X. Liu

This dissertation studies the challenges and issues faced in federating heterogeneous digital libraries (DLs) by metadata harvesting. The objective of federation is to provide high-level services (e.g. transparent search across all DLs) on the collective metadata from different …

The central hypothesis of this dissertation is that the characteristics of successive generations of Chinese ambassadors since 1949 have shifted from an insistence on political loyalty to a charismatic leader, to a more professionalized system of offices, based on bureaucratic c…

The Sino-Indian border dispute is left over by history. Since the late 1940s, this dispute, as a major factor in the twists and turns of Sino-Indian relations, has been persistent on the three dimensions of legal argument, international circumstance and domestic politics. Conten…

Skeletal muscle myogenesis is a series of highly organized processes that are precisely regulated by the extrinsic environment of muscle cells. Fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) involves in the regulation of myogenesis by stimulating cell proliferation but inhibiting differentia…

During the Pacific War, an American-Chinese cooperation occurred in blueprinting a new Asian security system to override the Japanese Empire. The formulating of this system involved policy preparations for postwar control over Japan proper and for the re-arrangement of Japanese …