"This book tries to root its exploration of China’s urbanization in the very local realities of China from the perspective of urban geography and international urbanization theory. The research is of large scale, full process and boasts the feature of multidimensional and systematic thinking....

Online rating can directly reflect users’ collective behavioral patterns which is of great concern in online social systems. In this paper, we investigate the correlations between the users’ rating behaviors and the real-time updated average ratings of objects given from other users’...

Recent studies have coupled blade element momentum (BEM) theory with the Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes equations in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, as the BEM-CFD method to analyse the flows in marine current turbines is with much less computational resources. The accuracy of...

The process for absorbing knowledge becomes an essential element for innovation in firms and in adapting to changes in the competitive environment. In this paper, we present an improved knowledge diffusion hypernetwork (IKDH) model based on the idea that knowledge will spread from the target...