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  • Unequal Learning

    Education and Society in Contemporary China

    by Xin Xiang ...
    Inequality has been soaring across the globe in the past decades. And the reproduction of inequality begins early in the life cycle: in homes and schools. In Unequal Learning, Xin Xiang analyzes the different kinds of learning that goes on in four drastically different Chinese schools: a rural school in a mountainous area; a public school in an impoverished region of an emerging city; a low-cost ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Paleoenvironment, Plants and Animals of Liangzhu

    Essence and Treasures

    by Xiang Ji, Shu Song, Xin Wu ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book summarizes the latest archeological findings on Liangzhu culture and outlines the rise and fall of Liangzhu society in terms of its environment, flora and fauna. In addition, it seeks to analyze the characteristics of animal breeding and agricultural cultivation in Liangzhu from the perspectives of archeobotany and archeozoology. In turn, it explores the dietary structure and population ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Web Information Systems and Applications

    19th International Conference, WISA 2022, Dalian, China, September 16–18, 2022, Proceedings

    Edited by Xiang Zhao, Shiyu Yang, Xin Wang, Jianxin Li ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Applications, WISA 2022, held in Dalian, China, in September 2022.The 45 full papers and 19 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 212 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on knowledge graph, natural language processing, world wide web, machine ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • Subway Energy-Efficient Management

    by Xiang Li, Xin Yang ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive presentation on energy-efficient management in urban rail transit system via operations research and uncertain optimization methods. It is suitable for researchers, engineers, and students in the fields of transport management. The readers will learn numerous new modeling ideas on reducing tractive energy consumption and improving regenerative energy utilization, ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Contaminants in agricultural soils

    Challenges and solutions

    by Distinguished Laureate Professor Ravi Naidu, Distinguished Laureate Professor Ravi Naidu, Dr Teklit Gebregiorgis Ambaye, Dr Teklit Gebregiorgis Ambaye, Dr Mentore Vaccari, Dr Mentore Vaccari, Dr Chandima Wekumbura, Dr Chandima Wekumbura, Dr Chammi P. Attanayake, Dr Chammi P. Attanayake0, Professor Ganga Hettiarachichi1, Professor Ganga Hettiarachichi2, Dr Lynda Peter3, Dr Lynda Peter4, Professor Linda Lee5, Professor Linda Lee6, Dr Vera Felix da Graca Silva7, Dr Vera Felix da Graca Silva8, Dr Judith Riedo9, Dr Judith Riedo0, Dr Diana Vieira1, Dr Diana Vieira2, Dr Pia Kotschik3, Dr Pia Kotschik4, Dr Violette Geissen5, Dr Violette Geissen6, Dr Antonio Bispo7, Dr Antonio Bispo8, Dr Claire Froger9, Dr Claire Froger0, Dr Shiva Sabzevari1, Dr Shiva Sabzevari2, Dr Nikola Rakonjac3, Dr Nikola Rakonjac4, Joost Lahr5, Joost Lahr6, Sören Thiele-Bruhn7, Sören Thiele-Bruhn8, Bjorn J. A. Berendsen9, Bjorn J. A. Berendsen0, Carlos A. Faúndez Urbina1, Carlos A. Faúndez Urbina2, Coen J. Ritsema3, Coen J. Ritsema4, Dr G. J. Levy5, Dr G. J. Levy6, Dr Asher Bar-Tal7, Dr Asher Bar-Tal8, Dr Eddie Cytryn9, Dr Eddie Cytryn0, Dr Mikhail Borisover1, Dr Mikhail Borisover2, Dr Liang Wang3, Dr Liang Wang4, Dr Ying Cheng5, Dr Ying Cheng6, Dr Ayanka Wijayawardena7, Dr Ayanka Wijayawardena8, Dr Gerhard Soja9, Dr Gerhard Soja0, Dr Solmaz Bidast1, Dr Solmaz Bidast2, Dr Santosh Kumar Paul3, Dr Santosh Kumar Paul4, Dr Bhaba Biswas5, Dr Bhaba Biswas6, Dr Paula Alvarenga7, Dr Paula Alvarenga8, Dr Luísa Louro Martins9, Dr Luísa Louro Martins0, Dr Miguel Mourato1, Dr Miguel Mourato2, Dr David Leung3, Dr David Leung4, Professor Fang Wang5, Professor Fang Wang6, Dr Yu Liu7, Dr Yu Liu8, Dr Yuhao Fu9, Dr Yuhao Fu0, Dr Leilei Xiang1, Dr Leilei Xiang2, Dr Xin Jiang3, Dr Xin Jiang4, Dr Yongming Luo5, Dr Yongming Luo6, Sergejus Ustinov7 ...
    Series Book 166 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    It’s been estimated that around 24 billion tonnes of fertile topsoil is lost each year due to historic and ongoing pollution. With increasing pressure placed upon land as a resource, there is an urgent need to make better use of existing agricultural land, as well as remediate contaminated land for farming use.Contaminants in agricultural soils: Challenges and solutions provides a comprehensive ... Read more

    $211.99 CAD

  • Communist Planning versus Rationality

    Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China

    by Andrei Belykh, Maciej Bukowski, Valentin Cojanu, Kaloyan Ganev, Julius Horvath, Gergely Kohegyi, Xiuli Liu, Udo Ludwig, Wojciech Maciejewski, Joze Mencinger, Stefan Petranov0, Grigore Ioan Pirosca1, Minghui Qin2, Knut Richter3, Hans-Jurgen Wagener4, Xin Xiang5, Shan Zheng6, Roumen Avramov7, Dr. János Mátyás Kovács8 ...
    Series series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective
    This volume examines concepts of central planning, a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. It revolves around the theory of “optimal planning” which promised a profound modernization of Stalinist-style verbal planning. Encouraged by cybernetic dreams in the 1950s and supporting the strategic goals of communist leaders in the Cold War, optimal planners offered the ruling elites ... Read more

    $142.19 CAD

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  • Unbound

    How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink

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  • Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering. Big Data and Machine Learning Techniques

    5th International Conference, IScIDE 2015, Suzhou, China, June 14-16, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Part II

    Edited by Xiaofei He, Xinbo Gao, Yanning Zhang, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Zhi-Yong Liu, Baochuan Fu, Fuyuan Hu, Zhancheng Zhang ...
    Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    The two-volume set LNCS 9242 + 9243 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering, IScIDE 2015, held in Suzhou, China, in June 2015.The total of 126 papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 416 submissions. They deal with big data, neural networks, image processing, computer vision, pattern ... Read more

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  • Web Information Systems and Applications

    18th International Conference, WISA 2021, Kaifeng, China, September 24–26, 2021, Proceedings

    Edited by Chunxiao Xing, Xiaoming Fu, Yong Zhang, Guigang Zhang, Chaolemen Borjigin ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Applications, WISA 2021, held in Kaifeng, China, in September 2021. The 49 full papers and 18 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 206 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on world wide web, query processing and algorithm, natural language ... Read more

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  • Smart Grid

    Communication-Enabled Intelligence for the Electric Power Grid

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    Series series IEEE Press
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