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- Presents the first research by a major Asian university on the
seismic shift to online learning in higher education due to the
pandemic - Offers insights direct from global university leaders on
the leadership of higher education institutes through the pandemic
- Provides students, academics and policy makers with research and
policy implications for the wider higher education sector.
Structural Seismic and Civil Engineering focuses on civil
engineering research, anti-seismic technology and engineering
structure. These proceedings gather the most cutting-edge research
and achievements, aiming to provide scholars and engineers with
preferable research directions and engineering solutions as
reference. Subjects in these proceedings include: Engineering
Structure Materials of Civil Engineering Structural Seismic
Resistance Monitoring and Testing The works in these proceedings
aim to promote the development of civil engineering and earthquake
engineering. Thereby, promoting scientific information interchange
between scholars from top universities, research centers and
high-tech enterprises working all around the world.
China's growth miracle over the past 30 years has propelled it to
become the world's second largest economy and potentially the
largest in the following years. This book examines China's
experience on economic reform, trying to find the reasons for the
sustainable and rapid development and provide insights into the
study of economic theories. From the perspective of political
economics, this book elaborates on China's socialist market economy
which was officially confirmed as the goal of the country's
economic reform in 1992. It expounds on China's economic model, the
relationship between socialism and market economy, as well as the
establishment and improvement of socialist market economy in China,
deepening the studies in the laws governing China's economic
development. Then, it explores the gradual reform, the reform of
state-owned enterprises, and the relationship between governments
and market, all of which are crucial to the success of China's
economic reform. Finally, based on the analysis above, this book
discusses the reasons for the constant and rapid development of
China's economy. With detailed analysis on the reform experience
and theoretical implications, this book will appeal to scholars and
students studying China's economy, and contribute to the
development of economic theories.
The field of control theory in PDEs has broadened considerably as
more realistic models have been introduced and investigated. This
book presents a broad range of recent developments, new
discoveries, and mathematical tools in the field. The authors
discuss topics such as elasticity, thermo-elasticity,
aero-elasticity, interactions between fluids and elastic
structures, and fluid dynamics and the new challenges that they
present. Other control theoretic problems include parabolic
systems, dynamical Lame systems, linear and nonlinear hyperbolic
equations, and pseudo-differential operators on a manifold. This is
a valuable tool authored by international specialists in the field.
This book brings audiences the enchanting melodies passing down
from generation to generation in the Zhuang community, which are on
the brink of extinction. Specifically, it sheds light on the
origin, evolution and artistic features of Zhuang folk song in the
first place, and then it shifts to their English translation based
on meta-functional equivalence, through which the multi-aesthetics
of Zhuang folk song have been represented. At length, forty classic
Zhuang folk songs have been selected, and each could be sung
bilingually in line with the stave. This book benefits researchers
and students who are interested in music translation as well as the
Zhuang ethnic music, culture and literature. It also gives readers
an insight into musicology, anthropology and intercultural study.
This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the Second
EAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for
Communications and Networks, AICON 2020, held in December 2020. Due
to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 52 full
papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions.
The papers are organized in topical sections on Deep
Learning/Machine Learning on Information and Signal Processing; AI
in Ubiquitous Mobile Wireless Communications; AI in UAV-assisted
wireless communications; Smart Education: Educational Change in the
age of artificial Intelligence; AI in SAR/ISAR Target Detection;
Recent advances in AI and their applications in future electronic
and information field.
This book introduces the state-of-the-art research progress of
system-level EMC, including theories, design technologies,
principles and applications in practice. The engineering design,
simulation, prediction, analysis, test, stage control as well as
effectiveness evaluation are discussed in detail with extensive
project experiences, making the book an essential reference for
researchers and industrial engineers.
Written by respected experts, this book highlights the latest
findings on the electromagnetic ultrasonic guided wave (UGW)
imaging method. It introduces main topics as the Time of Flight
(TOF) extraction method for the guided wave signal, tomography and
scattering imaging methods which can be used to improve the imaging
accuracy of defects. Further, it offers essential insights into how
electromagnetic UGW can be used in nondestructive testing (NDT) and
defect imaging. As such, the book provides valuable information,
useful methods and practical experiments that will benefit
researchers, scientists and engineers in the field of NDT.
