This brief explains the principles and fundamentals of carbon dioxide utilization and highlights the transformation to fuels and value-added chemicals such as formic acid and methanol. It is divided into six chapters, including an introduction to the basics of CO2 utilization and transformation of CO2 to formic acid and methanol with homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts, respectively. The brief will appeal to a wide readership of academic and industrial researchers focusing on homogeneo...

Considers hyperconcentrated flow, a phenomenon peculiar to the Yellow River Basin. The feasibility of using the potential for sediment carrying by hyperconcentrated flow can also be applied to topics such as hypertransport, debris flow and sediment releases from reservoirs.

The four novel Dynamic Event-Triggered Mechanisms (DETMs) in this book are for complex networked systems that optimize resource utilization while preserving system performance. These include hybrid dynamic variables-dependent ETMs, hybrid adjusting variables-dependent ETMs, bounded dynamic variable/time-varying threshold-dependent ETMs, and terminal constraint set-dependent mixed time/event-triggered mechanisms. It explores applications across fault diagnosis in networked systems, finite-t...

Drawing on insights from sociology and new institutional economics, Extralegal Governance provides the first comprehensive account of China's illegal markets by applying a socio-economic approach. It considers social legitimacy and state repression in examining the nature of illegal markets. It examines how power dynamics and varying levels of punishment shape exchange relationships between buyers and sellers. It identifies context-specific risks and explains how private individuals and or...

Postponement strategy is one of the major supply chain management (SCM) pr- tices that has a discernible impact on rms’ competitive advantage and organi- tional performance. Postponement is a mass customization strategy that captures the advantages of both mass production and mass customization. Recent research studies have identi ed four common postponement strategies, namely pull, logistics, form and price postponement. The former three postponement strategies are linked to production an...

This book advocates new and advanced methods of big data technology so as to analyze the current status of the public space development in China. In the eight chapters of this book, it introduces the theories to develop urban public space, the tools for analytics and evaluation, the cases from China especially Shanghai and global. With analytics and evaluation tools for its scale, space layout, and planning, it aims to improve the quality, efficiency and balanced development of public serv...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies enable manufacturing systems to sense the environment, adapt to external needs, and extract process knowledge, including business models such as intelligent production, networked collaboration, and extended service models. This book therefore focuses on the implementation of AI in customized manufacturing (CM).The main topics include edge intelligence in manufacturing, heterogeneous networks, intelligent fault diagnosis and maintenance, dyn...

Neuromorphic Photonic Devices and Applications synthesizes the most critical advances in photonic neuromorphic models, photonic material platforms and accelerators for neuromorphic computing. The book discusses fields and applications that can leverage these new platforms. A brief review of the historical development of the field is followed by a discussion of the emerging 2D photonic materials platforms and recent work in implementing neuromorphic models and 3D neuromorphic systems. The a...

This book reports on the findings of a series of studies on the development of zero-to-three-year-old Chinese children supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. The studies were conducted by a research group at the Institute of Early Childhood Education, Beijing Normal University. In the first part of the book, findings concerning the developmental trajectory are presented, including physical and motor development, cognitive development, language development...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second BenchCouncil International Federated Intelligent Computing and Block Chain Conferences, FICC 2020, held in Qingdao, China, in October/ November 2020.The 32 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on AI and medical technology; AI and big data; AI and block chain; AI and education technolog...

This textbook provides a comprehensive exploration of international operations management, examining its principles, challenges, and strategies. It also introduces essential tools and frameworks that allow professionals to improve their management practices in a global context.Structured into twelve chapters, the book begins by introducing the distinctions between operations management and international operations management, laying the foundation and relevance of the subject. Subs...

Lifelong Learning: The Education of the Aging Population focuses on the education of the aging population worldwide. The book includes studies representing a variety of perspectives and research methods, rich and informative in analyzing the issue under country-specific social, cultural, historical, economic, and political contexts, and strategies to improve life-long education of aging society.The chapters addressKey trends, status, major theories, and model...