Overview of landscape performance scholarship -- Ian McHarg : a pioneer in performance evaluation -- Recent development of performance assessment -- Premier research programs -- Social benefits -- Economic benefits -- Performance evaluation : the Woodlands vs. Houston -- The Woodlands : an exemplary case for performance assessment -- Planning and design process -- Resilience to flood -- Runoff volume -- Stormwater quality -- Urban heat island -- The Woodlands performance post-McHarg -- An evolving ecological plan -- Modeling development and runoff scenarios -- Stormwater performance -- Safety perception -- Major players and barriers -- Ecological wisdom and urban resilience -- McHarg's ecological wisdom -- Urban resilience and contemporary relevance.
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Ian McHarg's ecological planning approach has been influential since the 20th century. However, few empirical studies have been conducted to evaluate the performance of his projects. Using the framework of landscape performance assessment, this book demonstrates the long-term benefits of a renowned McHargarian project (The Woodlands town development) through quantitative and qualitative methods. Including 44 black and white illustrations, Landscape Performance systematically documents the performance benefits of the environmental, social, and economic aspects of The Woodlands project. It delves into McHarg's planning success in The Woodlands in comparison with adjacent Houston developments, which demonstrated urban resilience after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Lastly, it identifies the ingredients of McHarg's ability to do real and permanent good. Yang also includes a number of appendices which provide valuable information on the methods of assessing performance in landscape development. This book would be beneficial to academics and students of landscape architecture and planning with a particular interest in Ian McHarg.
On the basis of introducing the connotation of online public sentiment and its influence on government governance, this article explores the practical dilemma of online public sentiment governance from the perspective of big data, and puts forward that the government's real-time monitoring, analysis and pre-alarm ability of online public sentiment should be effectively improved by establishing and improving the government's online public sentiment big data supervision system.
In 2021, on the occasion of the centenary of the Communist Party of China, a historic resolution was adopted which systematically summarizes the centuries-old experience and lessons of the CPC on internal affairs and foreign policy. The relevance of the analysis of the evolution of the CPC's era concept lies in the adequate definition of modern trends in order to help China further shape and lead a new historical era in the next 30 years through active interaction with the international community.
Krađa IP prefiksa predstavlja ozbiljnu prijetnju za sigurnost Interneta. Kriptografsko ustanovljavanje autentičnosti porijekla ASes (Autonomnih Sustava) oglašenog prefiksa, što predstavlja učinkovit način sprećavanja krađe IP prefiksa, široko je prihvaćeno. Međutim, postojećim se shemama upućuju različiti kritički komentari vezani za njihovu neučinkovitost kod kriptografskog ustanovljavanja autentičnosti porijekla ASes. U svrhu poboljšanja učinkovitosti, koristimo prednosti specifičnih obilježja DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) te predstavljamo shemu za sprećavanje krađe IP prefiksa. Postoje dva obilježja predložene sheme, temeljena na DSA i učinkovita. Prvo, budući da je DSA standard za digitalne potpise federalne vlade SAD, DSA temeljeno obilježje može zadržati kompatibilnost s DSA i njegovim analitičkim alatima te je na taj način olakšano široko prihvaćanje i primjena u praksi predložene sheme. Drugo, državni ključni certifikati (key certificates) nisu potrebni jer se mogu izračunati pomoću formule. Odvojeni potpisi za verifikaciju u tim certifikatima, koji su neizbježni u gotovo svim postojećim shemama temeljenim na kriptografiji, mogu se zamijeniti računanjem multi-eksponencijalne formule. Na taj je način postignuta učinkovitost. ; IP prefix hijacking poses a serious threat to the security of the Internet. Cryptographic authenticating origin ASes (Autonomous Systems) of advertised prefix, which is an effective way of preventing IP prefix hijacking, has received wide acceptance. However, these existing schemes received various critical comments on their inefficiency when cryptographic authenticating origin ASes. For improving efficiency, we take full advantage of specific characteristics of DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) and thus present a scheme for preventing IP prefix hijacking. There are two characteristics, which are DSA-based and efficient, in the proposed scheme. Firstly, because DSA is a United States Federal Government standard for digital signatures, the DSA-based can maintain compatibility with the DSA and its analytical tools, and thus it is easier for proposed scheme to be widely accepted and applied into practice. Secondly, public key certificates are not necessary because public keys can be computed by using a formula. Separated verifying signatures in these certificates, which are inevitable in almost all existing cryptography-based schemes, can be replaced with computing of a multi-exponentiation formula. Thus, the efficiency is achieved.
In order to ensure the safety of cultivated land and promote urban productivity, the Chinese government began to promote intensive land use at the legislative level from 2014. At the same time, China faces problems of carbon emissions and energy, so we need to improve energy efficiency. Therefore, this paper aims to verify the spatial effects of intensive land use on energy efficiency of China from 2009 to 2018. We further use an index system to quantify intensive land use and use chain DEA (data envelope analysis) to quantify energy efficiency. This paper finds that: (1) intensive land use can significantly improve energy efficiency. A 1% increase in the level of intensive land use will increase energy efficiency by 1.3%. (2) The intensive use of land in one city will have a negative impact on the energy efficiency of surrounding cities. The reason is that the intensive use of land in a single city may lead to the transfer of energy-consuming industries to surrounding cities. (3) The impact of intensive land use on the energy efficiency of surrounding cities has negative threshold characteristics, and the negative impact will be weakened as the level of integration of the city increases.
This paper looks at the roles of Chinese managers in organizational change in foreign‐owned enterprises in China.
A multi‐case study approach was deployed with an in‐depth, semi‐structured ethnographic interview technique.
The study uncovered three categories of managers insofar as their roles in organizational change are concerned: (1) an agent of change, (2) a follower of change, and (3) an anti‐change agent.
This study further identified six factors that determine the kind of role this group of Chinese managers is likely to choose.
This study investigated the association between self-esteem and problematic smartphone use, and examined the mediating role of aggressiveness. The sample comprised 167 college students. The results indicated that explicit, but not implicit, self-esteem was negatively correlated with problematic smartphone use. Further, aggressiveness mediated the link between explicit selfesteem and problematic smartphone use. These findings may help scholars to develop interventions to reduce problematic smartphone use among individuals with low explicit self-esteem.
For 30 years after gaining independence, the Republic of Kazakhstan has been actively creating its own cultural narrative, developing a strategy for cultural policy. The periodization of the formation of the strategy of cultural policy in the years of independence is presented in the article. The conceptual foundations that presuppose the principles of the development and implementation of the cultural policy of this country are clarified. The main objectives of the cultural policy strategy are characterized and its implementation and effectiveness are analyzed in the research.
Due to the special geographical location on the territory of modern Uzbekistan since ancient times there have been cultural clashes between East and West. Today, cooperation between China and Uzbekistan in the humanitarian sphere is of great importance and is a continuation of the glorious history of cultural exchanges along the Great Silk Road. In the 30 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations and within the framework of China's Belt and Road Initiative, humanitarian cooperation between China and Uzbekistan has brought positive results, with a number of challenges and opportunities.
This article examines the historical process of Chinese civil service development from ancient dynasties to the present. Ancient Chinese concepts and thinking about the management of the state and officials are considered, the system of state examinations in imperial China "keju" is presented, the process of formation and development of the system of state service in recent history after the formation of the PRC is analyzed, the specifics of the modern institute of management of civil servants are revealed. It is emphasized that at each stage of historical development, the public service system ensured the effective exercise of power and the adaptation of state institutions to the changing external and internal conditions of existence and sustainable development of the state.
