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The Book of Lord Shang

Apologetics of State Power in Early China

By: Yang Shang

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The Book of Lord Shang

Apologetics of State Power in Early China

By: Yang Shang

Compiled in China in the fourth–third centuries B.C.E., The Book of Lord Shang argues for a new powerful government to penetrate society and turn every man into a diligent tiller and valiant soldier. Creating a "rich state and a strong army" will be the first step toward unification of "All-under-Heaven." These ideas served the state of Qin that eventually created the first imperial polity on Chinese soil. In this new translation, The Book of Lord Shang's intellectual boldness and surprisingly modern-looking ideas shine through, underscoring the text's vibrant contribution to global political thought. The Book of Lord Shang is attributed to the political theorist Shang Yang and his followers. It epitomizes the ideology of China's so-called Legalist School of thought. In the ninety years since the work's previous translation, major breakthroughs in studies of the book's dating and context have recast our understanding of its messages. This edition applies these advances to a whole new reading of the text's content and function in the sociopolitical life of its times and subsequent centuries. This fully annotated translation is ideal for newcomers to the book while also guiding early Chinese scholars and comparatists in placing the work within a timeline of influence. It highlights the text's practical success and its impact on the political thought and political practice in traditional and modern China.

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Columbia University Press

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023154233X

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Peerless Magic Weapon

Volume 3

By: Shang Xingongzi

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Peerless Magic Weapon

Volume 3

By: Shang Xingongzi

The number one martial skill in this world, the Gold Body Refinement Art! Swallowing Magic Treasures, eating heaven and earth treasures, anything that has spirit energy can become my nourishment and continuously advance. Sooner or later, this daddy will make a peerless magic treasure that can sweep all of the worlds and have all of the flowers in it.

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Funstory

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1648972969

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The Early Modern Human from Tianyuan Cave, China

By: Hong Shang

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The Early Modern Human from Tianyuan Cave, China

By: Hong Shang

Through detailed description and interpretation of the most complete early modern human skeleton from eastern Asia, "The Early Modern Human from Tianyan Cave, China," addresses long-term questions about the ancestry of modern humans in eastern Asia and the nature of the changes in human behavior with the emergence of modern human biology.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603442456

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Disability Policy in China

Child and family experiences

By: Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

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Disability Policy in China

Child and family experiences

By: Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

Without access to a public social welfare system in parts of China, some families face invidious decisions about the lives of their children with disabilities. In other places, children with disabilities can now expect to participate in their families and communities with the same aspirations as other children. Understanding how Chinese policy has changed in the places that have addressed these stark situations is vital for the rights of the children and their families who still struggle to find the support they need. This book examines family experiences of child disability policy in China, and is the first to compile research on this area. It applies a child disability rights framework in four domains – care and protection, economic security, development and participation – to investigate families’ experiences of the effectiveness of support to fulfil their children’s rights. Questioning how families experience the interrelationships between these rights, it also considers what the further implications of the policy are. It includes vivid case studies of families’ experiences, and combines these with national data to draw out the likely future policy directions to which the Chinese government has said it is committed. Bringing together a wealth of statistical and qualitative data on children with disabilities, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese social welfare, social policy, society and children's studies, as well as policy-makers and NGOs alike.

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Routledge

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1317392396

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Dynamic Modeling of Complex Industrial Processes: Data-driven Methods and Application Research

By: Chao Shang

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Dynamic Modeling of Complex Industrial Processes: Data-driven Methods and Application Research

By: Chao Shang

This thesis develops a systematic, data-based dynamic modeling framework for industrial processes in keeping with the slowness principle. Using said framework as a point of departure, it then proposes novel strategies for dealing with control monitoring and quality prediction problems in industrial production contexts. The thesis reveals the slowly varying nature of industrial production processes under feedback control, and integrates it with process data analytics to offer powerful prior knowledge that gives rise to statistical methods tailored to industrial data. It addresses several issues of immediate interest in industrial practice, including process monitoring, control performance assessment and diagnosis, monitoring system design, and product quality prediction. In particular, it proposes a holistic and pragmatic design framework for industrial monitoring systems, which delivers effective elimination of false alarms, as well as intelligent self-running by fully utilizing the information underlying the data. One of the strengths of this thesis is its integration of insights from statistics, machine learning, control theory and engineering to provide a new scheme for industrial process modeling in the era of big data.

