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Explores the history and challenges of nuclear energy development in China, across five main areas: politics, economics, environment, technology transfer and the nuclear fuel cycle. It emphasizes the political challenges in developing a set of long-term national strategies to ensure speedy, safe an... More

An exploration of how and why Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China and India have initiated and developed nuclear energy programs and what challenges they face today. Were the nuclear programmes driven by the low energy endowment, a desire to pursue international prestige, national security concerns, ... More

Focused on unique features of economic development, this edited volume examines the nature and structure of corporate governance of several key state-owned enterprises in China and public sector units in India in five strategic sectors: oil and natural gas, steel, coal, electricity generation, and b... More

This title was first published in 2002: This study of the Chinese electric power industry examines the ownership and the restructuring of the industry. The reform of the electric power industry is also seen as part of the wider economic development that has been taking place in China, thus providi... More

This book examines the origin, nature, the portfolio, organizational structure and operation of the seven largest SWFs from the perspective of the holding countries. Uniquely it tackles the issues from the perspectives of those non-OECD countries whose access to funds creates the most concern.... More

International organisations (IOs) often receive a bad press, seen as intrusive, domineering and unresponsive to the needs of the people and countries they are meant to serve. The best way to understand the operation of these international organisations is to bring together those who represent their ... More

International Organizations (IOs) are vital institutions in world politics in which cross-border issues can be discussed and global problems managed. This path-breaking book shows the efforts that small states have made to participate more fully in IO activities. It draws attention to the challeng... More

Published 35 years after Palgrave Macmillan’s landmark International Political Economy (IPE) series was first founded, this Handbook captures the state of the art of contemporary IPE. It draws on the series’ history of focussing on the oft-neglected study of the global South.Providing interdisciplin... More

She was married to him, she was sacred, he was a prison. Her deep love lasted for a long time. She could only hope that she could make him smile. Unfortunately, his love for her was already like another person, waiting for him to grow old at the beginning of his life …There was no banquet in this wo... More

He liked her, loved her, doted on her, let her feel the love of a fairy tale. She thought that she had found the love of her life, that she had put on a beautiful wedding dress and was waiting to become his bride, but this wedding had already changed hands. She had fallen from the peak of happiness ... More

He liked her, loved her, doted on her, let her feel the love of a fairy tale. She thought that she had found the love of her life, that she had put on a beautiful wedding dress and was waiting to become his bride, but this wedding had already changed hands. She had fallen from the peak of happiness ... More

He liked her, loved her, doted on her, let her feel the love of a fairy tale. She thought that she had found the love of her life, that she had put on a beautiful wedding dress and was waiting to become his bride, but this wedding had already changed hands. She had fallen from the peak of happiness ... More

He liked her, loved her, doted on her, let her feel the love of a fairy tale. She thought that she had found the love of her life, that she had put on a beautiful wedding dress and was waiting to become his bride, but this wedding had already changed hands. She had fallen from the peak of happiness ... More

He liked her, loved her, doted on her, let her feel the love of a fairy tale. She thought that she had found the love of her life, that she had put on a beautiful wedding dress and was waiting to become his bride, but this wedding had already changed hands. She had fallen from the peak of happiness ... More

He liked her, he spoiled her, he made her feel the love of a fairy tale.She thought she had found the love of her life. She put on her beautiful wedding dress and waited to be his bride.Yet this wedding had plunged her from the peak of her happiness into the depths of ridicule.And all of this origin... More

This book presents advances in state-of-the-art solution methods and their applications to real life practical problems in optimization, control and operations research. Contributions from world-class experts in the field are collated here in two parts, dealing first with optimization and control t... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Computing, ICCC 2019, held as part of SCF 2019, in San Diego, CA, USA, in June 2019. The 14 full and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers cover... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Computing, ICCC 2021, held as part of SCF 2021 in December 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 5 full and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selec... More

The 1997 South Korean financial crisis not only shook the country itself but also sent shock waves through the financial world at large. This impressive book critically assesses the conventional wisdom surrounding the Korean crisis and the performance of the IMF-sponsored reform programme.Looking fi... More

Rainfall-induced landslides are common around the world. With global climate change, their frequency is increasing and the consequences are becoming greater. Previous studies assess them mostly from the perspective of a single discipline—correlating landslides with rainstorms, geomorphology and hydr... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2021, held virtually as part of SCF 2021, during December 10-14, 2021. The 7 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover aspects ... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Services, AIMS 2018, held as part of SCF 2018, in Seattle, WA, USA, in June 2018. The 20 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The pap... More

This book highlights the origin of low external quantum efficiency for deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (DUV LEDs). In addition, it puts forward solutions for increasing the internal quantum efficiency and the light extraction efficiency of DUV LEDs. The book chiefly concentrates on approaches... More

Statistical Foundations of Data Science gives a thorough introduction to commonly used statistical models, contemporary statistical machine learning techniques and algorithms, along with their mathematical insights and statistical theories. It aims to serve as a graduate-level textbook and a researc... More

This book focuses on gyro-free inertial navigation technology, which is used to measure not only linear motion parameters but also angular rates. Since no gyroscopes are used, the key technologies, such as initial alignment, attitude resolution, and error calibration, are very different than those u... More