Tabla de Contenidos: “…International Development Project Management ProblemsInternational Development Project Management Traps; Contribution of Project Management to International Development; An Agenda for Action; An Agenda for Research; Conclusion; References; Managing Political Risks of Chinese Contracted Projects in Libya; Introduction; Literature Review; Contracted Projects as China's Major Presence in the Libyan Economy; Political Risks in Libya; The Political Risk Assessment in Libya for Chinese Contracted Projects Since the Crisis Erupted…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; 15 Counseling and psychotherapy in China: Building capacity to serve 1.3 billion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preliminary Material / Introduction / A Survey of Images from the Chinese Medical Classics / Picturing the Body in Chinese Medical and Daoist Texts from the Song to the Qing Period (10th to 19th Centuries) / Imagining Practice: Sense and Sensuality in Early Chinese Medical Illustration / The Iconography of Time: What the Visualisation of Efficacious Movement (Shi 勢) Tells Us about the Composition of the Yijin Jing 易筋經 (Canon for Supple Sinews) / Nurturing the Foetus in Medieval China: Illustrating the 10 Months of Pregnancy in the Ishimpō 醫心方 / The Gendered Medical Iconography of the Golden Mirror, Yuzuan Yizong Jinjian 御纂醫宗金鑑, 1742 / The Limits of Illustration: Animalia and Pharmacopeia from Guo Pu to Bencao Gangmu 本草綱目 / Observational Drawing and Fine Art in Chinese Materia Medica Illustration / Reading Visual Imagery and Written Sources on Acupuncture and Moxibustion / The Fine Art of the Tongue / Diagnostic Images of the Tongue: Aetiology and Pathology Made Visible / A Brief Introduction to Illustration in the Literature of Surgery and Traumatology in Chinese Medicine / Polychrome Illustrations in the Ming Bencao Literature / Illustrations of Drug Collection and Preparation in Buyi Lei Gong Paozhi Bianlan 補遺雷公炮製便覽 / The Relationship between Chinese Erotic Art and the Art of the Bedchamber: A Preliminary Survey / The Vital Role of Illustration in the Literature of Childhood Smallpox / Picturing Medicine in Daily life: Court and Commoner Perspectives in Song Era Paintings / Images of Healing, Hygiene and the Cultivation of the Body in the Dunhuang Cave Murals / Travelling Light: Sino-Tibetan Moxa-Cautery from Dunhuang / Chasing the Vermilion Bird: Late Medieval Alchemical Transformations in The Treasure Book of Ilkhan on Chinese Science and Techniques / Fanciful Images from Abroad: Picturing the Other in Bencao Pinhui Jingyao 本草品彙精要 / Chinese Horse Medicine: Texts and Illustrations / Korean Anatomical Charts in the Context of the East Asian Medical Tradition / Imagining Acupuncture: Images and the Early Westernisation of Asian Medical Expertise / The Body of Laozi and the Course of a Taoist Journey Through the Heavens / Clinical Medicine Texts: The Earliest Stone Medical Inscription / Embodying Animal Spirits in the Vital Organs: Daoist Alchemy in Chinese Medicine / A Phoenix Amid the Flames: Mount Emei Big Dipper Finger-Point Method, Daoyin and Qigong / Moving towards Perfection: Physical Culture in Dzogchen as Revealed in Tibet’s Lukhang Murals…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part I: ICL Landslide Lesson -- Sliding-surface liquefaction and undrained steady-state shear strength -- Identification and Mitigation of Reservoir Landslides Cases Studied in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area of China -- Part II: Original articles -- Impact of input data on the quality of the landslide susceptibility large-scale maps: A case study from NW Croatia -- Landslide warning systems in high-income countries: past accomplishments and expected endeavours -- Modelling of Landslide-Structure Interaction (LSI) through Material Point Method (MPM) -- Landslide Research and Technology in International