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This book describes the latest advances in pulse signal analysis
and their applications in classification and diagnosis. First, it
provides a comprehensive introduction to useful techniques for
pulse signal acquisition based on different kinds of pulse sensors
together with the optimized acquisition scheme. It then presents a
number of preprocessing and feature extraction methods, as well as
case studies of the classification methods used. Lastly it
discusses some promising directions for the future study and
clinical applications of pulse signal analysis. The book is a
valuable resource for researchers, professionals and postgraduate
students working in the field of pulse diagnosis, signal
processing, pattern recognition and biometrics. It is also useful
for those involved in interdisciplinary research.
*A practical guide to Machine Learning and its applications in
translation, in the specific context of translator/localizer
training and education * written to be equally useful for both
students on translation studies courses and professionals in the
area of localization *Unlike existing titles, it focuses on
bridging the gap between machine learning technology in the
humanities and translation practice and takes a bottom-up,
relevancy approach to Machine Learning in Translation
Twelve Traditional Stories That Children Will Love! This bilingual
children's book presents a charming collection of folktales and
fables on the timeless theme of the twelve animals of the Chinese
zodiac. All of these stories are very popular in China, retold and
adapted here to appeal to young readers and children all around the
world. Each story explores a moral dilemma that young readers can
easily understand, and provides a gentle lesson that they will
discover for themselves. The twelve stories in this book include:
"How a Monkey Was Doomed by His Own Pride" A monkey is rescued by a
dolphin after a shipwreck but is dumped back into the sea when his
pretense of being rich and famous is discovered. "What Kind of
Music Do Cows Appreciate?" A master musician does not blame the
cows when they don't like his music, but instead learns to create
music that the cows will appreciate. How Do You Make Dragons Come
to Life?" An artist obeys the emperor's command to add eyes to his
painted dragons, but when the dragons come to life and fly away, it
tuns out this was not what the emperor wanted after all. And nine
other stories! This book is intended for children 7-12 years. It is
for young language learners as well as general readers.
Visual Question Answering (VQA) usually combines visual inputs like
image and video with a natural language question concerning the
input and generates a natural language answer as the output. This
is by nature a multi-disciplinary research problem, involving
computer vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP), knowledge
representation and reasoning (KR), etc. Further, VQA is an
ambitious undertaking, as it must overcome the challenges of
general image understanding and the question-answering task, as
well as the difficulties entailed by using large-scale databases
with mixed-quality inputs. However, with the advent of deep
learning (DL) and driven by the existence of advanced techniques in
both CV and NLP and the availability of relevant large-scale
datasets, we have recently seen enormous strides in VQA, with more
systems and promising results emerging. This book provides a
comprehensive overview of VQA, covering fundamental theories,
models, datasets, and promising future directions. Given its scope,
it can be used as a textbook on computer vision and natural
language processing, especially for researchers and students in the
area of visual question answering. It also highlights the key
models used in VQA.
*A practical guide to Machine Learning and its applications in
translation, in the specific context of translator/localizer
training and education * written to be equally useful for both
students on translation studies courses and professionals in the
area of localization *Unlike existing titles, it focuses on
bridging the gap between machine learning technology in the
humanities and translation practice and takes a bottom-up,
relevancy approach to Machine Learning in Translation
This book introduces the background, basic concepts and evolution
of computer network development; by comparing and contrasting with
the typical network architectures in the market. The book focuses
on the architecture and underpinning technologies towards the
future in network designs. It also provides a reconfigurable
evolutionary network function innovation platform for researches to
run experiments on the networks they designed. The contents of this
book are novel, informative, and practical — a reflection of the
state-of-art development in network architecture. This book is
written for engineers and researchers specializing in
communications or computer networks. It could also be adopted as a
textbook for graduate students majoring in communications,
computing, and computer network related disciplines in colleges and
universities.
This book focuses on the current internal and external situation
China is facing both from a macro perspective and a theoretical
height, and puts forward practical development strategies and
diplomatic ideas. It is of great methodological significance. At
home, the development thought after the conclusion of the
hundred-year change is the guiding thought for China's further
development, and abroad, the international communication and the
construction of international order highlighted by the hundred-year
change also have important reference significance for the world's
development.
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Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (ISHVAC 2019) - Volume II: Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration System (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Zhaojun Wang, Yingxin Zhu, Fang Wang, Peng Wang, Chao Shen, …
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This book presents selected papers from the 11th International
Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (ISHVAC
2019), with a focus on HVAC techniques for improving indoor
environment quality and the energy efficiency of heating and
cooling systems. Presenting inspiration for implementing more
efficient and safer HVAC systems, the book is a valuable resource
for academic researchers, engineers in industry, and government
regulators.
The timeless wisdom of Chinese folktales presented in parallel
English and Chinese texts! Switch up your bedtime reading with this
memorable bilingual anthology. These traditional Chinese tales are
fun to read and each one contains a gentle moral telling kids how
to be a good person and live a good life. The stories are presented
with parallel English and Chinese texts on every page, along with
dozens of charming color illustrations by illustrator Yang Xi. The
ten traditional folktales in this volume include: "Gold and Silver
Hatchets"-Showing children the rewards that honesty can bring "How
Can You Weigh an Elephant?"-It takes a small boy to solve an
impossible task " How Silk Was Invented"- And how women contributed
to the development of Chinese culture And many more! Sure to
delight readers of all ages, A Bilingual Treasury of Chinese
Folktales is perfect for parents who want their children to absorb
the timeless wisdom of Chinese folk stories and also perhaps learn
some Chinese along the way!
Despite the fact that nanotechnology has been present for a few
decades, there is a big gap between how nanotechnology is perceived
and what nanotechnology can truly offer in all sectors of water.
The question to be answered is 'what more can we expect from
nanotechnology' in the water field? The rational nano-design starts
with well-defined problem definitions, necessitates
interdisciplinary approaches, involves 'think-outside-the-box', and
represents the future growth point of environmental nanotechnology.
However, it is still largely new to the educated public and even
scientists and engineers in water fields. Therefore, it is the
purpose of this book to promote the concept of rational nano-design
and to demonstrate its creativity, innovation, and excitement. This
book presents a series of carefully selected rationally designed
nano- materials/devices/surfaces, which represent drastically
different, ground-breaking, and eye-opening approaches to
conventional problems to embody the concept of nano-design and to
illustrate its remarkable potential to change the face of the
research in water industry in the future. Each of the book
contributors is world-renowned expert in the burgeoning field of
rational nano-design for applications. Rational Design of
Next-generation Nanomaterials and Nanodevices for Water
Applications is intended for undergraduates, graduates, scientists
and professionals in the fields of environmental science, material
science, chemistry, and chemistry engineering. It provides coherent
and good material for teaching, research, and professional
reference. Contents: Introduction to rational nano-design for water
applications; Rational design of smart materials/surfaces with
switchable oil wettability for sustainable oil-spill cleanup;
Rational design of three-dimensional macroscale porous electrodes
for bioelectrochemical systems; Design of (photo)electrochemical
active membranes as next-generation filtration devices;
Hierarchical materials as a design concept for multifunctional
membranes; Rational design of functional nanoporous materials to
confine water pollutant in controlled nano-space; A next-generation
forward osmosis draw solution design; Rational design of magnetic
permanently-confined micelle arrays (Mag-PCMAs) materials for
sustainable water and soil remediation; Rational design of an
all-in-one lab-on-chip device for direct seawater desalination;
Design of micro-sized microbial fuel cells as miniature energy
harvesters Author: Peng Wang, King Abdullah University of Science
and Technology
This book focuses on the current internal and external situation
China is facing both from a macro perspective and a theoretical
height, and puts forward practical development strategies and
diplomatic ideas. It is of great methodological significance. At
home, the development thought after the conclusion of the
hundred-year change is the guiding thought for China's further
development, and abroad, the international communication and the
construction of international order highlighted by the hundred-year
change also have important reference significance for the world's
development.
Climate change is a key problem of the 21st century. China, as the
largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has committed to stabilize its
current emissions and dramatically increase the share of
electricity production from non-fossil fuels by 2030. However, this
is only a first step: in the longer term, China needs to
aggressively strive to reach a goal of zero-emissions. Through
detailed discussions of electricity pricing, electric vehicle
policies, nuclear energy policies, and renewable energy policies,
this book reviews how near-term climate and energy policies can
affect long-term decarbonization pathways beyond 2030, building the
foundations for decarbonization in advance of its realization.
Focusing primarily on the electricity sector in China - the main
battleground for decarbonization over the next century - it
provides a valuable resource for researchers and policymakers, as
well as energy and climate experts.
1. Provides the fundamentals of subpixel mapping technology and its
applications. 2. Discusses in detail the advantages of using
different subpixel mapping techniques based on remote sensing data.
3. Summarizes in a systematic way current subpixel location
methods. 4. Highlights authors' achievements in subpixel mapping
technology. 5. Includes case studies based on remote sensing data
from USA, Italy, China, and Cambodia.
This book describes the latest advances in pulse signal analysis
and their applications in classification and diagnosis. First, it
provides a comprehensive introduction to useful techniques for
pulse signal acquisition based on different kinds of pulse sensors
together with the optimized acquisition scheme. It then presents a
number of preprocessing and feature extraction methods, as well as
case studies of the classification methods used. Lastly it
discusses some promising directions for the future study and
clinical applications of pulse signal analysis. The book is a
valuable resource for researchers, professionals and postgraduate
students working in the field of pulse diagnosis, signal
processing, pattern recognition and biometrics. It is also useful
for those involved in interdisciplinary research.
