Browsing by Subject "China"
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This study examines whether board independence is an effective corporate governance mechanism in reducing earnings management in China, a country with significantly different institutional and legal characteristics from ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)This study was undertaken to develop a landuse expert system based on a geographic information system (GIS). More specifically, this study has developed a method of Knowledge Extraction from GIS (KEGIS) by machine-learning ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2008-10)
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(2008-12-01)The middle reach of the Yangtze River, customarily called the Jingjiang River, together with its diversion channels and Dongting Lake, form a large complicated drainage system. In the last five decades, significant ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The purpose of this study was to explore patterns of value change in individual Chinese and how these changes related to societal transitions in China under the Communist Regime. The three research questions of the study ...
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(2010-01-16)In 1999, the Chinese Academy of Sciences realized that there was a need for a better public understanding of science. For the public to have better accessibility and comprehension of China's significance to the world, the ...
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Nowadays, as the two largest economies in the world, China and US economic relations have expanded substantially over the past decades. China is the US's second-largest merchandise trading partner, third-largest export ...
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(2018-11-27)When Germany forced China to surrender part of the province of Shantung and the village of Tsingtau in 1897, it secured the long-standing wishes of a German China lobby that had articulated visions of empire that would ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This study attempts to explain the political developments of Qing China and Tokugawa Japan of the late 19th century from a new perspective, one focused on the elite structure. I argue that neither Marxian nor Weberian ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Specimens of 6 species of threatened, vulnerable, and endangered turtles (Cuora amboinensis, Cyclemys dentata, Heosemys grandis, Orlitia borneensis, Pyxidea mouhotii, and Siebenrockiella crassicollis) belonging to family ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2006)Recent rapid growth of energy use in China exerts great pressure on the energy supply and environment. This study provides scenarios of future energy development in buildings, including urban residential, rural residential ...
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(2019-04-09)China has experienced fast development in the past decades. This dissertation studies several topics related to the recent development issues in rural and urban China. Section 2 studies China’s urbanization since the 2010s. ...
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(2019-03-21)Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) procedures and training are used by global industries to mitigate risks and are often provided in a lingua franca. This research, investigated strategies for overcoming language barriers ...
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(2015-08-31)During the past two decades, Lean Construction has been utilized in over 200 pilot projects in different countries all over the world except for China. Although qualitative inquiries have been made regarding the applicability ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)More than a decade ago American fast food entered the Chinese market. Since then the number of fast food and organized chain restaurants in China has multiplied. Chinese consumers, especially those who live in large urban ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)In order to maintain itself into the future, the People’s Republic of China undertook in the 1970s a legendary demographic endeavor dealing with the artificial constraint of population growth. The “later, longer, fewer” ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)Sociological and demographic analyses of minority fertility in the United States have suggested that the processes of socioeconomic, cultural, marital, and structural assimilation will lead to convergence in fertility. ...
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(2017-03-06)The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), released by the Department of Defense (DoD) in 2010, announced an unprecedented shift in the U.S. nuclear policy away from state-based threats to nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism ...
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(2009-04)With the fastest growing economy in the world, China questions the viability of their economically oriented country under increasing international pressures to strengthen environmental regulations. Understanding public ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2006)In China, a new-style groundwater heat pump emerged in 2000. In this system, the production well and the injection well is integrated into one well, which is divided into three parts by clapboards: a low pressure (production) ...