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This book discusses systems and synthetic biotechnologies for the production of nutraceuticals, and summarizes recent advances in nutraceutical research in terms of the physiological effects on health, potential applications, drawbacks…
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Chen Qiufan
‘Waste girl’ Mimi becomes infected with a virus, becoming the host for an omniscient consciousness, hell-bent on righting wrongs - and igniting a class war and more.
Liu Chen (Univ Of California, Irvine, Usa)
The topics covered in these notes are selective and tend to emphasize more on kinetic-theory approaches to waves and instabilities in both uniform and non-uniform plasmas, students are assumed to…
C Liu
Comprehensive, cross-disciplinary coverage of Smart Grid issues from global expert researchers and practitioners. This definitive reference meets the need for a large scale, high quality work reference in Smart Grid…
Covering recent nanotechnology research in water applications, including sensing, treatment, and remediation, as well as a discussion of progress in the design and engineering of nanomaterials for environmental applications, this…
Zhiyuan Chen,Bing Liu
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Gordon G. Liu
The urbanization of China has become an urgent task for the economy and a development priority for the Chinese administration, especially following the country’s adhesion to the World Trade Organization…
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Shiping Liu,Gang S. Chen
A comprehensive guide to the friction, contact and impact on robot control and force feedback mechanism Dynamics and Control of Robotic Manipulators with Contact and Friction offers an authoritative guide…
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2009, held in Brisbane, Australia, in April 2009. This title includes papers that are…
Jiangsheng Chen,Lei Liu,Tao Zhang
Reviews the historical process of the financial system reform and development of China. The book reveals the basic path of China's financial reform, development and evolution, and explores China's path…
This book documents recent advances in the field of modeling, simulation, control, security and reliability of Cyber- Physical Systems (CPS) in power grids.
Li Liu (Stanford University, California),Xingcan Chen
This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary…
Zhongjian Liu,Lijun Chen,Qing Zhou
Discusses the relations among the three fundamental life activities: growth, maintenance and reproduction in Paphiopedilum armeniacum (Orchidaceae), with a focus on plant propagation. This book also covers the biological and…
Xueming Chen
Taking an eco-socialist perspective, The Ecological Crisis and the Logic of Capital explores the logic of capitalism as a fundamental cause of today’s environmental crisis, in particular the thirst for…
Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China’s Relations with the Indian Ocean lists selected sources in thirteen languages and reflects global scholarship of Zheng He’s seven maritime expeditions and the…
This third English volume of The China Economy Yearbook, based on the 2008 annual report in Chinese, provides an in-depth analysis of China’s economy during 2007 and predictions for 2008…
The LTLGB 2012 conference is intended to bring together researchers and related government officials involved in low carbon transportation, low carbon logistics and green building, industrial practitioners to present, discuss…
This book covers several major functional carbohydrates widely used in food and other applications. It presents technical details of bio-manufacture, providing direct assistance to researchers and engineers who are interested…
Statistical methods have a long history in the analysis of hydrological data for de-signing, planning, infilling, forecasting, and specifying better models to assess scenarios of land use and climate change…
Soil degradation is a complex phenomenon that can result in a diminished capacity of the ecosystem to provide goods and services for its beneficiaries. Degraded soils have a health status…
The papers are organized in topical sections on visual control, visual navigation, visual inspection, image processing, human robot interaction, stereo system, image retrieval, visual detection, visual recognition, system design, and…
The Rising Young Artists from the East is a collection of various artworks created by 75 artists from Asia. They are currently studying in universities and schools all over the…
Constitutes Part I of the refereed four-volume post-conference proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture, CCTA 2010, held in Nanchang, China…
Constitutes Part II of the refereed four-volume post-conference proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture, CCTA 2010, held in Nanchang, China…
Constitutes Part III of the refereed four-volume post-conference proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture, CCTA 2010, held in Nanchang, China…
Constitutes Part IV of the refereed four-volume post-conference proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture, CCTA 2010, held in Nanchang, China…
Jincheng Li,Wenwu Chen,Zhengping Liu
This book describes the second phase of the Qinghai-Tibetan railway construction project and is the first technological book discussing the geological routing of the Qinghai-Tibetan railway project on the roof…
Xueyuan Chen,Yongsheng Liu,Datao Tu
Yongsheng Liu is a Research Associate Professor at FJIRSM, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Datao Tu is a Research Assistant Professor at FJIRSM, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Xue Liu,Xi Chen,Fanxin Kong
Examines utilization control and optimization in real-time embedded systems. The authors present several effective solutions that adaptively adjust task rates and/or processor frequencies to enforce the desired utilization.
Finally, the book opens a discussion of Chinese low-carbon healthy city development from planning and design, infrastructure and technology assessment-system perspectives. It presents a case study including the theory and…
Liu,Rui Jiang,Badong Chen,Shuzhi Sam Ge
Enables readers to understand important new trends in multimodal perception for mobile robotics
This book provides a novel perspective on secure state estimation and multimodal perception for robotic mobility platforms…
This handbook presents recent advances and offers a comprehensive reference resource covering the developments in and applications of macrocyclic supramolecular assembly, with a focus on their construction, structural characters and…
Chen Zemin
While the Peoples Republic of China is officially an atheist country, Christianity continues to experience rapid growth on the Chinese mainland. Many observers see the country as on the way…
This Special Issue of Forests explores the role of soundscapes in urban forested areas. It is comprised of 11 papers involving soundscape studies conducted in urban forests from Asia and…
This reprint is based on "Antimicrobial resistance and anti-biofilms" in the journal Antibiotics since November of 2020. This reprint has one editorial article, eight research articles, one review article, and…
This book presents some latest treatments of several specific, but fundamental problems about the data communication and control of smart microgrids. It provides readers some valuable insights into advanced control…
A collection of lecture notes on Nonlinear Conservation Laws, Fluid Systems and Related Topics delivered at 2007 Shanghai Mathematics Summer School held at Fudan University, China, by experts in the…
