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This book comprehensively discusses diesel combustion phenomena like ignition delay, fuel-air mixing, rate of heat release, and emissions of smoke, particulate and nitric oxide. This book will also be a good professional book for practising engineers in the field of combustion engines and automotive engineering.

When possible, the methods discussed are evaluated on real-world social media data sets to emphasize their robustness to the noisy nature of the social media environment.On completion of the book, the reader will be well-versed with the complexity of text-mining in multilingual, low-resource environments;

This book shares essential insights into how indigenous music has been inherited and preserved under the influence of the dominant mainstream culture in Asia and Europe.

Communicating science: heterogeneous, multiform and polysemic.- Citizen science as participatory science communication.- Science communication on offer by research institutes in eight countries.- Attempts to categorize and evaluate science festivals, a 30-year-old science communication event: the case of Greece.- Emerging practices in science communication in Canada- Meeting the needs of society: experiences from practices at the science-society interface.- Science communication in Nigeria and South Africa: beliefs, social groups and the social space of science.- The cultural distance model: empirical evidence from India.- Science culture: a critical and international outlook.- Cultural differences in media framing of AI.- Segmentation disparities in scientific experts'' knowledge of and attitudes towards GMOs in China- Responsible research and innovation in China and the risks in innovation.- Exploring emerging public attitudes towards autonomous vehicles.- The evolution of scientific, technical and industrial culture in France.- Emerging practices based on new media in the Chinese science popularization industry: transformation in the new era of science communication.- Science communication in the new era: skills education at science and technology museums.- Science museums: the Brazilian case.

The overview of local undergraduate universities in China.- The current system of local undergraduate universities in China.- The emergence of application and skill-based local graduate universities in China.- The vocational education policy development in China.- The local technical-based education policy development in China.- The educational policy of professional groups in China''s local vocational colleges.- The educational development of professional groups in vocational colleges.

This book examines the emerging power of ΓÇ£Four BranchesΓÇ¥ of internationalization of higher education in China from a policy retrospective analysis. In particular, branch one includes China''s policy on studying abroad after the reform and opening up; branch two concentrates on China''s policy on studying in China  after the reform and opening up; branch three explores the policy of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools; branch four examines the policy of foreign exchange and cooperation. All these four emerging branches are interdependent, and all contribute to shaping the landscape of internationalization of higher education system in contemporary China. In addition, the conclusion and remarks are also offered in this book.The most important features of this book are: (1) new academic conceptualization; (2) comprehensive investigation of the new idea of ΓÇ£Four BranchesΓÇ¥ of internationalization of higher education in China from a policy retrospective analysis; (3) critically review and epitomize the contextualized construction of ΓÇ£Four BranchesΓÇ¥ of internationalization of higher education in China for constructing modern education model or system from conceptual, practical, and strategically scopes.The intended readers are scholars and researchers who are interested and work in research on China internationalization development in China and the administrators and stakeholders in Chinese education system and graduate students who majoring and minoring in the field of international education.  

This book gathers best selected research papers presented at the International Conference on Networking, Intelligent Systems and Security, held in Kenitra, Morocco, during 01-02 April 2021.

This book focuses on the impact on financial regulation and examines the impact of financial regulation on bank performances from different perspectives. More specifically, this study investigates how bank sector reforms and bank regulation and supervision affect the competition, stability and risk-taking behavior in banking system.

This book presents an overview of both the theory and experimental methods required to realize high efficiency solar absorber devices.

This book aims to explore and discuss theories and technologies for the development of socially competent and culture-aware embodied conversational agents for elderly care.

This book gathers selected papers presented at 3rd International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCCT 2021), jointly organized in virtual format by Rajasthan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur and Rajasthan Technical University Kota in association with Soft Computing Research Society, during 27ΓÇô28 February 2021. The volume is a collection of state-of-the-art research work in the cutting-edge technologies related to communication and intelligent systems. The topics covered are algorithms and applications of intelligent systems, informatics and applications, and communication and control systems.

This book highlights novel materials for dye-containing wastewater treatment and presents an up-to-date information on dye degradation/adsorption using new promising materials such as nanocomposites.

This book discusses the urbanization of China and identifies four major features of ethnic minority mobility partners over the last twenty years: the three-stage peripheral-to-core transition pattern;

This book reviews and analyzes the innovative measures introduced, lessons learned and problems encountered by selected and representative provinces, cities and counties with regard to the openness of local government affairs.

