The growing presence of China in Africa has drawn increasing scholarly and public attention. With Beijing's announcement of the 'going global' policy in the early 2000s and further institutionalization through the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, Chinese policy banks and state-owned companies have cooperated with African countries to finance and complete multiple infrastructure projects. These projects, despite their 'Chinese-ness,' demonstrate starkly different development trajectories i...

This book focuses on the study of chemical dust suppression in mine dust pollution control by means of theories, experiments, computer simulation, and case application, aiming at providing chemical dust suppression solutions for mining worksites. It has seven chapters, including the following contents: (1) introduces fundamental theories and applications of chemical dust suppression, analyzes the dust source intensity of worksites and the mechanisms of dust generation, and summarizes the d...

The studies in this dissertation aim at advancing our scientific understandings about physical processes involved in the aerosol-cloud-precipitation interaction and quantitatively assessing the impacts of aerosols on the cloud systems with diverse scales over the globe on the basis of the observational data analysis and various modeling studies. As recognized in the Fifth Assessment Report by the Inter-government Panel on Climate Change, the magnitude of radiative forcing by atmospheric ae...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 54, January 2022Lezli Robyn, EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherStories by Lucas Carroll-Garrett, Christopher Henckel, Mike Resnick, Effie Seiberg, Galen Westlake, Robert Silverberg, Mica Scotti Kole, Edward M. Lerner, Wang Yuan, Kristine Kathryn RuschJean Marie Ward Interviews John Scalzi (Part 1)Serialization: Over the Wine Dark Sea by Harry TurtledoveColumns...

This book is formulated to standardize and regulate highway safety audit. It is applicable to the stages of feasibility study, preliminary design, detailed design, pre-opening and operation of motorways and class-1, class-2 and class-3 highways. Based on recent research and practical experience in China and foreign countries, development of the current focus safety audit, and the requirement to develop a framework for “Safe Transportation”, this book is issued for implementation accordingl...

This book gathers the latest research and practical innovations that tackle critical issues in geotechnical design, hazard mitigation, and intelligent simulation. Advances in geomechanics and computational methods are transforming how engineers and researchers address infrastructure safety and resilience. By linking theoretical progress with engineering practice, it delivers actionable insights for improving system reliability and reducing risks to communities.The book explores thr...

Are you making enough money?Do you have enough time to do all the things you want to do?Do you have a system that has your back and means you never drop the ball?Imagine how incredible it would feel if you had leads constantly coming in, a process to easily convert those leads into paid bookings and a system that did all those pull-your-hair-out administrative tasks for you, on autopilot...Wouldn't it be lif...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our December 2016 issue (#123) contains:Original stories by Maggie Clark ("A Tower for the Coming World"), Wang Yuan ("Painter of Stars"), Eleanor Arnason ("Checkerboard Planet"), Yukimi Ogawa ("Blue Grey Blue"), and Yosef Lindell ("A Future Far Too Bright").Reprin...

The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven modes of Chinese reformation, and to investigate how the different modes and various actors hav...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our December 2021 issue (#183) contains:Original fiction by Aimee Ogden ("The Cold Calculations"), Meghan Feldman ("Beneath the Earth Where the Nymphs Sleep"), David Goodman ("Vegvísir"), Rich Larson ("You Are Born Exploding"), Wang Yuan ("Other Stories"), E. N. Díaz ("Just One Step, and Then the Next"), and Amal ...

No other single volume reference to the Jehol site and its fossils exists and nowhere is there such a collection of fine photos of the fossils concerned. This book has pieced together the most up-to-date information on the Jehol Biota, a place that has shown the world some of the most astonishing fossil finds including the first complete skeleton of Archaeopteryx in 1861, four-winged dinosaurs- many feathered ones, the first beaked bird, the first plants with flowers and fruits, and thousa...

This book unifies existing and emerging concepts concerning state estimation, fault detection, fault isolation and fault estimation on industrial systems with an emphasis on a variety of network-induced phenomena, fault diagnosis and remaining useful life for industrial equipment. It covers state estimation/monitor, fault diagnosis and remaining useful life prediction by drawing on the conventional theories of systems science, signal processing and machine learning.Features: