This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to 1949 to help us understand China’s transformation from a weak, decaying agrarian empire to a unified, strong nation-state during…

"This book covers fundamentals, experimental details, and applications of state-of-art technologies that enable high-throughput MS-based screens in supporting drug discovery. These include hit discovery by label-free screening, synthetic reaction optimization…

This title investigates China’s network society, both its online cyber society and offline real world society, by analyzing the trends and social foundations of society as network and the social…

Before the mid-1800s, much of the American West was a vast expanse of open plains. Native tribes followed buffalo herds unimpeded for hundreds of miles, cowboys ran cattle wherever water…

China’s adult and continuing education institutions have launched comprehensive reforms in order to meet the increasing demands for professional training. This title presents a holistic picture of the restructuring of…

Constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Information Computing and Applications, held in Tangshan, China, in October 2010.

After focusing on the engineering systems, the book subsequently discusses twelve important issues in the BN-based reliability methodologies, such as BN structure modeling, BN parameter modeling, BN inference, validation, and…

This edited volume presents the diversity of comparative criminology research in Asia, and the complex theoretical and methodological issues involved in conducting comparative research.