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This book is intended as a reference book for advanced graduate
students and research engineers in block-in-matrix rocks (bimrocks)
or soil and rock mixtures (SRMs) or rock and soil aggregate (RSA).
Bimrocks are complex formations characterized by competent rock
inclusions floating in a weaker matrix. Typical types of bimrocks
include a series of mixed geological or engineering masses such as
melanges, fault rocks, coarse pyroclastic rocks, breccias, sheared
serpentines, and waste dump mixture. Bimrock is especially
different from the general soil and rock material, and the
detection of the damage and fracture is still wide open to
innovative research. Globally, there is a widespread interest in
investigating the geomechanical behaviors of bimrocks, such as
deformation and strength characteristics, damage and fracture
evolution, and stability prediction of bimrock construction.
However, the meso-structural factors control the whole mechanical
properties of bimrocks; the source of the macroscopic deformation
phenomenon is the meso-structural changes. Therefore, evaluation of
the mesoscopic physical and mechanical properties, together with
advanced testing technique, is an attractive research topic in rock
mechanics. As a result, comprehensive macroscopic and mesoscopic
experimental investigations should be conducted to reveal the
damage and fracturing mechanical behaviors of bimrocks. The readers
of this work can gain new insights into the meso-structural changes
of bimrocks subjected to different stress paths. This book is
expected to improve the understanding of the mesoscopic damage and
fracturing mechanisms of bimrocks, and can be helpful to predict
the stability of rock structures where rock mass is subjected to
complex loading conditions.
INLA stands for Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations, which is
a new method for fitting a broad class of Bayesian regression
models. No samples of the posterior marginal distributions need to
be drawn using INLA, so it is a computationally convenient
alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), the standard tool
for Bayesian inference. Bayesian Regression Modeling with INLA
covers a wide range of modern regression models and focuses on the
INLA technique for building Bayesian models using real-world data
and assessing their validity. A key theme throughout the book is
that it makes sense to demonstrate the interplay of theory and
practice with reproducible studies. Complete R commands are
provided for each example, and a supporting website holds all of
the data described in the book. An R package including the data and
additional functions in the book is available to download. The book
is aimed at readers who have a basic knowledge of statistical
theory and Bayesian methodology. It gets readers up to date on the
latest in Bayesian inference using INLA and prepares them for
sophisticated, real-world work. Xiaofeng Wang is Professor of
Medicine and Biostatistics at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College
of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and a Full Staff in
the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at Cleveland Clinic.
Yu Ryan Yue is Associate Professor of Statistics in the Paul H.
Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics at Baruch
College, The City University of New York. Julian J. Faraway is
Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences
at the University of Bath.
New edition Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Chinese is an expertly
developed course designed to help students achieve their potential
in GCSE Chinese. Our award-winning Edexcel GCSE Chinese course has
been updated so it delivers full coverage of the new Pearson
Edexcel GCSE Chinese (9-1) specification. The course provides
seamless progression from Jin bu at Key Stage 3 but can also be
used as a stand-alone resource. The new edition of our Student Book
provides: materials to develop listening, speaking, reading and
writing skills which now include a focus on translation,
understanding authentic texts and spontaneous speaking new
end-of-chapter exam preparation sections which help to prepare
students for the GCSE Chinese (9-1) examination cultural content
and a focus on 'learning something new' to help give students a
sense of purpose and bring language learning to life easy-to-use
word lists to help students with ongoing vocabulary learning and
revision. Audio files to accompany our Student Books are sold
separately.
“While he’s out for a walk in the autumn woods, Mr. Cat
discovers a wee, thumb-sized girl who brings love, light, and
laughter into his regimented days. The little sprite spreads joy
and inspires creativity, brightening the cold winter months. Her
bare feet and sunny yellow dress stand in contrast to Mr. Cat’s
formal manners. This is a bittersweet tale of hope; it celebrates
the beauty and transience of life and the passing seasons.†–
Foreword Reviews "A story with quite engaging illustrations.†–
Kirkus Reviews "The careful, softly shaded illustrations are gently
luminous.†– Publishers Weekly Mr. Cat spends his days alone.
