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An overview of the recent developments and prospects in this highly
topical area, covering the synthesis, characterization, properties
and applications of hierarchical nanostructured materials. The book
concentrates on those materials relevant for research and
development in the fields of energy, biomedicine and environmental
protection, with a strong focus on 3D materials based on
nanocarbons, mesoporous silicates, hydroxides, core-shell particles
and helical nanostructures.
Thanks to its clear concept and application-oriented approach, this
is an essential reference for experienced researchers and newcomers
to the field alike.
This book outlines 11 courses and 15 research topics in
bioinformatics, based on curriculums and talks in a graduate summer
school on bioinformatics that was held in Tsinghua University. The
courses include: Basics for Bioinformatics, Basic Statistics for
Bioinformatics, Topics in Computational Genomics, Statistical
Methods in Bioinformatics, Algorithms in Computational Biology,
Multivariate Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics Research,
Association Analysis for Human Diseases: Methods and Examples, Data
Mining and Knowledge Discovery Methods with Case Examples, Applied
Bioinformatics Tools, Foundations for the Study of Structure and
Function of Proteins, Computational Systems Biology Approaches for
Deciphering Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Advanced Topics in
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. This book can serve as
not only a primer for beginners in bioinformatics, but also a
highly summarized yet systematic reference book for researchers in
this field. Rui Jiang and Xuegong Zhang are both professors at the
Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China. Professor
Michael Q. Zhang works at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold
Spring Harbor, NY, USA.
This book is a comparative study of vague language based on
naturally occurring data of L1 and L2 speakers in academic
settings. It explores how L2 learners have diverse and culturally
specific needs for vague language compared with L1s, and are
generally vaguer.
Elastic language carries non-specific and stretchable meaning, as
in 'He loves her, kind of'. It is used like a slingshot, targeting
various strategic goals. Consolidating current research and
charting new directions, this book develops a refreshing theory of
elasticity, empirically attested by natural language data from
tension-prone encounters between Australian Customs officers and
passengers. The theory proposes three principles (fluidity,
stretchability and strategy) and offers a systematic look at how
elastic language, as a sliding scale, works to balance
strengthening and weakening speech tones, to firm and soften a
speaker's stance, and to reveal and evade the truth. The
comparative analysis of forms, functions, and context confirms that
elastic language is fluid, stretchable, and strategic. It serves
both cooperative and competitive functions, and social and speech
factors impact on its use. This book will appeal to students and
researchers working in pragmatics, applied linguistics,
sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and communication.
Elastic language carries non-specific and stretchable meaning, as
in 'He loves her, kind of'. It is used like a slingshot, targeting
various strategic goals. Consolidating current research and
charting new directions, this book develops a refreshing theory of
elasticity, empirically attested by natural language data from
tension-prone encounters between Australian Customs officers and
passengers. The theory proposes three principles (fluidity,
stretchability and strategy) and offers a systematic look at how
elastic language, as a sliding scale, works to balance
strengthening and weakening speech tones, to firm and soften a
speaker's stance, and to reveal and evade the truth. The
comparative analysis of forms, functions, and context confirms that
elastic language is fluid, stretchable, and strategic. It serves
both cooperative and competitive functions, and social and speech
factors impact on its use. This book will appeal to students and
researchers working in pragmatics, applied linguistics,
sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and communication.
The myriad ways Beijing residents understand and nurture the good
life, drawing on cultural resources ranging from ancient
metaphysics to modern media. Ten Thousand Things explores the many
forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese parlance "the ten thousand
things" that life is and is becoming, in contemporary Beijing and
beyond. Coauthored by an American anthropologist and a Chinese
philosopher, the book examines the myriad ways contemporary
residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice
the embodied arts of everyday well-being, and in doing so draw on
cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern
media. Farquhar and Zhang show that there are many activities that
nurture life: practicing meditative martial arts among friends in a
public park; jogging, swimming, and walking backward; dancing,
singing, and keeping pet birds; connoisseurship of tea, wine, and
food; and spiritual disciplines ranging from meditation to learning
a foreign language. As ancient life-nurturing texts teach, the
cultural practices that produce particular forms of life are
generative in ten thousand ways: they "give birth to life and
transform the transformations." This book attends to the patterns
of city life, listens to homely advice on how to live, and
interprets the great tradition of medicine and metaphysics. In the
process, a manifold culture of the urban Chinese everyday emerges.
The lives nurtured, gathered, and witnessed here are global and
local, embodied and discursive, ecological and cosmic, civic and
individual. The elements of any particular life-as long as it
lasts, and with some skill and determination-can be gathered,
centered, and harmonized with the way things spontaneously go. The
result, everyone says, is pleasure.
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