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Community Governance in China

History and Reality

By: Wu Xiaolin

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This book provides an overview of China’s distinctive community governance, examining its 2000-year history and describing its recent development under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. The book presents new insights into community governance in China. It explores the historical genesis of community governance in imperial China, providing a link that helps to understand the relationship between ancient and modern community governance. By explaining the practical differences between “centralised governance” and “networked governance” in these contexts, it moves away from the myth of Tönniesian community and dissects the conceptual differences between Chinese and Western communities. This book is unique in its focus on the economic structure that underlies community governance and its identification of the root cause. It also investigates China’s “poli-community” and the relationship between the state, society, and the family. Finally, the book proposes a potential approach for transitioning from a binary opposition between the state and society to a new mechanism of “state-created society” and building “associated communities”. This volume will be a valuable reference for scholars and students of Chinese politics, public management, and sociology, as well as for practitioners of community governance.

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1040132359

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Behavior Analysis and Modeling of Traffic Participants

By: Xiaolin Song,Haotian Cao

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Behavior Analysis and Modeling of Traffic Participants

By: Xiaolin Song,Haotian Cao

A road traffic participant is a person who directly participates in road traffic, such as vehicle drivers, passengers, pedestrians, or cyclists, however, traffic accidents cause numerous property losses, bodily injuries, and even deaths to them. To bring down the rate of traffic fatalities, the development of the intelligent vehicle is a much-valued technology nowadays. It is of great significance to the decision making and planning of a vehicle if the pedestrians' intentions and future trajectories, as well as those of surrounding vehicles, could be predicted, all in an effort to increase driving safety. Based on the image sequence collected by onboard monocular cameras, we use the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based network with an enhanced attention mechanism to realize the intention and trajectory prediction of pedestrians and surrounding vehicles. However, although the fully automatic driving era still seems far away, human drivers are still a crucial part of the road‒driver‒vehicle system under current circumstances, even dealing with low levels of automatic driving vehicles. Considering that more than 90 percent of fatal traffic accidents were caused by human errors, thus it is meaningful to recognize the secondary task while driving, as well as the driving style recognition, to develop a more personalized advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) or intelligent vehicle. We use the graph convolutional networks for spatial feature reasoning and the LSTM networks with the attention mechanism for temporal motion feature learning within the image sequence to realize the driving secondary-task recognition. Moreover, aggressive drivers are more likely to be involved in traffic accidents, and the driving risk level of drivers could be affected by many potential factors, such as demographics and personality traits. Thus, we will focus on the driving style classification for the longitudinal car-following scenario. Also, based on the Structural Equation Model (SEM) and Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP 2) naturalistic driving database, the relationships among drivers' demographic characteristics, sensation seeking, risk perception, and risky driving behaviors are fully discussed. Results and conclusions from this short book are expected to offer potential guidance and benefits for promoting the development of intelligent vehicle technology and driving safety.

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Springer Nature

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3031015096

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9783031015090

Decision Making, Planning, and Control Strategies for Intelligent Vehicles

By: Haotian Cao,Mingjun Li,Song Zhao,Xiaolin Song

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Decision Making, Planning, and Control Strategies for Intelligent Vehicles

By: Haotian Cao,Mingjun Li,Song Zhao,Xiaolin Song

The intelligent vehicle will play a crucial and essential role in the development of the future intelligent transportation system, which is developing toward the connected driving environment, ultimate driving safety, and comforts, as well as green efficiency. While the decision making, planning, and control are extremely vital components of the intelligent vehicle, these modules act as a bridge, connecting the subsystem of the environmental perception and the bottom-level control execution of the vehicle as well. This short book covers various strategies of designing the decision making, trajectory planning, and tracking control, as well as share driving, of the human-automation to adapt to different levels of the automated driving system. More specifically, we introduce an end-to-end decision-making module based on the deep Q-learning, and improved path-planning methods based on artificial potentials and elastic bands which are designed for obstacle avoidance. Then, the optimal method based on the convex optimization and the natural cubic spline is presented. As for the speed planning, planning methods based on the multi-object optimization and high-order polynomials, and a method with convex optimization and natural cubic splines, are proposed for the non-vehicle-following scenario (e.g., free driving, lane change, obstacle avoidance), while the planning method based on vehicle-following kinematics and the model predictive control (MPC) is adopted for the car-following scenario. We introduce two robust tracking methods for the trajectory following. The first one, based on nonlinear vehicle longitudinal or path-preview dynamic systems, utilizes the adaptive sliding mode control (SMC) law which can compensate for uncertainties to follow the speed or path profiles. The second one is based on the five-degrees-of-freedom nonlinear vehicle dynamical system that utilizes the linearized time-varying MPC to track the speed and path profile simultaneously. Toward human-automation cooperative driving systems, we introduce two control strategies to address the control authority and conflict management problems between the human driver and the automated driving systems. Driving safety field and game theory are utilized to propose a game-based strategy, which is used to deal with path conflicts during obstacle avoidance. Driver's driving intention, situation assessment, and performance index are employed for the development of the fuzzy-based strategy. Multiple case studies and demos are included in each chapter to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach. We sincerely hope the contents of this short book provide certain theoretical guidance and technical supports for the development of intelligent vehicle technology.

