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Throughout this internship, I, Abhi Pasupula, have worked with my internship mentor, Barry Federici, in order to help him start up a new service. This service is targeted specifically towards veterans and their paths in their lives after they retire from the military. The service is split up into two categories, those being Jobs and Veteran Benefits. Jobs entailed creating and implement a job board into our website for retired veterans to search for. Veteran benefits showcase a list of benefits that veterans are eligible for, divided up by Federal Benefits, State Benefits, Local Benefits, and a page for all available benefits. For the Job Board page on the website, we got into contact with a job board service known as Hiring Opps and spent many days working through the features and seeing which features would serve us the best for the website. In addition, we set up a Sandbox so that we could physically see the service in action. The benefits required more menial work, such as compiling the list of total benefits and categorizing them into states with links that lead to the state Veteran Benefits commission for more information. Once organized, the benefits were organized into 4 sections, each section having its own page on the website. Both of these websites were connected back to the original website, which served as a homepage for all the services. The homepage also had services to meet with my mentor, Mr. Federici. Working on both of these websites and services really opened my eyes to the professional world of Software Development, where there was so much more apart from just programming. Similar to this internship, the real world will require me to be able to voice my thoughts as well as put them down on paper and be able to explain them well to others, something that I believe this internship set me up for very well. ; https://digitalcommons.imsa.edu/intern_reports_2021/1004/thumbnail.jpg

"The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China investigates the linguistic and intellectual roots of China's modern transformation by presenting a systematic study of the interplay between language innovation and socio-political upheavals in the final decade of the Qing Empire. This book examines the formations, internal tensions, and promotion of such macroconcepts as 'nation people' (guomin), nation (minzu), society (qun), state (guojia) and revolution (gemin) as novel ideas borrowed from Europe but mediated through Meiji Japan. Using corpus-based discourse analysis of the full-text corpus (4.2 million words) of the two most influential periodicals Xinmin Congbao and Minbao, this book scrutinises the multi-faceted formulations of these concepts and their impact. It underscores the adaptation and appropriation of European post-enlightenment values to the socio-political conditions of late Qing society. The analysis centres on the epic debate (1905-07) between these two periodicals that offered two distinctive visions of future China. Comparable to the 18th century great debate between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine on the French Revolution, the Chinese debate has hitherto attracted little scholarly attention outside China. Yet, the debate not only turned the tidal wave of the public opinion against the Manchu monarchy and contributed to its downfall in 1911; it has given rise to a radical current of intellectual thinking whose ramifications have been keenly felt throughout 20th century China. This book represents the first study in English on this press debate that contributes significantly to the intellectual foundation of modern China. This book will be useful and relevant to academics, postgraduate students and final year undergraduate students in the field of Chinese Studies, and anyone interested in the role of language in shaping modern intellectual history"--

The Coming of the Era of Big Data -- Sketch of the Development of Big Data in China -- Managing Changes in the Era of Big Data -- Thoughtless Decision-making versus Big Data Thinking -- Leadership in the Era of Big Data -- Enterprise Management in the Era of Big Data -- Big Data Promotes the Construction of Digital China -- Governance Modernization and Governance Digitization -- Data Security and Risk Management -- Big Data, Big Opportunity, and Big Future -- Conclusion How to Adapt to the Era of Big Data.

Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction: An academic journey starts from the geography -- Chapter 2. A philosophical basis -- Chapter 3. A new approach to an old question: A methodological basis -- Chapter 4. Climate change and the agrarian economy: The case of Europe -- Chapter 5. Climate change and the agrarian economy: The case of China -- Chapter 6. Comparative analysis of Eurasia -- Chapter 7. The way to know the Chinese past according to the climate-related records -- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

This volume intends to re-establish social gerontology as a discipline that has pragmatic links to policy and practice. Collectively, the chapters enrich public debates about the moral, cultural and economic questions surrounding aging, thereby ameliorating the "problems" associated with aging societies. This volume is uniquely cross-cultural, theory-driven and cross-disciplinary. It fills a gap in the gerontological scholarship of the global south that is predominantly descriptive and empirical. Based on original research, this volume examines in particular the sociological question of inequality and its intersection with age, gender, health, family and social relations. In the process, the studies herein highlight the unique historical, institutional and social systems that govern the subjective experience of aging in diverse contexts globally. Specifically, societies in transition including India, Lebanon, Nigeria, Japan, China, Israel and in Europe are studied while connecting the micro-social experience of aging (loneliness, wellbeing, discrimination, relationships and resilience) with larger temporal and political contexts. This exercise generates intellectual capital that reformulates links between aging research and policy in innovative ways. Overall, the volume echoes the global scientific commitment to understand the socio-cultural process of aging in transitional societies and utilizes rich opportunities for cross-fertilization of ideas, disciplines and methods to advance the gerontological promise of critical inquiry, training and practice

