Climate change and its adverse impacts on nature and human society are clearly felt. Who should bear the responsibility? Should anyone be held liable for grave losses and damages related to climate ch
Building the Rule of Law in China explores the idea that China needs a more globalized and diversified vision for the science of law, presenting the need to think differently from the two major wester
This book systematically and concisely expounds the construction process of China's legal system since China's reform and opening-up. Chapter 1 defines the legal system in China and describes the deve
Edited by Lin (director, CASS [Chinese Academy of Social Sciences] Institute of Law, China), this is the English version of the fifth report of the CASS Institute of Law on the development of the rule
This report analyzes the operating mechanism of the constitutional enforcement and constitutional review system in China. From the perspective of comparative law, the implementation of the mechanism o
Wave overtopping on levees is one of the important issues in coastal engineering. This book provides a summary of new understandings on overtopping hydraulics under negative free board.
This book studies the practical experience and theoretical development of rule of law in China, and provides fundamental theory for the construction of rule of law in contemporary China. The author ex
Variational methods are very powerful techniques in nonlinear analysis and are extensively used in many disciplines of pure and applied mathematics (including ordinary and partial differential equatio
Reaction Engineering clearly and concisely covers the concepts and models of reaction engineering and then applies them to real-world reactor design. The book emphasizes that the foundation of reactio
Social Media Mining and Social Network Analysis: Emerging Research highlights the advancements made in social network analysis and social web mining and its influence in the fields of computer science
Presented here are 97 refereed papers given at the 37th MATADOR Conference held at The University of Manchester in July 2012. The MATADOR series of conferences covers the topics of Manufacturing Autom
This book examines the techniques and applications involved in the Web Mining, Web Personalization and Recommendation and Web Community Analysis domains, including a detailed presentation of the princ
Presented here are 130 refereed papers given at the 36th MATADOR Conference held at The University of Manchester in July 2010. The MATADOR series of conferences covers the topics of Manufacturing Auto
Experts must be able to analyze and distinguish all materials, or combinations of materials, in use today—whether they be metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors, or composites. To understand a mat
Chin and engineers at the China National Petroleum Corporation document in detail the company's engineering processes, new tools, and well logging sensors in a comprehensive collection of laboratory a
This book investigates and evaluates the indexes of Government Transparency, Judicial Transparency, Procuratorial Transparency, and Legislation by Local People’s Congresses in China. It explores a rep
This book is the eighth volume of the proceedings of the 4th GeoShanghai International Conference that was held on May 27 - 30, 2018. This book, entitled Ground Improvement and Geosynthetics”, present
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Queueing Theory and Network Applications, QTNA 2017, held in Qinhuangdao, China, in August 2017. The 19 full papers inclu
