Adaptation, Acculturation and Transnational Ties Among Asian Americans (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)

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In recent years emphasis has been placed on the fluidity of identities of immigrants who have migrated across national boundaries. Scholars are more interested in cultural continuities and discontinuities, the adaptation of traditional practices, and the cultural invention of new practices. These essays explore the construction of new identities, changing group boundaries, generational conflict, the development of new categories such as multiracial Asians through intermarriage, and the maintenance of transnational ties.

Asian American Family Life and Community (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)

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Asian American Family Life and Community (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)
Franklin Ng
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Before World War II, family life in Asian American communities was greatly influenced by immigration policies and cultural practices. For some groups, such as the Chinese and the Filipinos, a dearth of females resulted in the appearance of bachelor societies. Among the Japanese, a healthy family society was maintained by the practice of sponsoring "picture brides." The essays in this volume examine such issues as the role of the family, generational changes, and the significance of kinship, networks, newspapers, and credit associations in various Asian American groups.

Asian American Interethnic Relations and Politics (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)

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Asian American Interethnic Relations and Politics (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)
Franklin Ng
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ASIN: 0815326947

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The United States has seen several anti-Asian movements, as evidenced by immigration policies, naturalization laws, state and local statutes, and acts of violence. In recent years, Asian Americans have mobilized against prejudice and discrimination, organizing media groups and panethnic coalitions to achieve greater political effectiveness. These essays address recent issues of interethnic relations and conflict and politics in Asian American communities, ranging from the Japanese American redress movement for unjustified World War II internment, Japan-bashing, the model minority stereotype, resistance to urban renewal, interethnic conflicts with other groups, Asian American politics, Asian American panethnicity, and involvement in ancestral homeland politics.

Asian American Issues Relating to Labor, Economics, and Socioeconomic Status (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)

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Asian American Issues Relating to Labor, Economics, and Socioeconomic Status (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)
Franklin Ng
Manufacturer: Routledge
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In the late l9th and early 20th century, labor issues fanned the flames of anti-Asian sentiment, as they continue to do to this day. These essays explore the topics of immigration and work, ethnic economics and enclaves, the role of middlemen minorities, Southeast Asian refugee employment, and issues of class, hierarchy, immigrant recruitment, intra-community exploitation, and poverty in Asian American communities.

Asian American Women and Gender: A Reader (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)

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Asian American Women and Gender: A Reader (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)
Franklin Ng
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0815326920

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Women have shaped immigrant families, reared new generations, and pioneered significant changes in their communities. These essays illuminate the complex and changing roles of Asian American women, examing such diverse subjects as war brides, international marriages, split households, stereotyping, women-centered kin networks, employment, immigrant prostitution, conflict with patriarchal attitudes, feminism, and lesbianism.

Asians in American Life: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture (Asians in America)

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Asians in American Life: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture (Asians in America)
Franklin Ng
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Provides insights into important Asian American concerns, The fastest growing segment of the U.S. population since the mid-1960s, Asian Americans encompass Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Asian Indians, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, Vietnamese, Lao, Hmong, Cambodians, Iu-Mien, and others. Their remarkably diverse ethnic, social, historical, and religious backgrounds and experiences enrich the cultural fabric of the United States. The study of Asian Americans offers many insights on such issues as immigration, refugee policy, transnationalism, return migration, cultural citizenship, ethnic communities, community building, identity and group formation, panethnicity, race relations, gender and class, entrepreneurship, employment, representation, politics, adaptation, and acculturation
Features multidisciplinary perspectives, This collection of articles presents contemporary research that examines such issues as the growing political power of Asian Americans, the empowerment of emigrant women, the rise of youth gangs, relations between ethnic groups, the migration of highly educated Asians, and other important subjects. The writings are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines to provide a broad but informative array of insights on this fascinating and diverse population. The different volumes give in-depth exposure to important issues linked to the different communities and impart a greater understanding of the Asian Americans in the United States. Each volume features an introduction by the editor that places the articles in context, draws attention to important Asian American concerns, and comments on analyses that are particularly incisive
A versatile classroom and student research resource, Because its coverage cuts across so many disciplines, this important collection is useful in cultural, ethnic, and women's studies, history, sociology, economics and labor studies, political science, and anthropology. The material can be used in courses or by students individually. Professors will appreciate the collection because it gives them access to a concentration of material for classroom use and is a user-friendly way to introduce students to a variety of opinions and diversity of sources that can get them started on doing their own research. Students will appreciate the many articles as a veritable gold mine of information for reports and papers. Librarians will be pleased by the set's durability and permanence that will save wear and tear on journal collections. Individual volumes available:

