Environmental regulation in China is not really different from that in the rest of the world, except that environmental authorities are relatively new and less established. In order to understand why corporate environmental performance has hardly improved despite the existing re…
Environmental regulation in China is not really different from that in the rest of the world, except that environmental authorities are relatively new and less established. In order to understand why corporate environmental performance has hardly improved despite the existing re…
Environmental regulation in China is not really different from that in the rest of the world, except that environmental authorities are relatively new and less established. In order to understand why corporate environmental performance has hardly improved despite the existing re…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2020, held in Xi'an, China, in August 2020.* The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec…
The electroretinogram evoked by reversal pattern stimulation (rPERG) is known to contain both pattern contrast and luminance related components. The retinal mechanisms of the transient rPERGs subserving these functional characteristics are the main concern in the present studies…
Nowadays metallic foams attract increasing attention in making compact heat exchangers due to its advanced thermal properties. In this project, the performance of forced convection and flow boiling heat transfer in metal-foam tubes has been investigated experimentally and theore…
There is a dearth of knowledge about the experiences of primary school aged left-behind children in the family, school and the community. The term “left-behind children” has occurred in a variety of literature in China since the end of 1980s when the huge population flows from r…
The work reported in this thesis is concerned with the preparation, metal coordination and catalytic applications of expanded eight-membered N-heterocyclic carbenes. This is divided into four chapters, which cover the following areas of research. Chapter One provides the histori…
This text covers all available aspects of intrusion detection and response systems. It not only covers the latest developments in this field, but reviews the fundamentals in intrusion detection. Case studies are provided at the end of each chapter.
