從一片將被開發的溼地，漫流出對自然與歷史的思考充滿詩意的社會實踐與反思「在河階中任意 讓灌叢刺傷手臂就像稀樹草原的精油 使人流淚因為 刺與香氣是整片鹿群奔跑的沖積扇 正暗自懷念從前 ──黃瀚嶢」沒口之河──每到冬季，臺灣東南部河川會在入海前受阻，沒入地下，成為地理學所謂的「沒口河」。無口的河，靜臥在知本沖積扇上，成為了眾人口中的「知本溼地」。這片溼地在歷史中不斷變動，屢遭摧殘，乍看荒蕪而破敗。然而在看似廢墟的景象中，森林系出身的作者，以生態調查為契機，細細凝視荒原中的苦楝、海邊的木麻黃、甜根子草，觀察鶺鴒、澤鵟、環頸雉，甚至在深秋獨自播放草鴞的叫聲，期盼能得到草原中的一聲回應。作者在大地上來回逡巡，企圖證明蒼茫的溼地其實蘊含豐富的生機，以抵抗財團在此圈地，種下大面...

♛ 第一本 dbt 繁體中文書 ♛資料分析師與工程師必讀的技術及職涯實戰指南本書改編自第 15 屆 iThome 鐵人賽 AI & Data 組優選系列文章《被 dbt 帶入門的數據工作體驗 30 想》及其團隊夥伴作品。四位作者由不同身份和視角出發，分享如何透過 dbt 實踐 Analytics Engineering（分析工程）。dbt 是一個以 SQL 為基底的開源資料轉換工具，採用軟體工程原則，如版本控制、測試、模組化，讓資料轉換更可靠且高效。本書將帶你動手建立 dbt 專案，親自體驗其優勢。Analytics Engineering 則是隨著資料產業演化而發展出的新興領域，介於資料分析和資料工程之間，且和兩者的部分任務重疊。除技術外，書中也會討論資料文化、如何打造資料團隊，以及資料專業的職涯規劃和發展。無論新手或老手，本書都是能為你提供獨到見解的實用指南。【重點摘要】✦ dbt 由淺入深

Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political examinesthe reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in China and Taiwan. The legacies of bothSchmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi party, and Strauss, theGerman-Jewish classicist and political philosopher who became famous after his emigrationto the United States, are highly controversial. Since the 1990s, however, these thinkers havehad a ...

Discussion of the “Chinese Model” abounds with the rise of China. This volume analyzes the Chinese case in a theoretical framework, provides an evolutionary perspective, and compares it with other models of development. Instead of focusing on one specific case, the book's contributors shed light on the application of theories of international relations, comparative politics, and development studies to the topic under deliberation. This book reflects that the “uniqueness” of the Chinese mod...

An exploration of Arctic tourism, focusing on tourist experiences and industry provision of those experiences; this is the first compilation to concentrate on the fundamental essence of the Arctic as being a geographical periphery, but also an experiential core that offers peak tourism experiences. Part 1 investigates the depth and dimensions of tourist experiences in the Arctic. Chapters examine the essence of diverse peak experiences and delve into the factors that give rise to these exp...

With hundreds of color photographs and illustrations, this Chinese gardening book is a wonderful introduction to penjing—China's treasured bonsai art. Although most people thing bonsai is a Japanese invention, the art originated in ancient China where it is called penjing. The two Chinese characters for penjing ("pot" and "landscape") capture the essence of this art: sculpting microcosms of the beauty of the natural world from plants, rocks, soil, and water, both as an artistic process and...

The Chinese government has attempted to bolster its legitimacy as a political response to emerging social, cultural, political, economic, environmental challenges and crises experienced during market-oriented reforms and rapid modernization in China. However, contrary to the Western preference for liberal democracy and "procedural legitimacy," the Chinese government's attempt at bolstering legitimacy has emphasized performance-based, responsibility-based, morality-based, and ideology-based...

This book provides a brief introduction to the theory of finite dimensional differential inclusions, and deals in depth with control of three kinds of differential inclusion systems. The authors introduce the algebraic decomposition of convex processes, the stabilization of polytopic systems, and observations of Luré systems. They also introduce the elemental theory of finite dimensional differential inclusions, and the properties and designs of the control systems described by differentia...

"This publication assembling the practices and discourses of 'Asian contemporary performance' is assuredly a statement of 'the world we have made' for the now and the future, as well as a means of connecting TPAC and other 'worlds.' "－Ruo-Yu LIU, Chairwoman of Taipei Performing Arts Center"While it is now hardly unusual to find choreographers working in an exhibition setting, or visual artists performing on a stage, it is still rare to see practitioners from the differ...

Although fuzzy systems and neural networks are central to the field of soft computing, most research work has focused on the development of the theories, algorithms, and designs of systems for specific applications. There has been little theoretical support for fuzzy neural systems, especially their mathematical foundations.Fuzzy Neural Intelligent Systems fills this gap. It develops a mathematical basis for fuzzy neural networks, offers a better way of combining fuzzy logic system...

This Handbook covers a wide range of historical perspectives, realities, research and practice of internationalization of higher education (IHE) in the global south and makes comparisons to IHE issues in the global north. Drawing on the expertise of 32 academics and policy makers based in and originating from four key regions of focus: Sub-Saharan Africa; North Africa and the Middle East; Asia Pacific; Latin America and the Caribbean. Across 24 chapters the editors and contributors provide...

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to well logging and the inverse problem. It explores challenges such as conventional data processing methods’ inability to handle local minima issues, and presents the explanations in an easy-to-follow way.The book describes statistical data interpretation by introducing the fundamentals behind the approach, as well as a range of sampling methods. In each chapter, a specific method is comprehensively introduced, together with represen...