The Korean conflict was a pivotal event in China's modern military history. The fighting in Korea constituted an important experience for the newly formed People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), not only as a test case for this fledgling service but also in the later development of Chinese air power....

Immigrants from China started settling in Calcutta, the British capital of colonial India, from the late eighteenth century. Initially, the immigrant community comprised of male workers, many of whom sojourned between China and India. Only in the early twentieth century was there a large influx of women and children from China....

Nowadays, sustainable development is a common goal for regional development around the world....

Recently, customer-based product development is becoming a popular paradigm. Customer expectations and needs are identified and transformed into requirements for product design with the help of various methods and tools....

This book is to design, implement, test and cryptanalyze three stream ciphers that are based on the multi-map orbit hopping mechanism (Mmohom), a generic method to design stream ciphers....

With the widespread deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) and thermal devices imminent, this research aims to resolve some engineering barriers to the existing solar photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) technologies by incorporating an innovative loop heat pipe (LHP) and a typical heat pump....

The application of game theory to supply chain is a novel approach and it has been captured many researchers\" attention, due to the theory of game provides essential tools for analysing supply chain members\" behaviours in competitive and cooperative environment....

The Cigarette Smoking and Nursing Home Utilization in the United States represents a timely, thoughtful, and pioneering examination of the relationship between cigarette smoking and the cost of nursing home care....

Several diborides, carbides and nitrides of the group IVB and VB transition metals are a family of materials known as ultrahigh temperature ceramics based on melting temperatures in excess of 3000°C....

In this book three energy conservation and network lifetime prolongation problems of sensor networks are rigorously examined. A Non-uniform node deployment scheme, an energy balanced routing scheme and a duty cycle scheme are presented for each of the three issues respectively....

The Intermediate Reading Series consists of 4 volumes. Each volume has 15 lessons. Altogether there are 60 lessons. Every lesson is divided into 5 parts: Skills, Reading Practice. Skills are designed for learning Chinese grammar, sentence structure, parag????...

The Intermediate Reading Series consists of 4 volumes. Each volume has 15 lessons. Altogether there are 60 lessons. Every lesson is divided into 4 parts: Skills, Reading Practice. Skills are designed for learning Chinese grammar, sentence structure, parag????...

The Intermediate Reading Series consists of 4 volumes. Each volume has 15 lessons. Altogether there are 60 lessons. Every lesson is divided into 3 parts: Skills, Reading Practice. Skills are designed for learning Chinese grammar, sentence structure, parag????...

The Intermediate Reading Series consists of 4 volumes. Each volume has 15 lessons. Altogether there are 60 lessons. Every lesson is divided into 2 parts: Skills, Reading Practice. Skills are designed for learning Chinese grammar, sentence structure, paragraph construction, etc. and each Reading Practice part includes 4 passages....

Chinese for Secondary School Students is designed for students age 11~17, whose native language is not Chinese. After finishing the series, learners will have a firm grasp of Chinese pronunciation, commonly used words, basic grammar and around 2,500 frequently used phrases....