Covers all the key areas of wind resource assessment technologies from an engineer’s perspective Focuses on wind analysis for wind plant siting, design and analysis Addresses all aspects from atmospheric boundary layer characteristics, to wind resource measurement systems, uncertainties in measurements, computations and analyses, to plant performa...

Knowledge of English and French vocabulary is becoming increasingly important for Chinese students of foreign languages....

This book is a comparative study of a modern Chinese writer, SHEN Congwen (1902-1988), and a modern New Zealand writer, Witi Ihimaera (1944- ), in terms of their indigenous status....

Against the backdrop of fast socioeconomic transition in contemporary China, urban women have contributed significantly to the family income in both absolute terms and relative to their husband’s income....

This book focuses on the issue of corporate governance in Chinese listed companies. Firstly, this book introduces the background of the Chinese stock market and reviews previous works, which are related to this topic. Then, it empirically evaluates the effect of corporate governance mechanism on firm performance in Chinese listed companies....

Corporate rescue has become increasingly a fashionable topic, which has long been a subject of global interest. The most notable formal corporate rescue regime was established by Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code in 1978 which has had far-reaching influence on the bankruptcy law reforms of other countries....

Painting has always been regarded by the Chinese as a supreme art, equal to those of poetry and philosophy. But dating back over 2,500 years, many Chinese paintings were made to be viewed just for a few hours or weeks. As a result, the masterpieces of the form have been seen very rarely, and then only by a few....

This book regards the emergence of \\\"guannian sheying\\\" (conceptual photography) in China as a result from two factors: contact with external sources of influence and internal impulses....

The Chinese government has been supporting the formation and development of science and technology industrial parks (STIPs) and business incubators (STBIs) in China since the late 1980s by providing favorable policy treatments with the aim of promoting the development of new technology-oriented firms, facilitating the technology transfer, and revit...

This book is contributed to investigate the interactions between group theory and graph theory. In more than 60 years such interactions have greatly stimulated the development of each other, especially the theory of symmetric graphs has almost developed in parallel with the theory of permutation groups....

In recent years, software process modeling and simulation have become one of the powerful techniques for effectively investigating, managing, and improving software development processes to achieve quality product. Until now, most research has focused on the quantitative aspects of process modelling and simulation....

This series includes 4 volumes, covering various aspects of the TCFL Capability Test. Key points of Modern Chinese and Ancient Chinese are included....

Inventory and Supply Chain Management with Forecast Updates is concerned with the problems of inventory and supply chain decision making with information updating over time....

Book DescriptionExamine the reasons for the rapid growth of China?s tourism industry Tourism and Hotel Development in China: From Political to Economic Success is a comprehensive guide to the development of the tourism industry in Mainland Chinafollowing the end of the Cultural Revolution....

Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking captures the broad areas of research and developments in this burgeoning field, distills the key findings, and makes them accessible to professionals, researchers, and students alike....