The book comprehensively investigates the relationship between critical urban form and fabric parameters and urban microclimate in the high-rise urban environment that prevails in Asian megacities such as Shanghai. It helps readers gain a deeper understanding of climate-responsive urban design strategies and tactics for effectively mitigating the negative impacts of deteriorating urban thermal environments on pedestrian thermal comfort, outdoor air quality and building energy consumption. It also reviews the latest advances in urban climate research, with a focus on the challenges in terms...
The book comprehensively investigates the relationship between critical urban form and fabric parameters and urban microclimate in the high-rise ur...
Whereas textual data retrieval history dates back to the beginning of library systems, multimedia information retrieval is relatively a new idea. Image retrieval research started with the form of Content Based Image Retrieval(CBIR); however, the progress encountered a bottleneck due to the semantic gap between visual features and conceptual semantics. The research question is: How can a machine semantically describe a picture? Answering this question might be a major breakthrough in image retrieval research. The basic areas of Computer Vision research that correlate image semantics are object...
Whereas textual data retrieval history dates back to the beginning of library systems, multimedia information retrieval is relatively a new idea. Imag...
This thesis provides a systematic guideline for evaluating, integrating and designing the collaborative end effector system associated with commercially available collaborative robots (cobots). On the basis of ISO/TS 15066:2016, customers' demands are categorised as a macro demand framework and micro demand variables, which are parameterised and hierarchised. By analysing these parameters, the collaborative degree is determined to correlate the hazards with protection measures, which can demonstrate the collaborative safety level transparently. After that, the safety protection measures are...
This thesis provides a systematic guideline for evaluating, integrating and designing the collaborative end effector system associated with commercial...
The development of nanotechnology and energy-related technologies in the past three decades has led to an increased interest in the application of carbon fiber-based materials in electrochemical energy storage devices, such as supercapacitors, Li/Na-ion batteries. However, the electrochemical performance of carbon fiber-based materials is closely related to their structure and fabrication methods. Therefore, how to control the micro-nanostructure of carbon fiber-based materials and gain a deep understanding of the relationship between their electrochemical performance, structure, and...
The development of nanotechnology and energy-related technologies in the past three decades has led to an increased interest in the application of car...