Smart/intelligent systems employ active materials as
sensors/actuators to respond to environmental conditions for
next-generation machines and structures - applications ranging from
everyday life to space exploration missions, from civilian products
to military needs, from robots to information/communication
technology. It is not surprising, then, that the development of
smart materials systems and structures demand higher performance
sensors/actuators with new and reliable functions and a fully
integrated composite system design. This requires the combination
of active and passive materials systems, often including the
coupling of relevant mechanical, electrical, magnetic, thermal or
other physical/chemical properties. This book bridges the fields of
smart materials, sensing and actuating devices, and
intelligent/smart systems, and provides an opportunity for
researchers from related disciplines to build an interdisciplinary
research field and community. Topics include: ferroelectrics and
piezoelectrics; nanomaterials and nanofabrication; shape-memory
alloys and magnetomaterials; active polymers and soft matters; and
other materials, devices and characterization.
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The Semantic Web and Web Science - 8th Chinese Conference, CSWS 2014, Wuhan, China, August 8-12, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Dongyan Zhao, Jianfeng Du, Haofen Wang, Peng Wang, Donghong Ji, …
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R2,175
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers of the 8th
Chinese Conference on The Semantic Web and Web Science, CSWS 2014,
held in Wuhan, China, in August 2014. The 22 research papers
presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions.
The papers are organized in topical sections such as ontology
reasoning and learning; semantic data generation and management;
and semantic technology and applications.
Smart/intelligent systems employ active materials as
sensors/actuators to respond to environmental conditions for
next-generation machines and structures - applications ranging from
everyday life to space exploration missions, from civilian products
to military needs, from robots to information/communication
technology. It is not surprising, then, that the development of
smart materials systems and structures demand higher performance
sensors/actuators with new and reliable functions and a fully
integrated composite system design. This requires the combination
of active and passive materials systems, often including the
coupling of relevant mechanical, electrical, magnetic, thermal or
other physical/chemical properties. This book bridges the fields of
smart materials, sensing and actuating devices, and
intelligent/smart systems, and provides an opportunity for
researchers from related disciplines to build an interdisciplinary
research field and community. Topics include: ferroelectrics and
piezoelectrics; nanomaterials and nanofabrication; shape-memory
alloys and magnetomaterials; active polymers and soft matters; and
other materials, devices and characterization.
Visual Question Answering (VQA) usually combines visual inputs like
image and video with a natural language question concerning the
input and generates a natural language answer as the
output. This is by nature a multi-disciplinary research
problem, involving computer vision (CV), natural language
processing (NLP), knowledge representation and reasoning (KR), etc.
Further, VQA is an ambitious undertaking, as it must overcome the
challenges of general image understanding and the
question-answering task, as well as the difficulties entailed by
using large-scale databases with mixed-quality inputs. However,
with the advent of deep learning (DL) and driven by the existence
of advanced techniques in both CV and NLP and the availability of
relevant large-scale datasets, we have recently seen enormous
strides in VQA, with more systems and promising results emerging.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of VQA, covering
fundamental theories, models, datasets, and promising future
directions. Given its scope, it can be used as a textbook on
computer vision and natural language processing, especially for
researchers and students in the area of visual question answering.
It also highlights the key models used in VQA.
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Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (ISHVAC 2019) - Volume II: Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration System (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Zhaojun Wang, Yingxin Zhu, Fang Wang, Peng Wang, Chao Shen, …
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R5,630
Discovery Miles 56 300
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This book presents selected papers from the 11th International
Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (ISHVAC
2019), with a focus on HVAC techniques for improving indoor
environment quality and the energy efficiency of heating and
cooling systems. Presenting inspiration for implementing more
efficient and safer HVAC systems, the book is a valuable resource
for academic researchers, engineers in industry, and government
regulators.
Civil Aircraft Electrical Power System Safety Assessment: Issues
and Practices provides guidelines and methods for conducting a
safety assessment process on civil airborne systems and equipment.
As civil aircraft electrical systems become more complicated,
electrical wiring failures have become a huge concern in industry
and government-especially on aging platforms. There have been
several accidents (most recently battery problems on the Boeing
777) with some of these having a relationship to wiring and power
generation. Featuring a case study on the continuous safety
assessment process of the civil airborne electrical power system,
this book addresses problems, issues and troubleshooting techniques
such as single event effects (SEE), the failure effects of
electrical wiring interconnection systems (EWIS), formal theories
and safety analysis methods in civil aircrafts.
