This autobiographical memoir by Mingqing Wu chronicles his journey from a farm boy in rural Guizhou to a prominent researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Through vivid storytelling, it details his experiences during major political movements, academic achievements, geological fieldwork, personal hardships, and his eventual life in Canada. It combines modern Chinese history, popular science knowledge, and compelling stories full of humanity, making it well worth reading.

The Total Safety Factor Method for Tunnel Support Structure Design systematically discusses the entire process of mining tunnel design, including: analysis of surrounding rock self-stability; identification of local support and system support; calculation of rock pressure design value; load structure model and total safety factor calculation method of multi-layer support structure; deformation calculation method of support structure; integrated design method of support strength-deformation...

This book contains a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of July 2019 at the University of Wuhan, China. The chapters included were selected based on a double-blind review process involving external reviewers.

The two-volume set LNCS 10735 and 10736 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2017, held in Harbin, China, in September 2017.The 184 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 264 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on: Best Paper Candidate; Video Coding; Image Super-resolution, Debluring, and Dehazing; Person Identity and Emotion; Tracking and Action Recognition; Detection an...

This book presents the latest progress in enhanced oil recovery technology and introduces the application of various enhanced oil recovery methods in oilfield development. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a continuous theme in oilfield development. Due to the influence of geological conditions, development mode and physical and chemical factors, more than half of the proven oil reserves remain underground and cannot be accessed. Therefore, many enhanced oil recovery methods have been develop...

Elephant tourism is a growing activity in many countries across Asia and Africa and is popular with tourists from all parts of the world. Elephant tourism has grown rapidly, providing the only viable way for elephants and their owners to survive since the banning of logging. Old logging camps have been developed into sanctuaries for some elephants, but many other camps were established as entertainment centres, resulting in serious welfare issues for the elephants and their mahouts. The pr...

The book presents selected papers at the 10th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) held in June 2023, China. CSMT is a multidisciplinary conference focusing on audio processing and understanding with bias on music and acoustic signals. The primary aim of the conference is to promote the collaboration between art society and technical society in China. In this book, the paper included covers a wide range topic from speech, signal processing, music understanding, machine learning,...

Resonance Self-Shielding Calculation Methods in Nuclear Reactors presents the latest progress in resonance self-shielding methods for both deterministic and Mote Carlo methods, including key advances over the last decade such as high-fidelity resonance treatment, resonance interference effect and multi-group equivalence. As the demand for high-fidelity resonance self-shielding treatment is increasing due to the rapid development of advanced nuclear reactor concepts and progression in high ...

The autocratic regimes in both North Korea and South Korea attempted to legitimize their rule through efforts in nation-building but achieved different results. North Korea and South Korea: Monopolizing Nationalism in a Divided Peninsula seeks to answer: How did these regimes' nation-building strategies through a variety of tools and venues differ in the process of regime development? How was nationalism utilized to construct a regime-legitimizing founding myth? What implications ...

This volume is a compilation of papers presented at the conference on differential geometry, in particular, minimal surfaces, real hypersurfaces of a non-flat complex space form, submanifolds of symmetric spaces and curve theory. It also contains new results or brief surveys in these areas. This volume provides fundamental knowledge to readers (such as differential geometers) who are interested in the theory of real hypersurfaces in a non-flat complex space form.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT 2017, held in Wuhan, China, in November 2017.The total of 39 revised papers was carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions.The Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT) is a high-quality series of symposia that aim at providing a forum for researchers and practitioners who are being involved, or are contri...

The two-volume set LNCS 10735 and 10736 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2017, held in Harbin, China, in September 2017.The 184 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 264 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on: Best Paper Candidate; Video Coding; Image Super-resolution, Debluring, and Dehazing; Person Identity and Emotion; Tracking and Action Recognition; Detection an...