Presents a series of guides for those travellers who are looking to understand the countries they are visiting. Each title of this series explains the customs, traditions, and social and business etiquette. Each book contains: insights into the people and their culture and traditions; advice on adapting into the local environment; and more.
Focusing on ordered regression models, this book delves into cumulative, stage, and adjacent classes, along with variations influenced by the parallel regression assumption. It emphasizes the benefits of using ordered regression for analyzing ordinal outcomes compared to linear and binary models. Additionally, the text provides guidance on interpreting and presenting results, supported by empirical examples from the social and behavioral sciences, making it a valuable resource for researchers in these fields.
Focusing on the transformative role of financial technologies, the book explores their significant influence on the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance sectors. It highlights the substantial global investment in FinTech, exceeding $100 billion in 2020, and discusses how this surge is shaping the future of payments, loans, wealth management, insurance, and cryptocurrencies. The analysis provides insights into the evolving landscape of finance driven by technological advancements.
A Guide to How the "Magic Needles" Work
The book offers an in-depth analysis of 30 pain management case studies, bridging the gap between Eastern acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine with Western medical practices. By exploring diverse treatment approaches, it highlights the strengths and methodologies of each system, providing a comprehensive understanding of pain management. This dual perspective not only enriches the reader’s knowledge but also encourages a holistic view of pain treatment options.
Focusing on the impact of digital technologies in education, this compendium examines contemporary teaching and learning practices, addressing the challenges of classroom, online, and hybrid formats. It highlights key success factors and explores future directions for educational methods in the digital age, providing insights into how technology shapes the learning experience.
The book begins with a historical overview of acupuncture, followed by insights from Dr. Jun Xu on how acupuncture's "magic needles" can harness natural energy to treat chronic health issues such as asthma and headaches. It explores the mechanisms behind acupuncture, identifies conditions that respond well to treatment, and outlines physician-approved practices. Additionally, the narrative includes case histories, practical tips for practitioners, a glossary, and a comprehensive reference section, making it a valuable resource for both practitioners and patients.
How do weak activists organize under repression? This book theorizes a dynamic of contention called mobilizing without the masses.
This book describes the setup of digital enterprises and how to manage them, focusing primarily on the important knowledge and essential understanding of digital enterprise management required by managers and decision makers in organizations. It covers ten essential knowledge areas of this • Foundation of Digital Enterprise • Technology Foundation and Talent Management for Digital Enterprise • Digital Enterprise Strategy Planning and Implementation • B2C Digital E-tailing • B2C Digital E-Services • B2B Digital Enterprise and Supply Chain • Digital Platforms • Digital Marketing and Advertising • Digital Payment Systems • Mobile Enterprise Overall, this text provides the reader with the basics to understand the rapid development of digitization, facilitated by the dramatic advancements in digital technologies, extensively connected networks, and wider adoption of computing devices (especially mobile devices), as more and more organizations are realizing the strategic importance of digitization (e.g., sustainable growth of the organization, competitive advantage development and enhancement) and are embarking on digital enterprise.
The Roots & Soul of the Chinese People is an attempt to connect the dots between the 'socialist core values' drawing on Marxism promoted by the Communist Party of China today with China's long cultural heritage.
Understand the fundamental factors of data storage system performance and master an essential analytical skill using block trace via applications such as MATLAB and Python tools. You will increase your productivity and learn the best techniques for doing specific tasks (such as analyzing the IO pattern in a quantitative way, identifying the storage system bottleneck, and designing the cache policy). In the new era of IoT, big data, and cloud systems, better performance and higher density of storage systems has become crucial. To increase data storage density, new techniques have evolved and hybrid and parallel access techniques-together with specially designed IO scheduling and data migration algorithms-are being deployed to develop high-performance data storage solutions. Among the various storage system performance analysis techniques, IO event trace analysis (block-level trace analysis particularly) is one of the most common approaches for system optimization and design. However, the task of completing a systematic survey is challenging and very few works on this topic exist. Block Trace Analysis and Storage System Optimization brings together theoretical analysis (such as IO qualitative properties and quantitative metrics) and practical tools (such as trace parsing, analysis, and results reporting perspectives). The book provides content on block-level trace analysis techniques, and includes case studies to illustrate how these techniques and tools can be applied in real applications (such as SSHD, RAID, Hadoop, and Ceph systems). What You'll Learn: Understand the fundamental factors of data storage system performance Master an essential analytical skill using block trace via various applications Distinguish how the IO pattern differs in the block level from the file level Know how the sequential HDFS request becomes "fragmented" in final storage devices Perform trace analysis tasks with a tool based on the MATLAB and Python platforms