Utilising individual interviews and focus group discussions,
primarily from two Chinese cities, The Chinese Mafia: Organized
Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection contributes to the
understanding of organized crime and corruption in the Chinese
context, filling a significant gap in criminological literature, by
investigating how extra-legal protectors-corrupt public officials
and street gangsters-emerge, evolve and operate in a rapidly
changing society. China's economic reforms have been accompanied by
a surge of social problems, such as ineffective legal institutions,
booming black markets and rampant corruption. This has resulted in
the rise of extra-legal means of protection and enforcement: such
is the demand for protection that cannot be fulfilled by
state-sponsored institutions. This book develops a new
socio-economic theory of mafia emergence, incorporating
Granovetter's argument on social embeddedness into Gambetta's
economic theory of the mafia, to suggest that the rise of the
Chinese mafia is primarily due to the negative influence of guanxi
(a Chinese version of personal connections) on the effectiveness of
the formal legal system. This interplay has two major consequences.
First, the weakened ability of the formal legal system sees street
gangsters (the 'Black Mafia') providing protection and quasi law
enforcement. Second, it allows for escalating abuse of power by
public officials; as a result, corrupt officials (the 'Red Mafia')
sell public appointments, exchange illegal benefits with businesses
and protect local gangs. Together, these outcomes have seen street
gangs shift their operations away from traditional areas (e.g.
gambling, prostitution and drug distribution), whilst corrupt
public officials have moved to offer illegal services to the
criminal underworld, including the safeguarding organized crime
groups and protection of illegal entrepreneurs. A study of crime
and deviance located within a fast growing economy, The Chinese
Mafia offers a unique understanding of these activities within
contemporary Chinese society and a new perspective for
understanding the interaction between corruption and organized
crime. It will be of interest to academics and students engaged in
the fields of criminology and criminal justice, sociology, and
political science, with particular interest for those researching
China and Chinese politics and governance.
A unique effort in the CHINESE LEARNING SERIES is the strong push
on developing student's reading comprehension in Chinese, although
high quality education on other skills are also provided in high
standard, e.g. verbal communication and writing. Reading
comprehension is known as one of the most challenging bottlenecks
in Chinese education as a second language. The best practices to be
incorporated in our program are based on 1) modern second language
education theories; 2) maximum language input; and 3) student
centric curriculum, instruction and assessment. CHINESE LEARNING
SERIES adopts a "maximum acquisition" methodology, which is
designed based on Stephen Krashen's "Input Hypothesis," pedagogy
and educational psychology. Basically, CHINESE LEARNING SERIES
students acquire Chinese in a natural order by receiving
comprehensible and constructional verse input from classical poems.
Multimedia tools are incorporated in CHINESE LEARNING SERIES, e.g.
pictures, animation, software and character cards that help
students memorize and reflect the Chinese characters that they
learnt. Students maximize their language input utilizing poems,
animation, games and other effective and interactive means in
classroom and at home. Students learn while "playing." CHINESE
LEARNING SERIES teaching and practice materials are easy to follow
and fun to use. It has been proven highly effective to have young
children reading and reciting famous poems during the past two
years. It helps to develop and establish student's Chinese language
sense. "Recitation" not only overcomes the learner's anxiety of
"foreign language," but also turns tacit knowledge into explicit
language. The repetition rate in CHINESE LEARNING SERIES is
determined based on the laws of forgetting rate in human, e.g. the
contents need to be repeated 6 times at different time points to
ensure the students memorizing what they learned. Exercises and
reviews after school are weighed equally important as what they
learned in class. The CHINESE LEARNING SERIES development team has
put in substantial efforts in designing student homework exercise
materials, which include the use of multimedia CD with sound,
animation, games and other interactive exercises, the word cards
and reading exercises on paper. In general, all contents will be
reviewed 6 times in different ways in six months so that the
students can achieve a permanent memory. We also ask students to
listen stories we provide to them at least twice a week. Listening
is an important component in building language senses. During the
entire six-year CHINESE LEARNING SERIES instruction, the
development of reading comprehension progresses following the order
of "listening to read," "semi-independent reading" and "independent
reading." More detail series and course information, go to http:
//gwcs-md.org
The development of smart materials for environmental applications
is a highly innovative and promising new approach to meet the
increasing demands from society on water resources and pollution
remediation. Smart materials with surfaces that can reversibly
respond to stimuli from internal and external environments by
changing their properties show great promise as solutions for
global environmental issues. Many of these functional materials are
inspired by biological systems, that use sophisticated material
interfaces to display high levels of adaptability to their
environment. Leading researchers present the latest information on
the current and potential applications of omniphobic slippery
coatings, responsive particle stabilized emulsions and self-healing
surfaces among other functional materials. The book contains a
section dedicated to water treatment and harvesting, describing and
explaining strategies such as use of copolymer membranes and
surfaces with patterned wettability. It provides a valuable source
of information for environmental, materials, polymer and
nano-scientists interested in environmental applications of
functional material surfaces.
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