In the Gutter Warrens, at the base of a mountain she will never be allowed to climb, Meilin Yin sorts the garbage the powerful throw away.Dead spirit stones. Withered herbs. Broken talismans. For seven years she has survived on the refuse of Azure Peak Sect, the only scavenger who bothers to bring intact work to Old Mu's guild, the only one who notices that things others call worthless still remember what they used to be.Then she discovers something no one was supposed to f...

The little trash of the Exorcist Family had been packaged and given to someone else to be his wife.After he was deceived and humiliated.Married to his most hated enemy.Only a husband is good in this world.His family treated him like a root and his enemies treated him like a treasure.

The little trash of the Exorcist Family had been packaged and given to someone else to be his wife.After he was deceived and humiliated.Married to his most hated enemy.Only a husband is good in this world.His family treated him like a root and his enemies treated him like a treasure.

This book provides systematical exhibitions of grabbing coordination opportunities for energy management in low-carbon power systems in terms of the transmission level, distribution level, and interactions with heterogeneous energy flows. Particularly, this book focuses on coordinated energy management for low-carbon power systems from a resource aggregation perspective which can be plug-and-play in practice with higher effectiveness. This book starts with introducing resource aggregation ...

Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) synthesize intracellular nano-sized minerals of magnetite and/or greigite magnetosomes for magnetic orientation. They play important roles in global iron cycling and sedimentary magnetism, and have a broad range of potential applications in both biotechnological and biomedical fields. However, because the majority of MTB in nature remain unculturable, our understanding of these specific bacteria remains fairly limited. This thesis describes the development of a...

Introduces the detailed basis and recent development of single molecule/particle nanocatalysis based on single molecule techniquesThis unique book introduces and summarizes the recent development of single molecule/particle nanocatalysis to provide both comprehensive coverage of fundamentals for different methods now in widespread use and the extensive applications in different catalytic systems. Chapters are mainly based on different detection methods, including single molecule fl...

Addressing the rising security issues during the design stages of cyber-physical systems, this book develops a systematic approach to address security at early design stages together with all other design constraints. Cyber-attacks become more threatening as systems are becoming more connected with the surrounding environment, infrastructures, and other systems. Security mechanisms can be designed to protect against attacks and meet security requirements, but there are many challenges of a...

Silk ribbon embroidery is a handicraft that uses colorful and delicate ribbons as the main material to stitch floral patterns on fabric. The patterns are three dimensional with defined layering effects which are suitable to decorate evening gowns, sweaters, cushions, and even craft pictures.This ribbon embroidery book breaks through the traditional style of Western silk ribbon embroidery by incorporating traditional Chinese elements such as simple layouts with liubai (leav...

This book offers a new approach to the long-standing problem of high-Tc copper-oxide superconductors. It has been demonstrated that starting from a strongly correlated Hamiltonian, even within the mean-field regime, the “competing orders” revealed by experiments can be achieved using numerical calculations. In the introduction, readers will find a brief review of the high-Tc problem and the unique challenges it poses, as well as a comparatively simple numerical approach, the renormalized m...

This book mainly presents methods based on neural dynamics for the time-varying problems with applications, together with the corresponding theoretical analysis, simulative examples, and physical experiments. Based on these methods, their applications include motion planning of redundant manipulators, filter design, winner-take-all operation, multiple-input multiple-output system configuration, multi-linear tensor equation solving, and manipulability optimization are also presented. In thi...

This open access book presents a series of complicated hydraulic phenomena and related mechanism of high-speed flows in head-head dam. According to the basic hydraulic theory, detailed experiments and numerical simulations, microscopic scale analysis on cavitation bubbles, air bubbles, turbulent eddy vortices and sand grains are examined systemically. These investigations on microscopic fluid mechanics, including cavitation erosion, aeration protection, air–water flow, energy dissipation a...

The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move forward. This in-depth ethnography and social history of the islands focuses on how individual c...