Leadership: Real-World Stories & Timeless Theories, Second Edition takes readers on a comprehensive journey through the evolving world of leadership, blending classic theories with contemporary challenges and practical insights. Designed for students, professionals, and lifelong learners, this book unpacks what it truly means to lead in the 21st century, offering both inspiration and actionable strategies.Leadership today is no longer about command and control; it ...

Innovation through specific and rational design and functionalization has led to the development of a wide range of mesoporous materials with varying morphologies (hexagonal, cubic, rod-like), structures (silicates, carbons, metal oxides), and unique functionalities (doping, acid functionalization) that currently makes this field one of the most exciting in materials science and energy applications. This book focuses primarily on the rapid progress in their application in energy conversion...

This book revisits the concept of the transit catchment area (TCA) and examines evolving practices in TCA planning against the backdrop of expanding big and open data (BOD) in transit-oriented land use planning.In many developed countries and regions, car dependence and urban sprawl have led to undesirable outcomes. Improved transit and land use planning can help create well-connected areas where people, businesses, and employers want to be. But how can we make these transit zones ...

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Science and Engineering: Fundamentals, Materials, and Technologies is a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of solid oxide fuel cells. In addition to systematically reviewing the science and technologies of solid oxide fuel cells, the book provides numerical simulations, engineering applications and other important guidance on the commercialization and engineering of solid oxide fuel cells. The opening chapters of the book systematically explain the fundam...

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 2023 7th Chinese Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control (CCSICC2023), held in Nanjing, China on November 17-19, 2023. The topics covered include but are not limited to: reviews and discussions of swarm intelligence, basic theories on swarm intelligence, swarm communication and networking, swarm perception, awareness and location, swarm decision and planning, cooperative control, cooperative guidance, swar...

There are a large number of books available on fuel cells; however, the majority are on specific types of fuel cells such as solid oxide fuel cells, proton exchange membrane fuel cells, or on specific technical aspects of fuel cells, e.g., the system or stack engineering. Thus, there is a need for a book focused on materials requirements in fuel cells. Key Materials in Low-Temperature Fuel Cells is a concise source of the most important and key materials and catalysts in low-temperature fu...

Significant progress has been made on nonlinear control systems in the past two decades. However, many of the existing nonlinear control methods cannot be readily used to cope with communication and networking issues without nontrivial modifications. For example, small quantization errors may cause the performance of a "well-designed" nonlinear control system to deteriorate.Motivated by the need for new tools to solve complex problems resulting from smart power grids, biological pr...

This book major contains 27 courses and the author comments about courses.This book is intended to Enlighten people. Human consciousness is like acomputer system, and the faith system is the foundation program forsustaining the whole system.Truth is like a bug to smash all programs. When the bug makes the wholesystem break down, enlightenment is reached. There will be a non-systemhuman.When one person unloads the system, wisdom may ap...

This book is a collection of research papers from the 3rd International Conference on the Frontiers of Robotics and Software Engineering (FRSE 2025), featuring contributions from leading experts in the field. It presents innovative research in the fields of robotics and software engineering, showcasing cutting-edge topics such as robot design, industrial automation, human-robot interaction, medical robotics, and advanced algorithms. The proceedings explore developments in cyber robotics, m...

This book mainly deals with grassland digitalization and recognition through computer vision, which will make contributions to implement of grass auto recognition and data acquisition. Taking advantage of computer vision, it focuses on intrinsic feature extraction to realize the functions such as auto recognition of forage seeds and microscope images mosaic. The book presents a new approach for identification of grass seeds, with clear figures and detailed tables. It enlightens reader by s...

This book presents the latest international research achievements in complex chaotic systems, establishing itself as an reference with high value in nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory. The book systematically explores dynamical behaviors of complex chaotic systems through control methods and engineering technologies, with particular emphasis on chaos synchronization and its revolutionary applications in secure communication. It introduces chaos synchronization including anti-synchronizati...

This book constitutes the conference proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT 2022, held in Bintan Island, Indonesia, in November 2022.A total of 15 papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The main conference focuses on theoretical advances or practical implementations in image and video technology.