This book provides a unique perspective on atom economical utilization of biomass resources into value-added productions. Humins are inevitably formed during the process of biomass conversion, which compete with desired products, restrain the activity of catalyst and hinder the recycling of catalyst and separation of products. To further improve the efficiency of biomass conversion toward downstream products, unambiguous elucidation of the chemical structure and formation mechanism of humi...

This great collection of traditional Chinese stories is a book to delight the imagination of children everywhere. Here you will find stories of witches, shape-changing monsters, and gentle people, as well as what happens to greedy people and foolish donkeys! These strange tales from faraway places have been collected and carefully translated by Yu-li Liu because she wants let the world of children understand the culture of China and the Chinese. These twelve stories are unique, interesting...

This book provides a thorough overview of the evolution of privacy-preserving machine learning schemes over the last ten years, after discussing the importance of privacy-preserving techniques. In response to the diversity of Internet services, data services based on machine learning are now available for various applications, including risk assessment and image recognition. In light of open access to datasets and not fully trusted environments, machine learning-based applications face eno...

➔中環街市➔江夏圍➔信義學校➔青洲➔神樂院牧場➔海濱廣場➔馬鞍山礦洞➔金茂坪戲院➔邵氏片場十一座廢墟，各有廢棄的前因，各有迴異的結局，有些成功活化，卻改頭換面；有些消失殆盡；有些仍靜候發落。十一座廢墟，曾經有溫度有人氣，雖然已死，卻殘存著一個個活生生的故事，雖然空洞，卻盛載著滿滿的城市歷史。《空城記》二人遊走空城，記錄廢墟的最好時光，捕捉曾經的美好歲月。

God is Good is the story of the transformational power of faith in our everyday lives. While the world portrays God as wrathful and scolding, our Heavenly Father is the most loving kind of father. He wants for all of His children to live in safety, joy, health, and prosperity, free of worry, sickness, and sorrow.Margaret Liu Collins was born in China during a time of wartime strife, born a girl in a culture that values males, and later found herself in a marriage filled with ridicu...

This book comprehensively discusses the basic knowledge of semiconductor physics. It consists of 13 chapters. The main contents include: lattice structure and electronic states of semiconductors; impurity and defect energy levels; statistical distribution of carriers; scattering of carriers and conduction issues; generation, recombination, and motion laws of non-equilibrium carriers; pn junctions; contact between metals and semiconductors; semiconductor surfaces and MIS structures; semicon...

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 comprehensive volume presents a wide spectrum of information about the design, analysis and manufacturing of aerospace structures and materials. Readers will find an interesting compilation of reviews covering several topics such as structural dynamics and impact simulation, acoustic and vibration testing and analysis, fatigue analysis and life optimization, reversing design methodology, non-destructive evaluation, remotely piloted helicopters, surface enhancement of aerospace alloys,...

This ten-volume series is a complete pictorial rendition of China's foremost historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The classic by Ming Dynasty writer Luo Guanzhong is based on the history of the Three Kingdoms when the states of Wei, Shu and Wu emerged from the remnants of the Han Dynasty and began to fight for power and sovereignty. It vividly depicts a series of famous battles and hundreds of historical characters in one of the most turbulent periods in China's long hi...

Praise for Interactions I & II:"Practical and lively without neglecting the structure and the writing system. The workbook is especially interesting and helpful." —Chauncey C. Chu, University of Florida". . . by far the best first-year textbooks available." —Sabina Knight, Smith CollegeConnections I & II is the second-year sequence to accompany the enormously popular introductory texts Interactions I & II by Margaret Yan and Jennifer Li-chia Liu. This innovative sys...

Technical resource presenting the latest power conversion solutions to advance the role of AC-AC power electronics in various applications.Compiling state-of-the-art research from around the world, Impedance Source Matrix Converters and Control provides a rich diversity of scientific work experience and scholarly approaches on the fundamentals and advances of power electronic converters for motor drives, renewable energies, and industry applications. The r...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) contains an extensive knowledge that the Chinese nation has accumulated through practical experimentation and theoretical research in treating diseases and promoting health over a period of thousands of years. Throughout the history, many TCM theorists, experts, and pharmacists have contributed valuable works. The most representative of them was Li Shizhen with his Ben Cao Gang Mu (Compendium of Materia Medica), which was praised by Charles Darwin as an '...