Microbial granules have practical importance in anaerobic and aerobic biological wastewater treatment. Advantages of granules are retention of biomass in reactor, diversity of microorganisms, complex structure, and resistance to unfavorable conditions. Microbial granules can be used to treat municipal and industrial wastewater for removal of organic matter, xenobiotics, nutrients, and heavy metals. The book covers almost all aspects of formation and use of microbial granules in wastewater treatment. The data on aerobic microbial granulation are related mostly to laboratory systems due to few pilot systems in the world using aerobic microbial granules. However, by the analogy with anaerobic granulation, which is now used worldwide, it is possible to predict wide applications of aerobic granulation. This book will help researchers and engineers develop these new biotechnologies of wastewater treatment based on aerobic granulation.

Biogranulation Technologies for Wastewater Treatment: Microbial Granules (Volume 6) (Waste Management, Volume 6)

Science & Math

Ivanov, Volodymyr

刘瑜

Tay, Joo-Hwa

Tay, Stephen Tiong-Lee

Show, Kuan Yeow

Biological Sciences

Pergamon

To improve efficiency and reduce administrative costs, healthcare providers, insurance companies, and governments are increasingly using integrated electronic health record (EHR) and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to manage patients’ medical information. Reflecting the latest applications of PACS technology, PACS and Digital Medicine: Essential Principles and Modern Practice discusses the essential principles of PACS, EHR, and related technological advancements as well as practical issues concerning the implementation, operation, and maintenance of PACS and EHR systems.\nThe book focuses on various components of PACS that use state-of-the-art technologies. The authors first present topics to consider prior to implementation, including design principles for PACS components and theory. They also cover post-installation quality control; security and privacy policies; maintenance, including upgrade/integration with other information systems; and governing standards. Each chapter includes an introduction to basic concepts and principles relevant to the topics, before exploring challenges that PACS users may encounter in daily work. Discussions are supplemented with more than 130 illustrations, along with case studies of implementation in two organizations.\nA useful guide and broad overview of the field, this book presents key principles and practical steps for PACS and EHR implementations and maintenance. Although the technology and standards of healthcare IT will evolve over time, the theory and practical advice found in this text will remain pertinent in the future.

PACS and Digital Medicine

Physics

CRC-Press

Scholarship on Wordsworth has long been concerned with the relationship between his poetry and his politics. Poetics and Politics contributes significantly to the ongoing discussion by breaking through the «either-or» assumption that underwrites most theses. Dr. Liu focuses on the poetry of Wordsworth in the late 1790s and the early 1800s, exploring both his critique of a heroic model of political interventionism and his promotion of an egalitarian model of poet-reader cooperation. In the context of Wordsworth's crisis of belief, this study shows how his poetic innovations constituted his daring and brilliant revaluation of his political commitment.

Poetics and Politics: The Revolutions of Wordsworth (Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

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★ 学者刘瑜比较政治学新著。继《民主的细节》《观念的水位》出版近10年后，政治学者刘瑜新作出版。在保留其理性而灵动的语言风格、清晰而缜密的逻辑叙述的基础上，这一次，她带我们跳出一时一地的政治，从高处看国际格局，形成广阔的俯瞰视野。\n★ 全方位、多角度的政治比较视野。围绕比较政治学两个核心维度--政治转型和国家能力，将不同国家、地区、古今纳入其中，带来全方位的比较。同时，书中不仅有对发达国家如美国、英国、德国、法国等的分析，也有对发展中国家如南非、印度、墨西哥、泰国、智利、伊拉克等的介绍；在分析经济发展、民主转型的成功案例时，也会剖析失败案例，以此突破认识的偏见，将当下问题纳入历史长河，以历史为尺度，形成看问题的比例感，跳出现象，对问题做出公正的判断。\n★ 政治在社会中，从政治之外看政治。"政治在社会结构中""政治在经济中""政治在历史中""政治在地理中""政治在文化中"。本书通过分析南非的转型、智利经济政策的选择、美国的社会运动以及韩国的观念变迁等，带我们认识政治创造可能性的各种途径，理解社会与政治发展的制衡关系、政治选择与政治行动的可能。\n★ 将抽象复杂的政治问题化为通俗的讲述。本书基于作者在看理想平台的音频节目而成，保留了作者通俗的讲述风格，同时辅以深厚的学术功底、优秀的写作能力以及对现实的敏锐分析，将抽象复杂的政治问题以易懂的方式讲给我们听。\n★ 对多变的政治现象进行比较、思考，形成社会洞察力。比较产生冲击，冲击带来思考。政治的多变与不确定性让我们对它的思考很难有一劳永逸的答案，但也正是这种不确定性促使我们不断重返基本的道德问题和历史经验，将熟悉的事物陌生化，将"此时时刻"和无数的"他时他刻"联系起来，以此形成明晰的社会洞察力。\n★ 于差异中寻找规律，在浩瀚的可能性中理解我们自身。政治是复杂的，但不是随机的。本书通过建立一个政治可能性的参照系，将每个国家编织在同一网络下，以此理解他国，也照见自身，于差异中寻找规律，进而定位现实，理解我们自身。\n内容简介 
一个和平"爆发"的年代？\n历史"终结论"的终结？\n国家能力从何而来？\n文明的冲突是一个过时的预言？\n......\n面对林林总总的政治问题，作者带领我们以一种比较的视角，在民主问责和国家能力两个政治比较的核心维度下，建立起观察的参照系，将不同体制、不同经济发展水平的国家纳入比较的视野，去分析我们的时代背景和全球化进程，讨论不同国家的政治转型与国家能力，以及文化和经济对政治变迁的影响。\n"政治是可能性的艺术。"当我们将面对的政治现实当作一万种可能性之一来对待时，就能从此时此地抽离，获得一种俯瞰的视角，进而再聚焦定位现实，在浩瀚的可能性中理解我们自身。

