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China’s emergence as an aid donor in Africa has caught global
attention, with China’s activity being viewed as the projection
of soft power of a neo-colonialist kind in an international
relations context. This book, which focuses on China’s education
aid - government scholarships, training, Confucius Institutes,
dispatched teachers, etc. – reveals a much more complicated
picture. It outlines how the divide between the Chinese Ministry of
Commerce and the Ministry of Education hinders China’s soft power
projection, how much of China’s aid is bound up with an
education-for-economic-growth outlook, mirroring China’s own
recent experiences of economic development, and how China’s aid,
prioritized to reflect the commercial sector’s interests, is out
of step with most international development aid, which is dominated
by education agendas and the campaigns of international
organizations and traditional donors, which leaves China easily
exposed to the charge of neo-colonialism. It emphasizes the
international development cooperation architecture as an open
system by which both traditional donors and Southern countries
transform.
This book focuses on the synthesis of lower-mobility parallel
manipulators, presenting a group-theory-based method that has the
advantage of being geometrically intrinsic. Rotations and
translations of a rigid body as well as a combination of the two
can be expressed and handled elegantly using the group algebraic
structure of the set of rigid-body displacements. The book gathers
the authors' research results, which were previously scattered in
various journals and conference proceedings, presenting them in a
unified form. Using the presented method, it reveals numerous novel
architectures of lower-mobility parallel manipulators, which are of
interest to those in the robotics community. More importantly,
readers can use the method and tool to develop new types of
lower-mobility parallel manipulators independently.
This book focuses on the synthesis of lower-mobility parallel
manipulators, presenting a group-theory-based method that has the
advantage of being geometrically intrinsic. Rotations and
translations of a rigid body as well as a combination of the two
can be expressed and handled elegantly using the group algebraic
structure of the set of rigid-body displacements. The book gathers
the authors' research results, which were previously scattered in
various journals and conference proceedings, presenting them in a
unified form. Using the presented method, it reveals numerous novel
architectures of lower-mobility parallel manipulators, which are of
interest to those in the robotics community. More importantly,
readers can use the method and tool to develop new types of
lower-mobility parallel manipulators independently.
This book includes keynote presentations, invited speeches, and
general session papers presented at the 7th International Symposium
on Environmental Vibration and Transportation Geodynamics (formerly
the International Symposium on Environmental Vibration), held from
October 28 to 30, 2016 at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. It
discusses topics such as the dynamic and cyclic behaviors of soils,
dynamic interaction of vehicle and transportation infrastructure;
traffic-induced structure and soil vibrations and wave propagation;
soil-structure dynamic interaction problems in transportation;
environmental vibration analysis and testing; vehicle, machine and
human-induced vibrations; monitoring, evaluation and control of
traffic induced vibrations; transportation foundation deformation
and deterioration induced by vibration; structural safety and
serviceability of railways, metros, roadways and bridges; and
application of geosynthetics in transportation infrastructure. It
is a valuable resource for government managers, scientific
researchers, and engineering professionals engaged in the field of
geotechnical and transportation engineering.
This book includes keynote presentations, invited speeches, and
general session papers presented at the 7th International Symposium
on Environmental Vibration and Transportation Geodynamics (formerly
the International Symposium on Environmental Vibration), held from
October 28 to 30, 2016 at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. It
discusses topics such as the dynamic and cyclic behaviors of soils,
dynamic interaction of vehicle and transportation infrastructure;
traffic-induced structure and soil vibrations and wave propagation;
soil-structure dynamic interaction problems in transportation;
environmental vibration analysis and testing; vehicle, machine and
human-induced vibrations; monitoring, evaluation and control of
traffic induced vibrations; transportation foundation deformation
and deterioration induced by vibration; structural safety and
serviceability of railways, metros, roadways and bridges; and
application of geosynthetics in transportation infrastructure. It
is a valuable resource for government managers, scientific
researchers, and engineering professionals engaged in the field of
geotechnical and transportation engineering.
This book contains the papers included in the proceedings of the
1st International Workshop on High-speed and Intercity Railways
(IWHIR 2011) held in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, China from July 19 to
July 22, 2011, which is organized by The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, in collaboration with Southwest Jiaotong University,
Beijing Jiaotong University, Dalian Jiaotong University, China
Engineering Consultants, Inc., Zhejiang University, and Tsinghua
University. Continuing the great initiatives and momentums of the
rapid development in high-speed and intercity railways worldwide in
recent years, IWHIR 2011 aims at providing a platform for academic
scholars and practicing engineers to share knowledge and
experience, to promote collaboration, and to strengthen R&D
activities related to railway engineering. Engineers, scientists,
professors, and students from universities, research institutes,
and related industrial companies have been cordially invited to
participate in the workshop. These papers have covered a wide range
of issues concerning high-speed and intercity railways in the
theoretical, numerical, and experimental work pertaining to
high-speed and intercity railways. Showcasing diversity and
quality, these papers report the state-of-the-art and point to
future directions of research and development in this exciting
area.
