The book presents selected papers at the 8th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) held in November 2020, at Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. CSMT is a multidisciplinary conference focusing on audio processing and understanding with bias on music and acoustic signals. The primary aim of the conference is to promote the collaboration between art society and technical society in China. In this proceeding, the paper included covers a wide range topic from speech, signal processing, music und...

This book provides a brief introduction to some basic but important problems in celestial mechanics, and particularly in the few-body problem, such as the permissible and forbidden region of motion, the evolution of moment of inertia of a system, and the orbital stability of asteroids in the solar system. All these are based on some main results in the authors' research works, which are related to the qualitative method of celestial mechanics and nonlinear dynamics. Some of these works are...

This book explores how a major Chinese university pivoted to hybrid online and campus education as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the implications of this ‘turning point’ for Chinese higher education, and also for higher education globally. It looks at how the prolonged disruption has impacted the design of future hybrid arrangements for university teaching.Presented in four parts, the book unpacks Tsinghua’s thoughtful yet swift strides into the new era of ‘global hybrid h...

Advances in Bioenergy, Volume Seven, the latest release in the series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Specific chapters in this new release include Arrested Anaerobic Digestion, PHA Production from Renewable Sources, Copolymers, Odor control for anaerobic digestion, and Lignin Biorefinery. - Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of aut...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2023, which took place in Dornbirn, Austria, in December 2023.The 21 full technical papers, 6 industrial papers, 8 short papers and 1 poster paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The book also contains one tutorial paper, 11 workshop papers and 3 doctoral symposium papers.The contributions were organized in top...

This book is based on the authors' research and microgrid projects since 2009, and is the most up-to-date resource on the development of microgrid technologies. In addition to basic facility and network design concepts, it covers related subjects including power supply programming and energy optimization, which means it can serve as a single volume reference to the complete microgrid system implementation. - Provides a systematic introduction to the basic concepts, key technologies, and pr...

This book sheds light on various modes and dimensions of the linguistic landscape to fulfill diverse functions, transcending sociolinguistics to integrate with urban public image theory. This integration shapes city images and embodies the personalized innovative spirit and humane warmth of international metropolises. This book also applies urban branding theory, together with case analysis and fieldwork methods to study how Shanghai's image as an international metropolis is established th...

Theory and Calculation of Heat Transfer in Furnaces covers the heat transfer process in furnaces, how it is related to energy exchange, the characteristics of efficiency, and the cleaning of combustion, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the simultaneous physical and chemical processes that occur in boiler combustion, flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer. - Covers all the typical boilers with most fuels, as well as the effects of ash deposition and slagging on heat t...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the satellite workshops held around the 17th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2019, in Bogota, Colombia, in June 2019.The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They stem from the following workshops:AIBlock 2019:First International Workshop on Application Intelligence and Blockchain SecurityAIoTS ...

This book provides an overview of asphalt pavement maintenance, highlighting the key asphalt pavement maintenance technologies in China. It analyzes the trend toward preventive maintenance technologies and proposes technical guidelines and implementation rules for preventive maintenance. As such it is a valuable reference resource for technicians in related industries, both in China and abroad, as well as professionals involved in road infrastructure maintenance projects in countries parti...

This book LNCS 15336 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2024, held in Hong Kong, China, during December 8-10, 2024.The 18 full papers and 11 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The scope of the conference includes:(1) medical/health/biomedicine information resources, such as patient medical records, devices and equipments, software and tools to capture, store, retrie...

This book provides the fundamental theory of distributed optimization, game and learning. It includes those working directly in optimization,-and also many other issues like time-varying topology, communication delay, equality or inequality constraints,-and random projections. This book is meant for the researcher and engineer who uses distributed optimization, game and learning theory in fields like dynamic economic dispatch, demand response management and PHEV routing of smart grids.