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Managing Financial Risks Amid China's Economic Slowdown (Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path)
by Yang LiThe book is based on the research concerning China’s National Balance Sheet (NBS) which is conducted by NIFD, the unique research groups in China focusing on NBS. The relative data have been quoted by the IMF, Chinese government sectors, influential investment banks at home and abroad. This book of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Imbalance and Rebalance
by Xiaojing Zhang • Yang LiThis book focuses on global financial systems. After summarising historical financial institutions, it subsequently uses economic and econometrical models to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of these institutions and their role in the history. Readers, especially international readers, will be... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
China's National Balance Sheet: Theories, Methods and Risk Assessment (China Insights)
by Xiaojing Zhang • Yang LiWith the goal of perfecting the national governance system and raising the country's governance capability, this book systematically analyzes the characteristics and trajectory of China's economic expansion and structural adjustment, while also assessing a variety of short-term debt and long-term ec... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Artificial Intelligence for Human Computer Interaction: A Modern Approach (Human–Computer Interaction Series)
by Yang Li • Otmar HilligesThis edited book explores the many interesting questions that lie at the intersection between AI and HCI. It covers a comprehensive set of perspectives, methods and projects that present the challenges and opportunities that modern AI methods bring to HCI researchers and practitioners. The chapters ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Nanocellulose and Sustainability: Production, Properties, Applications, and Case Studies (Sustainability: Contributions through Science and Technology)
Nanometre scale cellulose fibres, or nanocellulose, are emerging materials for various advanced applications. Nanocellulose and Sustainability: Production, Properties, Applications, and Case Studies provides a comprehensive overview of nanocellulose production, nanocellulose properties and nanocellu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Phytochemicals in Soybeans: Bioactivity and Health Benefits (Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals)
Soybeans represent an excellent source of high-quality protein with a low content in saturated fat. They can be made into various foods, such as tofu, miso, breakfast cereals, energy bars, and soy cakes. Much research has been carried out on the positive health effects of soybeans, and increasing ev... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Economic Analysis and Forecast of China
This book provides a detailed and up-to- date analysis of the current and near-future domestic economic situation in China based on the concept of "New Normal", which was first proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and which is commonly used in discussions on China's current economy. China's New... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
China's National Balance Sheet: Leverage Adjustment and Risk Management
The book aims at perfecting the national governance system and improving national governance ability. It evaluates the balance sheets of the state and residents, non-financial corporations, financial institutions and the central bank, the central government, local government and external sectors – t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The London Olympics and Urban Development: The Mega-Event City (Regions and Cities)
As London sought to use the Olympics to achieve an ambitious programme of urban renewal in the relatively socially deprived East London it attracted global attention and sparked debate. This book provides an in-depth study of the transformation of East London as a result of the 2012 Summer Olympic a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Security of Block Ciphers: From Algorithm Design to Hardware Implementation (Wiley - IEEE)
A comprehensive evaluation of information security analysis spanning the intersection of cryptanalysis and side-channel analysis Written by authors known within the academic cryptography community, this book presents the latest developments in current research Unique in its combination of both algo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Epistemic Pluralism
This book examines epistemic pluralism, a brand new area of research in epistemology with dramatic implications for the discipline. Challenging traditional assumptions about the nature of justification, an expert team of contributors explores pluralism about justification, with compelling first-ord... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Advances in the Biology and Management of Modern Bed Bugs
The first comprehensive scholarly treatment of bed bugs since 1966 This book updates and expands on existing material on bed bugs with an emphasis on the worldwide resurgence of both the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius L., and the tropical bed bug, Cimex hemipterus (F.). It incorporates extensive ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Expatriate Manager's Adaption and Knowledge Acquisition
by Yan LiThis book is among the first to theoretically and empirically examine what and how Western expatriate managers learn and develop from their international assignments in China. The book draws on literature associated with expatriate studies, experiential learning theory, and knowledge acquisition to... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Conceptualizing Soft Power of Higher Education: Globalization and Universities in China and the World (Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education)
by Jian LiThis book examines the globalization trends in higher education from an international political science perspective, using Nye’s theory of soft power to explore the rationale behind it. It focuses on conceptualizing the Soft Power Conversion Model of Higher Education, which is embedded in the global... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
China's Soviet Dream: Propaganda, Culture, and Popular Imagination (Routledge Contemporary China Series)
by Yan LiThis book examines the introduction of Soviet socialist culture in the People’s Republic of China, with a focus on the period of Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s. The vast state initiative to transplant Soviet culture into Chinese soil has conventionally been dismissed as a tool of propaganda and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Women, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt: The Theban Case Study (Routledge Studies in Egyptology)
by Jean LiWomen, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt clarifies the role of women in Egyptian society during the first millennium BCE, allowing for more nuanced discussions of women in the Third Intermediate Period. It is an intensive study of a corpus that is both geographically and tempora... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Global Higher Education Shared Communities: Efforts and Concerns from Key Universities in China (Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education)
by Jian LiThis book offers an in-depth investigation of the globalization of higher education at Chinese universities and colleges. The proposed “Global Higher Education Shared Community” model reflects the globalization of higher education with Chinese characteristics in terms of its conceptual, practical an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Comprehensive Global Competence for World-Class Universities in China: Context, Concept, Model and Evaluation (Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education)
by Jian LiThis book proposes the new concept of “comprehensive global competence” in order to explore how to advocate, cultivate, and implement global competence at China’s higher education institutions. The concept essentially refers to an organizational, cross-cultural capacity involving students, faculty m... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Innovation Competency Model: Shaping Faculty Academic Innovation Development in China’s Higher Education (China Perspectives)
by Jian LiContributing to the discussion over China’s higher education development, this book takes a theoretical approach to address the topic of university academics’ innovation by introducing an academic innovation competency model, exploring the contexts, concepts and practices. The innovation competenc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
New Directions of Local Higher Education Policy: Insights from China (Exploring Education Policy in a Globalized World: Concepts, Contexts, and Practices)
by Jian LiThis book examines the directions of local higher education policy in contemporary China since reform and opening up. It involves investigating rationales and conceptualizing analytical framework of shaping multiple type-based local higher education system, including the local undergraduate universi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
“Four Branches” of Internationalization of Higher Education in China: A Policy Retrospective Analysis (Exploring Education Policy in a Globalized World: Concepts, Contexts, and Practices)
by Jian LiThis book examines the emerging power of “Four Branches” of internationalization of higher education in China from a policy retrospective analysis. In particular, branch one includes China's policy on studying abroad after the reform and opening up; branch two concentrates on China's policy on study... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Cyber-Physical Microgrids
by Yan LiThis textbook provides students with an overview of cyber-physical microgrid networks and an in-depth introduction to photovoltaics, batteries, flywheel, supercapacitor, micro-turbines, wind generation, power-electronic interfaces, modeling and stability analysis of microgrids, and cyber-communicati... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination
by Haiyan LeeIn the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have changed residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country once known as "a society of kith and kin. " There has been a pervasive sense of moral crisis ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS: Start Building Websites Like a Pro!
by Ian LloydWith over 60,000 copies sold since its first edition, this SitePoint best-seller has just had a fresh update to include recent advances in the web industry.With the first two editions coming highly recommended by established, leading web designers and developers, the third edition with all its extra... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Honey Bees
by Jane LechtHoneybees work very hard every day. Find out what they do, and why they do it. Find out how they live and how hard they work.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1973