Contents -- 1 Genesis -- 1.1 Initial Construction of the Old City of Lhasa -- 1.1.1 Pre-urban Lhasa and Nearby Regions -- 1.1.2 Lhasa During Tupo Dynasty -- 1.1.3 Lhasa During the Sakya and Phagmodru Periods -- 1.1.3.1 The Central Government's Administration of Tibet During the Sakya Dynasty -- 1.1.3.2 Building of Lhasa During the Sakya Dyanasty -- 1.1.3.3 Central Government's Management of Tibet During the Phagmodru Dynasty -- 1.1.3.4 Lhasa Urban Construction During Phagmodru Dynasty -- 1.2 Formation of the Old City of Lhasa -- 1.2.1 Urban Construction Between 17th Century and 19th Century -- 1.2.2 From Early 20th Century to Early Post-peaceful Liberation Period -- 1.2.2.1 Social Reform Initiated by Tibet Ambans Prior to Xinhai Revolution -- 1.2.2.2 Lhasa in Republic of China Era -- 1.2.2.3 Social Change and Construction After Peaceful Liberation -- References -- 2 Lhasa City's Formation and Multiple Historical Factors -- 2.1 Influence of Natural Environment -- 2.1.1 Natural Conditions of Tibet and Implications to City Building -- 2.1.2 Natural Conditions of Lhasa -- 2.2 Lhasa as a Political Center -- 2.2.1 Tupo Dynasty: Lhasa Became a Capital -- 2.2.2 Ganden Phodrang Regime Established Capital in Lhasa -- 2.2.2.1 Construction During the Reign of the Fifth Dalai Lama -- 2.2.2.2 Post-5th Dalai Lama Lhasa Development -- 2.2.3 The Amban System: Establishment and Continuation -- 2.2.3.1 Lhasa Northward Expansion as a Result of the Tzashen Military Camp -- 2.2.3.2 Construction of Lubuk Yamen and the City's Expansion Towards Southwest -- 2.2.3.3 Evolution Into a Multiple-Cultural City -- 2.2.3.4 Mongolian Influence -- 2.3 Lhasa as a Religious Center -- 2.3.1 Importation of Buddhism -- 2.3.1.1 Songtsen Gampo's Introduction of Buddhism -- 2.3.1.2 Monastery-Building During Tupo Dynasty -- 2.3.2 Rise of Gelugpa

This volume applies the science of complexity to study coupled human-environment systems (CHES) and integrates ideas from the social sciences of climate change into a study of rural development amid flooding and urbanization in the Poyang Lake Region (PLR) of China. Author Qing Tian operationalizes the concept of sustainability and provides useful scientific analyses for sustainable development in less developed rural areas that are vulnerable to climatic hazards. The book uses a new sustainability framework that is centered on the concept of well-being to study rural development in PLR. The PLR study includes three major analyses: (1) a regional assessment of human well-being; (2) an empirical analysis of rural livelihoods; and (3) an agent-based computer model used to explore future rural development. These analyses provide a meaningful view of human development in the Poyang Lake Region and illustrate some of the complex local- and macro-level processes that shape the livelihoods of rural households in the dynamic process of urbanization. They generate useful insights about how government policy might effectively improve the well-being of rural households and promote sustainable development amid social, economic, and environmental changes. This case study has broader implications. Rural populations in the developing world are disproportionally affected by extreme climate events and climate change. Furthermore, the livelihoods of rural households in the developing world are increasingly under the influences of macro-level forces amid urbanization and globalization. This case study demonstrates that rural development policies must consider broader development dynamics at the national (and even global) level, as well as specific local social and environmental contexts. By treating climate as one of many factors that affect development in such places, we can provide policy recommendations that synergistically promote development and reduce climatic impacts and therefore facilitate mainstreaming climate adaptation into development.