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3031015061

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The Rise of West Lake

A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty

By: Xiaolin Duan

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The Rise of West Lake

A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty

By: Xiaolin Duan

Lovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China’s east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site since the twelfth century. Now as then, visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship in its temples, and immortalize it in poetry and painting. Hangzhou and West Lake have long served as icons of Chinese landscape appreciation, literary and artistic expression, and tourism. In the first in-depth English-language study of this picturesque locale, Xiaolin Duan examines the interplay between human enterprise and the natural environment during the Song dynasty (960–1279). After the Song lost north China to the Jurchens and the imperial court fled south, a new capital was established at Hangzhou, making the area the national political and cultural center. West Lake became a model for idealized nature, fashioned by the diverse activities of its visitors. Duan shows how engagements in, on, and around West Lake influenced visitors’ conceptualization of nature and sparked the emergence of the lake as a tourist destination, highlighting how the natural landscape played a role in shaping social and cultural constructs. Incorporating evidence from miscellanies, local and temple gazetteers, paintings, maps, poems, and anecdotes, The Rise of West Lake explores the complexity of the lake as an interactive site where ecological and economic concerns contended and where spiritual pursuits overlapped with aesthetic ones.

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University of Washington Press

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0295747110

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State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest

By: Xiaolin Guo

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State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest

By: Xiaolin Guo

Twentieth century China has seen local societies undergo unprecedented transformations accompanied by a remarkable continuity in state practice. In this path-breaking study of two ethnically different communities, the matrilineal Mosuo and the patrilineal Han, in northwest Yunnan province, the author traces cultural change from a historical perspective in relation to the ecological environment and political systems. The treatment of state penetration into local society challenges the conventional binary narratives of state-society and Han/non-Han relations. With its interdisciplinary approach, the book enriches the anthropology of China by framing ethnicity issues in terms of local politics and inter-relationships between levels of government, and at the same time extends the analytical perimeter of the study of the Chinese state to the national periphery.

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BRILL

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9047433629

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An Object of Seduction

Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700

By: Xiaolin Duan

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An Object of Seduction

Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700

By: Xiaolin Duan

The first book-length English-language study focusing on the early modern export of Chinese silk to New Spain from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, An Object of Seduction compares and contrasts the two regions from perspectives of the sericulture development, the widespread circulation of silk fashion, and the government attempts at regulating the use of silk. Xiaolin Duan argues that the increasing demand for silk on the worldwide market on the one hand contributed to the parallel development of silk fashion and sericulture in China and New Spain, and on the other hand created conflicts on imperial regulations about foreign trade and hierarchical systems. Incorporating evidence from local gazetteers, correspondence, manual books, illustrated treatises, and miscellanies, this book explores how the growing desire for and production of raw silk and silk textiles empowered individuals and societies to claim and redefine their positions in changing time and space, thus breaking away from the traditional state control.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793614911

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9781793614919

The Quality of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China

By: Xiaolin Wang,Limin Wang,Yan Wang

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The Quality of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China

By: Xiaolin Wang,Limin Wang,Yan Wang

The rapid growth over the past three decades has been instrumental in lifting over 600 million people in China out of poverty, and people want to know why and how it happened. International evidence has made it clear that a global economy based on current patterns of consumption and production is simply not sustainable. Policymakers have repeatedly been advised that economic growth, poverty reduction, equity, and environment and resource sustainability must be integrated into national development strategies. What about China? The principle limitation of existing China-focused economic studies lies in its imbalances from the perspective of analysis and the impact of growth on poverty and inequality. A limited number of studies are devoted to structural transformation and China’s structural imbalances, social disparities and the impact of science and technology on growth and productivity. This book addresses the alarming environmental consequences of China’s growth patterns within an overall quality growth framework. It contributes to the economic growth and development literature and current policy discourse on China by expanding the policy analysis to include several important new areas using the most recent data available. This includes analyzing the macroeconomic factors that underlie the need for China to advance its economic transformation; examining how social inequalities, including health, education and gender, have evolved and presenting the scale of environmental problems associated with China’s growth miracle. This report represents the first attempt to integrate the issue of environmental sustainability and climate change into the quality growth context, providing readers with a comprehensive account of China’s success and challenges in its three decades of rapid economic growth.

