Examines how social media has changed the way Asian Americans participate in politics

Looking beyond traditional conceptions of immigrant political behaviour in ""gateway"" cities, James Lai comprehensively analyzes how Asian Americans are not only winning elected office, but also sustaining representation, in places as diverse as California, Texas, Wisconsin, and Maryland.

Pioneering book presents basic theory, experimental methods and results, and solution of boundary value problems. Topics include creep, stress and strain, deformation analyses, multiple integral representation of nonlinear creep and relaxation, and much more. Appendices. Bibliography.

The primary response model programmed in the VESY II-M pavement design and analysis structural subsystem provides for the solution of a three-layered viscoelastic pavement system only. This report modifies this primary response model by extending the solution for stresses, strains, and deflections, to an N-Layered viscoelastic system for any value of Poisson's ratio. An approximate probabilistic solution for the N-Layered viscoelastic system is also presented in closed form. A rut-depth prediction model which uses simplified laboratory characterization tests is developed. The resulting pavement design and analysis models are structured into a set of modular subsystems which provide for easy replacement and incorporation of improved components in any one of the subsystems. An initial concept to optimize the procedure for the design of flexible pavement systems is also presented.