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Wireless Communication Networks Supported by Autonomous UAVs and Mobile Ground Robots

By: Hailong Huang,Andrey V. Savkin,Chao Huang

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Wireless Communication Networks Supported by Autonomous UAVs and Mobile Ground Robots

By: Hailong Huang,Andrey V. Savkin,Chao Huang

Wireless Communication Networks Supported by Autonomous UAVs and Mobile Ground Robots covers wireless sensor networks and cellular networks. For wireless sensor networks, the book presents approaches using mobile robots or UAVs to collect sensory data from sensor nodes. For cellular networks, it discusses the approaches to using UAVs to work as aerial base stations to serve cellular users. In addition, the book covers the challenges involved in these two networks, existing approaches (e.g., how to use the public transportation vehicles to play the role of mobile sinks to collect sensory data from sensor nodes), and potential methods to address open questions. - Gives a comprehensive understanding of the development of mobile robot-supported wireless communication approaches - Provides the latest approaches of mobile robot-supported wireless communication, including scheduling approaches with multiple robots and the online and reactive navigation algorithm - Covers interesting research scenarios that include the system model, problem statement, solution and results so that readers will be able to design their own system - Presents unresolved research issues and future research directions

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Academic Press

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0323901832

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9780323901833

Oxidative Cross-Coupling Reactions

By: Aiwen Lei,Wei Shi,Chao Liu,Wei Liu,Hua Zhang,Chuan He

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Oxidative Cross-Coupling Reactions

By: Aiwen Lei,Wei Shi,Chao Liu,Wei Liu,Hua Zhang,Chuan He

The first handbook on this emerging field provides a comprehensive overview of transition metal-catalyzed coupling reactions in the presence of an oxidant. Following an introduction to the general concept and mechanism of this reaction class, the team of authors presents chapters on C-C cross-coupling reactions using organometallic partners, C-Heteroatom bond forming reactions via oxidative couplings, and C-H couplings via C-H activation. The text also covers such groundbreaking topics as recent achievements in the fields of C-C and C-X bond formation reactions as well as C-H activation involving oxidative couplings. With its novel and concise approach towards important building blocks in organic chemistry and its focus on synthetic applications, this handbook is of great interest to all synthetic chemists in academia and industry alike.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527681000

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9783527681006

Cultivating Fanatic in City

Volume 2

By: Chao JiHuTuShen

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Cultivating Fanatic in City

Volume 2

By: Chao JiHuTuShen

A powerful cultivator who had been reborn had somehow ended up in the hands of a high school student, saved the beauty of the school belle, made a bet with the beautiful vice principal, was a wild and strong girlfriend ... This was because every single movement of Lu Chong was incredible!

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Funstory

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1649206860

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9781649206862

Social Entrepreneurship

An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Social Value

By: Chao Guo,Wolfgang Bielefeld

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Social Entrepreneurship

An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Social Value

By: Chao Guo,Wolfgang Bielefeld

Social entrepreneurship explained Social entrepreneurship is a hot topic in public and non-profit management. Organizations everywhere are looking for innovative ways to respond to financial, social, and regulatory pressures. The next generation of transformative leaders will be risk takers who know how to face even the biggest challenges using market-driven strategies that get results. This book contains everything students and professionals need to know about the cutting-edge practice of social entrepreneurship. In Social Entrepreneurship, you'll learn how to read markets and environments to identify opportunities for entrepreneurial activity. Then, the authors show to convert opportunities into successful ventures: one-time initiatives, ongoing programs and new, mission-driven organizations are all covered. Sector-specific strategies and recommendations guide readers directly to the techniques that will have the biggest impact. Employs an evidence-based approach to help organizations achieve goals more efficiently Offers advice on taking advantage of new technologies and untapped resources using the most current approaches Written by renowned experts in the field of social entrepreneurship Authors Guo and Bielefeld have been instrumental in advancing the study of social entrepreneurship, and they understand the trends and currents in the field. They bring readers up to date and ready them to begin implementing changes that really make a difference. In non-profits and government, leadership is already becoming synonymous with social entrepreneurship, and this book is its foundation.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118844173

