Книга "National College Entrance Exam in China. Perspectives on Education Quality and Equity". ...

This Springer Brief provides a comprehensive overview of the background and recent developments of big data. The value chain of big data is divided into four phases: data generation, data acquisition, data storage and data analysis....

This book primarily deals with corporate restructuring through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). It critically examines all functions that must be performed in completing an M&A transaction. Domestic and cross-border M&A's are very similar in many respects even though differences between them also exist....

This book primarily deals with corporate restructuring through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). It critically examines all functions that must be performed in completing an M&A transaction. Domestic and cross-border M&A's are very similar in many respects even though differences between them also exist....

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, , language: English, abstract: This research attempts to make its contribution to the growing sociolinguistic literature on classroom foreign/second language learning and teaching....

This book introduces the cutting-edge technology nanophotonics to enhance the light absorption in silicon wafer solar cells thereby an energy conversion efficiency boost....

This study examines organizational changes in state education agencies (SEAs) in the context of standards-based accountability policies in the United States. It identifies the changing organizational characteristics of SEAs and depicts the organizational motivations and strategies adopted to bring about change....

Superstitious beliefs date back thousands of years and continue to the present, and research suggests that superstitious beliefs have a robust influence on product satisfaction and decision making under risk....

Ketosis is a metabolic state that may occur during fasting, starvation, or chronic feeding or ketogenic diet. Since the 1920s, ketogenic diet conditioning has been known to be effective with the treatment of childrens with epilepsy. Over the decades, more and more neuroprotective functions of ketogenic diets were reported....

Despite the Chinese government’s aims to attract FDI in order to build up the domestic economy, FDI’s actual impact on entrepreneurship and net firm creation in China remains uncertain. This paper attempts the first national-scale empirical test on FDI’s effect on small domestic firms in China....

This book develops a unified analytical framework to understand the relationships among household energy use, indoor air pollution (IAP), and health impacts and enables policy-makers to analyze welfare effects of various interventions. It provides quantitative evidence that IAP has significant health impacts comparable to smoking....

The hypothesis was gap junction communication also plays a role in coordinating transcript rhythms of the circadian-regulated genes in chicken retina. To test this hypothesis, a chicken embryonic retinal explant culture was established....

L-functions, which are generalizations of the Riemann zeta function and now associated to various objects in Mathematics, contain various types of important information of these objects....

Speckle noise is an inherent nature of ultrasound images. In this research a compounding method based on wavelet shrinkage denoising (WSD) is studied....

This book, is the most competitive book in the field of neural network I have ever seen. It reports the latest progress in the application to image processing. These include, image denoising, image segmentation, image enhancement, and etc....