The TENG Guide to the Chinese Orchestra is a seminal guide to equip composers, scholars and music enthusiasts worldwide with the necessary knowledge to work with Chinese musical instruments. The INSTRUMENTATION section outlines the history, physical attributes and performance techniques of Chinese musical instruments in detail. It also includes practical scoring advice for composers and reference charts for fingerings and chords. The ORCHESTRATION section contains systematic analyses of sc...

Lingdao, the Chinese word for leadership, is rarely used to denote acts of social persuasion that occur outside of contexts of formal rank or status. However, the ubiquity of informal leadership in China raises a number of practical and theoretical questions.Based on an analysis of selected Chinese cinematic works depicting settings of educational practice and policy, the book explores how "Western" understandings of leadership emerge from these texts to form discursive me...

Nanomaterials have become a key component for energy-related applications. Their design principle, synthesis and applications are well discussed in various scientific and engineering books, but a gap remains in discussions regarding the application of cutting-edge X-ray techniques to these materials. This volume provides insights from the latest development of X-ray techniques to investigate nanomaterials in specific energy fields, bridging the gap between X-ray analytical scientists and m...

This book reports the latest results in the study of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) and focuses on the theory and methods of limited-data SAR ATR, and experimental verification, and many other aspects. In practical applications, due to the scarcity of targets, the difficulty of SAR image acquisition, and the difficulty of accurate labeling. It is impossible to obtain sufficient SAR images. Thus, it is one of the core issues of concern in the field of SAR ...

This book presents a systematic study of an emerging field in the development of multi-agent systems. In a wide spectrum of applications, it is now common to see that multiple agents work cooperatively to accomplish a complex task. The book assists the implementation of such applications by promoting the ability of multi-agent systems to track — using local communication only — the mean value of signals of interest, even when these change rapidly with time and when no individual agent has ...

This text presents a comprehensive mathematical theory for elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic differential equations. It compares finite element and finite difference methods and illustrates applications of generalized difference methods to elastic bodies, electromagnetic fields, underground water pollution, and coupled sound-heat flows.

★★★★★ Readers’ Favorite"With the fast-paced nature of modern life, people often tend to miss out on enjoying the little things that life has to offer. Zen Musings From a Fly on the Wall is a collection of inspiring essays…[that] encourage readers to soak in everything around us and find beauty in their essence. Chen has an engaging and accessible writing style that will appeal to all readers. You can open any page in the book and read...

This book is about the inner life of buildings—how architecture lands in the body, moment by moment, as breath, posture, tension, ease, and attention.It begins with a quiet question: why do so many spaces look extraordinary yet feel lacking from the inside? When image, performance, and optimisation dominate the narrative, the subtler work of space—how it steadies or unsettles the nervous system—often goes unnamed. Moving between neuroscience, phenomenology, movement psychology, and...

A global banking risk management guide geared toward the practitionerFinancial Risk Management presents an in-depth look at banking risk on a global scale, including comprehensive examination of the U.S. Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review, and the European Banking Authority stress tests. Written by the leaders of global banking risk products and management at SAS, this book provides the most up-to-date information and expert insight into real risk m...

Rock Mechanics and Engineering: Prediction and Control of Landslides and Geological Disasters presents the state-of-the-art in monitoring and forecasting geotechnical hazards during the survey and design, construction, and operation of a railway. This volume offers the latest research and practical knowledge on the regularity of disaster-causing activities, and the monitoring and forecasting of rockfalls, landslides, and debris flow induced by rainfall and human activity. The book gives gu...

We are all too easy to get lost either in love or in career among the mundane crowd where the noise, self-conceit, and lack of communication create invisable wall between heart and heart, especially between those sweethearts. How is it painful to imprison ourselves when sunshine looks just within our touch but the unnamble silence mutes all supposed-to-be happiness! How to deal with it? Should we sink or should we rise and dance? Where could we hear the inner voice of the beloved and where...

This is not a book just about flying a single engine airplane around theworld.This is the book about identifying the "Big Hairy AudaciousGoal" in our lives and finding a way to accomplish it through focus anddiscipline.The author accomplished three dreams: the dream of coming to theU.S. and getting an MBA degree (when he hardly spoke any English); the dreamof starting a company and becoming a self-made millionaire (when he had nomoney, no business ...