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9781118844175

Quality of Service Control in High-Speed Networks

By: H. Jonathan Chao,Xiaolei Guo

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Quality of Service Control in High-Speed Networks

By: H. Jonathan Chao,Xiaolei Guo

Der Datenverkehr in lokalen und globalen Datennetzwerken nimmt ständig zu. Quality of Service zu bieten, ist deshalb eine der vordringlichsten Aufgaben der Kommunikationsindustrie. Eine praxisnahe Einführung in die QoS-Implementierung bietet diese topaktuelle Buch, das auch neue Steuerungstechniken für die nächste Generation der Multimedia-Netze erläutert. Theoretische Forschungsergebnisse und Beispiele aus der ingenieurtechnischen Praxis werden gleichermaßen berücksichtigt.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471003972

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9780471003977

God-killing Legend

Volume 1

By: Chao ZiXiaoManTou

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God-killing Legend

Volume 1

By: Chao ZiXiaoManTou

Wang, do you really want to fight?" "It seems like Dark Night's hands are rubbing against its chest in excitement, and it won't be able to wait any longer." Boss, as long as you give the order, we will kill our way out and kill every single one of those 20,000 warlord knights! " As soon as the topic of war was brought up, Cang Jue could no longer hold himself back.

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Funstory

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1649484739

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9781649484734

Say It in Chinese

New Edition

By: Eveline Chao

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Say It in Chinese

New Edition

By: Eveline Chao

Gets quickly to the heart of communication." -- The New York Times. Compact and comprehensive, this convenient reference features more than 1,600 numbered entries for every occasion. New contents include terms for modern technology, transportation, and communications. Contains essential information for travelers, a pronunciation guide, a supplement on Chinese food, and a 2,500-word English-Chinese dictionary"--

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Courier Corporation

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0486485110

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9780486485119

From Manchurian Princess to the American Dream

An Anecdotal Memoir of Two Immigrant Lives

By: Anna Chao Pai

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From Manchurian Princess to the American Dream

An Anecdotal Memoir of Two Immigrant Lives

By: Anna Chao Pai

While most immigrants to the United States seek better lives than what they had, author Anna Chao Pai’s parents came seeking safety from the Japanese; they left a life of luxury and power to become ordinary American citizens. In the end, the transition to ordinary was traumatic for Pai’s mother, who became mentally unbalanced. In From Manchurian Princess to the American Dream, Pai shares her story which is as much about her mother as it is about her. Pai was four years old when her family came to America from China, forced to flee because of war. She tells how they moved almost once a year, experiencing discrimination against Asians during World Word II, and attended twelve different schools before starting college. While her father and her siblings adjusted, despite racism against Asians, Pai’s mother, unable to learn the language, never assimilated into American life. From Manchurian Princess to the American Dream offers a look at modern Chinese history and culture. It provides insight into the impact of immigration on people who are ripped from their homes and find themselves beginning life in a foreign country where they must learn a new language and eventually lose all they left behind. Noting the courage it took for Pai’s parents to survive, this memoir is a testament to them and her family.

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iUniverse

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1532064470

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Remote Sensing and Actuation Using Unmanned Vehicles

By: Haiyang Chao,Yang Chen

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Remote Sensing and Actuation Using Unmanned Vehicles

By: Haiyang Chao,Yang Chen

Unmanned systems and robotics technologies have become very popular recently owing to their ability to replace human beings in dangerous, tedious, or repetitious jobs. This book fill the gap in the field between research and real-world applications, providing scientists and engineers with essential information on how to design and employ networked unmanned vehicles for remote sensing and distributed control purposes. Target scenarios include environmental or agricultural applications such as river/reservoir surveillance, wind profiling measurement, and monitoring/control of chemical leaks.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118377168

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9781118377161

New Directions of Modern Cryptography

By: Zhenfu Chao

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New Directions of Modern Cryptography

