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Urban Village Redevelopment in Beijing, China

New Housing Opportunities for Migrant Workers

by Ran Liu ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
The book provides a multi-stage assessment of the changing housing opportunities of migrant workers in the three stages of Beijing’s urban village development (emergence, erasure and preservation). The volume re-theorizes Henry Lefebvre’s notion of the “right to the city” as a largely property-based concept that falls within the city’s hybrid tenure matrix of varying degrees of tenure security and ... Read more

$152.99 USD

The book provides a multi-stage assessment of the changing housing opportunities of migrant workers in the three stages of Beijing’s urban village development (emergence, erasure and preservation). The volume re-theorizes Henry Lefebvre’s notion of the “right to the city” as a largely property-based concept that falls within the city’s hybrid tenure matrix of varying degrees of tenure security and
... Read more
Advances in Traffic Transportation and Civil Architecture

Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Traffic Transportation and Civil Architecture (ISTTCA 2022), Suzhou, China, 19-20 November 2022

Edited by Run Liu, Chongchong Qi, Teik-Hua Law ...

Advances in Traffic Transportation and Civil Architecture focuses on the research of traffic infrastructure. This proceedings gathers the most cutting-edge research and achievements, aiming to provide scholars and engineers with a preferable research direction and engineering solutions as reference. Subjects in this proceedings include:- Road Engineering- Bridge Engineering- Tunneling- ... Read more

$77.99 USD

Advances in Traffic Transportation and Civil Architecture focuses on the research of traffic infrastructure. This proceedings gathers the most cutting-edge research and achievements, aiming to provide scholars and engineers with a preferable research direction and engineering solutions as reference. Subjects in this proceedings include:- Road Engineering- Bridge Engineering- Tunneling-
... Read more
Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Beijing, China

by Ran Liu ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
The great migration of farmers leaving rural China to work and live in big cities as 'floaters' has been an on-going debate in China for the past three decades. This book probes into the spatial mobility of migrant workers in Beijing, and questions the city 'rights' issues beneath the city-making movement in contemporary China. In revealing and explaining the socio-spatial injustice, this volume ... Read more

$89.99 USD

The great migration of farmers leaving rural China to work and live in big cities as 'floaters' has been an on-going debate in China for the past three decades. This book probes into the spatial mobility of migrant workers in Beijing, and questions the city 'rights' issues beneath the city-making movement in contemporary China. In revealing and explaining the socio-spatial injustice, this volume
... Read more
Flexible and Stretchable Electronics

Materials, Design, and Devices

Edited by Run-Wei Li, Gang Liu ...

With the recently well developed areas of Internet of Thing, consumer wearable gadgets and artificial intelligence, flexible and stretchable electronic devices have spurred great amount of interest from both the global scientific and industrial communities. As an emerging technology, flexible and stretchable electronics requires the scale-span fabrication of devices involving nano-features, ... Read more

$149.99 USD

With the recently well developed areas of Internet of Thing, consumer wearable gadgets and artificial intelligence, flexible and stretchable electronic devices have spurred great amount of interest from both the global scientific and industrial communities. As an emerging technology, flexible and stretchable electronics requires the scale-span fabrication of devices involving nano-features,
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Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications

17th Chinese Conference, IGTA 2022, Beijing, China, April 23–24, 2022, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Yongtian Wang, Huimin Ma, Yuxin Peng, Yue Liu, Ran He ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2022, held in Beijing, China, during April 23–24, 2022.The 25 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: image processing and enhancement techniques; machine ... Read more

$80.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2022, held in Beijing, China, during April 23–24, 2022.The 25 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: image processing and enhancement techniques; machine
... Read more
Advances in Image and Graphics Technologies

11th Chinese Conference, IGTA 2016, Beijing, China, July 8-9, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Tieniu Tan, Guoping Wang, Shengjin Wang, Yue Liu, Xiaoru Yuan, Ran He, Sheng Li ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2016, held in Beijing, China in July 2016.The 27 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. They provide a forum for sharing progresses in the areas of image processing technology; image analysis and understanding; computer vision ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2016, held in Beijing, China in July 2016.The 27 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. They provide a forum for sharing progresses in the areas of image processing technology; image analysis and understanding; computer vision
... Read more
Volume 2: Housing and Home

by Alma Clavin, Niamh Moore-Cherry, Carla Maria Kayanan, Faryal Diwan, Samadrita Das, Kamalika Banerjee, Sher Afgan Tareen, Amanda Furiasse, Dennis Archambault, Claudia Sanford, Tam Perry, Rosalie Warnock, Julia de Kadt, Alexandra Parker, Brian Robson, Dillon Newton, Leanne Monchuk, Rachel Armitage, Philip Brown, Yu Wang, Guanyu Jason Ran, Liangni Sally Liu, Lukas Stevens, Wescley Xavier, Luca Maria Francesco Fabris, Federico Camerin, Yuvacan Atmaca, Zeynep Atas, Phil Hubbard, Loretta Lees, Derek Hyra, Rebecca Tunstall ...

