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This book provides an in-depth review of the history, fundamental theory, design strategies, and applications of nanogenerators. Working principles, device mechanisms, material characteristics, types of nanogenerators, and their different uses are fully explored. Top researchers in the field of sustainable technology from different backgrounds and fields contribute their expertise to deliver a must-have practical resource for students, academic researchers, and industry professionals. FEATURES Describes the fundamental aspects and theory of nanogenerators Explores design strategies including material assessment based upon planned application Tailors the introduction and essential concept discussion for the industrial and research community Explores current applications, existing challenges, and the future outlook for the field
Multifunctional Photocatalytic Materials for Energy discusses recent developments in multifunctional photocatalytic materials, such as semiconductors, quantum dots, carbon nanotubes and graphene, with an emphasis on their novel properties and synthesis strategies and discussions of their fundamental principles and applicational achievements in energy fields, for example, hydrogen generation from water splitting, CO2 reduction to hydrocarbon fuels, degradation of organic pollutions and solar cells. This book serves as a valuable reference book for researchers, but is also an instructive text for undergraduate and postgraduate students who want to learn about multifunctional photocatalytic mat...
This volume brings together a group of analytical chapters exploring traditional genres and styles of world music, capturing a vibrant and expanding field of research. These contributors, drawn from the forefront of researchers in world music analysis, seek to break down barriers and build bridges between scholarly disciplines, musical repertoires, and cultural traditions. Covering a wide range of genres, styles, and performers, the chapters bring to bear a variety of methodologies, including indigenous theoretical perspectives, Western music theory, and interdisciplinary techniques rooted in the cognitive and computational sciences. With contributors addressing music traditions from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, this volume captures the many current directions in the analysis of world music, offering a state of the fi eld and demonstrating the expansion of possibilities created by this area of research.
Since the late 1990s, there have been broad discussions concerning the rapid rise of the creative economy. Creative or cultural industry is seen as the new engine of the regional growth for both developed economies and emerging nations. At the point of transition in economy and society, China is recently striving to transform its economy from “made in China” towards “created in China”. This book provides an insight into creative industries and spaces in Shanghai, which is the fastest growing megacity in China and the center of modern economic development on a global scale. Underpinned by new approaches from economic geography and urban studies, it deals with the new relations between the creative economy and urban environment in Shanghai. Over the last decade, creative clusters have been rapidly emerging in particular locations in the central city of Shanghai. This spatial phenomenon is explained in the book through an analysis of dynamics, networks and implications.
The two volumes CCIS 546 and 547 constitute the refereed proceedings of the CCF Chinese Conference on Computer Vision, CCCV 2015, held in Xi'an, China, in September 2015. The total of 89 revised full papers presented in both volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. The papers address issues such as computer vision, machine learning, pattern recognition, target recognition, object detection, target tracking, image segmentation, image restoration, face recognition, image classification.
The two volumes CCIS 546 and 547 constitute the refereed proceedings of the CCF Chinese Conference on Computer Vision, CCCV 2015, held in Xi'an, China, in September 2015. The total of 89 revised full papers presented in both volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. The papers address issues such as computer vision, machine learning, pattern recognition, target recognition, object detection, target tracking, image segmentation, image restoration, face recognition, image classification.
Provides a comprehensive practical review of the new technologies used to obtain hydrogen more efficiently via catalytic, electrochemical, bio- and photohydrogen production. Hydrogen has been gaining more attention in both transportation and stationary power applications. Fuel cell-powered cars are on the roads and the automotive industry is demanding feasible and efficient technologies to produce hydrogen. The principles and methods described herein lead to reasonable mitigation of the great majority of problems associated with hydrogen production technologies. The chapters in this book are written by distinguished authors who have extensive experience in their fields, and readers will have...
Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common malignancies worldwide. It is particularly challenging due to common detection at the advanced stages of the diseases preventing potential therapeutic and treatment strategies for patients. Common forms of treatment include chemotherapy which has been found to improve the survival rate and overall quality of life for patients with unresectable, locally advanced or at the metastatic stages of the disease. However, chemotherapy has also proven to cause significant side effects in some patients. Lymphatic metastasis has been found to be common in gastric cancer patients. Lymph vascular invasion (LVI) has been identified to be associated to the infiltration of tumor cells in the arteries, veins or lymphatic vessels. This has been identified to prompt local recurrence and the distant metastasis of various tumors. This has led to the LVI status as an independent prognostic factor and studies have found the occurrence of pathological LVI is associated with gastric cancer progression and linked to poor clinical prognosis and low survival rate.