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In Shanghai during the early portion of the twentieth century, a
hybrid theatrical form emerged that was based on Western spoken
theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form of
kabuki and Western-style spoken theatre called shinpa (new school
drama). Known as wenmingxi (civilized drama), this form has, until
recently, largely been ignored by scholars in China and the West as
it does not fit into the current binary "traditional/modern" model
in non-Western theatre and performance studies. This book places
wenmingxi in the context of its hybridized literary and performance
elements, giving it a definitive place in modern Chinese theatre.
This specially curated collection features five reviews of current
and key research on improving water management in crop cultivation.
The first chapter focuses on site-specific variable rate irrigation
systems utilised across agriculture and examines site-specific data
acquisition and mining approaches, such as soil mapping and zone
delineation. The second chapter considers the main deficit
irrigation strategies used in agriculture to improve crop water
productivity. It also explores the status of site-specific
irrigation management and its role in minimizing agricultural water
use. The third chapter reviews progress in winter wheat water
management and water-use efficiency (WUE), drawing on long-term
field experiments in the U.S. southern Great Plains. It discusses
the key relationships between yield, evapotranspiration, WUE and
best management practices. The fourth chapter considers the key
techniques for improving rice water productivity through enhanced
irrigation practices aiming to reduce irrigation water use in rice
cultivation, such as the Alternate Wetting and Drying technique.
The final chapter examines the main irrigation methods used in
dryland sorghum production. It also reviews the relationship
between soil properties and irrigation management.
Offers a step-by-step guide to building autonomous vehicles and
robots, with source code and accompanying videos The first book of
its kind on the detailed steps for creating an autonomous vehicle
or robot, this book provides an overview of the technology and
introduction of the key elements involved in developing autonomous
vehicles, and offers an excellent introduction to the basics for
someone new to the topic of autonomous vehicles and the innovative,
modular-based engineering approach called DragonFly. Engineering
Autonomous Vehicles and Robots: The DragonFly Modular-based
Approach covers everything that technical professionals need to
know about: CAN bus, chassis, sonars, radars, GNSS, computer
vision, localization, perception, motion planning, and more.
Particularly, it covers Computer Vision for active perception and
localization, as well as mapping and motion planning. The book
offers several case studies on the building of an autonomous
passenger pod, bus, and vending robot. It features a large amount
of supplementary material, including the standard protocol and
sample codes for chassis, sonar, and radar. GPSD protocol/NMEA
protocol and GPS deployment methods are also provided. Most
importantly, readers will learn the philosophy behind the DragonFly
modular-based design approach, which empowers readers to design and
build their own autonomous vehicles and robots with flexibility and
affordability. Offers progressive guidance on building autonomous
vehicles and robots Provides detailed steps and codes to create an
autonomous machine, at affordable cost, and with a modular approach
Written by one of the pioneers in the field building autonomous
vehicles Includes case studies, source code, and state-of-the art
research results Accompanied by a website with supplementary
material, including sample code for chassis/sonar/radar; GPS
deployment methods; Vision Calibration methods Engineering
Autonomous Vehicles and Robots is an excellent book for students,
researchers, and practitioners in the field of autonomous vehicles
and robots.
In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical
form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre,
classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as
shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized
literary and performance elements, giving it a definitive place in
modern Chinese theatre.
This book provides a self-contained and up-to-date treatment of
the Monte Carlo method and develops a common framework under which
various Monte Carlo techniques can be "standardized" and compared.
Given the interdisciplinary nature of the topics and a moderate
prerequisite for the reader, this book should be of interest to a
broad audience of quantitative researchers such as computational
biologists, computer scientists, econometricians, engineers,
probabilists, and statisticians. It can also be used as a textbook
for a graduate-level course on Monte Carlo methods.
