Xin Wang: 13 books
Higher Education as a Field of Study in China
Defining Knowledge and Curriculum Structure
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Higher Education as a Field of Study in China: Defining Knowledge and Curriculum Structure concerns the complexity of higher education as an academic field_the evolving nature of the field in light of the overall development of higher education in China. It reviews how higher education as a field...
The Dawn Angiosperms
Uncovering the Origin of Flowering Plants
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Angiosperms are the most diversi ed plant group in the world, being represented by ca 300,000 species in about 400 families. Like all of Life, including ourselves, they have had their own history and gone through many evolutionary stages before they arrived at their current forms. The origin of Angiospermae...
The Dawn Angiosperms
Uncovering the Origin of Flowering Plants
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This book discusses the controversial and conflicting hypotheses on the origin of angiosperms, which was generally assumed to be restricted to the Cretaceous and later ages. Since publishing the first edition of “The Dawn of Angiosperms” in 2010, several important advances have been made in this...
by Xin Wang
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This brief proposes that the keys to internet cross-layer optimization are the development of non-standard implicit primal-dual solvers for underlying optimization problems, and design of jointly optimal network protocols as decomposition of such solvers. Relying on this novel design-space oriented...
Where the Stars Rise
Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
Follow twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors on their journeys through Asia and beyond. Stories that explore magic and science. Stories about love, revenge, and choices. Stories that challenge ideas about race, belonging, and politics. Stories about where we come from and where weare going....
Parallel Kinematics
Type, Kinematics, and Optimal Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Parallel Kinematics- Type, Kinematics, and Optimal Design presents the results of 15 year's research on parallel mechanisms and parallel kinematics machines. This book covers the systematic classification of parallel mechanisms (PMs) as well as providing a large number of mechanical architectures...
by Xin-Nian Wang
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
This is the fifth volume in the series on the subject of quark–gluon plasma, a unique phase created in heavy-ion collisions at high energy. It contains review articles by the world experts on various aspects of quark–gluon plasma taking into account the advances driven by the latest experimental...
Global tea science
Current status and future needs
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
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Tales from the Development Frontier
How China and Other Countries Harness Light Manufacturing to Create Jobs and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Despite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports. Tales...
Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 1
Safety, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Pig meat is the most widely-consumed meat in the world. Previous growth in production has relied, in part, on more intensive systems. In meeting rising demand, these systems face challenges such as the ongoing threat of zoonotic diseases, the need to improve feed efficiency in the face of rising costs,...
Computer Simulations of Molecules and Condensed Matter
From Electronic Structures to Molecular Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This book provides a relatively complete introduction to the methods used in computational condensed matter. A wide range of electronic structure theories are introduced, including traditional quantum chemistry methods, density functional theory, many-body perturbation theory, and more. Molecular...
by Xin Min Lai, Ming Wang Fu, Lin Fa Peng
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
The book presents a compilation of research on meso/microforming processes, and offers systematic and holistic knowledge for the physical realization of developed processes. It discusses practical applications in fabrication of meso/microscale metallic sheet-metal parts via sheet-metal meso/microforming....
by Zheng Qin, Huidi Zhang, Xin Qin
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
As the first book about software culture, this book discusses software culture from three perspectives including historical perspective, the classification of software and software applications. This book takes credit from the view of science and technology development. It analyzed scientific innovations...