By: Zhenfu Chao

Modern cryptography has evolved dramatically since the 1970s. With the rise of new network architectures and services, the field encompasses much more than traditional communication where each side is of a single user. It also covers emerging communication where at least one side is of multiple users. New Directions of Modern Cryptography presents general principles and application paradigms critical to the future of this field. The study of cryptography is motivated by and driven forward by security requirements. All the new directions of modern cryptography, including proxy re-cryptography, attribute-based cryptography, batch cryptography, and noncommutative cryptography have arisen from these requirements. Focusing on these four kinds of cryptography, this volume presents the fundamental definitions, precise assumptions, and rigorous security proofs of cryptographic primitives and related protocols. It also describes how they originated from security requirements and how they are applied. The book provides vivid demonstrations of how modern cryptographic techniques can be used to solve security problems. The applications cover wired and wireless communication networks, satellite communication networks, multicast/broadcast and TV networks, and newly emerging networks. It also describes some open problems that challenge the new directions of modern cryptography. This volume is an essential resource for cryptographers and practitioners of network security, security researchers and engineers, and those responsible for designing and developing secure network systems.

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CRC Press

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1466501383

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9781466501386

21st Century Maritime Silk Road: Wave Energy Resource Evaluation

By: Chongwei Zheng,Jianjun Xu,Chao Zhan,Qing Wang

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21st Century Maritime Silk Road: Wave Energy Resource Evaluation

By: Chongwei Zheng,Jianjun Xu,Chao Zhan,Qing Wang

This book focuses on the evaluation of wave energy in the Maritime Silk Road. Firstly, it compares wave energy and other main energy sources, and then discusses the various disadvantages. It also presents the current research and the difficulties of wave energy evaluation, and systematically analyzes the climatic characteristics of the wave energy, including the temporal–spatial distribution and climatic trend of a series of key factors (e.g. wave power density, availability, richness, stability, energy direction, energy storage). It then describes the design of a short-term forecasting scheme and a long-term projection scheme of wave energy suitable for the Maritime Silk Road, to serve as a plan for the daily operation and long-term development of wave energy. Further, it highlights the wave energy analysis and decision-making in the context of the remote islands and reefs, using Sri Lanka is taken as a case study. Lastly, it presents the first wave energy resource dataset for the Maritime Silk Road. This book is one of a series of publications on the 21st century Maritime Silk Road (shortened as “Maritime Silk Road”) that covers the characteristics of the marine environment and marine new energy, remote islands and reef construction, climate change, early warning of wave disasters, legal escort, marine environment and energy big data construction, contributing to the safe and efficient construction of the Maritime Silk Road. It aims to improve our knowledge of the ocean, and so improve the capacity for marine construction, enhance the viability of remote islands and reefs, ease the energy crisis and protect the ecological environment and improve the quality of life of residents along the Maritime Silk Road, as well as to protect the rights, and interests of the countries and regions participating in the construction of the Maritime Silk Road. This book is a valuable reference resource for decision-makers, researchers, and marine engineers working in the related fields.

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Springer Nature

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9811509174

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9789811509179

Graphene Network Scaffolded Flexible Electrodes—From Lithium to Sodium Ion Batteries

By: Dongliang Chao

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Graphene Network Scaffolded Flexible Electrodes—From Lithium to Sodium Ion Batteries

By: Dongliang Chao

Research on deformable and wearable electronics has promoted an increasing demand for next-generation power sources with high energy/power density that are low cost, lightweight, thin and flexible. One key challenge in flexible electrochemical energy storage devices is the development of reliable electrodes using open-framework materials with robust structures and high performance. Based on an exploration of 3D porous graphene as a flexible substrate, this book constructs free-standing, binder-free, 3D array electrodes for use in batteries, and demonstrates the reasons for the research transformation from Li to Na batteries. It incorporates the first principles of computational investigation and in situ XRD, Raman observations to systematically reveal the working mechanism of the electrodes and structure evolution during ion insertion/extraction. These encouraging results and proposed mechanisms may accelerate further development of high rate batteries using smart nanoengineering of the electrode materials, which make “Na ion battery could be better than Li ion battery” possible.

