Despite the velocity and scale of the cumulative changes of immigrant integration and receptivity infrastructures in fast growing regions of the United States, less research has focused on the new and evolving experiences in these regions in recent years. Editors Paul N. McDaniel and Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez and the contributors in Integration and Receptivity in Immigrant Gateway Metro Regions in the United States fill this gap through case studies of different types of immigrant...

This book focuses on the design of low-complexity iterative receivers in high spectral efficiency communication systems, especially under frequency-selective fading channels. Specifically, it combines multi-carrier faster-than-Nyquist (MFTN) signaling, spectrally efficient frequency division multiplexing (SEFDM), and index modulation (IM) to study the hybrid message passing based low-complexity iterative receivers, the frequency-domain joint channel estimation and equalization (FDJCEE) alg...

This book focuses on the receiver design issue in high spectral efficiency communication systems, which is one of the main research directions in beyond 5G and 6G era. In particular, this book studies two technologies to improve the spectral efficiency, i.e., FTN signaling which transmits more data information in the same time period and NOMA scheme which supports more users with the same resource elements. Different commonly used channel propagation conditions are considered, and advanced...

This book is mainly devoted to finite difference numerical methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) models of pricing a wide variety of financial derivative securities. With this objective, the book is divided into two main parts.In the first part, after an introduction concerning the basics on derivative securities, the authors explain how to establish the adequate PDE boundary value problems for different sets of derivative products (vanilla and exotic options, a...

This book provides an introduction to the forward and inverse modeling, information extraction techniques, and applications of the Short Offset Transient Electromagnetic Method (SOTEM). It highlights the effectiveness of this method in various sectors, including metallic mines, coal mines, and engineering, showcasing its success across multiple mining regions. The book serves as a reference for both professionals and graduate students working at geophysical electromagnetic field and its re...

本書以跨地域和跨學科領域途徑研究伍連德（1879-1960）。伍連德不只是大家熟悉的「抗疫鬥士」和「中國現代醫學先驅」，他也是被忽略的公共知識分子、外交家、社會活動家、人文主義者、遊記作者和文史學者。作者討論的問題包括伍連德為何引進一群南洋知識人才？如何鋪墊現代中國的醫療和衛生體系？又如何將中國的醫學、歷史、社會和文明介紹給西方世界？伍連德可說是世界防疫醫療史、南洋華人史，及現代中國知識生產和交流史三者互動的樞紐人物。本書從伍連德個人的身分和事業、到他引領南洋知識群體建構中國現代醫衛平臺，再到他的跨領域活動和人文關懷，以更寬廣的視野和多維角度切入，重新理解這位跨域南洋知識分子在近現代中國史上的定位和意義。【專家推薦】伍連德一生經歷殖民地統治，西學洗禮，民國政爭和戰火，還有世界行旅與嬗變。他以公共醫療為方法，以華人福祉為訴求，充滿人文關懷。藉伍連德其人其事，黃賢強教授叩問南洋華人知識分子與中國現代性種種關聯，考證翔實，論述精謹，寄託深遠，極其值得推薦。 ──王德威（美國哈佛大學東亞語言與文明系講座教授）...

A Hundred Flowers Blossoming is a collection of literary essays written by faculty members of Xi'an International Studies University, China with two distinctive features. The first one is a Chinese perspective on Western literary works, which is normally not found in the scholarship in the West. The second is the feministic stance demonstrated in most articles, as most of the contributors are female. There are four parts in this collection. Part One is titled "A Room of Her Own" a...

This book presents a study into the art of Jiangnan classical garden. Jiangnan (“the south of the Yangtze River”) refers to the water network region along the lower reaches of the Changjiang River (formerly known as Yangtze River), where Jiangsu Province Chinese gardens were primarily constructed during the 16th and 17th centuries of the later Ming and early Qing dynasties. The Jiangnan garden, an architectural space where artificial and natural elements are combined, represents the elite ...

A young reader chapter-book retelling of the Monkey King’s adventures from Journey to the West—part of the Classic Starts series, which has cumulatively sold more than 8 million copies!Sun Wukong is the “Monkey King”—and he has all the power and magic to prove it! But when his mischief lands him out of favor with the heavens, he must embark on a dangerous quest to deliver Buddhist scriptures. Will Monkey be able to control his impulsive behavior and complete his journey to the West...

The Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus, is the most destructive and invasive termite species globally. It is also the only termite species listed in the world's 100 worst invasive alien species of the Global Invasive Species Database. Annually, its infestation costs more than $4 billion in control and damage repairs in the USA alone. This book is the first comprehensive resource drawing on all the literature on C. formosanus since Tokuichi Shiraki first described the spe...

"You are too afraid of death. If all Taiwanese were as afraid of death as you, then what would we do?" The second Taiwanese to receive a doctorate in medicine, Dr. Shih Jiangnan dedicated himself to helping his fellow Taiwanese. He promoted public health education, fought against discrimination and the infringement of human rights by the post-WWII Republic of China government in Taiwan, and organized the return of stranded Taiwanese conscripts in the Japanese military. He demonstrated brav...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security, ATIS 2018, held in Nanning, China, in November 2018.The 19 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: information security, information abuse prevention, security implementations, knowledge discovery, and applications.