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This volume draws on findings from the Canada-China Nature Notes
Reciprocal Learning Program to explore cross-cultural exchanges in
science education in and outside of the classroom. Under the
collaborative reciprocity perspective, cross-cultural learning
needs to go beyond simple comparison in practices, values, and
results and moves to a paradigm that emphasizes a two-way learning
process in the context of acting together. Through collaborative
work between the international teams and partner schools, the
program described in this book shows how collaborative efforts
between the two sister schools worked to raise awareness about
Chinese farming culture and extend students' outdoor learning
experiences. In this book, educators from across the research team
share their insights and reflect on the cross-cultural
collaborative process and how it impacted the learning experiences
of themselves and their students.
This collection gives broad and up-to-date results in the research
and development of materials characterization and processing.
Coverage is well-rounded from minerals, metals, and materials
characterization and developments in extraction to the fabrication
and performance of materials. In addition, topics as varied as
structural steels to electronic materials to plant-based composites
are explored. The latest research presented in this wide area make
this book both timely and relevant to the materials science field
as a whole. The book explores scientific processes to characterize
materials using modern technologies, and focuses on the
interrelationships and interdependence among processing, structure,
properties, and performance of materials. Topics covered include
ferrous materials, non-ferrous materials, minerals, ceramics,
clays, soft materials, method development, processing, corrosion,
welding, solidification, composites, extraction, powders,
nanomaterials, advanced materials, and several others.
This book addresses the fundamental theory and key technologies of
narrowband and broadband mobile communication systems specifically
for railways. It describes novel relaying schemes that meet the
different design criteria for railways and discusses the
applications of signal classification techniques as well as offline
resource scheduling as a way of advancing rail practice. Further,
it introduces Novel Long Term Evolution for Railway (LTE-R) network
architecture, the Quality of Service (QoS) requirement of LTE-R and
its performance evaluation and discusses in detail security
technologies for rail-dedicated mobile communication systems. The
advanced research findings presented in the book are all based on
high-speed railway measurement data, which offer insights into the
propagation mechanisms and corresponding modeling theory and
approaches in unique railway scenarios.It is a valuable resource
for researchers, engineers and graduate students in the fields of
rail traffic systems, telecommunication and information systems.
This collection focuses on the characterization of minerals,
metals, and materials as well as the application of
characterization results on the processing of these materials.
Papers cover topics such as clays, ceramics, composites, ferrous
metals, non-ferrous metals, minerals, electronic materials,
magnetic materials, environmental materials, advanced materials,
and soft materials. In addition, papers covering materials
extraction, materials processing, corrosion, welding,
solidification, and method development are included. This book
provides a current snapshot of characterization in materials
science and its role in validating, informing, and driving current
theories in the field of materials science. This volume will serve
the dual purpose of furnishing a broad introduction of the field to
novices while simultaneously serving to keep subject matter experts
up-to-date.
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Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2019 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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This collection gives broad and up-to-date results in the research
and development of materials characterization and processing.
Topics covered include characterization methods, ferrous materials,
non-ferrous materials, minerals, ceramics, polymer and composites,
powders, extraction, microstructure, mechanical behavior,
processing, corrosion, welding, solidification, magnetic,
electronic, environmental, nano-materials, and advanced materials
The book explores scientific processes to characterize materials
using modern technologies, and focuses on the interrelationships
and interdependence among processing, structure, properties, and
performance of materials.
This book consists of one hundred and seventeen selected papers
presented at the 2015 International Conference on Electronics,
Electrical Engineering and Information Science (EEEIS2015), which
was held in Guangzhou, China, during August 07-09, 2015. EEEIS2015
provided an excellent international exchange platform for
researchers to share their knowledge and results and to explore new
areas of research and development.Global researchers and
practitioners will find coverage of topics involving Electronics
Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Technology
for Road Traffic, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and
Engineering Management. Experts in these fields contributed to the
collection of research results and development activities.This book
will be a valuable reference for researchers working in the field
of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Information Science.
