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Riddles of Belief...and Love: A Story

By: Lin Zhe

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Riddles of Belief...and Love: A Story

By: Lin Zhe

Beijing-based writer Lin Zhe's novel Waipode Gucheng, on which this translation is faithfully based, paints an unforgettable picture of an "ordinary" family caught up in the maelstrom that was China's most recent century. Her narrative ranges across the entire length of China, to California and back again, to the battlefields of the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance and the brutal "struggle" sessions of the Cultural Revolution. But it always returns to this family's home in Old Town, that archetypical, old-fashioned, and vanishing place steeped in the traditions of South China. Ms. Lin examines the inner strength that sustains people's lives in their darkest hours, when religious and political faith falter. And yet, a vein of irony and droll humor runs through this powerful story. Lin Zhe's novel may be understood as a love story, memoir, history, or allegory. For the non-Chinese reader it provides a rare and moving insight into Chinese lives in a century of fearsome upheaval.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1608442845

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Spatial Big Data Science

Classification Techniques for Earth Observation Imagery

By: Zhe Jiang,Shashi Shekhar

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Spatial Big Data Science

Classification Techniques for Earth Observation Imagery

By: Zhe Jiang,Shashi Shekhar

Emerging Spatial Big Data (SBD) has transformative potential in solving many grand societal challenges such as water resource management, food security, disaster response, and transportation. However, significant computational challenges exist in analyzing SBD due to the unique spatial characteristics including spatial autocorrelation, anisotropy, heterogeneity, multiple scales and resolutions which is illustrated in this book. This book also discusses current techniques for, spatial big data science with a particular focus on classification techniques for earth observation imagery big data. Specifically, the authors introduce several recent spatial classification techniques, such as spatial decision trees and spatial ensemble learning. Several potential future research directions are also discussed. This book targets an interdisciplinary audience including computer scientists, practitioners and researchers working in the field of data mining, big data, as well as domain scientists working in earth science (e.g., hydrology, disaster), public safety and public health. Advanced level students in computer science will also find this book useful as a reference.

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Springer

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3319601954

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9783319601953

Raman Scattering on Emerging Semiconductors and Oxides

By: Zhe Feng

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Raman Scattering on Emerging Semiconductors and Oxides

By: Zhe Feng

Raman Scattering on Emerging Semiconductors and Oxides presents Raman scattering studies. It describes the key fundamental elements in applying Raman spectroscopies to various semiconductors and oxides without complicated and deep Raman theories. Across nine chapters, it covers: • SiC and IV-IV semiconductors, • III-GaN and nitride semiconductors, • III-V and II-VI semiconductors, • ZnO-based and GaO-based semiconducting oxides, • Graphene, ferroelectric oxides, and other emerging materials, • Wide-bandgap semiconductors of SiC, GaN, and ZnO, and • Ultra-wide gap semiconductors of AlN, Ga2O3, and graphene. Key achievements from the author and collaborators in the above fields are referred to and cited with typical Raman spectral graphs and analyses. Written for engineers, scientists, and academics, this comprehensive book will be fundamental for newcomers in Raman spectroscopy. Zhe Chuan Feng has had an impressive career spanning many years of important work in engineering and tech, including as a professor at the Graduate Institute of Photonics & Optoelectronics and Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei; establishing the Science Exploring Lab; joining Kennesaw State University as an adjunct professor, part-time; and at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology. Currently, he is focusing on materials research for LED, III-nitrides, SiC, ZnO, other semiconductors/oxides, and nanostructures and has devoted time to materials research and growth of III-V and II-VI compounds, LED, III nitrides, SiC, ZnO, GaO, and other semiconductors/oxides. Professor Feng has also edited and published multiple review books in his field, alongside authoring scientific journal papers and conference/proceeding papers. He has organized symposiums and been an invited speaker at different international conferences and universities. He has also served as a guest editor for special journal issues.

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CRC Press

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1040105793

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9781040105795

Radar Networks

By: Hai Deng,Zhe Geng

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Radar Networks

By: Hai Deng,Zhe Geng

Radar networks are increasingly regarded as an efficient approach to enhancing radar capabilities in the face of popular anti-radar techniques and hostile operating environments. Reader-friendly and self-contained, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest radar networking technologies. The text addresses basic, relevant aspects of radar signal processing and statistical theories, including both civilian and military radar applications. It also discusses emerging topics that directly relate to networks, such as multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) radars, waveform design, and diversity via multiple transmitters. Other topics covered include target recognition and imaging using radar networks. Features Gives a comprehensive view of the latest radar network technologies Covers both civilian and military applications of radar Provides basic statistics and signal processing necessary for understanding radar networks Includes up-to-date information on MIMO radars Presents waveform design and diversity for radar networks with multiple transmitters

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1420076930

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Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites

By: Li Wei,Alessandro Stroppa,Zhe-ming Wang,Song Gao

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Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites

By: Li Wei,Alessandro Stroppa,Zhe-ming Wang,Song Gao

Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) have attracted substantial interest due to their chemical variability, structural diversity and favorable physical properties the past decade. This materials class encompasses other important families such as formates, azides, dicyanamides, cyanides and dicyanometallates. The book summarizes the chemical variability and structural diversity of all known hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites subclasses including halides, azides, formates, dicyanamides, cyanides and dicyanometallates. It also presents a comprehensive account of their intriguing physical properties, including photovoltaic, optoelectronic, dielectric, magnetic, ferroelectric, ferroelastic and multiferroic properties. Moreover, the current challenges and future opportunities in this exciting field are also been discussed. This timely book shows the readers a complete landscape of hybrid organic-inorganic pervoskites and associated multifuctionalities.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527344314

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Transnational Student Return Migration and Megacities in China

Practices of Cityzenship

By: Zhe Wang

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Transnational Student Return Migration and Megacities in China

Practices of Cityzenship

By: Zhe Wang

This book is a study of the return migration of overseas Chinese students. By 2018, over 3.5 million Chinese students had returned from overseas universities to China, with the megacities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen representing by far their main destinations. In other words, when overseas students return to China, many do not return to their hometown but usually land, work and settle down in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Their return migration is thus not only transnational, but also internal-urban. This book adopts a multi-level geographical analysis to explore this important phenomenon, exploring why and how returnees choose these three cities and how they experience and interpret their everyday lives in these megacities after their return. In doing so, it highlights the importance of cultural logics and multiscalar thinking of transnational Chinese students’ return migration and illuminates how their transnational migration reproduces domestic socio-spatial inequalities. This book brings an important contribution to the fields of Cultural Geography, Urban Geography, Transnationalism, Migration Studies and Citizenship Studies.

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Springer Nature

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9819920833

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9789819920839

Lossless Information Hiding in Images

By: Zhe-Ming Lu,Shi-Ze Guo

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Lossless Information Hiding in Images

By: Zhe-Ming Lu,Shi-Ze Guo

Lossless Information Hiding in Images introduces many state-of-the-art lossless hiding schemes, most of which come from the authors' publications in the past five years. After reading this book, readers will be able to immediately grasp the status, the typical algorithms, and the trend of the field of lossless information hiding. Lossless information hiding is a technique that enables images to be authenticated and then restored to their original forms by removing the watermark and replacing overridden images. This book focuses on the lossless information hiding in our most popular media, images, classifying them in three categories, i.e., spatial domain based, transform domain based, and compressed domain based. Furthermore, the compressed domain based methods are classified into VQ based, BTC based, and JPEG/JPEG2000 based. - Focuses specifically on lossless information hiding for images - Covers the most common visual medium, images, and the most common compression schemes, JPEG and JPEG 2000 - Includes recent state-of-the-art techniques in the field of lossless image watermarking - Presents many lossless hiding schemes, most of which come from the authors' publications in the past five years

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Syngress

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0128121661

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9780128121665

Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs

Origins, Evolution, and Structure

By: Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska,Richard L. Cifelli,Zhe-Xi Luo

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Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs

Origins, Evolution, and Structure

By: Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska,Richard L. Cifelli,Zhe-Xi Luo

Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.

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Columbia University Press

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0231119186

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9780231119184

Porous Silicon

By: Zhe Chuan Feng,Raphael Tsu

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Porous Silicon

By: Zhe Chuan Feng,Raphael Tsu

Due to the recent discovery of the room-temperature visible light emission from porous silicon (P-Si), a great interest in P-Si and related materials has arisen in the last decade of the 20th century. Crystalline (c-) Si, at the heart of integrated circuits, has an indirect band gap of 1.1 eV, which limits its application in optoelectronics. The visible light emitting P-Si may open a new field combining Si integrated technology and optoelectronics. This book is a comprehensive review of the recent research and development of porous silicon. Strong visible photoluminescence (PL) and electroluminescence (EL) from P-Si and other forms of silicon nanocrystallites (nc-Si) are reviewed. Several proposed mechanisms for the PL from porous silicon such as quantum confinement, amorphicity and molecular PL are studied. The following issues are covered: mechanisms for the visible light emission, physical structures, studies of the PL and EL, correlation of structure and optical studies, surface physics and chemistry, relationships among various forms (P-Si, a-Si, µc-Si), device applications, future developments.

