Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science.A companion volume to A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, this gui...

"Exploring the World – Europe & America" presents in a bilingual English-Chinese edition, from a Chinese perspective, a synthetic profile of 9 countries (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, United States, Canada, Mexico) in the fields of arts and culture, gastronomy or sports.

内容简介连接古与今，让更多人走进良渚世界，看见5000年。良渚文明是中国第一个进入早期国家的区域文明，良渚古城是实证中华5000年文明史的圣地。第43届世界遗产委员会将良渚古城遗址载入《世界遗产名录》。2019年良渚文化被写进中学历史课本。良渚文化距今5300~4300年，目前我们所知道的良渚，并无历史文献记载，是通过考古将无数碎片拼缀而成的。本书将带你听见良渚传来的隐密不可察觉的声音。这是一本记录良渚文明及其考古、申遗历程的大众读物，作者用“考古发掘式的写法”、从城墙、低坝、王陵这三块碎片集中展示了良渚文明的各个方面：复杂的王国古城、当时世界上最大的水利系统、超精微雕刻具有统一精神信仰内含的良渚玉器、良渚人的生活和生产；良渚考古80余年的历程：良渚的初始发现、良渚王墓的发现过程、良渚古城的发现、良渚水利系统的发现；良渚申遗的历程：良渚申遗文本的产生、良渚申遗评审、见证良渚申遗成功等等。本书作为大众读物，记录了良渚文明及其考古、申遗的全过程。借用考古发掘的手法，层层递进，展示了良渚文明的各个方面。包括良渚王墓、古城、水利系统的发现，以及良渚申遗的历程等。同时把目光投向背后的...

This book aims to introduce all aspects of Chinese civilization in a way that is easiest for readers in the Western world to understand. The first chapter of this book introduces the emergence, historical evolution and characteristics of Chinese civilization. The second chapter introduces the knowledge pedigree of Chinese civilization, which is characterized by human-centered and historical and social practice. The third chapter introduces the value pedigree of Chinese civilization with et...

This book firstly systematically summarizes the principle, research methods and technical features of near-infrared spectroscopy analysis technology. It then comprehensively reviews the innovative achievements made in the research, development and application of this technology in oil refining and chemical industries, highlighting the research and practical achievements of the author's team for more than 20 years. These new methods and technology developed by the author’s team include more...

Based on AI and machine learning, this book systematically presents the theories and methods for complex electro-mechanical system fault prognosis, intelligent diagnosis, and health state assessment in modern industry. The book emphasizes feature extraction, incipient fault prediction, fault classification, and degradation assessment, which are based on supervised-, semi-supervised-, manifold-, and deep learning; machinery degradation state tracking and prognosis by phase space reconstruct...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Conference on Advanced Computer Architecture, ACA 2020, held in Kunming, China, in August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on: interconnection network, router and network interface architecture; accelerator-based, application-specific and...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies, APPT 2023, held in Nanchang, China, during August 4–6, 2023.The 23 full papers and 1 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: High Performance Computing and Parallelized Computing, Storage Systems and File Management, Networking and Cloud Computing, Com...

Over the past few decades, the field of machine learning has made remarkable strides, surpassing human performance in tasks like voice and object recognition, as well as mastering various complex games. Despite these accomplishments, a critical challenge remains: the absence of general intelligence. Achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) requires the development of learning agents that can continually adapt and learn throughout their existence, a concept known as lifelong learning...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings at PAKDD Workshops 2015, held in conjunction with PAKDD, the 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in May 2015. The 23 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The workshops affiliated with PAKDD 2015 include: Pattern Mining and Application of Big Data (BigPMA), Quality Issues, Measures of Interestingness and Evaluation of data mining models (...

This book reviews cutting-edge developments in neural signalling processing (NSP), systematically introducing readers to various models and methods in the context of NSP.Neuronal Signal Processing is a comparatively new field in computer sciences and neuroscience, and is rapidly establishing itself as an important tool, one that offers an ideal opportunity to forge stronger links between experimentalists and computer scientists. This new signal-processing tool can be used in conjun...

This volume provides food researchers with advanced destructive and non-destructive techniques for measuring the chemical composition, functional bioactivities physicochemical changes, and explaining the functional mechanisms for facilitating the tracking of the functional molecules during the different industrial processes. Chapters guide readers through sample preparation emerging extraction technologies protocols analytical methodologies for phytochemicals profiling, multi way models in...