In this book, Yi Feng combines political and economic analyses to study the effects of political institutions on economic performance. Traditionally, political scientists disregard details of economic conditions, while economists may not take into consideration a systematic explanation of political regimes. The growing interest in the interplay of political and economic systems, spurred by the …
In this work, leading economists analyse topical issues in pension policy, including strucural reform of pay-as-you-go systems, the political sustainability of pension reforms, and the need for private, funded systems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Volume ini berisi prosiding Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2015) ke-13 yang diadakan di Pohang, Korea, dari tanggal 30 November hingga 2 Desember 2015. APLAS bertujuan untuk merangsang penelitian bahasa pemrograman dengan menyediakan forum untuk presentasi hasil terbaru dan pertukaran ide dalam bahasa dan sistem pemrograman. APLAS berbasis di Asia, tetapi merupakan …
This book addresses the fundamental concepts in the theory and practice of visual cryptography. The design, construction, analysis, and application of visual cryptography schemes (VCSs) are discussed in detail. Original, cutting-edge research is presented on probabilistic, size invariant, threshold, concolorous, and cheating immune VCS. This updated second edition has also been expanded with ne…
Merangkum berbagai aspek kontrol dan dukungan teknologi proses yang muncul yang diwakili oleh peleburan dan penumpukan laser. Berbagi banyak tip dan wawasan tentang pengoptimalan dan simulasi robotika. Mencakup topik hangat di industri yang sedang berkembang: kehidupan yang berkelanjutan dan cerdas. -> Konferensi Internasional tentang Teknik Elektro dan Kontrol Otomatis adalah acara penting yan…
This book presents the index and query techniques on road network and moving objects which are limited to road network. Here, the road network of non-Euclidean space has its unique characteristics such that two moving objects may be very close in a straight line distance. The index used in two-dimensional Euclidean space is not always appropriate for moving objects on road network. Therefore, t…
This open access book focuses on robot introspection, which has a direct impact on physical human–robot interaction and long-term autonomy, and which can benefit from autonomous anomaly monitoring and diagnosis, as well as anomaly recovery strategies. In robotics, the ability to reason, solve their own anomalies and proactively enrich owned knowledge is a direct way to improve autonomous beha…
This open access book is unique in presenting the first oral history of individuals with an intellectual disability and their families in China. In this summary volume and the two accompanying volumes that follow, individuals with an intellectual disability tell their life stories, while their family members, teachers, classmates, and co-workers describe their professional, academic, and family…
This book examines language policies and practices in schools in regions of China populated by indigenous minority groups. It focuses on models of trilingual education, i.e. education in the home language, Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese, the national language), and English (the main foreign language). Special attention is given to the study of the vitality of the minority home language in each reg…
This book offers a systematic introduction to the engineering principles and techniques of cavitation in biomedicine on the basis of its physics and mechanism. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it covers areas of interest ranging from physics and engineering to the biological and medical sciences. Individual chapters introduce the fundamentals of cavitation, describe its characterization,…