本书是《中国-中东欧国家（16+1）合作五年成就报告：2012～2017年》的英文版，从“16+1合作”如何推进中国和中东欧16国双边关系的发展；“16+1合作”如何推进次区域合作；“16+1合作”如何推动中欧关系；“16+1合作”如何推进“一带一路”倡议几个方面系统总结了过去五年“16+1合作”取得的进展与成就，从智库研究的视角分别从以上角度描述了所取得的成绩。

This book explores teacher agency within Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), highlighting the roles of identity, emotion, discourse, and power. It demonstrates how teacher agency is shaped in curriculum leadership, course design, scaffolding, translanguaging, and cross-curricular collaboration. Focusing on public elementary schools in Taiwan, the first in Asia to adopt CLIL in compulsory education, this book proposes glocalized frameworks of teacher agency for curriculum and t...

A deep dive into China's urban migration and poverty reduction efforts. Urban Migrants and Poverty Reduction in China presents original research on the challenges faced by rural migrants in urban China. This book, the result of a large-scale research project conducted across China from 2002 to 2010, offers expert knowledge and practical policy suggestions for academics, policy makers, and professionals interested in Chinese society.Packed with original mat...

This edited volume is intended to showcase the breadth and depth of the collaborative intellectual enterprise that the Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) network has built up over the past two decades. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the ABS, we invited ABS partners to contribute their intellectual findings to this edited volume. Except for the introduction, this volume consists of twenty-seven chapters divided into two sections. The first part of the book contains eleven chapters th...

Hydrodynamic Lubrication of Non-Newtonian Fluids covers basic theory, lubrication failure and numerical methods and procedures. The title offers a feasible method for solving the hydrodynamic lubrication problem for non-Newtonian fluids. Whereas hydrodynamic lubrication in Newtonian fluids can be solved using the existing Reynolds equation, hydrodynamic lubrication in non-Newtonian fluid is much more difficult to solve because the non-Newtonian constitutive equation is nonlinear. Engineers...

This book is presented in two volumes, featuring peer-reviewed research papers from the 7th International Conference on Green Technology and Sustainable Development (GTSD), held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from July 25 to 26, 2024. It highlights original research by experts from both academia and industry, centered on the theme of "Green Technology and Sustainable Development in the Industrial Revolution 4.0." The book underscores the critical importance of sustainability in education, t...

This book is presented in two volumes, featuring peer-reviewed research papers from the 7th International Conference on Green Technology and Sustainable Development (GTSD), held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from July 25 to 26, 2024. It highlights original research by experts from both academia and industry, centered on the theme of "Green Technology and Sustainable Development in the Industrial Revolution 4.0." The book underscores the critical importance of sustainability in education, t...

This book focuses on theoretical thermotics, the theory of transformation thermotics and its extended theories for the active control of macroscopic thermal phenomena of artificial systems, which is in sharp contrast to classical thermodynamics comprising the four thermodynamic laws for the passive description of macroscopic thermal phenomena of natural systems. The book covers the basic concepts and mathematical methods, which are necessary to understand thermal problems extensively inves...

This book provides a broad introduction to all major aspects of quantum dot properties including fluorescence, electrochemical, photochemical and electroluminescence. Such properties have been produced for applications in biosensing, cell tracking, in vivo animal imaging and so on. It focuses on their special applications in DNA biosensing and provides readers with detailed information on the preparation and functionalization of quantum dots and the fabrication of DNA biosensors, using exa...

Updated to include the timely and important topics of MEMS and rolling friction, Principles of Tribology is a compilation of current developments from tribology research, coupled with tribology fundamentals and applications. Essential topics include lubrication theory, lubrication design, friction mechanism, wear mechanism, friction control, and their applications. Besides classical tribology content, the book also covers intersecting research areas of tribology, as well as the re...

Focusing on basic lubrication problems this book offers specific engineering applications. The book introduces methods and programs for the most important lubrication problems and their solutions. It is divided into four parts. The first part is about the general solving methods of the Reynolds equation, including solutions of Reynolds equations with different conditions and their discrete forms, such as a steady-state incompressible slider, journal bearing, dynamic bearing, gas bearing an...

The product of 20 years of research, this book covers topics in soft tissue elasticity in vivo, from measurement techniques to clinical applications. It provides, for the first time, a single source that systematically introduces the various techniques for in vivo measurement of soft tissue elasticity in an effort to ease the difficulty between lea