With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's "floating population," have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This massive flow of rural migrants directly challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control. This book traces the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks within a mobile population that has broken through the constraints of the government's household registration system. The author explores this important social change...
With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's "fl...
This reference/text reveals all key components of rectification, inversion, cycloconversion, and conversion circuits - describing switching, voltage and current relationships, and converter properties, operation, control, and performance as utilized in most practical applications. Authored jointly by a veteran scholar and an accomplished researcher in the field, Power Converter Circuits highlights methods grounded in classical mathematics and includes an abundance of worked numerical examples.
This reference/text reveals all key components of rectification, inversion, cycloconversion, and conversion circuits - describing switching, voltage a...
Everyday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives. This combination of self-determination and socialism from afar has incited profound changes in the ways individuals think and act in different spheres of society. Covering a vast range of daily life from homeowner organizations and the users of Internet cafes to self-directed professionals and informed consumers the essays in Privatizing China create a compelling picture of the burgeoning awareness of self-governing within the postsocialist...
Everyday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives. This...
Everyday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives. This combination of self-determination and socialism from afar has incited profound changes in the ways individuals think and act in different spheres of society. Covering a vast range of daily life from homeowner organizations and the users of Internet cafes to self-directed professionals and informed consumers the essays in Privatizing China create a compelling picture of the burgeoning awareness of self-governing within the postsocialist...
Everyday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives. This...
In systems with highly efficient turbo-codes, where the operating SNR may be as low as 1-2 dB, excellent estimation accuracy for synchronisation parameters is required. However, in such conditions conventional non-data-aided synchronisation techniques become difficult due to the low SNRs. In addition, to achieve a high efficiency, it is desirable to recovery synchronisation from received data signals without using preambles. This book describes a novel concept, which is called a priori probability aided synchronisation. This concept fits particularly well with the iterative turbo decoder,...
In systems with highly efficient turbo-codes, where the operating SNR may be as low as 1-2 dB, excellent estimation accuracy for synchronisation param...
The main theme of this book is governments strategic behaviors. We show that different budget structures give governments incentives to behave differently. We first discuss theoretically the design of an optimal tax system, promoting the Leviathan government to maximize social welfare in order to maximize its own revenue. We apply the Buchanan-Brennan rule to examine the effects of a tax system on the efficiency of agricultural production in the context of Chinese local governments. Within the principal-agent framework, we illustrate how the problem is inherent in the agriculture...
The main theme of this book is governments strategic behaviors. We show that different budget structures give governments incentives to behave diff...
A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and socialist ideals, they hope to find material comfort and social distinction in newly constructed gated communities. This quest for the good life is profoundly transforming the physical and social...
A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not p...
A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and socialist ideals, they hope to find material comfort and social distinction in newly constructed gated communities. This quest for the good life is profoundly transforming the physical and social...
A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not p...
Provides a description of the diverse and fascinating functions of heme in life processes. This work begins with an introduction to the intricate chemical properties of heme and the history of early observations of human diseases associated with heme. It is suitable for those interested in heme biology.
Provides a description of the diverse and fascinating functions of heme in life processes. This work begins with an introduction to the intricate chem...
The complexity of Information Technology (IT) systems has been steadily incre- ing in the past decades. In October 2001, IBM released the "Autonomic Computing Manifesto" observing that current applications have reached the size of millions of lines of code, while physical infrastructures include thousands of heterogeneous servers requiring skilled IT professionals to install, con?gure, tune, and maintain. System complexity has been recognized as the main obstacle to the further advan- ment of IT technology. The basic idea of Autonomic Computing is to develop IT systems that are able to manage...
The complexity of Information Technology (IT) systems has been steadily incre- ing in the past decades. In October 2001, IBM released the "Autonomic C...
