Jun Li

Ming Chen

Chuan Zhen Huang

Dun Wen Zuo

Guo Hun

The present volume comprises peer-reviewed papers covering engineering/product/industrial design, manufacture and production, engineering materials, CAD/CAM/CAE, robotics, automation and control, sustainable technology , environment-friendly design and manufacture, web/internet technologies, artificial intelligence and smart computing in design and manufacture, enterprise management and other related topics. The content will be of great interest to production and research engineers, research students and academics.

Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technology I

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters BCI (WoS). The present volume comprises peer-reviewed papers covering CIMS and manufacturing systems, advanced anti-fatigue design technologies, finite-element analysis and structure optimization based upon anti-fatigue, design and manufacturing of composite components, intelligent mechatronics and robotics, compound machine tools, rapid prototyping, printing (ex. embossing), PDM, ERP, CRM, FMS, PLM, logistics and supply chain, RPM and other related topics. This work will be invaluable to production and research engineers, and to research students and academics interested in the field.

Anti-Fatigue Design and Manufacturing Technologies I

Qing Wang

Yihong Chen

Sven M. Bergmann

Effects of host–microbiota cross-talk on the immunity of aquatic animals

Shaofan Li

An original comprehensive guide on computational nanomechanics discussing basic concepts and implications in areas such as computational physics, materials, mechanics and engineering as well as several other interdisciplinary avenues. This book makes the underlying theory accessible to readers without specialised training or extensive background in quantum physics, statistical mechanics, or theoretical chemistry. It combines a careful treatment of theoretical concepts with a detailed tutorial on computer software and computing implementation, including multiscale simulation and computational statistical theory. Multidisciplinary perspectives are provided, yielding a true insight on the applications of computational nanomechanics across diverse engineering fields. The book can serve as a practical guide with step-by-step discussion of coding, example problems and case studies. This book will be essential reading for students new to the subject, as well as an excellent reference for graduates and researchers.

Multiscale and Statistical Simulations

Introduction to Computational Nanomechanics

A guide to computational nanomechanics, essential for those new to the subject and a useful reference for graduates and researchers.

Mostafa Hashem Sherif

Paolo Bellavista

Abdelhamid Mellouk

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, ADHOCNETS 2013, held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2013. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and reviewed from numerous submissions and cover a wide range of applications, commercial and military such as mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, vehicular networks, underwater networks, underground networks, personal area networks, home networks and large-scale metropolitan networks for smart cities. They are organized in topical sections on wireless sensor networks, routing, applications and security.

5th International ICST Conference, ADHOCNETS 2013, Barcelona, Spain, October 2013, Revised Selected Papers

Ad Hoc Networks

The school-to-work transition has been an important topic in the fields of education and sociology research in the past few years. Pre-vocational education, which takes place during lower-secondary school and aims to facilitate the school-to-work transition, is of critical significance in introducing the participants to the world of work and/or in preparing them for entry into further vocational education programs. With a strong comparative nature, Jun Li presents this systematic investigation of the pre-vocational education in Germany and China and analyzes their curricula of pre-vocational education. By combining the methods of content analysis and teacher interview, the author offers an in-depth perspective into the realms of pre-vocational education and reveals the divergences between the prescribed curriculum and the enacted curriculum. The findings also relate closely to an intensively discussed issue in the sociology of education in the past few years, namely the issue of knowledge and its status, function and forms in the school education today.

A Comparison of Curricula and Its Implications

Pre-vocational Education in Germany and China

Utilizing a case study method and a Multiperspectival Approach, this volume presents a pioneering, in-depth study about China’s teacher education policy since the 1990s. It critically investigates the rational, dynamic and complex implementation process taking place at the micro institutional level for the transformations of teacher education institutions. The book first introduces the sociopolitical and cultural background of China’s teacher education system and its challenges under the condition of globalization, and illustrates major national initiatives for nurturing highly qualified teachers. It then explores new teachers’ identities in an era of enhanced professionalism, uncovers the ways they reflect China’s teacher education reform, and distills the rationales behind these policy actions. This is followed by an analytic presentation of the findings of the case study of a provincial normal university, with a particular focus on such core pieces of the implementation jigsaw as policy flow, the dynamism of implementation, sociopolitical and cultural confluence, and institutional barriers in the complex process. Lastly, the book unravels key recommendations and implications for policy implementation studies from the China policy case, and constructs a Chinese Zhong-Yong Model of policy implementation, and sheds new light on policy studies of teacher education reform in particular and public policy in general, which may be transferable to other sociopolitical contexts seeking to nurture world-class teachers and achieve educational excellence in a global age.

A Multiperspectival Study on the Chinese Model of Policy Implementation

Quest for World-Class Teacher Education?

Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko

Igor Chirikov

Qiang Zha

This volume provides a critical perspective on the Soviet legacy of superpower competition in the higher education systems of China and Russia. The book examines the tensions among multi-level forces that strive to advance progressive university policies and practices on the one hand, and on the other hand work to restore old-style hyper-centralization and indoctrination. It tracks the de-Sovietization of higher education, which aimed to integrate Chinese and Russian universities into global higher education, but resulted in inducing status anxiety in the global hierarchies of knowledge development.

Jun Li

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