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Springer

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3642363466

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9783642363467

Noise and Torsional Vibration Analysis of Hybrid Vehicles

By: Xiaolin Tang,Yanjun Huang,Hong Wang,Yechen Qin

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Noise and Torsional Vibration Analysis of Hybrid Vehicles

By: Xiaolin Tang,Yanjun Huang,Hong Wang,Yechen Qin

Thanks to the potential of reducing fuel consumption and emissions, hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have been attracting more and more attention from car manufacturers and researchers. Due to involving two energy sources, i.e., engine and battery, the powertrain in HEVs is a complicated electromechanical coupling system that generates noise and vibration different from that of a traditional vehicle. Accordingly, it is very important to explore the noise and vibration characteristics of HEVs. In this book, a hybrid vehicle with two motors is taken as an example, consisting of a compound planetary gear set (CPGS) as the power-split device, to analyze the noise and vibration characteristics. It is specifically intended for graduates and anyone with an interest in the electrification of full hybrid vehicles. The book begins with the research background and significance of the HEV. The second chapter presents the structural description and working principal of the target hybrid vehicle. Chapter 3 highlights the noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) tests and corresponding analysis of the hybrid powertrain. Chapter 4 provides transmission system parameters and meshing stiffness calculation. Chapter 5 discusses the mathematical modeling and analyzes torsional vibration (TV) of HEVs. Finally, modeling of the hybrid powertrain with ADAMS is given in Chapter 6.

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3031014987

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Rebirth: Please Take Care This Life

Volume 2

By: Zhang XiaoLin

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Rebirth: Please Take Care This Life

Volume 2

By: Zhang XiaoLin

On Christmas Eve, he encountered a third party that was trying to force him into a corner. He was poisoned, and then caught in a fire. This was all due to Ji Xiaomo's impenetrable death. She was paralyzed on the bed. She stood there tenaciously for six years, but in the end, she was silenced. Who on earth hated her so much? After his rebirth, he killed the scum man and battled Little Three. She thought that she had already avenged her great grudge, but a new wave of schemes approached her once again ...

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Funstory

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1649358849

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Theory and Methodology

By: Xiaolin Wang

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Theory and Methodology

By: Xiaolin Wang

This book addresses and compensates for the lack of poverty measurement research in China. With regard to the multi-dimensional measurement of poverty, it is clear that the situation of Chinese farmers is problematic in terms of five major aspects: sanitation facilities, health insurance, durable consumer goods, productive assets and modern fuels. Based on these criteria, the book provides a clear direction for policy intervention to comprehensively improve farmers’ standard of living and tackle the key problems of poverty alleviation and development in the region. In addition, its analysis of poverty among ethnic minorities, the elderly and children offers valuable reference material for poverty alleviation and the development of special groups.

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9811911894

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9789811911897

Balance Equation Approach to Electron Transport In Semiconductors

By: Xiaolin Lei

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Balance Equation Approach to Electron Transport In Semiconductors

By: Xiaolin Lei

This book presents a systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date description of the physical basis of the balance equation transport theory and its applications in bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors. The different aspects of the balance equation method, originally proposed by C S Ting and the author of the present book, were reviewed in the volume entitled Physics of Hot Electron Transport in Semiconductors (edited by C S Ting, World Scientific, 1992). Since then, this method has been extensively developed and applied to various new fields, such as transport in nonparabolic systems, spatially nonuniform systems and semiconductor devices, miniband conduction of superlattices, hot-electron magnetotransport, effects of impact ionization in transport, microwave-induced magnetoresistance oscillation, radiation-driven transport and electron cooling, etc. Due to its simplicity and effectiveness, the balance equation approach has become a useful tool to tackle the many transport phenomena in semiconductors, and provides a reliable basis for developing theories, modeling devices and explaining experiments.The book may be used as a textbook by graduate students. It will also benefit researchers in the field by helping them grasp the basic principles and techniques of the method, without having to spend a lot of time digging out the information from widespread literature covering a period of 30 years.

