Seeking renewable and clean energies is essential for releasing the heavy reliance on mineral-based energy and remedying the threat of global warming to our environment. In the last decade, explosive growth in research and development efforts devoted to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technolo[...]
Offering a comprehensive framework to support the lifecycle of time-constrained workflow applications, this book enhances the overall performance and usability of scientific cloud workflow systems. It explains how to reduce the cost to detect and handle temporal violations while delivering high qual[...]
This is the anticipated follow-up to the author s previous work, The Mind Inside Tai Chi (YMAA, 2015). In this edition he turns his attention to Yang style, guiding you through the 22-step form with an eye for detail and a love of nuance. Tai chi is born from wuji, a state of emptiness, Zhuang write[...]
Is this a man's world? Bright, bold pictograms from Yang Liu revisit the roles, relationships and age-old cliches of male and female experience. Imagine a setting in which a man wearing a dress might be as habitual as a woman in trousers. Where a woman exposing herself in public wasn't sexy, but as [...]
In the last two decades, expanding China's urban labor market has gone through a dynamic job creation and destruction, and large- scale rural-urban immigration. The marketization since early 1980s has made great progress in the transition to a real labor market. The author offers a novel analysis of[...]