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Agriculture is the product of a complex mixture of behavioural, biophysical and market drivers. Understanding how these factors interact to produce crops and livestock for food has been the focus of economic investigation for many years. The advent of optimisation algorithms and the exponential gro... More

Stay on top with the latest developments in scientific and technical journal publications! In Scholarly Communication in Science and Engineering Research in Higher Education, experts in the academic community propose cost-effective alternatives to commercial publications in the face of increased jo... More

This book introduces comprehensive fundamentals, numerical simulations and experimental methods of electrification of particulates entrained multiphase flows. The electrifications of two particulate forms, liquid droplets and solid particles, are firstly described together. Liquid droplets can be ... More

This book opens up new ways to develop mathematical models and optimization methods for interdependent energy infrastructures, ranging from the electricity network, natural gas network, district heating network, and electrified transportation network. The authors provide methods to help analyze, des... More

This book focuses on how to promote cross-border economic cooperation in the context of China national strategy including BRI. This book summarizes the existing regional economic development theories and sorts out the relevant theories of cross-border economic cooperation.  Then, it analyzes the ind... More

With China becoming a major force in steel research and development, this book highlights the work of a group from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led by the first four authors. This group has the ideal knowledge base for writing this updated book on heat-resistant steels. The fifth author, Sha, ... More

Seismic Risk Analysis of Nuclear Power Plants addresses the needs of graduate students in engineering, practicing engineers in industry, and regulators in government agencies, presenting the entire process of seismic risk analysis in a clear, logical, and concise manner. It offers a systematic and c... More

We cannot afford to miss the remarkable rise of Chinese business ecosystems. Alibaba and their peers Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi, and LeEco showcase unprecedented growth and success in China and are expanding their impact globally. With a combined market capitalization of close to 600 billion USD, incuba... More

Six years ago, she kidnapped him and forced him to take only one seed before disappearing without a trace. Six years later, she became a famous lawyer overseas and brought her son back to the country. She did not want to be targeted by that wild wolf on the day she returned home. She did everything ... More

Six years ago, she kidnapped him and forced him to take only one seed before disappearing without a trace. Six years later, she became a famous lawyer overseas and brought her son back to the country. She did not want to be targeted by that wild wolf on the day she returned home. She did everything ... More

Six years ago, she kidnapped him and forced him to take only one seed before disappearing without a trace. Six years later, she became a famous lawyer overseas and brought her son back to the country. She did not want to be targeted by that wild wolf on the day she returned home. She did everything ... More

Six years ago, she kidnapped him and forced him to take only one seed before disappearing without a trace. Six years later, she became a famous lawyer overseas and brought her son back to the country. She did not want to be targeted by that wild wolf on the day she returned home. She did everything ... More

Six years ago, she kidnapped him and forced him to take only one seed before disappearing without a trace. Six years later, she became a famous lawyer overseas and brought her son back to the country. She did not want to be targeted by that wild wolf on the day she returned home. She did everything ... More

Six years ago, she kidnapped him and forced him to take only one seed before disappearing without a trace. Six years later, she became a famous lawyer overseas and brought her son back to the country. She did not want to be targeted by that wild wolf on the day she returned home. She did everything ... More

Six years ago, she kidnapped him and forced him to take only one seed before disappearing without a trace. Six years later, she became a famous lawyer overseas and brought her son back to the country. She did not want to be targeted by that wild wolf on the day she returned home. She did everything ... More

Learn leadership skills from achievements at special libraries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central America! Leadership and Management Principles in Libraries in Developing Countries is a compilation of success stories epitomizing management and leadership strategies from developing nations ... More

This book mainly focuses on defining profit models, on how many main kinds of profit models there are, how profit models can change a company, and how to tailor a profit model to the needs of a certain company. In this context, profit models are classified as fixed-income, remaining-profit and prof... More

This book introduces a promising design for future Internet, the Smart Collaborative Identifier NETwork (SINET). By examining cutting-edge research from around the world, it is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of SINET, including its basic theories and principles, a broad range of a... More

This book offers a systematic investigation of the ecological and environmental issues related to the land cover changes in Nepal by researchers from both China and Nepal. It discusses the eco-environmental issues faced by Nepal, particularly in the hills and mountain regions. It also sheds light ... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2018, held in Tianjin, China, in June 2018.The 59 full papers and 18 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 197 submissions. The p... More

Approaching Business Models from an Economic Perspective examines business model logic and explores the model from different aspects including definition, design, functionality, elements, and self-sustaining logic. It explains the essence and core elements of a business model and unlocks its mysteri... More

Nonlinear Stochastic Control and Filtering with Engineering-oriented Complexities presents a series of control and filtering approaches for stochastic systems with traditional and emerging engineering-oriented complexities. The book begins with an overview of the relevant background, motivation, and... More

This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city. The articles consider how various experiences of Singapore, both from within and from outside, help to complicate existing assumptions about... More

A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to West... More

This book breaks the boundaries of the single enterprise, proposing the symbiotic business model, and discussing business model design engineering as well as other new concepts, methods and ideas. Business models are not only dependent on business intuition, but also on systematic design and continu... More