This book tells the story of the Mount Songshan area architecture in simple terms, while also providing detailed information on the history of Buddhist architecture. The history of the Mount Songshan area can be traced back to the Xia Dynasty in the 23rd century B.C. The heritage architecture in this area has seen the rise and fall of various powers – including the Han Dynasty, Northern Wei Dynasty, Tang and Song Empires, Jin Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming and Qing Empires – and refle...

Reliability Based Aircraft Maintenance Optimization and Applications presents flexible and cost-effective maintenance schedules for aircraft structures, particular in composite airframes. By applying an intelligent rating system, and the back-propagation network (BPN) method and FTA technique, a new approach was created to assist users in determining inspection intervals for new aircraft structures, especially in composite structures. This book also discusses the influence of Structure Hea...

Thorough discussion of data-driven and first principles models for energy-relevant systems and processes, approached through various in-depth case studiesApplied AI Techniques in the Process Industry identifies and categorizes the various hybrid models available that integrate data-driven models for energy-relevant systems and processes with different forms of process knowledge and domain expertise. State-of-the-art techniques such as reduced-order modelin...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2024, held in Wuhan, China, during October 18–20, 2024.The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. As the flagship conference of CIPS, CCIR focuses on the development of China’s internet industry and provides a broad platform for the exchange of the latest academic and technological achievements in the field of informat...

Towards Sustainable Chemical Processes describes a comprehensive framework for sustainability assessment, design and the processes optimization of chemical engineering. Beginning with the analysis and assessment in the early stage of chemical products' initiating, this book focuses on the combination of science sustainability and process system engineering, involving mathematical models, industrial ecology, circular economy, energy planning, process integration and sustainability engineeri...

Waste to Renewable Biohydrogen: Volume 1: Advances in Theory and Experiments provides a comprehensive overview of the advances, processes and technologies for waste treatment to hydrogen production. It introduces and compares the most widely adopted and most promising technologies, such as dark fermentation, thermochemical and photosynthetic processes. In this part, potential estimation, feasibility analysis, feedstock pretreatment, advanced waste-to-biohydrogen processes and each individu...

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the water resources status in the northern areas of the Qinling Mountains, China, which are considered strategically important as the central water tower of China. The book presents the findings of a thorough water resources research conducted in the northern Qinling Mountainous areas from 2019 to 2022. The research included field investigations of the main rivers and groundwater in the region, estimation of base flow for the main rivers,...

Progress in Mine Safety Science and Engineering II discusses mine safety techniques and technologies, methods and approaches, as well as problems and issues, and will be of invaluable to academics and engineers interested or involved in mine safety issues.

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Mukouda Tsuyoshi – alias, ‘Mukohda’ – was an ordinary Japanese salaryman until he was summoned to a fantasy world of swords and magic. Mukohda’s unique skill made him the only person in this world with access to modern Japanese products, but the real reason he caught the attention of the legendary magic beast, Fenrir, was his ability to cook delicious food!Now with a ludicrously overpowered Fenrir and a baby slime in tow, Mukohda and friends continue their laid-back journey in sear...

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“I want to learn to like you.”After screwing up the entrance exam for the high school she wanted, studious Nagisa has resolved to keep her chin up and move on. That is, until she meets a sickly girl named Mashiro at her new school—the very same girl who threw a wrench into her plans on exam day! Every time Nagisa looks her in the eye, she remembers her failure. Even so, she vows to warm up to Mashiro rather than hate her. And when Mashiro is inspired to change her own outlook on life, it m...