This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes how IBM PureApplicationTM System supports the creation of virtual systems and virtual applications. PureApplication System does so using a pattern model that enables you to take advantage of predefined, pre-configured, and proven middleware topologies and deployments. This book also presents an abstraction level that focuses on functional capabilities and applications, completely encapsulating the underlying middleware. It describes in detail the model and the associated frameworks in PureApplication System, as well as a methodology and approach toward designing and implementing a custom pattern model. This book shows concrete implementation examples that you can use when creating your own pattern model, paired with a collection of leading practices. This IBM Redbooks publication gives critical guidance to, and serves as a reference for, independent software vendors (ISVs) who want to create patterns for their packaged applications on PureApplication System. Clients who want to extend and enhance their existing patterns can also use this book.
As the first book to introduce and analyze cultural studies in contemporary China, this volume is an important resource for Western scholars wishing to understand the rise and development of cultural studies in China. Organized according to subject, it includes extensive material examining the relationships between culture and politics, as well as culture and institutions in contemporary China. Further, it discusses the development of cultural debates.
Imagine that year, he was a gentleman in the 21st century. Although he was not a peerless handsome guy, he was strong after all. Although he was just an orphan with no relatives and no reason, he was still alone without a girlfriend after graduating from an ordinary university, but on the whole, he should also be regarded as a promising young man with a bright future
On the balcony, there is a small round glass, and a tall and fat big teacup stands on the coffee table, full of moisture. Apart from this small chair, more places on the balcony are occupied by a Zhang Shen yellow nine-wrist rolled rattan rocking chair. This is a small but warm and leisurely private world.
Model order reduction (MOR) techniques reduce the complexity of VLSI designs, paving the way to higher operating speeds and smaller feature sizes. This book presents a systematic introduction to, and treatment of, the key MOR methods employed in general linear circuits, using real-world examples to illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of each algorithm. Following a review of traditional projection-based techniques, coverage progresses to more advanced MOR methods for VLSI design, including HMOR, passive truncated balanced realization (TBR) methods, efficient inductance modeling via the VPEC model, and structure-preserving MOR techniques. Where possible, numerical methods are approached from the CAD engineer's perspective, avoiding complex mathematics and allowing the reader to take on real design problems and develop more effective tools. With practical examples and over 100 illustrations, this book is suitable for researchers and graduate students of electrical and computer engineering, as well as practitioners working in the VLSI design industry.
Even in the gorgeous sunshine, the back of high-rise buildings is also a shadow, and there are more shadows behind people; In this world, darkness is as eternal as light, and there is no darkness without light
In a twinkling, the blood fog stopped spreading, the bone spears were all resisted by a thin film, and the blood and bones all retracted, turning into two blood energy balls with a size of two meters, and explosions kept ringing inside.
Although Fang Chai has been desperately moving his legs, the distance between man and chicken is still shortening at the speed visible to the naked eye.
We study, both empirically and quantitatively, the role of savings and the labor supply in self-insurance channels over the life cycle when one faces not only idiosyncratic income risks, but also changes in longevity risk and pension benefits. We pick China as a case study since China has undergone a dramatic process of rapid aging and a tremendous reduction in social security benefits for the period 1995-2009. We find that both savings and the labor supply are quantitatively important self-insurance channels in responding to changes in longevity risk and pension benefits, and the responses via adjustment to savings and labor supply have significant macroeconomic implications. Applying the model to China, we find that the pension reform and rapid aging together contribute 55 percent of the increase in the household saving rate from 1995 to 2009, and they jointly capture about 64 percent of the drastic increase in the labor supply for the same period.
I know I owe you more, but I can only pin it on the afterlife ?? if there is an afterlife, I will definitely repay your love with my whole life, I will!
The toxins in the body are finally slowly discharged. According to this progress, it won't be long before I can return to being a martial arts fighter.
Surveys the electrical and layout perspectives of System-in-Package, the system integration technology that has emerged as a required technology to reduce the system board space and height in addition to the overall time-to-market and design cost of consumer electronics products such as those of cell phones, audio/video players and digital cameras.
