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  • Golden Goose

    The Story of a Peasant Family in Western China

    by Xu Liu, David Burnett ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book offers an intimate and personal look at what China's poverty alleviation has meant for individuals. The dramatic progress in reducing poverty in China over the past three decades is well known. According to the World Bank, more than 500 million people were lifted out of extreme poverty as China’s poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 6.5 percent in 2012. Behind this statistic are ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Education for Economic and Social Transformation in Rural China

    Voices from the Field

    by Xu Liu, Steven Cowan ...
    Series series Education and Society in China
    Liu and Cowan offer a unique in-depth study of educational development and social transformation in rural China. It foregrounds identifiable settings and personalities, engaging readers with the voices and experiences of people who are involved with the education system.This book explores the link between educational transformation and local economic regeneration. The research covers important ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Development and Governance of Private Universities in China

    by Xu Liu ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book investigates the form and features of governance and the factors that shape governance in practice in private universities in China. Building on an exploration of the growth of private universities in China after the Communist Party took over the power, the study examines the specific context in China, including the role of the Communist Party, and integrates with shareholders and senior ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Consumer Culture in Transition

    Aesthetic Consumption in China's New Middle Class

    by Xi Liu, Guilin Liu, Gaoxiang Xu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Marketing
    This book offers case studies on the emergence of aesthetic consumption in China, that is, daily consumption in which aesthetic and spiritual benefits play a dominant role in consumers’ decision-making.The book opens by discussing the rapid economic and cultural development of China, as well as the influence of social media in expressing consumer cultural capital. It then discusses how the country ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Edge Assisted Mobile Visual SLAM

    by Jingao Xu, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, Hao Cao ...
    In an age where real-time processing and interaction with the physical world through digital lenses are paramount, visual SLAM technology has become the backbone of mobile AR/VR applications, robotics, and autonomous systems. However, the demanding computational load of visual SLAM often strains the limited resources of mobile devices, hindering performance and accuracy. This is exactly where edge ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Food Additive Manufacturing

    Edited by Min Zhang, Zhenbin Liu, Zhongxiang Fang, Baoguo Xu ...
    In 3D food printing, an object is built layer by layer from a 3D computer design without the use of molds or assembly steps. Food Additive Manufacturing provides up‑to‑date, comprehensive, and novel information about 3D food printing, featuring both research and industry perspectives. It discusses the fundamentals of food additive manufacturing, including material characteristics, formulations, ... Read more

    $280.00 USD

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  • AI 2025: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

    38th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2025, Canberra, ACT, Australia, December 1–5, 2025, Proceedings, Part I

    Edited by Miaomiao Liu, Xin Yu, Chang Xu, Yiliao Song ...
    Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This two-volume set LNAI 16370-16371 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2025, held in Canberra, ACT, Australia, during December 1–5, 2025.The 73 full papers presented together with 1 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 152 submissions. They were organized in following topical section:Part I : Language and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • A Study on the Washback Effects of the Test for English Majors (TEM)

    Implications for Testing and Teaching Reforms

    by Qian Xu, Jun Liu ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book adopts a multi-method and multi-phase approach to investigate the washback effects of Test for English Majors (TEM) on program administrators, teachers and students, shedding new light on TEM reform and the reform of English teaching and learning in China. TEM, a nationwide test used to measure the language proficiency of undergraduate English majors in China, is a major standardized ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Advances in Control Technologies for Brushless Doubly-fed Induction Generators

    by Yi Liu, Wei Xu ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book presents advances in control technologies for efficient operation of the brushless doubly-fed induction generator (BDFIG). For robust and low-cost operation of BDFIGs, it is required to keep high-quality output voltage and eliminate the speed/position encoder under different loads and operation conditions. Some advanced control technologies, from the authors’ latest work on these topics, ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Degradation of Alpine Grasslands on Tibetan Plateau

    Assessment, Causes, Consequences, and Restoration

    by Shibin Liu, Xingliang Xu, Huaiyong Shao, Bahar S. Razavi ...
    Degradation of Alpine Grasslands on Tibetan Plateau: Assessment, Causes, Consequences, and Restoration summarizes the approaches for assessing the degradation of alpine grasslands, highlighting its effects on vegetation, soil characteristics, water cycles, and ecosystem services. It examines soil carbon and nutrient distribution on the Tibetan Plateau, discusses how degradation impacts nutrient ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • Transformation Thermotics and Extended Theories

    Inside and Outside Metamaterials

    by Liu-Jun Xu, Ji-Ping Huang ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This open access book describes the theory of transformation thermotics and its extended theories for the active control of macroscopic thermal phenomena of artificial systems, which is in sharp contrast to classical thermodynamics comprising the four thermodynamic laws for the passive description of macroscopic thermal phenomena of natural systems. This monograph consists of two parts, i.e., ... Read more

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  • Prediction Methods and Evaluation of the Fatigue Life for Automotive Structural Components

    by Xintian Liu, Yu Fang, Xu Wang, Xiaolan Wang ...
    Prediction Methods and Evaluation of the Fatigue Life for Automotive Structural Components covers this important component that affects the performance of the entire vehicle. The light weight of automotive structural components is one of the sustainable solutions to energy and environmental issues, and the development technology of its core components and vehicle performance evaluation technology ... Read more

    $206.99 USD