Today 700 million Chinese citizens -- more than fifty-four percent of the population -- live in c...

Social Stratification in Contemporary China raises and debates major sociological issues of moder...

Tea is the most widely-consumed beverage in the world. Like other crops, tea cultivation faces a ...

This book takes an in-depth look at the development of the private education sector in modern Chi...

A complete reference text to airdrop recovery systems with self-inflating airbags, focusing...

This book analyses the particular nature, characteristics and current conditions of urbanizati...

Longitudinal endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is now widely accepted as a powerful tool for the explor...

This book covers the up-to-date advancement of respiratory monitoring in ventilation support as w...

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the 'real-time accompany technique' for diagnos...

Thanks to their considerable advantages, index modulation and orthogonal frequency divi...

This volume is a collection of research papers on nonlinear partial differential equations and re...