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A Concise Collection of College Students' Slang

For a Better Understanding of and Closer Connection with College Students

by Xin-An Lu ...

Language is a passport to a culture. Slang, probably the most lively part of a language, is especially so. Understanding of a culture's slang is a great lens through which to know the authentic life of the members in that culture. Slang can also serve to spice up conversations with these members.In this light, a collection is made of undergraduate college students' slang-by college students ... Read more

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Language is a passport to a culture. Slang, probably the most lively part of a language, is especially so. Understanding of a culture's slang is a great lens through which to know the authentic life of the members in that culture. Slang can also serve to spice up conversations with these members.In this light, a collection is made of undergraduate college students' slang-by college students
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Gems from the Top 100 Speeches

A Handy Source of Inspiration for Your Thoughts and Language

by Xin-An Lu ...

Public speaking is one of the things many fear the most. This fear is justified-Many eyes to look into and many minds to contend with. Thoughts are elusive. The catcher of powerful thoughts-the apt words-are even more elusive. Yet, you do not need to despair. By standing on the shoulders of great orators, you can also speak with facility, felicity, cogency, and potency.Great orators have produced ... Read more

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Public speaking is one of the things many fear the most. This fear is justified-Many eyes to look into and many minds to contend with. Thoughts are elusive. The catcher of powerful thoughts-the apt words-are even more elusive. Yet, you do not need to despair. By standing on the shoulders of great orators, you can also speak with facility, felicity, cogency, and potency.Great orators have produced
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A Manual of Guidelines, Quotations, and Versatile Phrases for Basic Oral Communication

by Xin-An Lu ...

Rather like the nerves in human body, communication forms the sinew and tendon of any social body. The quality of everyday life is not only affected by the way we design our work and institutions, but also (perhaps more importantly) by the way we interact and communicate with each other. This booklet attempts to help its readers to become more effective oral communicators in various scenarios ... Read more

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Rather like the nerves in human body, communication forms the sinew and tendon of any social body. The quality of everyday life is not only affected by the way we design our work and institutions, but also (perhaps more importantly) by the way we interact and communicate with each other. This booklet attempts to help its readers to become more effective oral communicators in various scenarios
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Reflections on Communication, Education, Scholarship, and Life

by Xin-An Lu ...

Our actions in education, business, and government are no longer guided by conscious ideals, but by entrenched practices that are products of expediency, indolence, and even tyranny. Inveterate and ubiquitous problems abound. Students hate school. Employees dislike their jobs. Professors become disinclined toward teaching. Boredom and procrastination are everywhere. There are promotion ... Read more

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Our actions in education, business, and government are no longer guided by conscious ideals, but by entrenched practices that are products of expediency, indolence, and even tyranny. Inveterate and ubiquitous problems abound. Students hate school. Employees dislike their jobs. Professors become disinclined toward teaching. Boredom and procrastination are everywhere. There are promotion
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Cases of Problematic Communication from College Students

by Xin-An Lu ...

There is a mistaken assumption in many social sciences that knowledge will automatically translate into action. Based on this assumption, textbooks for basic oral communication, a required course in many college campuses, attempt to ameliorate students' communicational behaviors by teaching them knowledge about communication: theories, concepts, and terms. Not only failing their attempt, these ... Read more

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There is a mistaken assumption in many social sciences that knowledge will automatically translate into action. Based on this assumption, textbooks for basic oral communication, a required course in many college campuses, attempt to ameliorate students' communicational behaviors by teaching them knowledge about communication: theories, concepts, and terms. Not only failing their attempt, these
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Public Secrets as a Phenomenon in Organizational Communication: How Public Knowledge Fails to Become Organizational Action

by Xin-An Lu ...

There seem to be two realms in our waking time: work and life. However, work is often juxtaposed against life, which is found in anything but work. Organizational work has become nothing more than the necessary evil, the means for a livelihood. Work has ubiquitously become the enemy of life. What culprit has dichotomized work and life? Public secrets!Empirically based, this book explores and ... Read more

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There seem to be two realms in our waking time: work and life. However, work is often juxtaposed against life, which is found in anything but work. Organizational work has become nothing more than the necessary evil, the means for a livelihood. Work has ubiquitously become the enemy of life. What culprit has dichotomized work and life? Public secrets!Empirically based, this book explores and
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Passive Addiction or Why We Hate Work

An Investigation of Problems in Organizational Communication

by Xin-An Lucian Lu, Matthew C. Ramsey ...

