Liang Zhang: 11 books
Does Quality Pay?
Benefits of Attending a High-Cost, Prestigious College
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Previous research has generally shown a very small although statistically significant economic benefit from attending high-quality colleges. This small effect was at odds with what students' college choice and various social theories would seem to suggest. This study sought to reconcile the empirical...
Shanghai Sacred
The Religious Landscape of a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Shanghai, a dynamic world metropolis, is home to a multitude of religions, from Buddhism and Islam, to Christianity and Baha�ism, to Hinduism and Daoism, and many more. In this city of 24 million inhabitants, new religious groups and older faiths together claim and reclaim spiritual space.
Shanghai...
Electromagnetic Linear Machines with Dual Halbach Array
Design and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book extends the conventional two-dimensional (2D) magnet arrangement into 3D pattern for permanent magnet linear machines for the first time, and proposes a novel dual Halbach array. It can not only effectively increase the radial component of magnetic flux density and output force of tubular...
Global tea science
Current status and future needs
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
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Red Is Not the Only Color
Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2001
The first English-language anthology of its kind, Red Is Not the Only Color offers a window into the uncharted terrain of intimate relations between Chinese women. As urban China has undergone rapid transformation, same-sex relations have emerged as a significant, if previously neglected, touchstone...
by Qi Li, Wenju Liang, Xiaoke Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Soil Nematodes of Grasslands in Northern China presents research on China’s temperate grasslands, providing the findings and results of a large field survey along a transect across the northern temperate grassland. It examines nematode distribution patterns along the transect from trophic group...
Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Processors for Real-Time Baseband Processing
From Algorithm to Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
This book focuses on domain-specific heterogeneous reconfigurable architectures, demonstrating for readers a computing platform which is flexible enough to support multiple standards, multiple modes, and multiple algorithms. The content is multi-disciplinary, covering areas of wireless communication,...
Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) Products
Algorithms, Validation and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book describes the algorithms, validation and preliminary analysis of the Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) products, a long-term, high-quality dataset that is now freely available worldwide to government organizations and agencies, scientific research institutions, students and members of...
by Aiqing Zhang, Liang Zhou, Lei Wang
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
The objective of this SpringerBrief is to present security architectures and incentive mechanisms to realize system availability for D2D communications. D2D communications enable devices to communicate directly, improving resource utilization, enhancing user’s throughput, extending battery lifetime,...
A Hundred Flowers Blossoming
A Collection of Literary Essays Written by Chinese Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
A Hundred Flowers Blossoming is a collection of literary essays written by faculty members of Xi'an International Studies University, China with two distinctive features. The first one is a Chinese perspective on Western literary works, which is normally not found in the scholarship in the West. The...
Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Visual Perception
The Brain and Machine Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
This book presents the latest findings in the field of brain-inspired intelligence and visual perception (BIVP), and discusses novel research assumptions, including an introduction to brain science and the brain vision hypotheses. Moreover, it introduces readers to the theory and algorithms of BIVP...