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World Scientific

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9810216343

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9789810216344

Iii-Nitride Devices and Nanoengineering

By: Zhe Chuan Feng

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Iii-Nitride Devices and Nanoengineering

By: Zhe Chuan Feng

Devices, nanoscale science and technologies based on GaN and related materials, have achieved great developments in recent years. New GaN-based devices such as UV detectors, fast p-HEMT and microwave devices are developed far more superior than other semiconductor materials-based devices.Written by renowned experts, the review chapters in this book cover the most important topics and achievements in recent years, discuss progress made by different groups, and suggest future directions. Each chapter also describes the basis of theory and experiment.This book is an invaluable resource for device design and processing engineers, material growers and evaluators, postgraduates and scientists as well as newcomers in the GaN field.

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Imperial College Press

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1848162243

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9781848162242

Farmer Wife's Little Sweet

Volume 3

By: Zhe Zhe

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Farmer Wife's Little Sweet

Volume 3

By: Zhe Zhe

In her previous life, Lin Sitian had made a lot of money, but she died of cancer at such a young age, alone and desolately, in the hospital. After her rebirth, when facing her eccentric parents, she thought that her ten fingers still had some length. Moreover, when it came to matters between right and wrong, they were still very clear and could be trained. However, those relatives who were instigated by them and harbored evil intentions would not hold back. They would only slap them in the face. In this life, Lin Siqiang's goals were to become a bookworm and lead her family to become rich, then walk towards the peak of life. However, why was that proud and pampered man everywhere he went? It occupied her entire heart.

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Funstory

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1649911610

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Institutional Logics and Practice of the Evolution of Urban–Rural Relationships

By: Xiaoye Zhe,Yun Ai

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Institutional Logics and Practice of the Evolution of Urban–Rural Relationships

By: Xiaoye Zhe,Yun Ai

This book mainly analyzes the major issues at all phases of the transition of urban-rural relation, as well as measures adopted by the transition launcher in face of such issues, including not only the system and policy design of the national and local government, but the countermeasures of basic-level units at urban and rural areas and the people. Through reference of the social structure and social behavior, it proposes “opportunity structures”, “interactive mechanism” and “behavior strategies” for different periods, which to some degree promotes the transition of urban-rural relation and brings in new, more complicated issues for the development. It is under the impact of such new and existing issues that big problem follows when the urban-rural relation steps onto a new stage, showing several paths and practices different from the general urbanization and modernization theories.

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Springer Nature

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9811584192

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9789811584190

Process Operational Safety and Cybersecurity

A Feedback Control Approach

By: Zhe Wu,Panagiotis D. Christofides

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Process Operational Safety and Cybersecurity

A Feedback Control Approach

By: Zhe Wu,Panagiotis D. Christofides

This book is focused on the development of rigorous, yet practical, methods for the design of advanced process control systems to improve process operational safety and cybersecurity for a wide range of nonlinear process systems. Process Operational Safety and Cybersecurity develops designs for novel model predictive control systems accounting for operational safety considerations, presents theoretical analysis on recursive feasibility and simultaneous closed-loop stability and safety, and discusses practical considerations including data-driven modeling of nonlinear processes, characterization of closed-loop stability regions and computational efficiency. The text then shifts focus to the design of integrated detection and model predictive control systems which improve process cybersecurity by efficiently detecting and mitigating the impact of intelligent cyber-attacks. The book explores several key areas relating to operational safety and cybersecurity including: machine-learning-based modeling of nonlinear dynamical systems for model predictive control; a framework for detection and resilient control of sensor cyber-attacks for nonlinear systems; insight into theoretical and practical issues associated with the design of control systems for process operational safety and cybersecurity; and a number of numerical simulations of chemical process examples and Aspen simulations of large-scale chemical process networks of industrial relevance. A basic knowledge of nonlinear system analysis, Lyapunov stability techniques, dynamic optimization, and machine-learning techniques will help readers to understand the methodologies proposed. The book is a valuable resource for academic researchers and graduate students pursuing research in this area as well as for process control engineers. Advances in Industrial Control reports and encourages the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.

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3030711838

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9783030711832

McShane Identities for Higher Teichmüller Theory and the Goncharov–Shen Potential

By: Yi Huang,Zhe Sun

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McShane Identities for Higher Teichmüller Theory and the Goncharov–Shen Potential

By: Yi Huang,Zhe Sun

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American Mathematical Society

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1470463121

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9781470463120

Fundamentals of Stochastic Models

By: Zhe George Zhang

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Fundamentals of Stochastic Models

By: Zhe George Zhang

Stochastic modeling is a set of quantitative techniques for analyzing practical systems with random factors. This area is highly technical and mainly developed by mathematicians. Most existing books are for those with extensive mathematical training; this book minimizes that need and makes the topics easily understandable. Fundamentals of Stochastic Models offers many practical examples and applications and bridges the gap between elementary stochastics process theory and advanced process theory. It addresses both performance evaluation and optimization of stochastic systems and covers different modern analysis techniques such as matrix analytical methods and diffusion and fluid limit methods. It goes on to explore the linkage between stochastic models, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, and discusses how to make use of intuitive approaches instead of traditional theoretical approaches. The goal is to minimize the mathematical background of readers that is required to understand the topics covered in this book. Thus, the book is appropriate for professionals and students in industrial engineering, business and economics, computer science, and applied mathematics.

