This prizewinning PhD thesis presents a general discussion of the orbital motion close to solar system small bodies (SSSBs), which induce non-central asymmetric gravitational fields in their neighborhoods. It introduces the methods of qualitative theory in nonlinear dynamics to the study of local/global behaviors around SSSBs. Detailed mechanical models are employed throughout this dissertation, and specific numeric techniques are developed to compensate for the difficulties of directly an...

This book offers a pioneering exploration of classification-based derivative-free optimization (DFO), providing researchers and professionals in artificial intelligence, machine learning, AutoML, and optimization with a robust framework for addressing complex, large-scale problems where gradients are unavailable. By bridging theoretical foundations with practical implementations, it fills critical gaps in the field, making it an indispensable resource for both academic and industrial audie...

The Fairy Chang'e's dance hurt her waist. Xiao Bao, give me a massage. The Seven Fairies' stomachs are hurting. Xiao Bao, I want you to massage it for me. The intern Niu Xiaobao suffered a car accident and died with grievances. His soul was brought to the Heavenly Court and was rewarded by the Jade Emperor.

With a pair of magical eyes and tenacity, he is committed to being the best doctor.He is born with a pair of eyes that can clearly see through the human body in the dark. This special ability has made his dream of being a famous doctor. A pair of magical eyes can always find lesions that other doctors cannot see.But because he accidentally discovered the secret of his boss, his life was severely hit. The boss assigned him to work in a very remote place, whe...

With a pair of magical eyes and tenacity, he is committed to being the best doctor.He is born with a pair of eyes that can clearly see through the human body in the dark. This special ability has made his dream of being a famous doctor. A pair of magical eyes can always find lesions that other doctors cannot see.But because he accidentally discovered the secret of his boss, his life was severely hit. The boss assigned him to work in a very remote place, whe...

With a pair of magical eyes and tenacity, he is committed to being the best doctor.He is born with a pair of eyes that can clearly see through the human body in the dark. This special ability has made his dream of being a famous doctor. A pair of magical eyes can always find lesions that other doctors cannot see.But because he accidentally discovered the secret of his boss, his life was severely hit. The boss assigned him to work in a very remote place, whe...

Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought provides a close reading of how Lacan mobilizes concepts from Chan Buddhist philosophy, culture, and practice in his later teachings.The book emerged from the three co-authors’ engagement with Lacan’s 1962–1963 Seminar on Anxiety, and the significance of Lacan’s original interpretation of the Buddhist principle that desire is the cause of suffering. The book reads key Lacanian concepts – such as the objet a, jouissance, the real, Ni...

This book focuses on the influence of social media on Chinese society. The respective chapters present research by top-tier communication scholars from prominent Chinese universities and offer revealing findings on the interplay between media / social media, economics and politics. To that end, both qualitative and quantitative methods based on classical theories of communication and economics are drawn upon.The book explores four main areas: the challenges and opportunities for Ch...

This book figures out that network security and informatization have entered a development stage of greater permeation and deeper integration into all aspects of the economy and society. In particular since the 2008 financial crisis, the world’s major economies have placed a strategic focus on network security and informatization in order to seek out new growth points, alleviate energy and ecological pressures, improve living standards, and improve social governance through new technologic...

This book is the first on the history of Chinese public relations, and has been selected as one of the “40 representative books for 40 years of public relations in China” by the Public Relations Society of China. In four chapters, it systematically reviews and analyzes the trajectory and evolution of public relations in China from the very start – when the “reform and opening” policy was adopted in 1978 – to the present.The book will help both established and new scholars and pract...

CHECK DAM CONSTRUCTION FOR SUSTAINABLE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT AND PLANNINGAuthoritative and comprehensive reference on the potential for watershed development through the use of check damsCheck Dam Construction for Sustainable Watershed Management and Planning summarizes current knowledge of check dams as key soil and water conservation structures in some of the most sensitive and vulnerable ecosystems in the world, as exemplified by...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, DAI 2020, held in Nanjing, China, in October 2020.The 9 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. DAI aims at bringing together international researchers and practitioners in related areas including general AI, multiagent systems, distributed learning, computational game theory, etc., to provide a single, hi...