This book introduces the fundamentals and principles of laser shock peening (LSP) for aeronautical materials. It focuses on the innovation in both theory and method related to LSP-induced gradient structures in titanium alloys and Ni-based alloys which have been commonly used in aircraft industries. The main contents of the book include: the characteristics of laser shock wave, the formation mechanism of gradient structures and the strengthening-toughing mechanism by gradient structures. T...

This book starts from the development status of remote sensing image intelligent interpretation and application technology. It systematically introduces the main progress of this field and its application, focusing on remote sensing image intelligent quality improvement, intelligent expansion and sample augmentation, object detection, fine-grained target recognition, semantic segmentation, multimodal remote sensing image joint intelligent interpretation as well as intelligent interpretatio...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, CCBR 2022, which took place in Beijing, China, in November 2022.The 70 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as Fingerprint, Palmprint and Vein Recognition; Face Detection, Recognition and Tracking; Gesture and Action Recognition; Affective Computing and Human-Computer Interface; Speaker and ...

How can we know a country, such as the United States or China, is revisionist, that is, whether it intends to upset the international order? What motivates states to act the way they do? Contesting Revisionism focuses on a particular kind of motivation inclining a state to challenge the existing norms, rules, and institutions of international order: revisionism. The authors offer a critique of the existing discourse on revisionism and investigate the origin and ev...

A soul awakened in another time where an ordinary life is a distant dream, and survival means building everything from the ground up.Armed with a mysterious system, the power to nurture, and a mind full of modern knowledge, she faces a world caught between urban decay and rural rebirth.Through patience, courage, and quiet determination, small seeds of hope turn into fields of farming prosperity.Each harvest is more than survival it’s a story of romance, healing, and...

This book traces the transformation of traditional Chinese theatre’s (xiqu) aesthetics during its encounters with Western drama and theatrical forms in both mainland China and Taiwan since 1978. Through analyzing both the text and performances of eight adapted plays from William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, and Samuel Beckett, this book elaborates on significant changes taking place in playwriting, acting, scenography, and stage-audience relations stemming from intercultural appro...

A soul awakened in another time where an ordinary life is a distant dream, and survival means building everything from the ground up.Armed with a mysterious system, the power to nurture, and a mind full of modern knowledge, she faces a world caught between urban decay and rural rebirth.Through patience, courage, and quiet determination, small seeds of hope turn into fields of farming prosperity.Each harvest is more than survival it’s a story of romance, healing, and...

This book offers a comprehensive perspective on carbon fluorides, covering detailed descriptions of the structure, properties, preparation, and applications of carbon fluorides, from basic knowledge to the latest research developments. It provides readers with a clear and in-depth analysis of carbon fluorides. This book first describes the structural properties of carbon fluorides, such as the formation of different types of C-F bonds, F/C ratio, and the impact of F atom distribution on ma...

This book addresses the discursive construction of corporate identities in social media on the part of Chinese corporations, particularly highlighting how followers of corporate social media co-create corporate identities during firm-follower interactions. Toward this end, it pursues an integrated sociolinguistics approach combining e.g. thematic analysis, interactional analysis and in-depth interviews. Readers will also find extensive information on the brand-new dialogic framework of cor...

This book examines minban teacher policies and their implementation in China between 1949 and 2000, when rural areas were in severe shortage of qualified teachers. During this period of time, minban teachers made great contributions to education, doing the same work as state-employed school teachers while receiving much lower salaries due to non-official status.With solid fieldwork on oral history of minban teachers and policy actors and deep examination ...

This book offers a fascinating introduction to China’s cultural heritage and the functions and value of its music artefacts. This is the latest music archaeology book based on an examination of China’s real and valuable music artefacts. Featuring nearly 200 high-resolution photos and tables, it provides encyclopaedic information and highlights technological processes used with regard to China’s seminal music artefacts (e.g. the Marquis Yi of Zeng’s bells, 433 B.C.) and their replicas. Read...

This book provides a comprehensive overview on the recent significant advancements of conductive polymers and their composites in terms of conductive mechanism, fabrication strategies, important properties, and various promising applications. The corresponding knowledge was systematically compiled in the logical order and demonstrated as seven chapters. The special structure, influencing factors of the conductivity, the charge carrier transport model, the wettability and classical categori...