This book highlights the recent progress in understanding the winds in the Atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) contributing to clarifying the vertical structure of mean wind and turbulence in the ABL and their roles in wind engineering, civil structural design, and wind energy applications. The behaviors of ABL over different types of surfaces, including the urban, suburban, rural, open, and sea surfaces, are explained. Vertical profiles of mean wind speed and direction, as well as turbulence...

This book presents a groundbreaking theoretical framework for urban and societal development, focusing on resilience, adaptability, and proactive responses as key principles for shaping cities and society of the future. Urbanimmunology introduces a fresh and revolutionary perspective on how we view and design cities and society, reimagining them as dynamic, self-regulating systems inspired by the human immune system. By challenging traditional urban planning, Urbanimmunology offers new, fo...

Are you eager to explore the latest breakthrough in artificial intelligence, particularly the domain of large language models (LLMs)? This book is your go-to guide for understanding the core foundations and advanced techniques of LLMs.This comprehensive resource offers a complete understanding of LLM developments, from pre-training to fine-tuning.It elaborates on the classic Transformer architecture, its adaptations for LLMs, and the full training process, including data collection...

The Wind in the Willows meets Enola Holmes in this exciting, young middle-grade mystery series from Newbery Honor–winning author Margi PreusMystery: Something that is difficult or impossible to understand.With a curious mind and a vast vocabulary (thanks to her wallpaper—pages of a discarded human dictionary), tiny Minerva Shrew would love nothing more than to solve the Big Mysteries of Life and the Universe.Instea...

This book introduces a transformative framework for rethinking how transportation systems shape, protect, and sustain urban and societal life. Drawing inspiration from the principles of immunology, this book redefines transportation as a living, self-regulating system—one that defends cities and society from disruptions, regenerates after crises, and adapts continuously to change.Going far beyond traditional views of mobility, the book explores how transportation inter...

L’opera si prefigge di fornire delle solide basi sulle principali tematiche di diritto commerciale e di diritto tributario in vigore in Cina, riunendoli per la prima volta in un unico volume da destinarsi a un pubblico eterogeneo. Pensato per gli studenti e gli studiosi, ha un taglio lineare, pratico e di facile comprensione adatto anche a coloro che lavorano o si interessano a vario titolo di Cina.Il volume recepisce le importantissime riforme avvenute di recente, prendendo in cons...

Written by the pioneers of Flash-OFDM, arguably the first commercially developed OFDMA-based mobile broadband system in the world, this book teaches OFDMA from first principles, enabling readers to understand mobile broadband as a whole. The book examines the key requirements for data-centric mobile; how OFDMA fits well with data networks; why mobile broadband needs to be IP-based; and how to bridge communications theory to real-world air interface design and make a good system choice betw...

This monograph studies the synchronization control of Markovian complex neural networks with time-varying delays, and the structure of the book is summarized as follows. Chapter 1 introduces the system description and some background knowledges, and also addresses the motivations of this monograph. In Chapter 2, the stochastic synchronization issue of Markovian coupled neural networks with partially unknown transition rates and random coupling strengths is investigated. In Chapter 3, the l...

Christian McKay Heidicker draws inspiration from Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe in this spine-tingling, unforgettable tale of friendship and survival, stunningly illustrated by Junyi Wu.The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe.When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field ...

This proceedings constitutes the referred post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, MOBIMEDIA 2023, held in Guilin, China, during July 22 - 24, 2023.The 35 full papers and 17 short papers presented were carefully selected from 77 submissions. The papers were organized as follows: cutting-edge technologies in wireless communication, in information as well as topics of signal processing and new generation wireless communicat...

Transportation Amid Pandemics: Practices and Policies is the first reference on pandemics (especially COVID-19) in the context of transport, logistics, and supply chains. This book investigates the relationships between pandemics and transport and evaluates impacts of COVID-19 and effects of policy responses to address them. It explores how to recover from pandemics, reveals governance for immediate policy responses and future innovations, suggests strategies for post-pandemic sustainable ...

This book aims to provide, with comprehensive detail, the fundamental theory of the Earth's global elastic deformation, as well as the associated variations of the gravity field and rotation, that the readers can thoroughly understand with little reference to other books or journal papers. Its contents belong to the essential background physics of geodesy nowadays.The noteworthy style of this book is its inclusion of ample intermediate steps of mathematical derivations and physical...