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The division of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states in South China Sea disputes brings up the question of how state coalitions form. Analysis of this issue often delves into specific factors such as the legality of territorial claims and each state's military and economic power. Generalized predictions of coalitions, however, require analysis of a variety of factors that...
The root of material flow accounting and analysis (MFA) could be traced back to social metabolism theory in 1857, but it was ameliorated by Abel Wolman, Kenneth Boulding, and Donella Meadows studying Industrial Metabolism during 1960s-1970s. By using MFA, the inherence of resources and economic developing could be impersonally evaluated and it also can be used to help governments to shape their developing...
A well-known appliance production enterprise X of China plans to operate a new type of appliance maintenance service model Y based on the current situation and prospect of the appliance maintenance service industry market. Y is going to create an independent third-party appliance maintenance service brand and its service model will be chain operation which is a new type of Chinapsilas appliance maintenance...
Differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) (DInSAR) has proven to be very useful in mapping and monitoring land subsidence in many regions of the world. Shanghai, China's largest city, is one of such areas suffering from land subsidence as a result of severe withdrawal of groundwater for different usages. DInSAR application in Shanghai with the C-band European Remote Sensing 1 &...
Sustainability has become an important discussion topic across the world since the late 1980s. However, there is still lack of knowledge about the landscape sustainability and its quantitative evaluation, especially at local and regional scale levels. The sustainable development of the Chinese Loess Plateau has always been a focus in China mainly because of the occurring severe soil erosion. This...
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