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This book offers an introduction to various models and methods for
green supplier evaluation and selection (GSES) within different
information settings. As such, it provides valuable knowledge,
useful GSES methods and practical examples that can be considered
by manufacturers in selecting appropriate green suppliers to
improve their environmental performance and customer satisfaction.
This book is useful for practitioners and researchers working in
the fields of supply chain management, operation management,
information science, industrial engineering, and management
science. It is also useful as a textbook for postgraduate and
senior undergraduate students.
This book provides a historical review of the transformation of
China’s image around the world since the 1978 Reform and Opening
Up. Based on a synthetic model that the author constructs for
evaluating national images, together with a historical review and
quantitative analysis, it discusses the issues and challenges
confronting China’s image around the world since the Opening
Up. To help rectify the situation that most of the research
on China’s reform efforts focuses on hard power (esp. economic
power), this book, which mainly focuses on China’s soft power,
reviews and assesses its global image from the three perspectives
of politics, economy and culture. In the process, it sheds valuable
new light on the presentation of China’s image and the world’s
perceptions of China.
This book is based on multidisciplinary research focusing on
low-carbon healthy city planning, policy and assessment. This
includes city-development strategy, energy, environment, healthy,
land-use, transportation, infrastructure, information and other
related subjects. This book begins with the current status and
problems of low-carbon healthy city development in China. It then
introduces the global experience of different regions and different
policy trends, focusing on individual cases. Finally, the book
opens a discussion of Chinese low-carbon healthy city development
from planning and design, infrastructure and technology
assessment-system perspectives. It presents a case study including
the theory and methodology to support the unit city theory for
low-carbon healthy cities. The book lists the ranking of China's
269 high-level cities, with economic, environmental, resource,
construction, transportation and health indexes as an assessment
for creating a low-carbon healthy future. The book provides readers
with a comprehensive overview of building low-carbon healthy cities
in China.
This book offers a thorough and systematic introduction to the
modified failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) models based on
uncertainty theories (e.g. fuzzy logic, intuitionistic fuzzy sets,
D numbers and 2-tuple linguistic variables) and various
multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approaches such as
distance-based MCDM, compromise ranking MCDM and hybrid MCDM, etc.
As such, it provides essential FMEA methods and practical examples
that can be considered in applying FMEA to enhance the reliability
and safety of products and services. The book offers a valuable
guide for practitioners and researchers working in the fields of
quality management, decision making, information science,
management science, engineering, etc. It can also be used as a
textbook for postgraduate and senior undergraduate students.
This book provides valuable knowledge, useful fuzzy Petri nets
(FPN) models, and practical examples that can be considered by
mangers in supporting knowledge management of organizations to
increase and sustain their competitive advantages. In this book,
the authors proposed various improved FPN models to enhance the
modeling power and applicability of FPNs in knowledge
representation and reasoning. This book is useful for practitioners
and researchers working in the fields of knowledge management,
operation management, information science, industrial engineering,
and management science. It can also be used as a textbook for
postgraduate and senior undergraduate students.
This book explores the emergent relationship between food and
family in contemporary China through an empirical case study of
Guangzhou, a typical city, to understand the texture of everyday
life in the new consumerist society. The primary focus of this book
is on the family dynamics of middle-income households in Guangzhou,
where everyday food practices, including growing food, shopping,
storing, cooking, feeding, and eating, play a pivotal role. The
book aims to conduct a comprehensive and integrated analysis of
themes such as material and emotional domestic cultures, family
relationships, and social connections between the domestic and the
public, based on a discussion of family food practices. These
topics will not only offer academic readers a full understanding of
the most innovative recent critical engagements with urban Chinese
families but also provide more general readers with a broader view
of food consumption patterns within the scope of domestic and
family issues. This book will be of interest to sociologists,
anthropologists, and human geographers as well as post graduate
students who are interested in food studies and Chinese studies.
This book offers an in-depth and systematic introduction to
improved failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) methods for
proactive healthcare risk analysis. Healthcare risk management has
become an increasingly important issue for hospitals and managers.
