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The South China Sea Disputes
Historical, Geopolitical and Legal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The South China Sea Disputes: Historical, Geopolitical and Legal Studies covers various issues regarding the currently controversial theme of the South China Sea (SCS) disputes. It contains insights by scholars mostly from Republic of China (Taiwan), along with ones from Peoples' Republic of China...
The World Scientific Encyclopedia of Nanomedicine and Bioengineering II
Bioimplants, Regenerative Medicine, and Nano-Cancer Diagnosis and Phototherapy.(A 3-Volume Set)V
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This two-part multivolume set provides a comprehensive overview of current achievements in biomedical applications of nanotechnology, including stem cell based regenerative medicine, medical imaging, cell targeting, drug delivery, and photothermal/photodynamic cancer therapy. New approaches in early...
by Lok Sang Ho, John Wong
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Intra-regional trade has been rising rapidly, especially after China's accession to the WTO in 2001. China's economy is expanding rapidly, and has already passed Japan in 2010 to become the world's second largest economy. It is clearly producing a huge impact on the world economy, and particularly...
The Arithmetic of Z-Numbers
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Real-world information is imperfect and is usually described in natural language (NL). Moreover, this information is often partially reliable and a degree of reliability is also expressed in NL. In view of this, the concept of a Z-number is a more adequate concept for the description of real-world...
Financial Theory
Perspectives from China
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
China is now the second largest economy in the world, with an increasingly efficient and open financial system. Many firms, agents and financial institutions have realized the potential in making money in China. Financial Theory: Perspectives from China serves as a timely textbook providing a unique...
CERN
How We Found the Higgs Boson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This informative and entertaining book provides a broad look at the fascinating history of CERN, and the physicists working in different areas at CERN who were active in the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Profound and well-structured, the contents combine present day interviews with the scientists...
Univer-Cities: Strategic View of the Future
From Berkeley and Cambridge to Singapore and Rising AsiaVolume II
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
This follows on from the very well-received Volume I UNIVER-CITIES: Strategic Implications for Asia — Readings from Cambridge and Berkeley to Singapore edited by Anthony SC Teo and published in 2013. The early discussions on the topic "univer-cities" sparked considerable interest, leading...
Japan and Asia
Economic Development and Nation Building
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
The book is a precious reference book for development economics or the political economy of development in Asia or anywhere else. Unlike other books, first, it deals with all the East Asian countries, including Japan and other Asian countries. Second, it offers some empirical research findings based...
Materials Science and Energy Engineering (CMSEE 2014)
Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This proceedings collected together ninety-seven selected articles on recent research works and innovations in material science and energy engineering, presented at the 2014 International Conference on Materials Science and Energy Engineering (CMSEE 2014), held in Sanya, Hainan, China during December...
Valuation in a World of CVA, DVA, and FVA
A Tutorial on Debt Securities and Interest Rate Derivatives
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
CVA, DVA, and FVA, which are the acronyms for credit, debit, and funding valuation adjustments, have become widely used by major banks since the financial crisis. This book aims to bridge the gap between the highly complex and mathematical models used by these banks to adjust the value of debt securities...
by Khaled Talib
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Pope Gregoire XVII was last seen waving to the crowd at Saint Peter’s square from the famous Apostolic Palace window. Despite several layers of tight security, neither the Gendarmerie nor The Entity (the Vatican’s secret service) or the Swiss Guards claim to know anything about his sudden mysterious...
Wolf Among Sheep
Roadside Angels Motorcycle Club, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Tamara Gibbs is looking for the next big story
With three weeks to break a story that'll save her newspaper agency or start considering the possibilities of another job entirely, Tamara needs to find a story to report on, and fast. When her investigations take her to the small town of Rojo...
Civilization and Modernization
Proceedings of the RussianChinese Conference 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Modernization has been a profound change of human civilizations — a worldwide phenomenon and trend since the 18th century. It includes not only the great change and transformation from traditional to modern politics, economy, society and culture, but also all human development and the rational protection...
by Todd Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
The Bore, the legendary weak point in the barrier that separates Hell and Earth has been re-discovered in the depths of the Mexican jungle.
The Catholic Church wants to seal the Bore forever but the Devil’s human worshipers have their own sadistic agenda and will do anything to stop them....