When he goes out to paint a beautiful winter landscape, he finds a
little girl. He decides to take her home. The girl colors his
world… until she disappears A poetic story about friendship and
saying good-bye. For daydreamers ages 5 years and up. Guided
Reading Level O
INLA stands for Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations, which is
a new method for fitting a broad class of Bayesian regression
models. No samples of the posterior marginal distributions need to
be drawn using INLA, so it is a computationally convenient
alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), the standard tool
for Bayesian inference. Bayesian Regression Modeling with INLA
covers a wide range of modern regression models and focuses on the
INLA technique for building Bayesian models using real-world data
and assessing their validity. A key theme throughout the book is
that it makes sense to demonstrate the interplay of theory and
practice with reproducible studies. Complete R commands are
provided for each example, and a supporting website holds all of
the data described in the book. An R package including the data and
additional functions in the book is available to download. The book
is aimed at readers who have a basic knowledge of statistical
theory and Bayesian methodology. It gets readers up to date on the
latest in Bayesian inference using INLA and prepares them for
sophisticated, real-world work. Xiaofeng Wang is Professor of
Medicine and Biostatistics at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College
of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and a Full Staff in
the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at Cleveland Clinic.
Yu Ryan Yue is Associate Professor of Statistics in the Paul H.
Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics at Baruch
College, The City University of New York. Julian J. Faraway is
Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences
at the University of Bath.
"While he's out for a walk in the autumn woods, Mr. Cat discovers a
wee, thumb-sized girl who brings love, light, and laughter into his
regimented days. The little sprite spreads joy and inspires
creativity, brightening the cold winter months. Her bare feet and
sunny yellow dress stand in contrast to Mr. Cat's formal manners.
This is a bittersweet tale of hope; it celebrates the beauty and
transience of life and the passing seasons." - Foreword Reviews "A
story with quite engaging illustrations." - Kirkus Reviews "The
careful, softly shaded illustrations are gently luminous." -
Publishers Weekly Mr. Cat spends his days alone. When he goes out
to paint a beautiful winter landscape, he finds a little girl. He
decides to take her home. The girl colors his world... until she
disappears A poetic story about friendship and saying good-bye. For
daydreamers ages 5 years and up. Guided Reading Level O
This open access book explores new research directions in social
inequality and urban segregation. With the goal of fostering an
ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, it brings
together an impressive team of international researchers to shed
light on the entwined processes of inequality and segregation, and
the implications for urban development. Through a rich collection
of empirical studies at the city, regional and national levels, the
book explores the impact of migration on cities, the related
problems of social and spatial segregation, and the ramifications
for policy reform. While the literature on both segregation and
inequality has traditionally been dominated by European and North
American studies, there is growing interest in these issues in the
Chinese context. Economic liberalization, rapid industrial
restructuring, the enormous growth of cities, and internal
migration, have all reshaped the country profoundly. What have we
learned from the European and North American experience of
segregation and inequality, and what insights can be gleaned to
inform the bourgeoning interest in these issues in the Chinese
context? How is China different, both in terms of the nature and
the consequences of segregation inequality, and what are the
implications for future research and policy? Given the continued
rise of China's significance in the world, and its recent
declaration of war on poverty, this book offers a timely
contribution to scholarship, identifying the core insights to be
learned from existing research, and providing important guidance on
future directions for policy makers and researchers.
This book is about the design and control of biomimetic underwater
robots. It explains the six aspects of the underwater
biomimetic vehicle- manipulator system in detail and provides
practical examples. This book is the authors’ long-term
exploration of the theoretical and technical issues in the
development of the underwater biomimetic vehicle-manipulator
system and is written based on more than 15 years of scientific
research and practical experience. This book is a helpful reference
for the researchers, engineers, master and Ph.D. students in the
field of biomimetic underwater robots.
Written in readable format and rich with clinical cases, this book
systematically introduces surgical nursing during robotic surgery.
The first part introduces the history of robotic surgery, operating
room management, quality control of robotic surgical nursing,
management of safety, infection, and anaesthesia. The second part
introduces key points of nursing during robotic surgery in urology,
general surgery, gynaecology, heart, chest and otorhinolaryngology.
It will be a helpful reference for practitioners those in the
process of implanting or about to implant robotic surgery.
