The most popular style of T'ai Chi--the Yang form, endorsed by China's great masters--comes to life in hundreds of photos, accompanied by detailed instructions that even a beginner can understand. A foreword by top Chinese T'ai Chi professor Master Chen Xiao Wang explains the benefits of this gentle but powerful practice, while award-winning ...
Wang Chen, a ninth-century military commander, was sickened by the carnage that had plagued the glorious T'ang dynasty for decades. "All within the seas were poisoned," he wrote, "and pain and disaster was rife throughout the land. " Wang Chen wondered, how can we end conflicts before they begin? How can we explain and understand the dynamics of ...
High-pressure mineral physics is a field that is strongly driven by the development of new technology. Fifty years ago, when experimentally achievable pressures were limited to just 25 GPa, little was know about the mineralogy of the Earth's lower mantle. Silicate perovskite, the likely dominant mineral of the deep Earth, was identified only when ...
These eight tales from the Song and Ming Dynasties present readers with a colorful tapestry of adventure and misadventure, erotic romance, crafty intrigue, supernatural fantasy, comedies of errors, and crimes and punishment in sixteenth and seventeenth century China.
Wang Chen was a 9th-century commander in Tang dynasty China who turned to the "Tao Teh Ching" in his search for a true pacifism, one that could end conflicts before they began. This text is Wang Chen's own rendering of, and commentary on, the "Tao Teh Ching."
In the early 1990s, the establishment of the Internet brought forth a revolutionary viewpoint of information storage, distribution, and processing: the World Wide Web is becoming an enormous and expanding distributed digital library. Along with the development of the Web, image indexing and retrieval have grown into research areas sharing a vision ...
Due to the ability to handle specific characteristics of economics and finance forecasting problems like e.g. non-linear relationships, behavioral changes, or knowledge-based domain segmentation, we have recently witnessed a phenomenal growth of the application of computational intelligence methodologies in this field.In this volume, Chen and Wang ...
This book contains tutorial surveys and original research contributions in geometric computing, modeling, and reasoning. Highlighting the role of algebraic computation, it covers: surface blending, implicitization, and parametrization; automated deduction with Clifford algebra and in real geometry; and exact geometric computation. Basic techniques ...
In this social satire, a dorky Taiwanese high school teacher is hired to teach English to a group of prostitutes so that they can service American soldiers on R&R in Taiwan during the Vietnam War.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics, WISI 2006, held in Singapore in conjunction with the 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006). The 32 revised full papers presented together with the abstract of the keynote talk were ...
The main subjects in this book relate to software development using cutting edge technologies for real world industrial automation applications. This book provides a hands on approach to applying a wide variety of emerging technologies to modern industrial practice problems. It explains key concepts through clear examples, ranging from simple to ...
The characterization of individual molecules has been a scientifically attractive and challenging task for decades, and remains so today. New technological developments have facilitated great progress in our understanding of the structure and behavior of single atoms and molecules in various environments. This book provides an introduction to the ...
Computational intelligence (CI), as an alternative to statistical and econometric approaches, has been applied to a wide range of economics and finance problems in recent years, for example to price forecasting and market efficiency. This book contains research ranging from applications in financial markets and business administration to various ...
Although the process of understanding the biological functions of carbohydrates has developed slowly due to the lack of efficient approaches in obtaining and studying these structures, in the past two decades, remarkable advances have been made in chemical and chemoenzymatic synthesis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates. The material presented in ...
This volume, by leading Chinese and Western researchers, should be of interest to those studying reading and visual symbol processing, as well as cognitive psychologists, cognitive scientists, and reading researchers.
With the increasing applications of intelligent robotic systems in various fields, the design and control of these systems have increasingly attracted interest from researchers. This edited book entitled "Design and Control of Intelligent Robotic Systems" in the book series of "Studies in Computational Intelligence" is a collection of some ...
For centuries, Chinese medicinal herb cooking has been passed down from generation to generation. Uniquely, the dishes please the palate and simultaneously prevent sickness, heal, and maintain health. It has always been an important part of Chinese medicine, and continues to be popular in the Chinese culture. This cookbook has been created to ...
In this social satire, a dorky Taiwanese high school teacher is hired to teach English to a group of prostitutes so that they can service American soldiers on R&R in Taiwan during the Vietnam War.
Nowadays neural computation has become an interdisciplinary field in its own right; researches have been conducted ranging from diverse disciplines, e.g. computational neuroscience and cognitive science, mathematics, physics, computer science, and other engineering disciplines. From different perspectives, neural computation provides an ...
This book is an expanded edition of the story "The Lady in the Painting", written in the style of a Chinese folktale by Fred Fang-Yu Wang. The story is told with vocabulary and structures familiar to students who have completed a basic course in Chinese. Using an inventory of only about 300 Chinese characters, it serves as an excellent transition ...
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