Series series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing.Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban ... Read more

$28.99 USD

The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing.Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban
... Read more
路 The Way - 真语人生 The Truth of Life A Book

by Yi Ran, Charles Liu ...

"The Way" is a chronicle of Teacher Yi Ran's genuine life experiences, segmented into nine distinct parts.Part One: "Darkness"Times of joy and sorrow, woes compounded,Life's unpredictable, worldly affairs fickle.From birth till forty, a journey at death's brink,An indescribable odyssey of hardship.Part Two: "Ignite"Dawn breaks just as hope wanes!Part Three: "People"Filial piety, brotherly respect, ... Read more

$2.99 USD

"The Way" is a chronicle of Teacher Yi Ran's genuine life experiences, segmented into nine distinct parts.Part One: "Darkness"Times of joy and sorrow, woes compounded,Life's unpredictable, worldly affairs fickle.From birth till forty, a journey at death's brink,An indescribable odyssey of hardship.Part Two: "Ignite"Dawn breaks just as hope wanes!Part Three: "People"Filial piety, brotherly respect,
... Read more
The Taiwan Crisis: a showcase of the global arsenic problem

by Jiin-Shuh Jean, Jochen Bundschuh, Chien-Jen Chen, How-Ran Guo, Chen-Wuing Liu, Tsair-Fuh Lin, Yen-Hua Chen ...

Series series Arsenic in the environment
In the 1950s, the residents of the southwestern coastal areas of Taiwan suffered greatly from Blackfoot disease (BFD) due to the consumption of arsenic-contaminated groundwater. Groundwater with high levels of arsenic in southwestern and northeastern Taiwan received much attention. After arsenic-safe tap water was utilized for drinking instead of g ... Read more

$77.99 USD

In the 1950s, the residents of the southwestern coastal areas of Taiwan suffered greatly from Blackfoot disease (BFD) due to the consumption of arsenic-contaminated groundwater. Groundwater with high levels of arsenic in southwestern and northeastern Taiwan received much attention. After arsenic-safe tap water was utilized for drinking instead of g
... Read more
New Chinese Immigrants in New Zealand

Floating families?

by Liangni Sally Liu, Guanyu Jason Ran ...

Series series Routledge Series on Asian Migration
This book focuses on new immigrant families from the People’s Republic of China to New Zealand and investigates how these families have adapted to New Zealand immigration policy regime, which does not accommodate their cultural preference to live as multigenerational families easily. The book analyses a three-generation framework: First-generation adult immigrants, their children and older parents ... Read more

$62.99 USD

This book focuses on new immigrant families from the People’s Republic of China to New Zealand and investigates how these families have adapted to New Zealand immigration policy regime, which does not accommodate their cultural preference to live as multigenerational families easily. The book analyses a three-generation framework: First-generation adult immigrants, their children and older parents
... Read more
Message Dissemination Techniques in Opportunistic Underwater Sensor Networks

by Linfeng Liu, Ran Wang, Jiagao Wu ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book investigates the architectures and characteristics of OUSNs, the mobility models of OUSN nodes, the challenges of message dissemination, and some evaluation indexes of message dissemination. Then, this book provides some message dissemination techniques in OUSNs from the viewpoints of nodes and data messages, respectively. The proposed message dissemination techniques and their ... Read more

$107.99 USD

This book investigates the architectures and characteristics of OUSNs, the mobility models of OUSN nodes, the challenges of message dissemination, and some evaluation indexes of message dissemination. Then, this book provides some message dissemination techniques in OUSNs from the viewpoints of nodes and data messages, respectively. The proposed message dissemination techniques and their
... Read more
路 The Way

真语人生 The Truth of Life

by Charles Liu, Ran Yi ...

《路》是一然老师的真语人生，全书共分为9个部分。"The Way" is a chronicle of Teacher Yi Ran's genuine life experiences, segmented into nine distinct parts.第一部：“暗”苦乐时光，雪上加霜，人生难料，世事无常。从出生到40岁，在生死边缘游历，无以言表的艰辛历程。Part One: "Darkness"Times of joy and sorrow, woes compounded,Life's unpredictable, worldly affairs fickle.From birth till forty, a journey at death's brink,An indescribable odyssey of hardship.第二部：“燃”默默埋万载，划空出尘来，<br . ... Read more

$2.99 USD

《路》是一然老师的真语人生，全书共分为9个部分。"The Way" is a chronicle of Teacher Yi Ran's genuine life experiences, segmented into nine distinct parts.第一部：“暗”苦乐时光，雪上加霜，人生难料，世事无常。从出生到40岁，在生死边缘游历，无以言表的艰辛历程。Part One: "Darkness"Times of joy and sorrow, woes compounded,Life's unpredictable, worldly affairs fickle.From birth till forty, a journey at death's brink,An indescribable odyssey of hardship.第二部：“燃”默默埋万载，划空出尘来，<br .
... Read more

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