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9811066779

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Theoretical and Computational Acoustics 2005

Hangzhou, China, 19-22 September 2005

By: Dr. Alexandra Tolstoy,Erchang Shang,Yu-Chiung Teng

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Theoretical and Computational Acoustics 2005

Hangzhou, China, 19-22 September 2005

By: Dr. Alexandra Tolstoy,Erchang Shang,Yu-Chiung Teng

This volume represents the latest advances in the field of theoretical and computational acoustics. The coverage includes results in the areas of underwater acoustics, seismics, scattering, inversion, genetic algorithms, reverberation, IFEM, Radon transforms, wavelet statistics, PE modeling, and Gaussian beams.

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World Scientific

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9812700846

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Brain and Nature-Inspired Learning, Computation and Recognition

By: Licheng Jiao,Ronghua Shang,Fang Liu,Weitong Zhang

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Brain and Nature-Inspired Learning, Computation and Recognition

By: Licheng Jiao,Ronghua Shang,Fang Liu,Weitong Zhang

Brain and Nature-Inspired Learning, Computation and Recognition presents a systematic analysis of neural networks, natural computing, machine learning and compression, algorithms and applications inspired by the brain and biological mechanisms found in nature. Sections cover new developments and main applications, algorithms and simulations. Developments in brain and nature-inspired learning have promoted interest in image processing, clustering problems, change detection, control theory and other disciplines. The book discusses the main problems and applications pertaining to bio-inspired computation and recognition, introducing algorithm implementation, model simulation, and practical application of parameter setting. Readers will find solutions to problems in computation and recognition, particularly neural networks, natural computing, machine learning and compressed sensing. This volume offers a comprehensive and well-structured introduction to brain and nature-inspired learning, computation, and recognition. - Presents an invaluable systematic introduction to brain and nature-inspired learning, computation and recognition - Describes the biological mechanisms, mathematical analyses and scientific principles behind brain and nature-inspired learning, calculation and recognition - Systematically analyzes neural networks, natural computing, machine learning and compression, algorithms and applications inspired by the brain and biological mechanisms found in nature - Discusses the theory and application of algorithms and neural networks, natural computing, machine learning and compression perception

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Elsevier

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0128204044

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9780128204047

Rulin waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China

By: Shang Wei

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Rulin waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China

By: Shang Wei

Rulin waishi (The Unofficial History of the Scholars) is more than a landmark in the history of the Chinese novel. This eighteenth-century work, which was deeply embedded in the intellectual and literary discourses of its time, challenges the reader to come to grips with the mid-Qing debates over ritual and ritualism, and the construction of history, narrative, and lyricism. Wu Jingzi’s (1701–54) ironic portrait of literati life was unprecedented in its comprehensive treatment of the degeneration of mores, the predicaments of official institutions, and the Confucian elite’s futile struggle to reassert moral and cultural authority. Like many of his fellow literati, Wu found the vernacular novel an expressive and malleable medium for discussing elite concerns. Through a close reading of Rulin waishi, Shang Wei seeks to answer such questions as What accounts for the literati’s enthusiasm for writing and reading novels? Does this enthusiasm bespeak a conscious effort to develop a community of critical discourse outside the official world? Why did literati authors eschew publication? What are the bases for their social and cultural criticisms? How far do their criticisms go, given the authors’ alleged Confucianism? And if literati authors were interested solely in recovering moral and cultural hegemony for their class, how can we explain the irony found in their works?

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BRILL

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1684170435

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The Belt and Road Initiative: Key Concepts

By: Huping Shang

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The Belt and Road Initiative: Key Concepts

By: Huping Shang

This book introduces the “Belt and Road” in its entirety, including what it is, what it aims to do, what it can do and how. This book can serve as a helpful resource for the general public, it can improve their understanding about the “Belt and Road” and its relative economics, policy, culture and so on. Also, this book is good reading for academics, as well as students of public management, politics, finance and economics. The “Belt and Road” advances a whole complementary set of new ideas on international cooperation. Conforming to the principles of peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit, it stipulates policy coordination, facilitates connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration and people-to-people bonds as the five major contents, and promotes practical cooperation in all fields. It also works to build an open and win-win regional community featuring mutual political trust, economic integration and cultural inclusiveness.