This work examines various organizational problems that contribute to the phenomenon of passive addiction, problems so entrenched and quotidian that they no longer register in the organizational consciousness as problems. Passive addiction refers to the phenomenon in which the individual is addicted to various forms of passivity (e.g., procrastination, effortless and vacuous behaviors) as refuge ... Read more

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This work examines various organizational problems that contribute to the phenomenon of passive addiction, problems so entrenched and quotidian that they no longer register in the organizational consciousness as problems. Passive addiction refers to the phenomenon in which the individual is addicted to various forms of passivity (e.g., procrastination, effortless and vacuous behaviors) as refuge
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Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics

9th International Workshop, IWACIII 2025, Zhuhai, China, October 31 – November 4, 2025, Proceedings, Part IV

Edited by Hongbin Ma, Jinhua She, Bin Xin, Guiping Lu ...

Series Book 4 - Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This four-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, IWACIII 2025, held in Zhuhai, China, in October 31 – November 4, 2025.The 173 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 393 qualifies submissions. ... Read more

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This four-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, IWACIII 2025, held in Zhuhai, China, in October 31 – November 4, 2025.The 173 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 393 qualifies submissions.
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Proceedings of the 2024 Eurasian OpenSees Days

Edited by Xinzheng Lu, Cristoforo Demartino, Fabio Di Trapani, Kaiqi Lin, Giorgio Monti ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book encapsulates the state-of-the-art advancements and methodological innovations in structural and geotechnical engineering using OpenSees, as detailed by esteemed international scholars and practitioners at the 6th Eurasian Conference on OpenSees (EOSD), held in Beijing, China, on June 24-25, 2024. The event, following a two-day course with more than 100 attendees, was dedicated to ... Read more

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This book encapsulates the state-of-the-art advancements and methodological innovations in structural and geotechnical engineering using OpenSees, as detailed by esteemed international scholars and practitioners at the 6th Eurasian Conference on OpenSees (EOSD), held in Beijing, China, on June 24-25, 2024. The event, following a two-day course with more than 100 attendees, was dedicated to
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Innovations in Images, Signals, and Computing

Proceedings of the 2024 2nd International Conference on Images, Signals, and Computing (ICISC 2024)

Edited by Lipo Wang, Lianli Gao, Xin Lu ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book consists of papers on the recent progresses in the state-of-the-art in images, signals, and their intersections with computing. The book can be useful for researchers, including professors, graduate students, as well as R & D staff in the industry, with a general interest in images, signals, and their intersections with computing. The work printed in this book was presented at the 2024 ... Read more

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This book consists of papers on the recent progresses in the state-of-the-art in images, signals, and their intersections with computing. The book can be useful for researchers, including professors, graduate students, as well as R & D staff in the industry, with a general interest in images, signals, and their intersections with computing. The work printed in this book was presented at the 2024
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Intelligent Robotics

5th China Annual Conference, CIRAC 2024, Dalian, China, September 20–22, 2024, Proceedings

Edited by Zengguang Hou, Xianping Fu, Qinghua Hu, Xin Fan, Xianhua Song, Zeguang Lu ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book constitutes selected papers presented during the 5th China Annual Intelligent Robotics Conference, CIRAC 2024, held in Dalian, China, in September 2024.The 28 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: Deep Learning Architecture; Low-Level Vision; Multi-modal learning; Pattern Recognition; ... Read more

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This book constitutes selected papers presented during the 5th China Annual Intelligent Robotics Conference, CIRAC 2024, held in Dalian, China, in September 2024.The 28 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: Deep Learning Architecture; Low-Level Vision; Multi-modal learning; Pattern Recognition;
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Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 22: Urinary Tract Infection

by Charlie Changli Xue, Chuanjian Lu, Meaghan Coyle, Xindong Qin ...

Series Book 22 - Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine
Urinary tract infection is a common clinical condition with a significant health burden. This latest volume, Vol. 22 in the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series, uses a 'whole evidence' approach to summarise management of urinary tract infection with Chinese medicine. The first chapter provides an overview of the clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment with conventional medicine. ... Read more

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Urinary tract infection is a common clinical condition with a significant health burden. This latest volume, Vol. 22 in the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series, uses a 'whole evidence' approach to summarise management of urinary tract infection with Chinese medicine. The first chapter provides an overview of the clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment with conventional medicine.
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