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China after Mao has undergone vast transformations, including
massive rural-to-urban migration, rising divorce rates, and the
steady expansion of the country's legal system. Today, divorce may
appear a private concern, when in fact it is a profoundly political
matter-especially in a national context where marriage was and has
continued to be a key vehicle for nation-state building. Marriage
Unbound focuses on the politics of divorce cases in contemporary
China, following a group of women seeking judicial remedies for
conjugal grievances and disputes. Drawing on extensive archival and
ethnographic data, paired with unprecedented access to rural
Chinese courtrooms, Ke Li presents not only a stirring portrayal of
how these women navigate divorce litigation, but also a uniquely
in-depth account of the modern Chinese legal system. With sensitive
and fluid prose, Li reveals the struggles between the powerful and
the powerless at the front lines of dispute management; the complex
interplay between culture and the state; and insidious statecraft
that far too often sacrifices women's rights and interests.
Ultimately, this book shows how women's legal mobilization and
rights contention can forge new ground for our understanding of
law, politics, and inequality in an authoritarian regime.
China after Mao has undergone vast transformations, including
massive rural-to-urban migration, rising divorce rates, and the
steady expansion of the country's legal system. Today, divorce may
appear a private concern, when in fact it is a profoundly political
matter-especially in a national context where marriage was and has
continued to be a key vehicle for nation-state building. Marriage
Unbound focuses on the politics of divorce cases in contemporary
China, following a group of women seeking judicial remedies for
conjugal grievances and disputes. Drawing on extensive archival and
ethnographic data, paired with unprecedented access to rural
Chinese courtrooms, Ke Li presents not only a stirring portrayal of
how these women navigate divorce litigation, but also a uniquely
in-depth account of the modern Chinese legal system. With sensitive
and fluid prose, Li reveals the struggles between the powerful and
the powerless at the front lines of dispute management; the complex
interplay between culture and the state; and insidious statecraft
that far too often sacrifices women's rights and interests.
Ultimately, this book shows how women's legal mobilization and
rights contention can forge new ground for our understanding of
law, politics, and inequality in an authoritarian regime.
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) revolution has triggered the need of
massive connectivity for billions of devices requiring a system
capacity which is far beyond the current network designs that can
be supported. This emerging requirement has reshaped the society
and industry in pursuing efficient communication paradigm. In
particular, massive machine-type communications (mMTC) will be a
prime driver for enabling the vision of scalable IoT with
heterogeneous applications, where the massive access is of
paramount importance. This book discusses important massive IoT
scenarios and the key technical requirements of the corresponding
massive access. We review the state-of-the-art IoT standards and
mMTC solutions, and summarize the limitations of the existing
schemes from the perspectives of the network architecture, random
access procedure, and multiple access techniques. Here, we specify
the massive access challenges and reveal that the facilitation of
MTC invokes a dramatically different access scheme from current
ones mainly designed for human-centric communications. Moreover, we
propose several promising massive access solutions to overcome the
limitations, where sufficient theoretical model and algorithm
design guidance are provided. Besides, detailed simulation and
engineering implementation methods are also included.
This book investigates in detail the concepts and principles of
green chemistry and related methodologies, including green
synthesis, green activation methods, green catalysis, green
solvents, and green design to achieve process intensification while
at the same time ensuring process safety and promoting ecological
civilization and environmental protection. Moreover, it
incorporates elements of chemical management and chemical
education, highlighting chemists' responsibility to protect
humankind and foster green and sustainable development in
chemistry. Combining Chinese and Belarus wisdom, this book is
intended for those working in the chemical industry who are
interested in environmental protection and sustainable development,
as well as undergraduate and graduate students who are interested
in green chemistry and related technologies.
This book investigates in detail the concepts and principles of
green chemistry and related methodologies, including green
synthesis, green activation methods, green catalysis, green
solvents, and green design to achieve process intensification while
at the same time ensuring process safety and promoting ecological
civilization and environmental protection. Moreover, it
incorporates elements of chemical management and chemical
education, highlighting chemists' responsibility to protect
humankind and foster green and sustainable development in
chemistry. Combining Chinese and Belarus wisdom, this book is
intended for those working in the chemical industry who are
interested in environmental protection and sustainable development,
as well as undergraduate and graduate students who are interested
in green chemistry and related technologies.
This book discusses how biological molecules exert their function
and regulate biological processes, with a clear focus on how
conformational dynamics of proteins are critical in this respect.
