Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1136

Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics

In today’s global and highly competitive environment, continuous improvement in the processes and products of any field of engineering is essential for survival. This book gathers together the full range of statistical techniques required by engineers from all fields. It will assist them to gain sensible statistical feedback on how their processes or products are functioning and to give them realistic predictions of how these could be improved. The handbook will be essential reading for all engineers and engineering-connected managers who are serious about keeping their methods and products at the cutting edge of quality and competitiveness.

From Functional Genomics to Biotechnology in Ornamental Plants
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

From Functional Genomics to Biotechnology in Ornamental Plants

For centuries plants of a broad taxonomical background have been bred and commercialized because of the beauty of their flowers. However, until recently genomic analyses of ornamentals remained a challenge because of their large genome sizes and high ploidy levels. In the last decade, increasingly affordable sequencing technologies and powerful bioinformatic approaches resulted in the complete sequencing of several horticultural species genomes and the characterization of their transcriptomes. These developments enabled research on many challenging topics. This Research Topic gives you a primer into them by featuring a broad range of original research contributions on some of the most active...

Global Advances in Wide Awake Hand Surgery, An Issue of Hand Clinics, An Issue of Hand Clinics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 129

Global Advances in Wide Awake Hand Surgery, An Issue of Hand Clinics, An Issue of Hand Clinics

Guest edited by Drs. Donald Lalonde and Jin Bo Tang, this issue of Hand Clinics will cover several key areas of interest related to Global Advances in Wide Awake Hand Surgery. This issue is one of four selected each year by our series Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Kevin Chung of University of Michigan. Articles in this issue include, but are not limited to: The Canadian model for instituting wide awake hand surgery; Latest advances in wide awake hand surgery; Wide awake surgery as an opportunity to enhance clinical research; Wide awake secondary tendon reconstruction; WALANT in South America; Wide awake hand surgery at in South Korea; Wide awake tendon transfers in leprosy patients in India; WALANT hand surgery in military healthcare delivery; Wide awake wrist and small joint arthroscopy of the hand; and the Impact of WALANT on departmental settings, cost, patient satisfaction and beyond

The New China Playbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

The New China Playbook

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-07-03
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  • Publisher: Swift Press

Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2023 'Essential reading' Tony Blair A revelatory, myth-dispelling exploration of Chinaxe2x80x99s juggernaut economy Although Chinaxe2x80x99s economy is one of the largest in the world, Western understanding of it is often based on dated assumptions and incomplete information. In The New China Playbook, Keyu Jin burrows deep into the mechanisms of a unique system, taking a nuanced, clear-eyed, and data-based look inside. From the far-reaching and unexpected consequences of Chinaxe2x80x99s one-child policy to the governmentxe2x80x99s complex relationship with entrepreneurs, from its boisterous financial system to its latest push for technological innovation...

Distributed Optimisation for Multi-Robot Cooperative Manipulation Control in Dynamic Environments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Distributed Optimisation for Multi-Robot Cooperative Manipulation Control in Dynamic Environments

Since the manipulation tasks for robotic systems become more and more complicated, multi-robot cooperation has been attracting much attention recently. Furthermore, under the trend of human-robot co-existence, collision-free motion control is now also desired on multi-robot groups. This dissertation aims to design a novel distributed optimal control framework to deal with multi-robot cooperative manipulation of rigid objects in dynamic environments. Besides object transportation, the control scheme also tackles obstacle avoidance, joint-space performance optimisation and internal force suppression. The proposed control framework has a two-layer structure, with a distributed optimisation algo...

Financial Engineering and Computation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 654

Financial Engineering and Computation

A comprehensive text and reference, first published in 2002, on the theory of financial engineering with numerous algorithms for pricing, risk management, and portfolio management.

Advances in Variable Structure Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 558

Advances in Variable Structure Systems

The last of such a workshop on VSS in the 20th Century, the theme of this workshop is Intelligent Systems with Variable Structure, which aims to summarize the state-of-the-art in VSS as well as to revamp VSS into a forward-looking research field in the 21 st Century. The emerging trend of cross-fertilization and integration of VSS with other control and non-control areas such as robust control, adaptive control, nonlinear control, identification, modelling, optimization, artificial intelligence, neural networks, and fuzzy logic, etc. will continue and flourish in the new century.

Intelligent Robotics and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 754

Intelligent Robotics and Applications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-09-28
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  • Publisher: Springer

The three volume set LNAI 7506, LNAI 7507 and LNAI 7508 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2012, held in Montreal, Canada, in October 2012. The 197 revised full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 271 submissions. They present the state-of-the-art developments in robotics, automation and mechatronics. This volume covers the topics of adaptive control systems; automotive systems; estimation and identification; intelligent visual systems; application of differential geometry in robotic mechanisms; unmanned systems technologies and applications; new development on health management, fault diagnosis, and fault-tolerant control; biomechatronics; intelligent control of mechanical and mechatronic systems.

The Making of China’s War with Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

The Making of China’s War with Japan

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-10-03
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  • Publisher: Springer

This cutting edge study examines the career of Chinese politician and diplomat Zhou Enlai (1898–1976) and assesses his leadership role in the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) strategy against the Japanese invasion of China which established the foundation for post-World War II Sino-Japanese relations. It considers how Zhou dealt with Japanese imperialism during his midcareer, from the May Fourth Movement to the formation of the second United Front between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the CPC against Japan, which paved the way for the Chinese victory in the second Sino-Japanese War. Addressing significant moments such as the Manchurian Incident and the Xi’an Incident, it prov...

重生3
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 595

重生3

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-11-12
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  • Publisher: Yun Shang

For two days in a row, getting up before the set alarm clock shows that his biologicalclock has adapted to the current work and rest