"I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . . Transcendent." —Carolyn See, The Washington PostIn the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of-age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self-discovery. When a new teacher—a tall, elegantly dressed man from Shanghai carrying an English dictionary under his arm—comes to Urumqi, the cap...

"I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . . Transcendent." —Carolyn See, The Washington PostIn the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of-age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self-discovery. When a new teacher—a tall, elegantly dressed man from Shanghai carrying an English dictionary under his arm—comes to Urumqi, the cap...

Deep Learning: From Algorithmic Essence to Industrial Practice introduces the fundamental theories of deep learning, engineering practices, and their deployment and application in the industry. This book provides a detailed explanation of classic convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and transformer networks based on self-attention mechanisms, along with their variants, combining code demonstrations. Additionally, this book covers the applications of these models in are...

Bridges corrosion science and artificial intelligence to advance durable, high-performance marine steelsUnderstanding and controlling the corrosion of steels in marine environments is a critical challenge for modern engineering, with far-reaching implications for safety, durability, and sustainability. Marine corrosion not only threatens the integrity of infrastructure such as bridges, offshore platforms, and railways but also leads to significant economic losses a...

This book is the first overview book on video surveillance issues within airport grounds. It delves into the distinctive design principles underpinning computer vision algorithms tailored specifically for airport ground video surveillance, while also documenting the latest advancements within this domain.The initial section of this book introduces a comprehensive array of airport ground video surveillance datasets, encompassing the AGVS series alongside other pertinent datasets. Su...

This book offers a systematic view of data services in heterogeneous wireless networks, from the perspectives of cause, governing rules, and impact of data’s mobility on such networks. Specifically, it covers application requirements break-down, network modeling, performance analysis and evaluation by examining mobile data dynamics that are particularly important to data service provisioning. Additionally, application prospects such as information dissemination, fog computing, Internet-of-...

This book introduces a pioneering framework for monitoring and controlling autonomous energy systems, distinguished by its use of physics-informed deep neural networks. These networks provide accurate estimations and forecasts, interlacing with advanced composite optimization algorithms to simplify the complex processes of state estimation. This approach not only boosts operational efficiency but also maximizes flexibility through a data-driven methodology integrated with physics-based pri...

The authors of this work argue strongly that the decentralization that has taken place in China over the past two decades threatens to undermine the future of reform and perhaps even the state itself. They contend that reform has undermined state capacity in China, and that the state's fiscal revenues, as a percentage of GNP, have declined and will continue to decline into the foreseeable future, thereby weakening China's ability to mobilize resources for modernization.

This book explores admissible consensus analysis and design problems concerning singular multi-agent systems, addressing various impact factors including time delays, external disturbances, switching topologies, protocol states, topology structures, and performance constraint. It also discusses the state-space decomposition method, a key technique that can decompose the motions of singular multi-agent systems into two parts: the relative motion and the whole motion. The relative motion is ...

Semimartingale Theory and Stochastic Calculus presents a systematic and detailed account of the general theory of stochastic processes, the semimartingale theory, and related stochastic calculus. The book emphasizes stochastic integration for semimartingales, characteristics of semimartingales, predictable representation properties and weak convergence of semimartingales. It also includes a concise treatment of absolute continuity and singularity, contiguity, and entire separation of measu...

Based on hundreds of thin sections from granite in China, this book introduces metasomatic textures and their formation mechanism in granite. It initially proposes that metasomatic textures can basically be classified into two patterns: hetero-oriented replacement and co-oriented replacement, according to the consistency of orientations of replacive and replaced minerals. The hetero-oriented albitization of K-feldspar is quite distinct from the co-oriented albitization of K-feldspar. They ...

An Introduction to Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Metals gives a background on the physics of materials, describing relevant experimental techniques. The book presents the necessary background in physics, thermodynamics, and the mechanics of solids, before moving on to cover elasticity, plasticity, fracture and the anelastic behavior of metallic glasses, relating these properties to chemical composition, atomic arrangement, microstructure, and methods of preparation. In addition, it compar...