This book is based on the analysis of thirty episodes of the American television series Friends with the focus on the CSIs(Culture Specific Items) and how these differences have been handled by Chinese translators who produced the subtitles for the English-Chinese translation....

This qualitative study is an attempt to explore the adaptive experiences of elderly Chinese caregivers who have to take care of their spousal partners who are suffering from Alzheimer’s disease (AD)....

Ionomers are those hydrophobic polymers having small amounts of bonded ionic groups. The introduction of the ionic groups into polymer chain produces large changes in the physical, mechanical and rheological properties of the parent polymer....

We all know that determining the homotopy groups of a topological space is one of the central problems in homotopy theory. There is always a deep relation between the homotopy groups and other mathematical invariants which have wide applications in many fields such as geometric topology, algebra, algebraic K-theory and algebraic geometry....

The book sheds understanding on the relations between development and global energy security by looking at China and India. It addresses the following issues: what is the new definition of energy security? How does it affect global politics and international relations?...

The Chinese healthcare system has evolved from acentralized, egalitarian public system (1949-1979) toone which can be characterized as public identity,private behavior, health system (1980-1999)....

Bringing together mathematical tools and engineering concepts with ideas from sociology and human behavior analysis, this comprehensive and accessible resource uses examples from real-world multimedia social networks to demonstrate how signal processing techniques can be used to model user dynamics and optimize design of media-sharing network syste...