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Little Bear loves the sunlight that shines in through his windows
and considers it his very own special sunshine. But when it is time
for him to hibernate for winter and he forgets to close his
curtains, Little Bear tosses and turns until the arrival of an
unusual visitor helps him sleep soundly. This is an adorable tale
that explores concepts such as the seasons, the difference between
daytime and nighttime, shadows, and hibernation through beautiful
text and illustrations.
This book deals with various problems and investigates different
treatment technologies concerning water reuse. In response to the
challenges of severe water shortages and the deterioration of water
quality, the focus of cutting-edge technology and systems for water
treatment and reuse is fast-growing worldwide. Progress is needed
to provide high quality reclaimed water, minimize the risks to the
environment and human health, and support the use of
non-conventional water resources. In Focus - a book series that
showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each book
focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in the
field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and
inspire further conversations in the sector.
Addressing fundamental questions surrounding the critical changes
affecting China's urban landscape, social organization and
community governance, Property Rights and Urban Transformation in
China thoroughly reviews the reform of property rights in changing
political and economic conditions. Zhu Qian presents a
comprehensive study highlighting the key theories and practices in
urban and social development processes and provides guidance on how
to understand both the parallels and differences that these reveal.
Utilizing a cross-sectoral and multi-scalar examination of property
rights in a property-led urban environment, the book illustrates
increasingly complex interactions between state and non-state
actors and examines the characteristics and consequences of
rural-urban land conversion. It further analyses the impacts of
resettled villagers' adaptation to urban society and the role of
property rights in China's recent high-profile urban-rural
integrated development. This insightful book will ensure a thorough
grasp of the pertinent issues for scholars, researchers and
practitioners within the fields of urban planning, human geography
and land economics. It will also provide a more general systemic
understanding for graduate students interested in the recent
challenges and strategies in a property rights regime with strong
state intervention.
This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households at a
time of rapid change in China’s rural economy, examining the dual
identity of households as consumers as well as producers of goods
in terms of supply and demand. Based on the results of the China
Rural Household Panel Survey (CRHPS) by Zhejiang University, this
book analyzes four types of economic activities of rural households
in China, particularly considering changes at the micro level. It
examines how households strive to maximize family efficacy through
input-output production decision-making in allocating limited
resources. Examining data pertaining to agricultural production,
land exploitation, migration and nationalization, as well as
changes in economic behavior, this book offers a snapshot of the
current situation of rural households in China and suggestions to
improve living standards and related policies.
Advances in technology and media have fundamentally changed the way
people perceive research, how research studies are conducted, and
the ways data are analyzed/how the findings are presented. Emerging
internet-enabled technological tools have enhanced and transformed
research in education and the way educators must adapt to conduct
future studies. Advancing Educational Research With Emerging
Technology provides innovative insights into cutting-edge and
long-standing digital tools in educational research and addresses
theoretical, methodological, and ethical dimensions in doing
research in the digital world. The content within this publication
examines such topics as computational linguistics, individualized
learning, and mobile technologies. The design of this publication
is suited for students, professors, higher education faculty,
deans, academicians, researchers, and practitioners looking to
expand their research through the use of a broad range of digital
tools and resources.
Higher education today faces several challenges including soaring
cost, rising student debt, declining state support, and a
staggering dropout rate. Digital technology enables numerous paths
to innovation and promising solutions to these crises in higher
education. However, few efforts have been made to look into the
dynamic relationship between technology, innovation, and leadership
and how they work together to transform teaching and learning,
campus life, student service and support, administration, and
university advancement. Technology Leadership for Innovation in
Higher Education is a pivotal reference source that provides vital
research on the intersection of technology, innovation, and
leadership in higher education by examining the role of technology
in activating, promoting, and accelerating innovation and by
identifying challenges regarding technology leadership. While
highlighting topics such as blended teaching, faculty development,
and university advancement, this publication is ideally designed
for teachers, principals, educational and IT management and staff,
researchers, students, and stakeholders in higher education seeking
current research on critical leadership dimensions required for
effective education leaders.
