The first English-language study of Chinese scholars' perspectives on China's quest for democracy.History teaches us that profound transformations are not shaped by ideas alone but are impossible without great ideas. China is known to have a long history during which scholars played a central role in society while their ideas about politics prevailed. Democracy Through the Lens of Chinese Scholars explores six leading schools of thought—including liberalis...

The definitive collection of works by one of the Tang Dynasty's most eccentric (and badly-behaved) poets, now back in print for the first time in decades.Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang dynasty. He began writing at the age of seven and died at twenty-six from alcoholism or, according to a later commentator, “sexual dissipation,” or both. An obscure and unsuccessful relative of the imperial family, he would set out at dawn on horseback, pause, write a poe...

This book reviews the status quo and visions for the future in the wind energy industry in China and around the globe, focusing on its roles in optimizing energy structure, alleviating environmental pollution, and coping with climate change. Providing a blueprint of wind power development till 2050, it suggests a series of further measures in the context of policies, regulations, laws, and marketing in order to overcome the existing bottlenecks. Moreover, it proposes a number of potential ...

Polynomial optimization have been a hot research topic for the past few years and its applications range from Operations Research, biomedical engineering, investment science, to quantum mechanics, linear algebra, and signal processing, among many others. In this brief the authors discuss some important subclasses of polynomial optimization models arising from various applications, with a focus on approximations algorithms with guaranteed worst case performance analysis. The brief presents ...

This book discusses key techniques of protection and fault ride-through in VSC-HVDC grids, including high-speed selective protection, DC fault current limitation, converter restarting, and DCCB reclosing strategies. It investigates how high-speed transient-variable-based protection can be used to improve grids’ acting sensitivity, acting reliability, and ability to withstand high transition resistance compared with traditional protection. In addition, it discusses the applicability of the ...

This book introduces the basic framework of advanced focal plane technology based on the third-generation infrared focal plane concept. The essential concept, research advances, and future trends in advanced sensor arrays are comprehensively reviewed. Moreover, the book summarizes recent research advances in HgCdTe/AlGaN detectors for the infrared/ultraviolet waveband, with a particular focus on the numerical method of detector design, material epitaxial growth and processing, as well as C...

This book proposes a method for grid integration assessment and certification of renewable energy , mainly through on-site inspection, simulation and on-site testing. It has established a renewable energy grid integrated certification system, combining "standards-test-certify", which is an effective means to ensure the power performance of renewable energy. The content of this book is selective, forward-looking and practical. It is easy to understand, with theoretical and technical analysi...

Multiscale modeling is becoming essential for accurate, rapid simulation in science and engineering. This book presents the results of three decades of research on multiscale modeling in process engineering from principles to application, and its generalization for different fields. This book considers the universality of meso-scale phenomena for the first time, and provides insight into the emerging discipline that unifies them, meso-science, as well as new perspectives for virtual proces...

This book explores cutting-edge approaches in stroke rehabilitation, focusing on robot-assisted active training methods controlled by human intention. It examines techniques such as wearable hand rehabilitation robots, brain-controlled devices using electroencephalogram (EEG), and the integration of exoskeleton-assisted therapy with fingertip haptic stimulation. Featuring comprehensive analyses, theoretical foundations, and practical case studies, the book includes illustrative diagrams, e...

本书是《中国法院信息化发展报告》的英文版，围绕《人民法院信息化建设五年发展规划（2016～2020）》所确定的建设任务，对中国法院2016年建设人民法院信息化3.0版、打造“智慧法院”的成效进行了总结分析。书中围绕审判管理信息化、信息化推进司法公开、信息化助力基本解决执行难、司法大数据应用等方面总结了全国法院信息化的进展；对地方法院在信息化建设、信息化助力提升司法质效、助力诉讼服务、助力司法大数据应用等方面的情况进行了分析。

This book presents a comprehensive review of heterogeneous face analysis and synthesis, ranging from the theoretical and technical foundations to various hot and emerging applications, such as cosmetic transfer, cross-spectral hallucination and face rotation. Deep generative models have been at the forefront of research on artificial intelligence in recent years and have enhanced many heterogeneous face analysis tasks. Not only has there been a constantly growing flow of related research p...

This book reviews and presents several advanced approaches to energy infrastructure assets' intelligent reliability and maintainability. Each introduced model provides case studies indicating high efficiency, robustness, and applicability, allowing readers to utilize them in their understudy intelligent reliability and maintainability of energy infrastructure assets domains.The book begins by reviewing the state-of-the-art research on the reliability and maintainability of energy i...