Liang: 174 books
by Teresa A Allison, Karen Berger, Kathleen A. Bledsoe
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
The field of research related to neurocritical care has grown significantly in recent years, and the clinical demands for current and dependable expertise has followed suit. It can be a challenge for the neurocritical practitioner to keep up with cutting-edge evidence-based research and best practices,...
Economics of Wildfire Management
The Development and Application of Suppression Expenditure Models
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
In this age of climatic and financial uncertainty, it becomes increasingly important to balance the cost, benefits and risk of wildfire management. In the United States, increased wildland fire activity over the last 15 years has resulted in drastic damage and loss of life. An associated rapid increase...
by Jian Chai, Ying Yang, Quanying Lu
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This book provides insights into China’s energy consumption and pollution as well as its energy saving policies. It explores energy saving ways and argues for an energy consumption revolution, which includes technologies to improve transportation resource efficiency, modification of existing transportation...
Dirichlet and Related Distributions
Theory, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
The Dirichlet distribution appears in many areas of application, which include modelling of compositional data, Bayesian analysis, statistical genetics, and nonparametric inference. This book provides a comprehensive review of the Dirichlet distribution and two extended versions, the Grouped Dirichlet...
Spectral Theory of Large Dimensional Random Matrices and Its Applications to Wireless Communications and Finance Statistics
Random Matrix Theory and its Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
The book contains three parts: Spectral theory of large dimensional random matrices; Applications to wireless communications; and Applications to finance. In the first part, we introduce some basic theorems of spectral analysis of large dimensional random matrices that are obtained under finite moment...
Advanced Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
Learning from Past Samples
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are now an indispensable tool in scientific computing. This book discusses recent developments of MCMC methods with an emphasis on those making use of past sample information during simulations. The application examples are drawn from diverse fields such as...
WIG Craft and Ekranoplan
Ground Effect Craft Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
In the last half-century, high-speed water transportation has developed rapidly. Novel high-performance marine vehicles, such as the air cushion vehicle (ACV), surface effect ship (SES), high-speed monohull craft (MHC), catamaran (CAT), hydrofoil craft (HYC), wave-piercing craft (WPC) and small water...
Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding
Regular and EXIT-Chart-Aided Irregular Designs
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Recent developments such as the invention of powerful turbo-decoding and irregular designs, together with the increase in the number of potential applications to multimedia signal compression, have increased the importance of variable length coding (VLC). Providing insights into the very latest research,...
Boolean Circuit Rewiring
Bridging Logical and Physical Designs
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Demonstrates techniques which will allow rewiring rates of over 95%, enabling adoption of deep sub-micron chips for industrial applications
Logic synthesis is an essential part of the modern digital IC design process in semi-conductor industry. This book discusses a logic synthesis technique...
by Tao Jiang, Liang Yu, Yang Cao
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
This book reports the latest findings on intelligent energy management of Internet data centers in smart-grid environments. The book gathers novel research ideas in Internet data center energy management, especially scenarios with cyber-related vulnerabilities, power outages and carbon emission constraints....
by Shu Wu, Qiang Liu, Liang Wang
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This book presents two collaborative prediction approaches based on contextual representation and hierarchical representation, and their applications including context-aware recommendation, latent collaborative retrieval and click-through rate prediction. The proposed techniques offer significant...
Chemical Modeling for Air Resources
Fundamentals, Applications, and Corroborative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Chemical Modeling for Air Resources describes fundamental topics in chemical modeling and its scientific and regulatory applications in air pollution problems, such as ozone hole, acid rain, climate change, particulate matter, and other air toxins. A number of corroborative analysis methods are described...
China's Quiet Rise
Peace Through Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Despite China's desire to make its rapid ascendance in the 21st century as non provocative as possible, the key to ensure China's peaceful rise lies in two-way integration and engagement. A closely integrated China with the rest of the world and China's acceptance of existing international norms and...
Energy and Mechanical Engineering
Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Energy and Mechanical Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The International Conference on Energy and Mechanical Engineering brought together scientists and engineers from energy and engineering sectors to share and compare notes on the latest development in energy science, automation, control and mechanical engineering. This proceedings compiled and selected...