Comprehensive reference exploring innovative auxiliary materials as a variety of battery components to enhance battery performance, safety, and longevityFunctional Auxiliary Materials in Batteries: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications overviews the latest research on the applications of organic functional materials and low-dimensional structural materials as functional auxiliary materials in batteries. The book introduces the properties and preparation ...

Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political examinesthe reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in China and Taiwan. The legacies of bothSchmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi party, and Strauss, theGerman-Jewish classicist and political philosopher who became famous after his emigrationto the United States, are highly controversial. Since the 1990s, however, these thinkers havehad a ...

During the past three decades, health care systems in the East Asian regions of China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have undergone major changes. Each system has its unique achievements and challenges. Global health care policymakers are increasingly interested in understanding the changes that have taken place in these four systems. This four-volume reference set is designed to help health care professionals, academics, policymakers, and general readers gain a good grasp of the backgrou...

Nearly 370 million people in China smoke; about one-third of all smokers in the world are in China; and about 1.2 million deaths in China are attributable to smoking. The death toll is expected to reach 2.2 million in 2030 if no smoking intervention programs are implemented. Taxation on tobacco products is one of the most effective tobacco control programs. This book addresses not only why China should raise cigarette tax, but also how to raise the tobacco tax, by providing decision makers...

À la demande de l’Académie des sciences sociales de Pékin, les sociologues français ont présenté l’état des recherches, chacun dans le champ qui est le sien. Il a paru bon d’offrir au lecteur français ce panorama de la sociologie française, dans sa diversité mais aussi dans son originalité, qui fait son unité. Les disciplines voisines sont invitées à montrer leurs rapports avec la sociologie, tant il est vrai que la science sociale est dans la variété de ses approches et que l’œil du socio...

"Chuanxi Lu" ist eine Sammlung von Fragen und Antworten sowie Briefen des Denkers Wang Shouren (mit dem Künstlernamen Yangming) aus der Ming-Dynastie. Sie wurde von seinen Schülern wie Xu Ai, Xue Kan und Qian Dehong zusammengestellt. Das Buch ist in drei Bände - Oberer, Mittlerer und Unterer - unterteilt: Der Oberer Band wurde persönlich von Wang Shouren überprüft und erläutert systematisch Gedanken wie "Einheit von Wissen und Handeln" und "Das Herz ist die Vernunft"; der Mittlere Band ent...

Hybrid AC/DC Microgrids: Optimization, Energy Management, and Protection is a practical and holistic guide to the opportunities and challenges of this essential energy system technology. The book builds from fundamental concepts of design and operation management to recent advances and specific, practical scenarios. Combining both power management and quality control with real-world risk assessments, the book's chapters cover power generation options, including wind, solar, and hydrogen. M...

In-depth exploration of machine learning techniques applied to UAV operations and communications, highlighting areas of potential growth and research gapsArtificial Intelligence for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles provides a comprehensive overview of machine learning (ML) techniques used in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, communications, sensing, and computing. It emphasizes key components of UAV activity to which ML can significantly contribute includi...

This book explores how genomic data are revolutionising basic and applied invasion science. It shows how genomic technologies can reveal key drivers of biological invasions, such as hybridisation and rapid adaptation, and illustrates major breakthroughs achieved through the study of model systems. Multiple layers of variation are considered, including epigenetic variation and genetic variation, from chromosomal rearrangements to single nucleotide polymorphisms. Applied topics emphasise sta...

Most people believe China's foreign behavior is driven by its growing power status in world politics. Chinese leaders still firmly uphold some traditional values in foreign policy such as sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national unification. However, it is often neglected that China's behavior is also shaped by its changing perception of the globalizing world and, to a large extent, is a result of external pressure on China. By examining the dynamics of paradigm shifts in China's f...

This book examines the future of the Asia Pacific’s political economy and its security challenges for the next quarter century.Featuring pertinent discussions on topics such as the ongoing Sino-American power transition and hedging behavior by various states in this vital region, it explains that while some important legacies will endure (such as China’s centrality in the region and continuing U.S. military dominance), other ongoing changes (such as the obsolescence of the Yoshida ...

How can we know a country, such as the United States or China, is revisionist, that is, whether it intends to upset the international order? What motivates states to act the way they do? Contesting Revisionism focuses on a particular kind of motivation inclining a state to challenge the existing norms, rules, and institutions of international order: revisionism. The authors offer a critique of the existing discourse on revisionism and investigate the origin and ev...