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Springer

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9811392013

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9789811392016

A Historical and Legal Comparison between Tianxia Wei Gong and Quod Omnes Tangit

By: Yifan Shang

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A Historical and Legal Comparison between Tianxia Wei Gong and Quod Omnes Tangit

By: Yifan Shang

This book explores the historical and legal importance of two principles, Quod Omnes Tangit, and Tianxia Wei Gong, which have played significant roles in European and Chinese political and legal history. While Quod Omnes Tangit has been thoroughly researched, Tianxia Wei Gong has not been systematically examined. This thesis fills this void and connects these two principles for the first time. Quod Omnes Tangit was initially introduced in Justinian's Codex Civil, while Tianxia Wei Gong originated from Liji, one of the books in a key series of works by Confucius. Liji is comparable to the Thora in the Old Testament and is considered as important as law in Chinese legal history. Both principles have undergone comparable developmental processes, with scholars contributing to their reinterpretation. This book thoroughly examines the interpretations of individual scholars, with particular attention given to Liang Qichao, who is the only one to have mentioned both Tianxia Wei Gong and Quod Omnes Tangit. The book also provides an explanation for the original discrepancies in their concepts, particularly their methodologies in distributing and legitimizing rights. This research will be of interest to legal philosophers and historians in both the Western and Eastern worlds, legal practitioners and policymakers, and researchers seeking to explain current events and explore fundamental differences between the East and West.

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Springer Nature

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3031464672

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9783031464676

Sustainable Ecological Restoration and Conservation in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region

A Comprehensive Review

By: Zhanhuan Shang,A. Allan Degen,Devendra Gauchan,Madan Koirala,Muhammad Khalid Rafiq

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Sustainable Ecological Restoration and Conservation in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region

A Comprehensive Review

By: Zhanhuan Shang,A. Allan Degen,Devendra Gauchan,Madan Koirala,Muhammad Khalid Rafiq

The years 2021 to 2030 have been designated as "The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration". Ecological restoration and biodiversity conservation efforts face unprecedented challenges, especially in developing countries and areas, such as the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. This huge HKH region, which includes areas in eight separate countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India, China, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan), is a biodiversity hotspot with a vast array of ecosystems, landscapes, peoples and cultures. It is known as one of 'the pulses of the world'. However, the HKH is also the world's largest and poorest mountain region, where landscapes and environments have been severely damaged as a result of climate change and human activities. Coordinating conservation and restoration policies, sharing knowledge and funds, and maintaining livelihoods are major challenges and are in urgent need of improvement. This book details the past and current ecological problems in the HKH region, and the threats and challenges that ecosystems and local people face. It pays special attention to developments of transformative adaptations and presents examples of sustainable conservation and ecological restoration management practices. This book is essential reading for ecologists and conservation biologists involved in large-scale ecological restoration projects, along with practitioners, graduate students, policy makers and international development workers.

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CABI

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1800622554

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9781800622555

Mechanics of Bio-Sediment Transport

By: Hongwei Fang,Lei Huang,Huiming Zhao,Wei Cheng,Yishan Chen,Mehdi Fazeli,Qianqian Shang

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Mechanics of Bio-Sediment Transport

By: Hongwei Fang,Lei Huang,Huiming Zhao,Wei Cheng,Yishan Chen,Mehdi Fazeli,Qianqian Shang

The main focus of this book is the transport mechanics of sediment particles coated with microbial biofilm, which is called bio-sediment. The book also addresses the question of how to measure and simulate the considerable variation in the properties of natural sediment associated with microbial biofilm, ranging from the micro-scale surface morphology to the macro-scale sediment transport. Nowadays most studies to elucidate the mechanisms of sediment transport have concentrated on physical-chemical sediment properties, little work explicitly coupled sediment dynamics and the environmental effects under the influence of micro-ecosystem, thus leaving a serious gap in water and sediment sciences as well as water ecological research. With respect to physical-chemical sediment properties, this book has been undertaken to evaluate and quantify the effect of biological factors - biofilm on sediment transport mechanics. The chapters cover topics including development of bio-sediment and its properties; model of biofilm growth on sediment substratum; bedform and flow resistance of bio-sediment bed; incipient velocity and settling velocity of bio-sediment; bedload and suspended load transport for bio-sediment; numerical simulation of bio-sediment transport. Besides, the measurement technology, analysis method and expression approach introduced in this book combine the characteristics of hydraulic, environmental and microbial research, having more immediate innovation. This book will be of interest to researchers, managers, practitioners, policy and decision makers, international institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations, educators, as well as graduate and undergraduate students in the field of hydraulics and river dynamics. It will help to understand the relevance of sediment transport and biofilm growth under the role of aqueous micro-ecosystem, to introduce better tools for the simulation and prediction of bio-sediment transport, and to provide a scientific basis and application foundation for the research of interaction between sediment particles and ecological and environmental factors.

