The biography of Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, who was awarded the highly prestigious Melvil Dewey Medal by the American Library Association in 2015, will be welcomed by readers interested in knowing not only more about Lee’s personal achievements and contributions in librarianship but also about the rapid changes in the library profession in general. The biography, written by Ms. Yang Yang of China Central Television in Beijing, was first published in Chinese in China in 2011. It was republished in Ta...

This book is used as a reference book for researcher and engineer of the world to learn the building monitoring standard of China for the first time, and is also be used as a reference manual for engineer to engage in practical monitoring projects. The standard for project construction of “Technical Code for Monitoring of Building Structures in Qinghai Province” is the first standard for building structure monitoring engineering in China, which integrates design, construction and acceptanc...

This book first provides a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art IoT technologies and applications in different industrial sectors and public services. The authors give in-depth analyses of fog computing architecture and key technologies that fulfill the challenging requirements of enabling computing services anywhere along the cloud-to-thing continuum. Further, in order to make IoT systems more intelligent and more efficient, a fog-enabled service architecture is proposed to address th...

This book summarizes recent advances in epoxy vitrimer research, giving thorough discussion of the classification and fabrication of epoxy vitrimers and their composites. Epoxy vitrimers are reversible covalently crosslinked networks with dynamic covalent bonds, combining the excellent mechanical properties of thermosets with the re-processability of thermoplastics. The authors explore and summarize many current and potential applications of epoxy vitrimer composites across the domains of ...

SQL has been the default language of application databases for half a century. That default is now holding application state back.Modern applications rarely fit neatly into SQL's table-first model. A product may need transactions, graph relationships, documents, full-text search, vector similarity, and persistent AI memory in the same workflow. The usual response is to add ORM layers, side indexes, vector stores, and auxiliary services-making ordinary application d...

Before her Rebirth, She was Abandoned by her Parents, Then Murdered by Her Seemingly Pure but Vile Younger Sister.After her rebirth, She Kicked all Her Scum Boyfriends to The Curb and Began a Campaign of Abuse Against the Superficially Perfect.........Rumors were Rife on the Internet That Qin Sheng was a Kept Woman? A bunch of computer nerds, “Let’s hack the keyboard warriors’ computers.”The first director, “Boss, have you written the script yet?”The medi...

Once transmigrated, he was sent to the monarch's room in a daze. If you look closely, this husband Tian Xu can be considered a Floral Male! Gritting his teeth, he decided to put it down … But did her husband torture her every day? The reason was that she was hooked up with his Seventh Brother?! God, what did her previous self do …

"Wow, handsome, why are there stars in your eyes?""Gorilla? I only have you in my eyes. ""You're good or bad, that makes me feel shy.""What's there to be shy about when you say you're a gorilla?""What?" "Say it again!"A certain woman's hair instantly exploded.

This thesis reports on the search for dark matter in data taken with the ATLAS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The identification of dark matter and the determination of its properties are among the highest priorities in elementary particle physics and cosmology. The most likely candidate, a weakly interacting massive particle, could be produced in the high energy proton-proton collisions at the LHC.The analysis presented here is unique in looking for dark matter pr...

A veteran journalist presents "an epic account of the worst famine in history . . . a landmark in the Chinese people's own efforts to confront their history" (Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books).An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is stil...

Flip it, Make it, Love it!In DIY Thrift Flip: Sewing Techniques for Transforming Old Clothes into Fun, Wearable Fashions, expert thrift flipper April Yang, aka Coolirpa, gives you the ultimate guide to turning secondhand finds into trendy, one-of-a-kind fashions.Perfect for anyone with big fashion dreams and a small budget, whether you’re looking to slay your style game or create an Insta-worthy wardrobe makeover, this book has everything you need ...

Inside Out and Back Again meets Millicent Min, Girl Genius in this timely, hopeful middle-grade novel with a contemporary Chinese twist.Winner of the Asian / Pacific American Award for Children's Literature!* "Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewMia Tang has a lot of secrets.Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigra...