This book presents comprehensive and rigorous research on the acquisition of Chinese negation by L1-English and L1-Korean learners within the theoretical framework of the Interface Hypothesis and the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis. The results from grammaticality judgment data (N=182) and learner corpus data (overall scale: 15.19 million characters) reveal multiple factors contributing to the variability in L2 acquisition at the interfaces involved with Chinese negative structures, includin...

This book critically evaluates the current copyright law system in a digital environment from a comparative perspective. Since many developing countries modelled their copyright laws on more advanced jurisdictions, they have not benefitted from such a law as much as intended due to their inherently embedded social economic conditions. Moreover, the copyright law system has been under constant challenges from rapidly developing digital technology and the Internet. All in all, there is a pre...

This book presents a practical framework for the application of big data, cloud, and pervasive and complex systems to sustainable solutions for urban environmental challenges. It covers the technologies, potential, and possible and impact of big data on energy efficiency and the urban environment.The book first introduces key aspects of big data, cloud services, pervasive computing, and mobile technologies from a pragmatic design perspective, including sample open source firmware. ...

隨著全球人口快速高齡化，台灣已邁入超高齡社會，高齡長者的健康餘命與生活品質成為當前社會最迫切的課題。作者王珈潔以國立臺北護理健康大學護理研究所的專業視野出發，針對長者常見的「口腔衰弱」與「肌少症」問題，編撰了這本兼具醫學衛教與實作技巧的指南。本書深入淺出地解析 65 歲後的身體變化，特別是咀嚼與吞嚥功能的退化如何影響營養吸收，進而導致老年衰弱症。為了解決長者「咬不動」卻又「不敢吃」的困境，書中詳細介紹了國際 IDDSI 飲食標準，並傳授多項料理祕訣--從軟化食材的天然酵素應用、切斷纖維的刀工技巧，到提升進食安全的勾芡與勾芡粉劑使用。手冊的核心亮點在於超過 30 道精心設計的照護食譜，涵蓋蔬菜、肉類、海鮮、豆類及甜點。無論是「紅燒滑蛋豆腐」還是「鮭魚番茄炊飯」，都旨在打破照護餐「外觀不佳、味道平淡」的刻板印象。這不只是一本工具書，更是一份讓長者重拾進食樂趣、守護尊嚴與健康的行動指南，陪伴每一位照顧者營造屬於長者的饗食天堂。▲王珈潔Wang Jia-Jie▲學歷：國立臺北護理健康大...

Thematisch sind die Geschichten in dem vorliegenden Band breit gefächert: Verarbeitung der Verletzungen aus der Kulturrevolution, aktuelle gesellschaftliche Probleme wie Land Grabbing, Homosexualität, Beziehungsgeschichten, Tradition und Glaube versus Moderne, oder auch Zukunftsvisionen wie Virtuelle Realität. Eine der Geschichten spielt zwar außerhalb Chinas, ist aber äußerst zeitgemäß, da wir global gesehen leider gerade inmitten solcher Konflikte sind. Die Erzählstile sind sehr verschie...

For study resources and the English-language Chinese Perpetual (Lunar) Calendar, please visit ichingstream.com.About “Hidden Principles Ode” (Chan Ao Ge Zhang) (English Edition)Composed during or after the Song to Yuan period (960 to 1368), “Hidden Principles Ode” is a foundational classic of I Ching Six Lines Divination (Liu Yao), closely connected to Wen Wang Gua and the Na Jia Method. Frequently cited in major compendia such as “The Comp...

Science fiction is international in scope, but many works are often unavailable to readers because of language barriers or the costs involved in transcending them. In the eleven years I've been publishing science fiction works from China, I've had the privilege of working with and featuring stories by both of my co-editors, as well as dozens of other authors. Anthologies and projects like this one are an editor's joy. We've been given the opportunity to shine a light on eight Chinese autho...

China's growth in the past few decades has been unprecedented, and continues to stay strong as it expands its influence around the globe. However, in many ways, the once insular China is still looking to find its footing as an international player in the globalization game. Greater China in an Era of Globalization looks at the success of China and its surrounding territories of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau and asks the question "What is Chinese globalization?". The contributors in...

Can the limitations of the Riemann integral be overcome? What is its relationship with modern analysis?The theory of Lebesgue integration is a crucial component in the development of modern analysis. This book is an in-depth real analysis textbook, which introduces the basic theory of modern analysis and the basic skills of analysis. Based on the knowledge of real analysis, the theory of interpolation of operators and the Fourier transform theory are further introduced systematical...

The Control of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Synthesis, Functionalization to Applications provides readers with a unified framework to address the challenges of multi-UAV target encirclement tracking control. This is achieved by comprehensively integrating the concepts of dynamic modelling, state and disturbance estimation, guidance law design, distributed control, obstacle avoidance and reinforcement learning-based formation tracking control with multi-UAV encirclement tracking syste...

Human-Machine Interface for Intelligent Vehicles: Design Methodology and Cognitive Evaluation examines the fields of designing and developing intelligent design and intelligent vehicle driving evaluation by using virtual reality, augmented reality, and other technologies. The book explains the methodologies and systems of interactive design, user evaluation and testing using virtual reality technology and augmented reality technology in intelligent cockpit design. With the rising prominenc...

S-scheme Heterojunction Photocatalysts Fundamentals and Applications clearly describes photocatalytic processes and mechanisms, reviews the history of traditional heterojunction, discusses the problems of charge transfer in some heterojunctions, states the necessity in proposing S-scheme photocatalyst, and provides, in detail, the design principles and characterization protocols for the emerging S-scheme heterojunction. Examples of S-scheme heterojunctions classified by material types are ...