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This book offers a critical assessment of governance ideas in the
context of Chinese neoliberalism. It argues that the Chinese
version of governance has emerged as an important discursive
practice in the articulation of the neoliberal spirit of the
national reform agenda. The book first examines the institutional
and intellectual background of governance ideas, capturing the key
features of neoliberalization in transitional China. The main body
of investigation is an interpretive analysis of governance in terms
of its normative principles and technical skills, which effectively
package the mature neoliberal vision and reality so that it
indicates the dominant ruling structure of Chinese neoliberalism.
The subsequent analysis presents a genealogical review of
governance discourse and traces its adaptation to local neoliberal
experiments. The book concludes with reflections on possible ways
of critical engagement with governance ideas and with the
intellectual aspects of neoliberalism.
This book presents the unique mechanical, electrical, and optical
properties of nanomaterials, which play an important role in the
recent advances of energy-related applications. Different
nanomaterials have been employed in energy saving, generation,
harvest, conversion, storage, and transport processes very
effectively and efficiently. Recent progress in the preparation,
characterization and usage of 1D, 2D nanomaterials and hybrid
architectures for energy-related applications and relevant
technologies and devices, such as solar cells, thermoelectronics,
piezoelectronics, solar water splitting, hydrogen
production/storage, fuel cells, batteries, and supercapacitors is
covered. Moreover, the book also highlights novel approaches in
nanomaterials design and synthesis and evaluating materials
sustainability issues. Contributions from active and leading
experts regarding important aspects like the synthesis, assembly,
and properties of nanomaterials for energy-related applications are
compiled into a reference book. As evident from the diverse topics,
the book will be very valuable to researchers working in the
intersection of physics, chemistry, biology, materials science and
engineering. It may set the standard and stimulates future
developments in this rapidly emerging fertile frontier of
nanomaterials for energy.
This book offers a critical assessment of governance ideas in the
context of Chinese neoliberalism. It argues that the Chinese
version of governance has emerged as an important discursive
practice in the articulation of the neoliberal spirit of the
national reform agenda. The book first examines the institutional
and intellectual background of governance ideas, capturing the key
features of neoliberalization in transitional China. The main body
of investigation is an interpretive analysis of governance in terms
of its normative principles and technical skills, which effectively
package the mature neoliberal vision and reality so that it
indicates the dominant ruling structure of Chinese neoliberalism.
The subsequent analysis presents a genealogical review of
governance discourse and traces its adaptation to local neoliberal
experiments. The book concludes with reflections on possible ways
of critical engagement with governance ideas and with the
intellectual aspects of neoliberalism.
In this book anisotropic one-dimensional and two-dimensional
nanoscale building blocks and their assembly into fascinating and
qualitatively new functional structures embracing both hard and
soft components are explained. Contributions from leading experts
regarding important aspects like synthesis, assembly, properties
and applications of the above materials are compiled into a
reference book. The anisotropy, i.e. the direction-dependent
physical properties, of materials is fascinating and elegant and
has sparked the quest for anisotropic materials with useful
properties. With such a curiosity, material scientists have
ventured into the realm of nanometer length scale and have explored
the anisotropic nanoscale building blocks such as metallic and
nonmetallic particles as well as organic molecular aggregates. It
turns out that the anisotropic nanoscale building blocks, in
addition to direction-dependent properties, exhibit dimension and
morphology dependence of physical properties. Moreover, ordered
arrays of anisotropic nanoscale building blocks furnish novel
properties into the resulting system which would be entirely
different from the properties of individual ones. Undoubtedly,
these promising properties have qualified them as enabling building
blocks of 21st century materials science, nanoscience and
nanotechnology. Readers will find this book professionally valuable
and intellectually stimulating in the rapidly emerging area of
anisotropic nanomaterials. Quan Li, Ph.D., is Director of the
Organic Synthesis and Advanced Materials Laboratory at the Liquid
Crystal Institute of Kent State University, where he is also
Adjunct Professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary
Program. He has directed research projects funded by US Air Force
Research Laboratory (AFRL), US Air Force Office of Scientific
Research (AFSOR), US Army Research Office (ARO), US Department of
Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (DoD
MURI), US National Science Foundation (NSF), US Department of
Energy (DOE), US National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA), Ohio Third Frontier, and Samsung Electronics, among others.
