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Progressing towards sustainable development raises important challenges to conducting performance evaluations in governments because there are neither generally accepted methods nor specific standards to be met at present. Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government, makes a conceptual contribution to public sustainability performance evaluation and develops a set of framework indicators with the help of the strategic and comprehensive approach Sustainability Balanced Scorecard .

As a conceptual basis for the further research and application, this volume will be of...

Nea, a Chinese-Cambodian teenager, flees to Texas as a refugee from the Khmer Rouge regime when a miracle occurs. Although her family has been struggling to support itself, they discover that a wealthy aunt and uncle have managed to make it to America as well. Nea and her family rush to join their relatives and help run a Chinese restaurant in Nebraska. But soon Nea discovers their miracle is not what she had expected. Family fights erupt. Then the past - and a forbidden love- threaten to tear them all apart. Dragon Chica follows Nea, an indomitable character in the tradition of Holden...

A comprehensive exposition of the theory and techniques of fault identification and decision theory when applied to complex systems

• shows how modern computer analysis and diagnostic methods might be applied to launch vehicle design, checkout, and launch
• the space checkout system is a specialized area which is rarely explored in terms of the intelligent techniques and approaches involved
• an original view combining modern theory with well-established research material, inviting a contemporary approach to launch dynamics
• highlights the advanced...

If you are eleven years old, is there anything more humiliating, or bound to cause a fight, than shopping with your mother when your body is in full-throttle warp? Yes, there is: picking out the school-required underwear. Or worse, your mother's male co-worker shows up at the scene. Or even worse: your brother wants to TALK about it at the dinner table.

Rites-of-passage are difficult for any young girl, and Jun-li Chiu is no exception. The grown-ups in her life are completely unpredictable, and probably out of control. She knows it will take...

By making Korea a central part of comparative history of East Asian religion and society, this book traces the evolution of Korean religion from the oldest representation to that of the current day by utilizing wide-ranging interdisciplinary and comparative resources.

This book presents a holistic view of the enduring religious tradition of Korea and its cultural and social significance within the wider horizons of modern and globalizing changes. Reflecting nearly five decades of the author s work on the subject, it presents an understanding of the main current in Korean religion...