The five-volume set constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2024, and of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2024, which were held during September 13-15, in Suzhou, China.The 35 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from over 496 submissions. The LSMS and ICSEE international conference series aim to bring toget...

Like Goodnight Moon and Time for Bed, this lyrical and soothing picture book from an award-winning author/illustrator team is sure to become a bedtime favorite.Sometimes bedtime feels like a dark cave in the gloomy woods—like it's about to be you and no one else until morning. But this gentle, lovely book helps children remember that they are never alone. Not only is a parent probably right down the hall, but they are also among animals and neighb...

Comprehensive text on the fundamentals of systematic design methods and analysis for slow-wave substrate integrated waveguideEnriched with practical examples and illustrations, Slow-Wave Substrate-Integrated Waveguides introduces the application of slow-wave substrate-integrated waveguides in miniaturized and integrated antennas. The book details the advantages of microstrip lines and metal waveguides, with low cost, low loss, and easy-to-integrate with pl...

The unprecedented crises that the contemporary educational world and global society are facing, intricately interwoven with traumas of human tragedies and eco-disasters, call for responses based upon the awareness of the connectedness within, between, and among individuals, groups, nations, and our shared planetary environment. We desperately need to heal, to heal from the injuries of wars, dominations, and polarizations, and to heal education’s instrumental disconnections from its own exi...

This book focuses on numerical methods for grounding problems in substation grounding systems, which are rooted in horizontal multilayered earth models. The book discusses both theories and engineering applications and provides case studies to verify the accuracy of the methods introduced. Up to ten horizontal multilayered soil models were considered. This book employs numerical algorithms for Galerkin’s method, including Galerkin’s method of moments, Galerkin’s boundary element method, an...

The book summarizes the latest research achievements of the "CAS Earth Poles: Big Data for the Three Poles" project in actively responding to the United Nations' sustainable development goals (SDGs). The book covers six aspects: projections of future climate change in polar regions, assessment and response to climate-related cryospheric disasters, land water resource and terrestrial ecological environments in polar regions, marine environmental changes, the SDG big data platform, and big d...

This book presents advances in the research of educational robotics and showcases how they can be used to facilitate learning. It summarizes popular and relevant terms and theories in educational robotics via analyzing one hundred influential journal articles in this field, to provide readers background knowledge on the subject matter. This book also guides readers in understanding how different types of robotics are utilized to promote learning among different types of students, in differ...

Materials metrology, a burgeoning branch of the field, is a subject of intense scrutiny by both researchers and stakeholders. The focal points of their attention are twofold: understanding the objectives of material metrology research and determining effective methods for utilizing its findings. Researchers and stakeholders delve into the intricacies of ensuring traceability of complex units from equipment and maintaining consistency in measurement results across various methods. The appli...

“I have tried to answer some really big questions.“But there are other big questions I need you to help answer.”Join Stephen Hawking as he encourages young readers to pose their own theories to some of our universe’s biggest questions. Questions like:- How can we take care of each other?- What is in a black hole?- What else is out there in our universe?With g...

**Texas 2 x 2 ListThe Nature Generation's 2025 Green Earth Book Award Short ListDiscover how both outdoor and indoor farms sustainably grow the food we eat throughout the year in this vibrant, rhyming picture book.**Outdoor farm,tractors toil.Indoor farm,zero soil.With energetic, enchanting verse and sunshiny, colorful illustrations, discover how the food you eat is grown both outside—and inside! Join t...

This lovely board book reassures young ones that wherever they go, they carry the love of a parent. So no matter where they roam, they’ll always be home.So if you ride to the corner, to the mountains, the sea,there’s not a place in this world that I won’t be.Wherever you travel and wherever you roam,just know, my sweet child, you will always be home.Home begins as a parent’s arms, and as the child in ...

This book, with a focus on the establishment of urban public security risk prevention and control system, carries out a comprehensive review and a comparative study of its development. It provides a systematical analysis to the inevitable security issues in the process of urban development and conducts an in-depth discussion on the background of times featuring heightened security risks as well as the main sources of current urban public security risks. In addition to analyzing the inner s...