Yu Chen: 35 books
Perovskite Solar Cells
Principle, Materials and Devices
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Energy and climate change are two of the most critical issues nowadays. These two topics are also correlated to each other. Fossil fuels are the main energy supplies that have been used in modern history since the industrial revolution. The impact of CO2 emission has been a major concern for its effect...
by Yu-Chen Hu
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
"Gene Therapy for Cartilage and Bone Tissue Engineering" outlines the tissue engineering and possible applications of gene therapy in the field of biomedical engineering as well as basic principles of gene therapy, vectors and gene delivery, specifically for cartilage and bone engineering....
Organizational culture and the case of Google
What is organizational culture and how it can influence the performance of a company
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3, The University of Sydney, 42 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The culture concept evolved to conceptualize humankind's diversity, it asserts that we...
TIPS
The Child Voice
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
This second edition of TIPS: The Child Voice was prepared in response to demand for an updated and expanded version of the highly successful 1997 edition. This edition takes into account the broadening base of information regarding the nature of the singing voice. Now with strategies for the voice...
Tropical Urban Heat Islands
Climate, Buildings and Greenery
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
Conventional air conditioning is not a sustainable solution to the challenge of a hot or humid climate. The climate problem is compounded in so-called Urban Heat Islands, urban areas where the air can be 3–5°C hotter than its surrounding areas and where pollution levels are consequently raised.
Including...
Biological Materials Science
Biological Materials, Bioinspired Materials, and Biomaterials
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Taking a unique materials science approach, this text introduces students to the basic concepts and applications of materials and biomedical engineering and prepares them for the challenges of the new interdisciplinary field of biomaterials science. Split into three sections - Basic Biology Principles,...
by Yu Chen
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This thesis reports on essential advances in the design, synthesis and biomedical applications of multifunctional Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles (MSNs). It provides several examples of multifunctional MSN-based drug delivery nanosystems and demonstrates successful synergistic cancer therapies combining...
by Chen-Ning Yang, Ying-Shih Yu, Gungwu Wang
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Lee Kuan Yew through the Eyes of Chinese Scholars is a compilation of essays by highly-respected Chinese scholars in which they evaluate the life, work and philosophy of Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore. Presenting a range of views from a uniquely Chinese/Asian perspective, this...
The Uyghur Lobby
Global Networks, Coalitions and Strategies of the World Uyghur Congress
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
An upsurge in violence between Uyghur and Han in China’s far western region of Xinjiang has gained increased media and academic attention in recent years as was evidenced in the July 2009 riots. Numbering over eight million, the Uyghur are China’s fifth-largest minority nationality, and their...
by Ana Iorga, Ming Hsu, Irit Shapira-Lichter
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
A comprehensive introduction to using the tools and techniques of neuroscience to understand how consumers make decisions about purchasing goods and services.
Contrary to the assumptions of economists, consumers are not always rational actors who make decisions in their own best interests....
by An-Chyau Huang, Yung-Feng Chen, Chen-Yu Kai
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
In this book, we collected recent results on the control of underactuated mechanical systems subject to internal uncertainties and external disturbances. The strategy developed is so universal that it is not restricted to a specific system but a large class of underactuated systems. Several benchmark...
by Chen Yu, Fang Wei, Liqing Li
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Unlike many studies of social attitudes, which are based on large scale quantitative surveys, or which focus on the attitude of elites, this book considers the views of ordinary people, and is based on in-depth, qualitative interviews. This approach results in rich, nuanced data, and is especially...
by Thomas P. Bernstein, Tina Mai Chen, Izabella Goikhman
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
It is well known that the Soviet Union strongly influenced China in the early 1950s, since China committed itself both to the Sino-Soviet alliance and to the Soviet model of building socialism. What is less well known is that Chinese proved receptive not only to the Soviet economic model but also...
System Parameter Identification
Information Criteria and Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Recently, criterion functions based on information theoretic measures (entropy, mutual information, information divergence) have attracted attention and become an emerging area of study in signal processing and system identification domain. This book presents a systematic framework for system identification...