This book focuses on the exciting topic of nanoscience with liquid
crystals: from self-organized nanostructures to applications. The
elegant self-organized liquid crystalline nanostructures, the
synergetic characteristics of liquid crystals and nanoparticles,
liquid crystalline nanomaterials, synthesis of nanomaterials using
liquid crystals as templates, nanoconfinement and nanoparticles of
liquid crystals are covered and discussed, and the prospect of
fabricating functional materials is highlighted. Contributions,
collecting the scattered literature of the field from leading and
active players, are compiled to make the book a reference book.
Readers will find the book useful and of benefit both as summaries
for works in this field and as tutorials and explanations of
concepts for those just entering the field. Additionally, the book
helps to stimulate future developments.
In the wake of Shelby County v. Holder and the January 6 Capitol
insurrection, changes to election laws, policies, and especially
access to voting have become a key political battleground. A
central point of contention is whether new restrictive voting laws
intentionally discriminate against Black and Hispanic
subpopulations in the United States. Conversely, do policies that
expand voting access favor Democrats and increase the possibility
of election fraud?In The Cost of Voting in the American States,
Michael J. Pomante II, Scot Schraufnagel, and Quan Li test these
questions. The authors look specifically for systematic outcomes
produced by distinctive election policies in the American states.
First, they establish a competent measure of voting restrictions to
begin this unraveling. The authors create a Cost of Voting Index
(COVI) for the fifty states, which uses a statistical procedure to
extract an underlying dimension and to determine significance from
state laws based on how restrictive the polices are. The authors
call the underlying dimension extracted the “cost of voting.”
With this measure in place, they evaluate which states have a
higher cost of voting, how this cost impacts who votes, and whether
there is a correlation between the cost of voting and minority
populations. Using Racial Threat Theory arguments, the authors
demonstrate that states with larger or growing Black and Hispanic
populations have more restricted voting, and that these restrictive
voting laws disproportionately demobilize these populations in
predictable ways. States with a higher cost of voting also show
lower minority electoral success as well as a larger gap in Black
and female representation, and the authors reveal that decreasing
the cost of voting does not lead to fraud or favor one party over
another. The Cost of Voting in the American States makes a case for
a new preclearance formula, and the COVI provides a viable approach
for future election law.
In the wake of Shelby County v. Holder and the January 6 Capitol
insurrection, changes to election laws, policies, and especially
access to voting have become a key political battleground. A
central point of contention is whether new restrictive voting laws
intentionally discriminate against Black and Hispanic
subpopulations in the United States. Conversely, do policies that
expand voting access favor Democrats and increase the possibility
of election fraud?In The Cost of Voting in the American States,
Michael J. Pomante II, Scot Schraufnagel, and Quan Li test these
questions. The authors look specifically for systematic outcomes
produced by distinctive election policies in the American states.
First, they establish a competent measure of voting restrictions to
begin this unraveling. The authors create a Cost of Voting Index
(COVI) for the fifty states, which uses a statistical procedure to
extract an underlying dimension and to determine significance from
state laws based on how restrictive the polices are. The authors
call the underlying dimension extracted the “cost of voting.”
With this measure in place, they evaluate which states have a
higher cost of voting, how this cost impacts who votes, and whether
there is a correlation between the cost of voting and minority
populations. Using Racial Threat Theory arguments, the authors
demonstrate that states with larger or growing Black and Hispanic
populations have more restricted voting, and that these restrictive
voting laws disproportionately demobilize these populations in
predictable ways. States with a higher cost of voting also show
lower minority electoral success as well as a larger gap in Black
and female representation, and the authors reveal that decreasing
the cost of voting does not lead to fraud or favor one party over
another. The Cost of Voting in the American States makes a case for
a new preclearance formula, and the COVI provides a viable approach
for future election law.
