Disrupting Chinese Journalism provides a rich insight into the disruptive effects of digital technologies - especially smart-phones - on the Chinese print media market. Pulling from an extensive corpus of original research, including 191 face-to-face interviews with managers and journalists, and a content analysis of some 4,000 news reports, Haiyan Wang examines how Chinese legacy newspapers have responded to the changing digital media environment, including by adapting their organizational structures, revenue models, and journalistic practices. This book also points to how the government has taken a more interventionist stance on editorial content, and how this has further complicated the digital transitions of the Chinese media. This book is an invaluable resource for students of media studies, journalism, Chinese area studies, and digital technology.

This book focusses on the current research on materials for advanced battery technologies and propose future directions for different types of batteries to meet the current challenges associated with the fuel cell aspect. Further, it provides insights into scientific and practical issues in the development of various batteries like Sodium, Potassium, Zinc, Magnesium, Aluminum, Calcium, Dual metal ion, to bring out a new perspective to the storage technologies which is beyond Lithium-Ion Batteries. It introduces different themes of batteries to evaluate the opportunities and challenges of these battery systems from a commercial aspect. Key Features: Deals with different potential rechargeable battery systems as suitable substitute for LIBs Discusses different investigated materials as anode, cathode, and electrolytes for different energy storage systems Provides complete and comprehensive review of all the existing metal-ion batteries Includes practical challenges and future opportunities of each battery category Reviews commercial aspects of different battery systems This book is aimed at Researchers, Graduate students and professionals in Industrial and Applied Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Clean and Sustainable Processes, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Nanotechnology and Battery Chemistry

Praise for The Quest for Global Dominance

"The best source of insight available for executives to win in the face of global competition."--Philip Anderson, Alumni Fund Chaired Professor, INSEAD

"A must-read for executives who expect to harness the accelerating trend of globalization."--Alexander M. Cutler, chairman and CEO, Eaton Corporation

"This book is not only visionary, but also very practical."--Desh Deshpande, chairman, Sycamore Networks

"Provides fresh insights into particularly crucial topics like global teams and launching born-global businesses."--Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Ascherman Professor of Strategy, Stanford University

"The best by far in its arena, the most insightful, the most readable, and simply the most important." --Jeffrey E. Garten, Juan Trippe Professor, Yale School of Management

"A great book and a must for the modern leader of the global firm."--Peter Lorange, president, IMD International

"A superb and timely book, full of fresh ideas, that deserves to be widely read."--Costas Markides, Robert P. Bauman Professor, London Business School

"Provides the strategic imperatives to succeed in a global business."--John Menzer, vice chairman, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

"Not only presents incisive and in-depth analysis but also inspires real-world, implementable solutions."--N. R. Narayana Murthy, chairman and chief mentor, Infosys Technologies

"An invaluable intellectual companion that will force many to rethink their business strategies."--C. K. Prahalad, McCracken Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan Business School

"Tight logic and leading-edge thinking in a manner that is highly practical." --John A. Quelch, senior associate dean, Harvard Business School

Pioneering reference book providing the latest developments and experimental results of aqueous zinc ion batteries Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries comprehensively reviews latest advances in aqueous zinc ion batteries and clarifies the relationships between issues and solutions for the emerging battery technology. Starting with the history, the text covers essentials of each component of aqueous zinc ion batteries, including cathodes, anodes, and electrolytes, helping readers quickly attain a foundational understanding of the subject. Written by three highly qualified authors with significant experience in the field, Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries provides in-depth coverage of sample topics such as: History, main challenges, and zinc metal anodes for aqueous zinc ion batteries Electrochemical reaction mechanism of aqueous zinc ion batteries and interfacial plating and stripping on zinc anodes Cathode materials for aqueous zinc ion batteries, covering manganese-based materials, vanadium-based materials, Prussian blue analogs, and other cathode materials Development of electrolytes, issues, and corresponding solutions for aqueous zinc ion batteries Separators for aqueous zinc ion batteries, development of full zinc ion batteries, and future perspectives on the technology A detailed resource on a promising alternative to current lithium-ion battery systems, Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries is an essential read for materials scientists, electrochemists, inorganic chemists, surface chemists, catalytic chemists, and surface physicists who want to be on the cutting edge of a promising new type of battery technology.

Mathematical Methods in Data Science introduces a new approach based on network analysis to integrate big data into the framework of ordinary and partial differential equations for data analysis and prediction. The mathematics is accompanied with examples and problems arising in data science to demonstrate advanced mathematics, in particular, data-driven differential equations used. Chapters also cover network analysis, ordinary and partial differential equations based on recent published and unpublished results. Finally, the book introduces a new approach based on network analysis to integrate big data into the framework of ordinary and partial differential equations for data analysis and prediction. There are a number of books on mathematical methods in data science. Currently, all these related books primarily focus on linear algebra, optimization and statistical methods. However, network analysis, ordinary and partial differential equation models play an increasingly important role in data science. With the availability of unprecedented amount of clinical, epidemiological and social COVID-19 data, data-driven differential equation models have become more useful for infection prediction and analysis.