As a prospective reliability analysis technique, FMEA has been
widely used for identifying and eliminating known and potential
failures in systems, designs, products or services. However, the
traditional FMEA has a number of weaknesses when applied to
healthcare risk management. This book provides valuable insights
into useful FMEA methods and practical examples that can be
considered when applying FMEA to enhance the reliability and safety
of the healthcare system. This book is very interesting for
practitioners and academics working in the fields of healthcare
risk management, quality management, operational research, and
management science and engineerin. It can be considered as the
guiding document for how a healthcare organization proactively
identifies, manages and mitigates the risk of patient harm. This
book also serves as a valuable reference for postgraduate and
senior undergraduate students.
This book explores the emergent relationship between food and
family in contemporary China through an empirical case study of
Guangzhou, a typical city, to understand the texture of everyday
life in the new consumerist society. The primary focus of this book
is on the family dynamics of middle-income households in Guangzhou,
where everyday food practices, including growing food, shopping,
storing, cooking, feeding, and eating, play a pivotal role. The
book aims to conduct a comprehensive and integrated analysis of
themes such as material and emotional domestic cultures, family
relationships, and social connections between the domestic and the
public, based on a discussion of family food practices. These
topics will not only offer academic readers a full understanding of
the most innovative recent critical engagements with urban Chinese
families but also provide more general readers with a broader view
of food consumption patterns within the scope of domestic and
family issues. This book will be of interest to sociologists,
anthropologists, and human geographers as well as post graduate
students who are interested in food studies and Chinese studies.
Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Modern China collects essays from
the scholars in their fields and examines the ongoing corruption in
China by addressing this important topic from a historical
perspective through a cooperative interdisciplinary research effort
among Chinese-American scholars interested in the subject. Their
scholarship makes a significant contribution through multi-faceted
components from different fields such as history, economics,
political science, criminal justice, and popular culture. The
authors introduce and explore the theory and practice of policy
patterns, political systems, and social institutions by identifying
key issues in Chinese government and society contained within the
larger framework of the international sphere. This book describes a
historical transition when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
maintained its forceful control of cities while the middle class
reluctantly sacrificed its rights in exchange for retaining their
economic benefits. To survive market economy, the party leadership
became more flexible and was able to adapt to economic and social
change. The CCP governments in our research responded to the rising
demands and expectations of the society. They were willing and able
to cope with the middle class by making a few compromises and
following certain legal procedures in exchange for continuing
political support. These practical comprises characterized a new
political culture in PRC history since 1949. The book voices the
complaints and resentments in the cities, and interprets government
policies and legal practices. It emphasizes the consequence for
governance, human rights, and commercial rule of law, all of which
threatens the legitimacy of the CCP. It also suggests an important
evolution of the CCP. The reform movement since the 1980s has not
yet contributed significantly to the country's democratic
transformation or to its social stability. The leaders in the 1990s
focused on liberal economic reform while discouraging and even
stifling political reform. As a result, economic interest groups
successfully established an alliance with CCP officials to control
economic policy-making and to share political governance. In the
2010s, Chinese leaders have paid special attention to political
scandals, corruption, and mismanagement in the government and in
the Party.
This book offers an introduction to various models and methods for
green supplier evaluation and selection (GSES) within different
information settings. As such, it provides valuable knowledge,
useful GSES methods and practical examples that can be considered
by manufacturers in selecting appropriate green suppliers to
improve their environmental performance and customer satisfaction.
This book is useful for practitioners and researchers working in
the fields of supply chain management, operation management,
information science, industrial engineering, and management
science. It is also useful as a textbook for postgraduate and
senior undergraduate students.
This book offers an in-depth and systematic introduction to
improved failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) methods for
proactive healthcare risk analysis. Healthcare risk management has
become an increasingly important issue for hospitals and managers.
As a prospective reliability analysis technique, FMEA has been
widely used for identifying and eliminating known and potential
failures in systems, designs, products or services. However, the
traditional FMEA has a number of weaknesses when applied to
healthcare risk management. This book provides valuable insights
into useful FMEA methods and practical examples that can be
considered when applying FMEA to enhance the reliability and safety
of the healthcare system. This book is very interesting for
practitioners and academics working in the fields of healthcare
risk management, quality management, operational research, and
management science and engineerin. It can be considered as the
guiding document for how a healthcare organization proactively
identifies, manages and mitigates the risk of patient harm. This
book also serves as a valuable reference for postgraduate and
senior undergraduate students.