This book introduces the metal magnetic memory (MMM) technique, one
of the nondestructive testing methods, and its applications in
remanufacturing engineering. It discusses the advantages of MMM and
how to evaluate the early damage degree of remanufacturing cores,
as well as the repairing quality of remanufactured components.
Various MMM signal characteristics are extracted to reflect the
damage degree of remanufacturing cores, coatings and interfaces.
All the theoretical models, analysis methods and testing results of
MMM in this book provide guidance to control the quality of
remanufactured parts and products. This book can help readers make
the best use of the MMM technique in remanufacturing engineering.
In East-West Exchange and Late Modernism, Zhaoming Qian examines
the nature and extent of Asian influence on some of the literary
masterpieces of Western late modernism. Focusing on the poets
William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound, Qian
relates captivating stories about their interactions with Chinese
artists and scholars and shows how these encounters helped ignite a
return to their early experimental modes. After studying Chinese
poetry, Williams published his celebrated set of poems ""The Cassia
Tree."" Exposure to the Tao and its doctrines renewed Moore's
style. Qian presents a lost lecture by Moore on the subject,
transcribed here for the first time. Pound was equally influenced
by Confucianism and by, as Qian demonstrates, anthropological
studies of the spiritualism and pictographic language of the
little-known Naxi people of southwest China. Qian's sinuous
readings expand our understanding of late modernism by bringing
into focus its heightened attention to meaning in space, obsession
with imaginative sensibility, and enlarged respect for harmony
between humanity and nature.
This book explores the scientific basis of the photovoltaic effect,
solar cell operation, various types of solar cells, and the main
process used in their manufacture. It addresses a range of topics,
including the production of solar silicon; silicon-based solar
cells and modules; the choice of semiconductor materials and their
production-relevant costs and performance; device structures,
processing, and manufacturing options for the three major thin-film
PV technologies; high-performance approaches for multi-junction,
concentrator, and space applications; and new types of organic
polymer and dye-sensitized solar cells. The book also presents a
concept for overcoming the efficiency limit of today's solar cells.
Accessible for beginners, while also providing detailed information
on the physics and technology for experts, the book is a valuable
resource for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in
fields such as physics, materials, energy, electrical and
electronic engineering and microelectronics.
This book reviews recent advances in the emerging field of
computational network biology with special emphasis on comparative
network analysis and network module detection. The chapters in this
volume are contributed by leading international researchers in
computational network biology and offer in-depth insight on the
latest techniques in network alignment, network clustering, and
network module detection. Chapters discuss the advantages of the
respective techniques and present the current challenges and open
problems in the field. Recent Advances in Biological Network
Analysis: Comparative Network Analysis and Network Module Detection
will serve as a great resource for graduate students, academics,
and researchers who are currently working in areas relevant to
computational network biology or wish to learn more about the
field. Data scientists whose work involves the analysis of graphs,
networks, and other types of data with topological structure or
relations can also benefit from the book's insights.
This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households at a
time of rapid change in China's rural economy, examining the dual
identity of households as consumers as well as producers of goods
in terms of supply and demand. Based on the results of the China
Rural Household Panel Survey (CRHPS) by Zhejiang University, this
book analyzes four types of economic activities of rural households
in China, particularly considering changes at the micro level. It
examines how households strive to maximize family efficacy through
input-output production decision-making in allocating limited
resources. Examining data pertaining to agricultural production,
land exploitation, migration and nationalization, as well as
changes in economic behavior, this book offers a snapshot of the
current situation of rural households in China and suggestions to
improve living standards and related policies.
While technological advancements have been critical in allowing
researchers to obtain more and better quality data about cellular
processes and signals, the design and practical application of
computational models of genomic regulation continues to be a
challenge. Emerging Research in the Analysis and Modeling of Gene
Regulatory Networks presents a compilation of recent and emerging
research topics addressing the design and use of technology in the
study and simulation of genomic regulation. Exploring both
theoretical and practical topics, this publication is an essential
reference source for students, professionals, and researchers
working in the fields of genomics, molecular biology,
bioinformatics, and drug development.
