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...

The years 2021 to 2030 have been designated as "The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration". Ecological restoration and biodiversity conservation efforts face unprecedented challenges, especially in developing countries and areas, such as the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. This huge HKH region, which includes areas in eight separate countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India, China, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan), is a biodiversity hotspot with a vast array of ecosystems, ...

Food quality analysis is an area of interest that has always attracted the attention of everyone, and making suitable tools for food analysis is especially important. This volume presents such techniques and their state-of-the-art applications. It covers different spectroscopic methods spread over the wide range of electromagnetic spectrum that are being applied in food analysis. Detection of ammonia nitrogen using spectroscopic process is also included as it is the source of protein synth...

《追虹》——李显龙总理在2010年国庆群众大会特别提出他读过，并提出感想的一本书。 《追虹》——一个新马华族家庭四代人纵跨一个世纪追求心中彩虹的故事。 作者朱亮亮，新加坡著名电视人。《追虹》是她写四代人平凡而又不平凡的家族史。它不是小说，却写得比小说更惊心动魄。 《追虹》从1899年写到1995年，为100年的风起云涌的世纪留下了记录，为中国和新加坡、马来西亚的一段历史留下见证，是新加坡版的《大江大海》。 《追虹》吟唱着时代的悲歌，也交响着时代的进行曲。 "请不要忘记海外华人为他们的祖国，或者他们的父母、祖父母的祖国的摆脱封建帝制，抵抗日寇的侵略，以及为新中国的建设所付出的力量，甚至枉死的生命。有智慧有远见的领导人，千万不能重蹈覆辙，重犯当年的错误。" ——朱亮亮

This book reports on the findings of a series of studies on the development of zero-to-three-year-old Chinese children supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. The studies were conducted by a research group at the Institute of Early Childhood Education, Beijing Normal University. In the first part of the book, findings concerning the developmental trajectory are presented, including physical and motor development, cognitive development, language development...

This book gives an in-depth research on digital business environment as well as its indicators analysis by means of collecting huge data and cases in China. Additionally, it’s on the first try to apply bibliometric method to business environment literature review. The main contents of this book contain the research on the connotation and evaluation indicator system of digital business environment, and a series of excellent practices in improving the business environment in China in the asp...

This book aims to explain and explore the distribution mechanism adopted by China, which prioritizes distribution according to performance while taking factors of production into consideration. This mechanism is designed in the context of current market-oriented economy, but it also leads to problems such as the widening income gap among the citizens. Besides serving for economic growth, the authors proposed balancing the interests through policies among different groups as one of the key ...

“This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th CCF Conference on BigData 2024, which took place in Qingdao, China, in August 2024” to “This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th CCF Conference on BigData 2024, which took place in Qingdao, China, during 9-11 August, 2024.The 26 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 219 submissions. The topics of accepted papers include Big data, Data Science, System Architecture a...

How can the G20 fulfill their role most efficiently in the post-crisis era, and what role do the emerging economies play in the new global economic order? This timely volume provides an overview of the most important challenges ahead for the G20, especially China.