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Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications 2 focuses on the
application of nonlinear approaches to different engineering and
science problems. The selection of the topics for this book is
based on the best papers presented in the ASME 2010 and 2011 in the
tracks of Dynamic Systems and Control, Optimal Approaches in
Nonlinear Dynamics and Acoustics, both of which were organized by
the editors. For each selected topic, detailed concept development,
derivations and relevant knowledge are provided for the convenience
of the readers. The topics that have been selected are of great
interest in the fields of engineering and physics and this book is
designed to appeal to engineers and researchers working in a broad
range of practical topics and approaches.
This two-volume set is a collection of articles that elucidate the
theory, practice, legal innovations, and codification experience of
the Law of Personality Rights in China. The Law of Personality
Rights was enacted in China in May 2020, the first time that a Law
has been legislated as an independent part of the Civil Code of the
People's Republic of China and an unprecedented step in protecting
the personality rights of citizens. The first volume examines the
legal and theoretical basis for the Law as a standalone part of the
Civil Code as well as practical issues including institutional
arrangements, the relationship between human rights and personality
rights and the relationship with laws on tort liability, as well as
those pertaining to marriage and the family. The second volume
explains the design and innovations of the Law and proposes
suggestions to refine it through evaluation of the attributes of
personality rights and the draft laws. The volumes will be an
essential reference for scholars and students studying civil law,
continental law, Chinese law, and the legal protection of
personality rights.
Smart Homes (SH) offer a promising approach to assisted living for
the ageing population. Yet the main obstacle to the rapid
development and deployment of Smart Home (SH) solutions essentially
arises from the nature of the SH field, which is multidisciplinary
and involves diverse applications and various stakeholders.
Accordingly, an alternative to a one-size-fits-all approach is
needed in order to advance the state of the art towards an open SH
infrastructure. This book makes a valuable and critical
contribution to smart assisted living research through the
development of new effective, integrated, and interoperable SH
solutions. It focuses on four underlying aspects: (1) Sensing and
Monitoring Technologies; (2) Context Interference and Behaviour
Analysis; (3) Personalisation and Adaptive Interaction, and (4)
Open Smart Home and Service Infrastructures, demonstrating how
fundamental theories, models and algorithms can be exploited to
solve real-world problems. This comprehensive and timely book
offers a unique and essential reference guide for policymakers,
funding bodies, researchers, technology developers and managers,
end users, carers, clinicians, healthcare service providers,
educators and students, helping them adopt and implement smart
assisted living systems.
This book expands on the subject matter of 'Computational
Electromagnetics and Model-Based Inversion: A Modern Paradigm for
Eddy-Current Nondestructive Evaluation.' It includes (a)
voxel-based inversion methods, which are generalizations of
model-based algorithms; (b) a complete electromagnetic model of
advanced composites (and other novel exotic materials), stressing
the highly anisotropic nature of these materials, as well as giving
a number of applications to nondestructive evaluation; and (c) an
up-to-date discussion of stochastic integral equations and
propagation-of-uncertainty models in nondestructive evaluation. As
such, the book combines research started twenty-five years ago in
advanced composites and voxel-based algorithms, but published in
scattered journal articles, as well as recent research in
stochastic integral equations. All of these areas are of
considerable interest to the aerospace, nuclear power, civil
infrastructure, materials characterization and biomedical
industries. The book covers the topic of computational
electromagnetics in eddy-current nondestructive evaluation (NDE) by
emphasizing three distinct topics: (a) fundamental mathematical
principles of volume-integral equations as a subset of
computational electromagnetics, (b) mathematical algorithms applied
to signal-processing and inverse scattering problems, and (c)
applications of these two topics to problems in which real and
model data are used. It is therefore more than an academic exercise
and is valuable to users of eddy-current NDE technology in
industries as varied as nuclear power, aerospace, materials
characterization and biomedical imaging.