Vol. 1. The History and Immigration of Asian Americans
264 pages, 0-8153-2690-4

Vol. 2. Asian American Family Life and Community
304 pages, 0-8153-2691-2

Vol. 3. Asian American Women and Gender
272 pages, 0-8153-2692-0

Vol. 4. Adaptation, Acculturation and Transnational Ties Among Asian Americans
272 pages, 0-8153-2693-9

Vol. 5. Asian American Interethnic Relations and Politics
280 pages, 0-8153-2694-7
Vol. 6. Asian American Issues Relating to Labor, Economics, and Socioeconomic Status
240 pages, 0-8153-2695-5

The History and Immigration of Asian Americans (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)

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The History and Immigration of Asian Americans (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)
Franklin Ng
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ASIN: 0815326904

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Since the immigration law changes in 1965, the population of Asian Americans in this country has increased dramatically and has also become more diverse as newer groups have joined the earlier Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, and Asian Indians. Especially notable are the refugees from the Vietnam War and other immigrants from Southeast Asia: Lao, Khmer, Hmong, Thai, and others. In addition, political and economic changes in Asia have stimulated the migration of highly educated Asians and the flow of capital from their trans-Pacific homelands to the United States. The essays in this volume provide a framework for understanding the historical experiences of Asians in the United States, with emphasis on the years after World War II.

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In the areas of industry and engineering, AI techniques have become the norm in sectors including computer-aided design, intelligent manufacturing, and control. Papers in this volume represent work by both computer scientists and engineers separately and together. They directly and indirectly represent a real collaboration between computer science and engineering, covering a wide variety of fields related to intelligent systems technology ranging from neural networks, knowledge acquisition and representation, automated scheduling, machine learning, multimedia, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, robotics, automated reasoning, heuristic searching, automated problem solving, temporal, spatial and model-based reasoning, clustering, blackboard architectures, automated design, pattern recognition and image processing, automated planning, speech recognition, simulated annealing, and intelligent tutoring, as well as various computer applications of intelligent systems including financial analysis, artificial

Artificial Neural Networks for Civil Engineers: Fundamentals and Applications

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Artificial Neural Networks for Civil Engineers: Fundamentals and Applications

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Soft Computing And Intelligent Systems: Theory and Applications (Academic Press Series in Engineering)

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Soft Computing And Intelligent Systems: Theory and Applications (Academic Press Series in Engineering)
Naresh K. Sinha
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ASIN: 0126464901

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The field of soft computing is emerging from the cutting edge research over the last ten years devoted to fuzzy engineering and genetic algorithms. The subject is being called soft computing and computational intelligence. With acceptance of the research fundamentals in these important areas, the field is expanding into direct applications through engineering and systems science.

This book cover the fundamentals of this emerging filed, as well as direct applications and case studies. There is a need for practicing engineers, computer scientists, and system scientists to directly apply "fuzzy" engineering into a wide array of devices and systems.

