Search Results

Previous research has generally shown a very small although statistically significant economic benefit from attending high-quality colleges. This small effect was at odds with what students' college choice and various social theories would seem to suggest. This study sought to reconcile the empirica... More

This book provides a general review of the literature on underground structures, combined with new specifications, engineering case studies, and numerical simulations based on the authors’ research. It focuses on the basic concepts, theories, and methods of the design of underground structures. Afte... More

This book provides state-of-the-art and interdisciplinary topics on solving matrix eigenvalue problems, particularly by using recent petascale and upcoming post-petascale supercomputers. It gathers selected topics presented at the International Workshops on Eigenvalue Problems: Algorithms; Software... More

Ship optimization design is critical to the preliminary design of a ship. With the rapid development of computer technology, the simulation-based design (SBD) technique has been introduced into the field of ship design. Typical SBD consists of three parts: geometric reconstruction; CFD numerical sim... More

This textbook introduces a concise approach to the design of molecular algorithms for students or researchers who are interested in dealing with complex problems. Through numerous examples and exercises, you will understand the main difference of molecular circuits and traditional digital circuits ... More

This textbook introduces major topics that include quantum bits, superposition, entanglement, logic gates, quantum search algorithm, quantum Fourier transform, inverse quantum Fourier transform, Shor’s order-finding algorithm and phase estimation. Everyone can write algorithms and programs in the cl... More

This book addresses development laws for axial strain and excess pore water pressure in silty clay around subway shield tunnels before and after freezing-thawing when subjected to subway loading, as well as the effect of freezing-thawing on the dynamic parameters of silty clay, including the dynamic... More

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the scientific satellite events that were held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2018, held in Hangzhou, China, in November 2018.The ICSOC 2018 workshop track consisted of six workshops o... More

This two-volume set LNCS 10954 and LNCS 10955 constitutes - in conjunction with the volume LNAI 10956 - the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2018, held in Wuhan, China, in August 2018. The 275 full papers and 72 short papers of the three procee... More

This book reports on a research project conducted in multilingual Hong Kong, where Cantonese is the mother tongue (L1) of the majority of the population and learning different foreign languages is commonplace. In addition to English, which is usually the second language (L2), more and more people le... More

Folklore and folk songs of the indigenous race of the Darjeeling District in the Himalayas who call themselves Lepcha, the children of mother nature and God. An anthology of Lepcha Folklore, Tales, Songs, Rhymes and Proverbs.... More

Complex environmental and hydrological processes are characterized by more than one correlated random variable. These events are multivariate and their treatment requires multivariate frequency analysis. Traditional analysis methods are, however, too restrictive and do not apply in many cases. Recen... More

A multitude of processes in hydrology and environmental engineering are either random or entail random components which are characterized by random variables. These variables are described by frequency distributions. This book provides an overview of different systems of frequency distributions, the... More

A multitude of processes in hydrology and environmental engineering are either random or entail random components which are characterized by random variables. These variables are described by frequency distributions. This book provides an overview of different systems of frequency distributions, the... More

This title was first published in 2002: Examining problems that have caused much debate within political science, this book seeks to identify a proper place for the analysis of culture and values within political science. It goes on to explore the impact of globalization upon society.... More

This book aims to provide readers up-to-date information about focused ultrasound surgery in gynecology, an innovative technique with increasing acceptance to treat fibroids and adenomyosis. Beginning with an introductory description of the mechanism of focused ultrasound surgery (FUS) and the avail... More

This title was first published in 2002: Examining problems that have caused much debate within political science, this book seeks to identify a proper place for the analysis of culture and values within political science. It goes on to explore the impact of globalization upon society.... More

A RAND Corporation study used statistical models to evaluate the impact that U.S.-provided SSA has had on political violence in Africa--in particular, the incidence of civil wars and insurgencies, terrorist attacks, and state repression.... More

This book focuses on the characteristics of cooperative control problems for general linear multi-agent systems, including formation control, air traffic control, rendezvous, foraging, role assignment, and cooperative search. On this basis and combined with linear system theory, it introduces reader... More

This book, combining history and reality, theory and practice, is devoted to establishing a theoretical system on the Belt and Road Initiative by analyzing 24 related major questions , such as a community with a shared future for mankind, Green Silk Road, Digital Belt and Road, the Arctic Channel,... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Edge Computing, EDGE 2021, held virtually as part of SCF 2021, held as a Virtual Event, December 10–14, 2021.  The 5 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. ... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Edge Computing, EDGE 2019, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in June 2019. The 5 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The contributions deal with the ... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2020, held as part of SCF 2020, during September 18-20, 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Honolulu, HI, USA and was changed to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 16 ful... More

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2018, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2018, in Seattle, WA, USA, in June 2018.The 26 full papers presented together with 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected ... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of Things, ICIOT 2018, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in June 2018. The 13 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The contributions are organi... More