Bone remodeling is thought to be regulated by many factors including nutritional status, humoral factors, and biomechanical stress. However, the involvement of the autonomic nervous system, mainly the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), in the modulation of bone remodeling is beginning to receive more attention. Neural innervation of bone has been demonstrated. Both experimental and clinical evidence has indicated the involvement of autonomic nervous system regulation in bone metabolism. The sympathetic neural pathway is so far the only identified link between the potent leptin-dependent central control and bone cells. An intact autonomic nervous system contributes to the maintenance of healthy bone tissue. Conversely, disturbance of the autonomic nervous system could induce abnormal bone remodeling. In this chapter, we review current knowledge about the role of the autonomic nervous system in abnormal bone formation and its association with clinical diseases such as heterotopic ossification, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament, postmenopausal osteoporosis, adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, complex regional pain syndrome, Charcot neuro-osteoarthropathy, unloading-induced osteoporosis, central or peripheral nervous system damage, and depression-induced osteoporosis. Understanding the mechanism of sympathetic neural signaling in bone remodeling may shed light on a potential treatment avenue for the prevention or reversal of bone loss.
There was silence in the central square of Mozi Village. On weekdays, the cicadas kept chirping, and they were probably blinded by the hot sun. All of them faded without making a sound.
This SpringerBrief presents spatio-temporal data analytics for wind energy integration using stochastic modeling and optimization methods. It explores techniques for efficiently integrating renewable energy generation into bulk power grids. The operational challenges of wind, and its variability are carefully examined. A spatio-temporal analysis approach enables the authors to develop Markov-chain-based short-term forecasts of wind farm power generation. To deal with the wind ramp dynamics, a support vector machine enhanced Markov model is introduced. The stochastic optimization of economic dispatch (ED) and interruptible load management are investigated as well. Spatio-Temporal Data Analytics for Wind Energy Integration is valuable for researchers and professionals working towards renewable energy integration. Advanced-level students studying electrical, computer and energy engineering should also find the content useful.
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.
In recent years, we have witnessed a rapid expansion of using super-thin metasurfaces to manipulate light or electromagnetic wave in a subwavelength scale. However, most designs are confined to a passive scheme and monofunctional operation, which hinders considerably the promising applications of the metasurfaces. Specifically, the tunable and multifunctional metasurfaces enable to facilitate switchable functionalities and multiple functionalities which are extremely essential and useful for integrated optics and microwaves, well alleviating aforementioned issues. In this book, we introduce our efforts in exploring the physics principles, design approaches, and numerical and experimental demonstrations on the fascinating functionalities realized. We start by introducing in Chapter 2 the "merging" scheme in constructing multi-functional metadevices, paying particular attention to its shortcomings issues. Having understood the merits and disadvantages of the "merging" scheme, we then introduce in Chapter 3 another approach to realize bifunctional metadevices under linearly polarized excitations, working in both reflection and transmission geometries or even in the full space. As a step further, we summarizes our efforts in Chapter 4 on making multifunctional devices under circularly polarized excitations, again including designing principles and devices fabrications/characterizations. Starting from Chapter 5, we turn to introduce our efforts on using the "active" scheme to construct multifunctional metadevices under linearly polarized wave operation. Chapter 6 further concentrates on how to employ the tunable strategy to achieve helicity/frequency controls of the circularly polarized waves in reflection geometry. We finally conclude this book in Chapter 7 by presenting our perspectives on future directions of metasurfaces and metadevices.
This book addresses the fundamental theory and key technologies of narrowband and broadband mobile communication systems specifically for railways. It describes novel relaying schemes that meet the different design criteria for railways and discusses the applications of signal classification techniques as well as offline resource scheduling as a way of advancing rail practice. Further, it introduces Novel Long Term Evolution for Railway (LTE-R) network architecture, the Quality of Service (QoS) requirement of LTE-R and its performance evaluation and discusses in detail security technologies for rail-dedicated mobile communication systems. The advanced research findings presented in the book are all based on high-speed railway measurement data, which offer insights into the propagation mechanisms and corresponding modeling theory and approaches in unique railway scenarios.It is a valuable resource for researchers, engineers and graduate students in the fields of rail traffic systems, telecommunication and information systems.
This book discusses the core principles and practical applications of a brand new machine category: liquid-metal soft machines and motors. After a brief introduction on the conventional soft robot and its allied materials, it presents the new conceptual liquid-metal machine, which revolutionizes existing rigid robots, both large and small. It outlines the typical features of the soft liquid-metal materials and describes the various transformation capabilities, mergence of separate metal droplets, self-rotation and planar locomotion of liquid-metal objects under external or internal mechanism. Further, it introduces a series of unusual phenomena discovered while developing the shape changeable smart soft machine and interprets the related mechanisms regarding the effects of the shape, size, voltage, orientation and geometries of the external fields to control the liquid-metal transformers. Moreover, the book illustrates typical strategies to construct a group of different advanced functional liquid-metal soft machines, since such machines or robots are hard to fabricate using rigid-metal or conventional materials. With highly significant fundamental and practical findings, this book is intended for researchers interested in establishing a general method for making future smart soft machine and accompanying robots.
Yao position is one of the most sophisticated issues in Yi-ology. The author, through his deep reflections and numerous studies, tried several solutions and finally created a unique analyzing system which proves an extremely useful resource for studying Yao position and is also a new development of Meihua Yishu. The author has reviewed quite a few typical cases with a new perspective, each of which is very different but interesting to read. The author, based on his experience and imaginations, proposed some innovative opinions on several issues, which have filled the blanks in academic researches and can be of certain reference for the diviners and scholars in a concerned area.
At noon in midsummer, the sun is like fire. There is no wind in the air, and there is no rain. Only the scorching sun is burning, and the ground is boiling hot, which makes people dizzy. In this weather, even in the heavily guarded military camp, not many people are patrolling the camp,
God is love. He often reveals himself in special ways to show his love to us. A friend once said that this life is a big classroom. God has us in the classroom to learn the lessons. He is the teacher and uses the obstacles as the means for us to learn of his love, his discipline, and his sovereignty. Through learning, we draw closer to God. However, there are so many circumstances in the world that cause people not to feel or sense his presence. Because I understand how you feel, I decided to invite you on a journey to see how he has been revealing himself through the obstacles of this life to cause me to grow in him. The purpose of My Heart Longs for the Lord is to reach out to people from all walks of life. I pray that this book can be inspiring and encouraging to many in their walk with God and enhance their personal relationship with him.
In addition to the endless forest, there are countless lonely hills that stand strangely in every corner of the forest. In addition, there are countless Warcraft and beasts lurking in the forest, which makes those who want to cut some materials and take them back to make a fire only sigh and hesitate
Now, she has been working as a baili cream for three months-the third daughter of Bailihui, the prime minister of the dynasty, turned 16 this year and just arrived. Was married to the second prince
On a clear look, the face of the soul body is angular, like a knife. The high nose makes the facial features more delicate, and the eyelashes are slightly curled up, covering a pair of bright and deep eyes. The calm eyes are unpredictable and add a mysterious feeling. The handsome posture shows his demeanor as a king, as well as his long snow-white hair. Don't look too good at all!
There is a mountain named Dayan Mountain in Yicheng, and there is a Zhuangzi named Tengjiazhuang at the foot of Dayan Mountain. Every household in Zhuangzi is very close, just like a whole. On the periphery of Tengjiazhuang, there is a large wooden fence as high as nine feet
Come on, Yu, you'll be fine when you get into the Dragon Valley." It was a man who was bathed in black. Even the color of the night is less than one thousandth of the black light on men. Black light covered his whole body and he couldn't see his face
This is a black world. Black earth, black mountains, black trees, and black sky. . . . . . In the endless black forest, there is a red light flashing from time to time, which is very frightening. The world has a dead silence.
In this year, Germany changed its strategic policy, concentrated its superior forces to attack Russia in order to defeat Russia in the shortest time, and then dealt with Britain and France. The focus of the war between the two sides has reached the stage of strategic defense in countries such as Britain and France on the eastern and western fronts
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