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  • Randomly Deployed Wireless Sensor Networks

    by Xi Chen ...
    Wireless sensor networks have a range of applications, including military uses and in environmental monitoring. When an area of interest is inaccessible by conventional means, such a network can be deployed in ways resulting in a random distribution of the sensors. Randomly Deployed Wireless Sensor Networks offers a probabilistic method to model and analyze these networks. The book considers the ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China

    by Xi Chen ...
    Xi Chen explores the question of why there has been a dramatic rise in and routinization of social protests in China since the early 1990s. Drawing on case studies, in-depth interviews and a unique data set of about 1,000 government records of collective petitions, this book examines how the political structure in Reform China has encouraged Chinese farmers, workers, pensioners, disabled people ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Implementing E-assessment for Learning in Primary EFL Writing

    A Case Study in China

    by Xi Chen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines how e-assessment can be implemented in primary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing in an examination-oriented context. It provides valuable insights on e-assessment for learning (E-AfL) to teacher educators and teachers in both local and global contexts, especially teacher educators undertaking professional development programs of assessment in examination-oriented ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • A Study of Criminal Proceeding Conventions in Tang Dynasty

    by Xi Chen ...
    Translated by Guang Shi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book uses the monographic study of litigation subjects, prosecution, trial, and enforcement to reveal the formation, operation, and development of criminal proceeding conventions in the Tang Dynasty. It also outlines the combination, coordination, and interaction of rules, conventions, and ideas in the traditional Chinese legal system, and presents an overview of the evolution and development ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Extreme Climate Adaptation Strategy

    Smart Water Grid in the Yangtze River Delta

    by Heqin Cheng, Xi Chen, Kai Tan ...
    Series Book 19 - East China Normal University Scientific Reports
    This book presents a systematic framework for risk assessment and predictions of extreme climate impacts using big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and intelligent monitoring technologies. Central to this effort is the concept of a smart water grid, a 'digital water network', capable of real-time monitoring, rapid transmission, accurate forecasting, optimized decision-making, precise ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Reliability Based Aircraft Maintenance Optimization and Applications

    by He Ren, Xi Chen, Yong Chen ...
    Series series Aerospace Engineering
    Reliability Based Aircraft Maintenance Optimization and Applications presents flexible and cost-effective maintenance schedules for aircraft structures, particular in composite airframes. By applying an intelligent rating system, and the back-propagation network (BPN) method and FTA technique, a new approach was created to assist users in determining inspection intervals for new aircraft ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Toward Energy-Efficient Buildings

    Envelope Technologies and Sustainable Energy Systems

    by Vivien Lin Lu, Xi Chen, Jianheng Chen, Kai Jiao ...
    Towards Energy-Efficient Buildings: Envelope Technologies and Sustainable Energy Systems examines the intersection of building design and energy systems analysis, paving the way to sustainable, efficient buildings and our communal energy future. This book begins by outlining the major energy challenges for buildings and the fundamentals and opportunities in envelope technology for their increasing ... Read more

    $166.99 USD

  • Injection Molding Process Control, Monitoring, and Optimization

    by Xi Chen, Ningyun Lu, Furong Gao ...
    Injection molding is the most versatile, flexible, and dynamic plastics production operation. It has been used to manufacture products from practically all thermoplastic polymers, blends, composites, and nanocomposites. A critical aspect for the success of the process depends on understanding and control of the various steps of the injection molding process and the thermo-mechanical history ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

  • Toward Better Governance in China

    An Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform

    by Jon Bond, Jie Chen, Xi Chen, Chia-chen Chou, Sheng Ding, Qian Guo, Diqing Lou, Chunlong Lu, Huhe Narisong, Han-pu Tung, Lin Ye, Yiran Zhou, Xufeng Zhu, Yuchao Zhu, Dennis Hickey ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    Toward Better Governance in China takes a fresh look at the latest efforts made by Chinese leaders to promote governance-based reform. It asserts that the improvement of governance has now become one of the breakthrough points of the much anticipated political reform. Although the Chinese government continues to play down expectations about political reform, many small-scale reform experiments ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Reading in a Second Language

    Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Issues

    by Xi Chen, Vedran Dronjic, Rena Helms-Park ...
    Reading in a Second Language offers a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon and process of reading in a second language, with graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and applied psychology as its primary audience. The book explores reading processes from a number of complementary standpoints, integrating perspectives from fields such as ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Co-opting Culture

    Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies

    by Lindsay Anderson, Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino, Ryan Caldwell, Pablo Castagno, Xi Chen, Jesse Garcia, B Garrick Harden, Keith Kerr, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Christopher M. Sutch, Marcus Aldredge ...
    Co-opting Culture: Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies represents a collection of new scholarship on culture from the social sciences and from work done under the rubric of "cultural studies". Working from the idea that Sociology and Cultural Studies have developed distinct and valuable toolkits for understanding culture, the editors have brought together a collection of essays ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Dynamics of Suspended Flow in Open Channels

    by Aybek M. Arifjanov, Xi Chen, A. Fatxulloev Mirzotilloevich, Luqmon N. Samiev ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book overviews modern theory of the turbulent motion flow in riverbeds answering many questions around this topic. It gives new generalization of the mathematical model for determining the hydrodynamic parameters of suspended particles and the interaction between the liquid and the solid carrier particles in various movements of suspended particles. It develops a new method for calculating ... Read more

    $152.99 USD