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The Micro-Analysis of Regional Economy in China
A Perspective of Firm Relocation
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The book presents the comprehensive research findings on the basic features, formation mechanisms and evolution laws of Chinese enterprise migration, from the micro-perspective of enterprise migration; and on this basis, the influences from enterprise migration on industrial agglomeration and diffusion...
Empowering Mathematics Learners
Yearbook 2017, Association of Mathematics Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
This book contributes towards the literature in the field of mathematics education, specifically on aspects of empowering learners of mathematics. The book, comprising eighteen chapters, written by renowned researchers in mathematics education, provides readers with approaches and applicable classroom...
by Sergei Abramovich
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The goal of the book is to technologically enhance the preparation of mathematics schoolteachers using an electronic spreadsheet integrated with Maple and Wolfram Alpha — digital tools capable of sophisticated symbolic computations. The content of the book is a combination of mathematical ideas...
by Oscar Núñez, Héctor Gallart-Ayala, Claudia P B Martins;Paolo Lucci
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
There is a growing need for high-throughput separations in food and environmental research that are able to cope with the analysis of a large number of compounds in very complex matrices. Whereas the most common approach for solving many analytical problems has often been high-performance liquid chromatography...
Aqueous Lubrication
Natural and Biomimetic Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Man lubricates mostly with oil. Nature lubricates exclusively with water. Pure water is a poor lubricant, but the addition of proteins, especially glycoproteins, can modify surfaces to make them far more lubricating at slow speeds. Understanding how nature does this, and the physical structures involved,...
by Phillip C-Y Sheu
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
As the first volume of World Scientific Encyclopedia with Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence, this volume is designed to lay the foundation for the understanding of the Semantic Computing (SC), as a core concept to study Robotic Intelligence in the subsequent volumes.
This volume aims...
Maritime Governance and South Asia
Trade, Security and Sustainable Development in the Indian Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Five out of the eight South Asian countries have direct access to the Indian ocean, yet research tends to focus instead on the region's landmass. Much less attention is paid to the extensive maritime space that links South Asian countries, provides their populations with vital access to resources,...
South Asia in the New Decade
Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
At the beginning of the second decade of the new millennium, South Asia has emerged as a key regional variable in the contemporary global order. The last decade saw the region experiencing a robust phase of economic growth and development. Over time, South Asia's economic progress is expected to accelerate,...
Statistics and Experimental Design for Psychologists
A Model Comparison Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This is the first textbook for psychologists which combines the model comparison method in statistics with a hands-on guide to computer-based analysis and clear explanations of the links between models, hypotheses and experimental designs. Statistics is often seen as a set of cookbook recipes which...
Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology
Volume 8: Accelerator Applications in Energy and Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
As accelerator science and technology progressed over the past several decades, the accelerators themselves have undergone major improvements in multiple performance factors: beam energy, beam power, and beam brightness. As a consequence, accelerators have found applications in a wide range of fields...
by Jeffrey Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Most volumes in the environmental economics literature consider the environment to be a public good and hence write out a role for the private sector in a source of supply. Yet there is ample evidence of the private sector being involved, driven both by profit and altruism. This book provides the...
Human Security Studies
Theories, Methods and Themes
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Human Security Studies: Theories, Methods and Themes examines the concept of human security from different theoretical and methodological perspectives and shows how they help shed light on the different themes of global intervention. Liberal perspectives, represented by global legalism and developmentalism,...
Revealed Biodiversity
An Economic History of the Human Impact
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact aims to show that for several centuries environmental conditions have been substantially the product of economic fluctuations. It contests the notion of perpetual decline in species composition. The arguments are supported by far more...
by Institute for Strategic Studies, National Defense University of People's Liberation Army
China
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
In 2016, economic globalization suffered a severe crisis after over half a century of smooth development, and deglobalization was running mountains high. Not only did it trigger domestic political discord in major countries like the United States, Britain, France and Germany, but also led to international...