This book examines the Chinese vocational education system—an arena of growing significance in China’s economic transformation. Over the past few decades, the central government has moved to decentralize a traditionally school-based skill development system, embracing a more market-oriented model that incorporates substantial employer involvement. This shift has produced a highly decentralized system centered on targeted training partnerships between schools and firms. These collaborations...

China's goal of carbon neutrality by 2060 requires a significant transformation of energy systems and the economy, raising critical questions about the domestic energy legal and regulatory systems. This book critically analyses the development and implementation of energy laws and regulations related to crucial strategies and pathways towards carbon neutrality, namely decarbonising power supply, enabling fuel switching, electrifying end-use in transport and industry, and adopting carbon re...

This thesis adopts the relative back-projection method to dramatically reduce “swimming” artifacts by identifying the rupture fronts in the time window of a reference station; this led to a faster and more accurate image of the rupture processes of earthquakes. Mitigating the damage caused by earthquakes is one of the primary goals of seismology, and includes saving more people’s lives by devising seismological approaches to rapidly analyze an earthquake’s rupture process. The back-project...

This book studies the urban logistics system from the perspective of reliability, based on the theory of urban logistics and system reliability, with the research of urban logistics system reliability as the main line, with matter element analysis and ant colony algorithm as the main research tools. On this basis, this book closely focuses on the connotation, influencing factors, measurement, optimization, and other issues of the reliability of urban logistics systems. By analyzing the inf...

In recent years, many new products have emerged in machinery and electronics, necessitating innovative designs. As a result, the mechanism designs of mechanical equipment are facing greater challenges. The mechanical mechanism is a crucial component of machines. An ideal mechanism design plays a pivotal role in the development of new products. Using their vast experience in technical designs, the authors have compiled a collection of 100 design cases in this volume. The volume aims at assi...

Multi-agent coordination is an emerging engineering It has been inspired by the observations and descriptions of collective behavior in nature, such as fish schooling, birds flocking and insects swarming. The advantages of multi-agent coordination include: it can reduce cost and complexity from hardware platform to software and algorithms; in addition, multi-agent systems are capable of many tasks which could not be effectively performed by a single-robot system, for example, the surveilla...

This book takes the technological revolution and industrial changes as the background. The timeline uses the timeline to explain the path of changes in standard concepts since the millennium, showing the scientific system and gradually becoming the focus of the people. This book refers to the classics of a number of standard theories, introduces a number of standards and its theoretical content, and combines the industrial observation experience and typical cases accumulated by the author ...

This book addresses the critical challenge of managing radioactive waste generated in nuclear medicine—a field experiencing rapid growth due to its transformative role in precision diagnostics and cancer therapy. As the global nuclear medicine sector expands, traditional waste treatment methods struggle to keep pace with the surge in short-lived isotopes like iodine-131 and lutetium-177, which require advanced separation and purification techniques. The authors present a groundbreaking, mu...

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 mainly focuses on the key technologies and important issues related to localization estimation and formation control for networked multi-agent systems. Chapter 1 introduces the concepts of multi-agent systems, fundamental issues in localization and formation, research progress both at home and abroad, and the theory of system stability. Chapters 2–8 present research results on distributed localization estimation under conditions such as random deployment, non-ideal channels, rand...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As climate change accelerates, our window for action is closing. To stay within the "Anthropocene" - an epoch in which humankind as the dominant force shaping the planet retains a degree of control over the destructive processes it has unleashed - global warming must be kept below 2° Celsius.This book explores the unprecedented technological and legal changes required to achieve this. Featuring contributions from leading ex...

This book discusses the management of serious finger damage, which can have lifelong consequences for patients without timely and effective replantation treatment to restore the function of the hand. Featuring more than 30 cases and over 420 clinical surgical photographs, it combines systematic with thematic approaches, basic theory with clinical practice, and images with text descriptions. The book is divided into nine main sections: overview of the development history of replantation of ...