In the last decade, the advancements in computational biology,
nuclear magnetic resonance including paramagnetic relaxation
enhancement, and fluorescence-based ensemble/single-molecule
techniques have shown that biological molecules (proteins, DNAs and
RNAs) fluctuate under equilibrium conditions. The conformational
and energetic spaces that these fluctuations explore likely contain
active conformations that are critical for their function. More
interestingly, these fluctuations can respond actively to external
cues, which introduces layers of tight regulation on the biological
processes that they dictate. A growing number of studies have
suggested that conformational dynamics of proteins govern their
role in regulating biological functions, examples of this
regulation can be found in signal transduction, molecular
recognition, apoptosis, protein / ion / other molecules
translocation and gene expression. On the experimental side, the
technical advances have offered deep insights into the
conformational motions of a number of proteins. These studies
greatly enrich our knowledge of the interplay between structure and
function. On the theoretical side, novel approaches and detailed
computational simulations have provided powerful tools in the study
of enzyme catalysis, protein / drug design, protein / ion / other
molecule translocation and protein folding/aggregation, to name but
a few. This work contains detailed information, not only on the
conformational motions of biological systems, but also on the
potential governing forces of conformational dynamics (transient
interactions, chemical and physical origins, thermodynamic
properties). New developments in computational simulations will
greatly enhance our understanding of how these molecules function
in various biological events.
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Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization - 11th International Conference, EMO 2021, Shenzhen, China, March 28-31, 2021, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Hisao Ishibuchi, Qingfu Zhang, Ran Cheng, Ke Li, Hui Li, …
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th
International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion
Optimization, EMO 2021 held in Shenzhen, China, in March 2021.The
47 full papers and 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and
selected from 120 submissions. The papers are divided into the
following topical sections: theory; algorithms; dynamic
multi-objective optimization; constrained multi-objective
optimization; multi-modal optimization; many-objective
optimization; performance evaluations and empirical studies; EMO
and machine learning; surrogate modeling and expensive
optimization; MCDM and interactive EMO; and applications.
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) revolution has triggered the need of
massive connectivity for billions of devices requiring a system
capacity which is far beyond the current network designs that can
be supported. This emerging requirement has reshaped the society
and industry in pursuing efficient communication paradigm. In
particular, massive machine-type communications (mMTC) will be a
prime driver for enabling the vision of scalable IoT with
heterogeneous applications, where the massive access is of
paramount importance. This book discusses important massive IoT
scenarios and the key technical requirements of the corresponding
massive access. We review the state-of-the-art IoT standards and
mMTC solutions, and summarize the limitations of the existing
schemes from the perspectives of the network architecture, random
access procedure, and multiple access techniques. Here, we specify
the massive access challenges and reveal that the facilitation of
MTC invokes a dramatically different access scheme from current
ones mainly designed for human-centric communications. Moreover, we
propose several promising massive access solutions to overcome the
limitations, where sufficient theoretical model and algorithm
design guidance are provided. Besides, detailed simulation and
engineering implementation methods are also included.
As one of the typical intermolecular interactions, hydrogen-bonding
plays a significant role in molecular structure and function. When
the hydrogen bond research system is connected with the photon, the
hydrogen-bonding effect turns to an excited-state one influencing
photochemistry, photobiology, and photophysics. Thus, the hydrogen
bond in an excited state is a key topic for understanding the
excited-state properties, especially for optoelectronic or
luminescent materials.The approaches presented in this book include
quantum chemical calculation, molecular dynamics simulation and
ultrafast spectroscopy, which are strong tools to investigate the
hydrogen bond. Unlike other existing titles, this book combines
theoretical calculations and experiments to explore the nature of
excited-state hydrogen bonds. By using these methods, more details
and faster processes involved in excited-state dynamics of hydrogen
bond are explored.This highly interdisciplinary book provides an
overview of leading hydrogen bond research. It is essential reading
for faculties and students in researching photochemistry,
photobiology and photophysics, as well as novel optoelectronic
materials, fluorescence probes and photocatalysts. It will also
guide research beginners to getting a quick start within this
field.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a collection of essays written by a skilled TCM
practitioner with over 40 years of experience. The author shares
his experiences and reflects on his medical career, illustrating in
many instances with real-life case examples, in the hope that the
book will inspire and benefit TCM learners. The content was
previously published in Chinese by China Renmin University
Press.The book provides three main viewpoints: 1. Chinese medicine
needs to be accurately positioned to guide professionals in
practice; 2. The TCM essence of finding a cure with syndrome
differentiation and treatment is emphasized; 3. Pulse diagnosis is
essential when prescribing for a cure.
Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime: The Model Minority as Victim
and Perpetrator analyzes Asian/Americans' interactions with the
U.S. criminal justice system as perpetrators and victims of crime.
This book contributes to a limited amount of scholarly writing so
that researchers, policymakers, and educators can gain a deeper and
more nuanced understanding of the relationship between
Asian/Americans and the criminal justice system. In reality,
Asian/Americans in the United States are both the victims of crime
and the perpetrators of crime. However, their characterization as
the "model minority" masks the victimization and violence they
experience in the twenty-first century.
Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime: The Model Minority as Victim
and Perpetrator analyzes Asian/Americans' interactions with the
U.S. criminal justice system as perpetrators and victims of crime.
This book contributes to a limited amount of scholarly writing so
that researchers, policymakers, and educators can gain a deeper and
more nuanced understanding of the relationship between
Asian/Americans and the criminal justice system. In reality,
Asian/Americans in the United States are both the victims of crime
and the perpetrators of crime. However, their characterization as
the "model minority" masks the victimization and violence they
experience in the twenty-first century.
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