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Applied Intelligent Systems
John Fulcher , and Lakhmi C. Jain
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag
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ASIN: 3540211535

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This carefully edited book presents examples of the successful application of Intelligent Systems techniques to practical problems. The invited contributions, written by international experts in their respective fields, clearly demonstrate what can be achieved when AI systems are used to solve real-world problems. The book covers the field of applied intelligent systems with a broad and deep selection of topics, such as object recognition, robotics, satellite weather prediction, or economics with an industrial focus. This book will be of interest to researchers interested in applied intelligent systems/AI, as well as to engineers and programmers in industry.

Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence: 19th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence: 19th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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ASIN: 3540354530

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2006, held in Annecy, France, in June 2006.

The 134 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from over 330 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on multi-agent systems, decision-support, genetic algorithms, heuristic search, data-mining and knowledge discovery, planning and scheduling, fuzzy logic, computer vision, case-based reasoning, knowledge engineering, machine learning, model-based reasoning, speech recognition, and systems for real life applications. There are 6 special sessions held in parallel with the general conference that focus on bioinformatics, ontology and text, data for discovery in engineering, intelligent control systems, intelligent systems for industry, and applications of data mining.

Advances in Intelligent Systems - Concepts, Tools and Applications (MICROPROCESSOR-BASED AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Volume 21)

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Advances in Intelligent Systems - Concepts, Tools and Applications (MICROPROCESSOR-BASED AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Volume 21)

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ASIN: 0792359666

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The field of Intelligent Systems has expanded enormously during the last two decades with many theoretical and practical results already available, which are the outcome of the synergetic merging of classical fields such as system theory, artificial intelligence, information theory, soft computing, operations research, linguistic theory and others.
This book presents a collection of timely contributions that cover a wide, well-selected range of topics within the field. The book contains forty-seven contributions with an emphasis on computational and processing issues. The book is structured in four parts, as follows:
Part I: Computer-aided intelligent systems and tools; Part II: Information extraction from texts, natural language interfaces and intelligent retrieval systems; Part III: Image processing and video-based systems; Part IV: Applications
Particular topics treated include: planning; problem solving; information extraction from texts; natural language interfaces; audio retrieval systems; multi-agent systems; image compression, image and segmentation, and human face recognition.
Applications include: peri-urban road network extraction; analysis of structures; climatic sensor signal analysis; aortic pressure assessment; hospital laboratory planning; fatigue analysis using electromyographic signals; forecasting in power systems.
The book can serve as a reference pool of knowledge that may inspire and motivate researchers and practitioners for further developments and modern-day applications. The teacher and student in related postgraduate and research programs can thereby save considerable time in searching the scattered literature in the field.

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Agent Based Manufacturing
S. M. Deen
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3540440690

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Low-volume high-variety products like personalized cars or customized engines will be the key issues for manufacturing in the 21st century. The necessary control technology is based on the concept of holons, which are the units of production and behave as autonomous and cooperative agents, providing flexibility, adaptability, agility, and dynamic reconfigurability. This book presents the latest research results in agent-based manufacturing as carried out by researchers in academia and industry within the international "Holonic Manufacturing Systems" project. As this project was driven by industry, the results presented here are of vital interest not just to researchers in agent technologies or distributed artificial intelligence, but also to engineers and professionals in industry who have to respond to rapid changes and new demands in production.

Ai in Process Control (Intelligent Technologies Series)

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Ai in Process Control (Intelligent Technologies Series)
Michael Stock
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx)
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Application of Artificial Intelligence in Process Control

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Application of Artificial Intelligence in Process Control

Manufacturer: Pergamon
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ASIN: 0080420176

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This book is the result of a united effort of six European universities to create an overall course on the appplication of artificial intelligence (AI) in process control. The book includes an introduction to key areas including; knowledge representation, expert, logic, fuzzy logic, neural network, and object oriented-based approaches in AI. Part two covers the application to control engineering, part three: Real-Time Issues, part four: CAD Systems and Expert Systems, part five: Intelligent Control and part six: Supervisory Control, Monitoring and Optimization.

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering VII

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Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering VII

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ASIN: 1851667873

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Papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, held at the University of Waterloo, Canada, July 1992.

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