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Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China

The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family

By: Qiang Ning

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Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China

The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family

By: Qiang Ning

The cave-temple complex popularly known as the Dunhuang caves is the world's largest extant repository of Tang Buddhist art. Among the best preserved of the Dunhuang caves is the Zhai Family Cave, built in 642. It is this remarkable cave-temple that forms the focus of Ning Qiang's cross-disciplinary exploration of the interrelationship of art, religion, and politics during the Tang. In his careful examination of the paintings and sculptures found there, the author combines the historical study of pictures with the pictorial study of history. By employing this two-fold approach, he is able to refer to textual evidence in interpreting the formal features of the cave-temple paintings and to employ visual details to fill in the historical gaps inevitably left by text-oriented scholars. The result is a comprehensive analysis of the visual culture of the period and a vivid description of social life in medieval China. and remained hidden until the early 1940s. Once exposed, the early artwork appeared fresh and colorful in comparison with other Tang paintings at Dunhuang. The relatively fine condition of the Zhai Family Cave is crucial to our understanding of the original pictorial program found there and offers a unique opportunity to investigate the visual details of the original paintings and sculptures in the cave. At the same time, the remaining traces of reconstruction and redecoration provide a new perspective on how, for over three centuries, a wealthy Chinese clan used its familial cave as a political showcase. Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family is an in-depth study on the meaning and function of an exemplary Tang memorial cave and an important contribution to studies of Chinese religion, politics, sociology, literature, and folklore as well as to Chinese art history.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824827031

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Delinquent Youth in a Transforming China

A Generation of Strain

By: Wan-Ning Bao

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Delinquent Youth in a Transforming China

A Generation of Strain

By: Wan-Ning Bao

This book explores two major social problems facing Chinese society today: increased strain in the lives of young people and heightened rates of crime and delinquency, ultimately examining the links between them. More broadly, it draws on Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory and Agnew’s general strain theory to examine the factors and processes affecting young people, leading to life strain and delinquency. It represents the first study of this kind and involves the most systematic and comprehensive literature review of studies on major social, economic, political and cultural changes, as well as youth crime in contemporary China. Bao’s arguments are supported by empirical evidence including data findings and over a decade’s worth of observational research. Shedding new light on the nature of youth crime in a rapidly changing society, this methodical study will benefit policy makers and researchers, helping them to develop tactics and methods to reduce strain in the lives of young people, and thus effectively prevent delinquency in China.

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3319637274

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Reborn to Revenge

Volume 2

By: Ning BaiZhu

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Reborn to Revenge

Volume 2

By: Ning BaiZhu

Because of her background, she had been framed by her fiance and sister. Once she was reborn, the heavens had given her a similar identity. How was she going to use her 'resources' to take revenge this time?!

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1647577039

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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers of Science

In Celebration of the 80th Birthday of C.N. Yang : 17-19 June 2002, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

By: Chen Ning Yang,Hwa-Tung Nieh

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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers of Science

In Celebration of the 80th Birthday of C.N. Yang : 17-19 June 2002, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

By: Chen Ning Yang,Hwa-Tung Nieh

The International Symposium on Frontiers of Science was held to celebrate the 80th birthday of Chen Ning Yang, one of the great physicists of the 20th century and arguably the most-admired living scientist in China today. Many of the world's great scientists ? including sixteen Nobel laureates, Fields medallists and Wolf Prize winners ? converged on Beijing from all corners of the globe to pay tribute to Professor Yang.The Symposium was organized by Tsinghua University, with which Professor Yang has had a lifelong relationship. In 1997, he helped to found the Center for Advanced Study at Tsinghua, was appointed to the university's faculty, and has since devoted his energy to the growth of the Center.This unique and invaluable birthday volume is a collection of the presentations made at the Symposium, including fifteen plenary talks, seven of which are by Nobel laureates. It covers a wide range of topics and mirrors Professor Yang's research and intellectual interests. The range of fields encompasses high-energy, condensed-matter, mathematical, applied, bio-, astro-, atomic and quantum physics. Also included are talks given at the birthday banquet.About C N YangBorn in 1922 in Anwhei, China, C N Yang was brought up in the academic atmosphere of Tsinghua University in Beijing, where his father was a professor of mathematics. He received his college education at the National Southwest Associated University in Kunming, China, and completed his BSc there in 1942. His MSc was received in 1944 from Tsinghua University. He entered the University of Chicago in 1946, where he came under the strong influence of Prof E Fermi. After receiving his PhD in 1948, Prof Yang served for a year at the University of Chicago as an instructor. Since 1949 he has been associated with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, where he became a professor in 1955.Prof Yang has worked on various subjects in physics, but is mainly interested in statistical mechanics and symmetry principles. He is a prolific author, his numerous articles appearing in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, The Physical Review, Reviews of Modern Physics and the Chinese Journal of Physics.Prof Yang won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, jointly with T-D Lee. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of Academia Sinica.

