Master the Art of Guandan: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategy, Culture, and MindsetThe Essence of Guandan offers a deep dive into the strategic card game, exploring its rules, techniques, and cultural significance. Whether you're a seasoned player or a curious beginner, this guide provides invaluable insights to elevate your game.Learn to master card combinations, resource management, and decision-making through the lens of Guandan. Discover how to ...

This book focuses on the influence of social media on Chinese society. The respective chapters present research by top-tier communication scholars from prominent Chinese universities and offer revealing findings on the interplay between media / social media, economics and politics. To that end, both qualitative and quantitative methods based on classical theories of communication and economics are drawn upon.The book explores four main areas: the challenges and opportunities for Ch...

This book is the first on the history of Chinese public relations, and has been selected as one of the “40 representative books for 40 years of public relations in China” by the Public Relations Society of China. In four chapters, it systematically reviews and analyzes the trajectory and evolution of public relations in China from the very start – when the “reform and opening” policy was adopted in 1978 – to the present.The book will help both established and new scholars and pract...

This book discusses how energy efficiency benefits the global environment, national energy security, local pollution mitigation, natural resource conservation, and utility bill reduction. In addition, this book provides many hands-on skills and knowledge to identify and develop energy efficiency projects. The literature review shows that energy efficiency has become the first fuel in the world energy supply. With empirical analyses, this book indicates that without continued investment in ...

This book delves into modeling, multi-cluster interactive dispatch, and multi-energy coordination in distributed energy grid clusters, focusing on the integrated operation and scheduling of electricity, heating, and gas systems. It introduces innovative methods such as physical information fusion, multi-energy system modeling, and cloud-edge collaborative computing. Through numerous case studies and simulations, it validates strategies like hierarchical control, rolling optimization, and r...

Autonomous Positioning of Piezoactuated Mechanism for Biological Cell Puncture gives a systematic and almost self-contained description of the many facets of advanced design, optimization, modeling, system identification, and advanced control techniques for positioning of the cell puncture mechanism with a piezoelectric actuator in micro/nanorobotics systems.To achieve biomedical applications, reliability design, modeling, and precision control are essential for de...

Leptospirosis is the most common zoonotic disease worldwide, involving at least 1 million patients annually. Kidney is the preferential colonization site where Leptospira accumulates during systemic infection, primarily in the interstitium and in renal tubule epithelial cells. In acute kidney injury (AKI), the main histological findings are acute tubulo-interstitial nephritis and acute tubular necrosis, characterized by hypokalemia and non-oliguria. The injury caused by leptospira outer me...

Covers the latest research on controlling pathogenic and non-pathogenic safety risks associated with pig meatComprehensive review of the factors affecting the different aspects of pig meat qualityAssesses ways of minimising the environmental impact of pig production such as reducing input use, emissions and waste

Graphene-like materials have attracted considerable interest in the fields of condensed-matter physics, chemistry, and materials science due to their interesting properties as well as the promise of a broad range of applications in energy storage, electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic devices.The contents present the diverse phenomena under development in the grand quasiparticle framework through the first-principles calculations. The critical mechanisms, the orbital hybridizati...

BEST PRACTICES FROM CHINA'S HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOL SYSTEMEmpowered Educators in China is one volume in a series that explores how high-performing educational systems from around the world achieve strong results. The anchor book, Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World, is written by Linda Darling-Hammond and colleagues, with contributions from the author of this volume.Empowered Educator...

No less than a revolutionary transformation of the research enterprise is underway. This transformation extends beyond the natural sciences, where 'e-research' has become the modus operandi, and is penetrating the social sciences and humanities, sometimes with differences in accent and label. Many suggest that the very essence of scholarship in these areas is changing. The everyday procedures and practices of traditional forms of scholarship are affected by these and other feature...

This book is a comprehensive, expert guide to doing business in ChinaWestern technology, management expertise and capital have fueled an incredible expansion of China's economy. Trade with China is at an all-time high, and so are the numbers of Westerners traveling to China for business. Business from China has also picked up as Chinese firms look to expand abroad. Understanding the ins and outs of the confusing and often contradictory Chinese business culture can ...