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Springer Nature

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3662611589

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9783662611586

Deep Love Unforgettable

Volume 4

By: Mo Shang

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Deep Love Unforgettable

Volume 4

By: Mo Shang

On the anniversary of their wedding, Little San performed well with his poor acting skills. Facing the criticism of the crowd and the indifference of his husband, Su Mei's heart was like dying embers. Three years of marriage was like three years of imprisonment. Chu Mingyuan's appearance was like a ray of light, carrying Su Mo away from the darkness. After all, they had met in university with unforgettable feelings ... Before he met the right person, all he had done was pass by them casually ...

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Funstory

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1649556330

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Theoretical and Computational Acoustics 2003

Honolulu, Hawaii, 11-15 August 2003

By: Alexandra Tolstoy,Yu-Chiung Teng,Erchang Shang

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Theoretical and Computational Acoustics 2003

Honolulu, Hawaii, 11-15 August 2003

By: Alexandra Tolstoy,Yu-Chiung Teng,Erchang Shang

The ICTCA conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for active researchers in academia and industry who are of varying backgrounds to discuss the state-of-the-art developments and results in theoretical and computational acoustics and related topics. The papers presented at the meeting cover acoustical problems of common interest across disciplines and their accurate mathematical and numerical modeling. This volume collects papers that were presented at the sixth meeting. The subjects include geophysics, scattering and diffraction, the parabolic equation (with special sessions in honor of Dr Fred Tappert), seismic exploration, boundary element methods, visualization, oil industry applications, shallow water acoustics, matched field tracking, bubbles, waves in complex media, seabed interactions, ocean acoustic inversion, and mathematical issues in underwater acoustics.

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World Scientific

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9812702601

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9789812702609

Seeking Temple

Volume 4

By: Shang GuanMing

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Seeking Temple

Volume 4

By: Shang GuanMing

Wanli Fang family's son is born with a chronic disease. In order to find the legendary children's temple and the god baby, he had a lot of ups and downs on his way. He also met a series of strange things, deadly stone forest, revived ancient god killer, Taibai food, ghost land corpse, blood color solitary Eagle Ridge, King's tomb In this series of appalling adventures, Fang Zishu, a young man, changes his life and hands to the stars.

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Funstory

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1647966841

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The Great Wall of Lucy Wu

By: Wendy Wan-Long Shang

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The Great Wall of Lucy Wu

By: Wendy Wan-Long Shang

Lucy Wu, aspiring basketball star and interior designer, is on the verge of having the best year of her life. She's ready to rule the school as a sixth grader, go out for captain of the school basketball team, and take over the bedroom she has always shared with her sister. In an instant, though, her plans are shattered when she finds out that Yi Po, her beloved grandmother's sister, is coming to visit for several months -- and is staying in Lucy's room. Lucy's vision of a perfect year begins to crumble, and in its place come an unwelcome roommate, foiled birthday plans, a bully who tries to scare Lucy off the basketball team, and Chinese school with the annoying know-it-all Talent Chang. Lucy's year is ruined -- or is it? A wonderfully funny, warm, and heartfelt tale about the ways life often reveals silver linings in the most unexpected of clouds.

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545510333

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9780545510332

NGOs and Accountability in China

Child Welfare Organisations

By: Jude Howell,Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

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NGOs and Accountability in China

Child Welfare Organisations

By: Jude Howell,Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

This book investigates how NGOs in authoritarian states, such as China, craft accountability and legitimacy to ensure their survival. It explores this through the lens of child welfare organisations from 2007 to 2017. The authors provide a fresh approach to accountability that is more attuned to the particular conditions of authoritarianism. The project explores the effects of power relations in shaping the hierarchies of accountability and participation that emerge and the attention given to different voices such as those of donor, government, and users. Essential reading for researchers and policy makers interested in development, NGO, social policy, political science, and child welfare studies.