This book systematically discusses the vegetation dynamics in
northern China since the LGM, with a focus on three dominant tree
species (Pinus, Quercus and Betula). By integrating methods of
palaeoecology, phylogeography and species distribution model, it
reconstructs the glacial refugia in northern China, demonstrating
that the species were located further north than previously assumed
during the LGM. The postglacial dynamics of forest distribution
included not only long-distance north-south migration but also
local spread from LGM micro-refugia in northern China. On the
regional scale, the book shows the altitudinal migration pattern of
the three dominant tree genera and the role of topographical
factors in the migration of the forest-steppe border. On the
catchment scale, it analyzes Huangqihai Lake, located in the
forest-steppe ecotone in northern China, to indentify the local
forest dynamics response to the Holocene climatic change. It shows
that local forests have various modes of response to the climate
drying, including shrubland expansion, savannification and
replacement of steppe. In brief, these studies at different
space-time scales illustrate the effects of climate, topography and
other factors on forest migration.
The book presents selected papers at the 8th Conference on Sound
and Music Technology (CSMT) held in November 2020, at Taiyuan,
Shanxi, China. CSMT is a multidisciplinary conference focusing on
audio processing and understanding with bias on music and acoustic
signals. The primary aim of the conference is to promote the
collaboration between art society and technical society in China.
In this proceeding, the paper included covers a wide range topic
from speech, signal processing, music understanding, machine
learning and signal processing for advanced medical diagnosis and
treatment applications; which demonstrates the target of CSMT
merging arts and science research together.its content caters to
scholars, researchers, engineers, artists, and education
practitioners not only from academia but also industry, who are
interested in audio/acoustics analysis signal processing, music,
sound, and artificial intelligence (AI).
This book offers a theoretical intervention into the normative
ideals of public space that are deeply rooted in Western urbanism.
It disrupts the binaries of presence/absence, inclusion/exclusion
by presenting a series of case studies that vividly convey the
complexity and vicissitude of grassroots spatial practices. It
engages powerfully with the question of what constitutes the "urban
public" in our everyday cities. Moreover, it provides a fresh
perspective on the proliferating scholarship on Chinese urbanism in
the reform era by seriously considering the ways in which ordinary
urban inhabitants respond to and negotiate the impacts of rapid
social change and the reshuffling of the systems of values and
ideologies. The urban public, therefore, is analyzed as an
important field in which identities and cultural differences are
formed and performed. This book is a worthwhile read for anyone
interested in theories of urban public space in general or urban
transformation of post-reform China in particular.
This book presents a method of linking the ordered structure of the
cosmos with human thoughts: the theory of language holography. In
the view presented here, the cosmos is in harmony with the human
body and language, and human thoughts are holographic with the
cosmos at the level of language. In a word, the holographic
relation is nothing more than the bridge by means of which Guanlian
Qian connects the cosmos, human, and language. This is a vitally
important contribution to linguistic and philosophical studies that
cannot be ignored. The book has two main focus areas: outer
language holography and inner language holography. These two areas
constitute the core of the dynamic and holistic view put forward in
the theory of language holography. The book's main properties can
be summarized into the following points: First and foremost, it is
a book created in toto by a Chinese scholar devoted to pragmatics,
theoretical linguistics, and philosophy of language. Secondly, the
book was accepted by a top Chinese publisher and was republished
the second year, which reflected its value and appeal. Thirdly, in
terms of writing style, the book is characterized by succinctness
and logic. As a result, it reads fluidly and smoothly without
redundancies, which is not that common in linguistic or even
philosophical works. Lastly, as stated by the author in the
introduction, "Creation is the development of previous capacities,
but it is also the generation of new ones"; this book can be said
to put this concept into practice. Overall, the book offers a
unique resource to readers around the world who want to know more
about the truly original and innovative studies of language in
Chinese academia.
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