This book offers a thorough and systematic introduction to the
modified failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) models based on
uncertainty theories (e.g. fuzzy logic, intuitionistic fuzzy sets,
D numbers and 2-tuple linguistic variables) and various
multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approaches such as
distance-based MCDM, compromise ranking MCDM and hybrid MCDM, etc.
As such, it provides essential FMEA methods and practical examples
that can be considered in applying FMEA to enhance the reliability
and safety of products and services. The book offers a valuable
guide for practitioners and researchers working in the fields of
quality management, decision making, information science,
management science, engineering, etc. It can also be used as a
textbook for postgraduate and senior undergraduate students.
This book is based on multidisciplinary research focusing on
low-carbon healthy city planning, policy and assessment. This
includes city-development strategy, energy, environment, healthy,
land-use, transportation, infrastructure, information and other
related subjects. This book begins with the current status and
problems of low-carbon healthy city development in China. It then
introduces the global experience of different regions and different
policy trends, focusing on individual cases. Finally, the book
opens a discussion of Chinese low-carbon healthy city development
from planning and design, infrastructure and technology
assessment-system perspectives. It presents a case study including
the theory and methodology to support the unit city theory for
low-carbon healthy cities. The book lists the ranking of China's
269 high-level cities, with economic, environmental, resource,
construction, transportation and health indexes as an assessment
for creating a low-carbon healthy future. The book provides readers
with a comprehensive overview of building low-carbon healthy cities
in China.
The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development makes
climate change and responsible consumption key priorities for both
industrialized and emerging economies. Moving beyond the Global
North, this book uses innovative cross-national and
cross-generational research with urban residents in China and
Uganda, as well as the UK, to illuminate international debates
about building sustainable societies and to examine how different
cultures think about past, present and future responsibility for
climate change. The authors explore to what extent different
nations see climate change as a domestic issue, whilst looking at
local explanatory and blame narratives to consider profound
questions of justice between those nations that are more and less
responsible for, and vulnerable to, climate change.
Real-Time Simulation Technology for Modern Power Electronics
provides an invaluable foundation and state-of-the-art review on
the most advanced implementations of real-time simulation as it
appears poised to revolutionize the modeling of power electronics.
The book opens with a discussion of power electronics device physic
modeling, component modeling, and power converter modeling before
addressing numerical methods to solve converter model, emphasizing
speed and accuracy. It discusses both CPU-based and FPGA-based
real-time implementations and provides an extensive review of
current applications, including hardware-in-the-loop and its case
studies in the micro-grid and electric vehicle applications. The
book closes with a review of the near and long-term outlooks for
the evolving technology. Collectively, the work provides a
systematic resource for students, researchers, and engineers in the
electrical engineering and other closely related fields.
QUANTUM TURBULENCE: DECAY OF GRID TURBULENCE IN A DISSIPATIONLESS
FLUID We produced grid turbulence in liquid helium at 520 mK to
compare with classical experiments and theories. Above T = 1 K,
with viscosity present, it has been shown that grid turbulence is
equivalent to homogeneous isotropic turbulence in a classical
fluid. We seek to investigate the nature of grid turbulence when
viscosity is zero. Specifically, in the absence of viscosity in a
quantum fluid, through what path does the turbulence decay? To
produce grid turbulence, a magnetically shielded superconducting
linear motor was designed and built to accelerate and decelerate
the grid rapidly in a short distance ( 1 mm), and achieve glide
speeds up to 1 m/s, when driven with the properly shaped current
pulse. We measured the decay of the turbulence produced by
calorimetry technique. Recent theory suggests the decay occurs
through a Kelvin-wave cascade on the vortex lines which couples the
initially large turbulent eddies to the short wavelength phonon
spectrum of the liquid, yielding a characteristic rate of
temperature rise. Initial measurements support the Kelvin wave
cascade theory.
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