**Named one of The Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2021."Winter Pasture is Li Juan's crowning achievement, shattering the boundaries between nature writing and personal memoir."—Smithsonian Magazine"Li Juan spent minus-20-degree nights with nomadic herders in the Chinese steppes. You’ll want to join her."—Laura Miller, Slate"Deeply moving...full of humor, introspection and glimpses into a vanishing lifestyle."...

Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their thirty boisterous camels, 500 sheep and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the winter. The so-called "winter pasture" occurs in a remote region that stretches from the Ulungur River to the Heavenly Mountains. As she journeys acro...

This volume presents articles from the International Conference on Building Materials; ICBM2024 with the theme “Building Materials in the 21st Century”, held at Hanoi in Vietnam, from 31st October to 03rd November. The conference is a diversified-topic forum for international and Vietnamese researchers, academics, industry professionals, experts and policy makers etc. to share their views, and to learn from others about recent and current developments in science and technology of building ...

Supply chain management contends with structures and processes for delivering goods and services to customers. It addresses the core functions of connected businesses to meet downstream demand. This innovative volume provides an authoritative and timely guide to the overarching issues that are ubiquitous throughout the supply chain. In particular, it addresses emerging issues that are applicable across supply chains--such as data science, financial flows, human capital, internet technologi...

This book is a dedicated collection of invited papers associated with ICIAM 2023. It features twelve contributions covering a broad spectrum of topics in applied and computational mathematics, ranging from mathematical modeling and algorithm development to diverse real-world applications.The contents include research on two-phase flows, fluid-structure interactions, and free boundary and interface problems. Each paper presents advances in mathematical modeling, analytical technique...

The regulation of sovereign financing is a highly topical and significant issue, in the light of continuing global financial turmoil. This book assesses the role of international law in sovereign financing, addressing this issue from both legal and economic standpoints. It takes as a starting point the recent report 'Principles on Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing' by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). This report was endorsed by the United Nations G...

This three-volume set LNCS 16431-16433 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, BESC 2025 held in Hong Kong SAR, China, during October 16–18, 2025.The 18 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions.These papers focus on various aspects of social computing, applied psychology, behaviour pattern learning, text and sentimentanalysi...

This three-volume set LNCS 16431-16433 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, BESC 2025 held in Hong Kong SAR, China, during October 16–18, 2025.The 18 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions.These papers focus on various aspects of social computing, applied psychology, behaviour pattern learning, text and sentimentanalysi...

Distributed Optimal Control of Large-Scale Wind Farm Clusters: Optimal Active and Reactive Power Control, and Fault Ride Through, a new volume in the Elsevier Wind Energy Engineering series, explores the latest advances in distributed optimal control of large-scale wind farm clusters, also describing distributed optimal control techniques for high voltage ride through (HVRT). Both mathematical formulations and algorithm details are provided, along with MATLAB codes to replicate and impleme...

As the first English-language book on Taiwan’s relations with Latin America, this book examines the major issues and theoretical debates on Taiwan’s activities in Latin America, and its relations with the US and China. Latin America has become a crucial frontline for Taiwan. Today, more than at any time since the end of WWII, Taiwan’s future as an independent state hinges on the balance of power between the United States and China. This book provides the most detailed and sophisticated ana...

Written by leading experts, this self-contained text provides systematic coverage of LDPC codes and their construction techniques, unifying both algebraic- and graph-based approaches into a single theoretical framework (the superposition construction). An algebraic method for constructing protograph LDPC codes is described, and entirely new codes and techniques are presented. These include a new class of LDPC codes with doubly quasi-cyclic structure, as well as algebraic methods for constr...

Multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) and uncertain optimization problems (UOPs) which widely exist in real life are challengeable problems in the fields of decision making, system designing, and scheduling, amongst others. Decomposition exploits the ideas of ‘making things simple’ and ‘divide and conquer’ to transform a complex problem into a series of simple ones with the aim of reducing the computational complexity. In order to tackle the abovementioned two types of compl...