The goal of the Historical Dictionary of UNESCO is to make transparent what UNESCO does, how it does it, what some of the effects of its work have been, and how it organizes to accomplish its goals. Countries sending delegations to meetings and conferences should find the dictionary useful in getting an overview of the Organization and of its various programs over the years. A result of a joint effort of faculty and graduate students from a number of UNESCO Member States at the University of Pittsburgh, the Dictionary includes an extensive bibliography of significant articles and books about the organization, as well as key publications by UNESCO. An extensive chronology is included, listing a sampling of program, budget, administrative, and other events for the entire period of UNESCO's existence (through the mid-1990s) to give a flavor of how the organization evolved. It will be an indispensable reference for those interested in international dialogue in education, science, culture, and communications, as well as those wishing to draw on UNESCO resources for scholarly work.

Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural

History

Lin, Lin

Spaulding, Seth

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Scarecrow Press

Venture Capital Law in China (International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation)

China's venture capital market is not just the world's largest and fastest developing market, it also has the unique distinction of being engineered through heavy governmental intervention. This book breaks new ground by examining and testing established legal theories regarding the law of venture capital through the lens of the Chinese venture capital market. Using a hand-collected dataset of venture capital agreements, interviews with practitioners, and Chinese court judgements, it provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the Chinese venture capital market from the legal perspective. Topics covered include the roles of law and governmental intervention in developing the market, the state of investor protection, unique contractual developments and exits of venture capital investments. By providing an in-depth comparative analysis against the American venture capital market, it provides critical context and makes the Chinese venture market accessible. It is an invaluable resource for venture capital scholars, policymakers and practitioners.

Business

Cambridge University Press

Established in the aftermath of World War II, UNESCO succinctly states its peace mission as well as its peaceful resolution to peace in its Constitution--constructing the "defenses of peace" in the minds of peoples on the "intellectual and moral" grounds. For more than seven decades, UNESCO has been consistently positioning peace as its unwavering core and ultimate goal through promoting international understanding and cooperation in and across its five major sectors of competence in education, culture, natural sciences, communication and information, and social and human sciences. Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on UNESCO's initiatives, programs, projects, normative instruments, and partners over the past 76 years. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about UNESCO.

Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (Historical Dictionaries of International Organizations)

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Based on first principle quantum mechanics, electronic structure theory is widely used in physics, chemistry, materials science, and related fields and has recently received increasing research attention in applied and computational mathematics. This book provides a self-contained, mathematically oriented introduction to the subject and its associated algorithms and analysis. It will help applied mathematics students and researchers with minimal background in physics understand the basics of electronic structure theory and prepare them to conduct research in this area. A Mathematical Introduction to Electronic Structure Theory begins with an elementary introduction of quantum mechanics, including the uncertainty principle and the Hartree Fock theory, which is considered the starting point of modern electronic structure theory. The authors then provide an in-depth discussion of two carefully selected topics that are directly related to several aspects of modern electronic structure calculations: density matrix based algorithms and linear response theory. Chapter 2 introduces the Kohn Sham density functional theory with a focus on the density matrix based numerical algorithms, and Chapter 3 introduces linear response theory, which provides a unified viewpoint of several important phenomena in physics and numerics. An understanding of these topics will prepare readers for more advanced topics in this field. The book concludes with the random phase approximation to the correlation energy. The book is written for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, specifically those with mathematical backgrounds but without a priori knowledge of quantum mechanics, and can be used for self-study by researchers, instructors, and other scientists. The book can also serve as a starting point to learn about many-body perturbation theory, a topic at the frontier of the study of interacting electrons.