可能性的艺术：比较政治学30讲 (Chinese Edition)

Legal Theory & Systems

Simplified Chinese Press

To improve efficiency and reduce administrative costs, healthcare providers, insurance companies, and governments are increasingly using integrated electronic health record (EHR) and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to manage patients’ medical information. Reflecting the latest applications of PACS technology, PACS and Digital Medicine: Essential Principles and Modern Practice discusses the essential principles of PACS, EHR, and related technological advancements as well as practical issues concerning the implementation, operation, and maintenance of PACS and EHR systems.  The book focuses on various components of PACS that use state-of-the-art technologies. The authors first present topics to consider prior to implementation, including design principles for PACS components and theory. They also cover post-installation quality control; security and privacy policies; maintenance, including upgrade/integration with other information systems; and governing standards. Each chapter includes an introduction to basic concepts and principles relevant to the topics, before exploring challenges that PACS users may encounter in daily work. Discussions are supplemented with more than 130 illustrations, along with case studies of implementation in two organizations.  A useful guide and broad overview of the field, this book presents key principles and practical steps for PACS and EHR implementations and maintenance. Although the technology and standards of healthcare IT will evolve over time, the theory and practical advice found in this text will remain pertinent in the future.

PACS and Digital Medicine: Essential Principles and Modern Practice

Wang, Jihong

The fascinating story of Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) changing himself while trying to change the religious faith of the Chinese has been told many times. As a Jesuit, Ricci pushed Christian evangelism by claiming a theistic affinity with Confucianism and by presenting himself as a defender of Confucian orthodoxy from Buddhism. Already in his day, Ricci’s unusual cultural adaptation was controversial; not surprisingly, scholarly studies have hitherto focused almost exclusively on variations of this controversy. Reacting mostly to Ricci’s account of events, this line of research has provided insight, but much more can be learned about the early-modern cross-cultural encounter of Europe and China if the perspective is broadened to include his intricate and intriguing relationships with his Chinese friends. With his distinctively different religiosity, personal charisma, and knowledge of European science and mathematics, Ricci impressed the social and cultural elite of late Ming China, many of whom befriended him and some of whom became Christian converts. However, between him and his Chinese friends there were always disagreements, resulting sometimes from a lack of understanding or misunderstanding, and sometimes even when they apparently understood each other perfectly. Followed closely as the investigative thread of this book, the many kinds of disagreement cast an unusual light on an otherwise long familiar subject and are instructive for the at times tense and even hostile, but in reality always mutually energizing relationship of both competition and complement between China and the West in the early twenty-first century.

Harmonious Disagreement: Matteo Ricci and His Closest Chinese Friends (Asian Thought and Culture)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

This is an investigation into the transference of intellectual principles of natural beauty across cultures and disciplines. Liu explores the sources and transmission of Chinese influence, from trade-goods imagery and other chinoiserie to the conceptual influence of William Temple's sharawadgi (studied irregularity).

Seeds of a Different Eden: Chinese Gardening Ideas and a New English Aesthetic Ideal (Non Series)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

University of South Carolina Press

As scholars look to reevaluate the Western "cannon," this book will be a welcome intervention, which complicates our understanding of Coleridge and Wordsworth. In this important new work author Yu Liu argues that, confined by a narrow English and European conceptual framework, scholars have so far obscured the radical innovation and revolutionary implication of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's monistic philosophy. Liu traces an organically evolved intellectual history that begins with European missionary Matteo Ricci, travels through Spinoza's identification of God with nature, becomes ingrained in eighteenth-century English thought via the landscaping theory and practice of William Kent and Horace Walpole, and emerges in the poetry and thought of Coleridge and Wordsworth. The result is a culturally sensitive and rewardingly new understanding of the cross-cultural interaction between China and Europe in the early modern period. In addition to presenting a significantly different reading of the two English poets, Liu contributes to scholarship about English literary history, history of European philosophy and religion, English garden history, and cross-cultural interactions between China and Europe in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism: The Intricate Journey of a Monistic Idea (East-West Encounters In Lit And Cult Studies)

British & Irish

Selective Maintenance Modelling and Optimization: Basic Methods and Some Recent Advances (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering)

This book is a detailed introduction to selective maintenance and updates readers on recent advances in this field, emphasizing mathematical formulation and optimization techniques. The book is useful for reliability engineers and managers engaged in the practice of reliability engineering and maintenance management. It also provides references that will lead to further studies at the end of each chapter. This book is a reference for researchers in reliability and maintenance and can be used as an advanced text for students.

Jiang, Tao

Huang, Hong-Zhong

Mathematics

Springer

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