This book introduces the current approaches in prokaryotic taxonomy
and streamlines the advanced techniques for use in prokaryotic
systematics. While highlighting the key differences in the
taxonomy of cultured and not-yet-cultured bacteria and archaea, it
presents the genomic technology involved in microbial
systematics that serves as comprehensive guidelines for isolating
and identifying bacteria. Microbial systematics is a fundamentally
important discipline area for microbiologists and those seeking to
understand Earth’s biodiversity. As bacterial taxonomy is
critical in microbial ecology and clinical microbiology works, the
correct identification of microbes is crucial. However, the
microbial collection existing and described as cultured species so
far are either based on the taxonomic pattern that existed during
its time of first cultivation. With evolving technology, many
microbes were found to be wrongly classified. Therefore, it is
essential to keep in contact with the developing technology and
methods for the correct placement of cultured bacteria and their
identification. This book is an excellent guideline for adequately
identifying, classifying, and describing novel taxa of bacteria and
archaea.
This fancifully illustrated multicultural children's book tells a
famous Chinese myth about a young boy's quest to save his village.
Long ago, in a remote village in China, there lived a kind and
generous little boy. He spent his days in the forest, collecting
wood to trade for food. One day, the boy made a wondrous discovery:
a magic stone that caused his money jar and rice crocks to
overflow, both of which he shared with the poor villagers. But
strange things began to happen. It no longer rained. The crops
died. The rivers dried up. A terrible drought had struck and would
not release its grip. The brave young boy, full of dreams of a
white, water-spewing Dragon, took his magic stone on a journey-and
discovered how to save his village. Other books in the Chinese
Zodiac Series (as well as the year of that animal) include: Little
Pigs and the Sweet Rice Cakes-2007 & 2019 Magical Rooster-2005
& 2017 Little Monkey King's Journey-2016 & 2028 Snake
Goddess Colors the World-2013 & 2025 Horse and the Mysterious
Drawing-2014 & 2026 Sheep Beauty-2015 & 2027 Bronze
Dog-2006 & 2018 Little Rat and the Golden Seed-2008 & 2020
Little Calf-2009 & 2021
This collection gives broad and up-to-date results in the research
and development of materials characterization and processing.
Coverage is well-rounded from minerals, metals, and materials
characterization and developments in extraction to the fabrication
and performance of materials. In addition, topics as varied as
structural steels to electronic materials to plant-based composites
are explored. The latest research presented in this wide area make
this book both timely and relevant to the materials science field
as a whole. The book explores scientific processes to characterize
materials using modern technologies, and focuses on the
interrelationships and interdependence among processing, structure,
properties, and performance of materials. Topics covered include
ferrous materials, non-ferrous materials, minerals, ceramics,
clays, soft materials, method development, processing, corrosion,
welding, solidification, composites, extraction, powders,
nanomaterials, advanced materials, and several others.
The legend of Mulan and her bravery is captured in this beautifully
illustrated Chinese children's book. Mulan is a folk story from
China's Northern Dynasty (439-589) about the unusual tale of an
ordinary girl named Fa Mulan. This book is illustrated based on the
original ballad, which depicts her bravery through Chinese ink
paintings. A long time ago in China, there lived a young girl named
Mulan. Her father was a retired general who taught her many skills
girls weren't normally allowed to learn, like martial arts,
archery, sword play and how to ride a horse. One day, soldiers came
to Mulan's village. They told everyone China was in danger, and
that a man from each family must join the army and fight. Mulan was
terribly upset. Her father was too old, but was honor-bound to
fight. If only she had been born a boy! That night, Mulan came up
with a plan to save the honor of her family and her father's life.
Early the next morning, disguised as a boy, Mulan took a horse and
her father's armor before leaving to join the army. No one
recognized her, and Mulan was very careful to never let anyone know
she was really a girl. Mulan's bravery, courage and the skills she
learned from her father helped her to succeed. Over twelve years,
Mulan fought against the threat to China before finally helping to
win the war. When she was offered a reward from the emperor for her
incredible courage, Mulan instead asked for a horse so she could
return home to her family. Mulan's family was so happy to see her!
