Provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges facing agri-food supply chains, including the need to be more sustainable in light of the high environmental costs of global distributionAddresses the external factors that can impact the logistics and performance of supply chains, including political developments, international conflicts and pandemics such as COVID-19Reviews the main agri-food supply chains used in different regions around the world, focussing o...

In the fields of dynamical systems and control theory, a fractional-order system is a dynamical system that can be modeled by a fractional differential equation containing derivatives of non-integer order. In control systems, sliding mode control (SMC) is a nonlinear control method that alters the dynamics of a nonlinear system by applying a discontinuous control signal (or more rigorously, a set-valued control signal) that forces the system to "slide" along a cross-section of the system's...

这部中短篇小说集一共收集了作者从2005年到2017年间，发表完成的中短篇小说共计十篇。其中包括一篇中篇小说，九篇短篇小说。其中《一个心机深厚的女人》《何处话凄凉》《特别的生日礼物》《最近比较烦》《千千心思绕成结》和《横竖不是人》曾经发表在《使者》杂志。短篇小说《无家可回》曾获得2015年第二十三届汉新文学奖短篇小说佳作奖，并发表于《汉新文学》杂志。中篇小说《旧梦如风》描写了一对男女三十年前中学时代的一场早恋，遭到父母强烈反对，最终不告而辞。其间，饱经思念之苦，婚姻蹉跎，感情煎熬，心心念念难以放下忘记的一段旧情。终于在一别三十载春秋后，再次于同学聚会中重逢，以为可以重尝旧梦，再续前缘。怎奈错过的缘和份，难以再续，错过的光阴和岁月，也难以重复。三十年的风雨沧桑，他们怀念的只是一段青春的纪念和年轻的岁月。

This book evaluates the past, present, and future habitat suitability of giant pandas based on spatial observation technology involving optical remote sensing, microwave remote sensing, and LiDAR to discover the mysterious ecological environment of giant panda habitat. Considering the problems faced by the world natural heritage site protection, it takes the world natural heritage site “Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries – Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains” as the research area, exemp...

The book presents selected papers at the 10th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) held in June 2023, China. CSMT is a multidisciplinary conference focusing on audio processing and understanding with bias on music and acoustic signals. The primary aim of the conference is to promote the collaboration between art society and technical society in China. In this book, the paper included covers a wide range topic from speech, signal processing, music understanding, machine learning,...

This book studies impact of “Overseas Leadership Development Programmes for Chinese University Leaders in the Central and Western Regions of China,” a research project funded by National Office for Education Sciences Planning (No. CIA170270), China. It is intended to enhance university leaders’ professionalism and to achieve impact on both the individual and institutional levels. The empirical data was collected using a mixed-methods approach including policy documents, learning diaries, a...

This book seeks to trace the notarial history of China from 1902 to 1979. While working on this trailblazing effort, the author taps into a rich variety of artifacts, especially the notarial documents, archived records, manuals and journals from private collection or originally issued by China’s judicial authorities during different periods. No similar book has been published so far. Many of these items are taken from old publications and notarial documents that the author purchased from g...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Applications, WISA 2018, held in Taiyuan, China, in September 2018.The 29 full papers presented together with 16 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions.The papers cover topics such as machine learning and data mining; cloud computing and big data; information retrieval; natural language processing; data privacy and security; know...

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of rural-urban migration in Vietnam. It addresses a wide range of important topics, including Vietnam’s household registration system (ho khau), migration trends, remittance behaviour and social networking. In addition, it examines migrants’ earnings, their children’s schooling, housing issues and their families’ consumption behaviour in their destination cities.The book is mainly based on new data from the Australian Na...