Lu Zhang: 19 books
Inside China's Automobile Factories
The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In Inside China's Automobile Factories, Lu Zhang explores the current conditions, subjectivity, and collective actions of autoworkers in the world's largest and fastest-growing automobile manufacturing nation. Based on years of fieldwork and extensive interviews conducted at seven large auto factories...
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...
by Yong Zhou, JinRong Wang, Lu Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This invaluable monograph is devoted to a rapidly developing area on the research of qualitative theory of fractional ordinary and partial differential equations. It provides the readers the necessary background material required to go further into the subject and explore the rich research literature....
Global tea science
Current status and future needs
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
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by David Zhang, Guangming Lu, Lei Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This book describes a range of new biometric technologies, such as high-resolution fingerprint, finger-knuckle-print, multi-spectral backhand, 3D fingerprint, tongueprint, 3D ear, and multi-spectral iris technologies. Further, it introduces readers to efficient feature extraction, matching and fusion...
by Xian Huang, Zhong Zhang, Russ Algar
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Providing an updated summary of the application of different types of sensors for the analysis of food safety and quality, this book discusses the core principles, current research status, challenges and successful examples for each technology. In addition, the prospective and future trends for each...
High-Performance Computing on the Intel® Xeon Phi™
How to Fully Exploit MIC Architectures
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
The aim of this book is to explain to high-performance computing (HPC) developers how to utilize the Intel® Xeon Phi™ series products efficiently. To that end, it introduces some computing grammar, programming technology and optimization methods for using many-integrated-core (MIC) platforms and...
Ionic Liquids
Physicochemical Properties
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2009
This comprehensive database on physical properties of pure ionic liquids (ILs) contains data collected from 269 peer-reviewed papers in the period from 1982 to June 2008. There are more than 9,400 data points on the 29 kinds of physicochemical properties for 1886 available ionic liquids, from which...
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...
by Lixian Zhang, Yanzheng Zhu, Peng Shi
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This book focuses on the basic control and filtering synthesis problems for discrete-time switched linear systems under time-dependent switching signals. Chapter 1, as an introduction of the book, gives the backgrounds and motivations of switched systems, the definitions of the typical time-dependent...
Multi-Level Decision Making
Models, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2015
This monograph presents new developments in multi-level decision-making theory, technique and method in both modeling and solution issues. It especially presents how a decision support system can support managers in reaching a solution to a multi-level decision problem in practice.
This monograph...
Laser Shock Processing of FCC Metals
Mechanical Properties and Micro-structural Strengthening Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Laser shock processing (LSP) is a new and promising surface treatment technique for improving the fatigue durability, corrosion, wear resistance and other mechanical properties of metals and alloys. During LSP, the generated shock wave can introduce a deep compressive residual stress into the material,...
Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime
The Model Minority as Victim and Perpetrator
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime: The Model Minority as Victim and Perpetrator analyzes Asian/Americans’ interactions with the U.S. criminal justice system as perpetrators and victims of crime. This book contributes to a limited amount of scholarly writing so that researchers, policymakers,...
by Yuanqing Xia, Jinhui Zhang, Kunfeng Lu
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
This book focuses on the finite-time control of attitude stabilization, attitude tracking for individual spacecraft, and finite-time control of attitude synchronization. It discusses formation reconfiguration for multiple spacecraft in complex networks, and provides a new fast nonsingular terminal...
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