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About 47 million people in Southeast China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia speak Southern Min, a major Chinese dialect group. Yet, Southern Min itself is linguistically diversified. How did Southern Min evolve into its present forms? What is the relationship between different members in this dialect group? Southern Min: Comparative Phonology and Subgrouping attempts to provide answers to these questions from a phylogenetic perspective. Using largely first-hand data, the author offers the first phonological reconstruction of Proto-Southern-Min from which all modern dialects are assumed to...

Wai Chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self." She challenges our customary view by demonstrating a link between the individualism that enabled Melville to write as a sovereign author and the nationalism that allowed America to grow into what Jefferson hoped would be an "empire for liberty."

The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing issues it faces today. It includes coverage of:

• the evolution of the system since independence, from the colonial legacy of national provision bequeathed from the British to the impact of the global ideological shift against statism in the 1980s
• considers the responses of the Malaysian state and government policy
• issues such as equity of provision, women's access to health care, HIV-AIDS...

In an era of intense competition where plant operating efficiencies must be maximized, downtime due to machinery failure has become more costly. To cut operating costs and increase revenues, industries have an urgent need to predict fault progression and remaining lifespan of industrial machines, processes, and systems. An engineer who mounts an acoustic sensor onto a spindle motor wants to know when the ball bearings will wear out without having to halt the ongoing milling processes. A scientist working on sensor networks wants to know which sensors are redundant and can be pruned off to...