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The compelling life story of Duy Long Nguyen, a boy who eventually came to realise his mother's dreams. Born in Vietnam, fate saw him eventually arrive in Australia. He found work as a bodyguard and was soon straddling both sides of the law. Turning his back on violence, he realised he had a special gift - the gift to heal.

In human existence, making decisions is a common event. Various techniques have been devised to tackle decision-making troubles in practical situations. Over the past ten years, a great deal of study has concentrated on quantifying the degree of ambiguity and unpredictability in knowledge using the concept of neutrosophic sets or extensions thereof. An efficient framework for handling information in decision-making problems involving uncertain, indeterminate, and time-related aspects is the Temporal Complex Neurosophic Set (TCNS). Measures of entropy and similarity can be helpful for evaluating data to solve multicriteria decisionmaking (MCDM) challenges in practical situations. However, TCNS information measurements were of no concern or relevance to the current technique. In the context of the TCNS, this work suggests multiple novel similarity and entropy measurements. The proposed metrics have been validated and shown to comply with the explicit definition of the entropy measure and similarity for the TCNS. The novel similarity and entropy measures on the TCNS environment are proposed in this research. The four similarity measures on the TCNS contain Dice, Jaccard, Cosine, and Cotangent. Also, a numerical example concerning selecting a Vietnam tourist destination is provided to validate the usefulness of the suggested measures. The practical application shows that proposed TCNS similarity and entropy metrics can produce accurate and significant outcomes for real-world decision-making problems.

This textbook is designed for English-speaking students wishing to acquire a basic working ability in conversational Vietnamese. The twenty lessons in this volume are centered around short conversations based on common topics--introductions, friends and family members, work--as well as other everyday situations. Each set of conversations builds on previously studied material and introduces new sentence structures. Spoken Vietnamese for Beginners also contains exercise sections that allow students to practice new and old vocabulary. Every fifth lesson in the book reviews previously covered material with written exercises, narrative readings, and suggested conversations so students can practice the Vietnamese they have learned. Self-tests are also included so students can individually review their understanding of the language. The conversations and exercises in this textbook will be made available online as audio files. The book and accompanying audio-- an integral component to Spoken Vietnamese for Beginners--can be used either with a teacher or for self-study. Language professors and their students--or those learning Vietnamese on their own--will appreciate the accessible approach and manageable size of this very practical textbook.

This book is an informative broad survey of the visual culture of the dynastic era which extends across almost a thousand years. It covers belief systems and iconography, architecture, statuary (stone and wood carving), metal craft (bronze, gold, silver), jade, and ivory carving, lacquer craft, furniture, inlay work, woodblock printing, painting, and ceramics. The text is supported by over three hundred quality colour images. The focus of the book is the Kinh, the majority ethnic group, historically the inhabitants of the northern river plains; from the fifteenth century it follows southward movements into territory occupied by cultural others and ensuring cultural shifts from the homogenous population of the north to a heterogenous southern land with a visual art shaped by complex cultural synthesis.

Co-creation and Smart Cities: Looking Beyond Technology highlights a more robust value-based perspective on public service development and delivery, helping structure co-creation processes that foster responsible innovation and a systemic, value-based approach to sustainable urban development.

This book describes the iterative steps that were successfully undertaken to develop adaptation measures to climate change in two Vietnamese provinces. The methodology used to develop the scientific basis and the societal agreement of the need to adapt to climate change is applicable also to other regions in Vietnam, Asia and worldwide. The uncertainties of climate change models make it difficult to justify investments to finance protection from uncertain impacts. Setting out with the projected climate change impacts in Vietnam, which is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, the book describes a methodological approach to assess and evaluate local vulnerabilities of natural resources to climate change and socio-economic impacts, engaging local stakeholders in the development of locally acceptable and economically feasible adaptation measures. The methodological approach to understand the vulnerabilities and to develop climate change adaptation measures was scenario workshops that supported the communication between scientists and stakeholders. The development of climate change adaptation strategies is nearly state-of-the-art in many countries, but often there is still a large step towards implementing climate change adaptation measures on the local level. The challenge in the development of adaptation measures lies in their acceptability by local stakeholders and decision makers. Climate change adaptation measures also usually demand investments. To understand potential future risks the communication methodology was to first get a good understanding of the natural resources (mainly surface and groundwater) and their potential vulnerabilities (current and future). This was followed by developing a common understanding of current risk patterns, as well as underlying vulnerabilities and hazards. Socio-economic developments have an equally strong, and in the short term mostly even stronger, impact on the living environment and natural resources as long-term climate change impacts. The scenario workshops developed a holistic approach on current and potential future risk patterns, with a special focus on surface and groundwater quantities and qualities, natural hazards and sea level rise. Land-use planning was identified as playing a decisive role in minimizing current and future risks. Finally, first adaptation measures for two Vietnamese provinces were developed and shall be implemented over the next years. The methodology that led to these adaptation measures shall be applied in other Vietnamese provinces.

Large-hearted, hip, and hooky poems as sculpted as they are sensory.

Celebrity fashion designer Thai Nguyen from Netflix’s Say I Do joins forces with bestselling author Monique Truong and illustrator Dung Ho in this irresistibly charming picture book about embracing your heritage and the traditions that tie generations together—centered around Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year. It’s the morning of Tet, and Mai can’t wait to celebrate at her beloved grandmother’s home. With the perfect dress: a poofy, sparkly Cinderella dress that makes Mai look like the movie star she dreams of being! But when Mai’s father suggests that she wears an áo dài, a traditional Vietnamese outfit, to her Ba Noi’s party, Mai is disappointed. Stars don’t wear áo dài, she thinks. Then Ba tells her the story of a true star, her very own Ba Noi, who sewed beautiful, highly sought-after áo dài in Vietnam and brought her magic with her when she immigrated to the United States. So maybe stars wear áo dài after all! But how can Ba Noi know what Mai’s wearing when Ba Noi is losing her eyesight? Ba tells her every áo dài is sewn with love, and the beauty of love is that you don’t need to see it to know it’s here.