A Mathematical Introduction to Electronic Structure Theory (SIAM Spotlights)

Science & Math

Jianfeng Lu

Mathematics

SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Network models are critical tools in business, management, science and industry. “Network Models and Optimization” presents an insightful, comprehensive, and up-to-date treatment of multiple objective genetic algorithms to network optimization problems in many disciplines, such as engineering, computer science, operations research, transportation, telecommunication, and manufacturing. The book extensively covers algorithms and applications, including shortest path problems, minimum cost flow problems, maximum flow problems, minimum spanning tree problems, traveling salesman and postman problems, location-allocation problems, project scheduling problems, multistage-based scheduling problems, logistics network problems, communication network problem, and network models in assembly line balancing problems, and airline fleet assignment problems. The book can be used both as a student textbook and as a professional reference for practitioners who use network optimization methods to model and solve problems.

Network Models and Optimization: Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm Approach (Decision Engineering)

Business & Money

Gen, Mitsuo

Cheng, Runwei

Management & Leadership

Springer

Network models are critical tools in business, management, science and industry. This book presents an insightful, comprehensive, and up-to-date treatment of multiple objective genetic algorithms to network optimization problems in many disciplines.

This book presents a study on corpus-driven distribution as the main method of prediction, concentrating on individual semantic features to predict the senses of non-defined words by using corpora and tools, such as the Chinese Gigaword Corpus, HowNet, Chinese Wordnet, and XianDai HanYu CiDian (Xian Han). With the help of these corpora, the study determines the collocation clusters of four target words: chi1 “eat,” wan2 “play,” huan4 “change” and shao1 “burn” through character and concept similarities. The results of this sense prediction study demonstrate that it was able to use off-line tasks to test some participants’ intuition, which supports the theory that different clusters can represent different senses when pursuing a corpus-based, computational approach.

Investigating Chinese HE EFL Classrooms: Using Collaborative Learning to Enhance Learning

Language Study & Reference

This book presents a study on corpus-driven distribution as the main method of prediction, concentrating on individual semantic features to predict the senses of non-defined words by using corpora and tools, such as the Chinese Gigaword Corpus, HowNet, Chinese Wordnet, and XianDai HanYu CiDian (Xian Han). With the help of these corpora, the study determines the collocation clusters of four target words: chi1 “eat,” wan2 “play,” huan4 “change” and shao1 “burn” through character and concept similarities. The results of this sense prediction study demonstrate that it was able to use off-line tasks to test some participants’ intuition, which supports the theory that different clusters can represent different senses when pursuing a corpus-based, computational approach.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bronchial asthma are commonly seen respiratory diseases that severely influence a patient's health and quality of life. Throughout the centuries, Chinese medical doctors have recognized the importance of these diseases and have accumulated rich clinical experience and a wealth of practical information. Using holistic methods Chinese medicine is able to help restore normal function to respiratory system, inhibit inflammatory cells and mediators, decrease airway hyper-reactivity and pulmonary hypertension, improve pulmonary ventilation function and blood circulation, and adjust organic immunity. Our editorial board has refined and summarized the available literature on clinical diagnosis and treatment by referencing the clinical experience of doctors past and present and citing current research results. This book is an essential handbook for those treating COPD and bronchial asthma. A part of the comprehensive series The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine, this book aims to guide the reader through the complexity of clinical practice. Inside are detailed discussions on the clinical experience of renowned physicians from ancient and modern times that will enable the practitioner to become more adept at accurately diagnosing and effectively treating COPD and bronchial asthma.

COPD & Asthma: The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine (The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wei-Sheng, Liu

Alternative Medicine

Peoples Medical Pub House

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Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Venture Capital Law in China (International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation)

Venture Capital Law in China (International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation)

Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (Historical Dictionaries of International Organizations)

A Mathematical Introduction to Electronic Structure Theory (SIAM Spotlights)

Network Models and Optimization: Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm Approach (Decision Engineering)

Network Models and Optimization: Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm Approach (Decision Engineering)

Investigating Chinese HE EFL Classrooms: Using Collaborative Learning to Enhance Learning

Investigating Chinese HE EFL Classrooms: Using Collaborative Learning to Enhance Learning

COPD & Asthma: The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine (The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine Series)