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1000865967

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9781000865967

Undergraduate Student Engagement

Theory and Practice in China and the UK

By: Zhe Zhang,Olwen McNamara

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Undergraduate Student Engagement

Theory and Practice in China and the UK

By: Zhe Zhang,Olwen McNamara

This book focuses on undergraduate student engagement in China and the UK. It offers an innovative perspective on this aspect, which, although pervasive, is not always acknowledged by its users to be complex and multidimensional in nature, firmly rooted in cultural, social and disciplinary norms, and difficult to measure. Competition within the global higher education market has become increasingly intense amongst universities; and the higher education sector in China, currently the largest source of international students, is beginning to compete strongly for its home market. Against this consumerist background, student engagement, with its close relation to positive learning outcomes, is increasingly receiving attention from higher education managers and researchers who seek to improve the quality of their ‘products’. The research study on which the book is based draws on three courses, two in China and one in the UK. It offers a binary perspective across two very different cultures (Western and Confucian) and two very different subject areas (Chinese language and mathematics). The study employs a mixed-methods design and develops a conceptual framework derived from statistical and thematic analysis. An original theoretical lens, combining a bioecological perspective (Bronfenbrenner) and a sociocultural one (Holland et al.’s Figured Worlds), adds further interpretive power to help understand the construct of student engagement.

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9811317216

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9789811317217

Deep IV in Law

Appellate Decisions and Texts Impact Sentencing in Trial Courts

By: Zhe Huang,Xinyue Zhang,Ruofan Wang,Daniel L. Chen

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Deep IV in Law

Appellate Decisions and Texts Impact Sentencing in Trial Courts

By: Zhe Huang,Xinyue Zhang,Ruofan Wang,Daniel L. Chen

Do US Circuit Courts' decisions on criminal appeals influence sentence lengths imposed by US District Courts? This Element explores the use of high-dimensional instrumental variables to estimate this causal relationship. Using judge characteristics as instruments, this Element implements two-stage models on court sentencing data for the years 1991 through 2013. This Element finds that Democratic, Jewish judges tend to favor criminal defendants, while Catholic judges tend to rule against them. This Element also finds from experiments that prosecutors backlash to Circuit Court rulings while District Court judges comply. Methodologically, this Element demonstrates the applicability of deep instrumental variables to legal data.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009296396

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9781009296397

Novel Lanthanum Zirconate-based Thermal Barrier Coatings for Energy Applications

By: Xingye Guo,Zhe Lu,Yeon-Gil Jung,Jing Zhang

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Novel Lanthanum Zirconate-based Thermal Barrier Coatings for Energy Applications

By: Xingye Guo,Zhe Lu,Yeon-Gil Jung,Jing Zhang

This book describes the latest developments of lanthanum zirconate based thermal barrier coatings. The physical, thermal, and mechanical properties of lanthanum zirconate powder and coatings are critically evaluated. Processing and characterizations of lanthanum zirconate powder and coatings under various conditions are also examined. Theoretical studies on the powder and coating’s properties are presented as well. Finally, future research directions of lanthanum zirconate as the next generation thermal barrier applications are proposed. Discusses fundamental mechanisms, processing, and applications of advanced coating materials; Addresses modeling methods of thermal barrier coatings focusing on surface and interface properties; A review suitable for industrial, academic and government researchers.

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3030586952

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9783030586959

Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks

By: Zhe Wang,Wei Zhang

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Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks

By: Zhe Wang,Wei Zhang

This Springer Brief investigates spectrum sharing with limited channel feedback in various cognitive radio systems, such as point-to-point, broadcast scheduling and ad-hoc networks. The design aim is to optimally allocate the secondary resources to improve the throughput of secondary users while maintaining a certain quality of service for primary users. The analytical results of optimal resource allocation are derived via optimization theory and are verified by the numerical results. The results demonstrate the secondary performance is significantly improved by limited feedback and is further improved by more feedback bits, more secondary receivers and more primary side information.

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3319155423

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Vacation Queueing Models

Theory and Applications

By: Naishuo Tian,Zhe George Zhang

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Vacation Queueing Models

Theory and Applications

By: Naishuo Tian,Zhe George Zhang

This book discusses systematically the many variations of vacation policy. The book discusses a variety of typical vacation model applications. The presentation style is unique compared with the books published in the same field – a "theorem and proof" format is used. Also, this is the first time G1/M/1 multi-server vacation models, both continuous and discrete, and the optimization and control issues have been presented in book form.

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