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Big Data in Economics and Management

by Zheng Zhang, Kun Zhang, Xing Yan, Songshan Yang, Yuqian Zhang ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
With the rapid development of big data, three major challenges arise in the field of economics and management. The first challenge is that the traditional correlation-based methods cannot essentially reveal the true philosophy under the economic activities, modelling and inferring the causal relationship is paramount for discovering the essential effect of certain economic and management policies. ... Read more

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With the rapid development of big data, three major challenges arise in the field of economics and management. The first challenge is that the traditional correlation-based methods cannot essentially reveal the true philosophy under the economic activities, modelling and inferring the causal relationship is paramount for discovering the essential effect of certain economic and management policies.
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Mobile Edge Computing

by Yan Zhang ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This is an open access book.It offers comprehensive, self-contained knowledge on Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which is a very promising technology for achieving intelligence in the next-generation wireless communications and computing networks.The book starts with the basic concepts, key techniques and network architectures of MEC. Then, we present the wide applications of MEC, including edge ... Read more

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This is an open access book.It offers comprehensive, self-contained knowledge on Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which is a very promising technology for achieving intelligence in the next-generation wireless communications and computing networks.The book starts with the basic concepts, key techniques and network architectures of MEC. Then, we present the wide applications of MEC, including edge
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Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in EFL Writing

Corpus-based Description and Rhetorical Structure Analysis

by Yan Zhang ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This book explores the usage patterns of a group of adversative and concessive conjunctions in English texts written by Chinese EFL learners and their native speaker counterparts. Focusing on probability profiles and systemic potentials, the study encompasses three stages and combines the strengths of two research methods – the corpus-based approach and text-based analysis – to examine the ... Read more

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This book explores the usage patterns of a group of adversative and concessive conjunctions in English texts written by Chinese EFL learners and their native speaker counterparts. Focusing on probability profiles and systemic potentials, the study encompasses three stages and combines the strengths of two research methods – the corpus-based approach and text-based analysis – to examine the
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Urban Metabolism

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by Yan Zhang ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This book provides the basic theory, method framework and application results of urban metabolism. Urban metabolism is an important research philosophy and approach for analyzing urban mega organism and its ecological environmental problems. It has constantly formed quantitative network research framework and analysis methods in a metaphor way and expanded its application in different scales such ... Read more

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This book provides the basic theory, method framework and application results of urban metabolism. Urban metabolism is an important research philosophy and approach for analyzing urban mega organism and its ecological environmental problems. It has constantly formed quantitative network research framework and analysis methods in a metaphor way and expanded its application in different scales such
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The Aspect-Sensitive Agent Omission in Mandarin

by Yan Zhang ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This open access book aims to provide an explanatory account for the phenomenon of absent external arguments in Mandarin Chinese. It starts from the observation that although expletivizing an agent is considered impossible cross-linguistically, it is possible in Mandarin. To account for this exceptional behavior, it proposes the M parameter, which suggests that English and Chinese differ in ... Read more

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This open access book aims to provide an explanatory account for the phenomenon of absent external arguments in Mandarin Chinese. It starts from the observation that although expletivizing an agent is considered impossible cross-linguistically, it is possible in Mandarin. To account for this exceptional behavior, it proposes the M parameter, which suggests that English and Chinese differ in
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Governing the Commons in China

by Yan Zhang ...

Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
The idea of 'the commons' is a long-standing concept in the English-speaking world and in English law. A similar concept occurs in China. How different from or similar to the English idea of ‘the commons’ is the idea in China; and how is the concept applied? This book explores this important subject. It examines the subject from a philosophical and theoretical perspective; considers ‘the commons’ ... Read more

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The idea of 'the commons' is a long-standing concept in the English-speaking world and in English law. A similar concept occurs in China. How different from or similar to the English idea of ‘the commons’ is the idea in China; and how is the concept applied? This book explores this important subject. It examines the subject from a philosophical and theoretical perspective; considers ‘the commons’
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Cyberspace Simulation and Evaluation

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Edited by Guangxia Xu, Wanlei Zhou, Jiawei Zhang, Yanchun Zhang, Yan Jia ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This three volume set, CCIS 2420 - 2422 , constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cyberspace Simulation and Evaluation, CSE 2024, held in Shenzhen, China, during November 26–28, 2024.The 90 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 164 submissions. These papers are organized under topical sections as follows: -Part I : Simulation ... Read more

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9th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2025, Shenyang, China, August 28–30, 2025, Proceedings, Part I

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The four-volume set LNCS constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2025, held in Shenyang, China, during August 28–30, 2025.The 136 full papers and 15 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 472 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Data ... Read more

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Silicon Carbide Power Devices

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Series series Energy (R0)
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Principles and Applications

by Bin Tang, Yan Zhang, Liangquan Ge, Qingxian Zhang ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book provides a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the principles and applications of nuclear radiation measurement. It covers the fundamentals of atoms and nuclei, the decay laws of nuclides, the generation mechanisms of common radioactive rays, detection principles, and measurement devices. Furthermore, it explores the basic modes of interaction with matter, the relationship ... Read more

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This book provides a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the principles and applications of nuclear radiation measurement. It covers the fundamentals of atoms and nuclei, the decay laws of nuclides, the generation mechanisms of common radioactive rays, detection principles, and measurement devices. Furthermore, it explores the basic modes of interaction with matter, the relationship
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Web and Big Data

9th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2025, Shenyang, China, August 28–30, 2025, Proceedings, Part II

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The four-volume set LNCS constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2025, held in Shenyang, China, during August 28–30, 2025.The 136 full papers and 15 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 472 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Data ... Read more

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In Socializing Medicine, Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan, and Ling Zhang explore the intersections of medicine, health, and East Asian media. Interweaving archival research, audiovisual analyses, and theoretical insights from the emerging field of health humanities, the book reveals the multifaceted ways in which the mass media—from photography and film to television and live streaming—has been deployed ... Read more

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