Suchergebnisse

"Smart cities open up significant opportunities in several areas, such as economic growth, health, wellness, energy efficiency, and transportation, to promote the sustainable development of cities. Energy efficiency covers a copious amount of topics that are related to finding suitable cost-efficient alternatives for power sources such as wood and coal, with solar and wind energy, and smart grids. Additionally, green energy is a relatable utility for smaller residential living spaces to large infrastructure facilities like hospitals, state schools, and mass transit"--

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: Smart City -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Functional Domains -- 1.2.1 Sensors and Intelligent Electronic Devices -- 1.2.2 Communication Networks and Cyber Security -- 1.2.3 Systems Integration -- 1.2.4 Intelligence and Data Analytics -- 1.2.5 Management and Control Platforms -- 1.2.5.1 Smart City Domains and Sub-domains -- 1.3 Elements of a Smart City -- 1.3.1 Smart Energy -- 1.3.1.1 Hourly Unit Commitment with Resilience-Constrained -- Introduction -- Description of the Proposed RCUC Framework -- Forced Outage Rate of Transmission Lines -- Sequential Sampling Method -- Proposed RCUC Framework -- Proposed RCUC Model -- Power Flow Entropy and Proposed Penalty Terms -- Proposed RCUC Objective Function -- RCUC Constraints -- RCUC Solution Methodology -- Case Studies -- IEEE 30-Bus System -- Case 1 -- Case 2 -- Case 3 -- Convergence Performance of RCUC -- Conclusions -- 1.3.1.2 Managing Transactive Energy in a Multi-microgrid System -- Introduction -- Proposed Framework for Transactive Energy -- Multi-Microgrid Transactive Formulation -- Lower Level: Lagrangian Relaxation Solution for Multi-microgrid -- Upper Level: Distribution System Reconfiguration -- Flowchart for Multi-Microgrid Trading -- Case Studies -- Case 1: MG Trading Without Network Reconfiguration -- Case 2: MG Trading with Network Reconfiguration -- Interpretation of Trading Behaviors -- Convergence Performance -- Conclusions -- 1.3.1.3 Resilience-Constrained Power Systems in Extreme Conditions -- Introduction -- Resilience Evaluation for Cascading Outages -- Random Outages in Extreme Conditions -- Weather-Dependent Initial Line Outages -- Common-Cause Outages -- Hidden Outages -- Proposed Resilience Evaluation Indices -- The Proposed RCED Model -- Penalty Terms Based on Power Flow Entropy.

In this book, Amy Lai examines the current free speech crisis in Western universities. She studies the origin, history, and importance of freedom of speech in the university setting, and addresses the relevance and pitfalls of political correctness and microaggressions on campuses, where laws on harassment, discrimination, and hate speech are already in place, along with other concepts that have gained currency in the free speech debate, including deplatforming, trigger warning, and safe space. Looking at numerous free speech disputes in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, the book argues for the equal application of the free speech principle to all expressions to facilitate respectful debates. All in all, it affirms that the right to free expression is a natural right essential to the pursuit of truth, democratic governance, and self-development, and this right is nowhere more important than in the university.

Chapter 1: Introduction.-Part I: American Games.-Chapter 2: It's All Games: U.S. Foreign and Security Policies -- Chapter 3: American Football and War -- Chapter 4: Football vs. Soccer: American Warfare in an Era of Unconventional Threats -- Chapter 5: Chess and Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence -- Chapter 6: The Great Pacific Chess Match: U.S. Chess Moves on China -- Chapter 7: Uncovering Hidden Patterns of Thought in War: Weiqi Versus Chess -- Chapter 8: Baseball and American Strategic Culture -- Chapter 9: United States vs North Korea in No-Limit Poker: Alligator Blood or Dead Money? -- Part II: Chinese Games -- Chapter 10: Learning from the Stones: A Weiqi Approach to Mastering China's Strategic Concept, Shi -- Chapter 11: East Meets West: An Ancient Game Sheds New Light on U.S.-Asian Strategic Relations -- Chapter 12: China's Strategic Moves and Countermoves in the Asia-Pacific -- Chapter 13: Weiqi and Artificial Intelligence: Potential for Strategic Decision Making.