This book analyzes the changes brought on to economic and business activities in Latin America due to the new scenarios, environments and social dynamics the world is facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, at both micro- and macroeconomic levels.

Modern transportation systems have undergone a rapid transformation in recent years, producing a range of technological innovations such as connected vehicles, self-driving cars, electric vehicles, Hyperloop, and even flying cars, and with them, fundamental changes in transport systems around the world.

This book offers an archaeological study on China's ancient capitals. The author introduces the dynamical interpretation of each ancient capital to the interpretation of the entire development history of China's ancient capitals.

This book introduces the design and implementation of an assessment model for a new university-level English curriculum in China that aims at developing digital literacy skills.

This book presents a collection of recent research on topics related to Pythagorean fuzzy set, dealing with dynamic and complex decision-making problems.

This book explains the rationale of the changes and challenges of Taiwanese citizenship which emphasizes the various identities in the global and multicultural era.

CHAPTER I: IntroductionContextInterlinks between Disaster and Human TraffickingPolicies and Protocols on DRR and Human TraffickingCommunity Participation and Institutional SupportScope & Methodology  CHAPTER II: Links Between Disaster and Human TraffickingDisaster and Human Trafficking - A PerceptionDisaster Management Act, 2005Sendai Framework of Action and Sustainable Development GoalsCrime Against Women and Human TraffickingTrafficking in Persons- The Vulnerable Areas  CHAPTER III: Role of NGOs and Community ParticipationSignificance of Community ParticipationCommunity Based Preventive MeasuresAwareness and SensitizationNetworking, Advocacy & MediaTraining & Capacity BuildingVigilance, Prosecution & ConvictionInformation, Education & Communication (IEC) Materials CHAPTER IV: Protocols, Policies and Role of Civil Society OrganizationsThe Legal FrameworkInternational ProtocolsSustainable Development Goals (SDG)Regional PoliciesCivil Society Organizations CHAPTER V: Institutional Mechanisms, Gaps and ChallengesBackgroundState Machinery Non-Governmental OrganisationChallenges and Opportunities CHAPTER VI: Conclusion ANNEXURES  I              Advisory from Home Ministry, GOI II            Advisory of Ministry of Home Affairs, 2012 III           TIP Report 2019: Country Narrative (India) IV          Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Building in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development UNISDR

This book presents best selected papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Smart Computing and Informatics (SCI 2020), held at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vasavi College of Engineering (Autonomous), Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

This book examines applications of multi-omics approaches for understanding disease etiology, pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions. The book also explores genomics, transcriptomics, translational-omics, and metabolomics approaches to understand the pathogenesis and identify potential drug targets.

This book reviews and summarizes the development and achievement in cartography and geographic information engineering in China over the past 60 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

This book gathers outstanding research papers presented at the International Joint Conference on Advances in Computational Intelligence (IJCACI 2020), organized by Daffodil International University (DIU) and Jahangirnagar University (JU) in Bangladesh and South Asian University (SAU) in India.

This book offers a comprehensive view of multimodal composing and literacies in multilingual contexts for ESL and EFL education in United States of America and globally.

Treatment of textile waste water using low cost and innovative materialsAPPLICATION OF SUSTAINABLE AND LOW-COST SLUDGE BASED ADSORBENTS FOR TEXTILE DYE DEGRADATIONDYESTUFF ADSORBING NATURAL COMPOSITES FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENTSSustainable Approach on the Treatment of Textile Wastewater using Membrane TechniquesAdvanced Oxidation Processes (AOP) - Effective innovative treatment methods to degrade textile dye effluent REUSE OF SALT-CONTAINING DYEING EFFLUENTS BY MEANS OF AN ELECTROCHEMICAL AND ULTRAVIOLET COUPLED SYSTEM Treatment of Textile Waste Water Using Biochar Produced from Agricultural WastePhoto-catalytic oxidation of dye house effluent using TiO2 & RGOT semi-conductor oxide-Carbon composite catalyst

This book comprises select and peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Trends in Construction Materials and Structures (ICON 2019).

Some of the themes covered are anthropometry and workplace design, biomechanics and modelling in ergonomics, cognitive and environmental ergonomics, ergonomic intervention and productivity, ergonomics in transport, mining, agriculture and forestry, health systems, work physiology and sports ergonomics, etc.