This book focuses on the latest applications of nonlinear
approaches in engineering and addresses a range of scientific
problems. Examples focus on issues in automotive technology,
including automotive dynamics, control for electric and hybrid
vehicles, and autodriver algorithm for autonomous vehicles. Also
included are discussions on renewable energy plants, data modeling,
driver-aid methods, and low-frequency vibration. Chapters are based
on invited contributions from world-class experts who advance the
future of engineering by discussing the development of more
optimal, accurate, efficient, cost, and energy effective systems.
This book is appropriate for researchers, students, and practising
engineers who are interested in the applications of nonlinear
approaches to solving engineering and science problems. Presents a
broad range of practical topics and approaches; Explains approaches
to better, safer, and cheaper systems; Emphasises automotive
applications, physical meaning, and methodologies.
This book analyzes the updated principles and applications of
nonlinear approaches to solve engineering and physics problems. The
knowledge on nonlinearity and the comprehension of nonlinear
approaches are inevitable to future engineers and scientists,
making this an ideal book for engineers, engineering students, and
researchers in engineering, physics, and mathematics. Chapters are
of specific interest to readers who seek expertise in optimization,
nonlinear analysis, mathematical modeling of complex forms, and
non-classical engineering problems. The book covers methodologies
and applications from diverse areas such as vehicle dynamics,
surgery simulation, path planning, mobile robots, contact and
scratch analysis at the micro and nano scale, sub-structuring
techniques, ballistic projectiles, and many more.
This book covers advanced topics in dynamic modeling of
soil-foundation interaction, as well as the response of elastic
semi-infinite media from an applications viewpoint. Advanced
concepts such as solutions for analysis of elastic semi-infinite
mediums, fluid motion in porous media, and nonlinearities in
dynamic behavior are explained in great detail. Related theories
and numerical analysis for vertical vibration, and rocking
vibration of a rigid rectangular mass-less plate, and horizontal
vibration of a rigid mass-less plate are presented. Throughout the
book, a strong emphasis is placed on applications, and a laboratory
model for elastic half-space medium is provided.
This book focuses on the latest applications of nonlinear
approaches in different disciplines of engineering and to a range
of scientific problems. For each selected topic, detailed concept
development, derivations and relevant knowledge are provided for
the convenience of the readers. The topics range from dynamic
systems and control to optimal approaches in nonlinear dynamics.
The volume further includes invited chapters from world class
experts in the field. The selected topics are of great interest in
the fields of engineering and physics and this book is ideal for
engineers and researchers working in a broad range of practical
topics and approaches.
This book is a collection of extended chapters from the selected
papers that were published in the proceedings of Science and
Information (SAI) Conference 2015. It contains twenty-one chapters
in the field of Computational Intelligence, which received highly
recommended feedback during SAI Conference 2015 review process.
During the three-day event 260 scientists, technology developers,
young researcher including PhD students, and industrial
practitioners from 56 countries have engaged intensively in
presentations, demonstrations, open panel sessions and informal
discussions.
This book gives an overview of the theoretical research on rogue
waves and discusses solutions to rogue wave formation via the
Darboux and bilinear transformations, algebro-geometric reduction,
and inverse scattering and similarity transformations. Studies on
nonlinear optics are included, making the book a comprehensive
reference for researchers in applied mathematics, optical physics,
geophysics, and ocean engineering. Contents The Research Process
for Rogue Waves Construction of Rogue Wave Solution by the
Generalized Darboux Transformation Construction of Rogue Wave
Solution by Hirota Bilinear Method, Algebro-geometric Approach and
Inverse Scattering Method The Rogue Wave Solution and Parameters
Managing in Nonautonomous Physical Model
Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications focuses on
nonlinear phenomena that are common in the engineering field. The
nonlinear approaches described in this book provide a sound
theoretical base and practical tools to design and analyze
engineering systems with high efficiency and accuracy and with less
energy and downtime. Presented here are nonlinear approaches in
areas such as dynamic systems, optimal control and approaches in
nonlinear dynamics and acoustics. Coverage encompasses a wide range
of applications and fields including mathematical modeling and
nonlinear behavior as applied to microresonators, nanotechnologies,
nonlinear behavior in soil erosion,nonlinear population dynamics,
and optimization in reducing vibration and noise as well as
vibration in triple-walled carbon nanotubes.
