Bridges corrosion science and artificial intelligence to advance durable, high-performance marine steelsUnderstanding and controlling the corrosion of steels in marine environments is a critical challenge for modern engineering, with far-reaching implications for safety, durability, and sustainability. Marine corrosion not only threatens the integrity of infrastructure such as bridges, offshore platforms, and railways but also leads to significant economic losses a...

Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Modern China collects essays from the scholars in their fields and examines the ongoing corruption in China by addressing this important topic from a historical perspective through a cooperative interdisciplinary research effort among Chinese-American scholars interested in the subject. Their scholarship makes a significant contribution through multi-faceted components from different fields such as history, economics, political science, criminal justice, a...

Evolution of Power: China's Struggle, Survival, and Success, edited by Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian, brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to provide a comprehensive look at China’s rapid socio-economic transformation and the dramatic changes in its political institution and culture. Investigating subjects such as party history, leadership style, personality, political movements, civil-military relations, intersection of politics and law, and democratization, this volume sit...

Drawing on two decades of data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), this collection examines fundamental social transformations in contemporary China across gender, marriage, living arrangements, and subjective well-being from 2003 to 2021.The contributions utilise longitudinal CGSS data to analyse key dimensions of social change including women's labour force participation patterns, evolving school-to-work transitions, changing residential independence amongst young adul...

This unique compendium describes the development status and trends of international climate-smart agriculture, research methods and development strategies, monitoring, evaluation and extension, typical cases and their implications for the development of climate-smart agriculture in China.The useful reference text also comprehensively summarizes the relevant achievements and experiences obtained by the Climate-Smart Staple Crop Production Project, and highlights future policy sugges...

This book is a comprehensive collection of research papers presented at 22nd International Corrosion Congress held on October 22–26, 2024, in Xi'an, China. The book serves as a valuable resource of the critical progress and technical advances in corrosion and protection for academics, researchers, and professionals worldwide. The book focuses on the latest findings and progress of corrosion control approaches including corrosion and scale inhibitors, intelligent corrosion control, metallic...

This book is a comprehensive collection of research papers presented at 22nd International Corrosion Congress held on October 22–26, 2024, in Xi'an, China. The book serves as a valuable resource of the critical progress and technical advances in corrosion and protection for academics, researchers, and professionals worldwide. The book focuses on the latest findings and progress of corrosion and protection in natural environments including atmospheric corrosion, marine biofouling and protec...

This book is a comprehensive collection of research papers presented at 22nd International Corrosion Congress held on October 22–26, 2024, in Xi'an, China. The book serves as a valuable resource of the critical progress and technical advances in corrosion and protection for academics, researchers, and professionals worldwide. The book focuses on the latest findings and progress of corrosion control approaches including corrosion and scale inhibitors, intelligent corrosion control, metallic...

The energy demands of contemporary society mandate the urgent development and commercialisation of a ‘post-Li-ion battery’. Metal anodes are an important piece of this puzzle. This research and reference text discusses the role of metal electrodes in batteries in detail. Introducing the fundamental theoretical properties of metal anodes, the book surveys the history and prospects of the field, covering a wide range of metals, including Li, Na, K, Mg, Al, Zn, Ge, Sn, Sb and Bi. The first bo...

This book is a comprehensive collection of research papers presented at 22nd International Corrosion Congress held on October 22–26, 2024, in Xi'an, China. The book serves as a valuable resource of the critical progress and technical advances in corrosion and protection for academics, researchers, and professionals worldwide. The book focuses on the latest findings and progress of corrosion and protection in harsh environments including corrosion and protection of oil & gas and new energy ...

Soft power has become a very popular concept in international affairs, appearing in government policy papers, academic discussions, and the popular media. In China, soft power has become one of the most frequently used phrases among political leaders, leading academics, and journalists. Defined against hard power, which often involves threat and coercion, soft power applies attraction, persuasion, and cooperation, finding its sources in culture, political values, and foreign policies. Chin...

This book provides a detailed study on sources of encrypted network traffic, methods and techniques for analyzing, classifying and detecting the encrypted traffic. The authors provide research findings and objectives in the first 5 chapters, on encrypted network traffic, protocols and applications of the encrypted network traffic. The authors also analyze the challenges and issues with encrypted network traffic. It systematically introduces the analysis and classification of encrypted traf...