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"The past few years have seen Americans express passionate demands for police transformation. But even as discussion of no-knock warrants, chokeholds, and body cameras has exploded, any changes to police procedures have only led to the same outcomes. Despite calls for increased accountability, police departments have successfully stonewalled change. In The Policing Machine, Tony Cheng reveals the stages of that resistance, offering a close look at the deep engagement strategies that NYPD precincts have developed with only subsets of the community in order to counter any truly meaningful, democratic oversight. Cheng spent nearly two years in an unprecedented effort to understand the who and how of police-community relationship building in New York City, documenting the many ways the police strategically distributed power and privilege within the community to increase their own public legitimacy without sacrificing their organizational independence. By setting up community councils that are conveniently run by police allies, handing out favors to local churches that will promote the police to their parishioners, and offering additional support to institutions friendly to the police, the NYPD, like police departments all over the country, cultivates political capital through a strategic politics that involves distributing public resources, offering regulatory leniency, and deploying coercive force. The fundamental challenge with police-community relationships, Cheng shows, is not to build them. It is that they already exist and are motivated by a machinery designed to stymie reform"--

This book aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of Chinas Poverty Alleviation resettlement (PAR) particularly under the Link Policy, and further analysing the impacts of PAR on Chinas rural transformation from multiple scales (regional and individual) and perspectives (social-economic development, urban-rural interactions and landscape changes), with a combination of multiple approaches including systematic literature review, content analysis, econometrical methods, spatial analysis, Cellular Automata modelling etc. Policy suggestions will also be provided to improve farmers sustainable livelihood and resilience coping with the changes of lifestyles due to the resettlement. This book contributes to inspiring and provoking thought among policymakers, researchers, and individuals worldwide grappling with the pressing issue of poverty and its eradication. Understanding the Chinese experience may yield valuable insights that can be adapted and applied in diverse contexts around the globe

Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact deeply political, shaped by Taiwan's colonial history and influenced by the global social movements of their times. As activists, they fought to make Taiwanese people visible as subjects of injustice and deserving of self-determination. Under the distorting shadows of Cold War geopolitics, the Kuomintang regime and collaborators across US campuses attempted to control Taiwanese in the diaspora through extralegal surveillance and violence, including harassment, blacklisting, imprisonment, and even murder. Drawing on interviews with student activists and extensive archival research, Wendy Cheng documents how Taiwanese Americans developed tight-knit social networks as infrastructures for identity formation, consciousness development, and anticolonial activism. They fought for Taiwanese independence, opposed state persecution and oppression, and participated in global political movements. Raising questions about historical memory and Cold War circuits of power, Island X is a testament to the lives and advocacy of a generation of Taiwanese American activists

Part I: Introduction to IP -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part II: Case Studies -- Chapter 2: China Enga/ges in International Regulation of Geographical Indications -- Chapter 3: China Engages in International Regulation of Disclosure Obligation -- Chapter 4: China Emerges in International Standardisation -- Chapter 5: China's Bilateral IP Engagement: A Look into the Chinese FTAs -- Chapter 6: China and Multilateral IP Governance -- Part III: Discussion -- Chapter 7: Who Governs? Actors in China's International IP Engagement -- Chapter 8: Principles for China's International IP Engagement -- Chapter 9: China's Strategies to Engage in Global IP Governance -- Chapter 10: Conclusion.

Overview of Digital Finance Anti Fraud Vertical Association Modeling: Latent Interaction Modeling -- Horizontal Association Modeling: Deep Relation Modeling -- Explicable Integration Techniques: Relative Temporal Position Taxonomy -- Multidimensional Behavior Fusion: Joint Probabilistic Generative Modeling -- Knowledge Oriented Strategies: Dedicated Rule Engine -- Enhancing Association Utility: Dedicated Knowledge Graph -- Associations Dynamic Evolution: Evolving Graph Transformer.

"This book provides social work students at both undergraduate and graduate level with compelling child welfare case examples, intervention plans, and tips for building working alliances with clients. Using the instruction/practice sheets that illustrate sound approaches for joining with clients to tailor their own interventions, students are provided with the tools to work out the application of assessment and intervention strategies with regard to the particular circumstances of each example. Throughout, the emphasis is on growing the working alliance between social worker and client, reflecting the strength perspective emphasized in social work practice"--

This book is the first on the implications of intellectual styles for higher education of students with hearing impairment. It provides a systematic delineation for intellectual styles of students with hearing impairment in comparison with students without hearing impairment. It takes an initial step to present the analysis concerning the mediating role of intellectual styles in the relationships between personal factors and student developmental outcomes.

"Now in its fourth edition, this comprehensive introduction to fundamental panel data methodologies provides insights on what is most essential in panel literature. A capstone to the 40-year career of a pioneer of panel data analysis, this new edition's primary contribution will be the coverage of advancements in panel data analysis, a statistical method widely used to analyze two- or higher-dimensional panel data. The topics discussed in early editions have been reorganized and streamlined to comprehensively introduce panel econometric methodologies useful for identifying causal relationships among variables, supported by interdisciplinary examples and case studies. This book, to be featured in Cambridge's Econometric Society Monographs series, has been the leader in the field since the first edition. It is essential reading for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students interested in the analysis of microeconomic behavior"--

Now in its fourth edition, this comprehensive introduction of fundamental panel data methodologies provides insights on what is most essential in panel literature. A capstone to the forty-year career of a pioneer of panel data analysis, this new edition's primary contribution will be the coverage of advancements in panel data analysis, a statistical method widely used to analyze two or higher-dimensional panel data. The topics discussed in early editions have been reorganized and streamlined to comprehensively introduce panel econometric methodologies useful for identifying causal relationships among variables, supported by interdisciplinary examples and case studies. This book, to be featured in Cambridge's Econometric Society Monographs series, has been the leader in the field since the first edition. It is essential reading for researchers, practitioners and graduate students interested in the analysis of microeconomic behavior.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue Oxford Kantianism and Pittsburgh Hegelianism -- Background -- Foreground -- 1 The Many Faces of Human Subject -- World -- Subject -- 2 Cogito and Homo sapiens -- Nature -- Nurture -- 3 Perceiver and Knower -- Primeness -- Openness -- 4 Thinker and Speaker -- Custom -- Bildung -- 5 Agent and Person -- Embodiment -- Embedment -- 6 Apperceiver and Homo sentiens -- Objectivity -- Subjectivity -- 7 Rational Animal and Conceptual Being -- Conceptuality -- Intuitionality -- Epilogue Self-Determining Subjectivity -- Freedom -- Wisdom -- Prologue. Oxford Kantianism and Pittsburgh Hegelianism -- Chapter 1. The Many Faces of Human Subject -- Chapter 2. Cogito and Homo sapiens -- Chapter 3. Perceiver and Knower -- Chapter 4. Th inker and Speaker -- Chapter 5. Agent and Person -- Chapter 6. Apperceiver and Homo sentiens -- Chapter 7. Rational Animal and Conceptual Being -- Epilogue. Self-Determining Subjectivity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Subject Index.