Presents an account of social policy initiatives in China. This book assesses the social impact brought about by the market-oriented changes in China's social policies, and contests the idea whether market-oriented development can result in a more sustainable society.

In diamond, a statement can be true yet false; an 'imaginary' state, midway between being and non-being. Diamond's imaginary values solve many logical paradoxes unsolvable in two-valued boolean logic. This title deals with 'diamond', a logic of paradox. It resolves paradoxes by Russell, Cantor, Berry and Zeno.

A study of the rapid emergence of active financial markets in a number of developing and transition countries. The papers address issues such as restructuring pension systems, organizing new equity markets, designing financial systems to deal with systemic risk, and dealing with bad debts.

This handbook considers applications of graph grammars and computing by graph transformations to functional languages, visual and object-oriented languages, software engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical process engineering and images.

Intelligent materials are emerging composite materials that have boomed since the 1990s. This book gives a complementary introduction about biomimic intelligent micro/nanoscale interfacial materials, devoting largely to the intelligent materials with special wettabilities.

MURA was responsible for a number of important contributions to the science of particle accelerators, including the invention of fixed field alternating gradient accelerators (FFAG). This title presents a history of the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA) during its lifetime from the early 1950s to the late 1960s.

An introduction to the concepts and main tools for characterization of deterministic chaotic systems, with emphasis to statistical approaches. It focuses on more advanced topics including the characterization of chaos with tools of information theory and applications encompassing fluid and celestial mechanics, chemistry and biology.

Designed for experimentalists, who study the dynamics of thin film growth using diffraction techniques, and for theorists, who wish to learn such a dynamic behaviour in Fourier space, this book aims to bring the reader to the forefront of research in the area of the dynamics of interface growth.

An analysis of Chinese social security reforms. It addresses issues such as what kind of social security system China should establish, how this system should be managed and financed, and how the transition from the old system to the new system can best be accomplished.

The papers in this work are representitive of the traditional topics of the 4th International Workshop on Parallel Image Analysis, from theoretical models for parallel analysis to real life applications implemented on parallel multicomputers.

This volume collects the articles presented at the third international conference on The Navier-Stokes Equations: Theory and Numerical Methods , held in Oberwolfach, Germany. The articles cover such topics as general boundary conditions, flow exterior to an obstacle, and conical boundary points.

This text explores a method for symbolically interpreting images based upon a parallel implementation of a network-of-frames suggested, for example, by Minsky (1975), to describe intelligent processing.

This text introduces the U-transformation method, used for the exact analysis of structures with the periodic property. The physical meaning of U-transformation is fully explained and the application of this technique to derive exact analytical solutions is thoroughly illustrated.

Offers the opportunity for the layman or new student to study seven areas at the research frontiers of modern physics - lasers, superconductivity, symmetries, chaos, the evolution of stars, elementary particles and cosmology.