Contributing to discussion over China's higher education development, this book takes a theoretical approach to address the topic of university academics' innovation by introducing an academic innovation competence model, exploring the contexts, concepts and practices. The innovation competence model comprises three interdependent dimensions including the academic internal drive vitality, the academic synthesizing refined ability and the academic suspected and introspective ability. By enriching the theory of professional development of university teachers, these three dimensions will help advance the reform of college personnel system and ultimately improve the quality of China's higher education. The book will be valuable to researchers, students and stakeholders hoping to learn the education reform in China or those who study higher education management and comparative education.

Innovation Competency Model (China Perspectives)

Education & Teaching

李践

Higher & Continuing Education

Routledge

The first book to present a systematic and coherent picture of MIMO radars 
Due to its potential to improve target detection and discrimination capability, Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar has generated significant attention and widespread interest in academia, industry, government labs, and funding agencies. This important new work fills the need for a comprehensive treatment of this emerging field. Edited and authored by leading researchers in the field of MIMO radar research, this book introduces recent developments in the area of MIMO radar to stimulate new concepts, theories, and applications of the topic, and to foster further cross-fertilization of ideas with MIMO communications. Topical coverage includes: <ul>
<li> Adaptive MIMO radar </li> <li> Beampattern analysis and optimization for MIMO radar </li> <li> MIMO radar for target detection, parameter estimation, tracking,association, and recognition </li> <li> MIMO radar prototypes and measurements </li> <li> Space-time codes for MIMO radar </li> <li> Statistical MIMO radar </li> <li> Waveform design for MIMO radar </li> </ul>
Written in an easy-to-follow tutorial style, MIMO Radar Signal Processing serves as an excellent course book for graduate students and a valuable reference for researchers in academia and industry.

MIMO Radar Signal Processing

Science & Math

Stoica, Petre

Physics

Wiley-IEEE Press

The latest research and developments in robust adaptive beamforming  Recent work has made great strides toward devising robust adaptive beamformers that vastly improve signal strength against background noise and directional interference. This dynamic technology has diverse applications, including radar, sonar, acoustics, astronomy, seismology, communications, and medical imaging. There are also exciting emerging applications such as smart antennas for wireless communications, handheld ultrasound imaging systems, and directional hearing aids.  Robust Adaptive Beamforming compiles the theories and work of leading researchers investigating various approaches in one comprehensive volume. Unlike previous efforts, these pioneering studies are based on theories that use an uncertainty set of the array steering vector. The researchers define their theories, explain their methodologies, and present their conclusions. Methods presented include: * Coupling the standard Capon beamformers with a spherical or ellipsoidal uncertainty set of the array steering vector * Diagonal loading for finite sample size beamforming * Mean-squared error beamforming for signal estimation * Constant modulus beamforming * Robust wideband beamforming using a steered adaptive beamformer to adapt the weight vector within a generalized sidelobe canceller formulation  Robust Adaptive Beamforming provides a truly up-to-date resource and reference for engineers, researchers, and graduate students in this promising, rapidly expanding field.

Robust Adaptive Beamforming

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Wiley-Interscience

Qin Shihuang, the emperor of China’s first dynasty, instituted grandiose plans during his life, from the unification of the warring states to the Great Wall. It is no wonder then that he wanted to be accompanied into after life by an army of thousands of larger than life -size warriors generals and horses. More than just these legendary figures, displayed here are over 115 splendors of extrodinary beauty from the Qin, Western and Eastern Han dynasties. In many ways, it is a compact and concise overview of the richness that typifies these early Chinese dynasties.

Eternal China: Splendors from the First Dynasties

Dayton Art Institute

With a focus on developing computational algorithms for examining waveform design in diverse active sensing applications, this guide is ideal for researchers and practitioners in the field. The three parts conveniently correspond to the three categories of desirable waveform properties: good aperiodic correlations, good periodic correlations and beampattern matching. The book features various application examples of using the newly designed waveforms, including radar imaging, channel estimation for communications, an ultrasound system for breast cancer treatment and covert underwater communications. In addition to numerical results, the authors present theoretical analyses describing lower bounds or limitations of performance. Focusing on formulating practical problems mathematically and solving the mathematical problems using efficient and effective optimization techniques, the text pays particular attention to developing easy-to-use computational approaches. Most algorithms are accompanied by a table clearly detailing iteration steps and corresponding MATLAB codes are available on the companion website.

Waveform Design for Active Sensing Systems: A Computational Approach

He, Hao

Cambridge University Press

A comprehensive review of the development, challenges and utilisation of magnetic field measurement Magnetic Field Measurement with Applications to Modern Power Grids offers an authoritative review of the development of magnetic field measurement and the application of the technology to the smart grid. The authors, noted experts in the field, present the challenges to the field of magnetics and explore the use of cutting-edge magnetic technology in the development of the smart grid. In addition, the authors discussed the applications of magnetic field measurements in substations, generations systems, transmission systems and distribution systems. The specialized applications of magnetic field measurements in these venues are explored including the typical sensors used, the field strength levels and spectral frequencies involved and the mathematics that are needed to process data measurements. The book presents the complex topic of electromagnetics in clear and understandable terms. Magnetic Field Measurement with Applications to Modern Power Grids offers researchers in the magnetic community a guide to the progress of the smart grid and helps to inspire innovation of magnetic technologies in the smart grid. The technologies of measurement are a bridge between mathematical models and application oriented practice. The book is a guide to that bridge and: <ul>
<li>Offers a comprehensive review of the development of magnetic field measurement</li> <li>Shows how magnetic field measurement applies to the smart grid</li> <li>Outlines the challenges, trends and needs for future magnetic measurement systems</li> <li>Includes information on the need for levels of standardisation, smart grid applications and innovative sensors</li> </ul>
Written for researchers in smart grid, power engineers, power grid companies and professionals in the measurement and test industries, Magnetic Field Measurement with Applications to Modern Power Grids is an authoritative guide that offers a clear understanding of the relationship between the magnetic field measurement and power grids.

