Use this one-of-a-kind practice guide together with any Chinese book or language program, and dramatically enhance your speaking and listening skills. No matter what book or course you're using to learn Chinese, it takes a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective practice activities—including more than 16 hours of audio material!—to help polish your spoken Mandarin Chinese. This book corresponds to Basic Spoken Chinese and allows you to move from complete beginner level to basic proficiency. An included disc contains over 16 hours of audio material, as well as (printable) PDF files of hundreds of additional practice pages and exercises. Basic Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials includes carefully designed activities to help solidify every aspect of your spoken Chinese skills, including: <ul>
<li> Pronunciation exercises .</li>
<li> Vocabulary and Grammar summaries .</li>
<li> Substitution drills .</li>
<li> Transformation and Response drills .</li>
<li> Role Play &amp; Listening Comprehension exercises .</li>
<li> Dictation exercises .</li>
<li> Translation exercises .</li>
</ul>The accompanying CD–ROM contains:<ul>
<li> 16 hours of audio by native Mandarin speakers.</li>
<li> Printable practice pages.</li>
<li> Printable exercises and activities.</li>
</ul>Together with or after this book, you can use Basic Written Chinese if you want to learn Chinese reading and writing. It introduces the highest-frequency characters and words in a systematic way. About the Series Respected Chinese language expert Dr. Cornelius Kubler, who has taught diplomats, business people and students, presents a learning system that uses separate but integrated "tracks" to help you efficiently master the basics of spoken and written Chinese. The materials in the Basic Spoken Chinese series allow you to move from complete beginner level to intermediate fluency.

Basic Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials: An Introduction to Speaking and Listening for Beginners (Audio Recordings & Printable Pages Included) (Basic Chinese)

Reference

Kubler, Cornelius C.

汪洋

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Tuttle+publishing

Take your mastery of Mandarin Chinese to the next level with this comprehensive workbook and CD! Learning to speak Mandarin Chinese requires many hours of practice — there's just no way around it! But by using this one-of-a-kind practice guide, together with whatever Chinese language-learning book or program you're already involved with, you can dramatically improve your ability to speak and comprehend spoken Chinese and Chinese grammar. This book presents a wealth of tested and proven practice activities-including approximately 16 hours of audio recordings and over 200 pages of drills and exercises — to help you polish your spoken Chinese to a high intermediate-level. It can be used successfully with any intermediate-level Chinese language learning book (such as Intermediate Spoken Chinese) and enables you to quickly move from beginner to intermediate level proficiency in the language. It's also beneficial for people with plans to travel to China, or who wish to brush up and review their spoken Chinese in preparation for an exam. Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials includes hundreds of activities that have been carefully designed to perfect and reinforce each aspect of your Chinese speaking and comprehension ability: <ul>
<li> Pronunciation exercises</li>
<li> Vocabulary and grammar summaries</li>
<li> Substitution drills</li>
<li> Transformation and response drills</li>
<li> Role play and listening comprehension exercises</li>
<li> Dictation exercises</li>
<li> Translation exercises</li>
</ul>Also included on the disk are printable PDF files for dozens of additional pages of useful activities. If your goal is to learn Chinese at a higher level of mastery, Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials offers the broadest range of activities and drills for you to use on their own or pair with another textbook to reach your desired expertise.

Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials: A Wealth of Activities to Enhance Your Spoken Mandarin (DVD Included)

This comprehensive Mandarin workbook can be used with any textbook or on its own to dramatically enhance your Mandarin speaking and listening skills. No matter what textbook you're using to learn Mandarin, it requires a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective activities and drills—plus over 16 hours of audio recordings—to help you improve your spoken Mandarin Chinese quickly and effectively. This book follows the Basic Mandarin Chinese—Speaking &amp; Listening textbook but works equally well with other coursebooks or on its own. The free disc contains hours of audio recording as well as printable PDF files providing hundreds of pages of extra practice exercises and activities. Basic Mandarin Chinese—Speaking &amp; Listening Practice Book includes hundreds of carefully designed activities to help you with every aspect of your speaking skills, including: <ul>
<li> Pronunciation exercises</li>
<li> Vocabulary and Grammar summaries</li>
<li> Substitution drills</li>
<li> Transformation and Response drills</li>
<li> Role Playing and Listening Comprehension</li>
<li> Dictation exercises</li>
<li> Translation exercises</li>
</ul>The accompanying disc contains:<ul>
<li> 16 hours of audio recordings by native Mandarin speakers</li>
<li> Printable practice pages</li>
<li> Printable exercises and activities</li> </ul>About the Basic Mandarin Chinese series: Respected Chinese language educator Dr. Cornelius Kubler has taught Mandarin Chinese to diplomats, business people and students for several decades—using an effective learning system with two separate but integrated "tracks" to help you learn the spoken and written forms of the language more efficiently and more successfully. The materials in this series have been acclaimed as a breakthrough in Mandarin Chinese language learning. This book is a new edition of Basic Spoken Chinese: Practice Essentials.

