Ning Wang

Ronald Coase

How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often unanticipated, journey that China has taken over the past thirty five years in transforming itself from a closed agrarian socialist economy to an indomitable economic force in the international arena. The authors revitalise the debate around the rise of the Chinese economy through the use of primary sources, persuasively arguing that the reforms implemented by the Chinese leaders did not represent a concerted attempt to create a capitalist economy, and that it was 'marginal revolutions' that introduced the market and entrepreneurship back to China. Lessons from the West were guided by the traditional Chinese principle of 'seeking truth from facts'. By turning to capitalism, China re-embraced her own cultural roots. How China Became Capitalist challenges received wisdom about the future of the Chinese economy, warning that while China has enormous potential for further growth, the future is clouded by the government's monopoly of ideas and power. Coase and Wang argue that the development of a market for ideas which has a long and revered tradition in China would be integral in bringing about the Chinese dream of social harmony.

How China Became Capitalist

Chenguang Yang

Jing Luo

Human-in-the-loop Learning and Control for Robot Teleoperation presents recent, research progress on teleoperation and robots, including human-robot interaction, learning and control for teleoperation with many extensions on intelligent learning techniques. The book integrates cutting-edge research on learning and control algorithms of robot teleoperation, neural motor learning control, wave variable enhancement, EMG-based teleoperation control, and other key aspects related to robot technology, presenting implementation tactics, adequate application examples and illustrative interpretations. Robots have been used in various industrial processes to reduce labor costs and improve work efficiency. However, most robots are only designed to work on repetitive and fixed tasks, leaving a gap with the human desired manufacturing effect. Introduces research progress and technical contributions on teleoperation robots, including intelligent human-robot interactions and learning and control algorithms for teleoperation Presents control strategies and learning algorithms to a teleoperation framework to enhance human-robot shared control, bi-directional perception and intelligence of the teleoperation system Discusses several control and learning methods, describes the working implementation and shows how these methods can be applied to a specific and practical teleoperation system

Human-in-the-loop Learning and Control for Robot Teleoperation

Shun-Feng Su

This journal-like book series includes edited volumes to rapidly report and spread the latest technological results, new scientific discovery and valuable applied researches in the fields concerning offshore robotics as well as promote international academic exchange. We aim to make it one of the premier comprehensive academic publications of world offshore vehicle and robotics community. The audience of the series will include the scholars, researchers, engineers and students who are interested in fields of autonomous marine vehicles and robotics, including autonomous surface vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, remote operation vehicles, marine bionics, marine vehicle modeling, guidance, navigation, control and cooperation and so on.

Volume I Issue 1, 2021

Offshore Robotics

Kniha Velká čínská kapitalistická revoluce popisuje mimořádnou a v mnoha ohledech nečekanou cestu, kterou Čína za posledních třicet let ušla v přeměně z uzavřené socialistické zemědělské ekonomiky k neuvěřitelně silné celosvětové velmoci.Autoři obnovují diskuzi o vzestupu čínské ekonomiky a přesvědčivě argumentují, že reformy provedené čínskými vůdci nepředstavují pokus o vytvoření kapitalistické ekonomiky, ale ta v Číně vznikla jako samostatné "okrajové revoluce", které do Číny přivedly zpět trh a podnikání.

Velká čínská kapitalistická revoluce

Human-in-the-loop Learning and Control for Robot Teleoperation presents recent, research progress on teleoperation and robots, including human-robot interaction, learning and control for teleoperation with many extensions on intelligent learning techniques. The book integrates cutting-edge research on learning and control algorithms of robot teleoperation, neural motor learning control, wave variable enhancement, EMG-based teleoperation control, and other key aspects related to robot technology, presenting implementation tactics, adequate application examples and illustrative interpretations. Robots have been used in various industrial processes to reduce labor costs and improve work efficiency. However, most robots are only designed to work on repetitive and fixed tasks, leaving a gap with the human desired manufacturing effect.

How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often accidental, journey that China has taken over the past thirty years in transforming itself from a closed agrarian socialist economy to an indomitable force in the international arena. The authors revitalize the debate around the development of the Chinese system through the use of primary sources. They persuasively argue that the reforms implemented by the Chinese leaders did not represent a concerted attempt to create a capitalist economy, but that the ideas from the West eventually culminated in a fundamental change to their socialist model, forming an accidental path to capitalism. Coase and Wang argue that the pragmatic approach of "seeking truth from fact" is in fact much more in line with Chinese culture. How China Became Capitalist challenges the received wisdom about the future of the Chinese economy, arguing that while China has enormous potential for growth, this could be hampered by the leaders' propensity for control, both in terms of economics and their monopoly of ideas and power.

China has undergone profound social changes, with far-reaching consequences in all walks of life since reform began 30 years ago. To fully understand China's transformation, the landscape must be surveyed from the perspective of consumption, where one can find many intrinsic links between seemingly unrelated aspects of social reform. Now available in paperback, The Rise of the Consumer in Modern China is the result of a seven-year research campaign conducted by leading Chinese academic Wang Ning. Detailed and comprehensive, it cites numerous policy documents and source material generated from interviews, alongside data, expert commentary, and conclusions. The transformation from asceticism to consumerism is a vital factor when considering China's economic and social reforms. Authoritative and richly detailed, the book offers a revealing and unique insight into a key aspect of China's opening up. Not only have there been revolutionary changes in consumer behavior, the role of consumption in driving the evolution of society has become un-ignorable. From a sociological perspective, it is vital to study and analyze the changes in Chinese consumption before and after China's opening-up. (Series: Economic Change in China) [Subject: Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, Economics, Business, Consumerism]

The Rise of the Consumer in Modern China

Come la Cina è diventata un paese capitalista

Dario Narducci

Peter Bermel

Bruno Lorenzi

Kazuaki Yazawa

This book provides a comprehensive overview on fully thermal and hybrid solar generators based on thermoelectric devices. The book fills a gap in the literature on solar conversion and thermoelectrics, because despite the growing number of papers dealing with the use of thermoelectrics in solar power conversion, no book exists for PV specialists or thermoelectricity experts to enter this field. The book is intended as a primer for scientists or engineers willing to complement their expertise in one of the two fields, and to get an updated, critical review of the state of the art in thermoelectric solar harvesting.

Hybrid and Fully Thermoelectric Solar Harvesting

Josh Fischer

Written to be tool-agnostic, Grokking Streaming Systems helps you unravel what streaming systems are, how they work, and whether they’re right for your business. Every action by a user or a system process generates valuable data for your application or organization. Streaming systems capture and process these events, turning disconnected bits into coherent, useful information sources. Grokking Streaming Systems is a simple guide to the complex concepts you need to start building your own streaming systems. Written to be tool-agnostic, Grokking Streaming Systems helps you unravel what streaming systems are, how they work, and whether they’re right for your business. You’ll start with the key concepts and then work your way through increasingly complex examples. You’ll even be able to easily experiment with your own streaming system. By the time you’re done, you’ll be able to easily assess the capabilities of streaming frameworks, and solve common challenges that arise when building streaming systems. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

Real-time event processing

Grokking Streaming Systems

A Cryogenic Phonon Detector to Search for Dark Matter Particles

Frank T. Piller

Kjeld Nielsen

Stephan Hankammer

Günther Schuh

This proceedings volume presents the latest research from the worldwide mass customization & personalization (MCP) community bringing together new thoughts and results from various disciplines within the field. The chapters are based on papers from the MCPC 2017. The book showcases research and practice from authors that see MCP as an opportunity to extend or even revolutionize current business models. The current trends of Industrie 4.0, digital manufacturing, and the rise of smart products allow for a fresh perspective on MCP: Customization 4.0. The book places a new set of values in the centre of the debate: a world with finite resources, global population growth, and exacerbating climate change needs smart thinking to engage the most effective capabilities and resources. It discusses how Customization 4.0 fosters sustainable development and creates shared value for companies, customers, consumers, and the society as a whole. The chapters of this book are contributed by a wide range of specialists, offering cutting-edge research, as well as insightful advances in industrial practice in key areas. The MCPC 2017 has a strong focus on real life MCP applications, and this proceedings volume reflects this. MCP strategies aim to profit from the fact that people are different. Their objective is to turn customer heterogeneities into opportunities, hence addressing “long tail” business models. The objective of MCP is to provide goods and services that best serve individual customers’ needs with near mass production efficiency. This proceedings volume highlights the interdisciplinary work of thought leaders, technology developers, and researchers with corporate entrepreneurs putting these strategies into practice. Chapter 24 is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

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