This book systemically describes the mechanisms underlying the neural regulation of metabolism. Metabolic diseases, including obesity and its associated conditions, currently affect more than 500 million people worldwide. Recent research has shown that the neural regulation of metabolism is a central mechanism that controls metabolic status physiologically and pathophysiologically.The book first introduces the latest studies on the neural and cellular mechanisms of hypothalamic neu...

Global View of Engineering Geology and the Environment contains selected papers from the International Symposium and 9th Asian Regional Conference of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG, Beijing, China, 24-25 September 2013). The book focusses on six topics:- Crustal stability and dynamical geo-hazards;-

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Human Brain and Artificial Intelligence, HBAI 2024, held in Jeju Island, South Korea, on August 3, 2024.The 24 full papers and 5 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed andselected from 74 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI for brain science; AI for brain technology; and brain-inspired AI.

Visual Question Answering (VQA) usually combines visual inputs like image and video with a natural language question concerning the input and generates a natural language answer as the output. This is by nature a multi-disciplinary research problem, involving computer vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP), knowledge representation and reasoning (KR), etc.Further, VQA is an ambitious undertaking, as it must overcome the challenges of general image understanding and the ques...

Written between 500 BCE and 700 CE, these seven texts have inspired generals for millennia, both in China and the wider world. Featuring Sun Tzu's The Art of War, this new translation brings to light the military masterpieces of ancient China. These seven texts display an understanding of strategy and warfare still relevant more than 2,000 years after they were originally written. Together, they present a uniquely eastern tradition of warfare that emphasizes speed, stealth, and cu...

Offers an up-to-date overview of Battery Passports for Sustainable Lifecycle ManagementBattery Passport: A Comprehensive Guide to Technology, Policy, and Global Implementation explores one of the most pressing developments in the global battery industry: the creation and implementation of digital passports to track batteries across their full lifecycle. As demand for electric vehicles, renewable energy storage, and portable devices accelerates, supply chai...

This book uncovers the important issues in language learning and teaching in the intelligent, digital era. “Social connectivity” is a contemporary style of learning and living. By engaging in the connectivity of physical and digital worlds, how essential parts of language learning and teaching can be achieved? How can the advanced technologies, such as virtual reality and artificial intelligent, be used to solve the problems encountered by language learners? To answer the above mentioned q...

"The Book of War" is a seminal text attributed to Sunzi, a legendary military strategist from ancient China. This classic work delves into the philosophy and strategy of warfare, emphasizing the importance of adaptability, intelligence, and the psychological aspects of conflict. Sunzi's teachings advocate for understanding both oneself and the enemy, promoting the idea that the best victory is one that is achieved without fighting. The text has influenced military leaders and strategists t...

This book mainly presents the state-of-the-art development in indoor sound environment. Not simply introducing the research on the acoustic environment or noise level of indoor building, the book considers the differences in the function of buildings and the perception of acoustic environment, as well as the relationship between sound quality and health and behavior. The book includes the multidisciplinary studies in architecture, acoustics, environmental science, psychology, sociology, an...

Comprehensive reference detailing key aspects of SHE, enabling readers to formulate different kinds of SHE equations, effectively solve the nonlinear SHE equations, and grasp key aspects of SHE applications.Unified Selective Harmonic Elimination for Power Converters focuses on the three main challenges of selective harmonic elimination (SHE)—the mathematical modeling of fundamental and harmonic components using the pre-defined waveform, accurately solving ...

This is the fourth volume in a series of books focusing on natural gas engineering, focusing on two of the most important issues facing the industry today: disposal and enhanced recovery of natural gas. This volume includes information for both upstream and downstream operations, including chapters on shale, geological issues, chemical and thermodynamic models, and much more.Written by some of the most well-known and respected chemical and process engineers working with natural gas...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018, held in Chiayi, Taiwan, in May 2018.The 50 full papers and 19 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Lexical Semantics; Applications of Natural Language Processing; Lexical Resources; Corpus Linguistics.