Standards -- Mathematical and numerical modeling of slope stability for the Mong Sen landslide event in the Trung Chai commune, Sapa, Vietnam -- Landslide early warning system based on the empirical approach - Case study in Ha Long City (Vietnam) -- The modern activity of the Buzulgan landslide and its influence on the debris flow hazard for the Tyrnyauz town (Northern Caucasus, Russia) -- A risk evaluation method of unstable slopes using multipoint tilting sensors -- Part III: IPL/WCOE/KLC2020 -- Community Level Slope Disaster Risk Reduction Program through Multi-Scale Mapping by Mountain Ethnic Group in Northern Vietnam - Project Study by JICA / Lao Cai DARD / ITST -- Landslide Risk Assessment in the tropical zone of Vietnam as a contribution to the mitigation of natural disaster vulnerability -- Protection and conservation of Georgian rupestrian cultural heritage sites: a review -- Spatial and temporal characterization of landslide deformation pattern with Sentinel-1 -- Lessons from 2019-2020 landslide risk assessment in an urban area of volcanic soils in Pereira-Colombia -- Part IV: ICL Landslide Teaching Tools -- Zonation of landslide susceptibility in the Gipuzkoa province (Spain): an application of LAND-SUITE -- Landslide and soil erosion inventory mapping based on high-resolution remote sensing data: A case study from Istria (Croatia) -- Part V: Technical Notes and Case Studies -- Landslide monitoring with RADARSAT Constellation Mission InSAR, RPAS-derived point-clouds and RTK GNSS time-series in the Thompson River Valley, British Columbia, Canada -- Digital terrain models derived from unmanned aerial vehicles and landslide susceptibility -- Use of GIS to assess susceptibility per landform unit to gravitational processes and their volume…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…INFORME 2009: EL ESTADO DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS EN EL MUNDO; PÁGINA LEGAL; ÍNDICE; PREFACIO; PRIMERA PARTE: PERSPECTIVA REGIONAL; ÁFRICA; AMÉRICA; ASIA Y OCEANÍA; EUROPA Y ASIA CENTRAL; ORIENTE MEDIO Y NORTE DE ÁFRICA; SEGUNDA PARTE: PAÍSES; AFGANISTÁN; ALBANIA; ALEMANIA; ANGOLA; ARABIA SAUDÍ; ARGELIA; ARGENTINA; ARMENIA; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRIA; AUTORIDAD PALESTINA; AZERBAIYÁN; BAHAMAS; BAHRÉIN; BANGLADESH; BÉLGICA; BENÍN; BIELORRUSIA; BOLIVIA; BOSNIA Y HERZEGOVINA; BRASIL; BULGARIA; BURKINA FASO; BURUNDI; CAMBOYA; CAMERÚN; CANADÁ; CHAD; CHILE; CHINA; CHIPRE; COLOMBIA; COREA DEL NORTE…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Social Concerns -- Challenging Big Tech and Revisiting Antitrust -- Assessing European Capitalism and Regulation -- Understanding China and Authoritarian Capitalism -- The Only Thing to Fear -- Endnotes -- Chapter 10 Maintaining the Entrepreneurial Advantage -- The Continuing Balance -- The Foundations for Continued Success -- The Entrepreneurial Future -- Endnotes -- Index -- EULA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The CDCE impact on trade issues - the ""trade and culture"" debate; 1 Effects of the CDCE on trade negotiations; 2 The CDCE and the WTO - in search for a meaningful role after China-Audiovisuals…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The political economy of coal: The case of ChinaCecilia Springer, Dinah Shi and Aaditee Kudrimoti8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Fahrner, Ambroise / IMF surveillance as a non IMFsurveillance as a non-compliance mechanism -- Evangelidis, Elena / Legal mobilisation for biodiversity protection : assessing the complementary potential of Bern's case file system and the European Commission's infringement procedure -- Tigre, Maria Antonia / The right to a healthy environment in Latin America and the Caribbean : compliance through the Inter--American system and the Escazú Agreement -- Von Staden, Andreas / Institutional overlap and comparative effectivenes : compliance with torture-related decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the Human Rights Committee, and the Committee against torture in Europe -- White, Samuel / The UK's compliance with the ICCPR and ECHR : a tale of two treaties -- Magugliani, Noemi, and Gauci, Jean-Pierre / Exploring the role of decisions by judicial, quasi-judicial, and specialised non judicial bodies in advancing anti-trafficking efforts -- Solntsev, Alexander / UN human rights treaty Bodies' contribution to compliance with international environmental law : the growing importance of Human Rights Treaty Bodies in environmental dispute resolution -- Borlini, Leonardo / Monitoring compliance in international criminal law -- Sun, Jin / Non-compliance and nuclear disarmament --the Iran nuclear deal -- Fabris, Alice / Protecting cultural heritage during military action : enforcing compliance with the 1954 Hague Convention in the case of the Temple Preah Vihear -- Cantorias-Marvel, Marie Jude Marvel, Marie Jude / The South China Sea Arbitration -navigating compliance strategies through the Lens of Raya and the Last Dragon…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Case -- 16. Higher education in China: Rethinking it as a common good, Lin Tian and Nian C. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Davis) -- Part 2: Snow White in HollywoodChapter Six -- With a Smile and a Song: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the first Integrated Film Musical (Sadeen Elyas) -- Chapter Seven -- Dwarfland: Marketing Disney's Folly (Pamela O'Brien) -- Chapter Eight -- Framing Snow White: Preservation, Nostalgia and the American Way in the 1930s (Jane Batkin) -- Chapter Nine -- Recasting Snow White: Parodic Animated Homages to the Disney Feature (Terry Lindvall) -- Part 3: International Legacies -- Chapter Ten -- The Indigenisation of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) in China: From 'Snow Sister' and 'Dolly Girl' to Chinese Snow White (1940) and Princess Iron Fan (1941) (Yuanyuan Chen) -- Chapter Eleven -- Unearthing Blanche-Neige: the making of the first made-in-Hollywood French version of Snow White and its critical reception. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Artificial intelligence for science in Africa -- Is there a slowdown in research productivity? Evidence from China and Germany -- High-performance computing leadership to enable advances in artificial intelligence and a thriving compute ecosystem -- Artificial intelligence in scientific discovery: Challenges and opportunities -- Artificial intelligence in science: Overview and policy proposals -- Preface -- What can artificial intelligence do for physics? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…From ‘didactics’ to ‘curriculum-and-didactics’ and beyond: A non-affirmative approach to the analysis of policy changes of didactics in mainland China (Bangpin Ding) -- Part VI. Concluding reflections and openings -- Chapter 17. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…About the Editors -- Achievements and Prospects of Advanced Pavement Materials Technologies -- Performance Test on Styrene-Butadiene-Styrene (SBS) Modified Asphalt Based on the Different Evaluation Methods -- The Evaluation Method of Particle Clustering Phenomena in RAP -- Discrete Element Analysis of Indirect Tensile Fatigue Test of Asphalt Mixture -- Preparation of Polyacrylate Hollow Microspheres via Facile Spray Drying -- Characteristics of Deformation and Damping of Cement Treated and Expanded Polystyrene Mixed Lightweight Subgrade Fill under Cyclic Load -- Further Investigation on Damage Model of Eco-Friendly Basalt Fiber Modified Asphalt Mixture under Freeze-Thaw Cycles -- Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) in Asphalt Binder: Homogeneous Dispersion and Performance Enhancement -- Characterization of Asphalt Mixes Behaviour from Dynamic Tests and Comparison with