02974nam 2200733 450 991079198190332120210311111955.01-350-21859-61-283-07100-297866130710021-84813-821-010.5040/9781350218598(CKB)2560000000073153(EBL)688552(OCoLC)721195077(SSID)ssj0000534293(PQKBManifestationID)11339482(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534293(PQKBWorkID)10493028(PQKB)11373480(MiAaPQ)EBC688552(Au-PeEL)EBL688552(CaPaEBR)ebr10464771(CaONFJC)MIL307100(OCoLC)731226419(CaBNVSL)9781350218598(EXLCZ)99256000000007315320210311h20212011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBallot box China[electronic resource] grassroots democracy in the final major one-party state /Kerry BrownLondon, England :Zed Books,2011.[London, England] :Bloomsbury Publishing,20211 online resource (194 p.)Asian argumentsDescription based upon print version of record.1-84813-820-2 1-84813-819-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.A brief history of elections, democracy and civil society in modern China -- Democracy ... with Chinese characteristics -- The village election process -- The great debate: where is Chinese village democracy going? -- The big picture: elections as part of the dynamics of a society in change.Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood, experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages, with almost a million elections, some three million officials have been elected. This book looks at the history of the elections, how they arose, what they have achieved and where they might be going, exploring the specific experience of elections by those who have taken part in them - the villagers in some of the most deprived areas of China.Asian arguments.Local electionsChinaDemocratizationChinaLocal governmentChinaPolitics & governmentbicsscChinaPolitics and government1976-2002ChinaPolitics and government2002-Local electionsDemocratizationLocal governmentPolitics & government324.951009173/4Brown Kerry1967-1497895NCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910791981903321Ballot box China3723204UNINA05455nam 22008175 450 991048491930332120251226202927.03-642-02924-810.1007/978-3-642-02924-0(CKB)1000000000761226(SSID)ssj0000316883(PQKBManifestationID)11923505(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000316883(PQKBWorkID)10287112(PQKB)11425797(DE-He213)978-3-642-02924-0(MiAaPQ)EBC3064335(PPN)136307167(BIP)27227628(EXLCZ)99100000000076122620100301d2009 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrComputer Performance Engineering 6th European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 2009 London, UK, July 9-10, 2009 Proceedings /edited by Jeremy T. Bradley1st ed. 2009.Berlin, Heidelberg :Springer Berlin Heidelberg :Imprint: Springer,2009.1 online resource (X, 221 p.) Programming and Software Engineering,2945-9168 ;5652International conference proceedings.3-642-02923-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Tagged Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets -- Modelling Zoned RAID Systems Using Fork-Join Queueing Simulation -- Performance of Auctions and Sealed Bids -- Applying Symbolic Techniques to the Representation of Non-Markovian Models with Continuous PH Distributions -- Mean Value Analysis for a Class of PEPA Models -- Automatic Generation of Performance Analysis Results: Requirements and Demonstration -- Analytical Model of Traffic Compression in the UMTS Network -- From DFTs to PEPA: A Model-to-Model Transformation -- Passage-End Analysis -- Stochastic Monotonicity in Queueing Networks -- Fast Generation of Scale Free Networks with Directed Arcs -- A More Realistic Peer-to-Peer Grid Market Model -- Migrating Auctioneers on Internet Auctions for Improved Utility and Performance -- Analytical Model of the Soft Handoff Mechanism in the UMTS Network -- Analytical Model of TCP NewReno through a CTMC -- Packet Loss Analysis of Load-Balancing Switch with ON/OFF Input Processes -- Approximate Analysis of a Round Robin Scheduling Scheme for Network Coding -- Analysis of Large Populations of Interacting Objects with Mean Field and Markovian Agents.ThisvolumeofLNCScontainstheproceedingsofthe6thEuropeanPerformance EngineeringWorkshop,held at ImperialCollegeLondon during July 9-10,2009. Thiswasthe'rstintheEPEWseriestobeheldintheUK,followingonfromthe highly successful workshops that were held in Toledo (2004), Versailles (2005), Budapest (2006), Berlin (2007) and Palma de Mallorca (2008). As with previousEPEW workshops,the event was supported by submissions from all over the world, including Asia, the Middle East, North America, as well as Europe. There were 33 submissions in total of which 13 were selected for full papers and four as short papers. I would like to commend the diligent e'orts of the Programme Committee, who returned a complete set of reviews - four per paper - which is most unusual. This enabled and enhanced the week-long programme discussion which selected the papers presented here. The papers themselves maintained the tradition of diversity and quality that the European Performance Engineering Workshop has supported throughout. Papers representing the di'erent ?elds of performance engineering and ana- sis, were broadly classi'ed by applications, techniques and formalisms. In the applications domain, we had a signi'cant contribution, I believe for the ?rst time, in the modelling of auctions and markets. There were also contributions on hardware modelling of RAID systems, as well as ?ve papers on performance aspects of cellular and ?xed-line networks. New techniques presented included a novel approach to mean value analysis, an application of stochastic ordering to queueingnetworksandaninterestingextensionofpassage-timeanalysis.Programming and Software Engineering,2945-9168 ;5652Electronic digital computersEvaluationComputer scienceComputer engineeringComputer networksSoftware engineeringComputer programmingSystem Performance and EvaluationTheory of ComputationComputer Engineering and NetworksSoftware EngineeringProgramming TechniquesElectronic digital computersEvaluation.Computer science.Computer engineering.Computer networks.Software engineering.Computer programming.System Performance and Evaluation.Theory of Computation.Computer Engineering and Networks.Software Engineering.Programming Techniques.004.029DAT 280fstubSS 4800rvkBradley J. T(Jeremy T.)1752948EPEW 2009MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910484919303321Computer performance engineering4188458UNINA