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9811330808

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9789811330803

Shanghai Immortal

A richly told romantic fantasy novel set in Jazz Age Shanghai

By: A. Y. Chao

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Shanghai Immortal

A richly told romantic fantasy novel set in Jazz Age Shanghai

By: A. Y. Chao

Half vampire. Half fox-spirit. All trouble. Half vampire, half fox-spirit, and all trouble, Lady Jing has never belonged anywhere. As the King of Hell's ward, she has spent the past ninety years dodging taunts from vicious courtiers and trying - and failing - to control her temper. So when she overhears the courtiers plotting to steal a priceless pearl, she seizes her chance to expose them. With the help of gentle mortal Tony Lee, Jing embarks on a chase for intel, through Hell and into jazz-age Shanghai. But when her hijinks put Tony in danger, she must decide which is more important: avenging her loss of face, or a chance for tenderness - and maybe even love . . .

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Hodderscape

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139971743X

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9781399717434

Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China

A Study of Physicians in Suzhou, 1600-1850

By: Yüan-ling Chao

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Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China

A Study of Physicians in Suzhou, 1600-1850

By: Yüan-ling Chao

Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China explores the vibrant medical landscape in late imperial China (1600-1850), focusing on one of the most cultured and elegant cities in the lower Yangzi region, Suzhou. The central theme of the book is that the economic prosperity and intellectual vibrancy of late imperial Jiangnan fostered the emergence of a community of physicians who engaged in lively debates concerning qualifications and practice, leading to a growing sense of identity and new ways of theorizing and practicing medicine. It shows that the classical medical tradition interacted in a fluid relationship with both the state and the folk traditions. Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China is divided into two parts. Part I provides a broad framework on the discourse on the ideal physician, as well as examining the sanhuang miao (Temple of the Three Emperors) and challenges to existing medical theories by the wenbing (warm factor) school. Part II focuses on Suzhou physicians and their writings within the broad medical tradition, illustrates a local perspective of medicine's relationship with the state through an examination of the outbreak of epidemics in Suzhou, and discusses the development of the fields of specialties in medicine.

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Peter Lang

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1433103818

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9781433103810

Doing Business in China

By: Tim Ambler,Morgen Witzel,Chao Xi

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Doing Business in China

By: Tim Ambler,Morgen Witzel,Chao Xi

Aimed specifically at Western and non-Chinese businesses and managers this book offers a theoretical framework for understanding Chinese business culture and a practical guide to business practices, market conditions, negotiations, organizations, networks and the business environment in China and the factors that can lead to business success. The authors guide the reader through the processes of market entry, marketing and managing operations in this unique social and cultural context by including: case studies and examples of business ventures as diverse as ornamental lamps, car washes, sausages and outdoor clothing discussions of the issues surrounding products, pricing, distribution and advertising advice on choosing business partners, negotiating and entering Chinese Overseas markets guides to further resources in local cultures to help businesses tailor their strategies to local conditions. Building on the strengths of the first two editions with new case studies, updated discussion of the evolving marketplace and its interactions with government and a new chapter on business law, the third edition of Doing Business in China will continue to be the number one resource for students of international business and management studies and practitioners with an eye on China.

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Routledge

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1134076193

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9781134076192

Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy in Taiwan's Politics

Democratic Consolidation and External Relations

By: Bruce Dickson,Chien-Min Chao

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Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy in Taiwan's Politics

Democratic Consolidation and External Relations

By: Bruce Dickson,Chien-Min Chao

The 12 years of Lee Teng-hui's presidency were marked by a series of contrary trends such as progress in the consolidation of Taiwan's democracy, and periodic conflicts with China. This book assesses the complex legacy of Lee Teng-hui by looking at his accomplishments and setbacks.

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1315290391

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Neural Network-Based State-of-Charge and State-of-Health Estimation

By: Qi Huang,Shunli Wang,Yujie Wang,Chao Wang,Carlos Fernandez,Josep M. Guerrero

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Neural Network-Based State-of-Charge and State-of-Health Estimation

By: Qi Huang,Shunli Wang,Yujie Wang,Chao Wang,Carlos Fernandez,Josep M. Guerrero

To deal with environmental deterioration and energy crises, developing clean and sustainable energy resources has become the strategic goal of the majority of countries in the global community. Lithium-ion batteries are the modes of power and energy storage in the new energy industry, and are also the main power source of new energy vehicles. State-of-charge (SOC) and state-of-health (SOH) are important indicators to measure whether a battery management system (BMS) is safe and effective. Therefore, this book focuses on the co-estimation strategies of SOC and SOH for power lithium-ion batteries. The book describes the key technologies of lithium-ion batteries in SOC and SOH monitoring and proposes a collaborative optimization estimation strategy based on neural networks (NN), which provide technical references for the design and application of a lithium-ion battery power management system. The theoretical methods in this book will be of interest to scholars and engineers engaged in the field of battery management system research.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527552187

