Yang Yang

75 Delicious Plant-Based Favorites

Vegan Chinese Cookbook

Jianwei Huang

Tao Zhang

Joe Weinman

THE ONE-STOP RESOURCE FOR ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION CONSIDERING FOG COMPUTING Fog and Fogonomics is a comprehensive and technology-centric resource that highlights the system model, architectures, building blocks, and IEEE standards for fog computing platforms and solutions. The "fog" is defined as the multiple interconnected layers of computing along the continuum from cloud to endpoints such as user devices and things including racks or microcells in server closets, residential gateways, factory control systems, and more. The authors—noted experts on the topic—review business models and metrics that allow for the economic assessment of fog-based information communication technology (ICT) resources, especially mobile resources. The book contains a wide range of templates and formulas for calculating quality-of-service values. Comprehensive in scope, it covers topics including fog computing technologies and reference architecture, fog-related standards and markets, fog-enabled applications and services, fog economics (fogonomics), and strategy. This important resource: Offers a comprehensive text on fog computing Discusses pricing, service level agreements, service delivery, and consumption of fog computing Examines how fog has the potential to change the information and communication technology industry in the next decade Describes how fog enables new business models, strategies, and competitive differentiation, as with ecosystems of connected and smart digital products and services Includes case studies featuring integration of fog computing, communication, and networking systems Written for product and systems engineers and designers, as well as for faculty and students, Fog and Fogonomics is an essential book that explores the technological and economic issues associated with fog computing.

Challenges and Practices of Fog Computing, Communication, Networking, Strategy, and Economics

Fog and Fogonomics

Sudharshan N. Raman

Bingxiang Yuan

Zhijun Xu

Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures focuses on the research of advanced structures and anti-seismic design in civil engineering. The proceedings present the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements related to civil and structural engineering. Topics covered in the proceedings include: · Engineering Structure and Seismic Resistance · Structural Mechanics Analysis · Components and Materials · Structural Seismic Design · 3D Printing Concrete · Other Related Topics The works of this proceedings will promote development of civil and structural engineering, resource sharing, flexibility and high efficiency. Thereby, promote scientific information interchange between scholars from the top universities, research centers and high-tech enterprises working all around the world.

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Civil Architecture and Structural Engineering (ICCASE 2022), Guangzhou, China, 20–22 May 2022

Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures Volume 1

Ali Rahman

Frontiers of Civil Engineering and Disaster Prevention and Control is a compilation of selected papers from The 3rd International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Disaster Prevention and Control (CADPC 2022) and focuses on the research of architecture and disaster prevention in civil engineering. The proceedings features the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements related to construction technology and prevention and control of disaster. Subjects in this proceedings include: Construction Technology Seismicity in Civil Engineering High-Rise Building Construction Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction Smart Post-Disaster Rescue These proceedings will promote development of civil engineering and risk reduction, resource sharing, flexibility and high efficiency. Moreover, promote scientific information interchange between scholars from the top universities, research centers and high-tech enterprises working all around the world.

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Disaster Prevention and Control (CADPC 2022), Wuhan, China, 25-27 March 2022

Frontiers of Civil Engineering and Disaster Prevention and Control Volume 1

Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures Volume 2

Xu Chen

Rui Tan

Yong Xiao

INTELLIGENT IOT FOR THE DIGITAL WORLD DISCOVER HOW THE INTELLIGENT INTERNET OF THINGS WILL CHANGE THE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY IN THE NEXT DECADE In the digital world, most data and Internet of Things (IoT) services need to be efficiently processed and executed by intelligent algorithms using local or regional computing resources, thus greatly saving and reducing communication bandwidth, end-to-end service delay, long-distance data transmissions, and potential privacy breaches. This book proposes a pyramid model, where data, computing and algorithm jointly constitute the triangular base to support a variety of user-centric intelligent IoT services at the spire by using different kinds of smart terminals or devices. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of intelligent IoT technologies and applications, discusses the key challenges and opportunities facing the digital world, and answers the following five critical questions: What is the most feasible network architecture to effectively provide sufficient resources anywhere anytime for intelligent IoT application scenarios? How do we efficiently discover, allocate and manage computing, communication and caching resources in heterogeneous networks across multiple domains and operators? How do we agilely achieve adaptive service orchestration and reliable service provisioning to meet dynamic user requirements in real time? How do we effectively protect data privacy in IoT applications, where IoT devices and edge/fog computing nodes only have limited resources and capabilities? How do we continuously guarantee and maintain the synchronization and reliability of wide-area IoT systems and applications? Written for professionals working in 5G/IoT technology development, service management and big data analytics, this book offers an overview of intelligent IoT service architecture, key technologies, important applications and future technological trends.

Incorporating 5G Communications and Fog/Edge Computing Technologies

Intelligent IoT for the Digital World

Zhitao Hu

Zhiyong Shao

Regulation of Synaptic Structure and Function

The Big Chinese Workbook series is designed for kids who live in English-speaking countries and/or regions. This book will teach your little ones (ages 3+) to read 36 most basic Chinese characters through activities that they are familiar with, such as coloring, matching, and drawing, etc. All pages are colorable, including pictures and the 36 target characters. Most of these characters are pictographs which derive from pictures. An ancient script is also used as an aide to help kids associate the meaning with each character. A complementary set of flashcards are available for downloading at www.bigchineseworkbook.com. You may use them along with this book for optimal teaching and learning results. This book series uses simplified characters.

