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Wei Chen
This book examines China's fertility transition over the past seven decades and explores the socioeconomic impacts of the two-child policy.
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Si-Wei Chen
Presents new and advanced concepts, theories, and methodologies in radar polarimetry, bridging the gaps between the target scattering diversity, polarimetric radar data, and their practical applications, providing a comprehensive summarization…
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Taiwan has become a new flashpoint in Sino-U.S. relations in recent years. The nation just concluded its presidential and legislative elections this January. This book analyzes the trilateral relationship between…
Nanomaterials have become a key component for energy-related applications. Their design principle, synthesis and applications are well discussed in various scientific and engineering books, but a gap remains in discussions…
The disaster mitigation, risk reduction, and resilience design of engineering structures under natural hazards are topics of great interest, as well as being crucial for protecting human life and reducing…
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Providing a practical, evidence-based vision of how to enhance and enrich customer experience through tangibles, exterior and interior design and space within the service industry. In other words, looking through…
This insightful and expert-led volume presents a holistic view of the latest, cutting-edge global research on trends and changes in consumer behaviour in hospitality and tourism, with focus on the…
This is not a book just about flying a single engine airplane around the world. This is the book about identifying the Big Hairy Audacious Goal in our lives and…
Jack Ma is the founder and CEO of the Alibaba Group, a privately owned Internet-based e-commerce company in China whose sales are estimated to be bigger than its American competitors…
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This book introduces readers to basic studies on and applied techniques involving lactic acid bacteria, including their bioengineering and industrial applications. It summarizes recent biotechnological advances in lactic acid bacteria…
This thesis is devoted to the study of the Bohman-Frieze-Wormald percolation model, which exhibits a discontinuous transition at the critical threshold, while the phase transitions in random networks are originally…
This book discusses the latest research and new techniques in the field of lactic acid bacteria, including comparative genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics.
An illuminating account of Jack Ma and Alibaba - one of China’s leading entrepreneurs and an Internet giant in today’s world.
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This Topic "Sustainable Energy Technology" covers a number of papers concerning sustainable energy technologies such as floating tidal current power stations, solar-powered thermoelectric-based cooling and heating systems, life cycle assessment…
This collection focuses on the latest advances and prospects in unconventional oil and gas (such as coalbed methane, shale gas, tight gas, heavy oil, hydrate, etc.) exploration and development, including…
This is the first comprehensive title to cover solid state NMR, 129Xe NMR and diffusion NMR methods that have been applied to solve the key scientific issues in the metal-organic…
Hong-Wei Yang
Geotechnical engineering is a key element linking engineering construction with the earth, including foundation engineering, slope engineering, tunnel engineering, mining engineering, etc. To promote the sustainable development of geotechnical engineering…
Lei Wei, Jilong Zhang, Song Chen
CNC technology is widely used in the manufacturing industry improving the accuracy and productivity of products. This work contains 4 chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the composition and working principle of…
Edited by active researchers in the area, the book provides a valuable reference for researchers in the area of functional nanomaterials. It also provides a guide for graduate students, academic…
Focusing on Passive Intermodulation (PIM), a common instance of distortion in high-power multi-channel communication systems, the book introduces the concepts and Technology of PIM.
Chun-Wei Chen
Das moderne Strafrecht ist derzeit ein Gefahrdungsstrafrecht. Die Loesung seiner Legitimationskrise besteht dem Autor zufolge in der Begrifflichkeit des Gefahrdungsvorsatzes. Neben einer Dogmengeschichte des Gefahrdungsvorsatzes rekonstruiert der Autor das dogmatische…
Ti-Wei Chen
Voice teachers and vocal pedagogical literature cite verbal imagery, e.g. sing as if you are biting an apple , as a commonly used teaching tool for convey-ing desirable physical sensations…
Wei Chen Hsuan
Chinese Books
This book is focused on the critical clinical initiatives introduced by the 21st Century Cure Act passed by the United States Congress in December 2016. The book covers everything from…
With a unique emphasis on net-zero emission approaches, this book delves into circular economy principles and sustainable energy materials, offering a comprehensive perspective on climate change challenges.
Wei Chen,Arjan Narbad
This book provides an overview of the physiological basis of lactic acid bacteria and their applications in minimizing foodborne risks, such as pathogens, heavy metal pollution, biotoxin contamination and food-based…
This Special Issue reprint covers the synthesis of luminescent nanomaterials, applications for in vitro and in vivo imaging, detection based on fluorescence resonance energy, and the applications of luminescent nanoparticles…
Global Strategic Management in the Service Industry illustrates how strategic managers in service industry appraise the sectors in which their organisations are involved; appraise their competitors; and reassess their strategy…
David Li-Wei Chen
Taiwanese and the related Amoy Hokkien dialect are the most widely spoken Hokkien dialects. Hokkien, along with the related Teochew, is among the most widely spoken non-Mandarin Chinese languages overseas…
Luigi Gazzola,Wei Chen
This monograph compares the city walls of two famous historical cities in China and the West. It tries to reveal the process of the formation of the differences in the…
Jimmy Skoglund,Wei Chen
A global banking risk management guide geared toward the practitioner Financial Risk Management presents an in-depth look at banking risk on a global scale, including comprehensive examination of the U.S…
Wei-Yu Chen
Im Hinblick auf die Grenzziehung der materiellen Rechtskraft eines Zivilurteils ist die herkommliche deutsche Streitgegenstandsdogmatik zu uberdenken. Dies gilt erst recht, so die These des Autors, wenn man die Vorgehensweise…
Xun Jiang
This is the fifth book of Jiang Xuns criticism series of Dream of the Red Chamber. Dream of the Red Chamber is a classical Chinese novel first published in the…
Clarke,Chen
Provides an international perspective on the hospitality and tourism industries and offers an insight into hospitality and tourism management. The book develops a critical view of the management theory and…
Clarke,Chen,Wei Chen
Wen-Wei Chen,Jiann-Fuh Chen
This book offers an overview of power electronic applications in the study of power integrated circuit (IC) design, collecting novel research ideas and insights into fast transient response to prevent…
In this comprehensive edited book, the authors introduce edge caching from a theoretical perspective and discuss its role in saving bandwidth. Many physical layer models and techniques, including interference alignment…
A comprehensive overview of microstrip and printed antennas - antennas that have been the subject of much research in recent years due to their potential applications in communications and radar…
Vincent Wei-Kang Chen
Sophisticated robots can greatly enhance the role of humans in space by relieving astronauts of low level, tedious assembly and maintenance chores and allowing them to concentrate on higher level…
This research book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art subspace learning methods for pattern recognition in intelligent environment.
