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This compelling and important history of the British Empire, told
from the perspective of 20 people who lived through it, tells the
story of one of the largest and most powerful empires in human
history. At one time, the British Empire ruled over almost a
quarter of the world’s population. Men, women and children from
all walks of life and from across the globe were affected in big
and small ways, from the clothes they wore, the food they ate and
the languages they spoke to the work they did and the rights they
held. This legacy and impact is still evident all over the world
today. This book shines a light on the human aspects of the
‘Empire where the sun never
sets’, introducing readers to a host of figures, both
powerful and modest, who lived through, challenged, and influenced
the course of the British Empire. But how did this empire come to
be? And what happened to the people whose lands were
colonised? The people whose lives were touched? This
book tells their stories and reclaims this chapter in history by
giving voice to 20Â real figures whose perspectives have often
been ignored, overlooked or sidelined. Their stories are told
in a first-person narrative style, allowing readers to see
through the eyes of these inspiring history-keepers.
From leaders and activists to poets and freedom fighters, the
book features a range of figures from across five continents,
shining a light on the human aspect of the British Empire.
Meet Queen Nanny, the escaped slave who led a fight for freedom
against the British in Jamaica. Hear the story of Rani
of Jhansi, a key figure in the Indian resistance movement
against British colonial rule. Learn
about Tejonihokarawa, the Mohawk leader who travelled to
London on a diplomatic mission. These engaging true stories
of resistance, community, struggle and hope will spark
conversations, foster a broader, decolonized understanding of
the reaches and impacts of colonialism and ultimately leave readers
inspired. After all, understanding our past and its echoes in
our lives today is a step towards a better future.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Many post-secondary institutions have added courses dealing with
diversity-related topics in their curriculum over the last decade.
Because many professionals will encounter people with disabilities
or underrepresented groups in their daily vocations, either as
peers or people seeking services, it is essential to understand the
unique challenges these individuals face in society. Enhancing
Social Justice, Service Delivery, and Advocacy Through
Multicultural Counseling Competencies explores how social
variables, intersectionality, and multicultural competencies are
connected to one of the essential words in the diversity lexicon:
advocacy. Each section underscores the importance of certain social
variables and how one might be perceived and treated in the
classroom, workplace, and interacting with community services.
Covering topics such as disability competencies, trauma-informed
counseling strategies, and race and identity, this premier
reference source is an excellent resource for administrators and
educators of both K-12 and higher education, librarians, students
of higher education, social workers, health professionals, mental
health counselors, guidance counselors, researchers, and
academicians.
Edited by internationally recognized authorities in the field, this
expanded and updated new edition of the bestselling Handbook,
containing many new articles, is aimed at the design and operation
of modern particle accelerators. It is intended as a vade mecum for
professional engineers and physicists engaged in these subjects.
With a collection of more than 2000 equations, 300 illustrations
and 500 graphs and tables, here one will find, in addition to
common formulae of previous compilations, hard to find, specialized
formulae, recipes and material data pooled from the lifetime
experience of many of the world's most able practioners of the art
and science of accelerators.The seven chapters include both
theoretical and practical matters as well as an extensive glossary
of accelerator types. Chapters on beam dynamics and electromagnetic
and nuclear interactions deal with linear and nonlinear single
particle and collective effects including spin motion,
beam-environment, beam-beam, beam-electron, beam-ion and intrabeam
interactions. The impedance concept and related calculations are
dealt with at length as are the instabilities with the various
interactions mentioned. A chapter on operational considerations
including discussions on the assessment and correction of orbit and
optics errors, realtime feedbacks, generation of short photon
pulses, bunch compression, tuning of normal and superconducting
linacs, energy recovery linacs, free electron lasers, cryogenic
vacuum systems, steady state microbuching , cooling, space-charge
compensation, brightness of light sources, collider luminosity
optimization and collision schemes, machine learning, multiple
frequency rf systems, fel seeding. Chapters on mechanical and
electrical considerations present material data and important
aspects of component design including heat transfer and
refrigeration. Hardware systems for particle sources, feedback
systems, confinement, including undulators, and acceleration (both
normal and superconducting) receive detailed treatment in a
sub-systems chapter, beam measurement and apparatus being treated
therein as well.A detailed name and subject index is provided
together with reliable references to the literature where the most
detailed information available on all subjects treated can be
found.
With the integration of more distributed or aggregated renewables,
and the wide utilization of power electronic devices, modern power
systems are facing new stability and security challenges, such as
the weakly damped oscillation caused by wind farms connected
through long distance transmission lines, the frequency stability
problem induced by the reduction of inertia and the voltage
stability issue resulting from the interactions between
transmission systems and dynamic loads. Meanwhile, synchronized
phasor measurement technology developed very fast in the last
decade, and more phasor measurement units (PMUs) and wide area
measurement systems (WAMSs) have been deployed. These provide more
insights into the system dynamics and approaches to overcoming the
new challenges. This book addresses the emerging concepts,
methodologies and applications of wide area monitoring, control and
protection in power systems with integrated large scale renewables.
