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Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese
Corpus Linguistic Contrastive Semantic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Winner of the Tianjin Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award.
This book reports on the contrastive-semantic investigation of sadness expressions between English and Chinese, based on two monolingual general corpora and a parallel corpus. The exploration adopts a unique theoretical approach...
A Comparative Study of Wh-Words in Chinese Efl Textbooks, Elicited Native and Non-Native Speaker Data and Written Native and Non-Native Speaker Corpora
A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School of Humanities of the University of Birmingham for the Degree of Doctor of Philosopy
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
This study presents a corpus-based analysis of the use of wh sentences by language learners, in language textbooks and in authentic written discourse. It focuses on the polysemeous nature of wh words, which can be used as interrogatives, declaratives and to introduce subordinate clauses. The analysis...
by Runhan Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This book investigates several important issues revolving around the psycholinguistic modelling of language proficiency in terms of L2 linguistic knowledge, which is a topic of considerable interest and importance in SLA theories and language testing practice. Four tests including the Elicited Imitation...
Economic Reforms and Fertility Behaviour
A Study of a Northern Chinese Village
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Based on an intensive fieldwork in a southern Hebei village in northern China (1992/3), the author takes an institutional approach and focuses on the way deliberate Chinese state policies driven by new economic and social agendas since the late 1970s have impacted on marriage, family relations and...
Human Dignity in Classical Chinese Philosophy
Confucianism, Mohism, and Daoism
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This book reinterprets classical Chinese philosophical tradition along the conceptual line of human dignity. Through extensive textual evidence, it illustrates that classical Confucianism, Mohism and Daoism contained rich notions of dignity, which laid the foundation for human rights and political...
by Lulu ZHANG, Wenya YU
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
The book is unique in that it covers many works on trauma occurrence and evolution and the massive casualty emergency medical system. The objectives of this book are obtaining traceable background data regarding trauma and massive casualty in megalopolises of China, and constructing a model of a large-scale...
by Ren Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2005
As with many other languages, Mandarin Chinese exhibits a rich variety of ways in expressing the arguments of the predicator in a sentence. Unlike other languages, such variation is typically devoid of any formal marking. Previous attempts in explaining such phenomena usually focus on the syntax as...
by Ling Qin Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
You are a seed planted by God, within it is a sleeping giant, your fullest in life. However, you usually do not know until you earnestly make a calling to Him and constantly send twitters to Him. He will answer you at his time and reveal the secret of your life. Once you get the secret, you gain a...
Chinmedomics
The Integration of Serum Pharmacochemistry and Metabolomics to Elucidate the Scientific Value of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Chinmedomics: The Integration of Serum Pharmacochemistry and Metabolomics to Elucidate the Scientific Value of Traditional Chinese Medicine uses new experimental techniques and research to open doors in drug discovery and development related to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This book features...
The World Scientific Encyclopedia of Nanomedicine and Bioengineering I
Nanotechnology for Translational Medicine: Tissue Engineering, Biological Sensing, Medical Imaging, and Therapeutics(A 4-Volume Set)
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This two-part multivolume set provides a comprehensive overview of current achievements in biomedical applications of nanotechnology, including stem cell based regenerative medicine, medical imaging, cell targeting, drug delivery, and photothermal/photodynamic cancer therapy. New approaches in early...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 1
Breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Soybeans are one of the most widely-grown crops in the world. As the world’s main source of vegetable protein, they have a wide range of food and non-food uses. Current yields need to increase significantly to meet growing demand but in a way that reduces input use, does not damage the environment...
by Xi-Cheng Zhang, Jingzhou Xu
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Terahertz (THz) radiation, which is electromagnetic radiation in a frequency int- val from 0.3 to 10 THz (1 mm–30 ?m wavelength), is the next frontier in science and technology. This band occupies a large portion of the electromagnetic sp- trum between the infrared and microwave bands. Basic research,...
by Dickson Ozokwelu, Suojiang Zhang, Obiefuna Okafor
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Novel Catalytic and Separation Process Based on Ionic Liquids presents the latest progress on the use of ionic liquids (ILs) in catalytic and separation processes. The book discusses the preparation of ILs, the characterization of IL catalysts by spectroscopic techniques, catalytic reactions over...
by Yanpeng Zhang, Feng Wen, Min Xiao
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Multi-wave mixing gives rise to new frequency components due to the interaction of light signals with a suitable nonlinear medium. In this book a systematic framework for the control of these processes is used to lead readers through a plethora of related effects and techniques.