Statistical analysis is common in the social sciences, and among
the more popular programs is R. This book provides a foundation for
undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences on how
to use R to manage, visualize, and analyze data. The focus is on
how to address substantive questions with data analysis and
replicate published findings. Using R for Data Analysis in Social
Sciences adopts a minimalist approach and covers only the most
important functions and skills in R to conduct reproducible
research. It emphasizes the practical needs of students using R by
showing how to import, inspect, and manage data, understand the
logic of statistical inference, visualize data and findings via
histograms, boxplots, scatterplots, and diagnostic plots, and
analyze data using one-sample t-test, difference-of-means test,
covariance, correlation, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression,
and model assumption diagnostics. It also demonstrates how to
replicate the findings in published journal articles and diagnose
model assumption violations. Because the book integrates R
programming, the logic and steps of statistical inference, and the
process of empirical social scientific research in a highly
accessible and structured fashion, it is appropriate for any
introductory course on R, data analysis, and empirical
social-scientific research.
REGULARIZED SEMIGROUPS AND NON-ELLIPTIC DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS
discusses the semi-group approach to non-elliptic differential
operators, which was developed in the last two decades. A detailed
introduction to the theory of regularized semigroups is provided.
And then, the authors give the applications of regularized
semigroups to non-elliptic differential operators with constant
coefficients of time-dependent coefficients, parabolic systems,
correct systems, abstract differential operators and pseudo
differential operators. They also give the very recent use of
regularized semigroups to Schrodinger operators.
In this book, Quan Li and Rafael Reuveny combine the social
scientific approach with a broad, interdisciplinary scope to
address some of the most intriguing and important political,
economic, and environmental issues of our times. Their book employs
formal and statistical methods to study the interactions of
economic globalization, democratic governance, income inequality,
economic development, military violence, and environmental
degradation. In doing so, Li and Reuveny cross multiple
disciplinary boundaries, engage various academic debates, bring the
insights from compartmentalized bodies of literature into direct
dialogue, and uncover policy tradeoffs in a growingly
interconnected political-economic-environmental system. They show
that growing interconnectedness in the global system increases the
demands on national leaders and their advisors; academicians and
policy makers will need to cross disciplinary boundaries if they
seek to better understand and address the policy tradeoffs of even
more complex processes than the ones investigated here.
In this book, Quan Li and Rafael Reuveny combine the social
scientific approach with a broad, interdisciplinary scope to
address some of the most intriguing and important political,
economic, and environmental issues of our times. Their book employs
formal and statistical methods to study the interactions of
economic globalization, democratic governance, income inequality,
economic development, military violence, and environmental
degradation. In doing so, Li and Reuveny cross multiple
disciplinary boundaries, engage various academic debates, bring the
insights from compartmentalized bodies of literature into direct
dialogue, and uncover policy tradeoffs in a growingly
interconnected political-economic-environmental system. They show
that growing interconnectedness in the global system increases the
demands on national leaders and their advisors; academicians and
policy makers will need to cross disciplinary boundaries if they
seek to better understand and address the policy tradeoffs of even
more complex processes than the ones investigated here.
For decades, free trade was advocated as the vehicle for peace,
prosperity, and democracy in an increasingly globalized market.
More recently, the proliferation of foreign direct investment has
raised questions about its impact upon local economies and
politics. Here, seven scholars bring together their wide-ranging
expertise to investigate the factors that determine the
attractiveness of a locale to investors and the extent of their
political power. Multinational corporations prefer to invest where
legal and political institutions support the rule of law,
protections for property rights, and democratic processes.
Corporate influence on local institutions, in turn, depends upon
the relative power of other players and the types of policies at
issue.
For decades, free trade was advocated as the vehicle for peace,
prosperity, and democracy in an increasingly globalized market.
More recently, the proliferation of foreign direct investment has
raised questions about its impact upon local economies and
politics. Here, seven scholars bring together their wide-ranging
expertise to investigate the factors that determine the
attractiveness of a locale to investors and the extent of their
political power. Multinational corporations prefer to invest where
legal and political institutions support the rule of law,
protections for property rights, and democratic processes.
Corporate influence on local institutions, in turn, depends upon
the relative power of other players and the types of policies at
issue.
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