The subject of this book is an analysis of the business models developed or adopted by Chinese small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), specifically those that are successfully listed on China's capital market; in other words, it is a dissection of those Chinese business models that have "worked....

In the past decades, USA metropolitan areas have experienced significant population growth and suburban development. At the same time, commuting time has lengthened and road congestion has increased. How to contain traffic growth in a context of suburban development has become a focus of urban transportation research and city and regional planning....

The duplicate plate method requires that an individual collect identical portions of foods and beverages consumed so that nutrient content can be measured by direct laboratory analysis. We applied this method in order to evaluate the capacity of multiple dietary assessment tools in estimating calcium intakes....

Feature selection and model selection are important topics in machine learning, bioinformatics, web mining, computer vision, data mining and other information-related fields. This book is a good review of the literature on these two topics....

The major contributions of this book are that we have provided a set of new concepts, innovative methods and algorithms for temporal verification in grid workflow systems. With these, we can significantly improve overall temporal verification effectiveness and efficiency....

In this, the first of three related, empirically based studies, Askari, Forrer, Teegen, and Yang examine the broad philosophy behind economic sanctions: why they are used and what they are meant to achieve. In addition they examine whether or not sanctions can be successful and offer an analysis of the implications of sanctions....

From Jackie Chan to Ang Lee, from Supercop to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Chinese cinema has truly arrived in the United States....

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web, WES 2002, held in Toronto, Canada in May 2002 in conjunction with CAiSE 2002....