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9812384146

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Walking Corpse: Witched Doctor Family

Volume 7

By: Ning MouQiXianShang

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Walking Corpse: Witched Doctor Family

Volume 7

By: Ning MouQiXianShang

[Demonic Concealment Spell, Unlimited Way] Rising and declining in troubled times is the destiny of the line of the west of Hunan. In the corner of the west of Hunan, the clan of Yuehan wishes for generations to be able to chase the corpses for a career. The legend of zombies in the world of guardians lasts for thousands of years. Fang Wei, a descendant of the Fang family, followed his grandfather out to drive away the corpses and fell into a thick layer of fog. Xiang Xi, a thousand years old, had been known among the common folk to drive away corpses and corpses, a cruel and indescribable ground filled with corpses and corpses, an old man of a hundred years old, a ghost girl holding a lantern made from human skin, a man who endured death by altering a tombstone by herself, had pulled open a bizarre world of ghosts that could not be seen under the sunlight. The snow was falling heavily, and the only thing that could be seen was Chenzhou Sand. Without asking about the afterlife, the gods of the common people, The evil spirits, the evil spirits, the ten sins, respect my heart Liu-Li tower. With one slash, Phoenix's head was severed. One step further, Bodhisattva lowered his eyebrows. Listening to the wind, listening to the rain, listening to the afterlife, Listen to nursery rhymes. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = In the west wing, the sun shined brightly. There was a girl lover in the west wing, Mom and Dad do not care about the heart injury The child was hungry, not full, not warm ... Skin to make clothes, meat to make soup ...

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1649203675

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Soldier King of the Female CEO

Volume 5

By: Ning Daoyuan

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Soldier King of the Female CEO

Volume 5

By: Ning Daoyuan

Hurry, hurry up!" Looking at the excited beauty beside him, Liang Hao gripped the steering wheel and broke out in a cold sweat! Although both men liked pretty girls, the unruly nurse driving the car coupled with the cold and beautiful female killer, this pair of beautiful sisters, he really did not dare to provoke them! Not only that, the marriage arranged by the elders was not allowed to be annulled! A childhood sweetheart, no marriage allowed! It looked like they would have to make a new marriage, but in this vast crowd of thousands of beautiful women, where was the right place to strike?

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1647813832

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From Multiscale Modeling to Meso-Science

A Chemical Engineering Perspective

By: Jinghai Li,Wei Ge,Wei Wang,Ning Yang,Xinhua Liu,Limin Wang,Xianfeng He,Xiaowei Wang,Junwu Wang,Mooson Kwauk

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From Multiscale Modeling to Meso-Science

A Chemical Engineering Perspective

By: Jinghai Li,Wei Ge,Wei Wang,Ning Yang,Xinhua Liu,Limin Wang,Xianfeng He,Xiaowei Wang,Junwu Wang,Mooson Kwauk

Multiscale modeling is becoming essential for accurate, rapid simulation in science and engineering. This book presents the results of three decades of research on multiscale modeling in process engineering from principles to application, and its generalization for different fields. This book considers the universality of meso-scale phenomena for the first time, and provides insight into the emerging discipline that unifies them, meso-science, as well as new perspectives for virtual process engineering. Multiscale modeling is applied in areas including: multiphase flow and fluid dynamics chemical, biochemical and process engineering mineral processing and metallurgical engineering energy and resources materials science and engineering Jinghai Li is Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a professor at the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS, and leader of the EMMS (Energy-minimizing multiscale) Group. Wei Ge, Wei Wang, Ning Yang and Junwu Wang are professors at the EMMS Group, part of the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS. Xinhua Liu, Limin Wang, Xianfeng He and Xiaowei Wang are associate professors at the EMMS Group, part of the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS. Mooson Kwauk is an emeritus director of the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS, and is an advisor to the EMMS Group.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642351891

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The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor

A Perspective from Chinese

By: Ning Yu

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The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor

A Perspective from Chinese

By: Ning Yu

This volume aims to contribute to the theory of metaphor from the viewpoint of Chinese, in order to help place the theory into a wider cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. It focuses on metaphors of emotion, the "time as space" metaphor and the Event Structure Metaphor.

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902722353X

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The Dynamics Of Foreign-policy Decisionmaking In China

By: Ning Lu

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The Dynamics Of Foreign-policy Decisionmaking In China

By: Ning Lu

Lu Ning, former assistant to a vice-foreign minister of China, draws on archival materials, interviews, and personal experiences, to provide unique insights into the formal and informal structures, processes, mechanisms, and dynamics of--and key players in--foreign-policy decisionmaking in Beijing. Lu Ning sheds light on controversial decisions that were made, such as China's entering the Korean War, selling DF-3 missiles to Saudi Arabia in 1986, and cooperating with the Israeli defense establishment.Lu Ning divulges the inner workings of Beijing's foreign ministry, introduces new Chinese language sources, and presents a series of case studies that challenge existing Western theoretical analysis of Chinese policymaking. Based on his examination of the past forty years, Lu Ning makes predictions about likely changes in Beijing's leadership and in its foreign-policy decisionmaking process. This accessibly written, incisive book will be invaluable to anyone interested in Sinology, Chinese foreign policy, comparative foreign policy, and contemporary international relations of East Asia.This second edition contains a fully revised Introduction, and it has been updated through President Clinton's recent visit to China. The new edition also contains new material on the Clinton Administration's varying policy positions toward China.

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Routledge

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0429974159

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Becoming the Empress: Golden Finger Set Under My Bed

Volume 3

By: Ning FuRuLai

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Becoming the Empress: Golden Finger Set Under My Bed

Volume 3

By: Ning FuRuLai

after an rushuang became a nation she died in endless torment when she woke up she was twelve years old but every night she became a white horse for the general he was a general in battle and she was one of his ladies she tried to turn the tide for the rest of her life and he tried to turn the tide meeting every day but not every day butterfly dream manor's zhou or zhuang zhou's dreamy butterfly in order to protect her family she handed over a petition and was willing to marry the son of the margravine never would he have thought that he was the dream girl their only wish in this life was to be a couple for life and eternity

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1648978223

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Ginseng and Ginseng Products 101

What are You Buying?

By: Hwee Ling Koh,Hai Ning Wee,Chay Hoon Tan

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Ginseng and Ginseng Products 101

What are You Buying?

By: Hwee Ling Koh,Hai Ning Wee,Chay Hoon Tan

Choosing the herbs or herbal products that are suitable and safe for use is essential for any consumer. This is especially true when it comes to Ginseng, one of the most commonly used and highly regarded herbs in Traditional Chinese Medicine. This book consolidates knowledge from official pharmacopoeias, latest scientific research and on-the-ground survey of Singapore's local market conducted by the authors. From exploring the medicinal benefits and safety concerns of the herbs, to inspecting the labels of the various products available on our local market, this book is an invaluable resource for any discerning consumer interested in finding out more, buying or using ginseng and ginseng products. This is an easy-to-read guide to the various herbs and products related to "Ginseng". It introduces the reader to the traditional uses and latest scientific research regarding Chinese/Korean ginseng, Notoginseng, American ginseng, Siberian ginseng and five-leaf ginseng (Jiao Gu Lan), including their names, pharmacological activities, phytoconstituents, indications, dosage, safety considerations (e.g. side effects and herb-drug interactions). Our team has delved into the local market and surveyed over three hundred ginseng and ginseng products. Glossary of terms, explanations of Traditional Chinese Medicine terminologies, pharmacological activities, drug-herb interactions and a list of major chemical components from five herbs and their respective pharmacological activities, and products information are presented clearly in the Appendices."--

