Fan Zhang: 13 books
by Alistair B Forbes, Nien-Fan Zhang, Anna Chunovkina
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This volume contains original, refereed contributions by researchers from institutions and laboratories across the world that are involved in metrology and testing. They were adapted from presentations made at the eleventh edition of the Advanced Mathematical and Computational Tools in Metrology and...
Growing Green
The Economic Benefits of Climate Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Pollution from fossil fuels and degraded natural lands are raising the earth’s temperature. The evidence of the causes of global warming is clear, as are its consequences. The economic impacts of climate change are already apparent and they threaten development gains. Extreme weather events have...
Tethered Space Robot
Dynamics, Measurement, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
Tethered Space Robot: Dynamics, Measurement, and Control discusses a novel tethered space robot (TSR) system that contains the space platform, flexible tether and gripper. TSR can capture and remove non-cooperative targets such as space debris. It is the first time the concept has been described in...
by Fan Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
This book introduces the latest advances made in both fundamental studies and potential applications of upconversion nanomaterials, particularly in the field of high-resolution in vitro bioanalysis and in vivo imaging. This book starts with the synthesis and characterization, and focuses on applications...
The China Continental Scientific Drilling Project
CCSD-1 Well Drilling Engineering and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
This book comprehensively introduces the drilling theory and practice behind CCSD-1 well drilling, the first stage of a key national scientific engineering project of China. In addition to access to variety of data and information accumulated decade during the project’s decade-long operation, readers...
Agricultural Production and Groundwater Conservation
Examples of Good Practices in Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Climate change and declining water resources threaten food production systems worldwide, increasing the need for efficient agricultural processes. The Shanxi Province of the People's Republic of China has been experiencing declining groundwater tables since 1956. This publication provides examples...
Managing Expatriates in China
A Language and Identity Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Providing fresh perspectives on managing expatriates in the changing host country of China, this book investigates expatriate management from a language and identity angle. The authors’ multilingual and multicultural backgrounds allow them to offer a solid view on the best practices towards managing...
by Huijie Zhang, Fan Hong, Fuhua Huang
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Despite the popularity of sport in contemporary China, the practice of physical education is not indigenous to its culture. Strenuous physical activity was traditionally linked to low class and status in the pre-modern Chinese society. The concept of modern PE was introduced to China by Western Christian...
by Wei Fan, Longsheng Zhang, Tianxi Liu
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book describes various carbon nanomaterials and their unique properties, and offers a detailed introduction to graphene–carbon nanotube (CNT) hybrids. It demonstrates strategies for the hybridization of CNTs with graphene, which fully utilize the synergistic effect between graphene and CNTs....
Dragons with Clay Feet?
Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies—China and Vietnam. The contributions to...
Governance Innovation and Policy Change
Recalibrations of Chinese Politics under Xi Jinping
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This edited volume assesses governance innovation and institutional change under the fifth generation of China’s political leaders headed by Xi Jinping. The configuration of long-term policy innovation without regime change requires skilled political actors who secure strategic majorities and set...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of potatoes Volume 1
Breeding improved varieties
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Potatoes are one of the world’s key food crops. Their nutritional value, and the fact that they can be grown with relatively few inputs in a wide range of environments, makes them an important food security crop. However, yields in developing countries are held back by factors such as poor cultivation...
by Fan Lin, Haiyan Liu, Jun Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This handbook has been designed to provide a comprehensive and state-of-the art review and update of the major issues and challenges specific to fine needle aspiration (FNA) and small tissue core biopsies, which have emerged as primary modalities in establishing a definitive cancer diagnosis in the...