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This state-of-the-art Dictionary defines terms employed in
international agreements, national legislation and scholarly legal
studies related to comparative and international environmental law
and the emerging law of climate change. In acknowledgement of
China's growing role in this arena, each term also includes its
pinyin translation in order to facilitate access to the Mandarin
variants.The international community is developing increasingly
complex environmental provisions and participating in a number of
international treaties and agreements related to environmental law
and regulation. The complicated and highly specific nature of
environmental law has led to the development of localized
terminology that is not easily understood outside its country of
origin. Jointly prepared by scholars in China and the US, the
Dictionary provides a linguistic bridge between English and Chinese
speakers as well as an essential reference for those interpreting
and applying international environmental law, multilateral
environmental agreements, and domestic laws that implement these
treaties. Students, scholars and practitioners in the area of
environmental law will find this groundbreaking Dictionary an
invaluable addition to their libraries.
The research focus for the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law in
2003 was a timely and challenging one, entitled 'The Law of Energy
for Sustainable Development'. As contemporary world politics
demonstrates, energy resources and generation are crucial issues
facing the international community. As research on energy law, at
the international, regional, and national level is in its infancy,
the insights provided by the contributors to this 2005 volume are a
significant addition to the field.
This state-of-the-art Dictionary defines terms employed in
international agreements, national legislation and scholarly legal
studies related to comparative and international environmental law
and the emerging law of climate change. In acknowledgement of
China's growing role in this arena, each term also includes its
pinyin translation in order to facilitate access to the Mandarin
variants.The international community is developing increasingly
complex environmental provisions and participating in a number of
international treaties and agreements related to environmental law
and regulation. The complicated and highly specific nature of
environmental law has led to the development of localized
terminology that is not easily understood outside its country of
origin. Jointly prepared by scholars in China and the US, the
Dictionary provides a linguistic bridge between English and Chinese
speakers as well as an essential reference for those interpreting
and applying international environmental law, multilateral
environmental agreements, and domestic laws that implement these
treaties. Students, scholars and practitioners in the area of
environmental law will find this groundbreaking Dictionary an
invaluable addition to their libraries.
Novel Nanomaterials for Biomedical, Environmental, and Energy
Applications is a comprehensive study on the cutting-edge progress
in the synthesis and characterization of novel nanomaterials and
their subsequent advances and uses in biomedical, environmental and
energy applications. Covering novel concepts and key points of
interest, this book explores the frontier applications of
nanomaterials. Chapters discuss the overall progress of novel
nanomaterial applications in the biomedical, environmental and
energy fields, introduce the synthesis, characterization,
properties and applications of novel nanomaterials, discuss
biomedical applications, and cover the electrocatalytical and
photothermal effects of novel nanomaterials for efficient energy
applications. The book will be invaluable to academic researchers
and biomedical clinicians working with nanomaterials.
This book presents state-of-the-art research, challenges and
solutions in the area of human-robot collaboration (HRC) in
manufacturing. It enables readers to better understand the dynamic
behaviour of manufacturing processes, and gives more insight into
on-demand adaptive control techniques for industrial robots. With
increasing complexity and dynamism in today's manufacturing
practice, more precise, robust and practical approaches are needed
to support real-time shop-floor operations. This book presents a
collection of recent developments and innovations in this area,
relying on a wide range of research efforts. The book is divided
into five parts. The first part presents a broad-based review of
the key areas of HRC, establishing a common ground of understanding
in key aspects. Subsequent chapters focus on selected areas of HRC
subject to intense recent interest. The second part discusses human
safety within HRC. The third, fourth and fifth parts provide
in-depth views of relevant methodologies and algorithms. Discussing
dynamic planning and monitoring, adaptive control and multi-modal
decision making, the latter parts facilitate a better understanding
of HRC in real situations. The balance between scope and depth, and
theory and applications, means this book appeals to a wide
readership, including academic researchers, graduate students,
practicing engineers, and those within a variety of roles in
manufacturing sectors.
This book presents state-of-the-art research, challenges and
solutions in the area of human-robot collaboration (HRC) in
manufacturing. It enables readers to better understand the dynamic
behaviour of manufacturing processes, and gives more insight into
on-demand adaptive control techniques for industrial robots. With
increasing complexity and dynamism in today's manufacturing
practice, more precise, robust and practical approaches are needed
to support real-time shop-floor operations. This book presents a
collection of recent developments and innovations in this area,
relying on a wide range of research efforts. The book is divided
into five parts. The first part presents a broad-based review of
the key areas of HRC, establishing a common ground of understanding
in key aspects. Subsequent chapters focus on selected areas of HRC
subject to intense recent interest. The second part discusses human
safety within HRC. The third, fourth and fifth parts provide
in-depth views of relevant methodologies and algorithms. Discussing
dynamic planning and monitoring, adaptive control and multi-modal
decision making, the latter parts facilitate a better understanding
of HRC in real situations. The balance between scope and depth, and
theory and applications, means this book appeals to a wide
readership, including academic researchers, graduate students,
practicing engineers, and those within a variety of roles in
manufacturing sectors.
This book presents state-of-the-art research, challenges and
solutions in the area of cloud-based cyber-physical systems (CPS)
used in manufacturing. It provides a comprehensive review of the
literature and an in-depth treatment of novel methodologies,
algorithms and systems in the area of architecture design, cyber
security, process planning, monitoring and control. The book
features detailed descriptions of how to derive solutions in a
cloud environment where physical machines can be supported by cyber
decision systems when engaged in real operations. It presents a
range of novel ideas and is characterized by a balanced approach in
terms of scope vs. depth and theory vs. applications. It also takes
into account the need to present intellectual challenges while
appealing to a broad readership, including academic researchers,
practicing engineers and managers, and graduate students. Dedicated
to the topic of cloud-based CPS and its practical applications in
manufacturing, this book benefits readers from all manufacturing
sectors, from system design to lifecycle engineering and from
process planning to machine control. It also helps readers to
understand the present challenges and future research directions
towards factories of the future, helping them to position
themselves strategically for career development.
This book intends to report the new results of the efforts on the
study of Layered Intelligence of the Machine Brain (LIMB). The book
collects novel research ideas in LIMB and summarizes the current
machine intelligence level as “five layer intelligence”-
environments sensing, active learning, cognitive computing,
intelligent decision making and automatized execution. The book is
likely to be of interest to university researchers, R&D
engineers and graduate students in computer science and electronics
who wish to learn the core principles, methods, algorithms, and
applications of LIMB.
There has been a multitude of studies focused on the COVID-19
pandemic across fields and disciplines as all sectors of life have
had to adjust the way things are done and adapt to the constantly
shifting environment. These studies are crucial as they provide
support and perspectives on how things are changing and what needs
to be done to stay afloat. Connecting COVID-19-related studies and
big data analytics is crucial for the advancement of industrial
applications and research areas. Applied Big Data Analytics and Its
Role in COVID-19 Research introduces the most recent industrial
applications and research topics on COVID-19 with big data
analytics. Featuring coverage on a broad range of big data
technologies such as data gathering, artificial intelligence, smart
diagnostics, and mining mobility, this publication provides
concrete examples and cases of usage of data-driven projects in
COVID-19 research. This reference work is a vital resource for data
scientists, technical managers, researchers, scholars,
practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.
This book intends to report the new results of the efforts on the
study of Layered Intelligence of the Machine Brain (LIMB). The book
collects novel research ideas in LIMB and summarizes the current
machine intelligence level as "five layer intelligence"-
environments sensing, active learning, cognitive computing,
intelligent decision making and automatized execution. The book is
likely to be of interest to university researchers, R&D
engineers and graduate students in computer science and electronics
who wish to learn the core principles, methods, algorithms, and
applications of LIMB.
