Yuan Yuan: 248 books
Rethinking Financial Deepening
Stability and Growth in Emerging Markets
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
The global financial crisis experience shone a spotlight on the dangers of financial systems that have grown too big too fast. This note reexamines financial deepening, focusing on what emerging markets can learn from the advanced economy experience. It finds that gains for growth and stability from...
by Luis M. Mr. Cubeddu, Alexander Mr. Culiuc, Ghada Ms. Fayad
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now lower than the post-crisis peak of 2010-11, as well as the rates seen in the decade before the crisis....
Reliability Assurance of Big Data in the Cloud
Cost-Effective Replication-Based Storage
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
With the rapid growth of Cloud computing, the size of Cloud data is expanding at a dramatic speed. A huge amount of data is generated and processed by Cloud applications, putting a higher demand on cloud storage. While data reliability should already be a requirement, data in the Cloud needs to be...
China’s Grain for Green Program
A Review of the Largest Ecological Restoration and Rural Development Program in the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive review of Grain for Green, China’s nationwide program which pays farmers to revert sloping or marginal farm land to trees or grass. The program aims to improve the ecological conditions of much of China, and the socioeconomic circumstances of hundreds of millions...
Electronic States in Crystals of Finite Size
Quantum Confinement of Bloch Waves
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book presents an analytical theory of the electronic states in ideal low dimensional systems and finite crystals based on a differential equation theory approach. It provides precise and fundamental understandings on the electronic states in ideal low-dimensional systems and finite crystals,...
by Alex Monceaux, Olga Muranova, R.A. Sri Sugyaningsih
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The Fourth Estate supports TexTESOL IV mission by promote scholarship; sharing information through publication and research, and promote high standards in the field of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). VISION: The Fourth Estate seeks to facilitate this purpose in each publication by providing...
The Party Empire
Saga of a Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
All peoples have their share of brutal rulers. The longer their history, the more numerous such notorious rulers they have inevitably witnessed, and the greater the diversity of their pitiless behavior. Chinas encounter with such ordeals began in antiquity and continues into the modern era.
A Pain in the Toenails
Excerpt from The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales from the Emergency Room
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Ah, the innocence of medical school. This is a story from my third year of clinical clerkship, when I started rotating through the hospital wards, starting with internal medicine. I was matched to the gastrointestinal team, so I can recite the bacterial causes of bloody diarrhea to this day. One...
by Sanjay Goel, Yuan Hong, Vagelis Papakonstantinou
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
This book on smart grid security is meant for a broad audience from managers to technical experts. It highlights security challenges that are faced in the smart grid as we widely deploy it across the landscape. It starts with a brief overview of the smart grid and then discusses some of the reported...
by Jianhai Bao, George Yin, Chenggui Yuan
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
This brief treats dynamical systems that involve delays and random disturbances. The study is motivated by a wide variety of systems in real life in which random noise has to be taken into consideration and the effect of delays cannot be ignored. Concentrating on such systems that are described by...
by Charles F. Dunkl, Yuan Xu
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Serving both as an introduction to the subject and as a reference, this book presents the theory in elegant form and with modern concepts and notation. It covers the general theory and emphasizes the classical types of orthogonal polynomials whose weight functions are supported on standard domains....
by Yuan-Jen Chiang
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds were first established by James Eells and Joseph H. Sampson in 1964. Wave maps are harmonic maps on Minkowski spaces and have been studied since the 1990s. Yang-Mills fields, the critical points of Yang-Mills functionals of connections whose curvature tensors...
Microbial Biotechnology
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
The rapidly expanding molecular biological techniques and approaches have significant impact on microbial biotechnology, hence the need for the addition of four new chapters in the third edition of this textbook — “Chapter 3: Application of ‘Omics’ Technologies in Microbial Fermentation”,...
The Littlest Caregiver
Excerpt From The Unfeeling Doctor, Unplugged
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A doctor asked on Twitter, "What's one thing you wished you knew when you had to look after one of your own family members?"
I needed over 1000 words to respond, although my 140 character-answer is this: I wish I'd known better how to just sit still, or at least act normally, with...