Sea of Freedom: One Man's Struggle to Leave Mao's China traces Li Kong's journey from innocent child to educated man. Forced to flee the threat of persecution, he decided to escape to Hong Kong and eventually make his way to the United States. His journey was both physically and spiritually harrowing. This incredible true story of one man's escape from China during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976, a story of miracles and persistence despite incredible odds, is a story that anyone who ...

Riri lives in a lively and colorful little world. There is always something to do and talk about every day. Always on the move, Riri enjoys her enriching work and leisure as a new early spring arrives with the blooms. Read about them in this illustrated book.

This book focuses on the energy storage system and their application technologies, consolidating the author's theoretical accumulation and practical experience in power energy storage, distributed generation, microgrids, and smart grids in recent years. It is divided into three parts. The first part is an overview, which first focuses on the revolutionary development of the power system and analyzes the role of energy storage in power system frequency regulation, peak shaving, renewable en...

In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the field of healthcare delivery systems. Scientists and practitioners are constantly searching for ways to improve the safety, quality and efficiency of these systems in order to achieve better patient outcome.This book focuses on the research and best practices in healthcare engineering and technology assessment. With contributions from researchers in the fields of healthcare system stochastic modeling, simulation, optimization and...

This book comprehensively provides innovative technologies related to the traditional Chinese medicinal materials industry. It covers potential or practical applications, which include, but not limited to honeysuckle detection, extraction and functional component components from Rhizoma Polygonati, Panax notoginseng, and new qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques application in the chemical components determination of Codonopsis pilosula (Franch.). Chin...

Waste Energy Harvesting overviews the latest progress in waste energy harvesting technologies, with specific focusing on waste thermal mechanical energies. Thermal energy harvesting technologies include thermoelectric effect, storage through phase change materials and pyroelectric effect. Waste mechanical energy harvesting technologies include piezoelectric (ferroelectric) effect with ferroelectric materials and nanogenerators. The book aims to strengthen the syllabus in energy, materials ...

This book includes 43 case studies showcasing the application of basic education informatization. It shares the experiences of 43 schools in the construction and application of educational informatization in various regions in China. It aims to promote the balanced development of education and expand the coverage of quality education resources. This book also highlights the achievements of these schools in constructing school-based resources, and changing teaching modes and optimizing clas...

“This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th CCF Conference on BigData 2024, which took place in Qingdao, China, in August 2024” to “This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th CCF Conference on BigData 2024, which took place in Qingdao, China, during 9-11 August, 2024.The 26 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 219 submissions. The topics of accepted papers include Big data, Data Science, System Architecture a...

Riri lives in a lively and colorful little world. There is always something to do and talk about every day. Always on the move, Riri enjoys her enriching work and leisure very much. Read about them in this illustrated book.

Radar High-Speed Target Detection via Coherent Integration Transform offers a systematic presentation of high-speed radar target detection methods using coherent integration transforms including the signal model, derivations of coherent integration transforms, and definitions of related key concepts.The authors present mathematical models and design principles necessary to analyze the behavior of each type of coherent integration transform, and based on this, they ...

This open access book includes instruction of national mineral database 2020 and atlas of national mineral deposits distribution derived from national mineral database 2020. National mineral database 2020 is based on data from National Geological Archives China(NGAC).Moreover, it introduces the construction method and updates maintenance mechanism of the mineral deposits database and proposes the concept of updating data based on collected archives. The construction guideline on na...

Designing Clinical Research sets the standard for providing a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, with an easy-to-read, uncomplicated presentation. This product incorporates current research methodology--including molecular and genetic clinical research--and offers an updated syllabus for conducting a clinical research workshop. Emphasis is on common sense as the main ingredient of good science. The book explains how to choose well-focu...