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This book explains China's intellectual property perspective in the context of European theories, through a critical examination of intellectual property theory and practice focused on China's compliance with the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).

This research draws upon knowledge from many research fields - such as materials science, beam physics, the physics of radiation, solid state physics and acoustics, to name but a few.

This unique book details advanced techniques in lipoplasty and autologous fat grafting for high-definition body sculpting. The book will provide a fascinating insight into the art and practice of high-definition body sculpting for all surgeons who perform lipoplasty and body contouring techniques.

This work investigates the development of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' generic competence in reading, writing and translation within the particular Chinese classroom context.

A gyrotron traveling-wave amplifier (gyro-TWT) with the high-power and broad-band capabilities is considered as a turn-on key for next generation high-resolution radar.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the human central nervous system (CNS) in the context of its many developmental disorders due to genetic, environmental and hypoxic/ischemic causes. Richly illustrated with color figures.

This book provides an exhaustive view of China's Management Control Systems (MCS), examining the development of theory and practice and presenting a framework that integrates China's unique enterprise regulations, corporate culture and managerial mindset into management control systems.

This book examines the delimited maritime boundaries of Indonesia with its neighbours. It features carefully drawn maps based on the geographical coordinates of the defined maritime boundaries; This book offers readers clear, accessible information on the maritime boundaries of the world's largest archipelagic state.

This book presents the fundamentals of innovation and product management and introduces the reader to a holistic process model with particular focus on innovation and uncertainty. It features market-based examples and case-studies from international companies.

Based on the author's own fieldwork, this book presents an integrative and transdisciplinary theoretical framework for understanding the informal, low-cost organization assembled and practiced by this ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen.

This greatly enhanced and expanded second edition of the leading textbook on astronomy incorporates spectacular new imagery and recent results from recently commissioned observatory platforms including the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, Herschel, and ALMA.

The new edition of this standard reference on laser spectroscopy has been completely revised and expanded to incorporate the latest techniques and applications, including ultrafast lasers, coherent matter waves, interference spectroscopy and more.

Focusing on the country that invented paper, and gunpowder, this book examines the efforts of China to transition its economy away from a crippling reliance on manufacturing outsourcing by investing heavily in a new technology superstructure - cloud computing.

In this book, the authors develop the Quintessential Marketing Arena by following the logic of the three major steps of the marketing process. They present the fourteen most important marketing instruments and help readers develop their own marketing plans.

This book offers clear guidance on the performance and interpretation of cardiac computed tomography (CT), with a view to assisting the reader in integrating the modality into daily practice. It presents the specific features of the most recent scanners.

A full introduction to geodetic data and systems written by well-known experts in their respective fields, this book is an ideal text for courses in geodesy and geomatics covering everything from coordinate and gravimetry data to geodetic systems of all types.

Arteriovenous Access Surgery

This volume explains how algorithms and mathematical models can be applied to the orbital maneuver and collocation of geostationary satellites. Focusing on the analysis of orbital perturbation, it describes safe and reliable methods of perturbation control.

This book assesses the contribution to a business's success that can be made by focusing on quality control in its IT systems and software. It discusses the quality issues arising in a fast-moving software industry where products often have a limited lifespan.

It provides guidelines on how to effectively structure research goals, how to analyze research problems concerning design goals and knowledge questions, how to validate artifact designs and how to empirically investigate artifacts in context - and finally how to present the results of the design cycle as a whole.

A Developer's Guide to the Semantic Web

This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is intended to serve as a comprehensive introduction to asset and risk management for bachelor's and master's students in this field as well as for young professionals in the asset management industry.

Meticulous biomicroscopic examination of macular changes and the essential value of fluorescein angiography for the detection of anatomical alterations of the macula and for precise evaluation of lesions and their course by indocyanine green angiography have naturally led the author Gabriel Coscas to analyze the new data provided by OCT.

With an emphasis on experimentation and interpretation, this volume introduces lasers and quantum optics. It focuses on the structure of molecules and their spectroscopy as well as on collision physics as the continuum counterpart to bound molecular states.

This book examines a wide range of factors that govern innovation in organizations. It presents a business model that eases communication between the three stakeholders of an innovation: inventor, decision maker and organization.

The present book provides a fully self-contained introduction to the world of modern mathematical statistics, collecting the basic knowledge, concepts and findings needed for doing further research in the modern theoretical and applied statistics.

From the reviews: " A unique and fascinating blend, which is shown to be useful for a variety of applications, including robotics, geometrical optics, computer animation, and geometric design.

The minimally invasive use of botulinum toxins (BoNT) in the lower urinary tract has changed treatment of difficult bladder, urethra and prostate conditions refractory to conventional therapy. This book examines the use of BoNT in the genitourinary tract.