"The Flying Bo'sun" is a maritime mystery, revolving around the character of the bo'sun (boatswain), a senior crew member responsible for the ship's equipment and the crew's well-being. The title suggests a story filled with nautical adventure, suspense, and perhaps an enigmatic aspect related to the bo'sun himself or events happening at sea.The novel likely includes vivid descriptions of life aboard a ship, the challenges of seafaring, and the camaraderie and conflicts among the crew. Mas...

This book introduces a new Model-Based Reliability System Engineering (MBRSE) methodology, including its concept connotation, basic theory and technologies, framework of integrated platform and engineering application cases. Different from traditional Reliability System Engineering (RSE) methods that mainly rely on the management of documents, MBRSE is model centric method, with which the design for hexability (including “reliability, maintainability, testability, supportability, environme...

This book presents a methodology for developing city-scale greenhouse gas and air pollutant emission inventories, and a synergistic analysis framework for achieving "dual attainments" based on air quality objectives. The book illustrates the pathways and strategies for cities to reach "dual attainments" using Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang, and Huzhou as typical cases. The authors emphasize that "dual attainments" requires a comprehensive approach beyond end-of-pipe control measure；moreover,deep...

This book highlights key technologies of signal processing in pulsar-based navigation. It discusses the modeling, simulation, acquisition, and correction of relativistic effects of signals from X-ray pulsars. It demonstrates the methods of contour reconstruction and denoising, and introduces the concept and methods of the average contour. The performance of the phase measurement methods using signal contour is analyzed. The role of wavelets and bispectral methods in the denoising of pulsar...

Zwei Liebende wollen heiraten, doch zuvor müssen sie in unterschiedliche Ecken unserer Galaxis reisen. Mithilfe der Relativität wollen sie sicherstellen, dass sie dennoch am selben Tag wieder auf der Erde ankommen. Doch immer wieder machen ihnen unvorhergesehene Zwischenfälle einen Strich durch die Rechnung, und so werden Jahrhunderte vergehen, bis sie wieder auf der Erde eintreffen. Unser Planet mag sich in der Zwischenzeit drastisch verändert haben, doch eines ist gleich geblieben: das V...

This book is the authors attempt to capture the significant points in his life. The early portion of his life was happy and seemed to foretell a successful adulthood, but little did he know that his adult years would involve such adversity and pain. In many ways, Bo was like all people. He really only wanted to live a life that was smooth and meaningful. But he was to learn that for most of us, achieving success in life meant undergoing a lot of pain and suffering. What matters is whether ...

This SpringerBrief provides state-of-the-art technical reviews on self-organizing and optimization in 5G systems. It covers the latest research results from physical-layer channel modeling to software defined network (SDN) architecture. This book focuses on the cutting-edge wireless technologies such as heterogeneous networks (HetNets), self-organizing network (SON), smart low power node (LPN), 3D-MIMO, and more. It will help researchers from both the academic and industrial worlds to bett...

This book presents some of the emerging techniques and technologies used to handle Web data management. Authors present novel software architectures and emerging technologies and then validate using experimental data and real world applications. The contents of this book are focused on four popular thematic categories of intelligent Web data management: cloud computing, social networking, monitoring and literature management. The Volume will be a valuable reference to researchers, students...

In his PhD dissertation Martin Bo Nielsen performs observational studies of rotation in stars like the Sun. The interior rotation in stars is thought to be one of the driving mechanisms of stellar magnetic activity, but until now this mechanism was unconstrained by observational data.NASA’s Kepler space mission provides high-precision observations of Sun-like stars which allow rotation to be inferred using two independent methods: asteroseismology measures the rotation of the stell...

It was an unusually hot summer. And no rain in the forecast this week, again. A solar flare had erupted, and the news media told us that it wasn't bigger than any other flairs over the last hundred years. So, it might be enough to shut off some electrical grids. However the following day we were told that a much bigger solar flare had erupted. It had been hidden by Venus and was now passing Venus orbit. This was a doomsday size eruption, and we were told to stay inside for the rest of the ...

The increasing interest in postcolonial theologies has initiated a vital conversation within and outside the academy in recent decades, turning many "standard theologies" on their head. This book introduces seminary students, ministry leaders, and others to key aspects, prevailing mentalities, and some major figures to consider when coming to understand postcolonial theologies. Woodley and Sanders provide a unique combination of indigenous theology and other academic theory to point reader...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science-Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom (IJTCS-FAW 2024), consisting of the 18th International Conference on Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom (FAW) and the 5th International Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (IJTCS), held in Hong Kong, SAR, China, during July 29-31, 2024.FAW started as the Frontiers of Algorithmic Workshop in 2007 at Lanzhou, China, and was h...