This book makes valuable theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the study of overseas doctoral students’ cross-cultural adaptation.Focusing on Australia, one of the top three destinations for Chinese students, this book seeks to understand how Chinese doctoral students perceive their lived experience of adapting to the academic and research environment at Australian universities.The book presents an innovative data collection chiefly based on interviews...

This book employs a systematic and multi-faceted approach to explore China's coal consumption, emissions, and its development model. The book first provides an overview of the global and Chinese energy consumption trends and mix, with a particular focus on the position and role of coal. Through comparative analysis, it clarifies the importance of coal in global and Chinese energy security. It details the environmental problems arising from coal consumption, especially carbon dioxide and ot...

In-depth and systemic examination of distribution automation with specific focus on fault location and service restorationFocuses on the detailed and systemic examination of fault location and service restoration in distribution gridArms the readers with a complete picture of what fault location and service restoration is from both theoretical and practical perspectivesPresents the authors' research on fault location and restoration for di...

This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest modelling developments in flow batteries, as well as some new results and insights. Flow batteries have long been considered the most flexible answer to grid scale energy storage, and modelling is a key component in their development. Recent modelling has moved beyond macroscopic methods, towards mesoscopic and smaller scales to select materials and design components. This is important for both fundamental understanding and the design...

The M8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake occurred in China on May 12, 2008, killing over 69,000 people and displacing millions from their homes. This was one of the most catastrophic natural disasters on record. This book includes 5 chapters describing the tectonic setting and historical earthquakes around the Chuan-Dian region, the nucleation of the Wenchuan earthquake, occurrence and aftershocks. The field observations of earthquake induced surface fractures and building damage, form a major and spe...

This volume contains three expanded lecture notes from the program Scalar Curvature in Manifold Topology and Conformal Geometry that was held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences from 1 November to 31 December 2014. The first chapter surveys the recent developments on the fourth-order equations with negative exponent from geometric points of view such as positive mass theorem and uniqueness results. The next chapter deals with the recent important progress on several conjectures such...

This book summarizes the rapid development of cognitive translation studies in global perspective over the past decades, detailing specific manifestations, core research areas, significant achievements, and five development trends, providing readers with an overview of the entire cognitive translation study system. It explores the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of cognitive research in written translation, analyzing translation processes and discussing the development trend...

This book systematically presents the technical aspects of supercritical water oxidation and supercritical water gasification for energy and environmental applications, which include reactor design, construction materials, corrosion, salt precipitation, etc. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the properties of supercritical water, and the industrial applications, reaction mechanisms and reaction kinetics of supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) and supercritical water gasific...

The book provides guidance and practical techniques for the CPU design and its implementation. By scheduling a complete CPU design procedure into a series practicing tasks, the book offers a step-by-step process support to the readers for the design of a CPU which can run Unix-like OS (e.g. Linux) kernel. It also covers various design practices and debug skills. The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers and tutors, as well engineers and practitioners who are i...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems, PKAW 2024, held in Kyoto, Japan, during November 18–19, 2024.The 15 full papers and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. These papers demonstrate advanced research on machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and intelligent systems.

This double volume set LNCS 14393-14394 constitutes the proceedings from the workshops held at the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023 Workshops, which took place in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in October 2023.The 54 full papers together with 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 123 submissions from all workshops.The papers of the workshops are presenting the topica...

This book aims to compile the latest scientific information on hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD), including its epidemiology, etiology, pathology, immune response and vaccine development. Interestingly, the authors shared their own research experience and offered distinctive insights into the pathogenesis of HFMD and vaccine development. The intended audience, including university researchers, graduate students, and vaccine engineers, is well defined. The book is positioned as a resourc...