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  • Immersed Methods for Coupled Continua

    Series Libro 6 - Frontier Research in Computation and Mechanics of Materials and Biology
    This compendium provides a broad introduction of original immersed boundary methods and current extension in computational mechanics communities. It highlights a comprehensive review of immersed methods in the context of computational fluid and solid mechanics.More importantly, a complete set of working Fortran 90 codes named as IFEM–ICM for two-dimensional immersed continuum method with mixed ... Leer más

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  • The Chinese Heroin Trade

    Cross-Border Drug Trafficking in Southeast Asia and Beyond

    In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs and conduit for the entry of drugs into China. Which organizations are behind the heroin trade? What problems and prospects of drug control ... Leer más

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  • Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 147

    Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our December 2018 issue (#147) contains:Original fiction by D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("Marshmallows"), Alan Bao ("Bringing Down the Sky"), Eleanna Castroianni ("When We Find Our Voices"), Sheldon J. Pacotti ("The ... Leer más

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  • Protest and Resistance in the Chinese Party State

    Edición de Hank Johnston, Sheldon Zhang ...
    Although contemporary China is a repressive state, protests and demonstrations have increased almost tenfold between 2005 and 2015. This is an astounding statistic when one considers that Marxist-Leninist regimes of the past tolerated little or no public dissent. How can protests become so common in an autocratic state? What are the trends of repression and mobilization? This collection helps to ... Leer más

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  • The Urban Generation

    Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

    Since the early 1990s, while mainland China’s state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the “Urban Generation,” this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. What unites diverse directors under the “Urban Generation” rubric is their ... Leer más

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  • Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions

    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
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  • Bridging the Gaps in Our Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking

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    This book brings together a rich international and cross-sectional collection of articles that examine the current knowledge on gaps in the research realm or intervention development as they relate to our effort to combat human trafficking/modern-day slavery. The anthology includes chapters from established scholars, practitioners, and persons with lived experience.Modern-day slavery or human ... Leer más

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  • Beyond Drugs, Smuggling and Trafficking

    Violence, Victimization and Community Action in Mexico’s Criminal Landscape

    Graphic depictions of crime in Mexico abound in the global imagination, fueled not merely by media representations, but also by an abundant body of scholarship that reproduces grotesque, simplistic characterizations of Mexico’s people, cities and towns as crime-ridden and almost inherently violent. These representations, however, often lack evidence and forgo important contextual analyses, not to ... Leer más

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