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Impacts of Climate and Human Activities on Water Resources and Quality

Integrated Regional Assessment

By: Weili Duan,Kaoru Takara

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Impacts of Climate and Human Activities on Water Resources and Quality

Integrated Regional Assessment

By: Weili Duan,Kaoru Takara

With the rapid increase of world population, the global water shortage is set to be the major crises of the twenty-first century; that is, population dynamics (growth, age distribution, urbanization and migration) create pressures on freshwater resources due to the increased water demands and pollution. Moreover, water resources management faces a new uncertainty- i.e. the potential for longer-term and more persistent climate change nowadays, which, in coming years, may significantly affect the availability of supply and patterns of water demand. This book mainly focuses on the impact of climate change and human activities on water quality and water resources in Asia Countries. It begins by describing the characteristics of water related disasters in the world. Then, the book analyzes the changes of floods and associated socio-economic damages for whole China over the last century, and assesses water quality and pollution source for the Yangtze River Basin, suggesting water-related disasters would become more intense, longer lasting, and/or more frequent in a future warmer climate. Then, after investigating spatiotemporal trends and causes of water quality and water quality incidents (Chapter 4) and precipitation extreme events (Chapter 5) in Japan, subsequent two chapters mainly evaluate the climate and human impacts on precipitation variations, water quality and water resources in the Hokkaido area. The final chapter comprehensively analyzes climate change impacts on water resources in the Aral Sea Basin, and then estimate the water requirements and water deficits for irrigation, future agricultural yields of seven major crops, and land and water productivity in four provinces of Turkmenistan considering climate change, population growth, and three socio-economic development scenarios. All results obtained from this book may provide a means to reduce water quality incidents and mitigate future negative impacts by adapting water management. Furthermore, the improved methods for water quality modeling in data scarce regions are transferable to other study areas and applicable in future research.

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Springer Nature

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981139394X

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9789811393945

Seeking Modernity in China’s Name

Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927

By: Weili Ye

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Seeking Modernity in China’s Name

Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927

By: Weili Ye

The students who came to the United States in the early twentieth century to become modern Chinese by studying at American universities played pivotal roles in Chinese intellectual, economic, and diplomatic life upon their return to China. These former students exemplified key aspects of Chinese "modernity," introducing new social customs, new kinds of interpersonal relationships, new ways of associating in groups, and a new way of life in general. Although there have been books about a few especially well-known persons among them, this is the first book in either English or Chinese to study the group as a whole. The collapse of the traditional examination system and the need to earn a living outside the bureaucracy meant that although this was not the first generation of Chinese to break with traditional ways of thinking, these students were the first generation of Chinese to live differently. Based on student publications, memoirs, and other writings found in this country and in China, the author describes their multifaceted experience of life in a foreign, modern environment, involving student associations, professional activities, racial discrimination, new forms of recreation and cultural expression, and, in the case of women students, the unique challenges they faced as females in two changing societies.

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Stanford University Press

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0804780412

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9780804780414

China’s Education, Curriculum Knowledge and Cultural Inscriptions

Dancing with The Wind

By: Weili Zhao

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China’s Education, Curriculum Knowledge and Cultural Inscriptions

Dancing with The Wind

By: Weili Zhao

With a focus on the role of discourse and language in education, this book examines China’s educational reform from an original perspective that avoids mapping on Westernized educational sensibilities to a Chinese environment. Zhao untangles the tradition-modernity division expressed in China’s educational language about the body and teacher-student difference. Exploring the historical and cultural implications of the ways China’s schooling is talked about and acted upon, Zhao argues that Chinese notion "wind" (feng) is a defining aspect of Chinese teaching and learning. Incorporating Western and Chinese literature, this book explores the language of education, curriculum, and knowledge on a cross-cultural landscape and as cultural inscriptions.

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307

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Routledge

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1351848119

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9781351848114

Optimal Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks

By: Weili Wu,Zhao Zhang,Wonjun Lee,Ding-Zhu Du

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Optimal Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks

By: Weili Wu,Zhao Zhang,Wonjun Lee,Ding-Zhu Du

This book will serve as a reference, presenting state-of-the-art research on theoretical aspects of optimal sensor coverage problems. Readers will find it a useful tool for furthering developments on theory and applications of optimal coverage; much of the content can serve as material for advanced topics courses at the graduate level. The book is well versed with the hottest research topics such as Lifetime of Coverage, Weighted Sensor Cover, k-Coverage, Heterogeneous Sensors, Barrier, Sweep and Partial Coverage, Mobile Sensors, Camera Sensors and Energy-Harvesting Sensors, and more. Topics are introduced in a natural order from simple covers to connected covers, to the lifetime problem. Later, the book begins revisiting earlier problems ranging from the introduction of weights to coverage by k sensors and partial coverage, and from sensor heterogeneity to novel problems such as the barrier coverage problem. The book ends with coverage of mobile sensors, camera sensors, energy-harvesting sensors, underwater sensors, and crowdsensing.

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Springer Nature

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3030528243

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9783030528249

Impacts of Climate and Human Activities on Water Resources and Quality

Integrated Regional Assessment

By: Weili Duan,Kaoru Takara

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Integrated Regional Assessment

By: Weili Duan,Kaoru Takara

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Impacts of Climate and Human Activities on Water Resources and Quality

Impacts of Climate and Human Activities on Water Resources and Quality

Seeking Modernity in China’s Name

Seeking Modernity in China’s Name

China’s Education, Curriculum Knowledge and Cultural Inscriptions

China’s Education, Curriculum Knowledge and Cultural Inscriptions

Optimal Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks

Optimal Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks

Impacts of Climate and Human Activities on Water Resources and Quality

Impacts of Climate and Human Activities on Water Resources and Quality

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