This work investigates the development of English as a Foreign
Language (EFL) learners generic competence in reading, writing and
translation within the particular Chinese classroom context. It
provides a new perspective for the current teaching and research in
reading, writing, translation within the EFL contexts and offers an
insightful framework for pedagogical applications in language
learning and teaching. Its findings will be extremely valuable not
only in local situations, but also more generally in a wider
regional and global context as well.
The book employs a series of research tools, including
pre-research and post-research questionnaires, pre-test and
post-test of reading/writing/translation, multi-faceted writing
portfolios (including reflection reports), textual analysis and
in-depth interviews. It involves 209 participants from a primary
university in Wuhan, among whom 171 are undergraduates and 38 are
postgraduates. And it draws on the analysis of such varied
multi-sourced data both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Genre-based teaching is playing a critical role in initiating
EFL learners into the discourse community of the target language.
Developing EFL learners generic competence is viewed as the
ultimate goal in the process of teaching and learning. This
monograph effectively demonstrates that like genre-based English
for Specific Purposes (ESP) pedagogies, it is also possible to take
advantage of already acquired genre knowledge for use in EFL
learning contexts. It offers an impressive view of the direction in
which genre-based applications are likely to take in the coming
years.
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This book consists of a number of chapters addressing different
aspects of activity recognition, roughly in three main categories
of topics. The first topic will be focused on activity modeling,
representation and reasoning using mathematical models, knowledge
representation formalisms and AI techniques. The second topic will
concentrate on activity recognition methods and algorithms. Apart
from traditional methods based on data mining and machine learning,
we are particularly interested in novel approaches, such as the
ontology-based approach, that facilitate data integration, sharing
and automatic/automated processing. In the third topic we intend to
cover novel architectures and frameworks for activity recognition,
which are scalable and applicable to large scale distributed
dynamic environments. In addition, this topic will also include the
underpinning technological infrastructure, i.e. tools and APIs,
that supports function/capability sharing and reuse, and rapid
development and deployment of technological solutions. The fourth
category of topic will be dedicated to representative applications
of activity recognition in intelligent environments, which address
the life cycle of activity recognition and their use for novel
functions of the end-user systems with comprehensive
implementation, prototyping and evaluation. This will include a
wide range of application scenarios, such as smart homes,
intelligent conference venues and cars.
This thesis describes longitudinal nuclear relaxation measurements
of solid 129Xe near 77 K with previously unattainable
reproducibility, and demonstrates differences in relaxation,
dependent upon the way in which the solid is condensed. These
results are directly applicable to the generation and storage of
large quantities of hyperpolarized 129Xe for various applications,
such as lung magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The thesis features
a sophisticated theoretical approach to these data sets, including
modifications to a well-established Raman-phonon scattering theory
that may explain the larger scatter in and discrepancies with
previous work.
Climate change is an inevitable and urgent global challenge with
long-term implications for the sustainable development of all
countries. To overcome this human crisis, the scientific consensus
is driving global action towards low carbon economics. Though this
action has to involve all sectors (industries, governments, and
citizens) and at all levels (global, national and regional levels),
the implementation of climate strategies will predominantly be at
the regional level. By establishing an innovative range of model
technologies, this book aims to develop systematic quantificational
methods, such as uncertain multi-objective programming models and
system dynamics models, to provide a new approach to low carbon
economics that can serve as a paradigm for general regions. At the
same time, it offers decision makers a number of effective
strategies for some key issues in regional low carbon development,
such as greenhouse gas control, ecological capacity evaluation,
regional economic prediction, energy structure optimization, land
resource utilization, industrial structure adjustment, low carbon
industrial chains, low carbon transportation systems and low carbon
tourism. It also provides researchers with a new perspective on how
to address social problems using quantitative techniques.
