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  • Useful Complaints

    How Petitions Assist Decentralized Authoritarianism in China

    by Jing Chen ...
    This book develops an informational theory to account for the coexistence of China’s exceptionally resilient authoritarianism and its high decentralization. The nuanced information contained in citizens’ complaints, which are filed through the petition system, helps to sustain China’s decentralized authoritarianism in three important ways. First, petitions help to alleviate the information ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Writing and Revising in Second Language Classrooms

    The Role of Self-Regulation in Cultivating Expert Writers

    by Jing Chen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book contributes to the field of L2 writing, with a focus on instruction in revision. Theoretically, this research provides a better understanding of students’ metacognitive knowledge about revision and their self-efficacy for text revision in EFL writing; such understanding is vital to make pedagogical connections between cognitive research, self-efficacy theory and instructional research in ... Read more

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  • The Unity of Science and Economics

    A New Foundation of Economic Theory

    by Jing Chen ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book presents a new economic theory developed from physical and biological principles. It explains how technology, social systems and economic values are intimately related to resources. Many people have recognized that mainstream (neoclassical) economic theories are not consistent with physical laws and often not consistent with empirical patterns, but most feel that economic activities are ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Entropy Economics

    The Living Basis of Value and Production

    Economists dream of equilibrium. It's time to wake up .In mainstream economics, markets are ideal if competition is perfect. When supply balances demand, economic maturity is orderly and disturbed only by shocks. These ideas are rooted in doctrines going back thousands of years, yet, as James K. Galbraith and Jing Chen show, they contradict the foundations of our scientific understanding of the ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maritime Cross-Border Insolvency under the UNCITRAL Model Law Regime

    Commonwealth and US Perspectives

    This book covers the pressing issues of cross-border cases involving admiralty and bankruptcy law. For example, what should happen when a shipowner files an insolvency proceeding in one country, while at the same time facing an in rem action against its vessel in another country? Should the in rem action arising in one country be stayed or dismissed because of the existence of insolvency ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Microsystem Packaging Technology

    The multi-billion-dollar microsystem packaging business continues to play an increasingly important technical role in today’s information industry. The packaging process—including design and manufacturing technologies—is the technical foundation upon which function chips are updated for use in application systems, and it is an important guarantee of the continued growth of technical content and ... Read more

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  • Probability and Bayesian Modeling

    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
    Probability and Bayesian Modeling is an introduction to probability and Bayesian thinking for undergraduate students with a calculus background. The first part of the book provides a broad view of probability including foundations, conditional probability, discrete and continuous distributions, and joint distributions. Statistical inference is presented completely from a Bayesian perspective. The ... Read more

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  • Orogenic-Type Polymetallic Mineralization Associated with Multistage Orogenesis in Northern North China Plate

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book focuses on the geological characteristics and genesis of several base metal deposits in the northern margin of the North China Plate, namely the Bainaimiao Cu-Au-Mo, the Huogeqi Cu-Pb-Zn, the Dongshengmiao Zn-Pb-Cu and the Jiashengpan Zn-Pb deposits. These deposits have geological and geochemical affinities with orogenic-type deposits, such as shear zone-controlled mineralization and ... Read more

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  • Dielectric Resonator Antennas

    Materials, Designs and Applications

    Dielectric Resonator AntennasA detailed guide to dielectric-based techniques for antenna array design and constructionDielectric designs, which transmit electricity without conducting it, have in recent decades been increasingly incorporated into antenna arrays. The resulting Dielectric Resonator Antennas (DRAs) provide significant benefits over metal antennas, avoiding conduction loss and ... Read more

    $119.00 USD

  • Intelligent Software Defect Prediction

    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
    With the increasing complexity of and dependency on software, software products may suffer from low quality, high prices, be hard to maintain, etc. Software defects usually produce incorrect or unexpected results and behaviors. Accordingly, software defect prediction (SDP) is one of the most active research fields in software engineering and plays an important role in software quality assurance. ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Adaptive Identification and Control of Uncertain Systems with Non-smooth Dynamics

    Series series Emerging Methodologies and Applications in Modelling, Identification and Control
    Adaptive Identification and Control of Uncertain Systems with Nonsmooth Dynamics reports some of the latest research on modeling, identification and adaptive control for systems with nonsmooth dynamics (e.g., backlash, dead zone, friction, saturation, etc). The authors present recent research results for the modelling and control designs of uncertain systems with nonsmooth dynamics, such as ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • David's Code

    by Jings Chen ...
    Franky Kennedy is a U.S. history professor in VU, and one day he found that NSA agents arrived to confine the basement of his old house, which was a heritage from his late grandfather, Hank Kennedy. He was a Nazi criminal, and his legacy was still affecting U.S. security concern from the District of Columbia down to Patagonia, Argentina. Franky's life suddenly changed, and at the meantime, Issac ... Read more

    $4.99 USD