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9781527552180

Oral Epic Traditions in China and Beyond

By: Chao Gejin

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Oral Epic Traditions in China and Beyond

By: Chao Gejin

This volume is the masterpiece of Chao Gejin, one of the best-known Chinese scholars of Epic studies, representing his most influential works on the change of the nature of the Epic across the twentieth century. The discussion ranges from Homeric and Indo-European epics to renewed discoveries of age-old African and Asian epics. The author details developments in research from Parry and Lord’s work on Serbo-Croat oral poetry to his own research on the Mongol heroic epic. The book traces the formation of theoretical systems such as Oral Formulaic Theory, Ethnopoetics and Performance Theory, and ends with the author’s explorations of the 20th-century Mongolian bard Arimpil’s singing of his native epic poetry. Using methods that previous scholars used to demonstrate the fundamentally oral nature of the Homeric epic, Chao brings to light the poetic richness of the still-living Mongol oral epic tradition. Students and scholars of epic studies, literature, folklore and anthropology will find this an essential reference.

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Routledge

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1000529843

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Urban Wind Environment

Integrated Climate-Sensitive Planning and Design

By: Chao Yuan

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Urban Wind Environment

Integrated Climate-Sensitive Planning and Design

By: Chao Yuan

In the context of urbanization and compact urban living, conventional experience-based planning and design often cannot adequately address the serious environmental issues, such as thermal comfort and air quality. The ultimate goal of this book is to facilitate a paradigm shift from the conventional experience-based ways to a more scientific, evidence-based process of decision making in both urban planning and architectural design stage. This book introduces novel yet practical modelling and mapping methods, and provides scientific understandings of the urban typologies and wind environment from the urban to building scale through real examples and case studies. The tools provided in this book aid a systematic implementation of environmental information from urban planning to building design by making wind information more accessible to both urban planners and architects, and significantly increasing the impact of urban climate information on the practical urban planning and design. This book is a useful reference book to architectural postgraduates, design practitioners and planners, urban climate researchers, as well as policy makers for developing future livable and sustainable cities.

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Springer

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9811054517

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9789811054518

Geochemical Behavior of Levoglucosan in Tibetan Plateau Glacier Snow and Ice

By: Chao You

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Geochemical Behavior of Levoglucosan in Tibetan Plateau Glacier Snow and Ice

By: Chao You

This book focuses on geochemical behavior and ancient records of the specific biomarker levoglucosan in Tibetan glaciers, Based on samples from the Zangsegangri (ZSGR) ice cores obtained from the central Tibetan Plateau, it presents annually resolved levoglucosan records and fire changes over the past 430 years. It also discusses the interaction between fire, climate change, and human activities. This is the first effort to reconstruct annual resolution fire records in Tibetan ice, providing crucial information and substantially improved analytical methods toward a better understanding of past fire changes.

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9811579733

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CMOS Past, Present and Future

By: Henry Radamson,Eddy Simoen,Jun Luo,Chao Zhao

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CMOS Past, Present and Future

By: Henry Radamson,Eddy Simoen,Jun Luo,Chao Zhao

CMOS Past, Present and Future provides insight from the basics, to the state-of-the-art of CMOS processing and electrical characterization, including the integration of Group IV semiconductors-based photonics. The book goes into the pitfalls and opportunities associated with the use of hetero-epitaxy on silicon with strain engineering and the integration of photonics and high-mobility channels on a silicon platform. It begins with the basic definitions and equations, but extends to present technologies and challenges, creating a roadmap on the origins of the technology and its evolution to the present, along with a vision for future trends. The book examines the challenges and opportunities that materials beyond silicon provide, including a close look at high-k materials and metal gate, strain engineering, channel material and mobility, and contacts. The book's key approach is on characterizations, device processing and electrical measurements. - Addresses challenges and opportunities for the use of CMOS - Covers the latest methods of strain engineering, materials integration to increase mobility, nano-scaled transistor processing, and integration of CMOS with photonic components - Provides a look at the evolution of CMOS technology, including the origins of the technology, current status and future possibilities

