This open access journal focuses on strategic issues related to China's role in global affairs, highlighting the Chinese perspective on strategic issues with policy concerns.

Our self-contained volume provides an accessible introduction to linear and multilinear algebra as well as tensor calculus. Besides the standard techniques for linear algebra, multilinear algebra and ...

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science and a discipline in the study of machine intelligence, that is, developing intelligent machines or intelligent systems imitating, extending and ...

This highly unusual book began as a serious inquiry into Schrödinger's question, “What is life?”, and as a celebration of life itself. It takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through many areas ...

In the first book of its kind, this volume addresses the problem of the future cooling energy demand, the global frame defining the actual and future cooling energy consumption in the building sect ...

Kei KOGA is Assistant Professor at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme in School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Figurate numbers have a rich history with many applications. The main purpose of this book is to provide a thorough and complete presentation of the theory of figurate numbers, giving much of their ...

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Karadeniz Technical University, Kanuni Campus, 61080 Trabzon, Turkey ...

Based on undergraduate teaching to students in computer science, economics and mathematics at Aarhus University, this is an elementary introduction to convex sets and convex functions with emphasis on ...

The research reported here presents the results of an experimental investigation of the adsorption performance of different combinations of activated carbon and multi-walled carbon nanotubes mixtures ...

Fractional Calculus and Waves in Linear Viscoelasticity (Second Edition) is a self-contained treatment of the mathematical theory of linear (uni-axial) viscoelasticity (constitutive equation and waves ...

School of Civil Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, 13 Yanta Road, Beilin District, Xi’an 710055, P. R. China Shaanxi Key laboratory of Geotechnical and Underground Space ...