Dong Wang: 12 books
Managing God's Higher Learning
U.S.-China Cultural Encounter and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888-1952
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Managing GodOs Higher Learning offers a distinct empirical study of Lingnan University and addresses issues of adaptation and integration. Author, Dong Wang, demonstrates that many aspects of Lingnan _ governance, links with the local society, financial management, education for women _ have either...
The United States and China
A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Combining original research with contemporary scholarship, The United States and China re-examines over two centuries of interaction between the United States and China in a changing world. It explains the foundations and character of their political, economic, military, social, and cultural relations,...
China's Unequal Treaties
Narrating National History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
This study, based on primary sources, deals with the linguistic development and polemical uses of the expression Unequal Treaties, which refers to the treaties China signed between 1842 and 1946. Although this expression has occupied a central position in both Chinese collective memory and Chinese...
by Hai-Dong Wang
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
This book mainly focuses on the theoretical and experimental study of non-Fourier heat conduction behavior. A novel thermomass theory is used as the theoretical basis, which provides a general heat conduction equation for the accurate prediction of non-Fourier heat conduction. In order to prove the...
Social Sensing
Building Reliable Systems on Unreliable Data
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Increasingly, human beings are sensors engaging directly with the mobile Internet. Individuals can now share real-time experiences at an unprecedented scale. Social Sensing: Building Reliable Systems on Unreliable Data looks at recent advances in the emerging field of social sensing, emphasizing the...
by Wen-dong Geng, Yuan-qin Wang, Zheng-hong Dong
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This book describes grouping detection and initiation; group initiation algorithm based on geometry center; data association and track continuity; as well as separate-detection and situation cognition for group-target. It specifies the tracking of the target in different quantities and densities....
by Zhongping Tan, Lai-Xi Wang, Michael Boyce
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Glycans play a vital role in modulating protein structure and function from involvement in protein folding, solubility and stability to regulation of tissue distribution, recognition specificity, and biological activity. They can act as both positive and negative regulators of protein function, providing...
by Miao Li, Xiao-Dong Li, Shuang Wang;Yi Wang
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
This book introduces the current state of research on dark energy. It consists of three parts. The first part is for preliminary knowledge, including general relativity, modern cosmology, etc. The second part reviews major theoretical ideas and models of dark energy. The third part reviews some observational...
by Hongli Dong, Zidong Wang, Huijun Gao
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
In the context of systems and control, incomplete information refers to a dynamical system in which knowledge about the system states is limited due to the difficulties in modelling complexity in a quantitative way. The well-known types of incomplete information include parameter uncertainties and...
Voicing Concerns
Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
Opening a new window into Chinese intellectual discourse, this unique book is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. As key participants in these debates who have exercised a significant influence on the development of contemporary...
The Large Dam Dilemma
An Exploration of the Impacts of Hydro Projects on People and the Environment in China
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Large dam construction has significant environmental and social impacts at different scales. As the largest developing country in the world, China has built about half of the world’s large dams, and more are expected to be built over the next two decades to meet the country’s rapidly growing demand...
Development of Volcanic Gas Reservoirs
The Theory, Key Technologies and Practice of Hydrocarbon Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
Development of Volcanic Gas Reservoirs: The Theory, Key Technologies and Practice of Hydrocarbon Development introduces the geological and dynamic characteristics of development in volcanic gas reservoirs, using examples drawn from the practical experience in China of honing volcanic gas reservoir...