessible translation will be indispensable for students of East Asian and international political thought.

Compared to the conventional Rankine cycle using water, the ORC can create efficient expansion at low power, avoid superheater and offer higher thermal efficiency in low temperature application. Small-scale ORCs from several kWe to a few hundred kWe offer great potential for meeting the residential demand on heat and power, and are of growing interest in scientific and technical fields. However, one critical problem is the decreased device efficiency and cost-effectiveness that arises when the ORC is scaled down. In this thesis, the ORC is combined with low concentration-ratio solar collectors. The background, research trend, merits and importance of the solar ORC are described. To reduce the thermodynamic irreversibility and the cost of the system, three innovative solutions are proposed: solar ORC without heat transfer fluid (HTF), which employs two-stage collectors and heat storage units; hybrid solar power generation based on ORC and amorphous silicon cells; osmosis-driven solar ORC. Heat collection, storage and power conversion are optimized. The design, construction and test of a prototype are conducted, demonstrating the feasibility of the ORC for small-scale cogeneration. Special attention is paid to the variable operation and parameter design with respect to the condensation temperature.

Die Studie untersucht den textgestützten und diskursbasierten Rechtsstreit zwischen verschiedenen Rechtsarbeitern wie Richtern und Anwälten anhand authentischer Textmaterialien aus sechs deutschen Rechtsfällen. Ziel ist es, die wenig erforschte textlinguistische Analyse von Rechtstexten voranzutreiben und den Kommunikationsprozess in juristischen Kontexten durch linguistische Methoden verständlicher zu machen. Die entwickelten Ansätze beleuchten spezifische Sprachhandlungsmuster und Strategien, wodurch ein transparentes Analysemodell für juristische Fachleute und Laien geschaffen wird.