This book contains the papers included in the proceedings of the
1st International Workshop on High-speed and Intercity Railways
(IWHIR 2011) held in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, China from July 19 to
July 22, 2011, which is organized by The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, in collaboration with Southwest Jiaotong University,
Beijing Jiaotong University, Dalian Jiaotong University, China
Engineering Consultants, Inc., Zhejiang University, and Tsinghua
University. Continuing the great initiatives and momentums of the
rapid development in high-speed and intercity railways worldwide in
recent years, IWHIR 2011 aims at providing a platform for academic
scholars and practicing engineers to share knowledge and
experience, to promote collaboration, and to strengthen R&D
activities related to railway engineering. Engineers, scientists,
professors, and students from universities, research institutes,
and related industrial companies have been cordially invited to
participate in the workshop. These papers have covered a wide range
of issues concerning high-speed and intercity railways in the
theoretical, numerical, and experimental work pertaining to
high-speed and intercity railways. Showcasing diversity and
quality, these papers report the state-of-the-art and point to
future directions of research and development in this exciting
area.
This book contains the papers included in the proceedings of the
1st International Workshop on High-speed and Intercity Railways
(IWHIR 2011) held in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, China from July 19 to
July 22, 2011, which is organized by The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, in collaboration with Southwest Jiaotong University,
Beijing Jiaotong University, Dalian Jiaotong University, China
Engineering Consultants, Inc., Zhejiang University, and Tsinghua
University. Continuing the great initiatives and momentums of the
rapid development in high-speed and intercity railways worldwide in
recent years, IWHIR 2011 aims at providing a platform for academic
scholars and practicing engineers to share knowledge and
experience, to promote collaboration, and to strengthen R&D
activities related to railway engineering. Engineers, scientists,
professors, and students from universities, research institutes,
and related industrial companies have been cordially invited to
participate in the workshop. These papers have covered a wide range
of issues concerning high-speed and intercity railways in the
theoretical, numerical, and experimental work pertaining to
high-speed and intercity railways. Showcasing diversity and
quality, these papers report the state-of-the-art and point to
future directions of research and development in this exciting
area.
This book contains the papers included in the proceedings of the
1st International Workshop on High-speed and Intercity Railways
(IWHIR 2011) held in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, China from July 19 to
July 22, 2011, which is organized by The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, in collaboration with Southwest Jiaotong University,
Beijing Jiaotong University, Dalian Jiaotong University, China
Engineering Consultants, Inc., Zhejiang University, and Tsinghua
University. Continuing the great initiatives and momentums of the
rapid development in high-speed and intercity railways worldwide in
recent years, IWHIR 2011 aims at providing a platform for academic
scholars and practicing engineers to share knowledge and
experience, to promote collaboration, and to strengthen R&D
activities related to railway engineering. Engineers, scientists,
professors, and students from universities, research institutes,
and related industrial companies have been cordially invited to
participate in the workshop. These papers have covered a wide range
of issues concerning high-speed and intercity railways in the
theoretical, numerical, and experimental work pertaining to
high-speed and intercity railways. Showcasing diversity and
quality, these papers report the state-of-the-art and point to
future directions of research and development in this exciting
area.
The book provides a thorough overview of recent developments in the
design of AI systems and their uses in a range of industries,
including education, technology, and bioinformatics. The papers in
the proceedings were presented at the Sixth International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Medical Engineering, and
Education (AIMEE2022), which took place in Wuhan, China, from
August 19 to 21, 2022. The book underlines the need for the
intensification of training of an increasing number of appropriate
specialists given the rapid growth of AI systems. In order to
replicate human and other species' natural intelligence in digital
AI systems, the researchers have been studying genetics and
inherited biological processes in-depth. These studies offer fresh
ideas for developing ever more powerful AI techniques. The featured
articles cover a variety of themes in the fields of mathematics and
biomathematics, medical approaches, technical and educational
approaches, and medical approaches. The book is a compilation of
recent academic papers in the discipline, covering a wide range of
topics that are important to both business managers and engineers.
This proceedings is a fantastic resource for asset management
practitioners, researchers, and academics, as well as undergraduate
and graduate students who are interested in AI, bioinformatics
systems, and their developing applications. This is due to the
breadth and depth of the proceedings. Experts, students, and other
people who are interested in learning about how AI systems might be
used in the future are the target audience.
In this book the author explores the work and living experiences of
Confucius Institute Chinese teachers (CICTs) in the UK, how they
interpret and make sense of their sojourning experience, and how
this context and the wider globalised social environment have
impacted on their understandings and their personal growth. Because
of their betwixt and between situation, the CICTs' stories differ
from those of other immigrants, international students and
pre-service student teachers, who have been the main focus in L2
identity research. The book offers new insights into the Confucius
Institutes (CI) with real life stories from teachers drawn from
blogs, interviews and focus groups, drawing attention in the
process to weaknesses of the CI programme and offering suggestions
for ways forward which will be of interest to both stakeholders and
those responsible for future international exchange programmes.
In the past decades, drug metabolizing enzymes (DME) and their role
in drug interaction have been intensively investigated. Apart from
DME, transporters are also involved in the absorption,
distribution, and excretion of drugs; this implies that
(pharmacokinetic) drug interactions may be mediated by transporters
as well. However a less systematic approach is used for
transporter-related drug elimination and interactions. This can be
attributed to the fact that preclinical model systems to study
transporter-based drug interactions differ from those typically
used for metabolism- based interactions. In addition specific
inhibitors and substrates are often lacking for transporters. In
this research, we focused on characterizing a fluorescent
transporter substrate (fluorescent bile salt analogue) with respect
to its in vitro hepatobiliary disposition in various in vitro
models. In addition, the utility of this probe substrate for
assessment of hepatic transporter mediated drug interactions by
using HIV Protease inhibitor as model interacting compounds was
also investigated.
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