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9812819029

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9789812819024

Fintech and Financial Risk in China

By: Zhigang Qiu,Xiaolin Huo,Yue Dai

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Fintech and Financial Risk in China

By: Zhigang Qiu,Xiaolin Huo,Yue Dai

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development and status of fintech in China. Occupying core position in fintech development, big data takes on stronger superiority and application value. Meanwhile, blockchain and other technological innovations, which are used to serve data, greatly promote the growth of fintech industry. Furthermore, not only the benefits are illustrated by the authors, but also the financial risks and noise caused by fintech and big data are discussed. By using both academic knowledge and newest real cases in China, this timely book will appeal to practitioners, academics, and policy makers.

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9811902887

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9789811902888

Finite Volume Methods for the Incompressible Navier–Stokes Equations

By: Jian Li,Xiaolin Lin,Zhangxing Chen

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Finite Volume Methods for the Incompressible Navier–Stokes Equations

By: Jian Li,Xiaolin Lin,Zhangxing Chen

The book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the most recent developments in finite volume methods. Its focus is on the development and analysis of these methods for the two- and three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations, supported by extensive numerical results. It covers the most used lower-order finite element pairs, with well-posedness and optimal analysis for these finite volume methods.The authors have attempted to make this book self-contained by offering complete proofs and theoretical results. While most of the material presented has been taught by the authors in a number of institutions over the past several years, they also include several updated theoretical results for the finite volume methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. This book is primarily developed to address research needs for students and academic and industrial researchers. It is particularly valuable as a research reference in the fields of engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer sciences.

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3030946363

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Real-Time Road Profile Identification and Monitoring

Theory and Application

By: Yechen Qin,Hong Wang,Yanjun Huang,Xiaolin Tang

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Real-Time Road Profile Identification and Monitoring

Theory and Application

By: Yechen Qin,Hong Wang,Yanjun Huang,Xiaolin Tang

Ever stringent vehicle safety legislation and consumer expectations inspire the improvement of vehicle dynamic performance, which result in a rising number of control strategies for vehicle dynamics that rely on driving conditions. Road profiles, as the primary excitation source of vehicle systems, play a critical role in vehicle dynamics and also in public transportation. Knowledge of precise road conditions can thus be of great assistance for vehicle companies and government departments to develop proper dynamic control algorithms, and to fix roads in a timely manner and at the minimum cost, respectively. As a result, developing easy-to-use and accurate road estimation methods are of great importance in terms of reducing the cost related to vehicles and road maintenance as well as improving passenger comfort and handling capacity. A few books have already been published on road profile modeling and the influence of road unevenness on vehicle response. However, there is still room to discuss road assessment methods based on vehicle response and how road conditions can be used to improve vehicle dynamics. In this book, we use several generalized vehicle models to demonstrate the concepts, methods, and applications of vehicle response-based road estimation algorithms. In addition, necessary tools, algorithms, and methods are illustrated, and the benefits of the road estimation algorithms are evaluated. Furthermore, several case studies of controllable suspension systems to improve vehicle vertical dynamics are presented.

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3031014995

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Real-Time Road Profile Identification and Monitoring

Theory and Application

By: Yechen Qin,Hong Wang,Yanjun Huang,Xiaolin Tang

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Real-Time Road Profile Identification and Monitoring

Theory and Application

By: Yechen Qin,Hong Wang,Yanjun Huang,Xiaolin Tang

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1681734826

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The Rise of West Lake

A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty

By: Xiaolin Duan

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A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty

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Community Governance in China

Community Governance in China

Behavior Analysis and Modeling of Traffic Participants

Behavior Analysis and Modeling of Traffic Participants

Decision Making, Planning, and Control Strategies for Intelligent Vehicles

Decision Making, Planning, and Control Strategies for Intelligent Vehicles

The Rise of West Lake

The Rise of West Lake

State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest

State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest

An Object of Seduction

An Object of Seduction

The Quality of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China

The Quality of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China

Noise and Torsional Vibration Analysis of Hybrid Vehicles

Noise and Torsional Vibration Analysis of Hybrid Vehicles

Rebirth: Please Take Care This Life

Rebirth: Please Take Care This Life

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Balance Equation Approach to Electron Transport In Semiconductors

Balance Equation Approach to Electron Transport In Semiconductors

Fintech and Financial Risk in China

Fintech and Financial Risk in China

Finite Volume Methods for the Incompressible Navier–Stokes Equations

Finite Volume Methods for the Incompressible Navier–Stokes Equations

Real-Time Road Profile Identification and Monitoring

Real-Time Road Profile Identification and Monitoring

Real-Time Road Profile Identification and Monitoring

Real-Time Road Profile Identification and Monitoring

The Rise of West Lake

The Rise of West Lake

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