Muslims in Amdo Tibetan Society: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches offers nine case studies from several academic disciplines. The chapters describe the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity within the Muslim communities of Amdo and illustrate complex social interactions with other Amdo communities. While relations between Han Chinese and Tibetans, and between Han Chinese and Muslims in Qinghai and Gansu, have already attracted scholarly attention, this volume has a special foc...

This book focuses on validation and reconstruction work on the land surface temperature (LST) products retrieved by thermal infrared remote sensing. The LST is a key parameter in the energy-water balance process and has been widely used in research on the global climate change, water cycle, vegetation growing, and drought detection. Remote sensing retrieving LST is the most important source for regional and even global application. However, there are several factors that limited their wide...

This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on machine vision applications in agriculture.The first chapter examines recent advances in machine vision technologies for the measurement of soil texture, structure and topography. The chapter also provides an overview of the basic principles of machine vision technologies, focussing on areas such as 3D surface modelling.The second chapter considers the use of machine learning methods to classify multiple diseases across sever...

内容简介连接古与今，让更多人走进良渚世界，看见5000年。良渚文明是中国第一个进入早期国家的区域文明，良渚古城是实证中华5000年文明史的圣地。第43届世界遗产委员会将良渚古城遗址载入《世界遗产名录》。2019年良渚文化被写进中学历史课本。良渚文化距今5300~4300年，目前我们所知道的良渚，并无历史文献记载，是通过考古将无数碎片拼缀而成的。本书将带你听见良渚传来的隐密不可察觉的声音。这是一本记录良渚文明及其考古、申遗历程的大众读物，作者用“考古发掘式的写法”、从城墙、低坝、王陵这三块碎片集中展示了良渚文明的各个方面：复杂的王国古城、当时世界上最大的水利系统、超精微雕刻具有统一精神信仰内含的良渚玉器、良渚人的生活和生产；良渚考古80余年的历程：良渚的初始发现、良渚王墓的发现过程、良渚古城的发现、良渚水利系统的发现；良渚申遗的历程：良渚申遗文本的产生、良渚申遗评审、见证良渚申遗成功等等。本书作为大众读物，记录了良渚文明及其考古、申遗的全过程。借用考古发掘的手法，层层递进，展示了良渚文明的各个方面。包括良渚王墓、古城、水利系统的发现，以及良渚申遗的历程等。同时把目光投向背后的...

An accessible introduction to constructing and interpreting Bayesian models of perceptual decision-making and action.Many forms of perception and action can be mathematically modeled as probabilistic—or Bayesian—inference, a method used to draw conclusions from uncertain evidence. According to these models, the human mind behaves like a capable data scientist or crime scene investigator when dealing with noisy and ambiguous data. This textbook provides an approacha...

This book studies recent developments in immigration in one Akha village in northern Thailand by examining issues such as the coffee economy, ethnic relations, religious beliefs and cultural changes. The author demonstrates how their social structure and culture allow the immigrant population in this location to adapt to the demands of modernity by making constant adjustment to their tradition. The analysis sheds important light on how this marginal population manages to turn the tension b...

Wearable Sensing and Assistive Devices for Robotic Rehabilitation provides an overview of current research and developments in the field of innovative technologies for advanced wearable sensing and assistive devices in medical rehabilitation. The book presents a systematic investigation into the wearable acquisition and deep learning-based processing of biological signals and applications with wearable robotic devices. It provides fundamental bio-mechatronics engineering knowledge to analy...

Calculations and Simulations of Low-Dimensional MaterialsA comprehensive guide to methods for calculating and simulating the properties of low-dimensional materialsTwo-dimensional materials are those, such as graphene and 2D oxides, whose thickness is so small as to approach the atomic scale. Potential applications for these materials exist in an enormous range of scientific and industrial fields. A previous era of low-dimensional materials...

Most discussion of visitor experiences uses a behavioural or managerial approach where the way the visitor thinks is ignored - it's a black box. Visitor Experience Design is the first book of its kind to examine best practice in creating and delivering exciting and memorable travel and visitation experiences from a cognitive psychological perspective - it opens the black box. The chapters draw on recent findings from cognitive psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience to provide a bas...

With increasing temperatures and an escalation in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, agricultural productivity remains at risk of being compromised. With the food security of millions threatened, there remains a need to develop alternative, sustainable production models which can thrive in the face of climate change.Advances in plant factories: New technologies in indoor vertical farming reviews the wealth of research on optimising plant...

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...

Networks-on-Chip: From Implementations to Programming Paradigms provides a thorough and bottom-up exploration of the whole NoC design space in a coherent and uniform fashion, from low-level router, buffer and topology implementations, to routing and flow control schemes, to co-optimizations of NoC and high-level programming paradigms. This textbook is intended for an advanced course on computer architecture, suitable for graduate students or senior undergrads who want to specialize in the ...