In a world ruled by machines, one human stumbles upon a mysterious man whose presence foreshadows an apocalypse. Sci-fi meets danmei (Boys' Love) in this brand-new story by Arise Zhang, also known as Fei Tian Ye Xiang (非天夜翔)--author of Legend of Exorcism and Dinghai Fusheng Records!In the fractured world of the Astrolabe, where humans are but shadows of their former selves, the City of Steel is ruled by androids and their man-made deity, Father. Humanity lives on t...

秦王征服楚国，项羽国破家亡。祖父项燕和父亲项仲被逼死、杀死，对秦廷满怀深仇大恨。为逃生和报仇雪恨，项羽跟随叔父项梁浪迹天涯。此期间，项羽眼界逐渐开阔，心胸更加宽广，在叔父教导下迅速成长起来。同时，和虞姬相爱又失散。秦始皇晏驾，胡亥谋朝篡位，政治黑暗，民不聊生，陈胜吴广起义。刚开始，义军顺天行事，一派兴旺发达。后陈胜自立为王，私心滋长，渐失人心，终被杀害。义军在秦大将章邯讨伐下失利，转入低潮。陈胜吴广起事不久，项梁、项羽也于吴中会稽高举反秦大旗。他们杀死郡守殷通，挥师北上，击败部分秦军，采纳范增建议，立故楚皇室后裔熊心为楚怀王，恢复了楚政权。同时，刘邦押送民工赴咸阳建造阿房宫，民工逃跑不少，自知无法交差，不得已造反。当看到项梁项羽力量强大时，刘邦归附了他们。楚军讨伐秦打了不少胜战，项梁不免有些轻敌，加之孤军深入，不幸在定陶惨遭袭击殉难。韩信东征，得到魏、代、赵等地。这些日子，项羽和刘邦在荥阳、成皋等地多次交锋。刘邦屡战屡败，项羽则被刘邦、彭越牵着鼻子走，战到广武，两军对峙下来。形势发展，韩信攻...

This book presents some new models and methods in the context of dynamical portfolio optimization. It encapsulates the authors' recent progress in their research on several interesting, featured issues of dynamic portfolio optimization problems with default contagion, tracking benchmark, consumption habit, and reinforcement learning.These models include the default contagion model with infinite regime-switching under complete information and partial information; portfolio optimizat...

Aerospace vehicles are by their very nature a crucial environment for safety-critical systems. By virtue of an effective safety control system, the aerospace vehicle can maintain high performance despite the risk of component malfunction and multiple disturbances, thereby enhancing aircraft safety and the probability of success for a mission.Autonomous Safety Control of Flight Vehicles presents a systematic methodology for improving the safety of aerospace vehicles in the face of t...

Xiang Yu is universally recognized in history as the God of War, whose military records, for the most part, remain unbroken to this day, and he is also universally recognized in history as a genius with a deeply tragic ending.If time and space shifted, and if life could begin anew, what choices would he make this time? And what new ending would await him?The historical fantasia officially begins now!項羽是歷史公認的軍事之神，他的歷史軍事紀錄，絕大多數至今仍是無人能打破，同時他也是歷史公認結局極遺憾的天才。如果時空改...

Provides in-depth knowledge on molecular electronics and emphasizes the techniques for designing molecular junctions with controlled functionalitiesThis comprehensive book covers the major advances with the most general applicability in the field of molecular electronic devices. It emphasizes new insights into the development of efficient platform methodologies for building such reliable devices with desired functionalities through the combination of programmed bottom-up self-assem...

In the fractured world of the Astrolabe, where humans are but shadows of their former selves, the City of Steel is ruled by androids and their man-made deity, Father. Humanity lives on the brink of annihilation, and A-Ka, a young slave shackled by oppression, clings to a fragile hope of escaping to a legendary land across the sea.When A-Ka crosses paths with Heishi, a mysterious raven-haired man awakened after thousands of years, his life is upended. Bound by destiny and an unspoken connec...

This book focuses on anti-disturbance intrusion- and fault-tolerant consensus control for MASs. The main feature of this book is the successful introduction of event-triggered distributed adaptive feedback control methodology, observer technology, and sliding mode technology to solve the problem of anti-disturbance, intrusion-tolerant, and fault-tolerant control of MAS. Meanwhile, pinning control strategies are proposed to realize the cluster consensus control of MAS. In addition, based on...

This book delves into a wide array of topics, ranging from memristor and its emulator to chaotic circuits based on memristor, memristor-based en/decryption systems, filter design based on memristive family, memristive filter for signal processing, memristor network-based swarm intelligence, dynamic analysis of memristive neural networks, and the application of memristor-based neural networks. It provides a comprehensive and systematic exploration of how memristors empower and drive cutting...

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to comprehensively explore the intricacies of compliantly driven robots and their application in exoskeletons. It is structured in three main parts.The first part delves into mechanical design, offering a detailed examination of the underlying principles governing the construction and fabrication of these robots. This section encompasses discussions on actuators, joints, and overall system architecture.The s...

This book aims to sort out the clear logic of the development of machine learning-driven privacy preservation in IoTs, including the advantages and disadvantages, as well as the future directions in this under-explored domain. In big data era, an increasingly massive volume of data is generated and transmitted in Internet of Things (IoTs), which poses great threats to privacy protection. Motivated by this, an emerging research topic, machine learning-driven privacy preservation, is fast bo...

It’s been estimated that around 24 billion tonnes of fertile topsoil is lost each year due to historic and ongoing pollution. With increasing pressure placed upon land as a resource, there is an urgent need to make better use of existing agricultural land, as well as remediate contaminated land for farming use.Contaminants in agricultural soils: Challenges and solutions provides a comprehensive overview of the major types of contaminants in agricultural soils. It considers...