After breaking up, Gu Qian, who didn't want to end up alone, gave birth to this pair of dragons and phoenixes.Five years later, the Gu Clan's young master fell from the sky.This was great. His parents were both surnamed Gu, and he even skipped the process of changing his name.The Gu Clan's Two Treasures were a new trick in a day."Qian Chao, you're working too hard. Let me take care of the child.""Qian Chao, these two kids are too annoying. Don't bother yourself. Go out and move the bricks.""Shallowly ...""Alright, alright, Gu Xi Nian, you have changed!" You used to only spoil me!
In 1978, Deng Xiaoping, China's paramount leader, launched the economic reforms that turned the world's most populous nation into an economic dynamo. Yet Deng also shaped the destiny of a China that to this day is locked in the iron embrace of the Chinese Communist Party and its ancient, intractable leaders—even though early in his regime Deng had
Written by one of the most well-respected teams of scientists in the area of pipelines, this revolutionary approach offers the engineer working in the energy industry the theory, analysis, and practical applications for applying new materials and modeling to the design and effective use of flexible pipes. Recent changes in the codes for building pipelines has led to a boom in the production of new materials that can be used in flexible pipes. With the use of polymers, steel, and other new materials and variations on existing materials, the construction and, therefore, the installation and operation of flexible pipes is changing and being improved upon all over the world. The authors of this work have written numerous books and papers on these subjects and are some of the most influential authors on flexible pipes in the world, contributing much of the literature on this subject to the industry. This new volume is a presentation of some of the most cutting-edge technological advances in technical publishing. This is the most comprehensive and in-depth book on this subject, covering not just the various materials and their aspects that make them different, but every process that goes into their installation, operation, and design. The thirty-six chapters, divided up into four different parts, have had not just the authors of this text but literally dozens of other engineers who are some of the world's leading scientists in this area contribute to the work. This is the future of pipelines, and it is an important breakthrough. A must-have for the veteran engineer and student alike, this volume is an important new advancement in the energy industry, a strong link in the chain of the world's energy production.
For more than three thousand years, Chinese life – from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home – was configured around the courtyard. So too were the accomplishments of China's artistic, philosophical and institutional classes. Confucius' Courtyard tells the story of how the courtyard – that most singular and persistent architectural form – holds the key to understanding, even today, much of Chinese society and culture. Part architectural history, and part introduction to the cultural and philosophical history of China, the book explores the Chinese view of the world, and reveals the extent to which this is inextricably intertwined with the ancient concept of the courtyard, a place and a way of life which, it appears, has been almost entirely overlooked in China since the middle of the 20th century, and in the West for centuries. Along the way, it provides an accessible introduction to the Confucian idea of zhongyong ('the Middle Way'), the Chinese moral universe and the virtuous good life in the absence of an awesome God, and shows how these can only be fully understood through the humble courtyard – a space which is grounded in the earth, yet open to the heavens. Erudite, elegant and illustrated throughout by the author's own architectural drawings and sketches, Confucius' Courtyard weaves together architecture, philosophy and cultural history to explore what lies at the very heart of Chinese civilization.
This book focuses on control techniques for LCL-type grid-connected inverters to improve system stability, control performance and suppression ability of grid current harmonics. Combining a detailed theoretical analysis with design examples and experimental validations, the book offers an essential reference guide for graduate students and researchers in power electronics, as well as engineers engaged in developing grid-connected inverters for renewable energy generation systems.
In this book, the authors cover the recent progress in the synthesis, characterization and application of various multi-layered carbides, carbonitrides and nitrides. Moreover, the processing and development of MXene-based composites are elaborated, focusing on their applications and performances as transparent conductors in environmental remediation and energy storage systems.