Chapters cover monitoring, modelling and validation, control, and
data mining with an emphasis on synchrophasor technology, and
experiences with real power grids.
This book provides a systematic framework to enhance the ability of
complex dynamical systems in risk identification, security
assessment, system protection, and recovery with the assistance of
advanced control and optimization technologies. By treating
external disturbances as control inputs, optimal control approach
is employed to identify disruptive disturbances, and online
security assessment is conducted with Gaussian process and converse
Lyapunov function. Model predictive approach and distributed
optimization strategy are adopted to protect the complex system
against critical contingencies. Moreover, the reinforcement
learning method ensures the efficient restoration of complex
systems from severe disruptions. This book is meant to be read and
studied by researchers and graduates. It offers unique insights and
practical methodology into designing and analyzing complex
dynamical systems for resilience elevation.
Accelerators as research and industrial tools are increasingly
becoming a key driver of the advances of a modern society. As
accelerators and its science evolved to meet the ever-increasing
needs of society, the field of accelerator physics has evolved and
deepened over the past few decades, and many of its branches
developed into special topics of research by their own rights. It
is appropriate at this time to start accumulating this hard-earned
expertise by the accelerator physics community. With this view, a
selection of these special topics is presented in this volume,
Special Topics in Accelerator Physics. Although not exhaustive,
they are chosen to present accelerator physics as a diversified and
exciting field and written based on the practicing and teaching
experiences of the author accumulated over the past decades. The
book is presented as an advanced textbook. The material on each
topic has been intended to be self-contained. The reader is assumed
to have a basic knowledge of accelerator physics to put the
material in some context.
Deep learning has become a trending area of research due to its
adaptive characteristics and high levels of applicability. In
recent years, researchers have begun applying deep learning
strategies to image analysis and pattern recognition for solving
technical issues within image classification. As these technologies
continue to advance, professionals have begun translating this
intelligent programming language into mobile applications for
devices. Programmers and web developers are in need of significant
research on how to successfully develop pattern recognition
applications using intelligent programming. MatConvNet Deep
Learning and iOS Mobile App Design for Pattern Recognition:
Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference
source that presents a solution to developing intelligent pattern
recognition Apps on iOS devices based on MatConvNet deep learning.
Featuring research on topics such as medical image diagnosis,
convolutional neural networks, and character classification, this
book is ideally designed for programmers, developers, researchers,
practitioners, engineers, academicians, students, scientists, and
educators seeking coverage on the specific development of iOS
mobile applications using pattern recognition strategies.
This book is written for students who ever wondered about the
mysterious and fascinating world of particle accelerators. What
exciting physics and technologies lie within? What clever and
ingenious ideas were applied in their seven decades of evolution?
What promises still lay ahead in the future?Accelerators have been
driving research and industrial advances for decades. This textbook
illustrates the physical principles behind these incredible
machines, often with intuitive pictures and simple mathematical
models. Pure formalisms are avoided as much as possible. It is
hoped that the readers would enjoy the fascinating physics behind
these state-of-the-art devices.The style is informal and aimed for
a graduate level without prerequisite of prior knowledge in
accelerators. To serve as a textbook, references are listed only on
the more established original literature and review articles
instead of the constantly changing research frontiers.
With the proliferation of GPS devices in daily life, trajectory
data that records where and when people move is now readily
available on a large scale. As one of the most typical
representatives, it has now become widely recognized that taxi
trajectory data provides rich opportunities to enable promising
smart urban services. Yet, a considerable gap still exists between
the raw data available, and the extraction of actionable
intelligence. This gap poses fundamental challenges on how we can
achieve such intelligence. These challenges include inaccuracy
issues, large data volumes to process, and sparse GPS data, to name
but a few. Moreover, the movements of taxis and the leaving
trajectory data are the result of a complex interplay between
several parties, including drivers, passengers, travellers, urban
planners, etc. In this book, we present our latest findings on
mining taxi GPS trajectory data to enable a number of smart urban
services, and to bring us one step closer to the vision of smart
mobility. Firstly, we focus on some fundamental issues in
trajectory data mining and analytics, including data map-matching,
data compression, and data protection. Secondly, driven by the real
needs and the most common concerns of each party involved, we
formulate each problem mathematically and propose novel data mining
or machine learning methods to solve it. Extensive evaluations with
real-world datasets are also provided, to demonstrate the
effectiveness and efficiency of using trajectory data. Unlike other
books, which deal with people and goods transportation separately,
this book also extends smart urban services to goods transportation
by introducing the idea of crowdshipping, i.e., recruiting taxis to
make package deliveries on the basis of real-time information.
Since people and goods are two essential components of smart
cities, we feel this extension is bot logical and essential.
Lastly, we discuss the most important scientific problems and open
issues in mining GPS trajectory data.
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