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QoS Prediction in Cloud and Service Computing

Approaches and Applications

By: Yilei Zhang,Michael R. Lyu

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QoS Prediction in Cloud and Service Computing

Approaches and Applications

By: Yilei Zhang,Michael R. Lyu

This book offers a systematic and practical overview of Quality of Service prediction in cloud and service computing. Intended to thoroughly prepare the reader for research in cloud performance, the book first identifies common problems in QoS prediction and proposes three QoS prediction models to address them. Then it demonstrates the benefits of QoS prediction in two QoS-aware research areas. Lastly, it collects large-scale real-world temporal QoS data and publicly releases the datasets, making it a valuable resource for the research community. The book will appeal to professionals involved in cloud computing and graduate students working on QoS-related problems.

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9811052786

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9789811052781

The Top of the Bottom of the World!

By: Mao Yilei

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The Top of the Bottom of the World!

By: Mao Yilei

Written by the expedition doctor, this is the author's diary from the historic Chinese Antarctic expedition to build Kunlun Station in the middle of the immense Antarctic ice sheet. The expedition team not only had to ascend over four thousand meters at temperatures of sixty Fahrenheit below zero while fighting through snowstorms, they also had to overcome all sorts of difficulties, such as constantly changing plans, impossible loads, discontented construction workers, and low pay. Were they taking crazy risks? Was the expedition a foolish endeavor? The author's account is a vivid, truthful description of this great expedition undertaken by a team of moving individuals who aren't without their flaws and crude, or even sometimes rule-breaking, behavior. It is a story worth reading.

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339

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483673871

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9781483673875

Probing the Response of Two-Dimensional Crystals by Optical Spectroscopy

By: Yilei Li

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Probing the Response of Two-Dimensional Crystals by Optical Spectroscopy

By: Yilei Li

This thesis focuses on the study of the optical response of new atomically thin two-dimensional crystals, principally the family of transition metal dichalcogenides like MoS2. One central theme of the thesis is the precise treatment of the linear and second-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides. In addition to their significant scientific interest as fundamental material responses, these studies provide essential knowledge and convenient characterization tools for the application of these 2D materials in opto-electronic devices. Another important theme of the thesis is the valley physics of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides. It is shown that the degeneracy in the valley degree of freedom can be lifted and a valley polarization can be created using a magnetic field, which breaks time reversal symmetry in these materials. These findings enhance our basic understanding of the valley electronic states and open up new opportunities for valleytronic applications using two-dimensional materials.

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331925376X

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Subtitling Chinese Cinema: A Case Study of Zhang Yimou's Films

By: Yilei Yuan

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Subtitling Chinese Cinema: A Case Study of Zhang Yimou's Films

By: Yilei Yuan

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2016 in the subject Film Science, University of Glasgow, language: English, abstract: In recent years, more and more Chinese films have been exported abroad. This thesis intends to explore the subtitling of Chinese cinema into English, with Zhang Yimou’s films as a case study. Zhang Yimou is arguably the most critically and internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker, who has experimented with a variety of genres of films. I argue that in the subtitling of his films, there is an obvious adoption of the domestication translation strategy that reduces or even omits Chinese cultural references. I try to discover what cultural categories or perspectives of China are prone to the domestication of translation and have formulated five categories: humour, politeness, dialect, history and songs and the Peking Opera. My methodology is that I compare the source Chinese dialogue lines with the existing English subtitles by providing literal translations of the source lines, and I will also give my alternative translations that tend to retain the source cultural references better. I also speculate that the domestication strategy is frequently employed by subtitlers possibly because the subtitlers assume the source cultural references are difficult for target language subtitle readers to comprehend, even if they are translated into a target language. However, subtitle readers are very likely to understand more than what the dialogue lines and the target language subtitles express, because films are multimodal entities and verbal information is not the only source of information for subtitle readers. The image and the sound are also significant sources of information for subtitle readers who are constantly involved in a dynamic film-watching experience. They are also expected to grasp visual and acoustic information. The complete omission or domestication of source cultural references might also affect their interpretation of the non-verbal cues. I also contemplate that the translation, which frequently domesticates the source culture carried out by a translator who is also a native speaker of the source language, is ‘submissive translation’.

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GRIN Verlag

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334632608X

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QoS Prediction in Cloud and Service Computing

Approaches and Applications

By: Yilei Zhang,Michael R. Lyu

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Essays on Managerial Incentive Compensation and Manager-shareholder-bondholder Conflicts

By: Yilei Zhang

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Essays on Managerial Incentive Compensation and Manager-shareholder-bondholder Conflicts

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The essays investigate the agency problem and governance issues in the corporate world. Chapter 1 exams the governance implications of a firm's capital structure and managerial incentive compensation and the substitutability of these two mechanisms in controlling the free cash flow problem. I show in a nonlinear simultaneous framework that the devices indeed curb overinvestment; and they act as substitutes in addressing this agency concern. In addition, incorporating this endogenous relation turns out to be economically important and leads to a much more meaningful governance effects of both debt and incentive compensation on overinvestment. Chapter 2 further relates capital structure and incentive compensation focusing on all-equity firms. Managerial risk-taking incentives may encourage financial risk taking hence greater leverage. On the other hand, increasing a manager's incentive to take risk increases the agency cost of debt and therefore lowers debt capacity. I provide empirical evidence supporting the second effect in all-equity firms where the potential asset substitution is more severe hence the agency cost of debt effect dominates. The incentive compensation in all-equity firms encourages greater investment risk taking than that used by levered firms, suggesting managers in all-equity firms seek to capture the benefit of risk-taking mainly through investment when financing risk-taking is not an option. In addition, equity-based compensation and incentives decrease upon firms' switching to levered firms from all-equity firms, indicating the change of compensation structure is associated with the change of capital structure. The last chapter explores the wealth effects to stockholders and bondholders of first time option and restricted stock grants to CEOs. The event study reveals large positive stock price reactions and large negative bond price reactions. Moreover the wealth effects are associated with the risk-taking characteristics of the grant showing direct evidence of the link between the incentives arising from compensation structure and the value of the firm's debt and equity claims.

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0549061932

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Book's by Yilei Zhang

QoS Prediction in Cloud and Service Computing

QoS Prediction in Cloud and Service Computing

The Top of the Bottom of the World!

The Top of the Bottom of the World!

Probing the Response of Two-Dimensional Crystals by Optical Spectroscopy

Probing the Response of Two-Dimensional Crystals by Optical Spectroscopy

Subtitling Chinese Cinema: A Case Study of Zhang Yimou's Films

Subtitling Chinese Cinema: A Case Study of Zhang Yimou's Films

QoS Prediction in Cloud and Service Computing

QoS Prediction in Cloud and Service Computing

Essays on Managerial Incentive Compensation and Manager-shareholder-bondholder Conflicts

Essays on Managerial Incentive Compensation and Manager-shareholder-bondholder Conflicts

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