Integrating the adaptive learning control, backstepping technology, and event-triggered mechanism, this book solve the problems of the strong nonlinearity, complex constraints and uncertainties that traditional methods cannot handle. This book breaks through the traditional control's reliance on mathematical model accuracy, providing more robust solutions for engineering scenarios such as unmanned systems and smart grids.This book provides a comprehensive constraint control theoret...

This is the first handbook to cover environmental sanitation and protection machinery in China. It introduces readers to seven main types of product, and addresses their selection, application and maintenance. It offers a valuable reference guide for engineers, technicians and managers in the fields of environmental sanitation and environmental protection, especially with regard to selecting machinery.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Neuromorphic Computing Chengdu, China, December 12–14, 2025.The 52 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions.ICNC 2025 aimed to establish a high-level international platform for academic exchange, promoting the development and collaboration within the advanced interdisciplinary field of neuromorphic computing. The focus of the event covered a wi...

This book describes the complete design of CMOS-based multi-nuclear NMR/MRI microsystems. The authors emphasize optimizing semiconductor chip design to enhance the performance of compact CMOS-based NMR/MRI systems. They also discuss the integrated circuit design of customized modules, such as 3-D gradient controllers specifically for MRI, high-resolution multi-phase generators for advanced composite radio-frequency excitation pulse synthesis, etc. The integration of these specific modules ...

Understanding Contract Law provides an accessible, in-depth analysis of the purpose of contracting and the role of the law of contract, as well as theories that inform it. Assessing the historical development of this cornerstone of law, the book provides detailed analysis of some of the leading theoretical explanations, and how they are applied in jurisdictions throughout the world.With a new chapter examining the impact of globalization on contract law, this new edition a...

This book investigates two types of static multi-fidelity surrogates modeling approaches, sequential multi-fidelity surrogates modeling approaches, the multi-fidelity surrogates-assisted efficient global optimization, reliability analysis, robust design optimization, and evolutionary optimization. Multi-fidelity surrogates have attracted a significant amount of attention in simulation-based design and optimization in recent years. Some real-life engineering design problems, such as predict...

This book covers some of the most popular methods in design space sampling, ensembling surrogate models, multi-fidelity surrogate model construction, surrogate model selection and validation, surrogate-based robust design optimization, and surrogate-based evolutionary optimization.Surrogate or metamodels are now frequently used in complex engineering product design to replace expensive simulations or physical experiments. They are constructed from available input parameter values a...

This book focuses on the law of commercial contracts as constructed by the US and UK legal systems. Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide works of original scholarship focusing on current debates and trends from the two dominant common law systems. The chapters approach the subject areas from a variety of perspectives - doctrinal analysis, law and economic analysis, and social-legal studies, as well as other theoretical perspectives. The book covers the major themes that...

This book proposes an integrated design method for intelligent adaptive controllers to overcome the negative effects of various constraints on nonlinear systems and nonlinear multiagent systems in practical applications. The book rigorously provides problem analysis, controller design, and stability theory. In addition, numerous simulation examples are given to demonstrate the validity of the corresponding intelligent control methods, and the simulation results are illustrated in detail wi...

The book provides a comparative analysis of the law relating to remedies for breach of contract. It examines different remedies such as specific performance and damages,doing so from the viewpoint of different legal systems, principally the English, American, German, French and Israeli. Each essay is written by a recognised specialist in his or her own field. Topics covered include the relationship between substantive rights and contract remedies, the recent reforms of the law relating to ...

The latest edition of the Straightforward Guides Series, Guide to Employment Law, is a clear and concise guide to all aspects of the law relating to employment rights with changes in the law up to 2013 covered in depth. The book is intended for the layperson but can also be utilised by the professional or the student.

The development of the law of obligations across the common law world has been, and continues to be, a story of unity and divergence. Its common origins continue to exert a powerful stabilising influence, carried forward by a methodology that places heavy weight on the historical foundations of legal principles. Divergence is, however, produced by numerous factors, including national and international human rights instruments, local statutory regimes, civil law influences, regional harmoni...