Compares Chinese and Western perspectives on the family.This book is a timely contribution to the growing field of the philosophy of the family. Drawing on a lifetime of research in Western and Chinese philosophy, Zhang Xianglong adopts a comparative perspective to navigate between Greek philosophy, phenomenology, and Confucianism to explore such topics as the nature of the family, filiality, human nature, temporality, memory, incest taboos, the future of Confucian...

Cyclospora cayetanensis is a microscopic parasite that can be transmitted via food or water sources and causes intestinal disease (Cyclosporiasis) in humans. Cyclospora and Cyclosporiasis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Detection, and Control reviews 22 species of Cyclospora and discusses C. cayetanensis infection in humans. This book offers comprehensive coverage that includes taxonomy and biology, molecular characteristics, and transmission of the parasite. It also provides researchers, clinic...

Frosting for Air Source Heat Pumps: Research, Case Studies, and Methods provides a comprehensive accounting of the latest research, analysis, and modeling methods for limiting frosting and maximizing efficiency. The book begins by outlining the fundamentals of frosting mechanisms, including the condensation and freezing of water droplets. It then provides a wide range of case studies that showcase a variety of surfaces, conditions, and energy generation technologies. Finally, the last chap...

This book is the culmination of our research in the recent decade on randomized neural networks with data-dependent supervision mechanisms. Traditional randomized neural networks mainly focused on constructing various deep neural networks with data independent random weights, ignoring the impact of the number of nodes and scope of parameters on the universal approximation property (UAP) of randomized neural networks. Comprising of 15 chapters, Advanced Randomized Neural Networks for Patter...

A lot of recent attention has been given to one of the central paradoxes of trust: namely how people can restrict self-interest in order to trust. Existing perspectives, theories, and models offer partial explanations, but this volume presents a novel framework that expands on the findings of recent studies of trust and exchange. This book offers a new angle for the understanding of exchange and trust in an interactive context, describes the interactive characteristics of trust in exchange...

China’s 30-year market transition and its integration into the world economy provide a unique opportunity for exploring the nature of large-scale economic and political transformation and the mechanisms underlying organizational behavior during such a transition. Management and Organizations in Transitional China explores how managers and firms cope with transition-related challenges by adapting to, manipulating, or even creating the complex institutional environment. This book ex...

This book focuses on the key quality control and quality acceptance links in modern infrastructure construction. It deeply analyzes the latest technologies and methods of non-destructive testing and intelligent control technology of compaction quality. It not only covers the optimization and upgrading of traditional testing methods, but also focuses on the intelligent detection and control system based on cutting-edge technologies such as the Internet of T...

Ship optimization design is critical to the preliminary design of a ship. With the rapid development of computer technology, the simulation-based design (SBD) technique has been introduced into the field of ship design. Typical SBD consists of three parts: geometric reconstruction; CFD numerical simulation; and optimization. In the context of ship design, these are used to alter the shape of the ship, evaluate the objective function and to assess the hull form space respectively. As such, ...

The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three Vietnamese cities, and catalyzed a decadelong conflict. In this groundbreaking book, Xiaoming Zhang traces the roots of the conflict to the historic relationship between the peoples of China and Vietnam, the ongoin...

Comprehensive resource on the fundamentals, recent research developments, and applications of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs)Triboelectric Nanogenerators delivers a comprehensive overview of a lightweight, low cost, and high-efficiency sustainable mechanical energy harvesting technique that draws from the ambient environment and has high output and extremely flexible structural designs.The book starts with an introduction on triboelectric nano...

長穗劍是武術項目傳統器械中的一種，我們也可以把它認為是劍術運動中一種表現形式，特點在於劍穗要隨著劍來舞動。在古代，長穗劍在實戰中可以通過長穗的飛舞來迷惑對手，或用劍穗來攻擊對方。而現在的武術運動中長穗劍主要是通過舞動長穗來增加劍術運動的感染力以及體現它的藝術魅力。本書所介紹的“長穗劍”為張君的父親張學祿先生親自教導傳授，在動作的編排上以武術的精神、氣勢、身法為主體，融入了舞蹈翻轉的一些動作，全套動作行雲流水、舒展大方，真正體現了力與美的結合。為了保留與推廣“長穗劍”的套路，現將與北京電視台合作拍攝的“八寶連環劍、雲龍劍、白鶴劍”以詳細的文字講解及動作的分解圖片編輯成書，與喜愛“長穗劍”的朋友們分享！◎八寶連環劍介紹「八寶連環劍」因套路中的動作方向採用了「八卦」中的八個方位，所以這套長穗劍除東、南、西、北四個方位外，還增加了東南、東北、西南、西北這四個方位，故取名為「八寶連環劍」！這套劍是三套長穗劍中動作最容易掌握及學習的一套。它是由長穗劍的基本劍花及套路中的基本步型，以及一些翻轉的動作組合而成。十分適合初學長穗劍的朋友們來學習。...

This multidisciplinary book examines the interactions between agriculture, farmland use and the environment in the farming regions of China through the frame of “theoretical explanations-spatial pattern and process analysis-mechanism analysis-simulation of future trajectories-policy recommendations”. Developing a general framework building on complex adaptive system theory, it provides the means to understand the changing agricultural practices and farmland use, and its environmental respo...