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9814667323

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Utopia in Practice

Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction

By: Ou Ning

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Utopia in Practice

Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction

By: Ou Ning

This book is a collection of texts on one of China's boldest social experiments in recent years: the rural reconstruction project in Bishan. The Bishan Project (2011-2016) was a rural reconstruction project in a small village Bishan, Anhui Province, China. The writings describe and criticize the social problems caused by China’s over-loading urbanization process and starts a a contemporary agrarianism and agritopianism discourse to resist the modernism and developmentalism doctrine which dominated China for more than a century, answering a global desire for the theory and action of the alternative social solution for today’s environmental and political crises.This practical utopian commune project ran for 6 years and caused a national debate on rural issues in China, when it was invited to be exhibited and presented abroad. This collection of writing will be of interest to artists, China scholars, architects, and the cultural community at large.

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Springer Nature

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9811557918

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Confucian Geopolitics

Chinese Geopolitical Imaginations of the US War on Terror

By: Ning An

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Confucian Geopolitics

Chinese Geopolitical Imaginations of the US War on Terror

By: Ning An

This book presents an essential non-western geopolitical landscape and draws on the conceptual framework of critical geopolitics to discuss the views on terrorism held by various groups of Chinese people, including the elite, middle class, and masses. After investigating these views, the book posits that these Chinese geopolitical imaginaries cannot be fully understood using the extant geopolitical theories, including communism, nationalism, and realism. Accordingly, it subsequently seeks to adapt the Confucian geopolitical idea in order to theorize Chinese geopolitics. By doing so, the book reintroduces the historically embedded but long-ignored traditional Chinese political geography philosophies (in particular Confucian thinking) into efforts to explain Chinese geopolitics. In this regard, it promotes a specific and importantly Confucianism-based understanding of international security politics. The geopolitical model provided can also help to explain Chinese views on other major geopolitical issues.

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9811520100

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9789811520105

Advanced Seat Suspension Control System Design for Heavy Duty Vehicles

By: Haiping Du,Weihua Li,Donghong Ning,Shuaishuai Sun

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Advanced Seat Suspension Control System Design for Heavy Duty Vehicles

By: Haiping Du,Weihua Li,Donghong Ning,Shuaishuai Sun

Advanced Seat Suspension Control System Design for Heavy Duty Vehicles provides systematic knowledge of the advanced seat suspension design and control for heavy duty vehicles. Nowadays, people are paying more and more attention to ride comfort and the health of drivers and passengers. This is especially for heavy duty vehicles, where drivers/operators are exposed to much severer vibrations than those in passenger vehicles due to a harsh working environment, operating conditions, and long hour driving, etc. Seat suspension systems can effectively help to suppress the high magnitude vibration transmitted to drivers with relatively simple structure and low cost, and hence are widely adopted in heavy duty vehicles. This book helps researchers and engineers to have a comprehensive understanding of the seat suspension system and to conduct in-depth studies on seat suspension design and control; this book covers a wide range of perspectives about seat suspension design and control methods. - Describes the variable damping, variable stiffness, and, especially, variable inertance seat suspensions - Provides the advanced and comprehensive knowledge about semi-active vibration control - Introduces the multiple-DOF seat suspension - Includes the innovative hybrid seat suspension and nonlinear seat suspension - All the introduced designs have been prototyped and experimentally validated - Provides Matlab Simulation programming codes

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Academic Press

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0128226838

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Love At Night

Volume 2

By: Ning MengChaBuJiaBing

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Love At Night

Volume 2

By: Ning MengChaBuJiaBing

when she saw him again bai mo was no longer the daughter of a daughter she knew she should hate him for deceiving her feelings and ruining her family he had taken everything from her and everything he couldn't take away had been destroyed including the rest of her life however under his ice-cold gaze she only wanted to continue escaping

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1648976743

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Asian Mind Game

By: Chin-ning Chu

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Asian Mind Game

By: Chin-ning Chu

Analysis of how Chinese thought and culture have affected Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and how Japanese conquest and culture have had their effect on the rest of Asia.

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Simon and Schuster

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0892563524

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9780892563524

Chinese-German Female-Themed Art Film Culture in the Context of Globalization

By: Ning Xu

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Chinese-German Female-Themed Art Film Culture in the Context of Globalization

By: Ning Xu

In the context of globalization, this book explores female-themed art films from China and Germany, in order to seek and illustrate how the cultural difference between the ways of representing women and narrating women's themes is shown in the films of both countries.

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Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

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3832554807

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Rise of the Consumer in Modern China

By: Wang Ning

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Rise of the Consumer in Modern China

By: Wang Ning

A unique and far-reaching study of China's contemporary social changes from the perspectives of consumption and consumerism.China has undergone profound social changes, with far-reaching consequences on all walks of life since reform began thirty years ago. To fully understand China's transformation, the landscape must be surveyed from the perspective of consumption, where you can find many intrinsic links between seemingly unrelated aspects of social reform.The Rise of the Consumer in Modern China is the result of a seven-year research campaign conducted by leading Chinese academic Wang Ning. Detailed and comprehensive, it cites numerous policy documents and source material generated from interviews, alongside data, expert commentary and conclusions. The transformation from asceticism to consumerism is a vital factor when considering China's economic and social reforms. Authoritative and richly detailed, this important new book offers a revealing and unique insight into a key aspect of China's opening up.During the most recent thirty years not only have there been revolutionary changes in consumer behavior, furthermore the role of consumption in driving the evolution of society has become un-ignorable. It is vital to study and analyze the changes in Chinese consumption before and after China's opening-up from a sociological perspective. This key book explores the Chinese urban consumption system and the evolution of the ideological concept of consumption by examining a huge number of governmental documents and records.

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Paths International Ltd

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184464099X

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Cooperative Control of Nonlinear Multiagent Systems

Passivity-Based and Non-Passivity-Based Approaches

By: Jin-Liang Wang,Shun-Yan Ren,Huai-Ning Wu,Tingwen Huang

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Cooperative Control of Nonlinear Multiagent Systems

Passivity-Based and Non-Passivity-Based Approaches

By: Jin-Liang Wang,Shun-Yan Ren,Huai-Ning Wu,Tingwen Huang

Cooperative Control for Nonlinear Multiagent Systems: Passivity-Based and Non-Passivity-Based Approaches focuses on the cooperative control of nonlinear multiagent systems containing passivity-based or non-passivity-based consensus, lag consensus, and formation control of multiagent systems. The book provides professional and convenient guidance for those who want to know basic knowledge, advancements, and processes for designing and analyzing cooperative control for nonlinear multiagent systems.Currently, there are a lack of reference titles that systematically introduce students, researchers, and technologists to the backgrounds, developments, and designs protocols for cooperative control (contains passivity-based or not passivity-based consensus, lag consensus, formation control) of nonlinear multiagent systems. - Constructs the frameworks of passivity analysis, consensus control, lag consensus control, and formation control for multiagent systems - Helps readers learn novel control methods - Includes systematic introductions and detailed implementations on how control protocols solve problems in nonlinear multiagent systems

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Elsevier

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0443273278

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Nano Optoelectronic Sensors and Devices

Nanophotonics from Design to Manufacturing

By: Ning Xi,King Lai

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Nano Optoelectronic Sensors and Devices

Nanophotonics from Design to Manufacturing

By: Ning Xi,King Lai

Nanophotonics has emerged as a major technology and applications domain, exploiting the interaction of light-emitting and light-sensing nanostructured materials. These devices are lightweight, highly efficient, low on power consumption, and are cost effective to produce. The authors of this book have been involved in pioneering work in manufacturing photonic devices from carbon nanotube (CNT) nanowires and provide a series of practical guidelines for their design and manufacture, using processes such as nano-robotic manipulation and assembly methods. They also introduce the design and operational principles of opto-electrical sensing devices at the nano scale. Thermal annealing and packaging processes are also covered, as key elements in a scalable manufacturing process. Examples of applications of different nanowire based photonic devices are presented. These include applications in the fields of electronics (e.g. FET, CNT Schotty diode) and solar energy. - Discusses opto-electronic nanomaterials, characterization and properties from an engineering perspective, enabling the commercialization of key emerging technologies - Provides scalable techniques for nanowire structure growth, manipulation and assembly (i.e. synthesis) - Explores key application areas such as sensing, electronics and solar energy

