This open access journal focuses on strategic issues related to China's role in global affairs, highlighting the Chinese perspective on strategic issues with policy concerns.

“Periodically, the authors provide examples as to how the various equations can be used to make scour predictions. This practice is very helpful for the reader … In short, this is a well-written text ...

Kei KOGA is Assistant Professor at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme in School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

This highly unusual book began as a serious inquiry into Schrödinger's question, “What is life?”, and as a celebration of life itself. It takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through many areas ...

In the first book of its kind, this volume addresses the problem of the future cooling energy demand, the global frame defining the actual and future cooling energy consumption in the building sect ...

Department of Civil Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, P. R. China Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Wind Disaster, and Wind Engineering, Xiamen 361024, P. R. China Fujian Provincial Key ...

Fractional Calculus and Waves in Linear Viscoelasticity (Second Edition) is a self-contained treatment of the mathematical theory of linear (uni-axial) viscoelasticity (constitutive equation and waves ...

Who are our amazing pioneers, the people who travelled from distant lands to seek out adventure and fortune in early Singapore? In this series of fully-illustrated books, you'll discover our pioneers' ...

Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore; Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy & Environment, A*STAR, Singapore; National University of Singapore Prof. Xian Jun ...

Research papers are the primary vehicle for the global communication of highly complex, fast-moving information, and they need to be written and understood by all participants quickly and effectively.

The idea of the ‘nation’ is a Western concept which has been applied to Southeast Asia. It is a project which has been in progress since the last century but is still incomplete. Various theoretical ...

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on the existence and regularity of minima of regular integrals in the calculus of variations and of solutions to elliptic partial differential equation ...