This book provides a practical introduction of integrated passive device (IPD) technology for both undergraduate and graduate students of electronic engineering, electrical engineering, practicing engineers, communication engineering, and other interested students and researchers. There is no need to justify the existence of IPDs; they are the essential building blocks of mobile and wireless communication systems. IPDs play an important role in the front-end RF sections of mobile phones, and have been developed to meet the ever increasing needs of size and cost reduction in microwave...

This two-volume set investigates the concept, institutionalization, models and mechanism of mediation, an important form of alternative dispute resolution within China's legal system. Grounded in traditional dispute resolution practices throughout Chinese history, mediation is born out of the Chinese legal tradition and considered to be "Eastern" in nature. Seeking to explore how mediation has developed in order to function in a modernized society, the first volume looks into the legal foundations of Chinese mediation as well as paths to the institutionalization and professionalization of...