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This book investigates how schools, enterprises and families in
China have coped with the formal online education in the light of
government policy throughout the COVID-19 epidemic outbreak, with
special focus on the problems they have encountered and possible
solutions. Using grounded theory, over 1000 posts retrieved from
public online forums were analyzed under a 4*4 framework, referring
to four special time nodes (proposal period, exploratory period,
full deployed period, exiting period) and four major subjects
(government, schools, enterprises, families). The book identifies
four main issues faced by massive online education during the
epidemic: platform selection in proposal period, teacher training
in exploratory period, resource integration in full deployed
period, and flexibility of returning to schools in exiting period.
These findings enlighten us with a deeper understanding of the
process of online learning in an educational emergency, helping to
develop best countermeasures in similar situations, as well as to
provide paths to follow for other countries. The book will appeal
to teachers, researchers and school administrators of the online
education and education emergency management, as well as those who
are interested in Chinese education during the COVID-19 outbreak in
general.
This book states that a space-induced crisis is recognized as the
cause of trouble that Moore's Law is currently facing. The
contemporary practice of this empirical law can be considered as
happening within a space-dominant paradigm. An alternative of
exploiting potential in the dimension of time is identified as an
emerging paradigm in microelectronics. The new practice is termed a
time-oriented paradigm. It is justified as the turn of Moore's Law
from space to time. The resultant Time-Moore strategy is envisioned
as the next-generation enabler for continuing Moore's Law's pursuit
of everhigher information processing power and efficiency. It also
serves as the perpetuation of the spirit that Moore's law is
nothing but a collective storied history of innovations. In the
first part of this book, by following Thomas Kuhn's seminal work
around the concepts of paradigm and scientific revolution, the
argument for the Time-Moore strategy (Time-Moore: to use time more)
and the paradigm shift from space to time is carried out heavily
through philosophical persuasion rather than technical proof due to
the difficult challenge of change-of-mindset. The second part of
the book provides solid technical materials for supporting this
transition from the old paradigm to the new one. In short, the goal
of this book is to reevaluate the contemporary practice of
microelectronics, identify the cause of the current crisis,
advocate a change-of-mindset to circumvent the crisis, and
ultimately point out a new route for advancing. After achieving so
many unprecedented accomplishments through several decades of
relentless endeavor, it's time for the big ship of Moore's Law
(i.e., the art of microelectronic system design) to make a turn.
Most European countries have experienced labour market reforms at
varying times leading to extended working life and a postponement
of retirement age. This book provides a gender perspective on the
impact of extended working life on the different dimensions of
well-being, the factors which can limit extended working life, and
the working conditions of older workers. Over the course of 11
chapters the book explores factors that can limit access to paid
work or affect working conditions for older workers, including care
for dependent individuals, negative stereotypes surrounding aged
workers and poor health. It also investigates differences in
working conditions for older workers by gender compared to other
groups of workers and across European countries including
case-studies from Austria, France, Spain, Poland, Croatia, Albania
and Turkey. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of
social policy, sociology, gender studies and labour studies more
broadly.
This open access book addresses the current debate on extended
working life policy by considering the influence of gender and
health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an
international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health
status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the
capacity and outcomes associated with working longer. The volume
starts with an overview of the empirical and policy literature;
continues with a discussion of the relevant theoretical
perspectives; includes a section on available data and indicators;
followed by 25 very concise and unique country reports that
highlight the main extended working life (EWL) research findings
and policy trajectories at the national level. It identifies future
directions for research and addresses issues associated with
effective policy-making. This volume fills an important gap in the
knowledge of the consequences of EWL and it will be an invaluable
source for both researchers and policy makers.
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