The book presents a set of novel, efficient and systematic concurrent multiscale optimization methods by considering the distribution of the material in macro-scale and the unit-cell configuration design in micro-scale simultaneously. Different from the traditional optimization method that is performed in a single scale, the proposed methods could generate a great deal of improvements in structural performance through the multiscale structure-material concurrent optimum design.The proposed...

A major objective of this monograph is to identify the impact of thermal environment on urban center district. It provides in-depth evaluation and research on the correlation between urban spatial morphology indicator and urban thermal environment. In addition, the distribution characteristics of thermal environment and urban morphology units sample are also evaluated intensively. Furthermore, it analyses from three aspects of urban planning, architecture and landscape respectively and inc...

This book focuses on the urban wind environment of urban center district. Through urban spatial morphology and urban space units it provides in-depth evaluation and research on the correlation between urban spatial morphology indicator and urban wind environment. Based on urban spatial morphology indicators, such as building density, FAR, average building height and wind environment parameter, it conducts quantitative analysis and statistic evaluation to acquire the influence relationship ...

The main focus of this monograph is urban acoustic environment of urban spatial morphology.It provides in-depth evaluation and research on the correlation between urban spatial morphology indicator and urban acoustic environment using urban spatial morphology and urban space units. Furthermore, it conducts quantitative analysis and statistic evaluation to reveal the relationship between urban planning indicators and acoustic environment. It also provides optimized strategies from three asp...

This book combines the ideologies of parentocracy and consumer theory as theoretical lenses to view the private supplementary tutoring, also known as shadow education, with a focus on the demand at primary and lower secondary levels in China. It first explains parents’ motivations of seeking private tutoring and their decision-making dynamics, and then explores the evolving micro-level process of demand that has changed over time. It further investigates how demand for private tutoring var...

Extreme Value Modeling and Risk Analysis: Methods and Applications presents a broad overview of statistical modeling of extreme events along with the most recent methodologies and various applications. The book brings together background material and advanced topics, eliminating the need to sort through the massive amount of literature on the subje

“If you’re grumpy or sad, frustrated or mad, just give a shout, and hug it out.”With the healing power of a hug and an act of kindness, little Hugga Loula diffuses all sorts of situations. Featuring colorful illustrations and charming refrain, Hugga Loula gives us an adorable hero offering care, comfort, and love to a world that desperately needs all three.

As the last grain of sand slipped through the black hourglass in the antique shop, Adam, clutching the bloodied dagger that had pierced his lover's chest, purchased a one-way ticket twenty thousand years into the past.He tried to alter history caught between a brutal queen and a vampire count, hoping to rescue his deceased lover from a clan-annihilation crisis, only to find his temporal flow completely misaligned with the era; even a single warning about the future would bring a de...

Plunged into an inescapable dead end where time itself stands completely still, An Yu faces the ultimate betrayal as his trusted companions are manipulated by dark sorcery to turn against him. With his back against the wall, he has no choice but to rely on the formidable martial protection of the mysterious girl Chun, forcing a desperate leap a thousand years into the past to find a way to break the deadlock.Yet when he finally attempts to sever the insidious curse at its very sour...

An Yu opens the Black Book and discovers that his companions' death records have been crossed out a full hundred times. Every alteration is accompanied by a bizarre collapse of the laws of time in reality. The old order has just perished, and the Time Hunters lurking in the shadows are already tailing him like phantoms. They do not kill; they merely erase existence.To survive, An Yu tries to piece together the true motives of the Time Hunters, only to realize that the deeper he dig...

An Yu sat in the back row, letting his classmates splash cold water onto his disabled legs while the entire class mocked the destitute transfer student with no background. No one knew that as the school bell rang, the Black Book in his pocket was recording a sacrifice spanning five hundred years. To reverse the fate of a ghost sect master who had bitterly waited for his lover, An Yu had just turned the hands of destiny in twisted time and space, forcibly erasing that doomed tragic ending a...

Blood from his slit wrists mixes into the freezing seawater as Chen Guo, driven to drop out and slit his wrists by the campus bully Lan Zhuolin, steps deeper into the abyss of despair. Years of family oppression obsessed solely with grades and endless school bullying have long trampled his dignity into the mud, making even death his only escape.Just as his soul is about to be devoured by the abyss, a cruel dark baptism forcibly tears apart his battered mind. Amidst the endless ruin...