Knowledge building aims to transform schools into learning communities and bring knowledge creation into schools. The book therefore elaborates on how learning, technology, and assessment can be aligned both online and offline to facilitate such a process.Adopting a quasi-experimental design and drawing on rich data from forum discussions, questionnaires, interviews, learning outcomes, and classroom presentations, this book shows that the knowledge building environment, augmented b...

Professor Xihua Cao (1920–2005) was a leading scholar at East China Normal University (ECNU) and a famous algebraist in China. His contribution to the Chinese academic circle is particularly the formation of a world-renowned 'ECNU School' in algebra, covering research areas include algebraic groups, quantum groups, algebraic geometry, Lie algebra, algebraic number theory, representation theory and other hot fields. In January 2020, in order to commemorate Professor Xihua Cao's centenary bi...

This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors consider the science and politics of public health policymaking and implementation in Taiwan, Manchuria, Hong Kong, and the Yangzi River delta, focusing mostly on towns and villages rather than cities. Whether discussing the resistance of lay midwives in ...

Zeroing Neural NetworksDescribes the theoretical and practical aspects of finite-time ZNN methods for solving an array of computational problemsZeroing Neural Networks (ZNN) have become essential tools for solving discretized sensor-driven time-varying matrix problems in engineering, control theory, and on-chip applications for robots. Building on the original ZNN model, finite-time zeroing neural networks (FTZNN) enable efficient, accurate...

Deborah Kogan Ray has won widespread acclaim for her engaging picture-book biographies. Paiute Princess tells the story of Sarah Winnemucca, who was born into the Northern Paiute tribe of Nevada in 1844. Experiencing both the traditional life of her people and the modern ways of her grandfather's white friends, Sarah became a powerful leader who spoke out about the many injustices committed against her people.

This SpringerBrief presents research in the application of Stochastic Petri Nets (SPN) to the performance evaluation of wireless networks under bursty traffic. It covers typical Quality-of-Service performance metrics such as mean throughput, average delay and packet dropping probability. Along with an introduction of SPN basics, the authors introduce the key motivation and challenges of using SPN to analyze the resource sharing performance in wireless networks. The authors explain two powe...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th China Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, CWSN 2023, which took place in Dalian, China, in October 2023.The 22 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions, including 38 English papers and 67 Chinese papers. The conference provided an academic exchange of research and a development forum for IoT researchers, developers, enterprises, and users. Exchanging results and expe...

Navigating the forefront of smart grid technology, the book, "Robust Control Strategies for Power Electronics in Smart Grid Applications," delves into innovative approaches, offering a fresh perspective on how to address the dynamic challenges in this field. With a focus on robust control strategies, the book provides a comprehensive exploration of diverse power converter configurations, presenting novel solutions for achieving optimal efficiency and performance in smart grid applications....

This book focuses on the mathematical and physical foundations of remote sensing digital image processing and introduces key algorithms utilized in this area. The book fully introduces the basic mathematical and physical process of digital imaging, the basic theory and algorithm of pixel image processing, and the higher-order image processing algorithm and its application. This book skillfully and closely integrates theory, algorithms, and applications, making it simple for readers to unde...

The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in "getting ahead." Social capital isn’t just about the connections in networks, but fundamentally concerns the distribution of resources on the basis of exchanges.This volume focuses on how social capital interacts with social institutions, based on the premise that markets, communities, and families are the major contexts within which people meet and build up social networks and the...

This guide is primarily designed for university instructors and students who are involved in (industrial) software engineering group projects. The aim is to provide quality assurance guidelines for carrying out and documenting the work in a standard manner. In addition to the guidelines, this book also provides a case study in the appendix in order to provide readers with a more intuitive and quick grasp of the idea and operation of software project management. Dr. Tommy Yuan is a senior l...

This book serves as a comprehensive treatment of the advanced microscopic properties of lithium- and sodium-based batteries. It focuses on the development of the quasiparticle framework and the successful syntheses of cathode/electrolyte/anode materials in these batteries.FEATURESHighlights lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries as well as lithium sulfur-, aluminum-, and iron-related batteriesDescribes advanced battery materials and their fund...