Hong: 533 books
The Changing Body
Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and...
Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 1
Safety, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Pig meat is the most widely-consumed meat in the world. Previous growth in production has relied, in part, on more intensive systems. In meeting rising demand, these systems face challenges such as the ongoing threat of zoonotic diseases, the need to improve feed efficiency in the face of rising costs,...
by Wei-Chiang Hong
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
As industrial, commercial, and residential demands increase and with the rise of privatization and deregulation of the electric energy industry around the world, it is necessary to improve the performance of electric operational management*. Intelligent Energy Demand Forecasting* offers approaches...
by Zhu Han, Mingyi Hong, Dan Wang
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This unique text helps make sense of big data in engineering applications using tools and techniques from signal processing. It presents fundamental signal processing theories and software implementations, reviews current research trends and challenges, and describes the techniques used for analysis,...
Sparse Representation, Modeling and Learning in Visual Recognition
Theory, Algorithms and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
This unique text/reference presents a comprehensive review of the state of the art in sparse representations, modeling and learning. The book examines both the theoretical foundations and details of algorithm implementation, highlighting the practical application of compressed sensing research in...
by Hong Lin, Hongye Su, Peng Shi
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This book discusses recent advances in the estimation and control of networked systems with unacknowledged packet losses: systems usually known as user-datagram-protocol-like. It presents both the optimal and sub-optimal solutions in the form of algorithms, which are designed to be implemented easily...
Causality in a Social World
Moderation, Mediation and Spill-over
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Causality in a Social World introduces innovative new statistical research and strategies for investigating moderated intervention effects, mediated intervention effects, and spill-over effects using experimental or quasi-experimental data.
The book uses potential outcomes to define causal...
Linear Systems
Non-Fragile Control and Filtering
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Linear Systems: Non-Fragile Control and Filtering presents the latest research results and a systematic approach to designing non-fragile controllers and filters for linear systems. The authors combine the algebraic Riccati technique, the linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique, and the sensitivity...
by Chiong Ching Lai, Sven Erik Nordholm, Yee Hong Leung
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
The book covers the design formulations for broadband beamformer targeting nearfield and farfield sources. The book content includes background information on the acoustic environment, including propagation medium, the array geometries, signal models and basic beamformer designs. Subsequently it introduces...
Chinese Business
Landscapes and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
It is difficult to overstate the importance of China to the world economy, and yet the majority of books either look at Chinese business by applying Western frameworks or models to the context of China or focus on a particular aspect of business in China.
Authored by an academic expert on China,...
Administrative Monopoly in China
Causes, Behaviors, and Termination
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Administrative Monopoly in China: Causes, Behaviors, and Termination is a further work of our previous book, China's State-Owned Enterprises: Nature, Performance and Reform. This new book analyzes the SOEs with respect to monopoly, and focuses on six industries: telecommunication, petroleum, railway,...
by Hong Sheng, Pu Qian
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
In China, the government controls a large part of resources, such as land, energy, bank savings, and so on. This book studies the efficiency and fairness of resources allocation by governmental administration in China. The book states that it is neither fair nor efficient to allocate resources by...
by Jianguo Qi, Jingxing Zhao, Wenjun Li
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book presents a detailed background to the circular economy in China, explores government measures to promote it in China’s market economy, and introduces the supporting laws and policies. The book goes on to describe, from a technology perspective, successful circular economy practices in...
Design Thinking for Education
Conceptions and Applications in Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
This book explores, through eight chapters, how design thinking vocabulary can be interpreted and employed in educational contexts. The theoretical foundations of design thinking and design in education are first examined by means of a literature review. This is then followed by chapters that characterize...