This book uncovers the mysterious social and political structures of China's "Third Front," the large state-sponsored development of inland China during the late Maoist period. This movement gave birth to a few important industrial bases such as Panzhihua and Liupanshui and had significant...

Additively manufactured superalloys have attracted increasing attention due to their inherent hierarchical microstructure, however are plagued by anisotropic properties originated from columnar grains. In this work, scandium was introduced as an oxide dispersion strengthener (ODS) into the...

Purpose: the aim of this paper is to investigate the closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) network equilibrium wiht the consideration of three practical factors: two complementary types of suppliers, risk-averse character of the manufacturer and capacity constraints of the suppliers....