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Addressing the intersections between cognitive, sociocultural, and
sociolinguistic research, this volume explores bilingual
development across educational contexts to discuss and uncover the
influences and impact of language in school programming and
everyday practices. Confronting a standard monolingual lens, this
collection highlights the importance of applying cross-disciplinary
approaches to examine bilingualism in relation to topics such as
language politics, linguistic identities, students' experiences at
home and in schools, asset-based teaching and curricula, and
overall benefits. Ideal for courses in bilingualism, literacy,
psychology, and language education, this text is an important
resource for understanding and applying transdisciplinary,
inclusive approaches to positively influence cognitive development,
academic learning, and identity formation in bilingual education.
Addressing the intersections between cognitive, sociocultural, and
sociolinguistic research, this volume explores bilingual
development across educational contexts to discuss and uncover the
influences and impact of language in school programming and
everyday practices. Confronting a standard monolingual lens, this
collection highlights the importance of applying cross-disciplinary
approaches to examine bilingualism in relation to topics such as
language politics, linguistic identities, students' experiences at
home and in schools, asset-based teaching and curricula, and
overall benefits. Ideal for courses in bilingualism, literacy,
psychology, and language education, this text is an important
resource for understanding and applying transdisciplinary,
inclusive approaches to positively influence cognitive development,
academic learning, and identity formation in bilingual education.
Electrochemical Energy: Advanced Materials and Technologies covers
the development of advanced materials and technologies for
electrochemical energy conversion and storage. The book was created
by participants of the International Conference on Electrochemical
Materials and Technologies for Clean Sustainable Energy (ICES-2013)
held in Guangzhou, China, and incorporates select papers presented
at the conference. More than 300 attendees from across the globe
participated in ICES-2013 and gave presentations in six major
themes: Fuel cells and hydrogen energy Lithium batteries and
advanced secondary batteries Green energy for a clean environment
Photo-Electrocatalysis Supercapacitors Electrochemical clean energy
applications and markets Comprised of eight sections, this book
includes 25 chapters featuring highlights from the conference and
covering every facet of synthesis, characterization, and
performance evaluation of the advanced materials for
electrochemical energy. It thoroughly describes electrochemical
energy conversion and storage technologies such as batteries, fuel
cells, supercapacitors, hydrogen generation, and their associated
materials. The book contains a number of topics that include
electrochemical processes, materials, components, assembly and
manufacturing, and degradation mechanisms. It also addresses
challenges related to cost and performance, provides varying
perspectives, and emphasizes existing and emerging solutions. The
result of a conference encouraging enhanced research collaboration
among members of the electrochemical energy community,
Electrochemical Energy: Advanced Materials and Technologies is
dedicated to the development of advanced materials and technologies
for electrochemical energy conversion and storage and details the
technologies, current achievements, and future directions in the
field.
This book introduces readers to environmental background
investigation, pollution source intensity evaluation and risk
assessment approaches used at three main types of
groundwater-contaminated sites: municipal domestic waste landfills,
hazardous waste landfills and oil-contaminated sites. In addition,
typical contaminated sites throughout China are examined to
demonstrate how these approaches can be applied for their
investigation, assessment and restoration. By reading this book,
readers will gain a deeper understanding of the restoration and
management of typical groundwater-contaminated sites.
Immunotherapy of Cancer, Volume 143, the latest release in the
Advances in Cancer Research series, provides invaluable information
on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research.
Contributions from leading experts in the field make this a must
have update on the topic.
Immunotherapy of Cancer provides information on cancer research
related to inflammation and immunity, containing outstanding
reviews by experts in the field. It is suitable for researchers and
students who have an interest in cancer immunobiology.
Polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) or proton exchange m- brane
fuel cells (PEMFCs) have been suggested as alternatives to replace
many existing energy conversion technologies, incl-
inginternalcombustionenginesandbatteries.Themostsigni?cant advances
in PEFC technology achieved in the last decade have
occurredinareasrelatedtoautomotiveapplications,namelyco- start
capabilities, enhanced durability and better understanding of
watermanagementandmasstransportlosses. This volume of Modern
Aspects of Electrochemistry is
intendedtoprovideanoverviewofadvancementsinexperimental
diagnosticsandmodelingofpolymerelectrolytefuelcells.Chapters
byHuangandReifsniderandGuetal.provideanin-depthreview of the
durability issues in PEFCs as well as recent developments in
understanding and mitigation of degradation in the polymer
membraneandelectrocatalyst. Enabling cold start, the startup of
PEFC stacks from subzero temperatures, is a very important
capability achieved only within
thelastfewyears.TajiriandWangprovideatutorialoverviewofthe
requirementsforcoldstart,andprovideasummaryofexperimental
diagnosticsandcold-startmodelingstudies. Chapters 4-6 address
speci?c diagnostic methods in PEFCs. Martin et al. provide a
detailed review of methods for distributed diagnostics of species,
temperature, and current in PEFCs in Chapter 4.In Chapter 5, Hussey
and Jacobson describe the op-
ationalprinciplesofneutronradiographyforin-situvisualizationof
liquidwaterdistribution,andalsooutlineissuesrelatedtotemporal
andspatialresolution.TsushimaandHiraidescribebothmagnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) technique for visualization of water in
PEFCsandtunablediodelaserabsorptionspectroscopy (TDLAS)
formeasurementofwatervaporconcentrationinChapter6.
Diffusionmedia(DM)areproneto?oodingwithliquidwater.
AlthoughtheDMisanessentialcomponentofPEFCsthatenable
distributionofspeciesandcollectionofcurrentandheat,littlewas
knownaboutcapillarytransportinDMsuntilrecently.InChapters7 Gostick
et al. provide a description of liquid water transport in
porousDMduetocapillarityanddescribeexperimentaltechniques
usedtocharacterizeDMproperties. v vi Preface
The?naltwochaptersdiscussmodelingofPEFCs.Mukherjee and Wang provide
an in-depth review of meso-scale modeling of two-phase transport,
while Zhou et al. summarize both the s- ulation of electrochemical
reactions on electrocatalysts and the transport of protons through
the polymer electrolyte using at-
isticsimulationtoolssuchasmoleculardynamicsandMonteCarlo
techniques. Eachchapterinthevolumeisself-contained;thereforetheydo
notneedtobereadinacertainorder. Special thanks are due to 23
authors who contributed to this volume.
This book gives a survey of the physics and fabrication of carbon
nanotubes and their applications in optics, electronics, chemistry
and biotechnology. It focuses on the structural characterization of
various carbon nanotubes, fabrication of vertically or parallel
aligned carbon nanotubes on substrates or in composites, physical
properties for their alignment, and applications of aligned carbon
nanotubes in field emission, optical antennas, light transmission,
solar cells, chemical devices, bio-devices, and many others. Major
fabrication methods are illustrated in detail, particularly the
most widely used PECVD growth technique on which various device
integration schemes are based, followed by applications such as
electrical interconnects, nanodiodes, optical antennas, and
nanocoax solar cells, whereas current limitations and challenges
are also be discussed to lay the foundation for future
developments.
Polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) or proton exchange m- brane
fuel cells (PEMFCs) have been suggested as alternatives to replace
many existing energy conversion technologies, incl-
inginternalcombustionenginesandbatteries.Themostsigni?cant advances
in PEFC technology achieved in the last decade have
occurredinareasrelatedtoautomotiveapplications,namelyco- start
capabilities, enhanced durability and better understanding of
watermanagementandmasstransportlosses. This volume of Modern
Aspects of Electrochemistry is
intendedtoprovideanoverviewofadvancementsinexperimental
diagnosticsandmodelingofpolymerelectrolytefuelcells.Chapters
byHuangandReifsniderandGuetal.provideanin-depthreview of the
durability issues in PEFCs as well as recent developments in
understanding and mitigation of degradation in the polymer
membraneandelectrocatalyst. Enabling cold start, the startup of
PEFC stacks from subzero temperatures, is a very important
capability achieved only within
thelastfewyears.TajiriandWangprovideatutorialoverviewofthe
requirementsforcoldstart,andprovideasummaryofexperimental
diagnosticsandcold-startmodelingstudies. Chapters 4-6 address
speci?c diagnostic methods in PEFCs. Martin et al. provide a
detailed review of methods for distributed diagnostics of species,
temperature, and current in PEFCs in Chapter 4.In Chapter 5, Hussey
and Jacobson describe the op-
ationalprinciplesofneutronradiographyforin-situvisualizationof
liquidwaterdistribution,andalsooutlineissuesrelatedtotemporal
andspatialresolution.TsushimaandHiraidescribebothmagnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) technique for visualization of water in
PEFCsandtunablediodelaserabsorptionspectroscopy (TDLAS)
formeasurementofwatervaporconcentrationinChapter6.
