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Major law and policy issues in the South China Sea are discussed
mainly from the perspectives of leading American and European
scholars in the study of the complex South China Sea disputes. The
issues include regional maritime cooperation and regime building,
Southeast Asian countries' responses to the Chinese assertiveness,
China's historic claims, maritime boundary delimitation and
excessive maritime claims, military activities and the law of the
sea, freedom of navigation and its impact on the problem, the
dispute between Vietnam and China, confidence-building measures and
U.S.-Taiwan-China relations in the South China Sea, and Taiwan's
role in the resolution to the South China Sea issues. Over the past
three years, there have been several incidents in the South China
Sea between the claimants, and also between the claimants and
non-claimants over fisheries, collection of seismic data,
exploration for oil and gas resources, and exercise of freedom of
navigation. Third party concerns and involvement in the South China
Sea disputes have been increasing as manifested in actions taken by
the United States, India, and Japan. It is therefore important to
examine South China Sea disputes from the legal and political
perspective and from the view point of American and European
experts who have been studying South China Sea issues for many
years.
Major law and policy issues in the South China Sea are discussed
mainly from the perspectives of leading American and European
scholars in the study of the complex South China Sea disputes. The
issues include regional maritime cooperation and regime building,
Southeast Asian countries' responses to the Chinese assertiveness,
China's historic claims, maritime boundary delimitation and
excessive maritime claims, military activities and the law of the
sea, freedom of navigation and its impact on the problem, the
dispute between Vietnam and China, confidence-building measures and
U.S.-Taiwan-China relations in the South China Sea, and Taiwan's
role in the resolution to the South China Sea issues. Over the past
three years, there have been several incidents in the South China
Sea between the claimants, and also between the claimants and
non-claimants over fisheries, collection of seismic data,
exploration for oil and gas resources, and exercise of freedom of
navigation. Third party concerns and involvement in the South China
Sea disputes have been increasing as manifested in actions taken by
the United States, India, and Japan. It is therefore important to
examine South China Sea disputes from the legal and political
perspective and from the view point of American and European
experts who have been studying South China Sea issues for many
years.
This book focuses on gyro-free inertial navigation technology,
which is used to measure not only linear motion parameters but also
angular rates. Since no gyroscopes are used, the key technologies,
such as initial alignment, attitude resolution, and error
calibration, are very different than those used in traditional
methods. Discussing each key technology in gyro-free inertial
navigation system (GFINS) manufacture in a separate chapter, the
book features easy-to-understand, detailed illustrations, to allow
all those involved in inertial navigation to gain a better grasp of
GFINS manufacture, including accelerometer setting principles;
initial alignment; quaternion-based, attitude resolution
algorithms; and accelerometer de-noise methods.
This book demonstrates that solar energy, the most abundant and
clean renewable energy, can be utilized to drive methane activation
and conversion under mild conditions. The book reports that
coupling solar energy and thermal energy can significantly enhance
methane conversion at mild temperatures using plasmonic
nanometal-based catalysts, with a substantial decrease in apparent
activation energy of methane conversion. Furthermore, this book,
for the first time, reports the direct photocatalytic methane
oxidation into liquid oxygenates (methanol and formaldehyde) with
only molecular oxygen in pure water at room temperature with high
yield and selectivity over nanometals and semiconductors (zinc
oxide and titanium dioxide). These findings are a big stride toward
methane conversion and inspire researchers to develop strategies
for efficient and selective conversion of methane to
high-value-added chemicals under mild conditions.
This book focuses on gyro-free inertial navigation technology,
which is used to measure not only linear motion parameters but also
angular rates. Since no gyroscopes are used, the key technologies,
such as initial alignment, attitude resolution, and error
calibration, are very different than those used in traditional
methods. Discussing each key technology in gyro-free inertial
navigation system (GFINS) manufacture in a separate chapter, the
book features easy-to-understand, detailed illustrations, to allow
all those involved in inertial navigation to gain a better grasp of
GFINS manufacture, including accelerometer setting principles;
initial alignment; quaternion-based, attitude resolution
algorithms; and accelerometer de-noise methods.
This book demonstrates that solar energy, the most abundant and
clean renewable energy, can be utilized to drive methane activation
and conversion under mild conditions. The book reports that
coupling solar energy and thermal energy can significantly enhance
methane conversion at mild temperatures using plasmonic
nanometal-based catalysts, with a substantial decrease in apparent
activation energy of methane conversion. Furthermore, this book,
for the first time, reports the direct photocatalytic methane
oxidation into liquid oxygenates (methanol and formaldehyde) with
only molecular oxygen in pure water at room temperature with high
yield and selectivity over nanometals and semiconductors (zinc
oxide and titanium dioxide). These findings are a big stride toward
methane conversion and inspire researchers to develop strategies
for efficient and selective conversion of methane to
high-value-added chemicals under mild conditions.
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.
OFDMA has been successfully implemented in many wireless
communication systems such as LTE, WiMAX and IEEE 802.11n etc. and
has also become a promising scheme for the next generation mobile
broadband system such as LTE-Advanced. The most widely studied and
used Link Error Prediction (LEP) in a OFDMA system is the so called
Exponential Effective SNR Mapping (EESM). It has been included in
3GPP and WiMAX forum feasibility studies for both LTE and WiMAX,
and has shown to achieve a good performance. In order to facilitate
the estimation of the sub- channel performance in a multi-carrier
communication system (i.e. a OFDMA system), it is of great
importance to investigate the statistical characteristics of
sub-channel Link Quality Metrics {LQM} for the Channel State
Information (CSI) report over frequency selective fading channels.
In this book, the problem of theoretical analysis of the EESM
output SNR over frequency selective channels is investigated. The
substantial analytical results of the moments and approximation of
the EESM effective SNR are derived in this book.
Sensor networks are ideal candidates for a wide range of
applications, such as monitoring of critical infrastructures, data
acquisition in hazardous environments, and military operations. It
is necessary to guarantee the security and resilience of sensor
networks (as well as their applications) as they become more and
more popular. Despite many security schemes have been proposed to
protect building blocks such as routing and key management, some
other building blocks (e.g., mobile sink and time synchronization)
are largely ignored. This book, therefore, provides security
building blocks for sensor networks and develops a potential killer
application for sensor networks. The two proposed security building
blocks will help the sensor networks tolerate mobile sink
compromises and be resilient against attacks on the time
synchronization, respectively. SVATS, a sensor-network-based
vehicle anti-theft system, is designed to address the limitations
of high cost, high false-alarm rate and the easy disabling
drawbacks of the current vehicle theft tracking and alarming
systems. This system can detect vehicle theft within seconds and
track stolen vehicles as well.
ENACT is a research project funded by the European Commission under
its H2020 program. The project consortium consists of twelve
industry and research member organisations spread across the whole
EU. The overall goal of the ENACT project was to provide a novel
set of solutions to enable DevOps in the realm of trustworthy Smart
IoT Systems. Smart IoT Systems (SIS) are complex systems involving
not only sensors but also actuators with control loops distributed
all across the IoT, Edge and Cloud infrastructure. Since smart IoT
systems typically operate in a changing and often unpredictable
environment, the ability of these systems to continuously evolve
and adapt to their new environment is decisive to ensure and
increase their trustworthiness, quality and user experience. DevOps
has established itself as a software development life-cycle model
that encourages developers to continuously bring new features to
the system under operation without sacrificing quality. This book
reports on the ENACT work to empower the development and operation
as well as the continuous and agile evolution of SIS, which is
necessary to adapt the system to changes in its environment, such
as newly appearing trustworthiness threats.
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