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The Origins of the Chinese Nation

Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order

By: Nicolas Tackett

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The Origins of the Chinese Nation

Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order

By: Nicolas Tackett

Nicolas Tackett explores the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127).

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Cambridge University Press

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1107196779

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Fundamentals of Electrocatalyst Materials and Interfacial Characterization

Energy Producing Devices and Environmental Protection

By: Nicolas Alonso-Vante,Carlos Augusto Campos Roldan,Rosa de Guadalupe Gonzalez Huerta,Guadalupe Ramos Sanchez,Arturo Manzo Robledo

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Fundamentals of Electrocatalyst Materials and Interfacial Characterization

Energy Producing Devices and Environmental Protection

By: Nicolas Alonso-Vante,Carlos Augusto Campos Roldan,Rosa de Guadalupe Gonzalez Huerta,Guadalupe Ramos Sanchez,Arturo Manzo Robledo

This book addresses some essential topics in the science of energy converting devices emphasizing recent aspects of nano-derived materials in the application for the protection of the environment, storage, and energy conversion. The aim, therefore, is to provide the basic background knowledge. The electron transfer process and structure of the electric double layer and the interaction of species with surfaces and the interaction, reinforced by DFT theory for the current and incoming generation of fuel cell scientists to study the interaction of the catalytic centers with their supports. The chief focus of the chapters is on materials based on precious and non-precious centers for the hydrogen electrode, the oxygen electrode, energy storage, and in remediation applications, where the common issue is the rate-determining step in multi-electron charge transfer processes in electrocatalysis. These approaches are used in a large extent in science and technology, so that each chapter demonstrates the connection of electrochemistry, in addition to chemistry, with different areas, namely, surface science, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and chemical physics.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119460093

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Copper-Mediated Cross-Coupling Reactions

By: Gwilherm Evano,Nicolas Blanchard

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Copper-Mediated Cross-Coupling Reactions

By: Gwilherm Evano,Nicolas Blanchard

Providing comprehensive insight into the use of copper in cross-coupling reactions, Copper-Mediated Cross-Coupling Reactions provides a complete up-to-date collection of the available reactions and catalytic systems for the formation of carbon-heteroatom and carbon-carbon bonds. This essential reference covers a broad scope of copper-mediated reactions, their variations, key advances, improvements, and an array of academic and industrial applications that have revolutionized the field of organic synthesis. The text also discusses the mechanism of these transformations, the use of copper as cost-efficient alternative to palladium, as well as recently developed methods for conducting copper-mediated reactions with supported catalysts.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118060458

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The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy

By: Nicolas Tackett

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The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy

By: Nicolas Tackett

Historians have long been perplexed by the complete disappearance of the medieval Chinese aristocracy by the tenth century—the “great clans” that had dominated China for centuries. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance, using new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources. Tackett systematically mines thousands of funerary biographies excavated in recent decades—most of them never before examined by scholars—while taking full advantage of the explanatory power of Geographic Information System (GIS) methods and social network analysis. Tackett supplements these analyses with extensive anecdotes culled from epitaphs, prose literature, and poetry, bringing to life women and men who lived a millennium in the past. The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy demonstrates that the great Tang aristocratic families adapted to the social, economic, and institutional transformations of the seventh and eighth centuries far more successfully than previously believed. Their political influence collapsed only after a large number were killed during three decades of extreme violence following Huang Chao’s sack of the capital cities in 880 CE. 2015 James Breasted Prize, American Historical Association

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The Chinese Gazette in European Sources

Joining the Global Public in the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty

By: Nicolas Standaert

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The Chinese Gazette in European Sources

Joining the Global Public in the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty

By: Nicolas Standaert

By looking at China from the periphery, this study shows how European sources offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette, as translated by European missionaries, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers.

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9004505008

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Chalcogenide Materials for Energy Conversion

Pathways to Oxygen and Hydrogen Reactions

By: Nicolas Alonso-Vante

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Chalcogenide Materials for Energy Conversion

Pathways to Oxygen and Hydrogen Reactions

By: Nicolas Alonso-Vante

This book addresses electrocatalysis based on chalcogenides, particularly in the nanoscale domain. Special attention is paid to the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The book provides an introduction to materials synthesis; the basic principles of electrocatalysis; related precious metal versus non-precious metal catalytic center chalcogenides as well as supports; and the role of such supports in stabilizing the catalytic centers. In short: pursuing a bottom-up approach, it covers the properties of this class of electrocatalysts and examines their applications in low-temperature fuel systems such as microfluidic fuel cells for portable devices. Accordingly, it is ideally suited for all professionals and researchers interested in electrochemistry, renewable energy and electrocatalysis, and non-precious metal centers for chemical energy conversion.

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Springer

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3319896121

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Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

By: Nicolas Gillis

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Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

By: Nicolas Gillis

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) in its modern form has become a standard tool in the analysis of high-dimensional data sets. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the most important aspects of the NMF problem and is the first to detail its theoretical aspects, including geometric interpretation, nonnegative rank, complexity, and uniqueness. It explains why understanding these theoretical insights is key to using this computational tool effectively and meaningfully. Nonnegative Matrix Factorization is accessible to a wide audience and is ideal for anyone interested in the workings of NMF. It discusses some new results on the nonnegative rank and the identifiability of NMF and makes available MATLAB codes for readers to run the numerical examples presented in the book. Graduate students starting to work on NMF and researchers interested in better understanding the NMF problem and how they can use it will find this book useful. It can be used in advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses on numerical linear algebra and on advanced topics in numerical linear algebra and requires only a basic knowledge of linear algebra and optimization.

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SIAM

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1611976413

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Applied Geostatistics with SGeMS

A User's Guide

By: Nicolas Remy,Alexandre Boucher,Jianbing Wu

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Applied Geostatistics with SGeMS

A User's Guide

By: Nicolas Remy,Alexandre Boucher,Jianbing Wu

The Stanford Geostatistical Modeling Software (SGeMS) is an open-source computer package for solving problems involving spatially related variables. It provides geostatistics practitioners with a user-friendly interface, an interactive 3-D visualization, and a wide selection of algorithms. This practical book provides a step-by-step guide to using SGeMS algorithms. It explains the underlying theory, demonstrates their implementation, discusses their potential limitations, and helps the user make an informed decision about the choice of one algorithm over another. Users can complete complex tasks using the embedded scripting language, and new algorithms can be developed and integrated through the SGeMS plug-in mechanism. SGeMS was the first software to provide algorithms for multiple-point statistics, and the book presents a discussion of the corresponding theory and applications. Incorporating the full SGeMS software (now available from www.cambridge.org/9781107403246), this book is a useful user-guide for Earth Science graduates and researchers, as well as practitioners of environmental mining and petroleum engineering.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139473468

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Management Accounting

By: Leslie G. Eldenburg,Albie Brooks,Gillian Vesty,Nicolas Pawsey

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Management Accounting

By: Leslie G. Eldenburg,Albie Brooks,Gillian Vesty,Nicolas Pawsey

The fifth edition of Management Accounting integrates fundamental technical aspects pertaining to cost management and management accounting and control with contemporary and evolving themes and challenges. This comprehensive approach offers students studying cost and management accounting a nuanced understanding of the discipline. Emphasizing practical learning, the textbook facilitates student comprehension through the application of cost and management accounting techniques across diverse organizational contexts. Each chapter concludes with a range of student tasks designed to reinforce understanding and foster critical thinking.

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1394263503

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Process-Oriented Analysis and Validation of Multi-Agent-Based Simulations

By: Nicolas Denz

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Process-Oriented Analysis and Validation of Multi-Agent-Based Simulations

By: Nicolas Denz

In multi-agent-based simulation (MABS) the behavior of individual actors is modeled in detail. The analysis and validation of these models is rated as difficult and requires support by innovative techniques and tools. Problems include model complexity, the amount and often qualitative representation of simulation results, and the typical dichotomy between microscopic modeling and macroscopic observation perspectives. In recent years, data mining has been increasingly applied as a support technique in this context. A particularly promising approach is found in the field of process mining. Due to its rooting in business process analysis, process mining shares several process- and organization-oriented analysis perspectives and use cases with agent-based modeling. This thesis proposes a conceptual framework for the systematic application of process mining to the analysis and validation of MABS. As a foundation, agent-oriented analysis perspectives and simulation-specific use cases are identified and complemented with methods, techniques, and results from the literature. A partial formalization of perspectives and use cases is sketched by utilizing concepts from process modeling and software engineering. Beyond the conceptual work, process mining is applied in two case studies related to different modeling and simulation approaches.

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3832538747

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A PeopleÕs Art History of the United States

250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements

By: Nicolas Lampert

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A PeopleÕs Art History of the United States

250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements

By: Nicolas Lampert

Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. A People’s Art History of the United States places art history squarely in the rough–and–tumble of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice from the colonial era through the present day. Author and radical artist Nicolas Lampert combines historical sweep with detailed examinations of individual artists and works in a politically charged narrative that spans the conquest of the Americas, the American Revolution, slavery and abolition, western expansion, the suffragette movement and feminism, civil rights movements, environmental movements, LGBT movements, antiglobalization movements, contemporary antiwar movements, and beyond. A People’s Art History of the United States introduces us to key works of American radical art alongside dramatic retellings of the histories that inspired them. Stylishly illustrated with over two hundred images, this book is nothing less than an alternative education for anyone interested in the powerful role that art plays in our society.

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1595583246

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Forgive Us Our Sins

Confession in Late Ming and Early Qing China

By: Ad Dudink,Nicolas Standaert

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Forgive Us Our Sins

Confession in Late Ming and Early Qing China

By: Ad Dudink,Nicolas Standaert

Confession in early modern Europe has been the subject of several studies. But what happened to the confessional practice when it moved to other cultures? This is the major research question of the present book as applied to late Ming and early Qing China. The origin of this research can be traced back to the Handbook of Christianity in China: Volume One (635-1800) (Leiden 2000) compiled by researchers of the K.U. Leuven, in collaboration with an international team of circa twenty scholars. As a reference work, the Handbook comprehensively presents many different aspects of Christianity in China, including sciences, arts and crafts. But there was one major absentee: ritual, which is often considered essential for understanding China. A first step in filling this gap was the organisation of an international workshop on "Chinese and Christian Rituality in Late Imperial China" (Leuven, June 2004). The present volume includes the revised contributions by Eugenio Menegon and Erik Zürcher and a reworked version of an article by Liam Brockey as well as the edition of the primary source he used for his article, a confessional manual composed by Jose Monteiro S.J. (1646-1720). These articles portray from different angles one of the sacramental rituals, viz. that of confession.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000940659

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Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering

By: Song Li,Nicolas L'Heureux,Jennifer H. Elisseeff

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Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering

By: Song Li,Nicolas L'Heureux,Jennifer H. Elisseeff

Tissue engineering integrates knowledge and tools from biological sciences and engineering for tissue regeneration. A challenge for tissue engineering is to identify appropriate cell sources. The recent advancement of stem cell biology provides enormous opportunities to engineer stem cells for tissue engineering. The impact of stem cell technology on tissue engineering will be revolutionary. This book covers state-of-the-art knowledge on the potential of stem cells for the regeneration of a wide range of tissues and organs and the technologies for studying and engineering stem cells. It serves as a valuable reference book for researchers and students.

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World Scientific

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9814317055

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Automated Model Building

By: Ricardo Caferra,Alexander Leitsch,Nicolas Peltier

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Automated Model Building

By: Ricardo Caferra,Alexander Leitsch,Nicolas Peltier

On the history of the book: In the early 1990s several new methods and perspectives in au- mated deduction emerged. We just mention the superposition calculus, meta-term inference and schematization, deductive decision procedures, and automated model building. It was this last ?eld which brought the authors of this book together. In 1994 they met at the Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-12) in Nancy and agreed upon the general point of view, that semantics and, in particular, construction of models should play a central role in the ?eld of automated deduction. In the following years the deduction groups of the laboratory LEIBNIZ at IMAG Grenoble and the University of Technology in Vienna organized several bilateral projects promoting this topic. This book emerged as a main result of this cooperation. The authors are aware of the fact, that the book does not cover all relevant methods of automated model building (also called model construction or model generation); instead the book focuses on deduction-based symbolic methods for the construction of Herbrand models developed in the last 12 years. Other methods of automated model building, in particular also ?nite model building, are mainly treated in the ?nal chapter; this chapter is less formal and detailed but gives a broader view on the topic and a comparison of di?erent approaches. Howtoreadthisbook: In the introduction we give an overview of automated deduction in a historical context, taking into account its relationship with the human views on formal and informal proofs.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402026536

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Synthesis and Biological Applications of Glycoconjugates

By: Olivier Renaudet,Nicolas Spinelli

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Synthesis and Biological Applications of Glycoconjugates

By: Olivier Renaudet,Nicolas Spinelli

The interactions between carbohydrates and proteins have been extensively explored in a wide range of physiological and pathological processes over several decades. The recent emergence of glycomics has strengthened this interest and notably contributed t

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160805277X

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The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China

The Art of Governing Soldiers

By: Nicolas Schillinger

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The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China

The Art of Governing Soldiers

By: Nicolas Schillinger

In 1894–1895, after suffering defeat against Japan in a war primarily fought over the control of Korea, the Qing government initiated fundamental military reforms and established “New Armies“ modeled after the German and Japanese military. Besides reorganizing the structure of the army and improving military training, the goal was to overcome the alleged physical weakness and lack of martial spirit attributed to Chinese soldiers in particular and to Chinese men in general. Intellectuals, government officials, and military circles criticized the pacifist and civil orientation of Chinese culture, which had resulted in a negative attitude towards its armed forces and martial values throughout society and a lack of interest in martial deeds, glory on the battlefield, and military achievements among men. The book examines the cultivation of new soldiers, officers, and civilians through new techniques intended to discipline their bodies and reconfigure their identities as military men and citizens. The book shows how the establishment of German-style “New Armies” in China between 1895 and 1916 led to the re‐creation of a militarized version of masculinity that stressed physical strength, discipline, professionalism, martial spirit, and “Western” military appearance and conduct. Although the military reforms did not prevent the downfall of the Qing Dynasty or provide stable military clout to subsequent regimes, they left a lasting legacy by reconfiguring Chinese military culture and re‐creating military masculinity and the image of men in China.

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Lexington Books

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1498531695

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Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental and Earth System Sciences

By: Nicolas R. Dalezios

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Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental and Earth System Sciences

By: Nicolas R. Dalezios

Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental and Earth System Sciences is a contemporary, multi-disciplinary, multi-scaling, updated, and upgraded approach of applied remote sensing in the environment. The book begins with an overview of remote sensing technology, and then explains the types of data that can be used as well as the image processing and analysis methods that can be applied to each type of application through the use of case studies throughout. Includes a wide spectrum of environmental applications and issues Explains methodological image analysis and interpretation procedures for conducting a variety of environmental analyses Discusses the development of early warning systems Covers monitoring of the environment as a whole – atmosphere, land, and water Explores the latest remote sensing systems in environmental applications This book is an excellent resource for anyone who is interested in remote sensing technologies and their use in Earth systems, natural resources, and environmental science.

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CRC Press

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1351680668

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Renovating Democracy

Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism

By: Nathan Gardels,Nicolas Berggruen

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Renovating Democracy

Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism

By: Nathan Gardels,Nicolas Berggruen

The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work—and how they fail. The impact of globalism and digital capitalism is forcing worldwide attention to the starker divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots,” challenging how we think about the social contract. With fierce clarity and conviction, Renovating Democracy tears down our basic structures and challenges us to conceive of an alternative framework for governance. To truly renovate our global systems, the authors argue for empowering participation without populism by integrating social networks and direct democracy into the system with new mediating institutions that complement representative government. They outline steps to reconfigure the social contract to protect workers instead of jobs, shifting from a “redistribution” after wealth to “pre-distribution” with the aim to enhance the skills and assets of those less well-off. Lastly, they argue for harnessing globalization through “positive nationalism” at home while advocating for global cooperation—specifically with a partnership with China—to create a viable rules-based world order. Thought provoking and persuasive, Renovating Democracy serves as a point of departure that deepens and expands the discourse for positive change in governance.

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Univ of California Press

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0520972767

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The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts

Chinese and European Stories about Emperor Ku and His Concubines

By: Nicolas Standaert

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The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts

Chinese and European Stories about Emperor Ku and His Concubines

By: Nicolas Standaert

The European view on history was shaken to its foundations when missionaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries discovered that Chinese history was older than European and Biblical history. With an analysis of the Chinese, Manchu and European sources on ancient Chinese history, this essay proposes an early case of “intercultural historiography,” in which historical texts of different cultures are interwoven. It focusses on the ways Chinese and European authors interpreted stories about marvellous births by the concubines of Emperor Ku. These stories have been the object of a wide variety of interpretations in Chinese texts, each of them representing a different historical genre. They are excellent case-studies to illustrate how the Chinese hermeneutic strategies shaped the diversity of interpretations given by Europeans.

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9004316221

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Safety and Reliability in Cooperating Unmanned Aerial Systems

By: Camille Alain Rabbath,Nicolas Lechevin

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Safety and Reliability in Cooperating Unmanned Aerial Systems

By: Camille Alain Rabbath,Nicolas Lechevin

1. Introduction. 1.1. Unmanned aerial systems. 1.2. Cooperative control. 1.3. Contingencies -- 2. Health management for the individual vehicle : a review. 2.1. Passive and active fault-tolerant control systems. 2.2. Fault/failure detection and diagnosis. 2.3. Control reconfiguration. 2.4. FTC and FDD techniques for MAV and SUAV -- 3. Health monitoring and adaptation for UAS formations. 3.1. Models of vehicle dynamics, flight control, and faults. 3.2. Formation control. 3.3. Observer-based decentralized abrupt fault detector. 3.4. Signal-based decentralized non-abrupt fault detector. 3.5. UAV command adaptation. 3.6. Simulations and experiments -- 4. Decision making and health management for cooperating UAS. 4.1. Coordinated rendezvous of UAS formations. 4.2. Cooperation despite information flow faults. 4.3. Numerical simulations. 4.4. Distributed and parallel implementation of optimization algorithms

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World Scientific

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9812837000

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The Interweaving of Rituals

Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe

By: Nicolas Standaert

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The Interweaving of Rituals

Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe

By: Nicolas Standaert

The death of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci in China in 1610 was the occasion for demonstrations of European rituals appropriate for a Catholic priest and also of Chinese rituals appropriate to the country hosting the Jesuit community. Rather than burying Ricci immediately in a plain coffin near the church, according to their European practice, the Jesuits followed Chinese custom and kept Ricci's body for nearly a year in an air-tight Chinese-style coffin and asked the emperor for burial ground outside the city walls. Moreover, at Ricci's funeral itself, on their own initiative the Chinese performed their funerary rituals, thus starting a long and complex cultural dialogue in which they took the lead during the next century. The Interweaving of Rituals explores the role of ritual - specifically rites related to death and funerals - in cross-cultural exchange, demonstrating a gradual interweaving of Chinese and European ritual practices at all levels of interaction in seventeenth-century China. This includes the interplay of traditional and new rituals by a Christian community of commoners, the grafting of Christian funerals onto established Chinese practices, and the sponsorship of funeral processions for Jesuit officials by the emperor. Through careful observation of the details of funerary practice, Nicolas Standaert illustrates the mechanics of two-way cultural interaction. His thoughtful analysis of the ritual exchange between two very different cultural traditions is especially relevant in today's world of global ethnic and religious tension. His insights will be of interest to a broad range of scholars, from historians to anthropologists to theologians.

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University of Washington Press

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0295800046

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Microwave Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

Techniques and Methods

By: Nicolas Baghdadi,Mehrez Zribi

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Microwave Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

Techniques and Methods

By: Nicolas Baghdadi,Mehrez Zribi

Microwave Remote Sensing of Land Surface: Techniques and Methods brings essential coverage of the space techniques of observation on continental surfaces. The authors explore major applications and provide detailed chapters on physical principles, physics of measurement, and data processing for each technique, bringing readers up-to-date descriptions of techniques used by leading scientists in the field of remote sensing and Earth observation. - Presents clear-and-concise descriptions of modern methods - Explores current remote sensing techniques that include physical aspects of measurement (theory) and their applications - Provides physical principles, measurement, and data processing chapters that are included for each technique described

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0081017685

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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

11th International Conference, TACAS 2005, Held as Part of the Joint European Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, UK, April 4-8, 2004, Proceedings

By: Nicolas Halbwachs

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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

11th International Conference, TACAS 2005, Held as Part of the Joint European Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, UK, April 4-8, 2004, Proceedings

By: Nicolas Halbwachs

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2005, held in Edinburgh, UK in April 2005 as part of ETAPS. The 33 revised full research papers and 8 revised tool demonstration papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 161 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on regular model-checking, infinite state machines, abstract interpretation, automata and logics, probabilistic systems and probabilistic model checking, satisfiability, testing, abstraction and reduction, specification and program synthesis, and model-checking.

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3540253335

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Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabilitation

By: Patrick W. Corrigan,Nicolas Rüsch,Amy C. Watson,Kristin Kosyluk,Lindsay Sheehan

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Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabilitation

By: Patrick W. Corrigan,Nicolas Rüsch,Amy C. Watson,Kristin Kosyluk,Lindsay Sheehan

The leading text and go-to practitioner resource on psychiatric rehabilitation is now in a thoroughly revised third edition, bringing readers up to date on current ideas, findings, and evidence-based best practices. The expert authors present the knowledge needed to help adults with psychiatric disabilities develop their strengths and achieve their life goals. The book describes effective ways to assess personal needs and aspirations; integrate medical and psychosocial interventions; implement supportive services in such areas as housing, employment, education, substance use, and physical health; and combat stigma and discrimination. "Personal Examples" throughout the text share the experiences of diverse individuals recovering from serious mental illness. New to This Edition *Increased attention to social determinants of health; for example, the impact of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, poverty, and criminal justice involvement. *Chapter on developing more equitable, culturally competent services. *Expanded coverage of physical health and wellness. *New and expanded discussions of community-based participatory research, peer recovery support providers, and other timely topics.

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Guilford Publications

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1462553702

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Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century

A Middle Way between West and East

By: Nicolas Berggruen,Nathan Gardels

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Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century

A Middle Way between West and East

By: Nicolas Berggruen,Nathan Gardels

For decades, liberal democracy has been extolled as the best system of governance to have emerged out of the long experience of history. Today, such a confident assertion is far from self-evident. Democracy, in crisis across the West, must prove itself. In the West today, the authors argue, we no longer live in "industrial democracies," but "consumer democracies" in which the governing ethos has ended up drowning households and governments in debt and resulted in paralyzing partisanship. In contrast, the long-term focus of the decisive and unified leadership of China is boldly moving its nation into the future. But China also faces challenges arising from its meteoric rise. Its burgeoning middle class will increasingly demand more participation, accountability of government, curbing corruption and the rule of law. As the 21st Century unfolds, both of these core systems of the global order must contend with the same reality: a genuinely multi-polar world where no single power dominates and in which societies themselves are becoming increasingly diverse. The authors argue that a new system of "intelligent governance" is required to meet these new challenges. To cope, the authors argue that both East and West can benefit by adapting each other’s best practices. Examining this in relation to widely varying political and cultural contexts, the authors quip that while China must lighten up, the US must tighten up. This highly timely volume is both a conceptual and practical guide of impressive scope to the challenges of good governance as the world continues to undergo profound transformation in the coming decades.

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The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development

By: Carol Lancaster,Nicolas van de Walle

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The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development

By: Carol Lancaster,Nicolas van de Walle

In many discussions of nations' development, we often focus on their economic and social development. Is it becoming wealthier? Is its society modernizing? Is it becoming more technologically sophisticated? Are social outcomes improving for the broad mass of the public? The process of development policy implementation, however, is always and inevitably political. Put simply, regime type matters when it comes to deciding on a course of development to follow. Further, political institutions matter. When a government's institutional capacity is low, the chances of success severely decline, regardless of the merits of the development plan. In The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development, two of America's leading political scientists on the issue, Carol Lancaster and Nicolas van de Walle, have assembled an international cast of leading scholars to craft a broad, state-of-the-art work on this vitally important topic. This volume is divided into five sections: major theories of the politics of development, organized historically (e.g. modernization theory, dependency theory, the Washington consensus of 'policies without politics,' etc.); key domestic factors and variables; key international factors and variables; political systems and structures; and geographical perspectives, inclusive of regional dynamics. A comprehensive and cross-regional examination on key issues of political development, this Handbook not only provides an authoritative synthesis of past scholarship, but also sets the agenda for future research in this discipline.

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0199981817

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Intracorporeal Robotics

From Milliscale to Nanoscale

By: Michael Gauthier,Nicolas Andreff,Etienne Dombre

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Intracorporeal Robotics

From Milliscale to Nanoscale

By: Michael Gauthier,Nicolas Andreff,Etienne Dombre

A promising long-term evolution of surgery relies on intracorporeal microrobotics. This book reviews the physical and methodological principles, and the scientific challenges to be tackled to design and control such robots. Three orders of magnitude will be considered, justified by the class of problems encountered and solutions implemented to manipulate objects and reach targets within the body: millimetric, sub-millimetric in the 10- 100 micrometer range, then in the 1-10 micrometer range. The most prominent devices and prototypes of the state of the art will be described to illustrate the benefit that can be expected for surgeons and patients. Future developments nanorobotics will also be discussed.

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1118579119

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Lost Souls

By: Nicolas Jacques

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Lost Souls

By: Nicolas Jacques

A novel about the reasoning, where women in higher Chhnang will detected one after another bizarre case. This contains a detective story you want to attract.

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An Introduction to Optimization on Smooth Manifolds

By: Nicolas Boumal

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An Introduction to Optimization on Smooth Manifolds

By: Nicolas Boumal

Optimization on Riemannian manifolds-the result of smooth geometry and optimization merging into one elegant modern framework-spans many areas of science and engineering, including machine learning, computer vision, signal processing, dynamical systems and scientific computing. This text introduces the differential geometry and Riemannian geometry concepts that will help students and researchers in applied mathematics, computer science and engineering gain a firm mathematical grounding to use these tools confidently in their research. Its charts-last approach will prove more intuitive from an optimizer's viewpoint, and all definitions and theorems are motivated to build time-tested optimization algorithms. Starting from first principles, the text goes on to cover current research on topics including worst-case complexity and geodesic convexity. Readers will appreciate the tricks of the trade for conducting research and for numerical implementations sprinkled throughout the book.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009178717

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Surface Patterning with Colloidal Monolayers

By: Nicolas Vogel

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Surface Patterning with Colloidal Monolayers

By: Nicolas Vogel

How can the two dimensional crystallization of colloids be used to form highly ordered colloidal monolayers on solid substrates? What application does this have in generating arrays of nanostructures? These questions are addressed in Nicolas Vogel's thesis. Vogel describes a simple preparation method for the formation of uniform colloidal crystals over large areas, which he refines to yield more complex binary and non-close-packed arrangements. These monolayers can be applied to a process termed colloidal lithography which is used to prepare high quality metallic nanostructures with tailored properties defined to suit a variety of applications. Moreover, the author describes a method used to create metallic nanodot arrays with a resolution unprecedented for colloidal lithography methods. The author also outlines methodology to embed nanoparticle arrays into the substrate, which is developed and used to design robust, re-usable biosensor platforms and nanoscale patterns of biomimetic lipid bilayer membranes. The research in this thesis has led to a large number of publications in internationally renowned journals.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642351336

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Crazy Stuff

By: Nicolas Marcais,Philippe Marchand

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Crazy Stuff

By: Nicolas Marcais,Philippe Marchand

A great tongue-in-cheek-serious, buy-for-myself treat, this well-illustrated compendium of strange and unusual products includes practical, great ideas as well as outrageous, extravagant ones. Each product is featured on a two-page spread.Firefly Books

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