Diffusionmedia(DM)areproneto?oodingwithliquidwater.
AlthoughtheDMisanessentialcomponentofPEFCsthatenable
distributionofspeciesandcollectionofcurrentandheat,littlewas
knownaboutcapillarytransportinDMsuntilrecently.InChapters7 Gostick
et al. provide a description of liquid water transport in
porousDMduetocapillarityanddescribeexperimentaltechniques
usedtocharacterizeDMproperties. v vi Preface
The?naltwochaptersdiscussmodelingofPEFCs.Mukherjee and Wang provide
an in-depth review of meso-scale modeling of two-phase transport,
while Zhou et al. summarize both the s- ulation of electrochemical
reactions on electrocatalysts and the transport of protons through
the polymer electrolyte using at-
isticsimulationtoolssuchasmoleculardynamicsandMonteCarlo
techniques. Eachchapterinthevolumeisself-contained;thereforetheydo
notneedtobereadinacertainorder. Special thanks are due to 23
authors who contributed to this volume.
This book consists of studies on China's economic development since
China carried out the reform and opening-up strategy, including
China's economic restructuring, economic operational mechanism,
socialist market economy, inflation, the reform of the urban
housing system, the economic impact of WTO entry, the future
potential growth rate, global economic governance, structural
fiscal and taxation reforms, the rapid growth of China's financial
industry, and more. These studies explores China's successful
experience of economic growth in the past and will shed some light
on China's economic development in the future, providing value to
economists and Chinese scholars.
Use this one-of-a-kind practice guide together with any Chinese
book or language program, and dramatically enhance your speaking
and listening skills. No matter what book or course you're using to
learn Chinese, it takes a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of
effective practice activities-including more than 16 hours of audio
material!-to help polish your spoken Mandarin Chinese. This book
corresponds to Basic Spoken Chinese and allows you to move from
complete beginner level to basic proficiency. An included disc
contains over 16 hours of audio material, as well as (printable)
PDF files of hundreds of additional practice pages and exercises.
Basic Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials includes carefully
designed activities to help solidify every aspect of your spoken
Chinese skills, including: Pronunciation exercises . Vocabulary and
Grammar summaries . Substitution drills . Transformation and
Response drills . Role Play & Listening Comprehension exercises
. Dictation exercises . Translation exercises . The accompanying
CD-ROM contains: 16 hours of audio by native Mandarin speakers.
Printable practice pages. Printable exercises and activities.
Together with or after this book, you can use Basic Written Chinese
if you want to learn Chinese reading and writing. It introduces the
highest-frequency characters and words in a systematic way. About
the Series Respected Chinese language expert Dr. Cornelius Kubler,
who has taught diplomats, business people and students, presents a
learning system that uses separate but integrated "tracks" to help
you efficiently master the basics of spoken and written Chinese.
The materials in the Basic Spoken Chinese series allow you to move
from complete beginner level to intermediate fluency. All disc
content is alternatively accessible on
tuttlepublishing.com/downloadable-content.
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Data Science - 8th International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2022, Chengdu, China, August 19-22, 2022, Proceedings, Part I (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
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This two volume set (CCIS 1628 and 1629) constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Pioneering
Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2022 held in
Chengdu, China, in August, 2022. The 65 full papers and 26 short
papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and
selected from 261 submissions. The papers are organized in topical
sections on: Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management; Machine
Learning for Data Science; Multimedia Data Management and Analysis.
