Since the late 1970s, China has initiated landmark reforms in education resulting in great strides i... more

Presents integrative analyses of organic carbon and carbonate in soil and sediment in a typical arid... more

Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia provides an authoritative account of the contract law regimes o... more

This book focuses on the interplay between pedagogy and technology, and their fusion for the advance... more

Since 1980, the number of climate-related disasters has been greatly increased globally. Scientific ... more

’This extraordinary collection is a game-changer. Featuring the cutting-edge work of over forty scho... more

This book analyzes narratives on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory by and for divers... more

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Provides a reference for the materials scientists and engineers as well as metallurgists for explori... more

This book provides readers with a unique opportunity to learn about one of the new regional trade ag... more

Presents a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in artificial intelligence for medical-ima... more

Presents timely discussions on methodological developments and real-world applications, with particu... more

This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender... more

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Mobile Intern... more

For many years, legislators around the world have responded to the particular needs of consumers by ... more

Defines and classifies existing monitoring modalities into three categories: wearables, attachables,... more

Chinese outward direct investment (ODI) is growing rapidly in recent years. As an important phenomen... more

Chinese outward direct investment (ODI) is growing rapidly in recent years. As an important phenomen... more

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics ... more

This book is intended for non-specialists and students, presenting a unique introduction to the fiel... more

Features new findings by prominent experts in statistics, stochastic processes and mathematical fina... more

Energy and climate change are two of the most critical issues nowadays. These two topics are also co... more

This volume is to pique the interest of many researchers in the fields of infinite dimensional analy... more

The book includes insights that reflect the advances in the field of Internet of Things from upcomin... more

Highlights the latest research presented at the 11th International Conference on Genetic and Evoluti... more

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Health Informa... more

This volume looks at politeness phenomena in a culture and country that is becoming the most influen... more

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Parallel Archit... more

The two-volume set LNCS 10569 and LNCS 10570 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International C... more

"Functional carbohydrates" is the term used to describe those carbohydrates that play an important r... more

From Internet of Things to Smart Cities: Enabling Technologies explores the information and communic... more

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 10.3 International Conference on Network a... more

This book provides a comprehensive overview of different biomedical data types, including both clini... more

This two volume set (CCIS 727 and 728) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Internation... more

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies i... more

This book holds the proceedings of the Conference on Applications of Structural Fire Engineering (AS... more

This illuminating text/reference presents a review of the key aspects of the modeling and simulation... more

The three-volume set CCIS 761, CCIS 762, and CCIS 763 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceeding... more

Presents the latest advances in variable structure systems (VSS) and sliding mode control (SMC), car... more

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second Internationa... more

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the Second EAI International Conference on ... more

Recent technological advancements and other related factors and trends are contributing to the produ... more

Presents the latest developments in risk management; market risk, credit risk and dynamics of risk m... more

Held in Wuhan of China from August 20-21, 2016, the 2016 International Conference on Mechatronics an... more

This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real... more

Incorporates the Experiences of World-Class Researchers Microbial Biotechnology: Progress and Trends... more

An ever-increasing dependence on green energy has brought on a renewed interest in polymer electroly... more

The agri-food chain consumes about one third of the world s energy production with about 12% of it f... more

This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in histor... more

This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in histor... more

Today, when a security incident happens, the top three questions a cyber operation center would ask ... more

This book focuses on the importance of human factors in the development of safe and reliable unmanne... more

This proceedings volume compiles and expands on selected and peer reviewed presentations given at th... more

With the rapid progress in networking and computing technologies, a wide variety of network-based co... more

This book brings together a collection of seven papers on Transaction Cost Economics by Nobel Laurea... more