Magnetic Field Measurement with Applications to Modern Power Grids (IEEE Press)

Huang, Qi

Habib Khawaja, Arsalan

Chen, Yafeng

Chemistry

Risk management has become an essential issue in supply chain management, from the modeling of the decision maker's risk preference, and the studies on uncertain elements such as demand, supply, price, lead time, etc., to the consideration of more practical background including cash flow constraints, inventory financing and delayed cash payment. In this new volume, the authors provide a framework to study the interaction of various factors related to risk and their influence on supply chain management. The scope of areas covered includes operations management, decision analysis, and business administration. This book focuses on several key issues of risk management in supply chains. Specifically, an analysis framework is presented for studying the supplier selection problem and identifying the optimal sourcing strategy in a one-retailer two-suppliers supply chain with random yields. The optimal sourcing strategy of a retailer and the pricing strategies of two suppliers under an environment of supply disruption are investigated. Besides, the authors study the dynamic inventory control problems with cash flow constraints, financing decisions as well as delayed cash payment. In addition, originating from the annual international iron ore price negotiation, the authors model the bargaining process to deal with the risk of wholesale price in the game analysis context.Within the three perspectives of risk management in supply chains, the modeling of decision maker's risk preference has been extensively studied and many results have been obtained to guide the practice. However, the analysis on the other two kinds of topics is still in its infancy, and needs more efforts from academia. It is thus the ambition and innovation for this book to contribute on risk management in supply chains in the following ways:(1) characterizing the explicit sourcing strategy (i.e., single sourcing or dual sourcing) to deal with supply disruption risk;(2) introducing the concepts of financial risk measurement by incorporating cash flow constraints, inventory financing and delayed cash payment into inventory management models; and(3) providing insights for the iron ore price negotiation to help steel manufacturers handle the risk of price increase.

Risk Management of Supply and Cash Flows in Supply Chains (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 165)

Business & Money

Wang, Shouyang

Chen, Jia

Economics

Springer

In America, every child knows the story of the three little pigs and the big, bad wolf, so they'll love reading about the pigs' Chinese counterparts. Told in a bilingual Chinese and English edition, this is the story of three little pigs whose appetites initially get the better of them. In a shared dream, they met an old man who tells them to deliver sweet rice cakes to him a week before New Year's Eve. The next morning, they see some sweet rice cakes on their kitchen table. The three little pigs completely forget the old man and eat every bit of them. When their mother comes home, she is very angry to discover all the cakes gone. Seeing their mother unhappy, the three little pigs help her make more delicious sweet rice cakes. When there is only a week left before Chinese New Year's Eve, their mother lays the sweet rice cakes in front of the portrait of the Kitchen God and prays for the peace for the family. On seeing the portrait, the three little pigs realize that the old man in their dreams is actually the Kitchen God! Other books in the Chinese Zodiac Series (as well as the year of that animal) include:
<ul>
<li>Magical Rooster—2005 &amp; 2017</li>
<li>Water Dragon—2012 &amp; 2024</li>
<li>Little Monkey King's Journey—2016 &amp; 2028</li>
<li>Snake Goddess Colors the World—2013 &amp; 2025</li>
<li>Horse and the Mysterious Drawing—2014 &amp; 2026</li>
<li>Sheep Beauty—2015 &amp; 2027</li>
<li>Bronze Dog—2006 &amp; 2018</li>
<li> Little Rat and the Golden Seed—2008 &amp; 2020</li>
</ul>

Little Pigs and the Sweet Rice Cakes: A Story Told in English and Chinese (Stories of the Chinese Zodiac)

Children's Books

Animals

Shanghai Press

Learn how the clever Little Rat earned his place as one of the Chinese Zodiac Animals. This adorable Chinese-English bilingual children's book tells the story of the Little Rat and the Grandpa—unlikely allies who embark on an adventure to find a golden seed. They encounter rough seas, fierce guards and tall mountains, but—in the end—bring home a golden rice seed and save the village from going hungry. Illustrated with unique Chinese ink paintings, this book also includes a "cultural explanation" section. Readers can reference a chart to see which zodiac animal represents their birth year, and read more about common characteristics of people born then. For the rat, birth years include 2008 and 2020. Other books in the Chinese Zodiac Series (as well as the year of that animal) include:<ul>
<li>
Little Pigs and the Sweet Rice Cakes—2007 &amp; 2019</li>
<li>
Magical Rooster—2005 &amp; 2017</li>
<li>
Water Dragon—2012 &amp; 2024</li>
<li>
Little Monkey King's Journey—2016 &amp; 2028</li>
<li>
Snake Goddess Colors the World—2013 &amp; 2025</li>
<li>
Horse and the Mysterious Drawing—2014 &amp; 2026</li>
<li>
Sheep Beauty—2015 &amp; 2027</li>
<li>
Bronze Dog—2006 &amp; 2018</li>
</ul>

Little Rat and the Golden Seed: A Story Told in English and Chinese (Stories of the Chinese Zodiac)

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