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A field guide to wildlife found in Southwest China. The guide includes 92 mammal species and 31 pheasant species (and 10 domestic species) found in the region. For each species we include the relevant body measurements and conservation status, descriptions of ecology and natural history, a map of their distribution, and images of the animal and its track and sign (if available). The book is prefaced with an overview of the ecology of the region and there are short introductions for some groups of species.-- Provided by publisher.

A RAND study analyzed Chinese and U.S. military capabilities in two scenarios (Taiwan and the Spratly Islands) from 1996 to 2017, finding that trends in most, but not all, areas run strongly against the United States. While U.S. aggregate power remains greater than China’s, distance and geography affect outcomes. China is capable of challenging U.S. military dominance on its immediate periphery—and its reach is likely to grow in the years ahead.

This book will appeal to scientists and engineers who are concerned with the design of microwave wideband devices and systems. For advanced (ultra)-wideband wireless systems, the necessity and design methodology of wideband filters will be discussed with reference to the inherent limitation in fractional bandwidth of classical bandpass filters.

This authoritative resource offers a comprehensive overview of heterogeneous wireless networks, small cells, and device-to-device (D2D) communications. The book provides insight into network modeling and performance analysis of heterogeneous wireless networks. Interference management framework and design issues are covered as well as details about resource mobility, channel models, and typical and statistical interference modeling. This resource explains leveraging resource heterogeneity in interference mitigation and presents the challenges and feasible solutions for concurrent transmission. Moreover, complete coverage of interference alignment in MIMO heterogeneous networks for both downlink and uplink is presented. This book provides performance results for an ideal partially connected interference network as well as a practical heterogeneous network. Readers find practical guidance for LTE and LTE-Advanced as well as 5G in this resource. New techniques and designs for heterogeneous wireless networks are included.

This book promises to change all of this. The lead author and M.I.T. educated scientist, Wilson Chin, and Yinao Su, Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering, and other team members, have written the only book available that develops mud pulse telemetry from first principles, adapting sound acoustic principles to rigorous signal processing and efficient wind tunnel testing. In fact, the methods and telemetry principles developed in the book were recently adopted by one of the world’s largest industrial corporations in its mission to redefine the face of MWD.

Systematically introduces self-healing control theory for distribution networks, rigorously supported by simulations and applications • A comprehensive introduction to self-healing control for distribution networks • Details the construction of self-healing control systems with simulations and applications • Provides key principles for new generation protective relay and network protection • Demonstrates how to monitor and manage system performance • Highlights practical implementation of self-healing control technologies, backed by rigorous research data and simulations

Presenting current approaches in observational and computational seismology, this book introduces advanced methods and techniques by means of case studies in earthquake research. Among others these include solving inverse seismologic problems, tomography for structure imaging, characterizing fault damage and healing, seismicity analysis for determining pre-shock moment release, and coupled solid-fluid models.

Up-to-date and informative, this unique book will be welcomed as a practical and indispensable reference guide by all those who use ICP-AES for the analysis of rare earth elements.

This book examines the role of institutions in China’s recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation. The book argues that, although the importance of institutions in China’s rapid economic growth and social development over the past 30 years is widely acknowledged, exactly how institutions affect changes in particular national and historical settings is less well understood. Unlike existing literature, it offers perspectives from a variety of disciplines - including law, economics, politics, international relations and communication studies – to consider whether institutions form, evolve and change differently according to their historical or cultural environments and if their utilitarian functions can, and should be, observed, identified and measured in different ways. The book discusses China’s political and legal institutions; the international institutions with which China engages; institutions promoting science and technology; media companies; and local institutions including the household registration system. It also examines how institutions themselves have been formed, changed and re-formed over recent decades, and suggests theoretical and methodological adjustments in institutional analysis to allow a fuller understanding of the institutional dynamics of China’s transformation. Xiaoming Huang is Professor of International Relations at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His recent publications include The Rise and Fall of the East Asian Growth System: Institutional Competitiveness and Rapid Economic Growth (also published by Routledge). 1. Introduction: Institutional Analysis and China’s Transformation: Issues and Concepts - Xiaoming Huang 2. China and International Institutions - Harry Harding 3. Institution Formation, Imitation and Borrowing: Zhongguancun as a Case Study on Mechanisms of Institutional Change - Sheng Hong 4. Science and Technology Institutions and Performance in China: The Semi-Conductor Industry - Keun Lee and Wang Rui 5. Power, Rights and Interests: A Law and Economic Analysis of Urban Housing Demolition and Relocation in China - Yujun Feng 6. China’s Road to a Rechtsstaat: Rule of Law, Constitutional Democracy and Institutional Change - Li Weisen 7. China's Evolving Institutional Exclusion: The Hukou System and Its Transformation - Fei-ling Wang 8. China’s Changing Hukou System: Institutional Objectives, Formal Arrangements and Informal Practices - Jason Young 9. State Capacity, Democratic Principles and Constitutional Order: Modern State-building in Post-Totalitarian Society - Qiang Li 10. Institutional Accumulation and Gradual Substitution: The Dynamics of Developmental Democracy in China - Dingping Guo 11. Propaganda vs. Promotion: The Political Economy of CCTV - Yong He 12. Village Elections and the Institutionalization of Legitimate Authority - C S Bryan Ho 13. Conclusion: The Institutional Dynamics of China’s Transformation: What We Have Learnt? - Xiaoming Huang