Competition and Compassion in Chinese Secondary Education examines the nature of academic competition in Chinese schools and documents its debilitating effects on Chinese adolescents' social, moral, and civic development.

This book mainly provides the current status of water pollution faced by China under rapid changing environment and the actions that have been taken for prevention and treatment of water pollution. It points out that the water pollution situation is severe. Facing water pollution, China’s experiences include several aspects on source control and pollution interception, internal nutrient removal of sediment, ecological restoration, and water transfer policy. There exists both the opportunity and challenge for the prevention and control of water pollution in China. The book contains numerous charts and diagrams which further illustrating China’s paths to clean water.

This book presents a selected literature review and case studies for both physical and virtual water transfer. It offers an overview to showcase the interprovincial physical and virtual water transfer within China, and then demonstrates the effects of both approaches in dealing with regional water scarcity; the three cases presented in the Yangtze River Basin demonstrate the role of physical water transfer in improving water quality and restoring water ecosystems; while a Shanghai case highlights the impact of Shanghai’s virtual water import on water quantity and quality stress to other regions. This book promotes systematic approaches combining both virtual and physical water transfer solutions to deal with water quantity and quality issues. The book is intended for senior undergraduates, graduate students, lecturers and researchers in water management.

(Cont) ADS simulations predict a very significant increase in the cutoff frequencies by virtue of the lowered parasitic resistances. In conclusion, the theoretical and experimental work developed during this project has demonstrated the great potential of three new technologies to overcome the main challenges of mm-wave GaN HEMTs. The application of these technologies to actual devices is under way and it will represent an important element of the ultra-high GaN transistors of the future.

China contributes the largest share of cropland's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally. Processed-based biogeochemical models are useful tools to simulate GHG emissions from cropping systems. However, model comparisons are necessary to provide information for the application of models under different climate, soil, and crop conditions. In this study, two widely-used models (DayCent and DNDC) were evaluated and compared under four main cropping systems in China. The field observations from nine experiments were used for model calibration and validation. The DayCent and DNDC models simulated daily and seasonal CH4 emissions from early rice-late rice and rice-wheat cropping systems reasonably well (r2≥0.49 for daily simulation and nRMSE≤52.9% for seasonal simulation). Both models were able to satisfactorily predict seasonal N2O emissions from maize-wheat fields (0.6≤d≤0.8), but overestimated most daily N2O fluxes at fertilisation and irrigation events. Significantly positive relationships were found between simulated and observed cumulative N2O fluxes in spring maize growing season (0.61≤ r2≤0.85). The DNDC showed smaller differences in simulated and observed cumulative GHG emissions for spring maize and double rice, while DayCent showed better performance on estimating N2O and CH4 for maize-wheat and rice-wheat. This study shows that both models have strengths and weaknesses under a variety of cropping systems and growing regions, which are important to consider when choosing a model for a crop/region-specific simulation.