Examining the law of export credit insurance and export credit guarantees, this book clarifies the legal nature of ECI and ECGs as insurance and guarantees respectively by comparing their legal characteristics regarding contract formation process, terms and conditions, duty of fair presentation, claim handling process and subrogation and recoveries. It further explores why some export credit agencies provide export credit guarantees in addition to export credit insurance, notwithstanding t...

The book is a collection of invited chapters by experts in Chinese document and text processing, and is part of a series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems. The chapters introduce the latest advances and state-of-the-art methods for Chinese document image analysis and recognition, font design, text analysis and speaker recognition. Handwritten Chinese character recognition and text line recognition are at the core of document image analysis (DIA), and ther...

In the context of coupled-coordination control mechanisms, this book focuses on the delay robustness of consensus problems with asynchronously coupled and synchronously coupled consensus algorithms respectively. Moreover, constructive consensus algorithms that tolerate larger communication delays are proposed according to idea of compensation. By providing rigorous theoretical proofs and numerous numerical simulations, it enhances readers’ understanding of the consensus coordination contro...

This book provides energy efficiency quantitative analysis and optimal methods for discrete manufacturing systems from the perspective of global optimization. In order to analyze and optimize energy efficiency for discrete manufacturing systems, it uses real-time access to energy consumption information and models of the energy consumption, and constructs an energy efficiency quantitative index system. Based on the rough set and analytic hierarchy process, it also proposes a principal comp...

【核心賣點】（1）名人效應：此書由文化及體育界推手霍啟剛策劃，受邀分享的父母都是個專業領域內的代表人物，包括醫生任俊彥、前國家隊代表李小鵬、知名藝人林盛斌、律師陳曉峰、TVB企業傳訊部總監黃德慧、單車運動員黃金寶、前國家隊代表郭晶晶、龍昌集團董事長梁毓偉、數碼港董事楊全盛及香港青年聯會前主席樓家強。（2）精美實用：收錄多達100張窩心親子照片，及備有實用小貼士方便家長實踐育兒技巧。（3）覆蓋面廣：受訪者涵蓋商業、文化、體育、醫護、法律、資訊科技及創意產業等界別，能全面地提出新世代育兒方式。（4）具前膽性：社會不再需要「倒模孩子」，將講求發展孩子的獨特性，透個10個訪問，讓受訪者分享對未來育兒關鍵的洞見。集中討論在未來社會，孩子長大後要面對的挑戰，需具備哪些軟實力，以及現今需施以甚麼育兒手法配合。【一句話推介】來自創意產業、文化、體育、醫護、法律、資訊科技及商界的暖心分享！【內容簡介】世界轉變之快，與其迫使子女成為精英，倒不如賦予他們...

This book discusses the essential properties of carbon nanotubes and 2D graphene systems. The book focuses on the fundamental excitation properties of a large range of graphene-related materials, presenting a new theoretical framework that couples electronic properties and e-e Coulomb interactions together in order to thoroughly explore Coulomb excitations and decay rates in carbon-nanotube-related systems. This book is aimed at researchers in nanomaterials and high-level students in physi...

本書勾畫十二個富有香港特色的文化地景，其中涉及傳統風俗、懷舊行業、自然環境，呈現香港各個不同面向。作者畫作風格新奇富想像力，讀者可透過找尋書中介紹的一百件「失物」，建構當區的面貌，再配以十二個地區人物故事，如理髮店師傅、天星船長、歌廳歌女等，由內而外重新認識我們身處的地方。此書承接全球大受歡迎的Wheres Wally 找找看圖書熱潮，邀約本土新晉人氣畫家Vivian Ho繪製找找看圖畫。以「失物認領」包裝「找尋」的概念，讀者需在畫作找出特定物件及人物；更希望讀者能把找找看的概念延伸至日常生活，細心留意我們的城市。

Focusing on reducing emissions and improving fuel economy, automotive manufacturers are developing electric vehicles (EV) to replace fuel and diesel vehicles starting in 2030 onwards. The EVs, with their green power supplies maximize environmental benefits with zero emissions thereby lowering air pollution levels. There is now an increased demand for stable electric storage systems (ESS) that are part of the design of new electric vehicles.This timely reference gives an overview of...

In a world where kidney injury poses an ever-growing threat to human health due to aging populations and changing lifestyles, understanding and combating renal diseases have never been more critical.This book delves into cutting-edge renal disease research, where rapid developments have illuminated new technologies for diagnosis and treatment of the disease. The book systematically and comprehensively addresses clinical issues related to kidney diseases, where readers can explore t...

This book introduces new indices catered for elevated air movement for systematic ventilation performance evaluations regarding thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and energy efficiency. Elevated air movement of ventilation system is polarized for energy-efficient creation of thermally comfortable and healthy indoor environments as a sustainable solution to climate change and respiratory diseases. While ventilation performance indices are indispensable for the proper design and operation ...

This is the eighth volume of Advances in Financial Planning and Forecasting (New Series). The main purpose of this publication is to promote high-quality theoretical and empirical research in financial analysis, planning, and forecasting.This publication includes original articles that: (1) Present and develop finance theories that are innovative to financial analysis, planning, and forecasting. (2) Contribute substantially to the development of new financial planning and forecasting model...

Probing and controlling electrons and nuclei in matter at the attosecond timescale became possible with the generation of attosecond pulses by few-cycle intense lasers, and has revolutionized our understanding of atomic structure and molecular processes. This book provides an intuitive approach to this emerging field, utilizing simplified models to develop a clear understanding of how matter interacts with attosecond pulses of light. An introductory chapter outlines the structure of atoms ...