Tourism Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region offers a comprehensive exploration of the diverse world of tourism within one of the most dynamic regions on the globe. Authored by leading academic and industry experts, this volume fills a crucial gap in tourism literature by providing practical and engaging case studies that highlight real-world industry best practices, challenges, and opportunities. The volume explores critical topics such as sustainable practices, cultural preservation...

Comprehensive reference on state-of-the-art aerospace materials, reviewing the latest developments in the field and providing guidance on machining challengesGrinding of Single-Crystal Superalloys provides a comprehensive understanding of grinding technology for single-crystal nickel-based superalloys. It explores and analyzes grinding mechanisms and characteristics using both theoretical and simulation approaches. Grinding behavior in conventional and mic...

With the rapid evolution of wireless communication technologies, emerging applications like autonomous driving, telemedicine, and virtual reality are becoming integral to modern life. These advancements have significantly increased computing demands and coverage requirements, posing challenges for traditional systems and resource-constrained devices. Unmanned aerial vehicle-assisted mobile edge computing (UAV-assisted MEC) offers an innovative solution, enabling rapid deployment of communi...

As business becomes increasingly globalized and China establishes its growing role in the international business environment, developing an understanding of the complex culture is important to anyone acting in the global arena. This book offers readers a thorough and nuanced resource to that end, describing the ever-evolving Chinese way of life circa 2014, based on extensive primary and secondary data.Taking an anthropological approach to achieve a well-rounded representation, the ...

The book presents a focused study on electrolytic capacitorless permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives and their associated control strategies. It addresses both theoretical foundations and engineering practices through a comprehensive exploration of key topics, including system modeling, analytical principles for engineering challenges, control method design, experimental validation, and performance evaluation.Five critical engineering challenges are examined in depth:

Several important problems arising in Physics, Differential Geometry and other topics lead to consider semilinear variational equations of strongly indefinite type and a great deal of work has been devoted to their study. From the mathematical point of view, the main interest relies on the fact that the tools of Nonlinear Functional Analysis, based on compactness arguments and non-degenerate structure, in general cannot be used, at least in a straightforward way, and some new techniques ha...

This book pioneers the exploration of hybrid-energy cutting for aerospace alloys, summarizing cutting-edge research on laser-assisted, ultrasonic vibration-assisted, electrical-assisted, and hybrid-energies-assisted cutting. It also covers enhanced heat transfer in cutting processes, proposing novel technologies for achieving geometric precision and surface integrity at low costs. The book delves into multi-energy fields interaction mechanisms, material removal, tool wear, and cutting perf...

This book systematically summarises the state-of-the-art research in the field of single-layer brazed cubic boron nitride (CBN) abrasive tools in terms of manufacturing technology, wear mechanisms and machining performance.The authors present manufacturing methods and related principles, and explore the wear behaviour and mechanisms of single-layer brazed CBN abrasive tools, providing insights into tool manufacturing and tool life. They also clarify the scientific issues in the gri...

Applications, 2nd Edition focuses on moving object management, from the location management perspective to determining how constantly changing locations affect the traditional database and data mining technology. The book specifically describes the topics of moving objects modeling and location tracking, indexing and querying, clustering, location uncertainty, traffic-aware navigation and privacy issues, as well as the application to intelligent transportation systems. Through the...

Advances in wide bandgap semiconductor materials are enabling the development of a new generation of power semiconductor devices that far exceed the performance of silicon-based devices. These technologies offer potential breakthrough performance for a wide range of applications, including high-power and RF electronics, deep-UV optoelectronics, quantum information and extreme-environment applications.This reference text provides comprehensive coverage of the challenges and latest r...

This book is a comprehensive academic introduction of the natural conditions and cultural characteristics of the ChangJiang River Basin. Describing in detail the geographical location and natural conditions of the main stream and the tributaries as the starting point, the book compares the ChangJiang River Civilizations to other civilizations of large rivers of the same latitude. This book reveals the gradual deepening of the Chinese understanding the ChangJiang River, introduces the cultu...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2014, held on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, in December 2014. The 56 full papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. Topics covered include classic combinatorial optimization; geometric optimization; network optimization; optimization in graphs; applied optimization; CSoNet; and complexity, cryptography, and ...