This book presents cutting-edge papers and perspectives on the transport of oxygen to tissues by scientists in a multitude of disciplines such as biochemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine, physics, physiology, veterinary and complementary medicine. The book is composed of the following 8 parts: Honorary Lectures, Measuring Tissue Oxygen in vivo, Membrane-Level Transport, Hypoxia and Metabolic Regulation, Hemodynamic Physiology, Brain Functional Dynamics, Cerebral Hemodynami...

It has long been believed that individual human memory has been strengthened by the storage, representational, reproductive, and connective capacities of technologies and media. However, such views of how memory works are being challenged amidst today's digital maelstrom. In particular, the Internet, and social media platforms, have profoundly transformed the ways individuals receive, store, share, and lose information. Memory has become more externalized, dialogical, and transactive, yet ...

This book systematically explains the theoretical framework of Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) for traction power substations in high-speed railways, focusing on PHM concepts and development. It provides an overview of fault diagnosis and prediction for these substations, complemented by practical examples. The integration of equipment service performance, degradation patterns, fault evolution processes, and intelligent early warning mechanisms is discussed to conduct health assess...

This book investigates in detail the theory and method of automatically formed mining roadway (AFR). The AFR method utilizes mining pressure and broken expansion characteristics of the collapsed rock mass in the gob to automatically form roadways, which changes the traditional “long cantilever beam” to “short cantilever beam” structure, and eliminate roadway excavation and coal pillar reserve. Key technologies are developed under the guidance of the “equilibrium mining” theory, such as in ...

This book presents cutting-edge research on memory in the age of the Internet and social media. The empirical studies reported in the ten chapters address the influence of the digital age on remembering in three broad areas: offloading memory and the associated costs, benefits, and boundary conditions; autobiographical memory online; and false memory at a time of fake news and misinformation.These studies employ innovative and rigorous methodological approaches that are ecologicall...

This book continues the groundbreaking work begun in Intercultural Public Relations: Theories for Managing Relationships and Conflicts with Strategic Publics (Routledge, 2018), by applying the theoretical framework of intercultural public relations to actual practice.Practical public relations contexts examined by the contributing chapter authors—both scholars and practitioners—include corporations, government, military, healthcare, education, and activism. The book covers...

This book brings together scholarship that contributes diverse and new perspectives on childhood amnesia – the scarcity of memories for very early life events.The topics of the studies reported in the book range from memories of infants and young children for recent and distant life events, to mother–child conversations about memories for extended lifetime periods, and to retrospective recollections of early childhood in adolescents and adults. The methodological approaches are div...

This book contains papers that have been carefully compiled from the fourth International Conference on Frontiers of Electronics, Information and Computation Technologies (ICFEICT), which was held in Beijing from June 22 to June 24, 2024. These papers have undergone rigorous review processes and adhere to strict standards. The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and development efforts in these areas while fostering the exchange of scientific information.The inten...

This comparative volume examines the ways in which current controversies and political, legal, and social struggles for gender equality raise conceptual questions and challenge our thinking on political theories of equality, citizenship and human rights.Bringing together scholars and activists who reflect upon challenges to gender equality, citizenship, and human rights in their respective societies; it combines theoretical insights with empirically grounded studies. The volume con...

This book contains papers that have been carefully compiled from the fourth International Conference on Frontiers of Electronics, Information and Computation Technologies (ICFEICT), which was held in Beijing from June 22 to June 24, 2024. These papers have undergone rigorous review processes and adhere to strict standards. The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and development efforts in these areas while fostering the exchange of scientific information.The inten...

This book examines the field of surrounding rock control mechanisms and support technologies in underground engineering, and proposes a high-strength support system to address the complex conditions in underground engineering, such as high stress, extremely soft rocks, fault fracture zone and strong mining activity. It also comprehensively discusses the concept and bearing mechanisms of the supporting system, design calculation methods, field application and key construction technologies.

A complete and comprehensive reference on modulation and signal processing for visible light communicationThis informative new book on state-of-the-art visible light communication (VLC) provides, for the first time, a systematical and advanced treatment of modulation and signal processing for VLC. Visible Light Communications: Modulation and Signal Processing offers a practical guide to designing VLC, linking academic research with commercial applications....