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Utilizing the `self-OTHER' perspective as a conceptual foundation, the authors portray and interpret some of the distinctive communication practices in Chinese culture. They examine how self-conception, role and hierarchy, relational dynamics and face affect ways of conducting everyday talk in Chine... More

This textbook provides comprehensive and in-depth explanations of all topics related to spatial analysis and spatiotemporal simulation, including how spatial data are acquired, represented digitally, and spatially aggregated. Also features the nature of space and how it is measured. Descriptive, exp... More

This text advances fundamental knowledge in modeling in vitro tissues/organs as an alternative to 2D cell culture and animal testing. Prior to engineering in vitro tissues/organs,the descriptions of prerequisites (from pre-processing to post-processing) in modeling in vitro tissues/organs are discus... More

Fatality quotas implemented in China’s industrial sector are being used to promote work safety and therefore, reducing the number of work-related deaths. Given the controversial nature of this policy, Gao analyzes how the fatality quotas are functioning to aid the country in balancing economic growt... More

This book offers a comprehensive review of the landscapes and ecosystems of the Upper Yellow River. It focuses on landscapes as a platform for considering environmental values and issues across the region. The book is based on extensive field-based analyses, applications, and photographs.... More

This book provides a systematic description about the development of Isogeometric Topology Optimization (ITO) method using the density, and then addresses the effectiveness and efficiency of the ITO method on several design problems, including multi-material structures, stress-minimization structure... More

This book covers connectivity and edge computing solutions for representative Internet of Things (IoT) use cases, including industrial IoT, rural IoT, Internet of Vehicles (IoV), and mobile virtual reality (VR). Based on their unique characteristics and requirements, customized solutions are designe... More

This book constitutes thoroughly refereed and revised selected papers from the 10th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Sensor Systems, Wireless Networks and Distributed Robotics, ALGOSENSORS 2014, held in Wroclaw, Poland, on September 12, 2014. The 10 papers presented in this... More

This book starts from the design requirements of variable geometry turbines for marine gas turbines. It systematically and comprehensively introduces the flow mechanism and characteristics of variable geometry turbines, aerodynamic design methods, variable vane turning design methods, structural des... More

This book investigates intelligent network resource management for IoV, with the objective of maximizing the communication and computing performance of vehicle users. Focusing on two representative use cases in IoV, i.e., safety message broadcast and autonomous driving, the authors propose link-laye... More

This book discusses statistical modeling of single- and multi-channel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images and the applications of these newly developed models in land and ocean monitoring, such as target detection and terrain classification. It is a valuable reference for researchers and engineers... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Algorithms for Sensor Systems, Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Autonomous Mobile Entities, ALGOSENSORS 2013, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in September 2013. The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed a... More

Cookbook with recipes based on real life examples.This book is written to assist the daily tasks for systems administrators, engineers, and architects working with Windows Server 2012.... More

This book discusses enhancing the overall energy performance of building central air-conditioning systems through fault diagnosis and robust control strategies. Fault diagnosis strategies aim to determine the exact cause of problems and evaluate the energy impact on the system, while robust control ... More

This book sheds light on systems that learn extensively, with purpose and naturally interact with humans. Improving operations and increasing competitive differentiation among manufacturing organizations by harnessing the power of cognitive abilities, IoT can help build and influence the flow of inf... More

Someone asked Long Yu, "If the people of the world bully, humiliate, destroy, slander, underestimate, and laugh at you, how should we deal with them?" The answer was simple: then beat him, scold him, mock him, wound him, make him kneel on the ground, scream in terror, and look at him again. Do you d... More

Someone asked Long Yu, "If the people of the world bully, humiliate, destroy, slander, underestimate, and laugh at you, how should we deal with them?" The answer was simple: then beat him, scold him, mock him, wound him, make him kneel on the ground, scream in terror, and look at him again. Do you d... More

"Ye Jing, where are you?"Jiang Qing Ya nervously held her phone, her palms already sweating."Do I need to report to you where I'm going? If there's anything, just say it. If there's nothing else, I'll hang up. "A cold voice came from the other side, causing Jiang Qing Ya's heart to tremble."I, I'm p... More

She thought that this child was bestowed to her by the gods. Even if Jiang Yunting hated her any more, as long as he had a child, he would change his mind.However, he didn't expect that his sister would come back, causing all his hopes of her to disappear."Yun Ting, I only wish that you don't leave ... More

"Ye Li, let's break up."Su Mo looked at the handsome man in front of her and was in a trance.But now, she couldn't love him anymore. When the news of Ye Li and Ding WanRou's marriage spread, Su Mo felt like a fool.... More

Since its creation at the beginning of World II, radars have forever transformed the practice of modern warfare. The evolution of countermeasure conducted by electronic warfare systems against radars and radars’ corresponding counter countermeasures is an intriguing technical subject. This book prov... More

This brief provides a detailed introduction, discussion and bibliographic review of the nature1-inspired optimization algorithm called Harmony Search. It uses a large number of simulation results to demonstrate the advantages of Harmony Search and its variants and also their drawbacks. The authors... More

The book is a comprehensive treatment of the field, covering fundamental theoretical principles and new technological advancements, state-of-the-art device design, and reviewing examples encompassing a wide range of related sub-areas. In particular, the first area focuses on the recent development o... More

Discover the most recent advances in electromagnetic vortices  In Electromagnetic Vortices: Wave Phenomena and Engineering Applications, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a cutting-edge treatment of the research and development of electromagnetic vortex waves, including their related wave... More

Written by a range of international industry practitioners, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the essence and nature of airline operations in terms of an operational and regulatory framework, the myriad of planning activities leading up to the current day, and the nature of intense activi... More