Authored by researchers from the Logistics Research Center at Nankai University, this book provides a systematic exposition on the logistics development in China for the English-speaking community at large.The opening chapter offers an in-depth look at China's logistics development in the year 2024. The book then covers macro-factors related to logistics technologies and facilities, region-specific policies and plans, industry-wide transformation in transport, manufacturing, commerc...

Why do participatory reforms in authoritarian settings so often recentre, rather than diffuse, power? And how do institutional rules and the distribution of resources channel participatory initiatives toward outcomes that ultimately reinforce state dominance?This book addresses these questions through an in-depth examination of participatory urban redevelopment in China. Traditional redevelopment institutions, long characterized by top-down state control and the exclusion of reside...

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to comprehensively explore the intricacies of compliantly driven robots and their application in exoskeletons. It is structured in three main parts.The first part delves into mechanical design, offering a detailed examination of the underlying principles governing the construction and fabrication of these robots. This section encompasses discussions on actuators, joints, and overall system architecture.The s...

Feedback Control and Adaptive Learning in Optical-Tweezer Robotics is a comprehensive guide to merging robotic feedback control with optical trapping techniques in cell manipulation. It begins by providing foundational knowledge in dynamic modeling and control theory, essential for understanding optical-tweezer robotics' complexities. The book explores optical trapping principles, discussing traditional approaches' constraints and challenges. It then introduces a unified control methodolog...

This book focuses on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics, and decision-making. In detail, the included transportation management, optimization and management of logistics system, big data technology and method, financial engineering and risk management, investment decision and risk management, data-driven process management decision, scheduling optimization and combination decision, theory and method of forecasting and decision-making, data mini...

A must-have reference on sustainable organic energy storage systemsOrganic electrode materials have the potential to overcome the intrinsic limitations of transition metal oxides as cathodes in rechargeable batteries. As promising alternatives to metal-based batteries, organic batteries are renewable, low-cost, and would enable a greener rechargeable world.Rechargeable Organic Batteries is an up-to-date reference and guide to the next generation of...

As with the previous volumes, this book aims to present a timely portrait of the rapid growth of China's logistics market and the status quo of its logistics industry. It provides an in-depth analysis of critical issues involved in the ongoing dynamic and multi-faceted development and serves as a valuable reference resource for interested readers in the academic and professional fields.The opening chapter offers a comprehensive overview of the impressive advancements and accomplish...

This book focuses on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics and decision making. In detail the included transportation management, optimization and management of logistics system, big data technology and method, financial engineering and risk management, investment decision and risk management, data-driven process management decision, scheduling optimization and combination decision, theory and method of forecasting and decision making, data mining...

This book introduces aquaculture ecology as a science of the interaction between commercial aquatic organisms as well as their farming activities and the environment, including the rationales of building and management of aquaculture systems. This book covers productivity and carrying capacity, effects of cyclical fluctuation of environmental factors on aquatic organisms, biological control of water quality, structural optimization of aquaculture systems and ecological prevention of diseas...

This book presents systematic overviews and bright insights into big data-driven intelligent fault diagnosis and prognosis for mechanical systems. The recent research results on deep transfer learning-based fault diagnosis, data-model fusion remaining useful life (RUL) prediction, etc., are focused on in the book. The contents are valuable and interesting to attract academic researchers, practitioners, and students in the field of prognostics and health management (PHM). Essential guidelin...

The ancient Chinese philosophy of Taoism contains profound wisdom about the cosmos, nature, human life, and education. Taoism seeks to be in harmony with nature, and using it as a guide can help us live in a way that is healing to both ourselves and the planet.Taoism, Teaching, and Learning identifies key aspects of Taoist thought and highlights how these principles can promote a holistic approach to teaching and learning. In particular, this book offers educators guidelin...

The explosive economic development in China over the last three decades has created social challenges unprecedented in the country's history. In response, China has overhauled its existing tort laws and even created new tort laws. By exploring its principles, theories and history, this book provides international readers a fresh outlook on China's tort law system. Granted that some concepts or theories in China's modern tort laws were "borrowed" from the west, the principles behind them ca...