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Situated Learning: Food Safety among Chinese Food Vendors
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Wachenheim, Cheryl – Journal of Food Science Education, 2021
A situated learning exercise was employed to teach food safety content in agribusiness management classes at Renmin University in China. Pedagogical objectives included proficiency at identification and assessment of food safety risk factors, source causation factors, and risk mitigation strategies. Identified themes emerging from student ex-post…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food Service, Food Standards, Safety
Reducing STD/HIV Stigmatizing Attitudes through Community Popular Opinion Leaders in Chinese Markets
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Rice, Ronald E.; Wu, Zunyou; Li, Li; Detels, Roger; Rotheram-Borus, Mary J. – Human Communication Research, 2012
Reducing STDs and HIV/AIDS incidence requires campaigns designed to change knowledge, attitudes, and practices of risky sexual behavior. In China, a significant obstacle to such changes is the stigma associated with these diseases. Thus 1 campaign intervention strategy is to train credible community leaders to discuss these issues in everyday…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Intervention
Three Essays on Chinese IT Service Industry: Capability Development, Internationalization Strategy, and Cultural Templates
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Su, Ning – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Leading Chinese technology firms, from automobile manufacturer to information service provider, are evolving into some of the world's most innovative and competitive players, and dramatically changing the global business landscape. What underlies the rise of these firms is China's national strategy of transforming itself from a low-cost…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Service Occupations, Industry, Information Technology
Outsourcing Systems Development for e-Learning Applications
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Brodahl, Cornelia; Oftedahl, Heidi – International Journal on E-Learning, 2012
This study investigated outsourcing of the development of visual, animated and interactive learning objects for mathematics education by a Norwegian university to software vendors in China. It sought to understand the challenges in this outsourcing engagement and competences needed to meet the challenges. The authors tested outsourcing strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Systems Development, Multimedia Instruction, Computer Games
Markets Hidden on Thoroughfares: The Social Construction of Economic Informality/Illegality in Beijing's Zhongguancun, China
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Chang, Ho-Jun – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation deals with the tense relation between the visibility of unauthorized economic practices and the invisibility of law in Zhongguancun (ZGC) Beijing, a Chinese information technology (IT) industry center dubbed "China's Silicon Valley." This dissertation ethnographically examines the double process of extra-legal/illegal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Industry, Intellectual Property
An Evaluation of Foreign HR Consulting Company Effectiveness in China
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Hickey, Will – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2004
With vast amounts of foreign capital entering China yearly, there is a strong need to build its human capital to Western accepted levels. A plethora of external vendors offering training and consulting interventions to develop this labor force have quickly followed this investment. An evaluation of what these vendors are actually offering based on…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Vendors, Labor Force