A comprehensive look at intelligence. A brief guide to improve our skills.This work gives you more insight on what intelligence is. You will learn about intelligence and how it is measured.In this book, you will find out if there are different types of intelligence, if it is hereditary, or if you can improve it.You will learn about the concepts of intelligence, particularly multiple intelligences.Before the book ends, you will learn some practical w...

Learn how to read the right way. Unlock the secrets of your mind that will allow you to get and process information faster and better than most people.Speed reading is a skill that allows you to enjoy the following perks:Cover more written material by doubling or tripling the number of words that you can read in a minute2. Become more attentive to information that is importantMinimize or eliminate distraction

Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the field, from basic properties and mechanisms of action for flame retardants to emerging methods, materials, and industrial applications.With over 120 black and white images, Hu and Wang cover the latest in the development of novel polymer nanocomposites such as graphene, CNTs, LDHs, POSS, and techniques such as layer-by-layer assembly. These expert authors also include discussions on the impo...

Non-halogenated Flame-Retardant Technology for Epoxy Resins, Thermosets and Composites provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the latest advances and technological developments in this field. The chapters cover important flame-retardant systems based on phosphorus, nitrogen, silicon, and boron as well as novel flame retardant epoxy nanocomposites such as graphene, graphitic carbon nitride, MoS2, phosphorene, CNTs, LDHs, and POSS. The use of flame retardant epoxy thermosets and c...

This book analyzes the formation and evolution of the giant hydrocarbon reservoirs based on major basins onshore China. It discusses exploration and research advantages of major basins in China, such as Sichuan, Tarim, and Ordos Basins and also systematically analyzes and summarizes the formation conditions, distribution rules, and main controlling factors of deep oil and gas fields. On this basis, it forecasts the exploration prospect of China's onshore deep oil and gas, providing theoret...

This book provides an overview of the latest scientific developments and technological advances in two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials for fire-safe polymers. It summarizes the preparation methods for diverse types of 2D nanomaterials and their polymer composites and reviews their flame-retardant properties, toxic gas and smoke emission during combustion, and inhibition strategies.Covers fundamental aspects like influence of size and dispersion of 2D nanomaterials to...

Commuting, the daily link between residences and workplaces, sets up the complex interaction between the two most important land uses (residential and employment) in a city, and dictates the configuration of urban structure. In addition to prolonged time and stress for individual commuters on traffic, commuting comes with additional societal costs including elevated crash risks, worsening air quality, and louder traffic noise, etc. These issues are important to city planners, policy resear...

This monograph introduces methods for handling filtering and control problems in nonlinear stochastic systems arising from network-induced phenomena consequent on limited communication capacity. Such phenomena include communication delay, packet dropout, signal quantization or saturation, randomly occurring nonlinearities and randomly occurring uncertainties.The text is self-contained, beginning with an introduction to nonlinear stochastic systems, network-induced phenomena and fil...

This book is concerned with the variance-constrained optimized filtering problems and their potential applications for nonlinear time-varying dynamical systems. The distinguished features of this book are highlighted as follows.(1) A unified framework is provided for handling the variance-constrained filtering problems of nonlinear time-varying dynamical systems with incomplete information.(2) The application potentials of variance-constrained optimized filtering in network...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Data Security and Privacy Protection, DSPP 2025, held in Xi'an, China, during October 16–18, 2025.The 36 full papers and 11 short papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I:AI and System Security; Blockchain and Related Technologies; Privacy Preserving/Enhancing Technologie...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Data Security and Privacy Protection, DSPP 2025, held in Xi'an, China, during October 16–18, 2025.The 36 full papers and 11 short papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I:AI and System Security; Blockchain and Related Technologies; Privacy Preserving/Enhancing Technologie...

This book comprises high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at the 4th International Symposium on Computer Science, Digital Economy and Intelligent Systems (CSDEIS2022), held in Wuhan, China, from November 11–13, 2022, organized jointly by the Wuhan University of Technology, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, the Polish Operational and Systems Society, and the International Center of Informatics and Computer Science (ICICS). The topics ...