Juan Li

My Aletay

Wo de Aletai

Mantak Chia

Explores the deep, internal work necessary for the effective practice of tai chi • Reveals the Taoist principles that gave birth to the Yang-style tai chi forms • Shows how tai chi can circulate powerful healing energies through the body Taoist adepts developed tai chi as both a martial art and a way to cultivate their physical body, energy body, and spirit body. Like all Taoist exercises, its main purpose is to form a connection to the basic energy that is the foundation of all life: chi. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, tai chi was considered a secret practice that was passed down only within a closely knit structure of family and loyal disciples. Despite its widespread growth in popularity as a martial art and health exercise, many of its underlying internal practices remain unknown. The Inner Structure of Tai Chi explores the deep, internal work necessary for the effective practice of tai chi. Designed for practitioners at every level, the book contains step-by-step illustrated instructions for mastering the 13 forms of early Yang-style tai chi, also known as Tai Chi Chi Kung. The authors demonstrate the relationship of the inner structure of tai chi to the absorption, transformation, and circulation of the three forces that animate all life--the Universal force, the Cosmic force, and the Earth force--revealing the principles and practices necessary to receive the full spectrum of physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits that tai chi can bring.

Mastering the Classic Forms of Tai Chi Chi Kung

The Inner Structure of Tai Chi

Albert Y. Zomaya

Joanna Kołodziej

Samee Ullah Khan

Today’s highly parameterized large-scale distributed computing systems may be composed of a large number of various components (computers, databases, etc) and must provide a wide range of services. The users of such systems, located at different (geographical or managerial) network cluster may have a limited access to the system’s services and resources, and different, often conflicting, expectations and requirements. Moreover, the information and data processed in such dynamic environments may be incomplete, imprecise, fragmentary, and overloading. All of the above mentioned issues require some intelligent scalable methodologies for the management of the whole complex structure, which unfortunately may increase the energy consumption of such systems. An optimal energy utilization has reached to a point that many information technology (IT) managers and corporate executives are all up in arms to identify scalable solution that can reduce electricity consumption (so that the total cost of operation is minimized) of their respective large-scale computing systems and simultaneously improve upon or maintain the current throughput of the system. This book in its eight chapters, addresses the fundamental issues related to the energy usage and the optimal low-cost system design in high performance ``green computing’’ systems. The recent evolutionary and general metaheuristic-based solutions for energy optimization in data processing, scheduling, resource allocation, and communication in modern computational grids, could and network computing are presented along with several important conventional technologies to cover the hot topics from the fundamental theory of the ‘’green computing’’ concept and to describe the basic architectures of systems. This book points out the potential application areas and provides detailed examples of application case studies in low-energy computational systems. The development trends and open research issues are also outlined. All of those technologies have formed the foundation for the green computing that we know of today.

Evolutionary Based Solutions for Green Computing

Jie Chen

Bin Xin

Multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) and uncertain optimization problems (UOPs) which widely exist in real life are challengeable problems in the fields of decision making, system designing, and scheduling, amongst others. Decomposition exploits the ideas of ‘making things simple’ and ‘divide and conquer’ to transform a complex problem into a series of simple ones with the aim of reducing the computational complexity. In order to tackle the abovementioned two types of complicated optimization problems, this book introduces the decomposition strategy and conducts a systematic study to perfect the usage of decomposition in the field of multi-objective optimization, and extend the usage of decomposition in the field of uncertain optimization.

Decomposition-based Evolutionary Optimization In Complex Environments

Haruki Murakami

Prajwal Parajuly

Tsering Woeser

Jannatul Mawa

Amataya Zakariya

Rehman Rashid

Ka-Shiang Liu

Korn Kraylat

Noelle Q. de Jesus

Song Han

Faisal Tehrani

Kai-Cheung Dung

Gregorio C. Brillantes

La revue semestrielle Jentayu (ISSN 2426-2536) est dédiée à la traduction de textes courts ou d’extraits de roman. À chaque numéro, entre douze et quinze textes provenant d’une variété de pays et de régions d’Asie sont sélectionnés sur un thème donné et traduits par des traducteurs chevronnés. Pour certains de ces textes, ils sont aussi mis en contexte sur le site internet par le biais d’un entretien avec l’auteur, le traducteur, ou d’une présentation de son traducteur. Pour le plaisir des yeux, un illustrateur asiatique est invité à imaginer des créations visuelles en lien avec chacune des nouvelles. Enfin, à chaque nouveau numéro, la revue met aussi en avant les travaux d’un photographe asiatique au travers d’un carnet dédié. Ce quatrième numéro, sur le thème "Cartes et Territoires", est consacré à la géographie, au voyage physique ou spirituel et aux frontières culturelles, mémorielles et sensorielles dans les littératures contemporaines d'Asie. Textes en traduction française de : Gregorio C. Brillantes (Philippines), Dung Kai-cheung (Hong Kong), Faisal Tehrani (Malaisie), Han Song (Chine), Noelle Q. de Jesus (Philippines), Korn Kraylat (Thaïlande), Li Juan (Chine), Liu Ka-shiang (Taiwan), Haruki Murakami (Japon), Prajwal Parajuly (Inde), Rehman Rashid (Malaisie), Tsering Woeser (Chine) et Zakariya Amataya (Thaïlande). Illustrations de Public Child (Taiwan). Photographies de Jannatul Mawa (Bangladesh).

Numéro 4 - Cartes et Territoires

Jentayu

Li Juan a pris ce qu'elle appelle le "chemin sauvage" – une vie et une écriture aussi loin que possible du système, sur les hauts plateaux de l'Altaï. Là où le ciel est d'un bleu étincelant, la lumière éblouissante sur les étendues immenses de la steppe. Elle y a ouvert avec sa mère et sa grand-mère un petit atelier de couture qui fait aussi épicerie, et suit les éleveurs kazakhs dans leurs transhumances. Tout a une histoire pour Li Juan, tout a une vie digne qu'on s'en souvienne : le lièvre des neiges qu'elles ont apprivoisé, le joueur de dombra près de la rivière, les "nids d'hiver" où se réfugient hommes et moutons lorsque la neige recouvre les pâturages. C'est une existence rude et solitaire, sur laquelle elle porte un regard émerveillé : ce monde dépasse tout ce qu'on peut imaginer de bienveillant, de juste et de beau.

Sous le ciel de l'Altaï : récits

Xiang Li

Yan Ma

Beidou Xi

Yang Wang

Chenning Deng

Yanna Xiong

This book introduces readers to environmental background investigation, pollution source intensity evaluation and risk assessment approaches used at three main types of groundwater-contaminated sites: municipal domestic waste landfills, hazardous waste landfills and oil-contaminated sites. In addition, typical contaminated sites throughout China are examined to demonstrate how these approaches can be applied for their investigation, assessment and restoration. By reading this book, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the restoration and management of typical groundwater-contaminated sites.

Investigation and Assessment Technology for Typical Groundwater-contaminated Sites and Application Cases

Juan Li

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