108 Pages of Fun Activities for Kids 3 +

Big Chinese Coloring Book for Little Hands

Gang Li

This book presents an important technique to process organic photovoltaic devices. The basics, materials aspects and manufacturing of photovoltaic devices with solution processing are explained. Solution processable organic solar cells - polymer or solution processable small molecules - have the potential to significantly reduce the costs for solar electricity and energy payback time due to the low material costs for the cells, low cost and fast fabrication processes (ambient, roll-to-roll), high material utilization etc. In addition, organic photovoltaics (OPV) also provides attractive properties like flexibility, colorful displays and transparency which could open new market opportunities. The material and device innovations lead to improved efficiency by 8% for organic photovoltaic solar cells, compared to 4% in 2005. Both academic and industry research have significant interest in the development of this technology. This book gives an overview of the booming technology, focusing on the solution process for organic solar cells and provides a state-of-the-art report of the latest developments. World class experts cover fundamental, materials, devices and manufacturing technology of OPV technology.

Fundamentals, Materials, Devices and Fabrication

Progress in High-Efficient Solution Process Organic Photovoltaic Devices

June Wang

Tim Oakes

This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the establishment of policy models and practices against the backdrop of a globalizing world, and considers the dynamic relationship between powerful actors and resources that impact Asian cities. Making Cultural Cities in Asia approaches this dynamic process through the lens of assemblage: how the policy models of cultural/creative cities have been extracted from the flow of ideas, and how re-invented versions have been assembled, territorialized, and exported. This approach reveals a spectrum between globally circulating ideals on the one hand, and the place-based contexts and contingencies on the other. At one end of the spectrum, this book features chapters on policy mobility, in particular the political construction of the "web" of communication and the restructuring or rescaling of the state. At the other end, chapters examine the increasingly fragmented social forces, their changing roles in the process, and their negotiations, alignments, and resistances. This book will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers concerned with cultural and urban studies, creative industries and Asian studies.

Mobility, assemblage, and the politics of aspirational urbanism

Making Cultural Cities in Asia

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.

Intercultural Communication of Zhuang Ethnic Minority as an Example

Meta-functional Equivalent Translation of Chinese Folk Song

Abdur Rahim

Nemai Chandra Karmakar

This book presents the design, development and field trials of radio frequency based wireless monitoring system for sleep apnoea patients. It contains 4 major areas including general background of wireless monitoring technology and MIMO in wireless body area network (WBAN), microwave hardware designs, virtual MIMO in WBAN and hardware system level implementation and field trials. At components level, this book presents the design theory, process and examples of bandpass filters, lowpass filters, low profile patch antennas, power amplifiers and oscillators which are the key elements in transducer designs in the body area network and cooperative communication wireless sensor network system. At system level, this book features the hardware integration, field trial and network coding techniques. This book also gives a presentation of virtual MIMO applications, e.g. MIMO implementation using FPGA, correlation coefficient measurement. The book will create impact in the fields of wireless monitoring technology in biomedical engineering, which have been growing exponentially.

Microwave Sleep Apnoea Monitoring

Jianzhong Shi

This treatise is a practice handbook for corporations, partnerships and law practitioners. This publication is the first and so far the only treatise combining a comprehensive introduction to Chinese rules on merger control regime and practice analyses along with a complete comparative study among Chinese merger control regime, the E.U. regime and the U.S. regime. The authors implement a systematic approach explaining every aspect of Chinese merger control regime and build links among such aspects in an effort to solve any possible questions or confusions of readers in understanding the rules. The authors included practice tips relating to every aspect of Chinese merger control. In addition to a comprehensive introduction to Chinese merger control regime, the authors conduct a comparative study among Chinese merger control regime, the E.U. regime and the U.S. regime for the readers to gain a complete understanding the convergence and divergence among these three major jurisdictions as a beneficial study for global filings of cross-border transactions.

Merger Control in China

Gordon Mathews

Linessa Dan Lin

Guangzhou today is like New York of an earlier era--a place where foreigners across the globe go in pursuit of their "Chinese dream," whether to find themselves or further their careers. Some of these foreigners are Japanese, American, or European; many more are African, Arab, Latin American, and Indian--small-scale traders who buy Chinese goods, typically knock-offs, to send back to their home countries. The World in Guangzhou explores how a city that was inhabited by only Chinese three decades ago became a center for this type of "low-end" globalization. This is a story of how informal globalization works to connect people that do not share a common language, culture, or religion. But it is also an intimate portrayal of diverse groups of people (entrepreneurs, writers, undocumented migrants fleeing the police, sex workers) who are trying to make their fortunes. Not all do, but, as the authors show in this unforgettable portrait of a city in transition, Guangzhou may well be a harbinger of the world's future as globalization continues to remake cities in both the developed and developing worlds.

Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace

The World in Guangzhou

Hundreds of millions of years ago, great beasts ruled on the land, beneath the surface of the water, and up above in the skies. Read about pterosaurs, the flying companions of land-dwelling dinosaurs, in PNSO Encyclopedia for Children's volume The Secrets of Pterosaurs.

The Secrets of Pterosaurs

Brimming with details of a world before our time, Age of Dinosaurs is the perfect book for anyone interested in the evolution of dinosaurs over millions of years. Beautiful illustrations transport readers to the distant past and show what these creatures may have been like all those millennia ago.

Age of Dinosaurs

Songyi Yin

Hongxu Li 

The q-rung orthopair fuzzy graph is an extension of intuitionistic fuzzy graph and Pythagorean fuzzy graph. In this paper, the degree and total degree of a vertex in q-rung orthopair fuzzy graphs are firstly defined. Then, some product operations on q-rung orthopair fuzzy graphs, including direct product, Cartesian product, semi-strong product, strong product, and lexicographic product, are defined. Furthermore, some theorems about the degree and total degree under these product operations are put forward and elaborated with several examples. In particular, these theorems improve the similar results in single-valued neutrosophic graphs and Pythagorean fuzzy graphs.

Yang Yang

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