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Data Science - 8th International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2022, Chengdu, China, August 19-22, 2022, Proceedings, Part II (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
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This two volume set (CCIS 1628 and 1629) constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Pioneering
Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2022 held in
Chengdu, China, in August, 2022. The 65 full papers and 26 short
papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and
selected from 261 submissions. The papers are organized in topical
sections on: Big Data Management and Applications; Data Security
and Privacy; Applications of Data Science; Infrastructure for Data
Science; Education Track; Regulatory Technology in Finance.
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Database Systems for Advanced Applications - 26th International Conference, DASFAA 2021, Taipei, Taiwan, April 11-14, 2021, Proceedings, Part I (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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The three-volume set LNCS 12681-12683 constitutes the proceedings
of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for
Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2021, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in
April 2021. The total of 156 papers presented in this three-volume
set was carefully reviewed and selected from 490 submissions. The
topic areas for the selected papers include information retrieval,
search and recommendation techniques; RDF, knowledge graphs,
semantic web, and knowledge management; and spatial, temporal,
sequence, and streaming data management, while the dominant
keywords are network, recommendation, graph, learning, and model.
These topic areas and keywords shed the light on the direction
where the research in DASFAA is moving towards. Due to the Corona
pandemic this event was held virtually.
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Database Systems for Advanced Applications - 26th International Conference, DASFAA 2021, Taipei, Taiwan, April 11-14, 2021, Proceedings, Part II (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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The three-volume set LNCS 12681-12683 constitutes the proceedings
of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for
Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2021, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in
April 2021. The total of 156 papers presented in this three-volume
set was carefully reviewed and selected from 490 submissions. The
topic areas for the selected papers include information retrieval,
search and recommendation techniques; RDF, knowledge graphs,
semantic web, and knowledge management; and spatial, temporal,
sequence, and streaming data management, while the dominant
keywords are network, recommendation, graph, learning, and model.
These topic areas and keywords shed the light on the direction
where the research in DASFAA is moving towards. Due to the Corona
pandemic this event was held virtually.
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Database Systems for Advanced Applications - 26th International Conference, DASFAA 2021, Taipei, Taiwan, April 11-14, 2021, Proceedings, Part III (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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The three-volume set LNCS 12681-12683 constitutes the proceedings
of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for
Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2021, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in
April 2021. The total of 156 papers presented in this three-volume
set was carefully reviewed and selected from 490 submissions. The
topic areas for the selected papers include information retrieval,
search and recommendation techniques; RDF, knowledge graphs,
semantic web, and knowledge management; and spatial, temporal,
sequence, and streaming data management, while the dominant
keywords are network, recommendation, graph, learning, and model.
These topic areas and keywords shed the light on the direction
where the research in DASFAA is moving towards. Due to the Corona
pandemic this event was held virtually.
This book collects the work of leading Chinese economists,
sociologists, and political scientists as China enters a pivotal
phase of development, as well as a new five-year plan. Scholars
from China's leading institutions and think-tanks explore global
economic trade patterns, regional imbalances, environmental
pollution, rural-urban disputes, and much more. This book will be
of interest to scholars, economists, and think-tank researchers.
This book collects the work of leading Chinese economists,
sociologists, and political scientists as China enters a pivotal
phase of development, as well as a new five-year plan. Scholars
from China's leading institutions and think-tanks explore global
economic trade patterns, regional imbalances, environmental
pollution, rural-urban disputes, and much more. This book will be
of interest to scholars, economists, and think-tank researchers.
The widespread use of the internet and affordable video capturing
devices has dramatically changed the landscape of video creation
and consumption. In particular, user-created videos are more
prevalent than ever with the evolution of video streaming services
and social networks. The rapid growth of video creation
necessitates advanced technologies that enable efficient
consumption of desired video content. The scenarios include
enhancing user experience for viewers on video streaming services,
enabling quick video browsing for video creators who need to go
through a massive amount of video rushes, and for security teams
who need to monitor surveillance videos. With the broad growth of
video capturing devices and applications on the web, it is more
demanding to provide desired video content for users efficiently.
