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Multiscale Theory of Composites and Random Media

By: Xi Frank Xu

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Multiscale Theory of Composites and Random Media

By: Xi Frank Xu

This is the first book to introduce Green-function-based multiscale theory and the corresponding finite element method, which are readily applicable to composites and random media. The methodology is considered to be the one that most effectively tackles the uncertainty of stress propagation in complex heterogeneities of random media, and which presents multiscale theory from distinctive scale separation and scale-coupling viewpoints. Deliberately taking a multiscale perspective, it covers scale separation and then scale coupling. Both micromechanics and novel scale-coupling mechanics are described in relation to variational principles and bounds, as well as in the emerging topics on percolation and scale-coupling computation. It gives detail on the different bounds encountered, covering classical second and third order, new fourth order, and innovative ellipsoidal variations. Green-function-based multiscale theory is addressed to applications in solid mechanics and transport of complex media ranging from micro- and nano-composites, polycrystals, soils, rocks, cementitious materials, to biological materials. It is useful as a graduate textbook in civil and mechanical engineering and as a reference.

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CRC Press

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0429894384

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9780429894381

My Extraordinary Pretty CEO

Volume 5

By: Xi XiangShaoNian

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My Extraordinary Pretty CEO

Volume 5

By: Xi XiangShaoNian

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I would actually send a colourful joke to my immediate superior! What's more, I didn't expect her to set her eyes on me!

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1256

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Funstory

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1649556438

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9781649556431

Evanescent Isles

From My City-village

By: Xu Xi

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Evanescent Isles

From My City-village

By: Xu Xi

An unusual book of quirky essays, some deeply personal. Xu Xi writes from within, of Hong Kong's vanishing culture and sensibility as it transforms itself into a space that is 21st Century China. She zooms in on her own life in the city: on family, friends and a professional history as both business executive and author, on moments that offer wry observations of the shifting world around her. She casts her eye on films, pop stars, public transportation, and muses on the political, without losing sight of the distinctly apolitical culture that evolved through a history as the former British colony and Chinese "Special Administrative Region" after the 1997 "handover.

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132

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622099467

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9789622099463

Cloud-Based Cyber-Physical Systems in Manufacturing

By: Lihui Wang,Xi Vincent Wang

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Cloud-Based Cyber-Physical Systems in Manufacturing

By: Lihui Wang,Xi Vincent Wang

This book presents state-of-the-art research, challenges and solutions in the area of cloud-based cyber-physical systems (CPS) used in manufacturing. It provides a comprehensive review of the literature and an in-depth treatment of novel methodologies, algorithms and systems in the area of architecture design, cyber security, process planning, monitoring and control. The book features detailed descriptions of how to derive solutions in a cloud environment where physical machines can be supported by cyber decision systems when engaged in real operations. It presents a range of novel ideas and is characterized by a balanced approach in terms of scope vs. depth and theory vs. applications. It also takes into account the need to present intellectual challenges while appealing to a broad readership, including academic researchers, practicing engineers and managers, and graduate students. Dedicated to the topic of cloud-based CPS and its practical applications in manufacturing, this book benefits readers from all manufacturing sectors, from system design to lifecycle engineering and from process planning to machine control. It also helps readers to understand the present challenges and future research directions towards factories of the future, helping them to position themselves strategically for career development.

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406

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Springer

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3319676938

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9783319676937

City Voices

Hong Kong Writing in English 1945 to the Present

By: Michael Ingham,Xu Xi

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City Voices

Hong Kong Writing in English 1945 to the Present

By: Michael Ingham,Xu Xi

City Voices is the first showcase of postwar Hong Kong literature originating in English. Fiction, poetry, essays and memoirs from more than 70 authors are featured to demonstrate 'the rich variety and vitality of the city's literary production'. Together with work from established authors, both bilingual writers who choose to write in English and expatriate authors who have made Hong Kong their home, a section of 'New Voices' introduces the work of unknown and young writers who are part of today's surge of new creativity.

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419

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622096042

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9789622096042

Redeemed by Fire

The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China

By: Lian, Xi

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Redeemed by Fire

The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China

By: Lian, Xi

This text addresses the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a collection of sources, the author traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in the 20th-century China from a small 'missionary' church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous opular religion energized by nationalism.

