Ling Wang: 9 books
Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture
Inclusive Dialogue, Partnerships, and Community Capital
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
In Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture, Wang discusses the convergence of such problems as financial crisis, water, food and energy shortage, earthquakes and disasters, epidemics and pandemics, wars and nuclear threats. 'What is wrong with our development model?' 'What is the solution?'...
Voice over IP Networks
Quality of Service, Pricing and Security
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
This book addresses three important issues in VoIP networks: Quality of Service, pricing and security.
In addressing Quality of Service (QoS), it introduces the notion of delay not exceeding an upper limit, termed the bounded delay, to measure the Quality of Service in VoIP networks. Queuing...
Breaking Out of the Poverty Trap
Case Studies from the Tibetan Plateau in Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This book provides unique insights into the challenges and potential solutions to alleviate poverty in western China. Many people are interested in China's economic and social development; the development of Tibet is an important part of this narrative. Unlike big cities in the east of China, Tibet...
by Tao Song, Pan Zheng, Mou Ling Dennis Wong;Xun Wang
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Bio-inspired computing (BIC) focuses on the designs and developments of computer algorithms and models based on biological mechanisms and living phenomena. It is now a major subfield of natural computation that leverages on the recent advances in computer science, biology and mathematics.
The...
Lust, Caution
The Story, the Screenplay, and the Making of the Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
A major motion picture (2007) from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Brokeback Mountain): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during World War II.
In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become...
Red Is Not the Only Color
Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2001
The first English-language anthology of its kind, Red Is Not the Only Color offers a window into the uncharted terrain of intimate relations between Chinese women. As urban China has undergone rapid transformation, same-sex relations have emerged as a significant, if previously neglected, touchstone...
by Lingxin Chen, Yunqing Wang, Xiuli Fu
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Novel Optical Nanoprobes for Chemical and Biological Analysis starts with a brief introduction to several kinds of versatile nanomaterials with novel optical properties, such as gold/silver nanoparticles, quantum dots, upconversion nanoparticles and graphene. It mainly focuses on the latest sensor...
Intercultural Public Relations
Theories for Managing Relationships and Conflicts with Strategic Publics
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Intercultural Public Relations: Theories for Managing Relationships and Conflicts with Strategic Publics develops a coherent framework to unify the theories of public relations and intercultural communication, and within the framework, examines empirical studies of intercultural interactions.
This...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 1
Breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Soybeans are one of the most widely-grown crops in the world. As the world’s main source of vegetable protein, they have a wide range of food and non-food uses. Current yields need to increase significantly to meet growing demand but in a way that reduces input use, does not damage the environment...