In western society it is taken for granted that tourism is a necessary element of contemporary lifestyle, but while many people recognize its importance, they are usually more concerned with its contribution to the economy than with its social, cultural, and political significance. As a social action, tourism is at least partly based on the appeal of distance in time, space, and culture, which offers people the opportunity to question conditions they take for granted, and, by distancing themselves from everyday life, to re-examine the meaning of their lives. Within a traditional society, however, the action of distancing from normality is usually negatively sanctioned. By contrast, under modernity people mostly have the necessary resources to transcend the everyday world through experiences which are at a distance from their daily lives. Tourism thus has much to do with the conditions and consequences of modernity and is, in short, an indicator of the ambivalence of modernity. It is from this perspective that this book attempts to broaden the established line of enquiry into the relationship between tourism and modernity. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 contextualizes tourism in terms of the relationship between Logos-modernity and Eros-modernity. Part 2 then deals with the relationship between modernity and the motivations and experiences of tourists. Finally, Part 3 focuses on the conditions of modernity that lure tourists towards leisure and pleasure travel.

Tourism and Modernity: A Sociological Analysis (Tourism Social Science Series, 5)

WANG, NING

Jafari, Jafar

Yeakley

Travel

Emerald Publishing Limited

Human-in-the-loop Learning and Control for Robot Teleoperation presents recent, research progress on teleoperation and robots, including human-robot interaction, learning and control for teleoperation with many extensions on intelligent learning techniques. The book integrates cutting-edge research on learning and control algorithms of robot teleoperation, neural motor learning control, wave variable enhancement, EMG-based teleoperation control, and other key aspects related to robot technology, presenting implementation tactics, adequate application examples and illustrative interpretations. Robots have been used in various industrial processes to reduce labor costs and improve work efficiency. However, most robots are only designed to work on repetitive and fixed tasks, leaving a gap with the human desired manufacturing effect.

Human-in-the-loop Learning and Control for Robot Teleoperation

Computers & Technology

Yang, Chenguang

Luo, Jing

Computer Science

Academic Press

Development of a Remote Laboratory for Engineering Education (Technology Guides)

The field of information technology continues to advance at a brisk pace, including the use of Remote Laboratory (RL) systems in education and research. To address the needs of remote laboratory development for such purposes, the authors present a new state-of-the-art unified framework for RL system development. Included are solutions to commonly encountered RL implementation issues such as third-party plugin, traversing firewalls, cross platform running, and scalability, etc. Additionally, the book introduces a new application architecture of remote lab for mobile-optimized RL application development for Mobile Learning (M-Learning). It also shows how to design and organize the remote experiments at different universities and make available a framework source code. The book is intended to serve as&nbsp;a complete guide for remote lab system design and implementation for an audience comprised of researchers, practitioners and students to enable them to rapidly and flexibly implement RL systems for a range of fields. &nbsp;

Chen, Xuemin

Lan, Qianlong

Song, Gangbing

Parsaei, Hamid

CRC-Press

Making a Market Economy: The Institutionalizational Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community (East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture)

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

After Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957-58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "re-education" by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor camp archives and other newly uncovered Chinese-language sources, including an interview with a camp guard, to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of intellectuals banished to China's remote north. Wang's use of grassroots sources challenges our perception of the intellectual as a renegade martyr – revealing how exiles often denounced one another and, for self-preservation, declared allegiance to the state.

Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness: Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China (Contemporary Chinese Studies)

