This book covers all of the concepts required to tackle second-order cone programs (SOCPs), in order to provide the reader a complete picture of SOC functions and their applications. SOCPs have attracted considerable attention, due to their wide range of applications in engineering, data science, and finance. To deal with this special group of optimization problems involving second-order cones (SOCs), we most often need to employ the following crucial concepts: (i) spectral decomposition a...

Radar scattering and imaging of rough surfaces is an active interdisciplinary area of research with many practical applications in fields such as mineral and resource exploration, ocean and physical oceanography, military and national defense, planetary exploration, city planning and land use, environmental science, and many more. By focusing on the most advanced analytical and numerical modeling and describing both forward and inverse modeling, Radar Scattering and Imaging of Rough Su...

Let’s be honest—life gets hard sometimes. And it gets even harder for those living with unhealthy self-esteem. When our self-worth is low, it becomes much more difficult to build meaningful connections, attract positivity, and recognize the possibilities around us. Thankfully, healing is possible, transformation is within reach, and we all have the capacity to reclaim our worth—one intentional act at a time. In a practical guide, Yu-Shan Chen shares insights, tools, and encouragement to su...

A loving story of adoption, Chinese culture and a special birthday treatMei-Mei is Chinese—but not Mom and Dad! When she was a baby, Mom and Dad flew all the way to the other side of the world to adopt her and bring her home. Lucky for Mei-Mei, her parents want her to know all about her roots in China's wonderful culture. That's why, on her birthday, her mom always makes her a traditional Chinese treat—long noodles, for a long and happy life. And this year, Mei-Mei...

Principles of Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging: A System Simulation Approach demonstrates the use of image simulation for SAR. It covers the various applications of SAR (including feature extraction, target classification, and change detection), provides a complete understanding of SAR principles, and illustrates the complete chain of a SAR operati

Complementarity functions lie at the heart of modern optimization, offering a powerful way to reformulate the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions and the original optimization problem into more tractable forms, either as systems of equations or unconstrained minimization problems. These reformulations not only deepen theoretical understanding but also inspire innovative approaches for solving complex optimization challenges.This book centers on complementarity functions, offering a...

This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they helped to shape European perceptions of China. The Macartney Embassy of 1793 was the first British diplomatic mission to China, seeking to open ties between the two empires. As part of the mission, the British government commissioned writers and artists to chronicle the geography and culture of a civilization that had, until then, been shrouded in mystery.A centr...

**Working in a Chinese tea garden is hard work, but it's rewarding when it’s done with family in this 2026 Batchelder Honor Book.This day-in-the-life picture book for 5-9-year-olds engages the senses as it centers around family and working together while celebrating Chinese culture.**A young boy and his brother travel with their parents up the mountainside to their tea garden for a day of work.They delight in the animals they see, compete to see who can pick the mos...

Lunar explorations have received increasing attention in recent years with tremendous application values, including using the Moon as a remote sensing platform for Earth observation. As an active sensor, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can detect changes in the atmosphere, terrain, and ocean. Moon-based SAR, complementary to the spaceborne SAR systems, expands our capabilities of watching and understanding the Earth. This book explains the Moon-Earth observation geometry, generic parame...

In this era of rapidly advancing technology and global challenges, it has become crucial to adopt an integrated approach that bridges the gap between scientific principles and their practical applications. The chapters compiled in this book reflect this need for synergy and presents an eclectic selection of studies that address sustainable composite materials technology, emerging materials for sustainable energy, and environment, health, and sustainable development.The book explore...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, Broadnets 2020, which took place in Qingdao, China, in December 2020. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers are thematically grouped as a session on wireless network and security and a session on communication quality.

“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...