A roadmap for understanding the business challenges and opportunities in China

By 2025, China and India will be two of the world's four largest economies. By then, economic ties between them should also rank among the ten most important bilateral ties worldwide. Their leaders are well aware of these emerging realities. In May 2013, just two months after taking charge, Premier Li Keqiang left for India on his first official trip outside China, a clear signal of China's foreign policy priorities.

"The Silk Road Rediscovered" is the first book ever to analyze the growing corporate linkages between India and China. Did you know that: India's Mahindra is the fifth largest tractor manufacturer in China?Tata Motors' Jaguar Land Rover unit is the fastest growing luxury auto seller in China?India's NIIT is the most influential IT training brand in China?China's Huawei has its second largest R&D center in Bangalore and employs over 5000 people in India?Shanghai Electric earns its largest revenues outside China from India?

As these developments illustrate, pioneering Indian and Chinese companies are rediscovering the fabled Silk Road which joined their nations in ancient times. Winning in each other's markets is also making them stronger and whetting their appetite for further global expansion.

This book examines how Indian companies such as Tata Consultancy Services, Mahindra Tractors, NIIT, Tata Motors/Jaguar Land Rover and Sundaram Fasteners have figured out how to win in China. Their experiences may inspire and offer lessons to other Indian companies. The book also examines how Chinese pioneers such as Lenovo, Huawei, TBEA, Haier and Xinxing have made a strong commitment to India and are beginning to realize the fruits of this commitment. The key lessons that emerge from these analyses are: the odds of success go up dramatically when executives adopt a global rather than local-for-local perspective "and" are skillful at learning on the ground.

This book provides insights into recent developments in the use of mulching in agroecosystems with emphasis on the major pros and cons. Increase in human population, climatic changes and agricultural intensification have put enormous pressure on soil and water resources. As a result, we are confronted with challenges to enhance nutrient and water use efficiencies and conserve soil organic matter without compromising crop yields and food security. Increasing the soil organic matter (SOM) via residue return increased nutrient availability and soil physical and biological properties. Management practices, such as straw mulching or incorporation, have significant effects on soil health. Straw addition also increases functionality related to carbon and N metabolism via increasing the microbes and thus greatly contributes to CO2 and N2O emissions. However, the co-use of organic and inorganic fertilizer reduces the N2O emission without compromising crop yield. Mulching has long been advocated to conserve soil moisture and increase the efficiency of macro- and micro-nutrients by improving soil physical, chemical, and biological properties. These effects of mulch are translated into better crop yields while improving soil health and quality in the long run. Therefore, the use of mulching techniques is on the rise in organic as well as conventional agriculture. The book is of great interest for researchers, academics, agriculture extensionists, soil and plant scientist, fertilizer industry, farmers, agro-industrial workers, farm managers, NGOs, and climate and civil society activists.

The book lies at the interface of mathematics, social media analysis, and data science. Its authors aim to introduce a new dynamic modeling approach to the use of partial differential equations for describing information diffusion over online social networks. The eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix for the underlying social network are used to find communities (clusters) of online users. Once these clusters are embedded in a Euclidean space, the mathematical models, which are reaction-diffusion equations, are developed based on intuitive social distances between clusters within the Euclidean space. The models are validated with data from major social media such as Twitter. In addition, mathematical analysis of these models is applied, revealing insights into information flow on social media. Two applications with geocoded Twitter data are included in the book: one describing the social movement in Twitter during the Egyptian revolution in 2011 and another predicting influenza prevalence. The new approach advocates a paradigm shift for modeling information diffusion in online social networks and lays the theoretical groundwork for many spatio-temporal modeling problems in the big-data era.

Investigative journalism emerged in China in the 1980s following Deng Xiaoping's media reforms. Over the past few decades, Chinese investigative journalists have produced an increasing number of reports in print or on air and covered a surprisingly wide range of topics which had been thought impossible by the standards of the Communist era. In the 2010s, however, investigative journalism has been replaced by activist journalism. This book examines how, with the aid of new media technologies and in response to new calls for social responsibility, these new-era journalists vigorously seek to expand the scope of their journalism and their capacity as journalists. They tend to perceive themselves as more than professional journalists, and their activities are not limited to the physical boundaries of newsrooms. They are not only detached observers of society but also engaged organizers of social movements-they are social activists as well as responsible journalists who challenge state power and the party line and point to the limitations of the more traditional conceptions of journalism in China. This book analyzes how journalism in China has been gradually transformed from a tool of the state to a means of broadening calls for democratic reform.