This book falls within the field of urban transportation planning and design, with a particular focus on urban railway alignment optimization. It delves into the background, challenges, and objective functions and constraints (including cost, environmental impact, and risk) of urban railway alignment design. Furthermore, it presents system reliability modeling approaches for assessing the reliability of parallel railway lines. Additionally, the book emphasizes GIS-based methods for land us...

Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language, edited by Ko-Yin Sung, addresses three emerging themes in the field of Chinese language teaching and learning. (1) Increasingly ubiquitous in all language learning and teaching, and for the learning of Chinese as a second language in particular, information and communication technology (ICT) can serve as an important and effective tool. Several chapters focus on how certain emerging ICT tools are applied in teaching and learnin...

This book provides a detailed study of urban agricultural development. It establishes a comprehensive evaluation system for urban agriculture and accurately grasps the development level and status of urban agriculture, to provide action guidelines for decision-making bodies in urban agriculture. This book is intended for graduate students who are interested in the development of urban agriculture and researchers studying the field of urban agriculture.

This book approaches the issue of rural-urban inequality through fieldwork conducted in a specific township (Zuogang) in Qinggang County, part of Heilongjiang Province in northeastern China. Presenting painstaking fieldwork in a single location, it successfully illuminates fundamental aspects of the reality and the complexity of rural-urban inequality that cannot be found in macro-level studies, most of which are prepared by economists. The book offers a unique combination of rigorous econ...

This book focuses on the transition of hundreds of rural households in ten villages in Zhejiang from 1986 to 2002, based on the theme of rural household sustainable development. Drawing on a large amount of first-hand data collected from fixed observation sites for 17 consecutive years, this book has depicted the changes in household behaviour in rural Zhejiang, and analysed the origins of such changes. The contents of the book contain examinations at household and village level. Chapters ...

Pour échapper à la douleur d’un deuil et au mal-être d’une relation amoureuse toxique, Yang Yang, étudiante, quitte Taïwan pour le Japon dans le cadre d’un échange univesitaire. Au contact des résidents hauts en couleur de sa pension, la jeune femme construit sa vie d’adulte entre aspirations amoureuses et engagement politique. Au fil de Sukima, roman d’apprentissage intime et citoyen à la fois, Gao Yan incarne de plus belle la voix d’une génération ultra-connectée, fascinée par le Japon e...

Yang Yang, jeune Taïwanaise en échange universitaire, poursuit sa nouvelle vie au Japon. Si de nouvelles rencontres continuent de la faire grandir, son esprit reste préoccupé par la situation à Taïwan, où J., dont elle est toujours amoureuse, s’engage de plus belle dans son combat pour la démocratie. Gao Yan assume pleinement la portée politique de son récit d’apprentissage intime et citoyen : Sukima s’empare des mouvements pour les droits humains et des luttes LGBTQIA+ pour tisser le réci...

This book mainly focuses on the key technologies and important issues related to cyberattack strategy design against cyber-physical systems from the perspective of the attacker. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of cyber-physical systems, the significance of their cybersecurity, and research progress both domestically and internationally. Chapters 2–8 present research results on DoS attacks and FDI attacks under model-based, data-driven, time-varying delay, and game-based scenarios. This bo...

This book centers on the political economy behind the internationalization of Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs). Special attention has been given to the role of political-sided considerations and state policies in their investment strategies during the “stable period” (2006 to 2017) when Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) witnessed substantial growth, even as the entire world was relatively friendly towards Chinese MNEs. The author uses scientific methods to develop Co...

This book provides comprehensive technical information on SiC power devices from multiple perspectives, covering topics from device research and development to system applications. Chapters 1 to 4 focus on the characteristics of SiC devices, initially outlining the limitations of Si power devices and explaining why SiC has superior properties at the material level. It then offers updates on the latest developments in the SiC industry chain and products innovations, along with a detailed di...

The book focuses on control methods of hardware-in-the-loop simulation robots on the ground to simulate the contact dynamics of spacecraft and space manipulators in space. Both principles and engineering practice have been addressed. This is achieved by providing an in-depth study of several major topics such as control system structure and modeling, simulation distortion analysis, distortion compensation control methods, simulation and experimental verification, and applications. The comp...

À Taïwan, Lu et Nanjun se rencontrent au sortir de l’adolescence autour de leur passion commune pour la culture japonaise, de Haruki Murakami aux grandes figures de la pop. Subtile chronique douce-amère d’un premier amour qui vibre entre Taïwan et Tokyo, The Song about Green séduit par sa maturité graphique et sa justesse.