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William Andrew

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1437734723

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Hybrid and Fully Thermoelectric Solar Harvesting

By: Dario Narducci,Peter Bermel,Bruno Lorenzi,Ning Wang,Kazuaki Yazawa

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Hybrid and Fully Thermoelectric Solar Harvesting

By: Dario Narducci,Peter Bermel,Bruno Lorenzi,Ning Wang,Kazuaki Yazawa

This book provides a comprehensive overview on fully thermal and hybrid solar generators based on thermoelectric devices. The book fills a gap in the literature on solar conversion and thermoelectrics, because despite the growing number of papers dealing with the use of thermoelectrics in solar power conversion, no book exists for PV specialists or thermoelectricity experts to enter this field. The book is intended as a primer for scientists or engineers willing to complement their expertise in one of the two fields, and to get an updated, critical review of the state of the art in thermoelectric solar harvesting.

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3319764276

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Fixed-Time Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems

By: Zongyu Zuo,Qing-Long Han,Boda Ning

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Fixed-Time Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems

By: Zongyu Zuo,Qing-Long Han,Boda Ning

This monograph presents new theories and methods for fixed-time cooperative control of multi-agent systems. Fundamental concepts of fixed-time stability and stabilization are introduced with insightful understanding. This book presents solutions for several problems of fixed-time cooperative control using systematic design methods. The book compares fixed-time cooperative control with asymptotic cooperative control, demonstrating how the former can achieve better closed-loop performance and disturbance rejection properties. It also discusses the differences from finite-time control, and shows how fixed-time cooperative control can produce the faster rate of convergence and provide an explicit estimate of the settling time independent of initial conditions. This monograph presents multiple applications of fixed-time control schemes, including to distributed optimization of multi-agent systems, making it useful to students, researchers and engineers alike.

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3030202798

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Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness

Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China

By: Ning Wang

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Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness

Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China

By: Ning Wang

After Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "re-education" by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of these banished Beijing intellectuals. Wang’s use of newly uncovered Chinese-language sources challenges the concept of the intellectual as renegade martyr, showing how exiles often declared allegiance to the state for self-preservation. While Mao’s campaign victimized the banished, many of those same people also turned against their comrades. Wang describes the ways in which the state sought to remold the intellectuals, and he illuminates the strategies the exiles used to deal with camp officials and improve their chances of survival.

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Cornell University Press

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1501714023

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Advances in Condensed Matter Optics

By: Liangyao Chen,Ning Dai,Xunya Jiang,Kuijuan Jin,Hui Liu,Haibin Zhao

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Advances in Condensed Matter Optics

By: Liangyao Chen,Ning Dai,Xunya Jiang,Kuijuan Jin,Hui Liu,Haibin Zhao

The authors of this book, all with a background in condensed matter physics, have carried out advanced researches in recent years to study the optical and magneto-optical properties of many kinds of new functional materials, including metal-based metamaterials, narrow-to-wide-bandgap semiconductors, thin films, and magnetic and magneto-optical materials by using different types of optical methods and instruments. This book describes some of the more recent progresses and developments in the study of condensed matter optics in both theoretic and experimental fields. It will help readers, especially graduate students and scientists who are studying and working in the nano-photonic field, to understand more deeply the characteristics of light waves propagated in nano-structure-based materials with potential applications in the future.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110307022

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Passivity of Complex Dynamical Networks

Analysis, Control and Applications

By: Jin-Liang Wang,Huai-Ning Wu,Shun-Yan Ren

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Passivity of Complex Dynamical Networks

Analysis, Control and Applications

By: Jin-Liang Wang,Huai-Ning Wu,Shun-Yan Ren

This book intends to introduce some recent results on passivity of complex dynamical networks with single weight and multiple weights. The book collects novel research ideas and some definitions in complex dynamical networks, such as passivity, output strict passivity, input strict passivity, finite-time passivity, and multiple weights. Furthermore, the research results previously published in many flagship journals are methodically edited and presented in a unified form. The book is likely to be of interest to university researchers and graduate students in Engineering and Mathematics who wish to study the passivity of complex dynamical networks.

