This book tackles a hot topic at the intersection of three major issues in Europe: consumer rights, the way we regulate flexibility of the electricity consumers and our push for renewable energy.

This book explores the transformative potential of solar evaporation in addressing critical global challenges related to water, energy, and resource sustainability. By delving into the fundamental principles of photothermal conversion, heat and mass transport, and phase transition dynamics, it provides a comprehensive understanding of the technology’s mechanisms. Readers will find particular interest in the detailed discussions on advanced material selection, innovative structure designs, ...

This book aims to provide readers with a clear and comprehensive picture of the development of Chinese art. Its main feature is the combination of illustration and text. It highlights representative works of art in the form of illustrations and discusses their styles, themes, and underlying artistic principles. In addition, each chapter of the book focuses on covering a specific period in Chinese art history, striving to capture representative artistic and stylistic features of the period ...

天气炎热，发热头痛，咽喉肿痛，于是凉茶成了人们首选饮品。然而，好多人饮用多次，热症依然不减。为什么？我们该如何使用清热药物，进入一个健康、清凉世界？暑天清热，希望通过凉茶治疗病症，需辨证用药，如在凉茶中加减其他相关药物等，不然就会出现“药茶”不对症。新加坡中医学研究院院长，本地资深中医师郭美伶女士首次亲临指导，为本书传授了部分本地特色清凉药膳，帮助读者减缓热症折磨。如，双花饮、藿香紫苏饮等。凡是以清解里热为主的药物，称为清热药。它具有清热泻火、清热解毒、清热燥湿、清热凉血和清虚热等功效。本书通过中英解析，图文并茂，深入浅出地详细介绍常用清热药、泻下药和化湿药共55味，并配合药物提供了57例药膳制作方法和食材照片，帮助读者认识清热药物，学会制作清热药膳，从而揭开消暑解痛，养生保健的奥秘。This volume introduces 55 well-known balancing herbs and other substances commonly used in TCM. It explains the medicinal effects of these ...

Like everyone else, you have your favourite fruits and vegetables. You may like them green, whilst someone in your home may like them red!But did you know that fruits and vegetables may be classified under five colours, and each colour has its distinctive nutritional values and benefits for the human body? So it’s time you had a feast of the five colours, to enjoy all the nutrients that the colours of nature afford.Written by a health enthusiast from the viewpoint of Traditio...

The two-volume set CCIS 1896 and 1897 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems, BlockSys 2023, which took place in Haikou, China during August 8–10, 2023. The 45 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Anomaly detection on blockchain; edge intelligence and metaver...

The book not only provides empirical evidence of challenges faced by educators and learners during COVID-19 but also gives fresh insights on how educators and education administrators may act proactively to prepare for an emergency situation.The school year of 2020 was unlike any other. Globally, the outbreak of COVID-19 impacted leaners and educators in all levels. Many learners were forced to rapidly transit from face-to-face to online learning, while educators were required to h...

"This publication assembling the practices and discourses of 'Asian contemporary performance' is assuredly a statement of 'the world we have made' for the now and the future, as well as a means of connecting TPAC and other 'worlds.' "－Ruo-Yu LIU, Chairwoman of Taipei Performing Arts Center"While it is now hardly unusual to find choreographers working in an exhibition setting, or visual artists performing on a stage, it is still rare to see practitioners from the differ...

"A highly accessible and practical resource for applying sociocultural theory to both pedagogy and parent involvement. It begins with theory, but then provides excellent examples of how the principles might be meaningfully applied in real classrooms."—Robert Rueda, ProfessorUniversity of Southern CaliforniaEnsure high student achievement in diverse classrooms with this proven instructional model!This vital resource presents e...

Since the end of Dennard scaling in the early 2000s, improving the energy efficiency of computation has been the main concern of the research community and industry. The large energy efficiency gap between general-purpose processors and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) motivates the exploration of customizable architectures, where one can adapt the architecture to the workload. In this Synthesis lecture, we present an overview and introduction of the recent developments on ...

The two-volume set CCIS 1896 and 1897 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems, BlockSys 2023, which took place in Haikou, China during August 8–10, 2023. The 45 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Anomaly detection on blockchain; edge intelligence and metaver...

One of the most important drivers of the Anthropocene was a radical shift in what and how people eat. Industrial agriculture and meat production, new ways of processing, packaging, and distributing food, and the globalization of culinary habits not only upended traditional lifeways around the world but also continue to play a key role in climate change, biodiversity loss, and various other processes that are transforming the Earth system – now rendering food production increasingly precari...