Wang: 1062 books
Flexible Manipulators
Modeling, Analysis and Optimum Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
The Intelligent Systems Series comprises titles that present state-of-the-art knowledge and the latest advances in intelligent systems. Its scope includes theoretical studies, design methods, and real-world implementations and applications.
Flexible manipulators play a critical role in applications...
by Charlie C. L. Wang
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
The recent trend in user-customized product design requires the shape of products to be automatically adjusted according to the human body’s shape, so that people will feel more comfortable when wearing these products. Geometric approaches can be used to design the freeform shape of products worn...
by Jingyang Wang, Soshu Kirihara
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceeding has been published by The American Ceramic Society since 1980. This series contains a collection of papers dealing with issues in both traditional ceramics (i.e., glass, whitewares, refractories, and porcelain enamel) and advanced ceramics. Topics covered...
Standard Handbook Oil Spill Environmental Forensics
Fingerprinting and Source Identification
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Standard Handbook Oil Spill Environmental Forensics: Fingerprinting and Source Identification, Second Edition, provides users with the latest information on the tools and methods that have become popular over the past ten years.
The book presents practitioners with the latest environmental...
The Fracture Mechanics of Plant Materials
Wood and Bamboo
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
This book introduces readers to the application of fracture mechanics and mesomechanics to the analysis of the fracture behaviors of wood and bamboo. It presents a range of research methods to study the fracture behaviors of wood and bamboo, taking into account their various fracture mechanisms resulting...
Peace on Earth
The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple approaches to conflict transformation...
by Zheng Wang, Jing Wu, Changxin Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
This book describes the principles of integrated assessment models (IAM) for climate change economics and introduces various computable models for different development mechanisms under climate change governance. The authors present several new models they have constructed based on the RICE framework,...
Asian Development Review
Volume 28, Number 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The Asian Development Review is a professional journal for disseminating the results of economic and development research carried out by staff and resource persons of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Review seeks high-quality papers with relevance to policy issues and operational matters done...
Managing Water on China's Farms
Institutions, Policies and the Transformation of Irrigation under Scarcity
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Managing Water on China's Farms: Institutions, Policies and the Transformation of Irrigation under Scarcity is a comprehensive and current look at the water shortage problems in China. While China has emerged as a major player in the world economy, water is the most critical factor that limits the...
Forestry and the New Institutional Economics
An Application of Contract Theory to Forest Silvicultural Investment
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This title was first published in 2001. Using a case study from British Columbia, this book addresses the economies of institutions, institutional change and transactions costs and develops the theory of the New Institutional Economics in the context of forestry institutions. This approach to economic...
by Keith Crane, Jill E. Luoto, Scott Warren Harold
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This report assesses the effectiveness of China’s industrial policies, using China’s commercial aviation manufacturing industry as a case study. It evaluates China’s efforts to create a national champion in this industry, and analyzes foreign manufacturers’ efforts to protect key technologies...
Innovative China
Innovation Race Between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
China is trying to turn its labor, capital and resources intensive, lower added-value and export dependent growth into a sustainable innovative economy. This is changing the world’s power balance and has sparked a race between East and West in knowledge-based, high added-value economic innovation....
by Wang Wei
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
From The Long March, through guerrilla war with the Japanese, to the victory against the Nationalist forces, the story of the PLA is the story of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The Chinese Military Library title The Chinese People's Liberation Army relates the complete history of...
Reluctant Exiles?
Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This work presents an assessment of the migration from Hong Kong that has occurred since the second half of the 1980s. This pronounced outflow of highly educated people (a "brain drain") is having a profound impact on destination areas, as well as on Hong Kong itself.