Why investment and financial reform are essential to China's continued economic well-beingAlthough China's economy has grown spectacularly over the last twenty-five years, economists disagree about how the Chinese economy is likely to fare in the short- and long-term future. Is China's growth sustainable, or has China relied too much on investment, which is subject to diminishing returns, and not enough on technological change? The first book on the relation betwee...

This book delves deeply intothefield ofvariable-fidelity surrogate modeling, examining its application in theoptimization ofcomplex multidisciplinary design optimization problems. Thetext presents a detailed exploration ofsurrogate modeling techniques, witha focus onvariable-fidelity approaches that integrate models ofvarying accuracy toenhance theefficiency ofoptimization processes. Covering foundational concepts, thebook progresses through diverse modeling strategies, including scaling f...

Mount Tai, known as the Eastern Great Mountain in China, boasts rich historical and cultural heritage, which has long been intertwined with the “Mountain Porter” spirit. The Mount Tai Porters are a product of China’s traditional society and its labor culture. Though the development of the economy and society today gradually drained the demand for mountain porters, the “Mountain Porter” spirit has profound historical significance and serves as an inspiration for modern society. This book pr...

Chinese Agrarian Civilization: A Brief History for the New Era provides a comprehensive overview of China's profound farming heritage, exploring its role as a foundational cultural force and a wellspring of national wisdom. Organized chronologically, the book spans key areas including crop domestication, farming tools, water conservancy, and food culture, with a focused examination on the origin, cultivation, and global exchange of staple plants. Integrating perspectives from agricultural ...

Capillary Mechanics offers a comprehensive reexamination of capillary phenomena and their effects in light of rapid advancements in micro/nano electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS). Bridging classical understanding with modern applications, the book presents a systematic journey from foundational principles to cutting-edge practices, guiding readers from surface tension and wetting behavior to the intricacies of liquid bridges and capillary-driven microflows.Divided into eleven cha...

This book, drawing from internationally renowned scales like Bayley and Gesell, develops a child developmental assessment scale based on research data from Chinese children. It stands as a meticulous creation of the Capital Institute of Pediatrics, a national-level institution for children’s development research in China. The scale demonstrates good reliability and validity, meeting psychometric standards in various statistical aspects. In the revised scale, developmental quotients are cla...

For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the latest research in discourse and content analyses trending in both domestic and international circles, Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground highlights the progress—or lack thereof—in media rega...

Provides an up-to-date outline of cell assembly methods and applications of 3D bioprintingCell Assembly with 3D Bioprinting provides an accesible overview of the layer-by-layer manufacturing of living structures using biomaterials. Focusing on technical implemention in medical and bioengineering applications, this practical guide summarize each key aspect of the 3D bioprinting process. Contributions from a team of leading researchers describe bioink prepar...

Algae are sunlight-driven cell factories, and can efficiently absorb CO2 and convert light energy to chemical energy such as lipid, starch and other carbohydrates and release O2. Algal feedstock is a promising resource for bioproduct production, given its high photosynthetic efficiency for producing biomass compared to conventional crops. Microalgae can be used for flue-gas and wastewater bioremediation. This book highlights recent breakthroughs in the multidisciplinary areas of algal biot...

This book introduces super gravity metallurgy in separation of valuable component in metallurgical slag. It collects the principle, apparatus and research for super gravity high-temperature metallurgy and the novel technology for selective crystallization and separation of various valuable components in different metallurgical slags by super gravity. Furthermore, the research results previously scattered in many journals and conferences worldwide are methodically edited and presented in a ...

This SpringerBrief discusses the applications of spare representation in wireless communications, with a particular focus on the most recent developed compressive sensing (CS) enabled approaches. With the help of sparsity property, sub-Nyquist sampling can be achieved in wideband cognitive radio networks by adopting compressive sensing, which is illustrated in this brief, and it starts with a comprehensive overview of compressive sensing principles. Subsequently, the authors present a comp...

Understanding the dynamics of multi-phase flows has been a challenge in the fields of nonlinear dynamics and fluid mechanics. This chapter reviews our work on two-phase flow dynamics in combination with complex network theory. We systematically carried out gas-water/oil-water two-phase flow experiments for measuring the time series of flow signals which is studied in terms of the mapping from time series to complex networks. Three network mapping methods were proposed for the analysis and ...