Fan Yang: 12 books
Negotiation in Decentralization
Case Study of China's Carbon Trading in the Power Sector
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Chinese government set a target to reduce China’s carbon intensity by 40%-45% in 2020 at its 2005 level. To achieve this target, the government has allocated targets to provinces, cities, and large enterprises, and selected five pilot provinces and eight cities for CO2 emission trading. Such...
Governance Innovation and Policy Change
Recalibrations of Chinese Politics under Xi Jinping
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This edited volume assesses governance innovation and institutional change under the fifth generation of China’s political leaders headed by Xi Jinping. The configuration of long-term policy innovation without regime change requires skilled political actors who secure strategic majorities and set...
Faked in China
Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation branding and counterfeit culture, two manifestations of the globalizing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime...
by Fan Yang, Ping Duan, Sirish L. Shah
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This brief reviews concepts of inter-relationship in modern industrial processes, biological and social systems. Specifically ideas of connectivity and causality within and between elements of a complex system are treated; these ideas are of great importance in analysing and influencing mechanisms,...
Foreign-Related Arbitration in China
Commentary and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This overview and analysis of current arbitration law and practice in mainland China offers critical analysis of significant Chinese arbitration law materials and key cases decided by the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It also provides the full texts of around two...
Reflectarray Antennas
Theory, Designs, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This book provides engineers with a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in reflectarray antenna research and development. The authors describe, in detail, design procedures for a wide range of applications, including broadband, multi-band, multi-beam, contour-beam, beam-scanning, and conformal...
by Chao Li, Fan Yang, Souleymane Balla-Arabe
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In the field of image processing, many applications require real-time execution, particularly those in the domains of medicine, robotics and transmission, to name but a few. Recent technological developments have allowed for the integration of more complex algorithms with large data volume into embedded...
Learning Path Construction in e-Learning
What to Learn, How to Learn, and How to Improve
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This book focuses on developing methods for constructing learning paths in terms of “learning resources” (learning contents), “learning approaches” (learning method), and “learning quality” (learning performance) to support learning. This book defines different teaching approaches for...
The China Continental Scientific Drilling Project
CCSD-1 Well Drilling Engineering and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
This book comprehensively introduces the drilling theory and practice behind CCSD-1 well drilling, the first stage of a key national scientific engineering project of China. In addition to access to variety of data and information accumulated decade during the project’s decade-long operation, readers...
by Xianming Yang, Zanxin Wang, Ying Chen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This series features the scholarly works supported by the Phnom Penh Plan for Development Management, a region-wide capacity building program of the Asian Development Bank that supports knowledge products and services. It seeks to disseminate research results to a wider audience so that policy makers,...
by Zhijun Li, Chenguang Yang, Liping Fan
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Advanced Control o**f Wheeled Inverted Pendulum Systems is an orderly presentation of recent ideas for overcoming the complications inherent in the control of wheeled inverted pendulum (WIP) systems, in the presence of uncertain dynamics, nonholonomic kinematic constraints as well as underactuated...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of potatoes Volume 1
Breeding improved varieties
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Potatoes are one of the world’s key food crops. Their nutritional value, and the fact that they can be grown with relatively few inputs in a wide range of environments, makes them an important food security crop. However, yields in developing countries are held back by factors such as poor cultivation...