Zhao: 223 books
World Century Compendium to TCM
Volume 2: Introduction to Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The 21st century is the start of an era where people are beginning to look at health and medical care from a different perspective. Understanding the conventional pattern of medical treatment alone has ceased to meet the ever-growing demands of social development, and hence, the trend of exploiting...
by Bai-Yun Zeng, Kaicun Zhao, Fan-rong Liang
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This book summarises the recent development in acupuncture research and in particular, the neurobiology of acupuncture. It provides a focus but a diverse range of subjects covering many body systems. The first a few chapters discuss the basic principles of acupuncture, then its modulatory effects...
by Xiaoyang Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Stem cells have the ability to differentiate into all types of cells within the body, thus have great therapeutic potential for regenerative medicine to treat complicated disorders, like Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injury. There will also be many applications in drug development. However,...
The China Continental Scientific Drilling Project
CCSD-1 Well Drilling Engineering and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
This book comprehensively introduces the drilling theory and practice behind CCSD-1 well drilling, the first stage of a key national scientific engineering project of China. In addition to access to variety of data and information accumulated decade during the project’s decade-long operation, readers...
Second Language Creative Writers
Identities and Writing Processes
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
This monograph investigates 15 L2 creative writers’ social constructive power in identity constructions. Through interviews and think-aloud story writing sessions, the central study considers how L2 writer voices are mediated by the writers’ autobiographical identities, namely, their sense of...
by Jinsong Han, Wei Xi, Kun Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
This SpringerBrief examines the use of cheap commercial passive RFID tags to achieve accurate device-free object-tracking. It presents a sensitive detector, named Twins, which uses a pair of adjacent passive tags to detect uncooperative targets (such as intruders). Twins leverages a newly observed...
Harmonic Balance Finite Element Method
Applications in Nonlinear Electromagnetics and Power Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The first book applying HBFEM to practical electronic nonlinear field and circuit problems
• Examines and solves wide aspects of practical electrical and electronic nonlinear field and circuit problems presented by HBFEM
• Combines the latest research work with essential background knowledge,...
Miktoarm Star Polymers
From Basics of Branched Architecture to Synthesis, Self-assembly and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
The term ‘miktoarm polymers’ refers to asymmetric branched macromolecules, a relatively new entry to the macromolecular field. Recent advances in their synthesis and intriguing supramolecular chemistry in a desired medium has seen a fast expansion of their applications. The composition of miktoarm...
Debating Political Reform in China: Rule of Law vs. Democratization
Rule of Law vs. Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The growing disconnect between China's market-oriented economy with its emerging civil society, and the brittle, anacronistic, and authoritarian state has given rise to intense discussion and debate about political reform, not only by Western observers, but also among Chinese intellectuals. While...
by Guochun Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
The North China Craton is one of the oldest cratonic blocks in the world, containing rocks as old as 3.85 billion years. Focusing on Neoarchean mantle plumes and Paleoproterozoic plate tectonics, this book combines the results from modern geological research to provide you with a detailed synthesis...
by Prof. Min Shi, Dr. Yin Wei, Dr. Mei-Xin Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A comprehensive resource to the development and recent progress of zwitterion-oriented cycloadditions promoted by organoamines, organophosphines, N-heterocyclic carbenes
Organocatalytic Cycloadditions for Synthesis of Carbo- and Heterocycles offers a clear explanationto thedevelopment of and...
Packet-Based Control for Networked Control Systems
A Co-Design Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book introduces a unique, packet-based co-design control framework for networked control systems. It begins by providing a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art research on networked control systems, giving readers a general overview of the field. It then verifies the proposed control framework...
High Performance Computing and the Discrete Element Model
Opportunity and Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
This book addresses the high performance computing of the Discrete Element Model (DEM). It is a comprehensive presentation of parallel implementation of the DEM on three popular parallel computing platforms; the multi-core PC, the GPU computer, and the cluster supercomputer. Featuring accompanying...
Surface Wetting
Characterization, Contact Angle, and Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
This book describes wetting fundamentals and reviews the standard protocol for contact angle measurements. The authors include a brief overview of applications of contact angle measurements in surface science and engineering. They also discuss recent advances and research trends in wetting fundamentals and include measurement techniques and data interpretation of contract angles.