Conventional Cyclic Tension-Compression Tests -- A Source Pollution Control Measure Based on Spatial-Temporal Distribution Characteristic of the Runoff Pollutants at Urban Pavement Sites -- Micromechanism of the Dispersion Behavior of Polymer-Modified Rejuvenators in Aged Asphalt Material -- Evaluation of the Durability and the Property of an Asphalt Concrete with Nano Hydrophobic Silane Silica in Spring-Thawing Season -- Strength Criterion of Asphalt Mixtures in Three-Dimensional Stress States under Freeze-Thaw Conditions -- Rheology of Asphalt Binder Modified with 5W30 Viscosity Grade Waste Engine Oil -- Performance Evaluation of Carbon Black Nano-Particle Reinforced Asphalt Mixture -- Effects of Titanate Coupling Agent on Engineering Properties of Asphalt Binders and Mixtures Incorporating LLDPE-CaCO3 Pellet -- Rheological Behavior and Sensitivity of Wood-Derived Bio-Oil Modified Asphalt Binders -- Research on Grooved Concrete Pavement Based on the Durability of Its Anti-Skid Performance -- Study on Components Determination and Performance Evaluation of LS Pre-Maintenance Agent -- Characteristics of Moduli Decay for the Asphalt Mixture under Different Loading Conditions -- Investigation on Possibility of Waste Vegetable Oil Rejuvenating Aged Asphalt -- Interface Shear Performance between Porous Polyurethane Mixture and Asphalt Sublayer -- Effect of Carbon Black Nanoparticles from the Pyrolysis of Discarded Tires on the Performance of Asphalt and its Mixtures -- Design and Construction of Oblique Prestressed Concrete Pavement: A Case Study in China -- Evaluation of Fatigue Life of Asphalt Concrete Mixtures with Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement -- Design of SBS-Modified Bitumen Stabilizer Powder Based on the Vulcanization Mechanism…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Private Library Research in Regional Contexts -- Mercury in the Republic of Letters: Private Libraries in Spanish Book Sales Catalogues (1660-1800) / Pedro Rueda Ramírez and Lluís Agustí -- Lists of Private Book Collections in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Royal Prussia, 1680-1830 / Michał Bajer -- Surviving Records of Private Book Collections in the Kingdom of Hungary and the Transylvanian Principality between 1665 and 1830 / István Monok -- From Extensive Learned Libraries to Modest Book Collections: Research on Danish Private Book Collections of the Long Eighteenth Century / Jonas Thorup Thomsen -- The Cornerstone of Scholarship: Library Catalogues in Late Imperial China / Fan Wang -- Part 4. Building a Field of Study -- The Private Libraries in Renaissance England (PLRE) Project: An Overview / Joseph L. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: Accounting for emotional and material capacities -- Chapter 5 Attuning to "mess": Not presuming to know sanctuary -- Chapter 6 Engaging collaborative writing critically -- Chapter 7 Accessing the "field" of terrorism studies -- Part II Ethnography -- Chapter 8 Ethnography -- Chapter 9 Travelling with ethnography -- Chapter 10 Reflexive inquiry -- Chapter 11 Listening to migrant stories: Considerations on voice -- Chapter 12 Learning by feeling: Emotional intelligence and fieldwork -- Chapter 13 Doing sensitive research: Fieldwork ethics and methodologies -- Chapter 14 'China is the safest country in the world!': Translation, travel, and the problem of 'fit' -- Chapter 15 Methods that mirror migration: Ethics and entanglement en route -- Chapter 16 Researching security decisions at the border (or serendipity and secret places) -- Chapter 17 'Dangerous' fieldwork -- Part III Practices -- Chapter 18 Practices -- Chapter 19 The practice of writing -- Chapter 20 Researching anti-deportation: Socialization as method -- Chapter 21 Expertise in the aviation security field -- Chapter 22 Mapping urban security practices -- Chapter 23 Following Turkish border practices -- Part