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Springer

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3319902210

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Underwater Biomimetic Vehicle-Manipulator System

Control and Planning

By: Shuo Wang,Yu Wang,Min Tan,Rui Wang,Xiang Dong,Qingping Wei,Liuji Shang

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Underwater Biomimetic Vehicle-Manipulator System

Control and Planning

By: Shuo Wang,Yu Wang,Min Tan,Rui Wang,Xiang Dong,Qingping Wei,Liuji Shang

This book is about the design and control of biomimetic underwater robots. It explains the six aspects of the underwater biomimetic vehicle- manipulator system in detail and provides practical examples. This book is the authors’ long-term exploration of the theoretical and technical issues in the development of the underwater biomimetic vehicle-manipulator system and is written based on more than 15 years of scientific research and practical experience. This book is a helpful reference for the researchers, engineers, master and Ph.D. students in the field of biomimetic underwater robots.

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Springer Nature

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9819906555

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9789819906550

Biogeochemical Cycle of Mercury in Reservoir Systems in Wujiang River Basin, Southwest China

By: Xinbin Feng,Bo Meng,Haiyu Yan,Xuewu Fu,Heng Yao,Lihai Shang

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Biogeochemical Cycle of Mercury in Reservoir Systems in Wujiang River Basin, Southwest China

By: Xinbin Feng,Bo Meng,Haiyu Yan,Xuewu Fu,Heng Yao,Lihai Shang

This book presents an intensive study on the biogeochemical cycle of mercury in a river-reservoir system in Wujiang River Basin, the upper branch of the Yangtze River. Six reservoirs located in the mainstream of the Wujiang River and their corresponding inflow/outflow rivers were selected for inclusion in this study, which was conducted by researchers from the Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The concentration and distribution of Hg in reservoirs (the water column, sediment, sediment pore water), inflow/outflow rivers of reservoirs, and wet deposition in Wujiang River Basin were systematically investigated, and measurements were taken of the water/air exchange flux of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM). On the basis of the data gathered, a detailed mass balance of total mercury (THg) and methylmercury (MeHg) in the six reservoirs was developed. In addition, the book identifies the primary factors controlling Hg methylation in the river-reservoir system in Wujiang River Basin. The accumulation and bio-magnification of Hg species within food chains in reservoirs and human health risk of MeHg exposure through fish consumption are also included in this book.

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Springer

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9811067198

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9789811067198

Phrase Mining from Massive Text and Its Applications

By: Jialu Liu,Jingbo Shang,Jiawei Han

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Phrase Mining from Massive Text and Its Applications

By: Jialu Liu,Jingbo Shang,Jiawei Han

A lot of digital ink has been spilled on "big data" over the past few years. Most of this surge owes its origin to the various types of unstructured data in the wild, among which the proliferation of text-heavy data is particularly overwhelming, attributed to the daily use of web documents, business reviews, news, social posts, etc., by so many people worldwide.A core challenge presents itself: How can one efficiently and effectively turn massive, unstructured text into structured representation so as to further lay the foundation for many other downstream text mining applications? In this book, we investigated one promising paradigm for representing unstructured text, that is, through automatically identifying high-quality phrases from innumerable documents. In contrast to a list of frequent n-grams without proper filtering, users are often more interested in results based on variable-length phrases with certain semantics such as scientific concepts, organizations, slogans, and so on. We propose new principles and powerful methodologies to achieve this goal, from the scenario where a user can provide meaningful guidance to a fully automated setting through distant learning. This book also introduces applications enabled by the mined phrases and points out some promising research directions.

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Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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1627059180

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9781627059183

Military Modernisation in Southeast Asia after the Cold War

Acquisition, Retention, and Geostrategic Impacts

By: Shang-Su Wu

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Military Modernisation in Southeast Asia after the Cold War

Acquisition, Retention, and Geostrategic Impacts

By: Shang-Su Wu

Southeast Asian countries represent a wide range of approaches to military modernisation due to their great diversity in politics, economies, geography and other factors. Bounded by the Pacific and Indian Oceans and located between China and India is the setting for the geostrategic impacts of military modernisation in Southeast Asian countries. Differing from previous research focused on military acquisition, this book additionally covers retention of assets and carefully examines the ageing issues that affect readiness and capabilities. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive view of military modernisation. This book also compares each country’s situation in the region in terms of military strength and security challenges to elaborate on the geostrategic impacts of military modernisation. The ten cases of military modernisation in the post-Cold War context provide rich content for readers to explore the evolution of military modernisation in developing countries after 1991. This book sheds light on security studies of Southeast Asia and is a useful resource for academic researchers, policy-makers and defence practitioners.