Written by respected experts, this book highlights the latest
findings on the electromagnetic ultrasonic guided wave (UGW)
imaging method. It introduces main topics as the Time of Flight
(TOF) extraction method for the guided wave signal, tomography and
scattering imaging methods which can be used to improve the imaging
accuracy of defects. Further, it offers essential insights into how
electromagnetic UGW can be used in nondestructive testing (NDT) and
defect imaging. As such, the book provides valuable information,
useful methods and practical experiments that will benefit
researchers, scientists and engineers in the field of NDT.
This book focuses on the National College Entrance Exam (NCEE), an
important measurement of education quality in China, from both
education economics and education policy perspectives. It provides
a better understanding and stimulates more sophisticated
evaluations of NCEE-related policies in China from the perspectives
of education equity, the effectiveness of education input, and
education quality. This book reports inspiring findings based on
high-quality individual level data, innovative measurement design,
and various appropriate identification strategies. The most import
conclusion is that both education equity and quality can be
achieved using well-designed policies based on solid empirical
evidence. This is likely the first book published in English to
discuss the NCEE so extensively from multiple perspectives using
concrete evidence.
China's growth miracle over the past 30 years has propelled it to
become the world's second largest economy and potentially the
largest in the following years. This book examines China's
experience on economic reform, trying to find the reasons for the
sustainable and rapid development and provide insights into the
study of economic theories. From the perspective of political
economics, this book elaborates on China's socialist market economy
which was officially confirmed as the goal of the country's
economic reform in 1992. It expounds on China's economic model, the
relationship between socialism and market economy, as well as the
establishment and improvement of socialist market economy in China,
deepening the studies in the laws governing China's economic
development. Then, it explores the gradual reform, the reform of
state-owned enterprises, and the relationship between governments
and market, all of which are crucial to the success of China's
economic reform. Finally, based on the analysis above, this book
discusses the reasons for the constant and rapid development of
China's economy. With detailed analysis on the reform experience
and theoretical implications, this book will appeal to scholars and
students studying China's economy, and contribute to the
development of economic theories.
This book brings audiences the enchanting melodies passing down
from generation to generation in the Zhuang community, which are on
the brink of extinction. Specifically, it sheds light on the
origin, evolution and artistic features of Zhuang folk song in the
first place, and then it shifts to their English translation based
on meta-functional equivalence, through which the multi-aesthetics
of Zhuang folk song have been represented. At length, forty classic
Zhuang folk songs have been selected, and each could be sung
bilingually in line with the stave. This book benefits researchers
and students who are interested in music translation as well as the
Zhuang ethnic music, culture and literature. It also gives readers
an insight into musicology, anthropology and intercultural study.
This book provides readers with the latest research on the
affective aspect of online interactions between doctors and
e-patients in the context of China from a poststructuralist
discourse analysis perspective. At the heart of this book is the
presentation of four chapters which address (1) indirect negative
emotional acts by e-patients and empathic acts by doctors
(constituting "affective practice"), (2) the interactional
discursive features involved in the affective practice, (3)
discursive positions of e-patients and doctors within the affective
practice context, and (4) power relations that are reflected in the
positionings. This book sheds light on the importance of examining
the affective facet of medical consultation, when it comes to
identifying non-traditional positions and power relations in
doctor-patient communication. It also provides the implication that
e-healthcare platforms, especially those with an e-commercialized
model for healthcare services, have potential to produce a type of
neo-liberal discourse-the e-commercialized medical consultation
discourse-in which patients and caregivers, who are acknowledged as
the less powerful group in the traditional healthcare activities,
are empowered and privileged.
This book gives a comprehensive and systematic review of secure
compressive sensing (CS) for applications in various fields such as
image processing, pattern recognition, Internet of things (IoT),
and cloud computing. It will help readers grasp the knowledge of
secure CS and its applications, and stimulate more readers to work
on the research and development of secure CS. It discusses how CS
becomes a cryptosystem, followed by the corresponding designs and
analyses. The application of CS in multimedia data encryption is
presented, in which the general design framework is given together
with several particular frameworks including parallel CS,
involvement of image processing techniques, and double protection
mechanism. It also describes the applications of CS in cloud
computing security and IoT security, i.e., privacy-preserving
reconstruction in cloud computing and secure low-cost sampling in
IoT, respectively.
