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Xi Chen, Vedran Dronjic, Rena Helms-Park

Reading in a Second Language offers a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon and process of reading in a second language, with graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and applied psychology as its primary audience. The book explores reading processes from a number of complementary standpoints, integrating perspectives from fields such as first and second language reading, second language acquisition, linguistics, psycholin...

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Xi Chen

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Education (R0)

This book examines how e-assessment can be implemented in primary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing in an examination-oriented context. It provides valuable insights on e-assessment for learning (E-AfL) to teacher educators and teachers in both local and global contexts, especially teacher educators undertaking professional development programs of assessment in examination-oriented contexts. For researchers and graduate students who are interested in e-assessment for learning (E-...

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Xi Chen

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Guang Shi

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Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science

This book uses the monographic study of litigation subjects, prosecution, trial, and enforcement to reveal the formation, operation, and development of criminal proceeding conventions in the Tang Dynasty. It also outlines the combination, coordination, and interaction of rules, conventions, and ideas in the traditional Chinese legal system, and presents an overview of the evolution and development of traditional litigation in China. This book is intended mainly for scholars and graduate an...

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Xi Chen

Xi Chen explores the question of why there has been a dramatic rise in and routinization of social protests in China since the early 1990s. Drawing on case studies, in-depth interviews and a unique data set of about 1,000 government records of collective petitions, this book examines how the political structure in Reform China has encouraged Chinese farmers, workers, pensioners, disabled people and demobilized soldiers to pursue their interests and claim their rights by staging collective ...

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Xi Chen

Wireless sensor networks have a range of applications, including military uses and in environmental monitoring. When an area of interest is inaccessible by conventional means, such a network can be deployed in ways resulting in a random distribution of the sensors. Randomly Deployed Wireless Sensor Networks offers a probabilistic method to model and analyze these networks. The book considers the network design, coverage, target detection, localization and tracking of sensors in randomly de...

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Xi Chen, Ningyun Lu, Furong Gao

Injection molding is the most versatile, flexible, and dynamic plastics production operation. It has been used to manufacture products from practically all thermoplastic polymers, blends, composites, and nanocomposites. A critical aspect for the success of the process depends on understanding and control of the various steps of the injection molding process and the thermo-mechanical history experienced by the polymer throughout the process. Moreover, it is important to understand the impac...

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Aybek M. Arifjanov, Xi Chen, A. Fatxulloev Mirzotilloevich, Luqmon N. Samiev

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Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

This book overviews modern theory of the turbulent motion flow in riverbeds answering many questions around this topic. It gives new generalization of the mathematical model for determining the hydrodynamic parameters of suspended particles and the interaction between the liquid and the solid carrier particles in various movements of suspended particles. It develops a new method for calculating the distribution of the averaged velocity of the carrier liquid and solid particles in the depth...

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Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

This book explores examples of ‘toxic language’, the linguistic manifestations of societal conflicts and aggressions, that have arisen in Asian contexts.By highlighting toxic language, a panoramic concept borrowed from computational linguistics, this book assesses hate speech, harassment, discrimination, cyberbullying, sarcasm, irony, and other kinds of offensive, impolite, and harmful language that targets individuals, groups, and communities based on their gender, race, and other...

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Business and Management (R0)

This book explores the transformative potential of ChatGPT, Web3, and their impact on productivity and various industries. It delves into Generative AI (GenAI) and its representative platform ChatGPT, their synergy with Web3, and how they can revolutionize business operations. It covers the potential impact surpassing prior industrial revolutions.After providing an overview of GenAI, ChatGPT, and Web3, it investigates business applications in various industries and areas, such as p...

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Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Analytics Global Conference on Human-centered Data Analytics: Technology for Sustainable Development, AGC 2025, held in Kolkata, India, during March 8-9, 2025.The 16 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers are organized in these topical sections: Health and Well-Being; Social Well-Being; Financial Security.

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Vivien Lin Lu, Xi Chen, Jianheng Chen, Kai Jiao

Towards Energy-Efficient Buildings: Envelope Technologies and Sustainable Energy Systems examines the intersection of building design and energy systems analysis, paving the way to sustainable, efficient buildings and our communal energy future. This book begins by outlining the major energy challenges for buildings and the fundamentals and opportunities in envelope technology for their increasing the efficiency of their energy systems. Close analysis of various technologies is then carrie...

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Heqin Cheng, Xi Chen, Kai Tan

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East China Normal University Scientific Reports

This book presents a systematic framework for risk assessment and predictions of extreme climate impacts using big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and intelligent monitoring technologies. Central to this effort is the concept of a smart water grid, a 'digital water network', capable of real-time monitoring, rapid transmission, accurate forecasting, optimized decision-making, precise allocation, and efficient management especially during floods and droughts.Building on case...