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Woodhead Publishing

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0081021402

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9780081021408

Robot Learning Human Skills and Intelligent Control Design

By: Chenguang Yang,Chao Zeng,Jianwei Zhang

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Robot Learning Human Skills and Intelligent Control Design

By: Chenguang Yang,Chao Zeng,Jianwei Zhang

In the last decades robots are expected to be of increasing intelligence to deal with a large range of tasks. Especially, robots are supposed to be able to learn manipulation skills from humans. To this end, a number of learning algorithms and techniques have been developed and successfully implemented for various robotic tasks. Among these methods, learning from demonstrations (LfD) enables robots to effectively and efficiently acquire skills by learning from human demonstrators, such that a robot can be quickly programmed to perform a new task. This book introduces recent results on the development of advanced LfD-based learning and control approaches to improve the robot dexterous manipulation. First, there's an introduction to the simulation tools and robot platforms used in the authors' research. In order to enable a robot learning of human-like adaptive skills, the book explains how to transfer a human user’s arm variable stiffness to the robot, based on the online estimation from the muscle electromyography (EMG). Next, the motion and impedance profiles can be both modelled by dynamical movement primitives such that both of them can be planned and generalized for new tasks. Furthermore, the book introduces how to learn the correlation between signals collected from demonstration, i.e., motion trajectory, stiffness profile estimated from EMG and interaction force, using statistical models such as hidden semi-Markov model and Gaussian Mixture Regression. Several widely used human-robot interaction interfaces (such as motion capture-based teleoperation) are presented, which allow a human user to interact with a robot and transfer movements to it in both simulation and real-word environments. Finally, improved performance of robot manipulation resulted from neural network enhanced control strategies is presented. A large number of examples of simulation and experiments of daily life tasks are included in this book to facilitate better understanding of the readers.

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1000395170

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A Library of Clouds

The Scripture of the Immaculate Numen and the Rewriting of Daoist Texts

By: J. E. E. Pettit,Chao-jan Chang

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A Library of Clouds

The Scripture of the Immaculate Numen and the Rewriting of Daoist Texts

By: J. E. E. Pettit,Chao-jan Chang

From early times, Daoist writers claimed to receive scriptures via revelation from heavenly beings. In numerous cases, these writings were composed over the course of many nights and by different mediums. New revelations were often hastily appended, and the resulting unevenness gave rise to the impression that Daoist texts often appear slapdash and contain contradictions. A Library of Clouds focuses on the re-writing of Daoist scriptures in the Upper Clarity (Shangqing) lineage in fourth- and fifth-century China. Scholarship on Upper Clarity Daoism has been dominated by attempts to uncover “original” or “authentic” texts, which has resulted in the neglect of later scriptures—including the work fully translated and annotated here, the Scripture of the Immaculate Numen, one of the Three Wonders (sanqi) and among the most prized Daoist texts in medieval China. The scripture’s lack of a coherent structure and its different authorial voices have led many to see it not as a unified work but the creation of different editors who shaped and reshaped it over time. A Library of Clouds constructs new ways of understanding the complex authorship of texts like the Scripture of the Immaculate Numen and their place in early medieval Daoism. It stresses their significance in understanding the ways in which manuscripts were written, received, and distributed in early medieval China. By situating the scripture within its immediate hagiographic and ritual contexts, it suggests that this kind of revelatory literature is best understood as a pastiche of ideas, a process of weaving together previously circulating notions and beliefs into a new scriptural fabric.