- Presents the first research by a major Asian university on the
seismic shift to online learning in higher education due to the
pandemic - Offers insights direct from global university leaders on
the leadership of higher education institutes through the pandemic
- Provides students, academics and policy makers with research and
policy implications for the wider higher education sector.
The volume and complexity of biological and biomedical research
continues to grow exponentially with cutting-edge technologies such
as high-throughput sequencing. Unfortunately, bioinformatics
analysis is often considered only after data have been generated,
which significantly limits the ability to make sense of complex big
data. This unique book introduces the idea of No-Boundary Thinking
(NBT) in biological and biomedical research, which aims to access,
integrate, and synthesize data, information, and knowledge from
bioinformatics to define important problems and articulate
impactful research questions. This interdisciplinary volume brings
together a team of bioinformatics specialists who draw on their own
experiences with NBT to illustrate the importance of collaborative
science. It will help stimulate discussion and application of NBT,
and will appeal to all biomedical researchers looking to maximize
their use of bioinformatics for making scientific discoveries.
This volume discusses various aspects of mechanisms and
methodologies of chromosome translocations, ranging from a
historical and clinical overview of chromosome translocations to
the rapid development of the next-generation sequencing
technologies, which has dramatically increased our understanding of
the spectrum of chromosome translocations in human diseases. The
book also introduces the mechanistic studies on chromosome
deletions and their implications in cancer, and discusses the
mechanisms of regulating chromothripsis, a unique complex type of
chromosome translocation. It is a valuable resource for students
and researchers alike, providing insights into chromosome
translocations and, potentially, other genomic aberrations involved
in understanding and curing human diseases.
In 2009 the Chinese government put Liu Xiaobo, a celebrated poet,
essayist, critic, activist, and thinker, into a cage. He was
labeled as "an enemy of the state," charged with "inciting
subversion of state power," and sentenced to 11 years'
imprisonment. His insistence on individual liberty in his own 1000+
essays and 18 books, his relentless pursuit of ideas, and his last
statement to the Chinese court: "I have no enemies, no hatred," had
threatened the Chinese Communist Party and government in a way few
other citizens had. The Journey of Liu Xiaobo explores, analyzes,
and celebrates the life and legacy of Liu Xiaobo. The book presents
a unique portrait of Liu Xiaobo from many who knew him during his
life, from childhood to his final days. This collection of over
eighty short essays and reflections are likely the largest
gathering of writers from the Chinese Democracy Movement in one
volume, and contribute basic texts to understanding the man who has
been compared to Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, and Aung San Sui Kyi
in his importance to the development and progress of China toward a
free society. These rich offerings from leading Chinese writers and
intellectuals within and outside the mainland as well as from noted
China scholars and journalists and political leaders around the
globe present a personal as well as an intellectual portrait. Most
of the texts were written at a seminal moment - in the days, weeks
and months right after the death of Liu Xiaobo. The essays in the
book are arranged by chronological focus: Youth and University
Days, Tiananmen Square, Prison, Independent Chinese PEN Center,
Charter 08, Nobel Peace Prize, Death ... and Beyond. The reader is
treated to a trove of original and poignant memories as well as
insightful analyses of China's history and the period in which Liu
lived and an evaluation of Liu's impact on his times.
The purpose of the dissertation is to analyze the methodology which
is employed in a reading class within a Chinese college's English
context. Consequently, I will suggest solutions to the problems.The
PPP approach is used in the previously used lesson plans, form and
accuracy are the focus and classroom management is easily achieved.
However, free communication and the use of reading skills and
strategies are not encouraged. Therefore, I will explore ways to
implement a task-based approach in reading to make reading more
communicative.The dissertation starts with a description of my
context and outline of my research. This is followed by a
literature review about the PPP approach, the task-based approach
and reading, then previously used lesson plans are analyzed as my
data. A checklist which integrates the task-based approach and
reading skills and strategies is designed. Based on the evaluation
of previously used lesson plans, new ones are designed to implement
the task-based approach to reading. The rationale and evaluation of
the new lesson plans are discussed. At the end of the study, the
limitations of the study are stated, together with suggestions for
future research.
