The author is a senior economist at the World Bank and has worked on countries in Africa, East Asia and Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe and Central Asia. He is a global expert in ...

Innovation analytics is an emerging paradigm that integrates information/knowledge, analytics, digital twins and artificial intelligence to support and manage the ...

Abstract With the development of urbanization and the evolution of urban network systems, multimodal urban transport network (MUTN) systems play a vital role in improving network effects and ...

Popular associations with chemistry range from poisons, hazards, chemical warfare and environmental pollution to alchemical pseudoscience, sorcery and mad scientists, which gravely affect the public ...

NANO presents forefront fundamental research, emerging topics, results and technical breakthroughs, as well as review articles on hot issues in nanoscience and nanotechnology ...

We give the first proof of security for an identity-based encryption (IBE) scheme in the quantum random oracle model. This is the first proof of security for any scheme in this model that does not ...

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2125, U.S.A.

In this study, an SEIR epidemic model is proposed for treatment of infectives considering the development of acquired immunity in recovered individuals. We employed two different types of treatment ...

With the background developed in the previous chapters, we are ready to begin the study of Linear Algebra by introducing vector spaces. Vector spaces are essential for the formulation and solution of ...

This invaluable volume is dedicated to the memory of Yuri Golfand, one of the discoverers of supersymmetry. Together with his student, he constructed in 1970 the superextension of the Poincaré algebra ...

This unique volume takes a very different approach to township or xiangzhen governance. It explores the structural constraints on township governance and the way that these constraints influence the ...

College of Civil Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Qixing District, Guilin 541004, P. R. China Guangxi Key Laboratory of Green Building Materials and Construction Industrialization, Guilin ...