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Taylor & Francis

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104000847X

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9781040008478

Lean Construction Management

The Toyota Way

By: Shang Gao,Sui Pheng Low

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Lean Construction Management

The Toyota Way

By: Shang Gao,Sui Pheng Low

The book presents a mixed research method adopted to assess and present the Toyota Way practices within construction firms in general and for firms in China specifically. The results of an extensive structured questionnaire survey based on the Toyota Way-styled attributes identified were developed and data collected from building professionals working in construction firms is presented. The quantitative data presented in the book explains the status quo of the Toyota Way-styled practices implemented in the construction industry, as well as the extent to which these attributes were perceived for lean construction management. The book highlights all the actionable attributes derived from the Toyota Way model appreciated by the building professionals, but alerts the readers that some attributes felled short of implementation. Further findings from in-depth interviews and case studies are also presented in the book to provide to readers an understanding how these Toyota Way practices can be implemented in real-life projects. Collectively, all the empirical findings presented in this book can serve to enhance understanding of Toyota Way practices in the lean construction management context. The readers are then guided through to understand the gaps between actual practice and Toyota Way-styled practices, and the measures that they may undertake to circumvent the challenges for implementation. The book also presents to readers the SWOT analysis that addresses the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats towards the implementation of the Toyota Way in the construction industry. The book prescribes the Toyota Way model for use in construction firms to strategically implement lean construction management. The checklist presented in the book enables readers to draw lessons that may be used additionally as a holistic assessment tool for measuring the maturity of firms with respect to their Toyota Way implementation. Consequent to this, management would then be in a better position to develop plans for Toyota Way implementation by focusing on weak areas, strengthening them, and thus increasing the likelihood of success in the implementation of the Toyota Way. In a nutshell, this book provides a comprehensive and valuable resource for firms not only in the construction industry but also businesses outside of the construction sector to better understand the Toyota Way and how this understanding can translate to implementation of lean construction/business management to enhance profitability and survivability in an increasingly competitive global market place.

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9812870148

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9789812870148

Secure Quantum Network Coding Theory

By: Tao Shang,Jianwei Liu

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Secure Quantum Network Coding Theory

By: Tao Shang,Jianwei Liu

This is the first book on secure quantum network coding, which integrates quantum cryptography into quantum communication. It summarizes the main research findings on quantum network coding, while also systematically introducing readers to secure quantum network coding schemes. With regard to coding methods, coding models and coding security, the book subsequently provides a series of quantum network coding schemes based on the integration of quantum cryptography into quantum communication. Furthermore, it describes the general security analysis method for quantum cryptographic protocols. Accordingly, the book equips readers with effective tools for researching and applying quantum network coding.

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9811533865

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Sharing Higher Education's Promise beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Peter Darvas,Shang Gao,Yijun Shen,Bilal Bawany

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Sharing Higher Education's Promise beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Peter Darvas,Shang Gao,Yijun Shen,Bilal Bawany

Despite a spectacular expansion of the higher education sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, the supply of tertiary education has generally failed to keep pace with demand and the region continues to lag all other regions in terms of access to tertiary education. This is in part a consequence of deeply entrenched patterns of inequitable access to higher education, and the perpetuation of what researchers refer to as “elite systems†?. To date, access to tertiary education in Sub-Saharan Africa has unduly benefitted students drawn from the region’s wealthiest households, and overall enrollment remains disproportionately male, and metropolitan. These factors stifle the catalytic potential of higher education, corroding its potential for driving economic growth and sustaining poverty reduction. Instead, patterns of access to tertiary education have generally reinforced and reproduced social inequality, instead of eroding its pernicious social and economic effects. This report aims to inform an improved understanding of equity in tertiary enrollment in Sub-Saharan African countries, and to examine the extent to which inequity functions as a bottleneck inhibiting the ability of African universities to effectively drive improvements in overall quality of life and economic competitiveness. In our survey of the evidence, we also aim to identify which policies most effectively address the challenge of promoting equity of access in SSA tertiary education systems. In order to achieve these objectives, the report collects, generates and analyzes empirical evidence on patterns of equity, examines the underlying causes of inequity, and evaluates government policies for addressing inequity.

