This book demonstrates how a radical version of physicalism (‘No-Self Physicalism’) can offer an internally coherent and comprehensive philosophical worldview. It first argues that a coherent physicalist should explicitly treat a cognitive subject merely as a physical thing and should not vaguely assume an amorphous or even soul-like subject or self. This approach forces the physicalist to re-examine traditional core philosophical notions such as truth, analyticity, modality, apriority bec...

This book intends to show that radical naturalism (or physicalism), nominalism and strict finitism account for the applications of classical mathematics in current scientific theories. The applied mathematical theories developed in the book include the basics of calculus, metric space theory, complex analysis, Lebesgue integration, Hilbert spaces, and semi-Riemann geometry (sufficient for the applications in classical quantum mechanics and general relativity). The fact that so much applied...

A comprehensive resource that covers all the key areas of smart grid communication infrastructuresSmart grid is a transformational upgrade to the traditional power grid that adds communication capabilities, intelligence and modern control. Smart Grid Communication Infrastructures is a comprehensive guide that addresses communication infrastructures, related applications and other issues related to the smart grid. The text shows how smart grid departs from ...

Receive comprehensive instruction on the fundamentals of wireless security from three leading international voices in the fieldSecurity in Wireless Communication Networksdelivers a thorough grounding in wireless communication security. The distinguished authors pay particular attention to wireless specific issues, like authentication protocols for various wireless communication networks,encryption algorithms and integrity schemes on radio channels, lessons...

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of public hospital reform in China, which is a hot topic for China’s new round of health sector reform. The authors use rich data from both health provider side and service user side and conduct a cross-sectional study in China with some comparative analysis between different locations. It provides the audience with a big picture of China’s public hospital and other components of health system as well. The book reviews the main policy measur...

À la sortie d’une librairie de Shanghai, l’écrivain Ye revoit Han Feijun, jeune homme jadis riche et dandy. Il n’est plus que l’ombre de lui-même. La rencontre se transforme vite en confession. D’abord par la proposition que Han Feijun lui fait de lire son journal intime, puis en conversations à l’hôpital où il est soigné pour une dépression. M. Ye finit par faire la connaissance de Chen Yanzhu, la jeune et jolie danseuse qui a bouleversé la vie du jeune homme. Cette histoire d’amour resse...

This book elaborates on the significance of the development of marine unmanned equipment as well as the history and current status of the development at home and abroad and analyzes the technical characteristics of marine unmanned equipment from the dimensional fields of overview, basic principles, key technologies, and applications in marine engineering, taking unmanned aircraft and unmanned boat equipment platforms as examples. The four necessary technologies to achieve the intelligent d...

This book is intended for the fields of control engineering and swarm coordination. It introduces the fundamental methods and application technologies of a novel multi-agent system—reconfigurable swarms—in formation coordination, reconfiguration docking, task scheduling, and multi-modality control. The proposed overall control methodologies are validated through MATLAB simulations and physical experiments, offering effective theoretical and technical guidance for the emerging area of multi...

China in the Era of Social Media discusses how social media is changing the world in an unprecedented way through speed, scope, and depth. In the last decade or so, social media in China has witnessed the most explosive growth in the world. Being the most populous nation in the world, it has the most social media users in the world as well. This book examines the current situation and unique characteristics of Chinese social media, the significance of social media in the country’s...

This book comprehensively introduces the drilling theory and practice behind CCSD-1 well drilling, the first stage of a key national scientific engineering project of China. In addition to access to variety of data and information accumulated decade during the project’s decade-long operation, readers also gain insight into state-of-the-art techniques and most recent achievements in China’s scientific drilling industry. Specifically, this work introduces the drilling engineering design, wel...

Intelligent computing and networking are a rapidly growing area that has attracted significant attention due to its potential impact on the quality of service of applications for B5G/6G networks and the future Internet. To enable intelligent computing and networking, it is necessary to integrate technologies from the fields of communications, networking, computing, artificial intelligence, and numerous other fields. The scope of the symposium, International Symposium on Intelligent Computi...

International Symposium on Intelligent Computing and Networking 2024 (ISICN 2024), March 18-20, 2024; San Juan, Puerto Rico. Intelligent computing and networking is a rapidly growing area that has attracted significant attention due to its potential impact on the quality of service of applications for B5G/6G networks and the future Internet. To enable intelligent computing and networking, it is necessary to integrate technologies from the fields of communications, networking, computing, ar...