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.

This book is about managing the infrastructure development cycle from project initiation to the end of the operation and maintenance phase. It focuses on the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) contract ...

This book describes a novel and unique approach to the treatment of human diseases based on the study of natural animal models. A natural animal model is defined as ...

Alumni Work Office, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou 213000, Jiangsu, China ...

This paper is concerned with a vegetation-water model with cross-diffusion and intra-plant competitive feedback under Neumann boundary conditions. First, we found that the equilibrium with small ve ...

Abstract: We overview major topics on manifolds with positive scalar curvatures and also with specific, positive or negative, lower bounds on their scalar curvatures. The first two chapters and the ...

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 ...

Zhang Xinping is Professor at the School of Marxism, Lanzhou University.

Founded in 1985 by Jean-Claude Falmagne and Jean-Paul Doignon, Knowledge Structure Theory (KST) constitutes a rigorous and current mathematical theory for the representation and the assessment of ...

IJSSD is a forum for research on stability and dynamics of land-based structures, aerospace structures, marine structures, as well as biostructures and micro- and nano-structures ...

Post-war Europe and Asia have seen the rapid development of German and Japan from a war torn countries into two of the most powerful nations in the world. Their achievement is nothing short of ...

The book presents a set of novel, efficient and systematic concurrent multiscale optimization methods by considering the distribution of the material in macro-scale and the unit-cell configuration ...