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Springer Nature

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9813342870

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Encounters

Chinese Language and Culture, Student Book 3

By: Cynthia Y. Ning,Stephen L. Tschudi,John S. Montanaro

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Encounters

Chinese Language and Culture, Student Book 3

By: Cynthia Y. Ning,Stephen L. Tschudi,John S. Montanaro

Audio program by Cynthia y. Ning and the Confucius Institute"-T.p.

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Yale University Press

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0300161646

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9780300161649

Chinese Democracy and the Crisis of 1989

Chinese and American Reflections

By: LOU NING

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Chinese Democracy and the Crisis of 1989

Chinese and American Reflections

By: LOU NING

This study examines the process of democratization in China, taking as a focal point the recent crisis of 1989 in Tiananmen Square, but providing broader historical perspectives from both Chinese and American scholars. The authors evaluate China's political heritage, from theories of despotism in Chinese civilization to evidence for China's own democratic traditions. They also analyze the more recent political and social crises of the 1980s leading to the massive urban demonstrations in the spring of 1989, with the conflicts that have divided the rural masses, the state, the army, the cultural elite, and the media in China; and they discuss what these events tell us about China's cultural and political future.

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392

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SUNY Press

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0791412695

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Assembly and Reliability of Lead-Free Solder Joints

By: John H. Lau,Ning-Cheng Lee

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Assembly and Reliability of Lead-Free Solder Joints

By: John H. Lau,Ning-Cheng Lee

This book focuses on the assembly and reliability of lead-free solder joints. Both the principles and engineering practice are addressed, with more weight placed on the latter. This is achieved by providing in-depth studies on a number of major topics such as solder joints in conventional and advanced packaging components, commonly used lead-free materials, soldering processes, advanced specialty flux designs, characterization of lead-free solder joints, reliability testing and data analyses, design for reliability, and failure analyses for lead-free solder joints. Uniquely, the content not only addresses electronic manufacturing services (EMS) on the second-level interconnects, but also packaging assembly on the first-level interconnects and the semiconductor back-end on the 3D IC integration interconnects. Thus, the book offers an indispensable resource for the complete food chain of electronics products.

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545

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Springer Nature

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9811539200

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Vibration Control of Vehicle Suspension Systems

By: Haiping Du,Panshuo Li,Donghong Ning

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Vibration Control of Vehicle Suspension Systems

By: Haiping Du,Panshuo Li,Donghong Ning

This book covers complex issues for a vehicle suspension model, including non-linearities and uncertainties in a suspension model, network-induced time delays, and sampled-data model from a theoretical point of view. It includes control design methods such as neural network supervisory, sliding mode variable structure, optimal control, internal-model principle, feedback linearization control, input-to-state stabilization, and so on. Every control method is applied to the simulation for comparison and verification. Features: Includes theoretical derivation, proof, and simulation verification combined with suspension models Provides the vibration control strategies for sampled-data suspension models Focuses on the suspensions with time-delays instead of delay-free Covers all the models related to quarter-, half-, and full-vehicle suspensions Details rigorous mathematical derivation process for each theorem supported by MATLAB®-based simulation This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in automotive engineering, vehicle vibration, mechatronics, control systems, applied mechanics, and vehicle dynamics.

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CRC Press

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1000999297

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Distributed Control and Optimization of Networked Microgrids

A Multi-Agent System Based Approach

By: Lei Ding,Qing-Long Han,Boda Ning

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Distributed Control and Optimization of Networked Microgrids

A Multi-Agent System Based Approach

By: Lei Ding,Qing-Long Han,Boda Ning

This book presents new techniques and methods for distributed control and optimization of networked microgrids. Distributed consensus issues under network-based and event-triggered mechanisms are first addressed in a multi-agent system framework, which can explicitly characterize the relationship between communication resources and the control performance. Then, considering the effects of network uncertainties, multi-agent system-based distributed schemes are tailored to solve the fundamental issues of networked microgrids such as distributed frequency regulation, voltage regulation, active power sharing/load sharing, and energy management. The monograph will contribute to stimulating extensive interest of researchers in electrical and control fields.

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3030950298

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9783030950293

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