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31. Age-Period-Cohort Analysis

    New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications

    By Yang Yang, Kenneth C. Land

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Interdisciplinary Statistics

    Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications is based on a decade of the authors’ collaborative work in age-period-cohort (APC) analysis. Within a single, consistent HAPC-GLMM statistical modeling framework, the authors synthesize APC models and methods for three...

    Published February 24th 2013 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
32. Recycling and Reuse of Materials and Their Products

    Edited by Yves Grohens, S. Kishor Kumar, Abderrahim Boudenne, Yang Weimin

    Series: Advances in Materials Science

    This important book is an overall analysis of different innovative methods and ways of recycling in connection with various types of materials. It aims to provide a basic understanding about polymer recycling and its reuse as well as presents an in-depth look at various recycling methods. It...

    Published January 22nd 2013 by Apple Academic Press
33. Advances in Mapping from Remote Sensor Imagery

    Techniques and Applications

    Edited by Xiaojun Yang, Jonathan Li

    Advances in Mapping from Remote Sensor Imagery: Techniques and Applications reviews some of the latest developments in remote sensing and information extraction techniques applicable to topographic and thematic mapping. Providing an interdisciplinary perspective, leading experts from around the...

    Published December 11th 2012 by CRC Press
34. Producer Services in China

    Economic and Urban Development

    Edited by Anthony Yeh, Fiona Yang

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    In the past three decades, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of economic and urban development. It’s economy is now transforming from one based on manufacturing industries towards the producer services, with the importance of these services in the national and regional economy being...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
35. Handbook on Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing

    Status and Perspective

    Edited by Laurence T. Yang, Evi Syukur, Seng W. Loke

    Consolidating recent research in the area, the Handbook on Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing: Status and Perspective illustrates the design, implementation, and deployment of mobile and ubiquitous systems, particularly in mobile and ubiquitous environments, modeling, database components, and wireless...

    Published October 18th 2012 by CRC Press
36. Eco-Cities

    A Planning Guide

    Edited by Zhifeng Yang

    Series: Applied Ecology and Environmental Management

    As cities undergo vast changes due to industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, environmental considerations assume a growing importance in the urban planning processes of an increasing number of governments around the world. Several cities and regions around the world have already...

    Published October 14th 2012 by CRC Press
37. China in UN Security Council Decision-Making on Iraq

    Conflicting Understandings, Competing Preferences

    By Suzanne Xiao Yang

    Series: New International Relations

    With the rupture of the UN Security Council in March 2003 over the US spearheaded intervention in Iraq, the attempts made to subject the use of force to the rule of law had failed. Widespread Europe-US disagreement of the role of the UNSC has hindered more effective decisions for China and its...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
38. Multinationals and Asia

    Organizational and Institutional Relationships

    Edited by Axele Giroud, Deli Yang, Alex Mohr

    Series: Routledge International Business in Asia

    Adopting an international business perspective, this book surveys recent business developments in Asia, and the activities of multinational firms in the region, focusing in particular on the changing nature of organizational and institutional relationships, including intra- and inter-...

    Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
39. Rare Earth Nanotechnology

    Edited by Timothy Tan Thatt Yang

    This book provides in-depth aspects of nanotechnology of rare earth (RE) materials. It starts with a review on the physical and chemical properties of RE elements, followed by a discussion on various strategies in fabricating nanosized RE materials. It describes various techniques in derivatizing...

    Published June 19th 2012 by Pan Stanford Publishing
40. China's Post-Reform Economy - Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth

    Edited by Richard Sanders, Chen Yang

    Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

    China has enjoyed heroic growth rates in the last twenty five years of reform and transition, pulling more people out of poverty more quickly than at any other time in human history. Nonetheless these successes have had costs: today China is faced with increasing environmental difficulties and...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge