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Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644

By: Association for Asian Studies. Ming Biographical History Project Committee,Luther Carrington Goodrich

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Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644

By: Association for Asian Studies. Ming Biographical History Project Committee,Luther Carrington Goodrich

Based largely upon original Ming documents, the Dictionary explores the lives of nearly 650 representative figures, both Chinese and foreign, who influenced the course of almost three hundred years of Chinese history. The articles span all classes, professions, and fields of endeavor, from emperors to artists, soldiers to missionaries, concubines, physicians, and pirates.

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023103833X

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Transmigrate to Renew Past Destiny

Volume 3

By: You Ming

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Transmigrate to Renew Past Destiny

Volume 3

By: You Ming

Yi Ming was lying on his side on the spacious and comfortable bed. He was covered by a dark blue blanket that covered his body. His muscular arms were exposed. One could see just how great his figure was ...

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Funstory

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1636456022

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Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing

A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics

By: Ming Dong Gu

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Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing

A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics

By: Ming Dong Gu

This ambitious work provides a systematic study of Chinese theories of reading and writing in intellectual thought and critical practice. The author maintains that there are two major hermeneutic traditions in Chinese literature: the politico-moralistic mainstream and the metaphysico-aesthetical undercurrent. In exploring the interaction between the two, Ming Dong Gu finds a movement toward interpretive openness. In this, the Chinese practice anticipates modern and Western theories of interpretation, especially literary openness and open poetics. Classic Chinese works are examined, including the Zhouyi (the I Ching or Book of Changes), the Shijing (the Book of Songs or Book of Poetry), and selected poetry, along with the philosophical background of the hermeneutic theories. Ultimately, Gu relates the Chinese practices of reading to Western hermeneutics, offering a cross-cultural conceptual model for the comparative study of reading and writing in general.

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State University of New York Press

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0791483479

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Rebirth: First Rank Wife

Volume 1

By: Cang Ming

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Rebirth: First Rank Wife

Volume 1

By: Cang Ming

[New Pit "Young Master Zhou of Rebirth"] [This article does not know how to lock doors]To live a new life, to hold a grudge for a lifetime, Zuo Shaoqing had the will to take revenge and take revenge.Those who should fight for it, fight for it.Who said that a bastard couldn't be the head of a household?Who said that officials could not love money?Who said that men couldn't break their sleeves?Who said that the top scholar could not be married off?As long as I like it, I'll take it all!

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1649350392

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Scholar's Path, A: An Anthology Of Classical Chinese Poems And Prose Of Chen Qing Shan - A Pioneer Writer Of Malayan-singapore Literature

By: Peter Min-liang Chen,Michael Min-hwa Tan,Chiu Ming Chan

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Scholar's Path, A: An Anthology Of Classical Chinese Poems And Prose Of Chen Qing Shan - A Pioneer Writer Of Malayan-singapore Literature

By: Peter Min-liang Chen,Michael Min-hwa Tan,Chiu Ming Chan

English translation and appreciation by Peter Chen and Michael Tan Reviewed by Chan Chiu MingAn original English translation from the Chinese text:A companion edition of the book in Chinese is available — the original classical text translated into modern Chinese and profusely annotated by Associate Professor Dr Chan Chiu Ming of National Institute of Education, Singapore.

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World Scientific

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9814464392

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Ten States, Five Dynasties, One Great Emperor

How Emperor Taizu Unified China in the Song Dynasty

By: Hung Hing Ming

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Ten States, Five Dynasties, One Great Emperor

How Emperor Taizu Unified China in the Song Dynasty

By: Hung Hing Ming

Drawn from Chinese classics of history, Hung Hing Ming's biographies introduce China's most emblematic historical figures and the cultural attributes fostered by China's ancient chronicles. This book is about one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history, Zhao Kuang Yin, founder of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). He is honored for having unified China in the extremely chaotic period of 'Five Dynasties and Ten States'. This enjoyable book introduces more of China's heroes and villains, highlighting a modest man yet a great emperor who brought peace and stability to the realm and saved the people from great suffering. Interwoven into the narrative of battles fought and alliances forged or flouted, we find examples of good leadership and bad, hot-headed fighters and disciplined warriors, and lessons on how to assess — and win — people's loyalty.

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Algora Publishing

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1628940727

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The Tso Chuan

Selections from China's Oldest Narrative History

By: Ming Zuoqiu

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The Tso Chuan

Selections from China's Oldest Narrative History

By: Ming Zuoqiu

A vivid chronicle of events in the feudal states of China between 722 and 468 B.C., the Tso Chuan has long been considered both a major historical document and and an influential literary model. Covering over 250 years, these historical narratives focus not only on the political, diplomatic, and military affairs of ancient China, but also on its economic and cultural developments during the turbulent era when warring feudal states were gradually working towards unification. Ending shortly after Confucius' death in 479 B.C., the Tso Chuan provides a background to the life and thought of Confucius and his followers that is available in no other work.

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Columbia University Press

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0231067151

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Precarious Balance

Hong Kong Between China and Britain, 1842-1992

By: Ming K. Chan,John D. Young

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Precarious Balance

Hong Kong Between China and Britain, 1842-1992

By: Ming K. Chan,John D. Young

This work closely considers the history and political importance of Hong Kong in the period 1842 to 1992.

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Routledge

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1317462238

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The Magnificent Emperor Wu

China’s Han Dynasty

By: Hung, Hing Ming

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The Magnificent Emperor Wu

China’s Han Dynasty

By: Hung, Hing Ming

Hing Hing Ming reviews some of the major episodes of the Han Dynasty, from its founding by Liu Bang to the Lü Clan Disturbance and subsequent diplomatic overtures and military campaigns against the minor Chinese kingdoms, the Mongols, and Gojoseon (the ancient Korean Kingdom).

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1628944188

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Humanity and Self-cultivation

Essays in Confucian Thought

By: Wei-ming Tu,Weiming Tu

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Humanity and Self-cultivation

Essays in Confucian Thought

By: Wei-ming Tu,Weiming Tu

This first paperback edition of a renowned collection of essays by noted scholar of Chinese history and philosophy Tu Wei-ming includes a new introductory essay by Robert Cummings Neville, Dean of

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Cheng & Tsui

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0887273173

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MIMO-OFDM for LTE, WiFi and WiMAX

Coherent versus Non-coherent and Cooperative Turbo Transceivers

By: Lajos Hanzo,Yosef Akhtman,Li Wang,Ming Jiang

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MIMO-OFDM for LTE, WiFi and WiMAX

Coherent versus Non-coherent and Cooperative Turbo Transceivers

By: Lajos Hanzo,Yosef Akhtman,Li Wang,Ming Jiang

MIMO-OFDM for LTE, WIFI and WIMAX: Coherent versus Non-Coherent and Cooperative Turbo-Transceivers provides an up-to-date portrayal of wireless transmission based on OFDM techniques augmented with Space-Time Block Codes (STBCs) and Spatial-Division Multiple Access (SDMA). The volume also offers an in-depth treatment of cutting-edge Cooperative Communications. This monograph collates the latest techniques in a number of specific design areas of turbo-detected MIMO-OFDM wireless systems. As a result a wide range of topical subjects are examined, including channel coding and multiuser detection (MUD), with a special emphasis on optimum maximum-likelihood (ML) MUDs, reduced-complexity genetic algorithm aided near-ML MUDs and sphere detection. The benefits of spreading codes as well as joint iterative channel and data estimation are only a few of the radical new features of the book. Also considered are the benefits of turbo and LDPC channel coding, the entire suite of known joint coding and modulation schemes, space-time coding as well as SDM/SDMA MIMOs within the context of various application examples. The book systematically converts the lessons of Shannon's information theory into design principles applicable to practical wireless systems; the depth of discussions increases towards the end of the book. Discusses many state-of-the-art topics important to today's wireless communications engineers. Includes numerous complete system design examples for the industrial practitioner. Offers a detailed portrayal of sphere detection. Based on over twenty years of research into OFDM in the context of various applications, subsequently presenting comprehensive bibliographies.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111997299X

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Partitions: Optimality And Clustering - Vol Ii: Multi-parameter

By: Frank Kwang-ming Hwang,Uriel R Rothblum,Hong-bin Chen

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Partitions: Optimality And Clustering - Vol Ii: Multi-parameter

By: Frank Kwang-ming Hwang,Uriel R Rothblum,Hong-bin Chen

The need for optimal partition arises from many real-world problems involving the distribution of limited resources to many users. The “clustering” problem, which has recently received a lot of attention, is a special case of optimal partitioning. This book is the first attempt to collect all theoretical developments of optimal partitions, many of them derived by the authors, in an accessible place for easy reference. Much more than simply collecting the results, the book provides a general framework to unify these results and present them in an organized fashion.Many well-known practical problems of optimal partitions are dealt with. The authors show how they can be solved using the theory — or why they cannot be. These problems include: allocation of components to maximize system reliability; experiment design to identify defectives; design of circuit card library and of blood analyzer lines; abstraction of finite state machines and assignment of cache items to pages; the division of property and partition bargaining as well as touching on those well-known research areas such as scheduling, inventory, nearest neighbor assignment, the traveling salesman problem, vehicle routing, and graph partitions. The authors elucidate why the last three problems cannot be solved in the context of the theory.

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9814412368

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The Politics of Higher Education

The Imperial University in Northern Song China

By: Chu Ming-kin

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The Politics of Higher Education

The Imperial University in Northern Song China

By: Chu Ming-kin

The Politics of Higher Education: The Imperial University in Northern Song China uses the history of the Imperial University of the Northern Song to show the limits of the Song emperors’ powers. At the time, the university played an increasingly dominant role in selecting government officials. This role somehow curtailed the authority of the Song emperors, who did not possess absolute power and, more often than not, found their actions to be constrained by the institution. The nomination mechanism left room for political maneuvering and stakeholders—from emperors to scholar-officials—tried to influence the process. Hence, power struggles among successive emperors trying to assert their imperial authority ensued. Demands for greater autonomy by officials were, for example, unceasing. Chu Ming-kin shows that the road to autocracy was anything but linear. In fact, during the Northern Song dynasty, competition and compromises over diverse agendas constantly altered the political landscape. “The scholarship of this book is exceptionally sound. Chu’s command of both primary and secondary sources is breathtaking in its scope. This will be the standard treatment of Northern Song higher education for many years to come. The pages that describe how the university functioned as a cynical vehicle to facilitate upper class entry into the jinshi system are fascinating and an important contribution to the larger scholarship on Song culture.” —Charles Hartman, University at Albany, State University of New York “This work highlights in arresting detail a heretofore neglected area of higher education under the Northern Song, the Directorate of Higher Education, with particular focus on student activism at the peak of the institution’s political clout. There is nothing comparable either in China or the Western World. The book is ambitious in the use of sources, while nuanced in interpreting them. In sum, it is a work of rare erudition, particularly for a young scholar.” —Richard L. Davis, National Taiwan University

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988852819X

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Electronic Packaging Science and Technology

By: King-Ning Tu,Chih Chen,Hung-Ming Chen

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Electronic Packaging Science and Technology

By: King-Ning Tu,Chih Chen,Hung-Ming Chen

Must-have reference on electronic packaging technology! The electronics industry is shifting towards system packaging technology due to the need for higher chip circuit density without increasing production costs. Electronic packaging, or circuit integration, is seen as a necessary strategy to achieve a performance growth of electronic circuitry in next-generation electronics. With the implementation of novel materials with specific and tunable electrical and magnetic properties, electronic packaging is highly attractive as a solution to achieve denser levels of circuit integration. The first part of the book gives an overview of electronic packaging and provides the reader with the fundamentals of the most important packaging techniques such as wire bonding, tap automatic bonding, flip chip solder joint bonding, microbump bonding, and low temperature direct Cu-to-Cu bonding. Part two consists of concepts of electronic circuit design and its role in low power devices, biomedical devices, and circuit integration. The last part of the book contains topics based on the science of electronic packaging and the reliability of packaging technology.

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111941833X

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Pollutant Dispersion in Built Environment

By: Tingzhen Ming,Chong Peng,Tingrui Gong,Zhengtong Li

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Pollutant Dispersion in Built Environment

By: Tingzhen Ming,Chong Peng,Tingrui Gong,Zhengtong Li

This book discusses energy transfer, fluid flow and pollution in built environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of the highly detailed fundamental theories as well as the technologies used and the application of heat and mass transfer and fluid flow in built environments, with a focus on the mathematical models and computational and experimental methods. It is a valuable resource for researchers in the fields of buildings and environment, heat transfer and global warming.

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Commemorating the Past and Looking Towards the Future

OCPA 2000 : Proceedings of the Third Joint Meeting of Chinese Physicists Worldwide, 31 July-4 August, 2000, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK

By: Ngee-pong Chang,Hon Ming Lai,Cheuk-Yin Wong

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Commemorating the Past and Looking Towards the Future

OCPA 2000 : Proceedings of the Third Joint Meeting of Chinese Physicists Worldwide, 31 July-4 August, 2000, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK

By: Ngee-pong Chang,Hon Ming Lai,Cheuk-Yin Wong

OCPA 2000 provided a forum for researchers from the various subfields of physics to broaden their knowledge horizons. It promoted friendship among ethnic Chinese physicists from all the continents and fostered a sense of belonging to a community with a strong tradition of scholarship and heritage. Ethnic Chinese physicists gathered to review past accomplishments and to consider making further contributions to the world of physics.

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9812381228

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Taiji Chin Na

The Seizing Art of Taijiquan

By: Jwing-Ming Yang

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Taiji Chin Na

The Seizing Art of Taijiquan

By: Jwing-Ming Yang

The exploration of these hidden Chin Na techniques return to Taiji its lost martial essence.

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0940871378

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Partitions: Optimality And Clustering - Volume I: Single-parameter

By: Frank Kwang-ming Hwang,Uriel R Rothblum

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Partitions: Optimality And Clustering - Volume I: Single-parameter

By: Frank Kwang-ming Hwang,Uriel R Rothblum

The need of optimal partition arises from many real-world problems involving the distribution of limited resources to many users. The “clustering” problem, which has recently received a lot of attention, is a special case of optimal partitioning. This book is the first attempt to collect all theoretical developments of optimal partitions, many of them derived by the authors, in an accessible place for easy reference. Much more than simply collecting the results, the book provides a general framework to unify these results and present them in an organized fashion.Many well-known practical problems of optimal partitions are dealt with. The authors show how they can be solved using the theory — or why they cannot be. These problems include: allocation of components to maximize system reliability; experiment design to identify defectives; design of circuit card library and of blood analyzer lines; abstraction of finite state machines and assignment of cache items to pages; the division of property and partition bargaining as well as touching on those well-known research areas such as scheduling, inventory, nearest neighbor assignment, the traveling salesman problem, vehicle routing, and graph partitions. The authors elucidate why the last three problems cannot be solved in the context of the theory.

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9814390992

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The Road to the Throne

How Liu Bang Founded China's Han Dynasty

By: Hing Ming Hung

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The Road to the Throne

How Liu Bang Founded China's Han Dynasty

By: Hing Ming Hung

Annotation The stories of the Chinese great emperors reflect the ancient Chinese philosophy, ideology, their wisdom and their ways of administration. Liu Bang is an outstanding example. Rising from a peasant background to become Emperor, he founded the Han Dynasty which lasted for about four hundred years and essentially laid the foundations of China as we know it. Liu Bang (256 BC?195 BC), posthumously called Emperor Gaozu, was a low-ranking functionary in an obscure corner of the realm when he caught the wave of the great uprisings against the Qin Dynasty. First as leader of a local contingent and then as general of larger and larger armies, he eventually overthrew the despotic Qin emperor. Today, the Han are the majority ethnic identity in China. This is the story of the rise of Emperor Gaozu, his alliances and his rivalries, and the priceless partnership provided by his chief military strategist Zhang Liang, who planned victorious campaigns from a distance of 1000 miles; Xiao He, who stabilized the state, pacified the people, and assured the food supply to the army; and General Han Xin, who commanded the Han army in its conquest of the State of Wei, the State of Zhao, the State of Yan and the State of Qi and played a great role in the defeat of Xiang Yu.

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087586838X

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Way, Learning, and Politics

Essays on the Confucian Intellectual

By: Tu Wei-ming

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Way, Learning, and Politics

Essays on the Confucian Intellectual

By: Tu Wei-ming

The emergence of New Confucian Humanism as a major intellectual and spiritual tradition in the Chinese cultural area since the Second World War is a phenomenon vitally important and intriguing to students of history, philosophy, and religion. The Confucian vision, rooted in the Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese civilizations, has been sustained through more than two millennia of constant social change and holds special meaning for both industrial and socialist East Asia today. Indeed, as a living force defining our humanity and exploring our human potential for authentic self-realization, it addresses evolving concerns of East Asian civilizations with profound implications for the post-modernized world. This book, by a leading scholar and thinker of the New Confucian Humanism, offers a panoramic view of the core values of the Confucian intellectual from historical and comparative cultural perspectives. Grounded in sound sinological scholarship, it brilliantly interprets the Confucian project: the formation of a moral community and the embodiment of the Mandate of Heaven in ordinary human existence through authentic self-realization. In the words of the eminent Princeton sinologist, Fritz Mote, through Tu Wei-ming's thought-provoking ideas, "we are shown what has constituted the life-blood of Confucianism throughout its history, and are led to understand how it still lives. We are made to see where it resides in the world today, especially within the consciousness of modern East Asians (whether or not so identified by them) and increasingly, in the awareness of philosophers and historians of thought everywhere." Like Professor Tu's earlier book, Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation, this book will stir modern minds and evoke powerful responses from scholars in ethics, religion, history, and philosophy as well as those in East Asian studies.

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1438422415

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Introduction to the Theory of (Non-Symmetric) Dirichlet Forms

By: Zhi-Ming Ma,Michael Röckner

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Introduction to the Theory of (Non-Symmetric) Dirichlet Forms

By: Zhi-Ming Ma,Michael Röckner

The purpose of this book is to give a streamlined introduction to the theory of (not necessarily symmetric) Dirichlet forms on general state spaces. It includes both the analytic and the probabilistic part of the theory up to and including the construction of an associated Markov process. It is based on recent joint work of S. Albeverio and the two authors and on a one-year-course on Dirichlet forms taught by the second named author at the University of Bonn in 1990/9l. It addresses both researchers and graduate students who require a quick but complete introduction to the theory. Prerequisites are a basic course in probabil ity theory (including elementary martingale theory up to the optional sampling theorem) and a sound knowledge of measure theory (as, for example, to be found in Part I of H. Bauer [B 78]). Furthermore, an elementary course on lin ear operators on Banach and Hilbert spaces (but without spectral theory) and a course on Markov processes would be helpful though most of the material needed is included here.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642777392

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Tai Chi Chuan Martial Applications

Advanced Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan

By: Jwing-Ming Yang

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Tai Chi Chuan Martial Applications

Advanced Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan

By: Jwing-Ming Yang

For beginners of advanced tai chi players, the 24 and 48 postures.

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1886969442

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Carbon Nanotubes and Nanosensors

Vibration, Buckling and Balistic Impact

By: Isaac Elishakoff,Kevin Dujat,Giuseppe Muscolino,Simon Bucas,Toshiaki Natsuki,Chien Ming Wang,Demetris Pentaras,Claudia Versaci,Joel Storch,Noël Challamel,Yingyan Zhang,Guillaume Ghyselinck

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Carbon Nanotubes and Nanosensors

Vibration, Buckling and Balistic Impact

By: Isaac Elishakoff,Kevin Dujat,Giuseppe Muscolino,Simon Bucas,Toshiaki Natsuki,Chien Ming Wang,Demetris Pentaras,Claudia Versaci,Joel Storch,Noël Challamel,Yingyan Zhang,Guillaume Ghyselinck

The main properties that make carbon nanotubes (CNTs) a promising technology for many future applications are: extremely high strength, low mass density, linear elastic behavior, almost perfect geometrical structure, and nanometer scale structure. Also, CNTs can conduct electricity better than copper and transmit heat better than diamonds. Therefore, they are bound to find a wide, and possibly revolutionary use in all fields of engineering. The interest in CNTs and their potential use in a wide range of commercial applications; such as nanoelectronics, quantum wire interconnects, field emission devices, composites, chemical sensors, biosensors, detectors, etc.; have rapidly increased in the last two decades. However, the performance of any CNT-based nanostructure is dependent on the mechanical properties of constituent CNTs. Therefore, it is crucial to know the mechanical behavior of individual CNTs such as their vibration frequencies, buckling loads, and deformations under different loadings. This title is dedicated to the vibration, buckling and impact behavior of CNTs, along with theory for carbon nanosensors, like the Bubnov-Galerkin and the Petrov-Galerkin methods, the Bresse-Timoshenko and the Donnell shell theory.

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1118565886

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Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema

By: Daw-Ming Lee

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Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema

By: Daw-Ming Lee

Taiwan was able to solidly build and sustain a film industry only after locally-produced Mandarin films secured markets in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Though only a small island with a limited population, in its heyday, Taiwan was among the top-10 film producing countries/areas in the world, turning out hundreds of martial arts kung fu films and romantic melodramas annually that were screened in theaters across Southeast Asia and other areas internationally. However, except for one acclaimed film by director King Hu, Taiwan cinema was nearly invisible on the art cinema map until the 1980s, when the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, and other Taiwan New Cinema directors gained recognition at international film festivals, first in Europe, and later, throughout the world. Since then, many other Taiwan directors have also become an important part of cinema history, such as Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang. The Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema covers the history of cinema in Taiwan during both the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945) and the Chinese Nationalist period (1945-present). This is accomplished through a chronology highlighting the main events during the long period and an introduction which carefully analyses the progression. The bulk of the information, however, appears in a dictionary section including over a hundred very extensive entries on directors, producers, performers, films, film studios and genres. Photos are also included in the dictionary section. More information can be found through the bibliography. Taiwan cinema is truly unique and this book is a good place to find out more about it, whether you are a student, or teacher, or just a fan.

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0810879220

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