This book addresses the question of how to tackle AI-enabled price discrimination (AIPD), which is commonly used in digital markets and can negatively impact competition and consumers. It explores the economic rationale behind AIPD, compares its assessment under EU and Chinese competition law and beyond, evaluates current legal regimes on AIPD from a comparative law and economics perspective, and provides policy recommendations to those jurisdictions for approaching AIPD as an infringement...

This book summarizes the thermodynamics and kinetics of Mg-based storage materials and introduces recent progress, including alloying, adding catalysts/composites and nanosizing on Mg-based hydrogen storage materials. The content describes the fundamental theories of hydrogen storage materials and reviews the key achievements in applications. The targeted audience of this book includes scientific/engineering researchers, technicians, lectures, entrepreneurs, and investors at all levels rel...

This book comprehensively and systematically introduces the microstructure characteristics of plant fibers and the manufacturing process, interface characteristics, mechanical behaviors and physical properties of plant fiber reinforced composites, as well as their engineering demonstration applications. Plant fibers derived from natural resources have been thrust into the global spotlight as environment-friendly materials with attractive advantages of renewability, biodegradability, high s...

This book summarizes the progress made to functional immobilize G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) through site-specific or orientated recognition in both non-covalent and covalent manners. The last decade is the dawn of the “post-structural biology” era for G protein-coupled receptor research. As an emerging approach for state-of-the-art immobilization, this book discusses efforts to explore the elegance of naturally-occurring biochemical reactions by using their high specificity and rob...

This book takes an in-depth look at the development of the private education sector in modern China. Readers will find valuable data and materials never before presented in such an accessible and transparent way, together with analyses of the major changes and challenges in the course of this development. The book is organized both chronologically and by topic: it employs a past-present-future order that unites the general arrangement; at the same time, each specific subject is approached ...

Embedded Software Development With C offers both an effectual reference for professionals and researchers, and a valuable learning tool for students by laying the groundwork for a solid foundation in the hardware and software aspects of embedded systems development.Key features include a resource for the fundamentals of embedded systems design and development with an emphasis on software, an exploration of the 8051 microcontroller as it pertains to embedded systems, compre...

Under the pale glow of dawn, Xue Xian--once a mighty dragon, now a handmade paper effigy--is moments away from being exorcised. The worst part? He doesn't see it coming. Spellbound into his form alongside the ever-irritating Jiang Shining--a restless ghost caught up in the dragon's misfortunes--the two must navigate a perilous path to settle long-standing scores.Enter Xuanmin, an enigmatic monk drawn to the ruins of Jiang Manor by the lingering traces of a sinister curse. Finding two crude...

Narrated in Chinese Mandarin. People say that in chaos you have to fulfill heavy punishment against any severe crimes, it is joking to push around ru-ism in dark ages, which is just default your duty/responsibility to say Rule without Doing Anything. People will just laugh at such stupid judges. Be a tough judge, be a killer judge, kill the evil criminals, you save fragile low average mass, but sometimes some innocent people may be killed mistakenly...人們說，亂世用重刑，在黑暗的時代宣講儒教仁義是可笑的，說無為而治就是不履職嘛...

The egotistical dragon Xue Xian and the memory-wiped monk Xuanmin are still stuck together--and so are the many mysteries trailing in their wake. Their ghostly companion, Jiang Shining, seeks peace for his departed parents, but first he must find the last of his living kin. Meanwhile, Lu Nianqi, now empowered and burning for answers, is determined to uncover the truth behind the deadly tomb on Fentou Island that took his brother's life.The party's quest takes a bizarre turn when they hitch...

With the elusive sorcerer's name finally in hand, Xue Xian and Xuanmin should be close to reaching their goal. But something between them has shifted--something neither can ignore. As the final seals on Xuanmin's mysterious copper coins begin to crack, long-buried memories surface, altering the course of their journey.Just as Xue Xian starts to think he might want to keep Xuanmin at his side, fate hurls them into a deadly chase through a nightmarish cave crawling with colossal insects. Yet...

The Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus, is the most destructive and invasive termite species globally. It is also the only termite species listed in the world's 100 worst invasive alien species of the Global Invasive Species Database. Annually, its infestation costs more than $4 billion in control and damage repairs in the USA alone. This book is the first comprehensive resource drawing on all the literature on C. formosanus since Tokuichi Shiraki first described the spe...

China in the Era of Social Media discusses how social media is changing the world in an unprecedented way through speed, scope, and depth. In the last decade or so, social media in China has witnessed the most explosive growth in the world. Being the most populous nation in the world, it has the most social media users in the world as well. This book examines the current situation and unique characteristics of Chinese social media, the significance of social media in the country’s...