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This volume discusses a range of key domestic forces driving the current Chinese growth ranging from economic reforms to governance practices to analyze their impact and influence at home as well as on China's foreign and security policies in its near and extended neighbourhood.

Placemaking Sandbox offers a valuable collection of placemaking case studies, designed for teachers and students to build expertise in shaping and creating thriving public places.

It focuses on pertinent key issues in global pharmaceutical policy including medicines safety, generic medicines, pharmaceutical supply chain, medicines financing, access and affordability of medicines, rational use of medicines, pharmacy health services research and access to vaccines and biological products.

The book aims to explore South Asian third sector - the nonprofit organizations as provider of social services. and understands the umbrella concept of Child welfare, welfare of people with disability and elderly welfare in welfare policy.

1. Introduction: Construction of a Development Model for Bangladesh.2. Examining the distinct features of Bangladesh''s development: Interactions between Growth, Poverty and Social Development.3. Inclusive Economic Growth and Climate Resilient Development in Bangladesh.4. Education, Healthcare and Life Expectancy in Bangladesh: Transcending Conventions.5. Financial Sector Development and Its Contribution to the Economic Progress of Bangladesh.6.Access to Finance for Inclusive Development: Recent Evidence from Bangladesh.7. Development Dynamics of Remittances in Bangladesh.8. Agricultural Development and the Rural Economy: The Case of Bangladesh.9. Growth Trajectory and developmental impact of Ready-made Garments Industry in Bangladesh.10. Pace and Prospects of Light Engineering Sector in the Economic Development of Bangladesh.11. Explaining Bangladesh''s Development Puzzle: Government''s Approaches and Civil Servants'' Accountability.12. NGOs for Development: Experience of Bangladesh.13. Conclusion: Bangladesh''s Development - Challenges to Sustainability and the Way Forward.

The book analyzes recent changes to the identities and cultures of the GCC countries.

This book explores the journey of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as it is interpreted and translated from International Human Rights Law into domestic law and policy in different cultural contexts.

This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy.

This Pivot explores the mechanism of election manipulation in ostensibly democratic but essentially authoritarian systems called the hybrid regime, using the 2018 parliamentary elections in Bangladesh as an example. Elections pose serious dilemmas for the leaders of hybrid regimes.

This book is about recent research in the area of profiling humans from their voice, which seeks to deduce and describe the speaker's entire persona and their surroundings from voice alone.

This book therefore links medicine and American eugenics, examines race-based medicine's influence on the perception of the black body, traces the influence of BiDil's approval on the resurgence of race-based medicine, and assesses the black church's response to race-based medicine using black liberation theology as a means to social justice.

Assuming a basic background of quantum and statistical mechanics, this book will help readers familiarize with the basic tools of open quantum systems. Open quantum systems is the study of quantum dynamics of the system of interest, taking into account the effects of the ambient environment.

This book investigates the microstructural and mechanical properties of titanium-tantalum (TiTa) alloy formed using selective laser melting (SLM).

This book discusses the principle of automotive intelligent technology from the point of view of modern sensing and intelligent control.

This is a book about thermodynamics, not history, but it adopts a semi-historical approach in order to highlight different approaches to entropy.

The thesis focuses on the control of blood glucose devices and design of implantable devices, and offers valuable insights on diabetes mellitus and related physiology and treatments.

This book discusses the basic theories and structures employed in handling the Central-SAR relationship under the "One Country, Two Systems" policy from the perspective of ruling by law.

The book presents theory and algorithms for secure networked inference in the presence of Byzantines. It derives fundamental limits of networked inference in the presence of Byzantine data and designs robust strategies to ensure reliable performance for several practical network architectures.

This book addresses higher-lower level decision autonomy for autonomous vehicles, and discusses the addition of a novel architecture to cover both levels. the use of diverse algorithms (subjected to the real-time performance of the algorithm) does not negatively affect the system's real-time performance.

This book clarifies the misconceptions and misinterpretations of the Chinese Path through historical and market logic. In closing, the author provides an outlook on the role and responsibility of China as a great power towards developed countries, neighbors, new economic groups and developing countries.

This book focuses on the 'functionings' and capabilities generated from land by their owners and the challenge in satisfactorily recreating these through the compensation paid in the case of compulsory acquisition of private land.

Power, Glamour and Angst is about the social and cultural life of three Australian neighbourhoods - Toorak (Melbourne), Mosman (Sydney) and Cottesloe (Perth) - which are home to some of the nation's wealthiest and most powerful citizens.

This thesis focuses on the transport and magneto-transport properties of graphene p-n-p junctions, such as the pronounced quantum Hall effect, a well-defined plateau-plateau transition point, and scaling behavior.

This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of information retrieval by considering both Text Based Information Retrieval (TBIR) and Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), together with new research topics.