A comprehensive guide to the friction, contact and impact on robot
control and force feedback mechanism Dynamics and Control of
Robotic Manipulators with Contact and Friction offers an
authoritative guide to the basic principles of robot dynamics and
control with a focus on contact and friction. The authors discuss
problems in interaction between human and real or virtual robot
where dynamics with friction and contact are relevant. The book
fills a void in the literature with a need for a text that
considers the contact and friction generated in robot joints during
their movements. Designed as a practical resource, the text
provides the information needed for task planning in view of
contact, impact and friction for the designer of a robot control
system for high accuracy and long durability. The authors include a
review of the most up-to-date advancements in robot dynamics and
control. It contains a comprehensive resource to the effective
design and fabrication of robot systems and components for
engineering and scientific purposes. This important guide: Offers a
comprehensive reference with systematic treatment and a unified
framework Includes simulation and experiments used in dynamics and
control of robot considering contact, impact and friction Discusses
the most current tribology methodology used to treat the
multiple-scale effects Contains valuable descriptions of
experiments and software used Presents illustrative accounts on the
methods employed to handle friction in the closed loop, including
the principles, implementation, application scope, merits and
demerits Offers a cohesive treatment that covers tribology and
multi-scales, multi-physics and nonlinear stochastic dynamics
control Written for graduate students of robotics, mechatronics,
mechanical engineering, tracking control and practicing
professionals and industrial researchers, Dynamics and Control of
Robotic Manipulators with Contact and Friction offers a review to
effective design and fabrication of stable and durable robot system
and components.
Conceptual Density Functional Theory A unique resource that
combines experimental and theoretical qualitative computing methods
for a new foundation of chemical reactivity This two-volume
reference book shows how conceptual density functional theory can
reconcile empirical observations within silico calculations using
density functional theory, molecular orbital theory, and valence
bond theory. The ability to predict properties like
electronegativity, acidity/basicity, strong covalent and weak
intermolecular interactions as well as chemical reactivity makes
DFT directly applicable to almost all problems in applied
chemistry, from synthetic chemistry to catalyst design and
materials characterization. Edited by one of the most recognized
experts in the field and contributed to by a panel of international
experts, the work addresses topics such as: Qualitative methods
that are capable of rationalizing chemical concepts derived from
theory and computation Fundamental concepts like the computation of
chemical bonding, weak interactions, and reactivity Computational
approaches for chemical concepts in excited states, extended
systems, and time-dependent processes Theoretical chemists and
physicists, as well as those applying theoretical calculations to
empirical problems, will be able to use this book to gain unique
insight into how theory intersects with experimental data in the
field of qualitative computation.
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Mixed Up Melvin (Paperback)
Lauren S Liu; Edited by Christian Editing Services; Sandy R Jones
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Before the mid-1800s, much of the American West was a vast expanse
of open plains. Native tribes followed buffalo herds unimpeded for
hundreds of miles, cowboys ran cattle wherever water and grass led
them, and the cattleman's Law of the Open Range ruled. All this
changed when settlers pouring into the West under the Homestead Act
of 1862 brought with them the Eastern farmer's concept of fencing
in farms. With the invention and mass production of barbed wire in
the 1970s, it soon became possible for homesteaders to fence off
millions of acres of what was once open range. But barbed wire
threatened the livelihood of the cattlemen who depended on unfenced
grasslands, and a clash of cultures was inevitable.
Although there is increasing need for modeling and simulation in
the IC package design phase, most assembly processes and various
reliability tests are still based on the time consuming "test and
try out" method to obtain the best solution. Modeling and
simulation can easily ensure virtual Design of Experiments (DoE) to
achieve the optimal solution. This has greatly reduced the cost and
production time, especially for new product development. Using
modeling and simulation will become increasingly necessary for
future advances in 3D package development. In this book, Liu and
Liu allow people in the area to learn the basic and advanced
modeling and simulation skills to help solve problems they
encounter. * Models and simulates numerous processes in
manufacturing, reliability and testing for the first time *
Provides the skills necessary for virtual prototyping and virtual
reliability qualification and testing * Demonstrates concurrent
engineering and co-design approaches for advanced engineering
design of microelectronic products * Covers packaging and assembly
for typical ICs, optoelectronics, MEMS, 2D/3D SiP, and nano
interconnects * Appendix and color images available for download
from the book's companion website Liu and Liu have optimized the
book for practicing engineers, researchers, and post-graduates in
microelectronic packaging and interconnection design, assembly
manufacturing, electronic reliability/quality, and semiconductor
materials. Product managers, application engineers, sales and
marketing staff, who need to explain to customers how the assembly
manufacturing, reliability and testing will impact their products,
will also find this book a critical resource. Appendix and color
version of selected figures can be found at
www.wiley.com/go/liu/packaging
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