This book represents an ethnographic study of an International
Baccalaureate Diploma Program in a school in mainland China,
serving Chinese students and staffed by teachers from a variety of
origins. It offers in-depth descriptions of the way in which
students, teachers, and managers interact and communicate with one
another in a variety of school activities. Through the
communication process, cultural experiences and understandings are
negotiated constantly among school participants. The ethnographic
study also has a critical intention. Going beyond description, the
author discusses the extent to which networks of social
relationships in the case are imbued by asymmetries in power, and
how this leads to people's inability, unwillingness, and
unawareness to interact with those from different cultural
backgrounds. As research findings reveal, where the construction of
meaning is less equally available to each participant, prejudice
and exclusiveness are more likely to be assumed, impeding
individuals' intercultural learning. The key is to empower those
less privileged, giving them legitimacy to come to voice in an
institutional context on the one hand, and protecting their
reflections on hegemonic discourse meticulously on the other hand.
Since the research explores the complexities and subtleties of the
communication process that are bound to particular contexts, like
most ethnographic studies, it aims at adding a body of experience
and humanistic understanding of cultures, rather than testing
theories. Although the IB Program being studied can hardly be
representative of the overall development of international
education in China, the detailed description of contextual issues
of the case and the research procedures could facilitate the
readers to vicariously experience these events, thus they can make
their own decisions about the transferability of the research to
their own unique situations.
In November 2003, the Commission on Environmental Law (CEL) of IUCN
(International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources) launched a new scholarly network of environmental law
faculties and professors: the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.
The IUCN Academy, a consortium of specialized research centers in
university law faculties worldwide, constitutes a learned society
examining how law advances a just society that values and conserves
nature. As part of the Academy's mandate, a significant topic of
interregional research will be identified each year and the results
presented at an annual meeting and published for wide
dissemination. The timely and challenging research focus for 2003
was The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development. This volume
comprises the contributions of the 2003 conference.
In this volume, distinguished Chinese and Western scholars provide
a detailed examination of the problems associated with China's
transition to a market-oriented system. A variety of reform
proposals, aimed at resolving the contradictions inherent in
piecemeal reform, are discussed along with the chances for future
liberalization.
These clearly written and insightful essays address the roots of
China's crisis. The authors focus on institutional changes
necessary for a spontaneous market order and point to the close
relation between economic reform and political-constitutional
reform. Topics include the speed and degree of the transition,
whether ownership reform must precede price reform, how inflation
can be avoided, steps to depoliticize economic life, how to create
an environment conducive to foreign trade and investment, and how
to institute basic constitutional change and open China to the
outside world.
The revolutionary changes now shaking the foundations of socialism
and central planning in the Soviet Union and Eastern and Central
Europe are sure to have an impact on China's future. Despite their
seriousness, the events of Tiananmen Square may constitute only a
temporary detour on the road toward a private market order. The
essays in this volume help lay a rational framework for
understanding China's present problems and for discussing the
prospects for future reform.
In this volume, distinguished Chinese and Western scholars provide
a detailed examination of the problems associated with China's
transition to a market-oriented system. A variety of reform
proposals, aimed at resolving the contradictions inherent in
piecemeal reform, are discussed along with the chances for future
liberalization.
These clearly written and insightful essays address the roots of
China's crisis. The authors focus on institutional changes
necessary for a spontaneous market order and point to the close
relation between economic reform and political-constitutional
reform. Topics include the speed and degree of the transition,
whether ownership reform must precede price reform, how inflation
can be avoided, steps to depoliticize economic life, how to create
an environment conducive to foreign trade and investment, and how
to institute basic constitutional change and open China to the
outside world.
The revolutionary changes now shaking the foundations of socialism
and central planning in the Soviet Union and Eastern and Central
Europe are sure to have an impact on China's future. Despite their
seriousness, the events of Tiananmen Square may constitute only a
temporary detour on the road toward a private market order. The
essays in this volume help lay a rational framework for
understanding China's present problems and for discussing the
prospects for future reform.
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