This book presents the latest research advances in complex network
structure analytics based on computational intelligence (CI)
approaches, particularly evolutionary optimization. Most if not all
network issues are actually optimization problems, which are mostly
NP-hard and challenge conventional optimization techniques. To
effectively and efficiently solve these hard optimization problems,
CI based network structure analytics offer significant advantages
over conventional network analytics techniques. Meanwhile, using CI
techniques may facilitate smart decision making by providing
multiple options to choose from, while conventional methods can
only offer a decision maker a single suggestion. In addition, CI
based network structure analytics can greatly facilitate network
modeling and analysis. And employing CI techniques to resolve
network issues is likely to inspire other fields of study such as
recommender systems, system biology, etc., which will in turn
expand CI's scope and applications. As a comprehensive text, the
book covers a range of key topics, including network community
discovery, evolutionary optimization, network structure balance
analytics, network robustness analytics, community-based
personalized recommendation, influence maximization, and biological
network alignment. Offering a rich blend of theory and practice,
the book is suitable for students, researchers and practitioners
interested in network analytics and computational intelligence,
both as a textbook and as a reference work.
This book include research studies which deal with the attempts to
address new solutions for challenges in geotechnical engineering
such as characterization of new materials, application of glass
fibre, geotextile fabric and permeable concrete, new numerical
methods for traditional problems and some other geotechnical issues
that are becoming quite relevant in today's world. The book adds to
the geotechnical engineering field which still bears lots of big
challenges. It contributes to make the civil infrastructures more
sustainable using new technologies and materials that have been
proposed and applied in various fields. Papers were selected from
the 5th GeoChina International Conference 2018 - Civil
Infrastructures Confronting Severe Weathers and Climate Changes:
From Failure to Sustainability, held on July 23 to 25, 2018 in
HangZhou, China.
This book presents the latest research advances in complex network
structure analytics based on computational intelligence (CI)
approaches, particularly evolutionary optimization. Most if not all
network issues are actually optimization problems, which are mostly
NP-hard and challenge conventional optimization techniques. To
effectively and efficiently solve these hard optimization problems,
CI based network structure analytics offer significant advantages
over conventional network analytics techniques. Meanwhile, using CI
techniques may facilitate smart decision making by providing
multiple options to choose from, while conventional methods can
only offer a decision maker a single suggestion. In addition, CI
based network structure analytics can greatly facilitate network
modeling and analysis. And employing CI techniques to resolve
network issues is likely to inspire other fields of study such as
recommender systems, system biology, etc., which will in turn
expand CI's scope and applications. As a comprehensive text, the
book covers a range of key topics, including network community
discovery, evolutionary optimization, network structure balance
analytics, network robustness analytics, community-based
personalized recommendation, influence maximization, and biological
network alignment. Offering a rich blend of theory and practice,
the book is suitable for students, researchers and practitioners
interested in network analytics and computational intelligence,
both as a textbook and as a reference work.
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Wenhua Wang; Illustrated by Amann Wang; Translated by Yu Yan Chen
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Wenhua Wang; Illustrated by Amann Wang; Translated by Yu Yan Chen
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Wenhua Wang; Illustrated by Amann Wang; Translated by Yu Yan Chen
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Wenhua Wang; Illustrated by Amann Wang; Translated by Yu Yan Chen
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This open access book explores new research directions in social
inequality and urban segregation. With the goal of fostering an
ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, it brings
together an impressive team of international researchers to shed
light on the entwined processes of inequality and segregation, and
the implications for urban development. Through a rich collection
of empirical studies at the city, regional and national levels, the
book explores the impact of migration on cities, the related
problems of social and spatial segregation, and the ramifications
for policy reform. While the literature on both segregation and
inequality has traditionally been dominated by European and North
American studies, there is growing interest in these issues in the
Chinese context. Economic liberalization, rapid industrial
restructuring, the enormous growth of cities, and internal
migration, have all reshaped the country profoundly. What have we
learned from the European and North American experience of
segregation and inequality, and what insights can be gleaned to
inform the bourgeoning interest in these issues in the Chinese
context? How is China different, both in terms of the nature and
the consequences of segregation inequality, and what are the
implications for future research and policy? Given the continued
rise of China's significance in the world, and its recent
declaration of war on poverty, this book offers a timely
contribution to scholarship, identifying the core insights to be
learned from existing research, and providing important guidance on
future directions for policy makers and researchers.
