This book focuses on the latest development of green design covering products, buildings and cities, including the related concepts, evaluation methods, and key technologies. It is divided into two parts, directly corresponding to the process from green design to carbon-neutral design. The first part comprehensively introduces contemporary green design from definitions, development, theoretical evolution, updated criteria, to evaluation methods. With a focus on green product design, green ...

This book explores peg-in-hole assembly strategies to study robotic intelligent assembly. It presents several state-of-the-art principles for peg-in-hole assembly strategies, supported by experimental evidence. In pursuit of theoretical innovation, the author summarizes their research on robotic intelligent assembly over the past decade, highlighting the limitations of model-based algorithms in complex assembly environments and the importance of data efficiency for learning-based algorithm...

《莊枝材自學張旭懷素大師草書作品展 》裏面包括唐詩宋詞、三國時期曹植所作的《洛神賦 》、唐朝白居易所作的《長恨歌》、唐朝王勃所作的《滕王閣序》、唐朝李白所作的《將進酒》、宋朝蘇軾所作的《念奴嬌赤壁懷古》、宋朝蘇軾所作的《水調歌頭》、宋朝範仲淹所作的《嶽陽樓記》以及宋朝柳永所作的《雨霖鈴 》等。The exhibition of Chinese cursive works includes the Fu of Luoshen Cao Zhi's Works of the Three Kingdoms Period. Song of Eternal Regret works by Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty, will drink Tang Dynasty Li Bai's Works, Nian Nujiao's Chibi Nostalgia Works by Su Shi in Song Dynasty and Tang Song poetry, etc.

This book introduces the current research progress on hesitant fuzzy decision-making based on probability theory and methods. From the perspectives of theory expansion, information fusion, and information mining, it explores novel perspectives, ideas, and techniques for addressing hesitant fuzzy uncertain decision-making problems and demonstrates them through practical applications and case studies. It aims to provide a reference for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the...

Appraisal is the way language users express their attitude towards things, people, behaviour or ideas. In the last few decades, significant achievements have been made in Appraisal Theory research, yet little attention has been paid to appraisal in scientific texts, especially in relation to the contrast to how it is applied in English and Chinese.This title examines the similarities and differences of Appraisal systems in English and Chinese scientific research articles. Using a s...

China boasts a long history of foreign trade. As early as the pre-Qin period, residents of the country began to ship silk and other merchandise on outbound voyages. From the 2nd century BCE on, China has been connected to the rest of the world via the Overland Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road initiated in the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty.Trade relations between China and other regions in the world have been developing gradually and continuously. Trade has cont...

This book investigates the modeling and optimization issues in mobile social networks (MSNs). Firstly, the architecture and applications of MSNs are examined. The existing works on MSNs are reviewed by specifying the critical challenges and research issues. Then, with the introduction of MSN-based social graph and information dissemination mechanisms, the analytical model for epidemic information dissemination with opportunistic Links in MSNs is discussed. In addition, optimal resource all...

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Collective view prediction is to judge the opinions of an active web user based on unknown elements by referring to the collective mind of the whole community. Content-based recommendation and collaborative filtering are two mainstream collective view prediction techniques. They generate predictions by analyzing the text features of the target object or the similarity of users’ past behaviors. Still, these techniques are vulnerable to the artificially-injected noise data, because they are ...

This book summarizes the rapid development of cognitive translation studies in global perspective over the past decades, detailing specific manifestations, core research areas, significant achievements, and five development trends, providing readers with an overview of the entire cognitive translation study system. It explores the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of cognitive research in written translation, analyzing translation processes and discussing the development trend...

This is a concise handbook providing a quick clinical reference on Chinese medicinal treatments for many diseases, based on Traditional Chinese Medicine theory and practice. Organized by different clinical conditions and diseases, it provides clinicians and healthcare professionals with definitions and recommended treatment methods, especially herbal medicine formulae. In addition to being a comprehensive quick reference source, this handbook also conveys a generalized understanding of Tra...

This book provides essential insights into Chinese consumer behaviors in the growing and dynamic fashion market. With increasing consumer purchasing power, readily accessible global brands, heavy application of digital technology and social media, as well as growing awareness of environmental issues, the Chinese fashion industry faces great opportunities and challenges at the same time. The contributing authors provide observations and address issues related to middle class fashion consump...