There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks’ self-immolations, Muslims’ suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world power? What kind of struggle must they go through to maintain their identity, heritage, and rights? How does the government deal with this ethnic dissatisfaction and minority riots? And what is ethni...

Predictive Filtering for Microsatellite Control Systems introduces technological design, modeling, stability analysis, predictive filtering, state estimation problem and real-time operation of spacecraft control systems in aerospace engineering. The book gives a systematically and almost self-contained description of the many facets of envisaging, designing, implementing or experimentally exploring predictive filtering for spacecraft control systems, along with the adequate designs of inte...

This book focuses on the high-accuracy attitude control system design and approaches for satellite with modeling error including system uncertainties, actuator faults, and disturbances. It presents a systematically and almost self-contained description of the many facets of envisaging, designing, implementing, or experimentally exploring modeling error compensation-based attitude control of satellites. The advanced treatment of practical issues in satellite attitude compensation control is...

Algae are sunlight-driven cell factories, and can efficiently absorb CO2 and convert light energy to chemical energy such as lipid, starch and other carbohydrates and release O2. Algal feedstock is a promising resource for bioproduct production, given its high photosynthetic efficiency for producing biomass compared to conventional crops. Microalgae can be used for flue-gas and wastewater bioremediation. This book highlights recent breakthroughs in the multidisciplinary areas of algal biot...

The Resource Utilization of Plastic Waste with Supercritical Water Treatment discusses the types of plastic analysis, material characterization, technical principles of supercritical water treatment of waste plastics, the structure and process of the experimental platform, the selection of process parameters, and the establishment of kinetic models in professional areas of the field. - Provides a clear understanding of the basic principles and processes of supercritical water treatment of ...

Cao Cao (About this pronunciation [tsʰǎu tsʰáu]; Chinese: 曹操; c. 155 – 15 March 220),courtesy name Mengde, was a Chinese warlord and the penultimate Chancellor of the Eastern Han dynasty who rose to great power in the final years of the dynasty. As one of the central figures of the Three Kingdoms period, he laid the foundations for what was to become the state of Cao Wei and ultimately the Jin dynasty, and was posthumously honoured as "Emperor Wu of Wei". He is often portrayed as a cruel...

June e Day abriram mão de muita coisa pelo povo da República, sem falar no quanto sacrificaram um pelo outro. Agora o país está vivendo um novo momento. June voltou a ser a celebrada menina-prodígio da República, ocupando uma posição privilegiada dentro do governo como Primeira Cidadã, enquanto Day passou de criminoso mais procurado do país a herói nacional e garoto-propaganda do governo de Anden.Nenhum dos dois, no entanto, poderia ser capaz de prever as circunstâncias que os reun...

Este libro reúne citas y poemas de obras clásicas chinas utilizadas por el presidente Xi Jinping en diferentes discursos dirigidos al pueblo y a militantes del Partido Comunista de China (PCCh). Su intención es reflexionar sobre las estrategias y métodos de gobernanza que considera importantes no solo para que su país se consolide como una potencia económica, sino para que los funcionarios públicos estén al servicio de la gente. Las frases expresadas por el también líder del PCCh, reflejan...

This book aims to explain how collective behavior is formed via local interactions under imperfect communication in complex networked systems. It also presents some new distributed protocols or algorithms for complex networked systems to comply with bandwidth limitation and tolerate communication delays.This book will be of particular interest to the readers due to the benefits: 1) it studies the effect of time delay and quantization on the collective behavior by non-smooth analyti...

Every year, supporting members of WorldCon (one of the largest speculative fiction conventions on the planet) nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year for the prestigious Hugo Awards, the top six most popular of which make the final ballot in each category. Those works that do not make the final ballot are colloquially referred to as "the long list." This anthology series aims to show those amazing works a little more of the spotlight and, hopefully, share t...

Depois de escapar dos militares da República, em Los Angeles, June e Day chegam a Las Vegas no momento em que algo inesperado acontece: o Primeiro Eleitor morre, e o filho dele, Anden, assume o comando da nação.Com a República da América à beira de um colapso, os dois se unem ao grupo de rebeldes conhecidos como Patriotas. Dispostos a ajudar Day a encontrar Éden, seu irmão caçula, e a levá-los em segurança até as Colônias, os Patriotas têm apenas uma condição: June e Day devem assa...

2024 Foreword Indies Book Of The Year Awards WinnerWu Lou has been named a Silver winner in the Religious category of the 27th Annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. The book was also recognized as a finalist in the Multicultural category.Wu Lou, penned by Lu Xinhua, a legendary Chinese author who launched China's Scar Literature genre, begins with a haunting scene in a secluded temple deep within the Cambodian jungle during the early 1970s. Tut...