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The book offers a detailed introduction to contemporary Chinese
culture industry development. It starts with an analysis of the
historical aspects and the contextual background rooted in the
Reform & Opening-up policy. The second part discusses the
development from the perspective of reality and introduces the
different production modes for the country's most influential
culture industries, since these are a unique feature of culture
industry development in China. Lastly, the book clearly shows the
strengths and weaknesses of culture industry development in China
by comparing it with that of other countries against the backdrop
of globalization.
Estimation and Control of Large Scale Networked Systems is the
first book that systematically summarizes results on large-scale
networked systems. In addition, the book also summarizes the most
recent results on structure identification of a networked system,
attack identification and prevention. Readers will find the
necessary mathematical knowledge for studying large-scale networked
systems, as well as a systematic description of the current status
of this field, the features of these systems, difficulties in
dealing with state estimation and controller design, and major
achievements. Numerical examples in chapters provide strong
application backgrounds and/or are abstracted from actual
engineering problems, such as gene regulation networks and
electricity power systems. This book is an ideal resource for
researchers in the field of systems and control engineering.
Industrial Applications of Carbon Nanotubes covers the current
applications of carbon nanotubes in various industry sectors, from
the military to visual display products, and energy harvesting and
storage. It also assesses the opportunities and challenges for
increased commercialization and manufacturing of carbon nanotubes
in the years ahead. Real-life case studies illustrate how carbon
nanotubes are used in each industry sector covered, providing a
valuable resource for scientists and engineers who are involved
and/or interested in carbon nanotubes in both academia and
industry. The book serves as a comprehensive guide to the varied
uses of carbon nanotubes for specialists in many related fields,
including chemistry, physics, biology, and textiles.
Healthcare service systems are of profound importance in promoting
the public health and wellness of people. This book introduces a
data-driven complex systems modeling approach (D2CSM) to
systematically understand and improve the essence of healthcare
service systems. In particular, this data-driven approach provides
new perspectives on health service performance by unveiling the
causes for service disparity, such as spatio-temporal variations in
wait times across different hospitals.The approach integrates four
methods -- Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)-based analysis;
integrated projection; service management strategy design and
evaluation; and behavior-based autonomy-oriented modeling -- to
address respective challenges encountered in performing data
analytics and modeling studies on healthcare services. The thrust
and uniqueness of this approach lies in the following aspects:
Ability to explore underlying complex relationships between
observed or latent impact factors and service performance. Ability
to predict the changes and demonstrate the corresponding dynamics
of service utilization and service performance. Ability to
strategically manage service resources with the adaptation of
unpredictable patient arrivals. Ability to figure out the working
mechanisms that account for certain spatio-temporal patterns of
service utilization and performance. To show the practical
effectiveness of the proposed systematic approach, this book
provides a series of pilot studies within the context of cardiac
care in Ontario, Canada. The exemplified studies have unveiled some
novel findings, e.g., (1) service accessibility and education may
relieve the pressure of population size on service utilization; (2)
functionally coupled units may have a certain cross-unit wait-time
relationship potentially because of a delay cascade phenomena; (3)
strategically allocating time blocks in operating rooms (ORs) based
on a feedback mechanism may benefit OR utilization; (4) patients'
and hospitals' autonomous behavior, and their interactions via wait
times may bear the responsible for the emergence of spatio-temporal
patterns observed in the real-world cardiac care system.
Furthermore, this book presents an intelligent healthcare decision
support (iHDS) system, an integrated architecture for implementing
the data-driven complex systems modeling approach to developing,
analyzing, investigating, supporting and advising healthcare
related decisions. In summary, this book provides a data-driven
systematic approach for addressing practical decision-support
problems confronted in healthcare service management. This approach
will provide policy makers, researchers, and practitioners with a
practically useful way for examining service utilization and
service performance in various ``what-if" scenarios, inspiring the
design of effectiveness resource-allocation strategies, and
deepening the understanding of the nature of complex healthcare
service systems.
Emerging 2D Materials and Devices for the Internet of Things:
Information, Sensing and Energy Applications summarizes
state-of-the-art technologies in applying 2D layered materials,
discusses energy and sensing device applications as essential
infrastructure solutions, and explores designs that will make
internet-of-things devices faster, more reliable and more
accessible for the creation of mass-market products. The book
focuses on information, energy and sensing applications, showing
how different types of 2D materials are being used to create a new
generation of products and devices that harness the capabilities of
wireless technology in an eco-efficient, reliable way. This book is
an important resource for both materials scientists and engineers,
who are designing new wireless products in a variety of industry
sectors.
After decades of the research and development, the piezoelectric
materials have been integrated into interdisciplinary fields of
research and applied in many branches of the industries. Today, due
to the high demand on precise, compact and low power consumption
devices, the fields of piezoelectrics are still growing very fast.
This book covers a wide range of topics, including equivalent
circuit theories, finite element analysis (FEA), failure analysis
and piezoelectric pumps (diaphragm and cavitation). Many new
approaches and concepts, such as resonant testing of force factor,
finite electrical circuit element modeling (FECEM), vibration
control of diaphragm pump and cavitation driven flow, etc are
described in the book. They are useful for the development of
various piezoelectric devices and technologies. Overall, this book
serves as a good reference for engineers and researchers, who are
in the field of piezoelectric materials and devices, especially for
those who design, fabricate, characterize, model and simulate high
power transducers, actuators, pumps, ultrasonic motors, resonators,
fluid transportation, microfluidics, and acoustic devices.
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