The book investigates cognitive development in young children through a series of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) studies conducted by the author and his team.It explores the neural correlates of cognitive processes, such as mental rotation, inhibitory control, and joint attention, shedding light on the mechanisms underlying these processes in preschoolers. Methodological advancements in fNIRS research, including multivariable and multiscale sample entropy analysis, a...

About 90 percent of this excessive heat is due to buildings and pavements that absorb and store solar heat (According to the Green Buildings Council). The only reference that focuses specifically on pavements, Pavement Materials for Heat Island Mitigation: Design and Management Strategies explores different advanced paving materials, their properties, and their associated advantages and disadvantages. Relevant properties of pavement materials (e.g. albedo, permeability, thermal conductivit...

Using comparative qualitative methodology, this book examines three Chinese societies, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China, as specific cases of democratic, hybrid and authoritarian regimes, presenting the theoretical underpinnings of civic education in contexts other than liberal democracy. It highlights on the concept of ‘good citizens’ in these three regime contexts and explores how these concepts are reflected in civic education and perceived by students in the three societies. The b...

The Chinese language is now used by a quarter of the world’s population and is increasingly popular as a second language. Teaching Chinese Literacy in the Early Years comprehensively investigates the psychology, pedagogy and practice involved in teaching Chinese literacy to young children.This text not only explores the psycholinguistic and neuropsychological processing involved in learning Chinese literacy but also introduces useful teaching methods and effective practice...

A complete and up-to-date overview of popular and practical erasure codes in distributed storageIn Distributed Storage in Practice, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive discussion on distributed storage coding and distributed storage systems. Divided into two parts, the book first explores distributed storage coding technology based on Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes, including array codes, Reed-Solomon codes, locally repaira...

This book focuses on the latest trends and advancements in road engineering at home and abroad, emphasizing both theory and practice. It covers topics such as road alignment design, materials, drainage design, construction, and maintenance, aiming to develop readers' ability to analyze and solve practical problems in road engineering. This textbook plays a significant role in enhancing the foundational course system of transportation engineering and cultivating high-quality professional an...

Technical theory, key technologies, and practical applications for consortium blockchains, with a solution to the CAP trilemma problemPrinciples and Applications of Blockchain Systems provides a comprehensive introduction to consortium blockchains, including the physical, network, consensus, and contract layers, covering technical theory, key technologies, and practical applications. Beyond the technical side, this book visually showcases the application p...

This textbook provides a comprehensive exploration of the transport layer from the perspectives of computer networks and transport layer protocols, delving into the theoretical foundations and emerging application scenarios. It elucidates the principles and core mechanisms of various transport protocols, covering not only traditional IP-based protocols but also optimized implementations for future network architectures, such as MIN networks.The textbook examines classic transport p...

With empirical evidence and theoretical critique, this book unveils the myths and debates (e.g., child-centeredness versus teacher-directedness) about early childhood curricula, revealing their unique social, cultural, and historical roots.Analyzing globally advocated early childhood curricula and ideologies, such as the developmentally appropriate practice, the child-centered approach, constructivism, and globalized childhood, this book argues that the direct adoption of these con...

This book gives a detailed introduction to the technical background, feature extraction methods, PHM models and big data embedding methods of the big data theory in PHM for intelligent electromechanical systems. Combination with deep learning and big data, this book explains the hybrid algorithm framework of PHM such as ensemble intelligence and optimized intelligence and introduces PHM models for bearing, IGBT, MOSFET and other components and their big data embedding platform. This book i...

Smart Metro Station Systems: Data Science and Engineering introduces key technologies in data science and engineering for smart metro station systems. The book consists of three main parts, focusing on the environment, people and energy. Each chapter includes practical applications, along with information on metro traffic flow monitoring and passenger guidance, methods for behavior analysis and trajectory projection, clustering and anomaly detection in crowd hotspots, monitoring and predic...

This book presents a series of state-of-the-art methods for air quality monitoring in various engineering environment by using data science. In the book, the data-driven key techniques of the preprocessing, decomposition, identification, clustering, forecasting and interpolation of the air quality monitoring are explained in details with lots of experimental simulation. The book can provide important reference for the development of data science technologies in engineering air quality moni...