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The idea of 'the commons' is a long-standing concept in the English-speaking world and in English law. A similar concept occurs in China. How different from or similar to the English idea of ‘the commons’ is the idea in China; and how is the concept applied? This book explores this important subject... More

This book explores the usage patterns of a group of adversative and concessive conjunctions in English texts written by Chinese EFL learners and their native speaker counterparts. Focusing on probability profiles and systemic potentials, the study encompasses three stages and combines the strengths ... More

This is an open access book.It offers comprehensive, self-contained knowledge on Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which is a very promising technology for achieving intelligence in the next-generation wireless communications and computing networks.The book starts with the basic concepts, key techniques ... More

This book provides the basic theory, method framework and application results of urban metabolism. Urban metabolism is an important research philosophy and approach for analyzing urban mega organism and its ecological environmental problems. It has constantly formed quantitative network research fra... More

This thesis presents pioneering experimental and numerical studies on three aspects of the combustion characteristics of lean premixed syngas/air flames, namely the laminar flame speed, extinction limit and flammability limit. It illustrates a new extinction exponent concept, which enriches the com... More

This book discusses one of the most noticeable and significant transformations in China over the past three decades is the rapid and massive urbanization of the country, which has brought shifts in political culture of Chinese urbanites. This book is a systematic and empirical study of political cu... More

After over a decade of administrative and economic reform in mainland China, the center has become increasingly remote and less important for many localities. In many ways, the mobilization capacity of the central government has been weakened. Central government policies are often ignored and local ... More

Despite China’s rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, most Chinese still live in the vast countryside or have rural household registration. Although there was significant economic improvement in rural areas in the 1980s, the rural economy has been stagnating or deteriorating since then, and the ... More

Reading Edge Effects, Jan Conn’s masterful eighth collection, is a little like looking at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial wastelands; both visions are as gorgeous as they are terrifying, platforms for thought, even for activism, depending as they do on the energy of the viewer/read... More

Jaguar Rain is a rare text: at once a book of stand-alone poems and a work of scholarship, with textual notes and bibliography. Written in the voice of Margaret Mee (naturalist, explorer, and painter of flowers in the Amazon between 1956 and 1988), the poems are infused with wonder at a discovered n... More

“Do we want love / each and every day of our lives?” Jan Conn asks in a poem called “Michoacán.” “You bet your ass,” she answers. The poems of Botero’s Beautiful Horses are charged with otherness, bright with the exhilaration and danger of transformation. Many are descriptions of surrealist canvases... More

A poor laborer who couldn't even afford the rent was in a car accident. However, the heavens were blessed by the heavens. In this car accident, he unexpectedly obtained the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Limitless Body and became a prodigy. The city, the immortal world, the divine world, the voi... More

A poor laborer who couldn't even afford the rent was in a car accident. However, the heavens were blessed by the heavens. In this car accident, he unexpectedly obtained the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Limitless Body and became a prodigy. The city, the immortal world, the divine world, the voi... More

A poor laborer who couldn't even afford the rent was in a car accident. However, the heavens were blessed by the heavens. In this car accident, he unexpectedly obtained the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Limitless Body and became a prodigy. The city, the immortal world, the divine world, the voi... More

A poor laborer who couldn't even afford the rent was in a car accident. However, the heavens were blessed by the heavens. In this car accident, he unexpectedly obtained the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Limitless Body and became a prodigy. The city, the immortal world, the divine world, the voi... More

A poor laborer who couldn't even afford the rent was in a car accident. However, the heavens were blessed by the heavens. In this car accident, he unexpectedly obtained the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Limitless Body and became a prodigy. The city, the immortal world, the divine world, the voi... More

A poor laborer who couldn't even afford the rent was in a car accident. However, the heavens were blessed by the heavens. In this car accident, he unexpectedly obtained the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Limitless Body and became a prodigy. The city, the immortal world, the divine world, the voi... More

Fierce global competition in the tourism industry is now focused on integral parts of supply chains rather than on individual firms. The highly competitive environment has forced tourism firms to look for ways to enhance their competitive advantage. Tourism products are often viewed by consumers as ... More

This volume constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Machine Learning and Intelligent Communications, MLICOM 2018, held in Hangzhou, China, in July 2018.The 66 revised full papers were carefully selected from 102 submissions. The papers are organi... More

This book focuses on lattice-based cryptosystems, widely considered to be one of the most promising post-quantum cryptosystems and provides fundamental insights into how to construct provably secure cryptosystems from hard lattice problems. The concept of provable security is used to inform the choi... More

Systems Metabolic Engineering: The Creation of Microbial Cell Factories by Rational Metabolic Design and Evolution, by Chikara Furusawa, Takaaki Horinouchi, Takashi Hirasawa, Hiroshi Shimizu Impacts of Quorum Sensing on Microbial Metabolism and Human Health, by Yang-Chun Yong, Jian-Jiang Zhong CHO... More

This is an open access book. The 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing was held in Chongqing, China during June 24–26, 2022. The Conference looks for significant contributions to all major fields of Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing in theoretical and ... More

The book focuses on protein allostery in drug discovery. Allosteric regulation, ʹthe second secret of lifeʹ, fine-tunes virtually most biological processes and controls physiological activities. Allostery can both cause human diseases and contribute to development of new therapeutics. Allosteric dru... More

Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compassio... More

This book focuses on advances in our understanding of the regulatory mechanisms of brain iron uptake, iron homeostasis and iron metabolism in the pathophysiology and pharmacology of CNS disease models. Dysregulation of brain iron homeostasis can lead to severe pathological changes in the neural syst... More