Drylands, a home for nearly 2.5 billion people, are highly vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change, and dryland area may expand to 50% of the Earth's surface by 2100. Climate change may aggravate the prevalence of undernutrition and malnutrition because of adverse effects on quantity and quality of food production in these regions. This book takes a holistic approach to sustainable management of drylands to make agriculture drought-resilient. Eminent scientists from around the world sha...

This volume contains three expanded lecture notes from the program Scalar Curvature in Manifold Topology and Conformal Geometry that was held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences from 1 November to 31 December 2014. The first chapter surveys the recent developments on the fourth-order equations with negative exponent from geometric points of view such as positive mass theorem and uniqueness results. The next chapter deals with the recent important progress on several conjectures such...

What if your child could walk into any situation - at school, online, or in public - and know exactly what to do?In today's fast-changing world, children face challenges that go far beyond academics. From peer pressure and bullying to online risks and real-world dangers, the ability to think clearly, act confidently, and make smart decisions has never been more important.Raise Street-Smart Kids is a practical, real-world guide designed to help pare...

This book comprehensively and systematically explores the basic theory of industrial culture, putting forward its system structure, expounding its evolution history, unearthing its functional value, and analyzing industrial soft power, industrial spirit, national resources, national industrial images, and industrial culture as an industry. With an aim to reveal the complex relationship between industrial culture and economic development, it has provided new concepts, visions, and paths for...

The book provides guidance and practical techniques for the CPU design and its implementation. By scheduling a complete CPU design procedure into a series practicing tasks, the book offers a step-by-step process support to the readers for the design of a CPU which can run Unix-like OS (e.g. Linux) kernel. It also covers various design practices and debug skills. The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers and tutors, as well engineers and practitioners who are i...

Offers timely and comprehensive coverage of dynamic system reliability theoryThis book focuses on hot issues of dynamic system reliability, systematically introducing the reliability modeling and analysis methods for systems with imperfect fault coverage, systems with function dependence, systems subject to deterministic or probabilistic common-cause failures, systems subject to deterministic or probabilistic competing failures, and dynamic standby sparing systems....

Textile-Based Energy Harvesting and Storage Devices for Wearable ElectronicsDiscover state-of-the-art developments in textile-based wearable and stretchable electronics from leaders in the fieldIn Textile-Based Energy Harvesting and Storage Devices for Wearable Electronics, renowned researchers Professor Xing Fan and his co-authors deliver an insightful and rigorous exploration of textile-based energy harvesting and storage systems...

This book focuses on the application of machine learning in slope stability assessment. The contents include: overview of machine learning approaches, the mainstream smart in-situ monitoring techniques, the applications of the main machine learning algorithms, including the supervised learning, unsupervised learning, semi- supervised learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning, ensemble learning, etc., in slope engineering and landslide prevention, introduction of the smart in-situ mon...

Presenting new and invaluable Chinese perspectives on international relations in general and Beijing's foreign policy in particular, this work offers the first balanced and thoroughly researched analysis by Chinese scholars. Drawing on original Chinese sources and interviews, In the Eyes of the Dragon explores Chinese views on sovereignty, national interest, security multilateralism, international human rights, nuclear nonproliferation, Taiwan, and the United States. Illuminating ...

This book addresses the emerging paradigm of data-driven engineering design. In the big-data era, data is becoming a strategic asset for global manufacturers. This book shows how the power of data can be leveraged to drive the engineering design process, in particular, the early-stage design.Based on novel combinations of standing design methodology and the emerging data science, the book presents a collection of theoretically sound and practically viable design frameworks, which a...

This book investigates statistical observables for anomalous and nonergodic dynamics, focusing on the dynamical behaviors of particles modelled by non-Brownian stochastic processes in the complex real-world environment.Statistical observables are widely used for anomalous and nonergodic stochastic systems, thus serving as a key to uncover their dynamics. This study explores the cutting edge of anomalous and nonergodic diffusion from the perspectives of mathematics, computer science...

The book focuses on graph neural network methods and applications for scene understanding. Graph Neural Network is an important method for graph-structured data processing, which has strong capability of graph data learning and structural feature extraction. Scene understanding is one of the research focuses in computer vision and image processing, which realizes semantic segmentation and object recognition of image or video. In this book, the algorithm, system design and performance evalu...