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Product Description: The 5th International Symposium on Advanced Packaging Materials was devoted to the advances made in electronic packaging materials. Topics covered in these proceedings include adhesives, integral passive materials, on-chip interconnect materials, underfills and encapsulent materials...read more

Product Description: The ultimate, up-to-the-minute electronic packaging resource The ever-increasing pin counts and clock speeds of modern electronics continue to "push the performance envelope" with regard to designing packaging and interconnection solutions that can meet increasingly challenging requirements...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study focuses on the status of local government finance at the subprovincial level. Fiscal reforms over the past decade have not kept pace with the rapid changes in demand for government services at lower levels. Wong examines the composition of revenue and expenditure at city, country, and township levels, and provides recommendations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The People's Republic of China has experienced many economic reforms in the last decade, but further improvements to the fiscal system are needed. This book examines the existing reforms and suggests ways in which other reforms could be implemented.

Product Description: The most recent advances in the use of polymeric materials by the electronic industry can be found in Polymers for Electronic and Photonic Applications. This bookprovides in-depth coverage of photoresis for micro-lithography, microelectronic encapsulants and packaging, insulators, dielectrics for multichip packaging,electronic and photonic applications of polymeric materials, among many other topics...read more

Since the Cultural Revolution, data have been uncovered to illuminate that tumultuous decade. In this volume 13 scholars examine the gap between the ideology of the Revolution and the harsh and contradictory reality of its outcome. They focus particularly on the violence, coercion, and constant tension between the need for centralization to enforce policies and the need for decentralizing decision-making if those goals were to be achieved.