The gap between China's people-to-people exchange and its aim to promote understanding among peoples in the world / Zhuang Liwei -- Chinese outbound tourists, policy reforms and mobility regime / Aranya Siriphon and Zhu Jinsheng -- Toward an "Asian century" : can China and Japan cooperate? / Masaya Sakuragawa -- Cooperation in the transboundary rivers between North Korea & China : the Yalu & the Tumen Rivers / Seungho Lee -- China-ASEAN natural rubber trade relationship : policy redesign for mutual competitive advantage / Montchai Pinitjitsamut -- 40 years' reform and opening-up of Yunnan and its implications for the Mekong Region / Lei Zhuning and Chen Tiejun -- Rethinking diplomatic discourse with Chinese characteristics : the brotherhood discourse / Kornphanat Tungkeunkunt and Kanya Phuphakdi -- Disturbing the balance of inequality : PRC influence on the position of the ethnic Chinese in Thailand in the 'New Era' / Wasana Wongsurawat.

Intro -- Preface -- The Future Challenge of China's New Luxury Brand Cultivation -- Abstract -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Significance of Cultivating Local Luxury Goods in China -- 1.1.1 Economic and Politic Background in Marco Perspective -- 1.1.2 Scale Expanding of the Middle and High-End Market: Taking Luxury Goods as an Example -- 1.2 Current Research and Literature Review -- 1.2.1 Research Significance, Techniques and Value -- 1.2.2 Subject Matter, Framework, Content and Methodology -- 1.3 Key Points of the Book -- 1.3.1 Literature Review of Luxury Brand Research and Brand 3.1.1 Management at Home and Abroad -- 1.3.2 Digital Media, Digital Empowerment, Transformation and Upgrading: Literature Review at Home and Abroad -- 1.4 Future Research Trends -- 1.4.1 Development Trends of Existing Luxury Brands in a Digital-Empowered New Economy -- 1.4.2 Existing Research Deficiencies and Future Research Directions -- 2 Conceptual Framework -- 2.1 Concept of Traditional Luxury Brand -- 2.1.1 Definition and Historical Development -- 2.1.2 China's Luxury Market and Consumers Analysis -- 2.2 Chinese Local New Luxury Brands: Enlarging the Definition of Luxury -- 2.2.1 Definition of Chinese Local New Luxury Brands -- 2.2.2 Comparative Study with Different Terms -- 2.2.3 Characteristics of Chinese Local New Luxury Brands -- 2.3 Cultivation of Local New Luxury Brands in the Integration Background of Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrading -- 2.3.1 Transformation and Upgrading of Local Manufacturing Industry -- 2.3.2 Local New Luxury Brands in the New Global Situation -- 2.4 Made in China with High Quality -- 2.4.1 Necessity and Practicality of Cultivating New Luxury Brands in China -- 2.5 Summary -- 3 Connotation and Mechanism.

This book focuses on the development and trends of Chinese local luxury industry in the digital era, which brings a new round of manufacturing transformation and upgrading, as well as development opportunities. It reveals the connotation and mechanism of the new local luxury brands in China step by step by answering the questions of "what, why and how". Through the analysis of 200 + questionnaires by SPSS statistical tools and case study, the book concludes the internal mechanism and theoretical support for China to cultivate new local luxury brands. It presents an overview on the current China's local luxury industry.

Does socioeconomic justice belong within transitional justice? This book examines experiences of socioeconomic violence during war that give rise to strong, but unheeded justice claims in its aftermath. It redefines socioeconomic justice as the redress of violence rooted in the political economy of conflict, and transitional justice as a social practice that belongs among grassroots activists as much as in courtrooms and truth commissions. It also examines the role of international actors that rely on too narrow and legalistic approaches to transitional justice, while also promoting economic reforms that hinder the emergence and pursuit of socioeconomic justice claims by conflict-affected communities. The book draws on a unique set of in-depth interviews with Bosnian communities, international officials and grassroots activits to provide new theoretical and empirical insights on the link between justice and political economy, on international interventions, and on Bosnia's post-war and post-socialist transformation.

Does socioeconomic justice belong within transitional justice? Daniela Lai provides the first systematic analysis of experiences of socioeconomic violence during war and how they give rise to strong, but unheeded justice claims in the aftermath. She redefines socioeconomic justice as the redress of violence rooted in the political economy of conflict, and transitional justice as a social practice that belongs among grassroots activists as much as it does in courtrooms and truth commissions. Furthermore, she examines the role of international actors that rely on narrow, legalistic approaches to transitional justice, while also promoting economic reforms that hinder the emergence and pursuit of socioeconomic justice claims by conflict-affected communities. Drawing on a unique set of in-depth interviews with Bosnian communities, international officials and grassroots activists, this book provides new theoretical and empirical insights on the link between justice and political economy, on international interventions, and on Bosnia's post-war and post-socialist transformation.