This book provides a detailed overview of the plasma fluidized bed. It is an innovative tool and generally combines plasma process with another efficient reactor, fluidized bed, providing an excellent method for particulate processes over conventional technology. The development and designs of typical types of plasma fluidized beds, mainly thermal plasma fluidized beds and non-thermal plasma fluidized beds are discussed. The influencing factors on the performance of plasma fluidized beds are analyzed in detail. The mechanism, i.e. the discharge characteristics, hydrodynamics, heat transfer and mass transfer are analyzed to offer a further insight of plasma fluidized beds. Applications of plasma fluidized beds for different areas, including metallurgy extraction, green energy process, environmental protection and advanced materials are presented. The book is a valuable reference for scientists, engineers and graduate students in chemical engineering and relative fields.
Ch. 1. Towards a hermeneutic conception of social work practice (1) : the myths of positivism and the strong thesis of value involvement / Sun-pong Yuen -- ch. 2. Towards a hermeneutic conception of social work practice (2) : social work skills and moral practice / Sun-pong Yuen -- ch. 3. A hermeneutic study of the mentally ill "self" / Mary C. K. Fong -- ch. 4. The meaning of cancer from a hermeneutic perspective / Wai-ying Chan -- ch. 5. Critical theory and community development / Yuk-ying Ho and Kun-sun Chan -- ch. 6. The moral basis of social work management / Kun-sun Chan.
Several types of differential equations, such as functional differential equation, age-structured models, transport equations, reaction-diffusion equations, and partial differential equations with delay, can be formulated as abstract Cauchy problems with non-dense domain. This monograph provides a self-contained and comprehensive presentation of the fundamental theory of non-densely defined semilinear Cauchy problems and their applications. Starting from the classical Hille-Yosida theorem, semigroup method, and spectral theory, this monograph introduces the abstract Cauchy problems with non-dense domain, integrated semigroups, the existence of integrated solutions, positivity of solutions, Lipschitz perturbation, differentiability of solutions with respect to the state variable, and time differentiability of solutions. Combining the functional analysis method and bifurcation approach in dynamical systems, then the nonlinear dynamics such as the stability of equilibria, center manifold theory, Hopf bifurcation, and normal form theory are established for abstract Cauchy problems with non-dense domain. Finally applications to functional differential equations, age-structured models, and parabolic equations are presented. This monograph will be very valuable for graduate students and researchers in the fields of abstract Cauchy problems, infinite dimensional dynamical systems, and their applications in biological, chemical, medical, and physical problems.
After breaking up, Gu Qian, who didn't want to end up alone, gave birth to this pair of dragons and phoenixes.Five years later, the Gu Clan's young master fell from the sky.This was great. His parents were both surnamed Gu, and he even skipped the process of changing his name.The Gu Clan's Two Treasures were a new trick in a day."Qian Chao, you're working too hard. Let me take care of the child.""Qian Chao, these two kids are too annoying. Don't bother yourself. Go out and move the bricks.""Shallowly ...""Alright, alright, Gu Xi Nian, you have changed!" You used to only spoil me!
After breaking up, Gu Qian, who didn't want to end up alone, gave birth to this pair of dragons and phoenixes.Five years later, the Gu Clan's young master fell from the sky.This was great. His parents were both surnamed Gu, and he even skipped the process of changing his name.The Gu Clan's Two Treasures were a new trick in a day."Qian Chao, you're working too hard. Let me take care of the child.""Qian Chao, these two kids are too annoying. Don't bother yourself. Go out and move the bricks.""Shallowly ...""Alright, alright, Gu Xi Nian, you have changed!" You used to only spoil me!
After breaking up, Gu Qian, who didn't want to end up alone, gave birth to this pair of dragons and phoenixes.Five years later, the Gu Clan's young master fell from the sky.This was great. His parents were both surnamed Gu, and he even skipped the process of changing his name.The Gu Clan's Two Treasures were a new trick in a day."Qian Chao, you're working too hard. Let me take care of the child.""Qian Chao, these two kids are too annoying. Don't bother yourself. Go out and move the bricks.""Shallowly ...""Alright, alright, Gu Xi Nian, you have changed!" You used to only spoil me!
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