This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Logistics, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2012. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on maritime shipping; logistics and supply chain management; planning and operations; and case studies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2011, held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 2011.
The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on transport services, logistics systems and production, and maritime shipping and container terminals.

This edited volume analyzes land utilization data from farm surveys taken in China between 1929 and 1933. This data, which was the foundation for John Lossing Buck's seminal work Land Utilization in China (1937), was thought lost to history until rediscovered in 2000. The book presents the first modern analyses of agricultural economics in Republican China using Buck's micro-data, covering important topics such as nutritional poverty, tenancy issues, land productivity, surplus labor, workers' incomes, credit supply, and regional differences. Through using modern analytical methods, this book presents a more accurate picture of the agricultural economy in the Republican Era and will be of particular interest to agricultural economists, economic historians, and Chinese studies scholars.

This edited volume analyzes land utilization data from farm surveys taken in China between 1929 and 1933. This data, which was the foundation for John Lossing Buck's seminal work Land Utilization in China (1937), was thought lost to history until rediscovered in 2000. The book presents the first modern analyses of agricultural economics in Republican China using Buck's micro-data, covering important topics such as nutritional poverty, tenancy issues, land productivity, surplus labor, workers' incomes, credit supply, and regional differences. Through using modern analytical methods, this book presents a more accurate picture of the agricultural economy in the Republican Era and will be of particular interest to agricultural economists, economic historians, and Chinese studies scholars.

This book will provide you the fundamental of the application of Polymer Derived Ceramics (PDCs) to Hydrogen Catalysis. However, it can be used not only in hydrogen catalysis but in most catalytic applications. The above all is the bonding between the silicon from PDCs and transition metals to form silicides, reducing the cluster size of transition metals. The size reduction of metals due to this bonding is the critical issue to enhance the catalytic reactions. In addition, PDCs can be utilized in different academies and industries, such as lithium ion battery (LIB), fuel cell (FC) and defence. PDCs, Silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) is a potential material for the anode of LIB owing to its capability of Li ion intercalation. PDCs is also able to be a part of FC electrode due to its catalytic function. The coating of PDCs is capable of sustaining a harsh environment, high temperature and humidity. Therefore, Polymer Derived Ceramics could be one potential candidate of new energy materials in the next generation.