The connection between the sleep environment and quality of sleep is significant. To get a good night's rest, a person needs to be in an environment conducive to sleep, which means having or creating the right conditions for it. Thermal Sleeping Environments: Control and Optimization provides a comprehensive coverage on cutting-edge heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment; novel bed-based task/ambient conditioning (TAC) systems; and advanced materials for building envel...

Resilient Integrated Space Information Network: A Space-Based Network for Communication Transmission, Spatiotemporal Measurement and Cross-Domain Interconnection provides readers with expert proposals for top-level architecture design ideas and key technologies for future large-scale, complex space network systems. The book clarifies technical issues and challenges encountered in the development and deployment of large-scale spatial network systems. Presents readers with a detailed analysi...

Over the past two decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has paradoxically steered the development of a thriving capitalist economy. Unlike many faltering post-socialist states with fragile economies and weakly institutionalised democratic structures, China has witnessed a tide of economic entrepreneurialism that has raised living standards and the country's global economic stature. However, the strains of rapid economic change and the tensions between an increasingly liberalized econo...

Le livre de la pureté et du calmeQuatre méditations taoistes pour affiner sa connaissance de soi, lever et résoudre les obstacles de la vie, dans le plaisir et la détente.

Seismic Exploration of Hydrocarbons in Heterogeneous Reservoirs: New Theories, Methods and Applications is based on the field research conducted over the past decade by an authoring team of five of the world's leading geoscientists. In recent years, the exploration targets of world's oil companies have become more complex. The direct detection of hydrocarbons based on seismic wave data in heterogeneous oil/gas reservoirs has become a hot spot in the research of applied and exploration geop...

Vous hésitez face à un choix de vie ? Vous souhaitez interroger l’avenir ?Le Yi Jing ou Livre des transformations vous aidera à trouver des réponses, à éclairer votre chemin et à passer à l’action.Riche d’une tradition plurimillénaire, le Yi Jing est une méthode divinatoire qui a nourri plusieurs courants philosophiques et spirituels.Dans cet ouvrage, vous découvrirez :- Les origines très anciennes du Yi Jing.- La signif...

Le Qing Jing Jing est l'un des livres les plus importants après le Dao De Jing de la philosophie taoïste.Court et poétique, à la fois taoïste et bouddhique, ce texte vibre au rythme de l'Univers vivant et nous conte la Voie de l'homme sur le chemin parfois sinueux du Calme ( qing) et de la Pureté ( jing) de son cœur.C'est ainsi qu'en quatre cents caractères seulement, Le Livre de la Pureté et du Calme du cœur va nous guider progr...

This book explores the latest theories, methods, and applications of consensus modeling. It proposes a variety of consensus modeling methods for different decision-making contexts, including conflict risk mitigation in group decision-making, integration with the failure mode and effects analysis technique, consideration of over-adjustment and flexible consensus, social network large-group decision-making environments involving multiple consensus costs, and multi-agent collaborative decisio...

Pour une lecture limpide du Yi Jing propose une analyse rigoureuse et accessible des soixante-quatre hexagrammes, rédigée dans une langue claire, fluide et structurée. Chaque commentaire s’accompagne de conseils concis, aisément applicables aux questionnements contemporains. Résolument ancrée dans la pratique, cette approche s’appuie sur plus de quarante années d’étude, enrichies par les enseignements de grands spécialistes chinois contemporains, encore peu traduits en français. Cet ouvrag...

This book discusses the innovative design, cable-net design and analysis, control, deployment, development and applications of large space-deployable antennas. Drawing on the authors’ own work in this field, it describes and analyzes various typical deployable antennas, membrane antennas and super-large space-assembled antennas, while chiefly focusing on mesh antennas due to their wide range of applications. It also investigates forming–finding design and the analysis of cable-truss struct...

This book presents the concepts: the welfare system of universal integration and the welfare mode of universal integration. In this book, the author explores the foundation of fair baseline about the universal integration on the basis of critically inheriting the domestic and international social welfare theories, comprehensively explains the connotation, subject and application of fair baseline theory. It systematically discusses the theoretical basis, basic features, scientific evidence,...

"Zhuangzi" is not only a philosophical masterpiece, but also an example of a fable in literature and aesthetics, which has an inseparable and far-reaching influence on the development of Chinese literature and aesthetics. This album recites and interprets Zhuangzi, a classic of Chinese studies.