And there, for the first time in twelve years, Mulan exchanged her
armor for a dress, fixed her hair into an elegant girl's hairstyle
and joined her family, a beautiful young woman once again.
A richly illustrated book featuring recent revelations about
China's first emperor, Ying Zheng, and his famous burial site
containing an army of life-size terracotta soldiers and other
artifacts First discovered by a farmer in 1974, the burial site of
China's first emperor, Ying Zheng, has yielded thousands of
life-size terracotta figures and artifacts, and continues to be
excavated today. This fascinating publication features more than
130 works including ten of these majestic terracotta figures, arms
and armor, horse and chariot fittings, ritual bronze vessels, works
in gold and silver, jade ornaments, precious jewelry, and ceramics.
Dating from the Eastern Zhou dynasty (770-256 BC) through the Qin
dynasty (221-206 BC), these objects represent the complex history,
myths, and burial customs of ancient China. The texts introduce
recent scholarship on this material culture to illuminate not only
the first emperor's burial complex, but also his powerful influence
in Chinese history and the myriad ways in which his political and
economic reforms transformed the daily lives of the Chinese people.
Distributed for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition
Schedule: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (11/18/17-03/11/18)
Cincinnati Art Museum (04/20/18-08/12/18)
Cloud Computing has brought a huge impact in IT industry. Computing
resources are easier to get in Cloud Computing. Briefly speaking,
Cloud Computing is a resource pool, which contains a masssive
amount of interconnected computers. Under such background, in order
to make full use of the network, Google initiated MapReduce model.
This model is an implementation of Parallel Computing, which aims
at processing large amount of data. Given certain computing
resources and MapReduce model, this book gives some thinking about
how to estimate the time consumption of a huge computation task.
Based on classical Parallel Computing theories, this book proposed
two models to estimate the time consumption. It also gives
conclusions about what type of computation task is estimatable. The
experiments in this book are easy to implement, which are very
suitable references for Cloud Computing fans.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of diagnostic imaging
in infectious and inflammatory diseases in central nervous system
and spine. It starts with basic theory of infectious diseases,
including pathological basis, laboratory diagnostic methods, and
clinical imaging techniques. In following chapters, the authors
firstly introduce the central nervous system infections related to
respiratory, gastrointestinal, and contagious diseases. Then viral,
bacterial, fungal, parasitic and special infections in central
nervous system and spine are presented with clinical cases. Each
disease is clearly illustrated using cases combined with
high-quality CT and MRI. The book provides a valuable reference
source for radiologists and doctors working in the area of
infectious and inflammatory diseases.
In this monograph, the authors reports the current advancement in
high frequency piezoelectric crystal micromachined ultrasound
transducers and arrays and their biomedical applications.
Piezoelectric ultrasound transducers operating at high frequencies
(> 20 MHz) are of increasing demand in recent years for medical
imaging and biological particle manipulation involved therapy. The
performances of transducers greatly rely on the properties of the
piezoelectric materials and transduction structures, including
piezoelectric coefficient (d), electromechanical coupling
coefficient (k), dielectric permittivity (e) and acoustic impedance
(Z). Piezo-composite structures are preferred because of their
relatively high electromechanical coupling coefficient and low
acoustic impedance. A number of piezo-composite techniques have
been developed, namely "dice and fill," "tape-casting," "stack and
bond," "interdigital phase bonding," "laser micromachining" and
"micro-molding". However, these techniques are either difficult to
achieve fine features or not suitable for manufacturing of high
frequency ultrasound transducers (> 20 MHz). The piezo-composite
micromachined ultrasound transducers (PC-MUT) technique discovered
over the last 10 years or so has demonstrated high performance high
frequency piezo-composite ultrasound transducers. In this
monograph, piezoelectric materials used for high frequency
transducers is introduced first. Next, the benefits and theory of
piezo composites is presented, followed by the design criteria and
fabrication methods. Biomedical applications using piezo composites
micromachined ultrasound transducers (PC-MUT) and arrays will also
be reported, in comparison with other ultrasound transducer
techniques. The final part of this monograph describes challenges
and future perspectives of this technique for biomedical
applications.
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