Is the environmental justice debate solely an economic issue? Is it a social issue as well as a moral, political, or science issue? In Envir onmental Justice Analysis: Theories, Methods, and Practice author Feng Liu suggests it is all of them. He presents a multi-perspective, mult i-disciplinary, and inter-disciplinary approach to analyzing environme ntal justice issues. Liu demonstrates how cutting-edge technologies a nd methods such as the Internet, Geographic Information Systems, and m odeling tools can contribute to better equity analysis and policy eval uations. He focuses on the various...
Is the environmental justice debate solely an economic issue? Is it a social issue as well as a moral, political, or science issue? In Envir onmental ...
In modern wireless communication systems, multiuser detection (MUD) is a good approach to achieve the highly reliable data transmissions. In the area of error control coding, the Chase algorithm, which takes advantage of the different reliabilities of the received symbols and focuses on correcting the error in the weakest symbols, can achieve a near maximum-likelihood (ML) performance and with significant complexity reduction. This book discusses the applications of the Chase algorithm in multiuser detection and proposes some novel detetors for the single-input single-output (SISO) and...
In modern wireless communication systems, multiuser detection (MUD) is a good approach to achieve the highly reliable data transmissions. In the area ...
Urbanization and growing wealth in developing countries portend a large increase of demand for modern energy services in residential, commercial and public-service buildings in the coming decades. Pursuing energy efficiency in buildings is vital to energy security in developing countries and is identified by the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change as having the greatest potential for cost-effective reduction of CO2 emissions by 2030 among all energy-consuming sectors. Building energy efficiency codes (BEECs), along with energy efficiency standards for major appliances and equipment, are...
Urbanization and growing wealth in developing countries portend a large increase of demand for modern energy services in residential, commercial and p...
Civil engineering structures such as buildings, bridges, stadiums, and offshore structures play an import role in our daily life. However, constructing these structures requires lots of budget. Thus, how to cost-efficiently design structures satisfying all required design constraints is an important factor to structural engineers. Traditionally, mathematical gradient-based optimal techniques have been applied to the design of optimal structures. While, many practical engineering optimal problems are very complex and hard to solve by traditional method. In the past few decades, swarm...
Civil engineering structures such as buildings, bridges, stadiums, and offshore structures play an import role in our daily life. However, construc...
Civil engineering structures such as buildings, bridges, stadiums, and offshore structures play an import role in our daily life. However, constructing these structures requires lots of budget. Thus, how to cost-efficiently design structures satisfying all required design constraints is an important factor to structural engineers. Traditionally, mathematical gradient-based optimal techniques have been applied to the design of optimal structures. While, many practical engineering optimal problems are very complex and hard to solve by traditional method. In the past few decades, swarm...
Civil engineering structures such as buildings, bridges, stadiums, and offshore structures play an import role in our daily life. However, construc...
This unique text/reference addresses the fundamental concepts in the theory and practice of visual cryptography, a secret sharing technique which allows the encryption of an image without requiring any complex computation or knowledge of cryptography.
The design, construction, analysis, and application of visual cryptography schemes (VCSs) are discussed in detail. Original, cutting-edge research is presented on probabilistic, size invariant, threshold, concolorous, and cheating immune VCS. This updated second edition has also been expanded with new content on braille and 2D barcode...
This unique text/reference addresses the fundamental concepts in the theory and practice of visual cryptography, a secret sharing technique which a...
This book contains papers presented at the 6th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, held 11-14 November 2014 at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences of Nanjing, China. Digital soil mapping is advancing on different fronts at different paces throughout the world. The researches and applications on DSM are moving from method development to realizations in different scales and regions, serving the generation of national and continental to global soil grids. Meanwhile, new ideas and insights on mapping complex soil-landscapes such as flat plains, anthropogenically...
This book contains papers presented at the 6th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, held 11-14 November 2014 at the Institute of Soil Science, ...