History

Asia

UBC Press

About the Author\nXu Ziran graduated from the Film and Television Animation School of the Sichuan Fine Arts Academy, China. He started to work on comics full time in 2013. In 2018, he was invited to participate in the creation of a World Cup comic collection by a French publishing house. Many of his comics have been published in France. Born in 1990, Qin Chang graduated from Tianjin University Animation Department. He used to work in games, film, and TV design for many years. He created the ‘White Pupil Series’ collection. In 2018, he participated in the National Culture and Art Fund training project. He was also invited to create the back cover of the French master of manga, Edmond Baudoin’s, French language comic book, China notebook. Ni Shaoru is a muslim artist who graduated from the French Gobelin Animation Academy and studied plastic art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts for four years. He has experience and skills in modeling design, visual development, storyboards, and screen writing. Wu Yao graduated from the Animation Department of the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. In 2007, she started to publish comic booklets. She was involved in the creation of many series of comic book collections. In 2019 she won the gold award in the “Second Sino-Japanese comic strip competition” jointly held by China and Japan. Wang Ning was born in 1971 and came through animation to form Total Vision in 2004 whose main purpose is to export copyrights on Chinese comic books around the world. His success is measured in numbers when from 2007 to 2018 Total Vision sold over 170 rights in three continents accounting for 1.1 million copies printed and winning many awards worldwide. They have participated in many shows and exhibitions in that time including 15 consecutive years at Angouleme International Comic Festival.\nONE-CHILD POLICY. It is estimated that there are over 218 million only children in China today following more than three decades of a one-child policy by their government. Under the ruling, which ran from 1980 to the end of 2015, most couples were only allowed one child under penalty of fines, forfeiture, and even sterilization. Government figures state that around 400 million births were prevented in that time. But some unforeseen circumstances caused much heartache and grief for upwards of 10 million couples who lost that only child and this book tells four of their tragic stories. The couple whose only boy child was seemingly abducted for resale; the 27-year-old only child who died of cancer, leaving her parents alone and childless; the old man who adopted a little girl some years after losing his only child; a mother who sells up everything to give her dying daughter the best years she can. Sensitively written by Wang Ning from all-too-common real life situations, some of them first-hand, and beautifully illustrated by four of the best individual talents in Chinese comics today who have all been touched by this policy.

My Only Child

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Fanfare Presents

The field of information technology continues to advance at a brisk pace, including the use of Remote Laboratory (RL) systems in education and research. To address the needs of remote laboratory development for such purposes, the authors present a new state-of-the-art unified framework for RL system development. Included are solutions to commonly encountered RL implementation issues such as third-party plugin, traversing firewalls, cross platform running, and scalability, etc. 
Additionally, the book introduces a new application architecture of remote lab for mobile-optimized RL application development for Mobile Learning (M-Learning). It also shows how to design and organize the remote experiments at different universities and make available a framework source code. 
The book is intended to serve as a complete guide for remote lab system design and implementation for an audience comprised of researchers, practitioners and students to enable them to rapidly and flexibly implement RL systems for a range of fields.

After Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "re-education" by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of these banished Beijing intellectuals. Wang’s use of newly uncovered Chinese-language sources challenges the concept of the intellectual as renegade martyr, showing how exiles often declared allegiance to the state for self-preservation. While Mao’s campaign victimized the banished, many of those same people also turned against their comrades. Wang describes the ways in which the state sought to remold the intellectuals, and he illuminates the strategies the exiles used to deal with camp officials and improve their chances of survival.

Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness: Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China

Cornell University Press

The smartness of nano-materials is attributed to their nanoscale and subsequently unique physicochemical properties and their use in glucose sensing has been aimed at improving performance, reducing cost and miniaturizing the sensor and its associated instrumentation. So far, portable (handheld) glucose analysers were introduced for hospital wards, emergency rooms and physicians' offices; single-use strip systems achieved nanolitre sampling for painless and accurate home glucose monitoring; advanced continuous monitoring devices having 2 to 7 days operating life are in clinical and home use; and continued research efforts are being made to develop and introduce increasingly advanced glucose monitoring systems for health as well as food, biotechnology, cell and tissue culture industries. Nanomaterials have touched every aspect of biosensor design and this chapter reviews their role in the development of advanced technologies for glucose sensing, and especially for diabetes.  Research shows that overall, nanomaterials help address the problems with conventional optical and electrochemical biosensors, by enhancing the preferential detection of glucose or its oxidation products through better electron transfer kinetics, sensitivity and response time, while lowering the operating over-voltages for energy efficiency and avoid interference. The reproducible production of nano-materials and nano-structures at low cost is vital for the successful development of nano-technologies for glucose sensing. Several products, especially, home glucose monitoring devices, use nano-materials, but the need for reliable long-term CGM is still unmet. Nano-materials and nano-technologies have an important role in achieving the long-awaited CGM technology.

Nanomaterials in Glucose Sensing

Science & Math

Burugapalli, Krishna

Technology

Momentum Pr

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Tourism and Modernity: A Sociological Analysis (Tourism Social Science Series, 5)

Human-in-the-loop Learning and Control for Robot Teleoperation

Development of a Remote Laboratory for Engineering Education (Technology Guides)

Making a Market Economy: The Institutionalizational Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community (East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture)

Making a Market Economy: The Institutionalizational Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community (East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture)

Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness: Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China (Contemporary Chinese Studies)

My Only Child

Development of a Remote Laboratory for Engineering Education (Technology Guides)

Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness: Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China

Nanomaterials in Glucose Sensing