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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 me... More

Formal methods is a field of computer science that emphasizes the use of rigorous mathematical techniques for verification and design of hardware and software systems. Analysis and design of nonlinear control design plays an important role across many disciplines of engineering and applied sciences,... More

Lin Feng, who had been humiliated by his former girlfriend and the chief physician, had obtained the teachings of the medical martial arts by chance. Pure-hearted nurse, charming oneesan, peerless young woman, baby-faced loli, charming loli, proud loli, pure school beauty, beautiful star, hot teache... More

Lin Feng, who had been humiliated by his former girlfriend and the chief physician, had obtained the teachings of the medical martial arts by chance. Pure-hearted nurse, charming oneesan, peerless young woman, baby-faced loli, charming loli, proud loli, pure school beauty, beautiful star, hot teache... More

Lin Feng, who had been humiliated by his former girlfriend and the chief physician, had obtained the teachings of the medical martial arts by chance. Pure-hearted nurse, charming oneesan, peerless young woman, baby-faced loli, charming loli, proud loli, pure school beauty, beautiful star, hot teache... More

Lin Feng, who had been humiliated by his former girlfriend and the chief physician, had obtained the teachings of the medical martial arts by chance. Pure-hearted nurse, charming oneesan, peerless young woman, baby-faced loli, charming loli, proud loli, pure school beauty, beautiful star, hot teache... More

Parallel Kinematics- Type, Kinematics, and Optimal Design presents the results of 15 year's research on parallel mechanisms and parallel kinematics machines. This book covers the systematic classification of parallel mechanisms (PMs) as well as providing a large number of mechanical architectures of... More

A dazzling cycle of short stories by one of China's most revered contemporary writers and one of the world's leading artist-intellectuals. An Empty Room is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin to appear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories written while Mu Xin... More

<P>There have been a number of major developments in second language (L2) writing and peer response teaching and research since the publication of the first volume of this book in 2002. Two of these, in particular, are worth mentioning as they have motivated the substantive revisions we have made to... More

Stochastic Averaging and Extremum Seeking treats methods inspired by attempts to understand the seemingly non-mathematical question of bacterial chemotaxis and their application in other environments. The text presents significant generalizations on existing stochastic averaging theory developed fro... More

This title provides a unique theoretical framework for multi-mode resonant antennas and different approaches to their implementation, with an emphasis on mode gauge functionality, a new concept for a clear identification and flexible control of all usable resonant modes in multi-mode resonant antenn... More

This book offers a systematic presentation of persymmetric adaptive detection, including detector derivations and the definition of key concepts, followed by detailed discussion relating to theoretical underpinnings, design methodology, design considerations, and techniques enabling its practical im... More

As environmental history has developed as growing sub-discipline within the study of history, great emphasis has been placed on the importance of adopting an interdisciplinary approach. Indeed, as Environmental History in East Asia shows, by drawing on research and methodologies from the fields of s... More

Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.... More

Environmental history has evolved into a well-established historical subfield which has broadened the horizons of historical research, beyond human affairs, to include the study of human interactions with natural and man-made environments. This broadened scope has attracted scholars from many differ... More

This book addresses anti-fatigue manufacturing, analysis and test verification technologies for typical aircraft structures, including fastening holes, shot peening plates, different types of joints and wing boxes. Offering concrete solutions to practical problems in aircraft engineering, it will be... More

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic framework for the design of adaptive architectures, which take advantage of the available a priori information to enhance the detection performance. Moreover, this framework also provides guidelines to develop decision schemes capable of estimating t... More

This book carries on the ideal of providing a systematic exposition of the logistics development in China to the English-reading community at large in the spirit of the four predecessor volumes, published in previous years. This book is the fifth volume in a series entitled "Contemporary Logistics ... More

This book is the eighth volume in a series entitled “Contemporary Logistics in China,” authored by researchers from the Logistics Research Center at Nankai University. In the spirit of the seven preceding annual volumes, this book carries on the ideal of providing a systematic exposition on the logi... More

This edited volume engages with some of the most dynamic themes in current research on East Asian environmental history, including agricultural science, war and the environment, imperial forestry, oceanic history, and the history of energy. Chapters in this book supply an overview of environmental ... More

The Chinese Electronics Industry documents the technologies, capabilities, and infrastructure that has made China a major player in the Asian electronics industry. This book covers the major segments of China's electronics industry, including semiconductors, packaging, printed circuit boards, comput... More

The 4-volume set LNAI 13013 – 13016 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2021, which took place in Yantai, China, during October 22-25, 2021.The 299 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected f... More

The 4-volume set LNAI 13013 – 13016 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2021, which took place in Yantai, China, during October 22-25, 2021.The 299 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected f... More

The 4-volume set LNAI 13013 – 13016 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2021, which took place in Yantai, China, during October 22-25, 2021.The 299 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected f... More

The 4-volume set LNAI 13013 – 13016 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2021, which took place in Yantai, China, during October 22-25, 2021.The 299 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected f... More