IV Discourse -- Chapter 24 Discourse -- Chapter 25 Archives -- Chapter 26 Legislative practices -- Chapter 27 Problems, tools, and creativity: A pragmatist approach to emotion and security -- Chapter 28 Keeping secrets: Freedom of information requests and critical security studies -- Chapter 29 Understanding discourses of Arctic in/security -- Part V Corporeal -- Chapter 30 The corporeal -- Chapter 31 Theorizing the body in IR -- Chapter 32 Reading the maternal body as political event -- Chapter 33 Sonic encounters in critical security studies: Reflections from ethnographic fieldwork in Morocco -- Chapter 34 Thinking like a microbe -- Part VI Materiality -- Chapter 35 Materiality -- Chapter 36 Infrastructure -- Chapter 37 The F-35 -- Chapter 38 Complicating risk, home, and the field: Security research in spaces of control -- Chapter 39 Unlearning research methods: Stories of attunement and failure -- Chapter 40 Security technologies and criticality -- Chapter 41 Materiality and the production of objects -- Part VII Conclusion -- Chapter 42 Emerging trends -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Soviet-American relations through the Cold War / Vladimir O. Pechatnov -- 8. China and the Cold War / Rana Mitter -- 9. Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1990 / Klaus Larres -- 10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Preface; D.Kessler -- Introduction; P.M.Liedtke & J.Monkiewicz -- PART I: THE GLOBAL FRAMEWORK -- Insurance Activity as a Regulatory Object: Trends and Developments and their Appreciation in the Context of Post-Crisis Global Markets; P.M.Liedtke -- Economic Rationale for Insurance Regulation; W.J.Kwon -- Global Financial Architecture and Insurance Sector; E.Denters -- Insurance and Financial Stability; P.Braumüller & A.Warzilek -- PART II: THE SUPERVISORY DIMENSION -- Quality of Regulation and Supervision; I.Tower -- Solvency as a Focal Point of Prudential Regulation: Supervisory Lessons and Challenges; R.Curtis -- The Architecture of Insurance Supervision Before and After the Financial Crisis; D.Masciandaro & M.Quintyn -- PART III: MARKET DIMENSION -- The Role of Market Discipline in the Insurance Industry; M.Eling -- Insurance Group Supervision: Addressing the Emergence of Adverse Network Dynamics; M.Ma;chler -- Credit Default Swaps: Towards Tighter Regulation of the 'Shadow Insurance Sector'; N.Jassaud & S.Schich -- The Regulation of Global Reinsurance Markets: Current State of Affairs and Future Challenges; P.Brahin -- PART IV: STAKEHOLDER PROTECTION -- Challenges and Approaches in the Consumer Protection in the Insurance Industry; S.Tennyson -- Insurance Guarantee Funds and their Relation to Solvency Regulation; H.Schmeiser & P.Rymaszewski -- Government Intervention in Insurance: an Examination of the Risk of Moral Hazard; M.Flame;e & P.Windels -- Systemicness of Insurance Companies: Cross-Border Aspects and Policy Implications; A.Houben & M.Teunissen -- PART V: DEVELOPED MARKETS PERSPECTIVE -- Regulatory Challenges and Developments in the United States; T.Vaughan -- Regulatory Challenges and Developments in the European Union; K.van Hulle -- Regulatory Challenges and Developments in Japan; Y.Hayasaki -- PART VI: EMERGING MARKETS PERSPECTIVE -- China's Insurance Regulation: Framework, Issues and Prospects; W.Zheng -- Regulatory Challenges and Developments in Latin America; M.Aguilera-Verduzco -- Regulatory and Supervisory Issues and Challenges in Russian Insurance Sector in the Aftermath of the Transformation; M.Monkiewicz -- PART VII: INTERNATIONAL ISSUES -- Insurance Regulation: Mutual Recognition, Equivalence and International Standards; B.Kading & L.Madeiros -- Regulatory Future of International Insurance Centers; M.Ramella -- International Trade Agreements and their Impact on Regulation and Supervision of Insurance Services; J.Arkell…”

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