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351

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Yale University Press

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0300123396

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9780300123395

This Fish Is Fowl

Essays of Being

By: Xu Xi

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This Fish Is Fowl

Essays of Being

By: Xu Xi

In This Fish Is Fowl Xu Xi offers the transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary “glocalized” American life. Xu’s quirky, darkly comic, and obsessively personal essays emerge from her diverse professional career as a writer, business executive, entrepreneur, and educator. From her origins in Hong Kong as an Indonesian of Chinese descent to her U.S. citizenship and multiple countries of residence, she writes her way around the globe. Caring for her mother with Alzheimer’s in Hong Kong becomes the rhythmic accompaniment to an enforced, long-term, long-distance relationship with her partner and home in New York. In between Xu reflects on all her selves, which are defined by those myriad monikers of existence. As an author who began life as a novelist and fiction writer, she also considers the nature of genre, which snakes its way through these essays. In her linguistic trip across the comic tragedy that is globalism, she wonders about the mystery of humanity and the future of our world at this complicated and precarious moment in human existence. This Fish Is Fowl is a twenty-first-century blend of the essayist traditions of both West and East. Xu’s acerbic, deft prose shows her to be a descendant of both Michel de Montaigne and Lu Xun, with influences from stepparent Jonathan Swift.

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319

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496206827

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9781496206824

City Stage

Hong Kong Playwriting in English

By: Mike Ingham,Xu Xi

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City Stage

Hong Kong Playwriting in English

By: Mike Ingham,Xu Xi

City Stage is an anthology of recent Hong Kong English-language drama written for Hong Kong performers and audiences. All the plays were written in the last ten years and so capture and reflect the fast-developing multiculturalism of the Hong Kong scene – a somewhat paradoxical phenomenon in view of the 1997 return to China Mainland sovereignty. The richness and diversity of the subject-matter, the wide range of theatre styles from the naturalistic to the highly stylized and quite simply the engaging quality of the dramatic writing, all make this anthology both an essential adjunct to the 2001 prose fiction and poetry collection City Voices and at the same time a ground-breaking, independent record of an incredibly fertile period in Hong Kong's recent creative life history. Thematically speaking, whilst all plays have their unique voice and subject-matter, it is accurate to say that the quest for personal and communal identity is a theme that goes to the heart of all present selections. The anthology is important in that it epitomizes the increasing interconnectedness of previously segregated facets of Hong Kong culture, indicating the very welcome tendency towards more open dialogue between Chinese and non-Chinese practitioners and audiences. The anthology contains the complete texts of the shorter plays and strategically selected excerpts from the longer plays. All the texts in this collection were written as English-language versions for performance rather than literary translations, although for some a Chinese-language text was also written.

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285

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622097472

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9789622097476

Young Master Spoils His Cute Wife

Volume 3

By: Mu Xi

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Young Master Spoils His Cute Wife

Volume 3

By: Mu Xi

In one night, the company went bankrupt and her father went to prison. Furthermore, she was betrayed by her fiance and her good friend at the same time. From the unsurpassed to the lowly like dust. The gentle and handsome swordsman from abroad was the first ray of sunshine in her dark life. As for Ning Yan, the appearance of this perfect man, was it a desperate rescue or was it pushing her into an even more terrifying abyss? I love you, but I hate you all the more. When the two of them were testing each other out, a single mistake would mean that they had made the same mistake.

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930

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Funstory

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1649207778

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9781649207777

Multiscale Theory of Composites and Random Media

By: Xi Frank Xu

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By: Xi Frank Xu

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CRC Press

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0429894376

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9780429894374

Hong Kong Rose

By: Xu Xi

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Hong Kong Rose

By: Xu Xi

In October of 1987, Rose Kho, Hong Kong girl who left home, returned and has left it again for New York to escape her life, reflects, scotch in hand, as the sun sets on the Statue of Liberty. Meanwhile, the Feds are ransacking her offices because Gordie, her employer, is under investigation for illegal arms running. Rose faces the likelihood of deportation on the eve of the day when her sister Regina, a long-time illegal immigrant, will become a U.S. citizen as a result of the amnesty program. The novel rewinds through a drama set in Hong Kong of the seventies, where Confucian family ties and British colonial society embrace Rose's "perfect" marriage to a solicitor from a prominent South African Chinese family. But even before the wedding, a dark underside to that family begins to emerge, and Rose must confront the reality of her new life as it unfolds with many surprising twists and turns.

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Typhoon Media Ltd

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9881516366

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9789881516367

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