Basic Mandarin Chinese - Speaking & Listening Practice Book: A Workbook for Beginning Learners of Spoken Chinese (Audio Recordings Included)

Computers & Technology

Programming

This one-of-a-kind practice guide can be used with any Mandarin Chinese textbook or on its own to enhance your speaking and listening abilities dramatically! No matter what textbook you're using to learn Chinese, it requires a lot of practice! Here is a wealth of practical activities and drills—plus over 16 hours of audio recordings—to help you improve your spoken Mandarin quickly and efficiently. This book is interchangeable with its earlier edition, Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials but works equally well with other coursebooks or on its own. The free disc contains hours of audio recording as well as printable PDF files providing hundreds of pages of extra practice exercises and activities. This book includes hundreds of carefully designed activities to help you with every aspect of your Chinese language skills, including:<ul>
<li> Chinese grammar and vocabulary summaries</li>
<li> Substitution drills</li>
<li> Transformation and response drills</li>
<li> Role-playing exercises</li>
<li> Listening comprehension exercises</li>
<li> Translation Exercises</li> </ul>
The accompanying CD-ROM contains: <ul>
<li> 16 hours of audio recordings by native Mandarin-speakers</li>
<li> Printable practice pages</li>
<li> Printable exercises and activities</li>
</ul>

Intermediate Mandarin Chinese Speaking & Listening Practice: A Workbook for Intermediate Learners of Spoken Chinese (Includes Companion Materials & Online Media)

Data Analytics for Smart Infrastructure: Asset Management and Network Performance

Liang, Bin

Chen, Fang

Guo, Ting

Li, Zhidong

Tian, Hongda

CRC-Press

Performance Bounds and Suboptimal Policies for Multi-Period Investment examines dynamic trading of a portfolio of assets in discrete periods over a finite time horizon, with arbitrary time-varying distribution of asset returns. The goal is to maximize the total expected revenue from the portfolio, while respecting constraints on the portfolio like a required terminal portfolio and leverage and risk limits. The revenue takes into account the gross cash generated in trades, transaction costs, and costs associated with the positions, such as fees for holding short positions. The model that is presented takes the form of a stochastic control problem with linear dynamics and convex cost function and constraints. While this problem can be tractably solved in several special cases - for example, when all costs are convex quadratic, or when there are no transaction costs - the focus is on the more general case, with nonquadratic cost terms and transaction costs. Performance Bounds and Suboptimal Policies for Multi-Period Investment shows how to use linear matrix inequality techniques and semidefinite programming to produce a quadratic bound on the value function, which in turn gives a bound on the optimal performance. This performance bound can be used to judge the performance obtained by any suboptimal policy. As a by-product of the performance bound computation, an approximate dynamic programming policy is obtained that requires the solution of a convex optimization problem, often a quadratic program, to determine the trades to carry out in each step.

Performance Bounds and Suboptimal Policies for Multi-Period Investment (Foundations and Trends(r) in Optimization)

Science & Math

BOYD, Stephen

Mueller, Mark T

Donoghue, Brendan

Mathematics

Now Publishers

This book explores robust multimodal cognitive load measurement with physiological and behavioural modalities, which involve the eye, Galvanic Skin Response, speech, language, pen input, mouse movement and multimodality fusions. Factors including stress, trust, and environmental factors such as illumination are discussed regarding their implications for cognitive load measurement. Furthermore, dynamic workload adjustment and real-time cognitive load measurement with data streaming are presented in order to make cognitive load measurement accessible by more widespread applications and users. Finally, application examples are reviewed demonstrating the feasibility of multimodal cognitive load measurement in practical applications. This is the first book of its kind to systematically introduce various computational methods for automatic and real-time cognitive load measurement and by doing so moves the practical application of cognitive load measurement from the domain of the computer scientist and psychologist to more general end-users, ready for widespread implementation. Robust Multimodal Cognitive Load Measurement is intended for researchers and practitioners involved with cognitive load studies and communities within the computer, cognitive, and social sciences. The book will especially benefit researchers in areas like behaviour analysis, social analytics, human-computer interaction (HCI), intelligent information processing, and decision support systems.

Robust Multimodal Cognitive Load Measurement (Human–Computer Interaction Series)

Conway, Dan

Zhou, Jianlong

Yu, Kun

Arshad, Syed Z.

Khawaji, Ahmad

Computer Science

Springer

Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: Physics, Concepts, Fabrication and Devices (NanoScience and Technology)

This book gives a survey of the physics and fabrication of carbon nanotubes and their applications in optics, electronics, chemistry and biotechnology. It focuses on the structural characterization of various carbon nanotubes, fabrication of vertically or parallel aligned carbon nanotubes on substrates or in composites, physical properties for their alignment, and applications of aligned carbon nanotubes in field emission, optical antennas, light transmission, solar cells, chemical devices, bio-devices, and many others. Major fabrication methods are illustrated in detail, particularly the most widely used PECVD growth technique on which various device integration schemes are based, followed by applications such as electrical interconnects, nanodiodes, optical antennas, and nanocoax solar cells, whereas current limitations and challenges are also be discussed to lay the foundation for future developments.

Ren, Zhifeng

Lan, Yucheng

Physics

International Finance: Theory and Policy(Chinese Edition)

Machinery Industry Press

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