Video summarization facilitates quickly grasping video content by
creating a compact summary of videos. Much effort has been devoted
to automatic video summarization, and various problem settings and
approaches have been proposed. This monograph provides an overview
of this field, and covers early studies as well as recent
approaches which take advantage of deep learning techniques. Video
summarization approaches and their underlying concepts are
described, and benchmarks and evaluations are included. Evaluation
techniques in prior work in this field are addressed, and the pros
and cons of the evaluation protocols are detailed. The monograph
concludes with current and open challenges in this field. This
monograph is a useful reference for students and professionals who
are active in, or wish to enter into the field of Video
Summarization.
This textbook presents a special solution of underdetermined linear
systems where the number of nonzero entries in the solution is very
small compared to the total number of entries. This is called
sparse solution. As underdetermined linear systems can be very
different, the authors explain how to compute a sparse solution by
many approaches. Sparse Solutions of Underdetermined Linear
Systems: Contains 72 algorithms for finding sparse solutions of
underdetermined linear systems and their applications for matrix
completion, graph clustering, and phase retrieval. Provides a
detailed explanation of these algorithms including derivations and
convergence analysis. Includes exercises for each chapter to help
the reader understand the material. This textbook is appropriate
for graduate students in math and applied math, computer science,
statistics, data science, and engineering. Advisors and postdocs
will also find the book of interest. It is appropriate for the
following courses: Advanced Numerical Analysis, Special Topics on
Numerical Analysis, Topics on Data Science, Topics on Numerical
Optimization, and Topics on Approximation Theory.
This one-of-a-kind practice guide can be used with any Mandarin
Chinese textbook or on its own to enhance your speaking and
listening abilities dramatically! No matter what textbook you're
using to learn Chinese, it requires a lot of practice! Here is a
wealth of practical activities and drills plus over 16 hours of
audio recordings to help you improve your spoken Mandarin quickly
and efficiently. This book is interchangeable with its earlier
edition, Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials but works
equally well with other coursebooks or on its own. The free disc
contains hours of audio recording as well as printable PDF files
providing hundreds of pages of extra practice exercises and
activities. This book includes hundreds of carefully designed
activities to help you with every aspect of your Chinese language
skills, including: Chinese grammar and vocabulary summaries
Substitution drills Transformation and response drills Role-playing
exercises Listening comprehension exercises Translation Exercises.
The accompanying CD-ROM contains: 16 hours of audio recordings by
native Mandarin-speakers Printable practice pages Printable
exercises and activities All CD content is downloadable and
streamable online
Fostering the green energy world has become a hot topic in recent
years. More and more hybrid vehicles find their way into the
consumer market. Batteries or ultracapacitors are usually employed
as the second energy source in hybrid vehicles. Compared with
batteries, ultracapacitors have more advantages such as higher
energy densities, long life cycles and environment-friendly. In
order to have a good control strategy in hybrid vehicle to take
advantage of ultracapacitor, its model must be accurate. In this
book, short-term and long-term models have been developed. For the
short-term models, high order transfer functions consistent with an
RC ladder model are assumed. Transfer function coefficients are
identified by a least squares algorithm based on experimental data
consisting of time-varying current excitations and the resulting
terminal voltage responses. A long-term model with six RC branches
is developed by fitting the terminal voltage transient response to
an impulse charging current. From the ultracapacitor models
derived, terminal voltages under different current profiles can be
determined accurately over the time frame of one hour or two
months.
"The work by Wang et al. suggests a host of applications in
optoelectronics, for example infrared polarizers or polarization
detectors, using arrays in which the MWCNTs have a range of
lengths, and wavelength-specific detectors, for which the MWCNTs
are fabricated to all have the same desired length. MWCNTs are
preferable to SWCNTs for their electrical metallicity and greater
mechanical robustness, and their random spacing in the arrays
suppresses interference effects. The preparation of the MWCNT
arrays could easily be extended to a high-throughput process with
the use of established technology. Over the decade-long history of
carbon nanotubes there has been substantial investment by the
private sector in nanotube research and development: the technology
devised by Wang et al. may well spawn optoelectronic applications
of considerable commercial significance." --M. S. Dresselhaus,
Nature 432, 959 (2004)
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