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  • Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 189

    by Neil Clarke, Aimee Ogden, Marie Vibbert, Anna Martino, Adele Gardner, Chris Willrich, Chen Qian, Nika Murphy ...
    Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our June 2022 issue (#189) contains:Original fiction by Aimee Ogden ("Company Town"), Nika Murphy ("The Art of Navigating an Affair in a Time Rift"), Anna Martino ("Manjar dos Deuses"), Chris Willrich ("The Odyssey Problem"), Chen Qian ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 175

    by Neil Clarke, Ray Nayler, Endria Isa Richardson, Dean-Paul Stephens, Richard Webb, Chen Qian, Andrea Kriz, L Chan ...
    Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art.Our April 2021 issue (#175) contains:Original fiction by Ray Nayler ("Sarcophagus"), Endria Isa Richardson ("The Field Tiger"), Dean-Paul Stephens ("Ouroboros"), Richard Webb ("The Sheen of Her Carapace"), Chen Qian ("Catching the K ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Ultra-high Voltage AC/DC Power Transmission

    Edited by Hao Zhou, Wenqian Qiu, Ke Sun, Jiamiao Chen, Xu Deng, Feng Qian, Dongju Wang, Bincai Zhao, Jiyuan Li, Sha Li, Yuting Qiu, Jingzhe Yu ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book addresses the latest findings on practical ultra-high voltage AC/DC (UHVAC/UHVDC) power transmission. Firstly, it reviews current constructions and future plans for major UHVDC and UHVAC projects around the world. The book subsequently illustrates the basic theories, economic analysis, and key technologies of UHV power networks in detail, and describes the design of the UHVAC substations ... Read more

    $305.99 USD

  • When Formalization Fails

    The Credibility of Informality in China’s Resettlement Communities

    by Zhu Qian, Chen Yang ...
    Series series Elements in Global Development Studies
    Globally, states use rural-to-urban resettlement to fuel development, yet this formal process consistently generates its own informalities. Using a comparative case study of China—contrasting its affluent coast with its poorer hinterland—this book reveals how informality not only persists after resettlement but performs essential functions, critically challenging the effectiveness of prevailing ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Semi-supervised Tooth Segmentation

    First MICCAI Challenge, SemiToothSeg 2023, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 8, 2023, Proceedings

    Edited by Yaqi Wang, Xiaodiao Chen, Dahong Qian, Fan Ye, Shuai Wang, Hongyuan Zhang ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the First MICCAI 2023 Challenge on Semi-supervisedTooth Segmentation, SemiToothSeg 2023, held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2023, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, on October 8, 2023.The 16 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers were written by participants in the STS challenge to describe their ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks for Photonics Applications

    Edited by Banglin Chen, Guodong Qian ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    The series Structure and Bonding publishes critical reviews on topics of research concerned with chemical structure and bonding. The scope of the series spans the entire Periodic Table and addresses structure and bonding issues associated with all of the elements. It also focuses attention on new and developing areas of modern structural and theoretical chemistry such as nanostructures, molecular ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Brief History Of Bacteria, A: The Everlasting Game Between Humans And Bacteria

    by Daijie Chen, Xiuping Qian, Youjia Hu ...
    This book explains how pathogenic bacteria cause diseases, how the human immune system launches timely and effective defense mechanisms against bacterial infection, why the discovery and application of penicillin and streptomycin are so important, how scientists have created medicines to defeat bacteria, and why these bacteria might outsmart modern medicine.On the other hand, bacteria can be ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Dynamic Spectrum Auction in Wireless Communication

    by Yanjiao Chen, Qian Zhang ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This brief explores current research on dynamic spectrum auctions, focusing on fundamental auction theory, characteristics of the spectrum market, spectrum auction architecture and possible auction mechanisms. The brief explains how dynamic spectrum auctions, which enable new users to gain spectrum access and existing spectrum owners to obtain financial benefits, can greatly improve spectrum ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Human Side of Project Management

    Leadership Skills

    by Jianguo Chen, PhD, Qian Shi, PhD, PMP ...
    The Human Side of Project Management: Leadership Skills includes an assessment framework for selecting project leaders who exemplify the key characteristics and traits identified in the research, with particular emphasis on working in China, due to the country's growing need for project management. In building the body of knowledge relating to leadership skills of project leaders, researchers from ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Debt Maturity and the Use of Short-Term Debt

    Evidence form Sovereigns and Firms

    by Sophia Chen, Paola Ganum, Lucy Qian Liu, Leonardo Martinez, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria ...
    The maturity structure of debt can have financial and real consequences. Short-term debt exposes borrowers to rollover risk (where the terms of financing are renegotiated to the detriment of the borrower) and is associated with financial crises. Moreover, debt maturity can have an impact on the ability of firms to undertake long-term productive investments and, as a result, affect economic ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Rise of the Middle Class in Contemporary China

    by Hainan Su, Hong Wang, Fenglin Chang ...
    Translated by Qiaodan Lu, Yunqian Li, Xian Wang, Chen Sijia, Xie Qianfan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book portrays the middle class in contemporary China with plain language and precise professional knowledge in an all-round, broad and responsible way from the perspectives of income, property, profession, education, consumption, investment, physiological and behavioral characteristics, history and development. It gives, in a logical order, the reasons for stimulating the rise of the middle ... Read more

    $107.99 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