Information Technology (IT) now plays a very important role in sustainable development of Chinese society and economy at all levels. Especially for Chinese higher education (CHE), it is a bridgehead to lead the society, culture, and economy. Therefore, the progress of higher education informatization has received much attention in China. In this paper, we firstly choose the development of CHE i...

The term ‘Overseas Chinese Phenomenon’ is used here to refer to the fact that scientists of Chinese descent play an important role in international collaboration between mainland China and the rest of the world. In this paper, we review international collaboration between ethnic Chinese scientists in eight countries – USA, England, Germany, France, Japan, Canada, Australia, and South Korea – an...

Intensive aquaculture is adopted by more and more fish farms in China. This paper focuses on the typical water monitoring and controlling methods in intensive fish culture in Chinese fish farms. The paper illustrates the main factors in fish culturing and the way to control them: dissolved oxygen (DO), temperature, PH, particulate matter and ammonium.

Holey factorizations of Kv1,v2,...,vn are a basic building block in the construction of Room frames. In this paper we give some necessary conditions for the existence of holey factorizations and give a complete enumeration for nonisomorphic sets of orthogonal holey factorizations of several special types.

This paper discusses how biographical data of the lecturers at the Directorate School in early Northern Song (960-1050) China are extracted, converted, verified, visualized and analyzed. Through this prosopographical survey of lecturers, I aim to address the following questions: to what extent did the scholarly background of lecturers shape students’ learning at the Directorate of Education? To...

This paper considers the impact of skill-based immigration restrictions, using the Chinese Exclusion Act as a natural experiment. I find that restrictions reduced the average occupational standing of Chinese immigrants, suggesting substitution between observed and unobserved skills. Conversely, children of restricted immigrants have greater human capital than those of unrestricted immigrants, d...