Sociology

This book introduces readers to copula-based statistical methods for analyzing survival data involving dependent censoring.

This book highlights what are likely to be the future megatrends in the water sector and why and how they should be incorporated to improve water governance in the coming decades.

This book introduces academic researchers and professionals to the basic concepts and methods for characterizing interdependencies of multiple time series in the frequency domain.

This book studies young people's use of psychoactive drugs and its social and psychological correlates in Hong Kong.

This book is the first to cover the research of whole aspects of international mobility to and from Taiwan of both skilled and unskilled workers.

This book explores the concept of school belonging in adolescents from a socio-ecological perspective, acknowledging that young people are uniquely connected to a broad network of groups and systems within a school system.

This book focuses on the health impacts of air pollution in China, especially the epidemiology-based exposure-response functions for the mortality, morbidity, and hospital admissions for respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, and mental health related to pollution.

This is the first book to provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to a newly developed smoothing technique using asymmetric kernel functions.

This book describes the current environmental changes due to global warming in northern Eurasia, especially focusing on eastern Siberia.

This book provides insights into the enormous impact of fetal and newborn loss in the aftermath of the natural disasters that Japanese society constantly has to face.

This book delivers timely research on the various interfaces of family and work, and their impacts on individual wellbeing in East and Southeast Asia.

This book presents an alternative approach to studying smartphone-app user notifications.

This edited book is on the theory and practice of teacher education from the most distinguished and experienced scholars in the field around the world.

This book aims to present implications for China's urban development through international comparison of urbanization process from the perspective of spatio-temporal pattern, driving factors, rural-urban interactions, development trends and economic-ecological-social synergic development.

This book utilizes quantitative research methods to identify the relationship between the level of mindfulness and demographic factors among university students in Malaysia.

This thesis studies the impact of food processing on the stability and antioxidant capacity of anthocyanins in aqueous and real food systems.

This book provides a description of advanced multi-agent and artificial intelligence technologies for the modeling and simulation of complex systems, as well as an overview of the latest scientific efforts in this field.

This book discusses the significance of cultural symbols/'images' in the nation-building of Eurasian states that emerged out of the former Soviet Union.

This book studies the historical changes of the cityscape of Nanjing from the point of view of geographical systems.

Thisbook provides a fresh look at measuring negative externalities in theurbanization process.

This book discusses Asia's rapid pace of urbanization, with a particular focus on new spaces created by and for everyday religiosity.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of 'out of school' ethnic minority young people in Hong Kong.

This book offers a new way to justify privacy based on a theory derived from Buddhist insights.

The overarching objective of this book is to summarize, extend, and update previous research on educational differences in family behavior in Japan.

This book presents original data on the proximate determinants of fertility in Japan.

This book expounds the principle and related applications of nonlinear principal component analysis (PCA), which is useful method to analyze mixed measurement levels data.

This book integrates the fundamentals of asymptotic theory of statistical inference for time series under nonstandard settings, e.

This book focuses on product design which is evolving conceptually and practically with advances in technology.

In this book, Juli Gittinger argues that America's fascination (obsession?

This book describes the current environmental changes due to global warming in northern Eurasia, especially focusing on eastern Siberia.

This book uses an Australian case study to shine a much-needed spotlight on discretionary police powers to punish, and their implications for justice and human rights.

This book integrates the fundamentals of asymptotic theory of statistical inference for time series under nonstandard settings, e.

This edited book delves into several aspects of sports and sports management from a vantage of uncertainty and turbulence unleashed initially by COVID-19.

The publication of scholarly research is both a major driver of social progress and a significant industry in its own right.

This book offers unparalleled insight into the convergence of sustainability and pharmaceutical product development, with a specific focus on optimization processes.

The Shanghai school system has attracted worldwide attention since its impressive performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2009.

This book is the first to cover the research of whole aspects of international mobility to and from Taiwan of both skilled and unskilled workers.

This is the first book to provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to a newly developed smoothing technique using asymmetric kernel functions.

This is the first book to articulate how to address interlinkages among sustainable development goals (SDGs), which are keys to implementing those goals by 2030.

In one of the only works drawing on interviews with both Uyghurs and Han in Xinjiang, China, and postcolonial perspectives on ethnicity, nation, and race, this book explores how forms of banal racism underpin ideas of self and other, assimilation and modernisation, in this restive region.

This book comprehensively reviews various feed additives and supplements that are employed for ruminant production and health.