This book aims to establish a wind energy evaluation system, to
provide scientific reference for site selection, daily operation
and long-term planning of wind power generation, thus to make
contribution to breaking the shackles of power shortage. Firstly,
it presents the advantages and disadvantages of offshore wind
power, then further discusses about the status quo and challenges
for wind power programs along the Maritime Silk Road and offer
suggestions. A wind energy evaluation system was proposed with the
Maritime Silk Road as a case study, including climatic features of
wind power (temporal-spatial distribution), long-term climatic
trend and mechanism, short-term forecast of wind energy, mid- and
long-term projection of wind energy, technology of wind energy
evaluation on key point or vital region and offshore wind energy
dataset construction, to provide systematic and scientific
reference for wind power evaluation and utilization. This book is
one of the series of publications on 21st century Maritime Silk
Road (shortened as "Maritime Silk Road"). It covers the
characteristics of the marine environment and marine renewable
energy, remote islands and reefs construction, climate change,
early warning of wave disasters, legal escort, marine environment
and energy big data construction, etc., contributing to the safe
and efficient construction of the Maritime Silk Road. It aims to
improve our knowledge of the ocean, thus, to improve the capacity
for marine construction, enhance the viability of remote islands
and reefs, ease the energy crisis and protect the ecological
environment, improve the quality of life of residents along the
Maritime Silk Road, and protect the rights, interests of the
countries and regions participating in the construction of the
Maritime Silk Road. It is a valuable reference for decision-makers,
researchers, and marine engineers working in the related fields.
This book aims to establish a wind energy evaluation system, to
provide scientific reference for site selection, daily operation
and long-term planning of wind power generation, thus to make
contribution to breaking the shackles of power shortage. Firstly,
it presents the advantages and disadvantages of offshore wind
power, then further discusses about the status quo and challenges
for wind power programs along the Maritime Silk Road and offer
suggestions. A wind energy evaluation system was proposed with the
Maritime Silk Road as a case study, including climatic features of
wind power (temporal-spatial distribution), long-term climatic
trend and mechanism, short-term forecast of wind energy, mid- and
long-term projection of wind energy, technology of wind energy
evaluation on key point or vital region and offshore wind energy
dataset construction, to provide systematic and scientific
reference for wind power evaluation and utilization. This book is
one of the series of publications on 21st century Maritime Silk
Road (shortened as "Maritime Silk Road"). It covers the
characteristics of the marine environment and marine renewable
energy, remote islands and reefs construction, climate change,
early warning of wave disasters, legal escort, marine environment
and energy big data construction, etc., contributing to the safe
and efficient construction of the Maritime Silk Road. It aims to
improve our knowledge of the ocean, thus, to improve the capacity
for marine construction, enhance the viability of remote islands
and reefs, ease the energy crisis and protect the ecological
environment, improve the quality of life of residents along the
Maritime Silk Road, and protect the rights, interests of the
countries and regions participating in the construction of the
Maritime Silk Road. It is a valuable reference for decision-makers,
researchers, and marine engineers working in the related fields.
Written in readable format and rich with clinical cases, this book
systematically introduces surgical nursing during robotic surgery.
The first part introduces the history of robotic surgery, operating
room management, quality control of robotic surgical nursing,
management of safety, infection, and anaesthesia. The second part
introduces key points of nursing during robotic surgery in urology,
general surgery, gynaecology, heart, chest and otorhinolaryngology.
It will be a helpful reference for practitioners those in the
process of implanting or about to implant robotic surgery.
Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by
agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry
of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic
vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss
of storage needed for drought relief. Stopping or reversing the
trend requires management interventions. The North China Plain
serves as an example. A management system is set up for a typical
county. It contains three components: monitoring, decision support
based on modelling, and implementation in the field. Besides all
monitoring data, the decision support module contains an irrigation
calculator, a box model, and a distributed groundwater model to
project the outcomes of different water allocation scenarios. In
view of grain security, a solution combines an adaptation of the
cropping system with imports of surface water from the South. The
Open Access book does not only describe the problem and the path to
its solution. It also gives access to nine manuals concerning
methods used. They include computer programs and the game Save the
Water. The Chinese experience should be of considerable interest to
other regions in the world which suffer from over-pumping of
aquifers.
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