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1464810516

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Lean Construction Management

The Toyota Way

By: Shang Gao,Sui Pheng Low

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Lean Construction Management

The Toyota Way

By: Shang Gao,Sui Pheng Low

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Springer

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9812870148

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The Book of Lord Shang

Apologetics of State Power in Early China

By: Yang Shang

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The Book of Lord Shang

Apologetics of State Power in Early China

By: Yang Shang

Compiled in China in the fourth–third centuries BCE, The Book of Lord Shang argues for a new powerful government to rule over society and turn every man into a diligent tiller and valiant soldier. Creating a “rich state and a strong army” will be the first step toward unification of “All-under-Heaven.” These ideas served the state of Qin that eventually created the first imperial polity on Chinese soil. In Yuri Pines’s translation, The Book of Lord Shang’s intellectual boldness and surprisingly modern-looking ideas shine through, underscoring the text’s vibrant contribution to global political thought. The Book of Lord Shang is attributed to the statesman and theorist Shang Yang and his followers. It epitomizes the ideology of China’s so-called Legalist School of thought. In the ninety years since the work’s previous translation, major breakthroughs in studies of the book’s dating and context have recast our understanding of its messages. Pines applies these advances to a whole new reading of the text’s content and function in the sociopolitical life of its times and subsequent centuries. This abridged and revised edition of Pines’s annotated translation is ideal for newcomers to the book while also guiding early Chinese scholars and comparatists. It highlights the text’s practical success and its influence on political thought and political practice in traditional and modern China.

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0231550383

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Theoretical and Computational Acoustics 2001

Beijing, China, 21-25 May 2001

By: Er-Chang Shang

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Theoretical and Computational Acoustics 2001

Beijing, China, 21-25 May 2001

By: Er-Chang Shang

This book contains 67 papers presented at ICTCA2001. It includes three keynote addresses surveying the frontier developments in computational and theoretical acoustics. The papers cover aero-, seismo- and ocean acoustics, as well as ultrasonics. Computational methods, numerical simulation, theoretical analysis and experimental results are emphasized by different papers.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

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9812777369

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Theoretical and Computational Acoustics 2005

Hangzhou, China, 19-22 September 2005

By: Dr. Alexandra Tolstoy,Erchang Shang,Yu-Chiung Teng

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Theoretical and Computational Acoustics 2005

Hangzhou, China, 19-22 September 2005

By: Dr. Alexandra Tolstoy,Erchang Shang,Yu-Chiung Teng

Preface -- Reconstruction of sound pressure field by IFEM / R. Anderssohn [und weitere] -- Seabed parameter estimation by inversion of long range sound propagation fields / W. Chen, L. Ma and N.R. Chapman -- High resolution radon transform and wavefield separation / J. Chen [und weitere] -- Three-dimensional acoustic simulation on acoustic scattering by nonlinear internal wave in coastal ocean / L.Y.S. Chiu, C.-F. Chen and J.F. Lynch -- Estimation of shear wave velocity in seafloor sediment by seismo-acoustic interface waves: a case study for geotechnical application / H. Dong, J.M. Hovem and S.A. Frivik. The optimum source depth distribution for reverberation inversion in a shallow-water waveguide / T.F. Gao and E.C. Shang -- Semi-automatic adjoint PE modeling for geoacoustic inversion / J.-P. Hermand [und weitere] -- Modeling 3D wave propagation in the ocean coupled with elastic bottom and irregular interface / L.-W. Hsieh, D. Lee and C.-F. Chen -- Reflections from steel plates with doubly periodic anechoic coatings / S. Ivansson -- Seismic characterization and monitoring of thin-layer reservoir / L. Jin, X. Chen and J. Li -- The energy-conserving property of the standard PE / D. Lee and E.-C. Shang -- Estimation of anisotropic properties from a surface seismic survey and log data / R. Li and M. Urosevic -- Using Gaussian beam model in oceans with penetrating slope bottoms / Y.-T. Lin [und weitere] -- Application Niche genetic algorithms to AVOA inversion in orthorhombic media / M.-H. Lu and H.-Z. Yang -- Reconstruction of seismic impedance from marine seismic data / B.R. Mabuza [und weitere] -- Characterization of an underwater acoustic signal using the statistics of the wavelet subband coefficients / M.I. Taroudakis, G. Tzagkarakis and P. Tsakalides -- Some theoretical aspects for elastic wave modeling in a recently developed spectral element method / X.M. Wang, G. Seriani and W.J. Lin -- Inversion of bottom back-scattering matrix / J.R. Wu, T.F. Gao and E.C. Shang -- New methods of scattering coefficients computation for the prediction of room acoustic parameters / X. Zeng, C.L. Christensen and J.H. Rindel

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981277260X

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