In 1959 a young couple in Puerto Rico see a strange silver orb in
the sky. Forty years later that same young man is now a high school
science teacher. He is assigned to mentor an eccentric art student
obsessed with the work of a Victorian artist. It seems that this
artist, a distant relative of the science professor has been in
contact with the silver orb and the aliens traveing inside of it
for decades. Professor Vliet and his student Gummi Carmichael race
against time to try and figure out who the aliens are and why they
are here.Are they friends or foes? Angels or devils? No one can
tell, but time is running out.
This book is a practical manual for anti-COVID-19. It is not only
with the reference to the result of modern medical science,
patients' situation, but also take the deployment of medical
resources into consideration. Content of this manual includes:
Medical administration under emergent circumstances, protection and
control of hospital infection, clinical practice guidance for
diagnosis and therapy, the application of radiation for the
examination, laboratory diagnosis, inhabitation of inflammatory
cytokines crisis, plasma of patient in the recovery stage, and
traditional Chinese medical science etcetera. Authors are from
Union hospital, Tongji medical college in Wuhan city, who has
first-hand experiences. This book is a collection and fusion of
such experiences in fighting against epidemic infectious disease.
It is a timely book for doctors who are fighting against COVID-19.
Many everyday dilemmas existing in the real world are complex and
difficult to solve or fix, ranging from tax evasion to dispatching
taxis to scheduling patient visits in hospitals, and much more.
Within these complicated problems, however, lies the potential to
be simplified or solved by intelligent agents and multi-agent
systems. Theoretical and Practical Frameworks for Agent-Based
Systems tackles these real problems and many more, bringing the
theoretical research of intelligent agents to researchers and
practitioners in academia, government, and innumerable industries.
Professionals and experts in every field ranging from education to
healthcare and beyond will find this reference to be essential in
the understanding of agents, and researchers currently working in
the field of intelligent agents will benefit from this exciting
examination of practical applications.
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, modern Chinese
intellectuals, reformers, revolutionaries, leftist journalists, and
idealistic youth had often crossed the increasing gap between the
city and the countryside, which made the act of "going to the
countryside" a distinctively modern experience and a continuous
practice in China. Such a spatial crossing eventually culminated in
the socialist state program of "down to the villages" movements
during the 1960s and 1970s. What, then, was the special
significance of "going to the countryside" before that era? Going
to the Countryside deals with the cultural representations and
practices of this practice between 1915 and 1965, focusing on
individual homecoming, rural reconstruction, revolutionary journeys
to Yan'an, the revolutionary "going down to the people" as well as
going to the frontiers and rural hometowns for socialist
construction. As part of the larger discourses of enlightenment,
revolution, and socialist industrialization, "going to the
countryside" entailed new ways of looking at the world and ordinary
people, brought about new experiences of space and time, initiated
new means of human communication and interaction, generated new
forms of cultural production, revealed a fundamental epistemic
shift in modern China, and ultimately created a new aesthetic,
social, and political landscape. As a critical response to the
"urban turn" in the past few decades, this book brings the rural
back to the central concern of Chinese cultural studies and aims to
bridge the city and the countryside as two types of important
geographical entities, which have often remained as disparate
scholarly subjects of inquiry in the current state of China
studies. Chinese modernity has been characterized by a dual process
that created problems from the vast gap between the city and the
countryside but simultaneously initiated constant efforts to cope
with the gap personally, collectively, and institutionally. The
process of "crossing" two distinct geographical spaces was often
presented as continuous explorations of various ways of
establishing the connectivity, interaction, and relationship of
these two imagined geographical entities. Going to the Countryside
argues that this new body of cultural productions did not merely
turn the rural into a constantly changing representational space;
most importantly, the rural has been constructed as a distinct
modern experiential and aesthetic realm characterized by
revolutionary changes in human conceptions and sentiments.
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