The term “black children” in Chinese refers specifically to children who do not have a hukou, that is, those who are not officially registered in the national household registration system. They lack legitimacy and basic rights, such as access to medical care, education, and even employment....

China has a large number of abundance workers, especially low skilled workers. More and more Chinese are seeking for job opportunities oversea. However, Japan lacks a sufficient number of domestic low skilled workers. Japan has the demand of foreign low skilled workers....

This study provides a new thinking on sustainability by addressing how tradiitonal sustainabilty strategies rooted in competitiveness fail to achieve authentic sustainabilty. It further proposes a new approach based on the noncompetitiveness view and discusses the potential for ultimate sustainabilty....

Materiality-approaches to sustainability reporting have been developed and adopted in some businesses in recent years, and proved in practical terms an important advancement on reporting methods, by tackling or lessening some key problems in stakeholder-approaches. What is ‘sustainability materiality’?...

There has been considerable interest in fault detection and identification recently due to the increasing complexity of automation processes. A more suitable strategy of using knowledge-based techniques instead of traditional linearization techniques is used to produce a model of a non-linear system....

Yarns are key building blocks to construct complicated fibrous structures for diverse applications. Nanofibre yarns are expected to uncover new opportunities for development of well-defined three-dimensional nano fibrous architectures with new or enhanced functions and better mechanical performances....

Future commercial and military communication systems require a new class of antennas and radio frequency (RF) front-ends that are small, light-weight, conformal, and multi-functional. This dissertation is dedicated to the development and application of the novel polymer-ceramic composites for future compact multilayer antennas and RF systems....

The subject of this book is discussing the income inequality of Chinese residents, its change and the factors that impact it. In this book all kinds of quantitative methods, including decomposing Gini Coefficients method, Fei-Ranis method, two-sectors model and other econometric models....