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University of Hawaii Press

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082488292X

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9780824882921

Suprastars of Chemistry

By: Tony D. James,Ronald K. Castellano ,Victor Borovkov,Tangxin Xiao,Chao Deng

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Suprastars of Chemistry

By: Tony D. James,Ronald K. Castellano ,Victor Borovkov,Tangxin Xiao,Chao Deng

The field of Supramolecular Chemistry has rapidly evolved over the last 2 decades to the point where it is now influences a diverse range of research areas, drives technological breakthroughs, and often results in breathtaking feats of ingenuity along the way. None of these advancements would be possible without the creativity and talent of Supramolecular Chemists throughout the world, and this Research Topic aims to celebrate those scientists leading the way - the "Suprastars." Contributors to this collection were nominated by the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Chemistry, and by showcasing their work here, we aim to provide both a snapshot of the current field and also a glimpse what the next decade might hold. We welcome Original Research and Review articles, in themes including but not limited to: · Host-guest systems and host-guest interactions · Threaded molecules and slide-ring materials · Supramolecular polymers · Metallocycles and metallocages · Molecular machines and motors · Molecular sensors (chemosensors) · Nanoreactors and nanocarriers · Supramolecular catalysts · Metal-ligand assemblies · Self-assembly and directed self-assembly · Dynamic combinatorial chemistry · Foldamers · Biological supramolecular chemistry (including DNA and enzymes) · Experimental and theoretical aspects of bonding in supramolecular chemistry · Supramolecular chemistry at surfaces · Charged (anion and cation) and small molecule receptor chemistry · Developments in theoretical and practical aspects of supramolecular chemistry

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2889764567

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Safe Robot Navigation Among Moving and Steady Obstacles

By: Andrey V. Savkin,Alexey S. Matveev,Michael Hoy,Chao Wang

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Safe Robot Navigation Among Moving and Steady Obstacles

By: Andrey V. Savkin,Alexey S. Matveev,Michael Hoy,Chao Wang

Safe Robot Navigation Among Moving and Steady Obstacles is the first book to focus on reactive navigation algorithms in unknown dynamic environments with moving and steady obstacles. The first three chapters provide introduction and background on sliding mode control theory, sensor models, and vehicle kinematics. Chapter 4 deals with the problem of optimal navigation in the presence of obstacles. Chapter 5 discusses the problem of reactively navigating. In Chapter 6, border patrolling algorithms are applied to a more general problem of reactively navigating. A method for guidance of a Dubins-like mobile robot is presented in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 introduces and studies a simple biologically-inspired strategy for navigation a Dubins-car. Chapter 9 deals with a hard scenario where the environment of operation is cluttered with obstacles that may undergo arbitrary motions, including rotations and deformations. Chapter 10 presents a novel reactive algorithm for collision free navigation of a nonholonomic robot in unknown complex dynamic environments with moving obstacles. Chapter 11 introduces and examines a novel purely reactive algorithm to navigate a planar mobile robot in densely cluttered environments with unpredictably moving and deforming obstacles. Chapter 12 considers a multiple robot scenario. For the Control and Automation Engineer, this book offers accessible and precise development of important mathematical models and results. All the presented results have mathematically rigorous proofs. On the other hand, the Engineer in Industry can benefit by the experiments with real robots such as Pioneer robots, autonomous wheelchairs and autonomous mobile hospital. - First book on collision free reactive robot navigation in unknown dynamic environments - Bridges the gap between mathematical model and practical algorithms - Presents implementable and computationally efficient algorithms of robot navigation - Includes mathematically rigorous proofs of their convergence - A detailed review of existing reactive navigation algorithm for obstacle avoidance - Describes fundamentals of sliding mode control

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0128037571

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The Power of Data

Data Journalism Production and Ethics Studies

By: ZHANG Chao

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The Power of Data

Data Journalism Production and Ethics Studies

By: ZHANG Chao

This book is a theoretical work on data journalism production that drills down the models, narratives, and ethics. From idea to concept and then to a widespread innovative trend, data journalism has become a new global paradigm, facilitating the transformation to focus on data, convergence, and intelligence. Drawing on various theoretical resources of communication, narratology, ethics, management, literature and art, game studies, and data science, this book explores the cutting-edge issues in current data journalism production. It critically analyzes crucial topics, including the boundary generalization of data journalism, data science methodology, the illusion of choice in interactive narratives, the word-image relationship in data visualization, and pragmatic objectivity and transparency in production ethics. Provided with a toolbox of classic examples of global data journalism, this book will be of great value to scholars and students of data journalism or new media, data journalists, and journalism professionals interested in the areas.

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1000922413

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