Temperature Behavior of Bridges

Engineering & Transportation

Zhou, Yi

Xia, Yong

Transportation

CRC-Press

Pipe failures in water distribution systems can have a serious impact and hence it's important to maintain the condition and integrity of the distribution system. This book presents a whole-life cost optimisation model for the rehabilitation of water distribution systems. It combines a pipe breakage number prediction model with a pipe criticality assessment model, which enables the creation of a well-constructed and more tightly constrained optimisation model. The pipe breakage number prediction model combines information on the physical characteristics of the pipes with historical information on breakage and failure rates. A weighted multiple nonlinear regression analysis is applied to describe the condition of different pipe groups. The criticality assessment model combines a pipe's condition with its hydraulic significance through a modified TOPSIS. This model enables the optimisation to focus its efforts on those important pipes. The whole life cost optimal rehabilitation model is a multiple-objective and multiple-stage model, which provides a suite of rehabilitation decisions that minimise the whole life cost while maximising its long-term performance. The optimisation model is solved using a modified NSGA-II. The utility of the developed models is that it allows decision makers to prioritize their rehabilitation strategy in a proactive and cost-effective manner.

Deterioration and Optimal Rehabilitation Modelling for Urban Water Distribution Systems (IHE Delft PhD Thesis Series)

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Chinese for Working Professionals: A Textbook for Intermediate-High to Advanced Learners

Chinese for Working Professionals is for learners who intend to use Chinese in a multinational global workplace. It has eight thematic units focusing on developing learners’ transferrable skills in addition to expanding the cross-cultural competences required in a real-world work-place. Key features: <ul>
<li>Topical themes expose the ongoing changes in China for working professionals such as career preparation, economic development, business etiquette, the working environment, and overall lifestyle. </li> <li>Authentic reading materials and live videos on a companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/zhou) to incorporate understandings of the norm and expectations of the workplace and society at large, and also prepare learners for a quick transition from classroom to targeted scenarios. </li> <li>Abundant simulated real-life collaborative tasks, case studies, and projects enhance learners’ problem-solving skills in Chinese, in addition to work strategies in different scenarios such as communication for work and leisure, and teamwork projects necessary and crucial for professions in multilingual and cross-cultural global settings.</li> </ul>
This textbook is a key resource for learners of Chinese at an ACTFL Intermediate-High proficiency level and above, or CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Language) B1.2 to B2.1 level in terms of language control, extensive and applicable vocabulary and expressions, communication strategies, as well as cultural awareness.

Literature & Fiction

Wang, Haidan

History & Criticism

Routledge

Chinese for Working Professionals is for learners who intend to use Chinese in a multinational global workplace. It has eight thematic units focusing on developing learners’ transferrable skills in addition to expanding the cross-cultural competences required in a real-world work-place. Key features: <ul>
<li>Topical themes expose the ongoing changes in China for working professionals such as career preparation, economic development, business etiquette, the working environment, and overall lifestyle. </li> <li>Authentic reading materials and live videos on a companion website to incorporate understandings of the norm and expectations of the workplace and society at-large, and also prepare learners for a quick transition from classroom to targeted scenarios. </li> <li>Abundant simulated real-life collaborative tasks, case studies and projects enhance learners’ problem-solving skills in Chinese, in addition to work strategies under different scenarios such as communication for work and leisure, and teamwork projects necessary and crucial for professions in multilingual and cross-cultural global settings.</li> </ul>
This textbook is a key resource for learners of Chinese at an ACTFL Intermediate High proficiency level and above, or CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Language) B1.2 to B2.1 level in terms of language control, extensive and applicable vocabulary and expressions, communication strategies, as well as cultural awareness.

Working Mandarin for Beginners is designed to enable English-speaking business students and professionals with no prior knowledge of Chinese to develop the basic communication skills necessary for a business trip to China or another work environment in which Mandarin is spoken. Major features: Twenty-four lessons, including five review lessons Clear objectives for acquiring language skills, grammar, and cultural understanding Lessons cover important basics such as introductions and greetings, counting, reserving a hotel room, taking public transportation, and asking for directions Lessons cover business tasks such as coordinating and conducting meetings, selling products, and negotiating agreements―all in Chinese Lessons provide dialogues and vocabulary lists for reading and listening, language points, cultural points, pronunciation drills, grammar, and interactive homework Course concludes with a special independent project in which the student applies the language to his or her area of business study Pinyin is used throughout so students can start speaking Mandarin immediately Includes some basic lessons in the formation of Chinese characters Course can be combined with affordable online access to self-grading exercises (available through Quia.com, $24.95 per student for 18 months of access) Student Book Includes MP3 tracks of dialogues, vocabulary lists, and audio exercises on CD Lessons are valuable to the classroom student as well as self-directed independent learners Teacher's Edition Includes a CD-ROM with all MP3 tracks of dialogues, vocabulary, and audio exercises found on the students' disk CD-ROM also provides quizzes and exams (including necessary audio), approximately 300 supplementary PowerPoint slides for classroom use, and creative guidance for conversation practice, mini-immersion, and skit Online teaching features at Quia.com Instructor-managed class activities and exercises Monitoring of student progress Customized grading options online Students can complete exercises online, submit their answers electronically to their instructor, and receive automatic feedback Teachers can also use Quia templates to build their own exercises or use exercises developed by other instructors to provide added help for students Motivated self-directed learners can also access the self-grading online exercises at Quia.com (no instructor feedback will be provided) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Student's Edition Textbook/MP3 CD (Mac and PC) CD drive on a computer or conventional CD player with MP3 capability MP3 player, such as iTunes, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player Speakers Teacher's Edition Textbook/CD-ROM Mac and PC CD drive on a computer MP3 player, such as iTunes, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player speakers Adobe Acrobat Reader (available as a free download from http:///www.adobe.com) PC Windows XP Microsoft Office 2000 or higher with Service Pack 3 installed (Word and PowerPoint are needed to view and edit some files) Or, to view the PowerPoints only, download Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003 or higher (free from http://www.microsoft.com) Fonts for PowerPoints: Arial Unicode and Simsun, which are included in all editions of Office 2000/XP/2003 Mac Microsoft Word, version Office 2004 or higher Microsoft PowerPoint, version Office 2004 or higher (Word and PowerPoint are needed to view and edit some files); or view the PowerPoints as PDFs Fonts for PowerPoints: Arial and Simsun, which are included in Office 2004 and higher Interactive Exercises on Quia (Mac and PC) Computer with Internet access, preferably a high-speed connection Java-enabled browser: Internet Explorer 5 or higher, or any version of Firefox or Safari The program QuickTime (available as a free download from http://www.quicktime.com) Microphone to record answers or responses

Working Mandarin for Beginners (Working Languages) (Chinese Edition)

Gerber, M. Lynne

Georgetown University Press

This monograph introduces various value-based approaches for solving the policy evaluation problem in the online reinforcement learning (RL) scenario, which aims to learn the value function associated with a specific policy under a single Markov decision process (MDP). Approaches vary depending on whether they are implemented in an on-policy or off-policy manner. In on-policy settings, where the evaluation of the policy is conducted using data generated from the same policy that is being assessed, classical techniques such as TD(0), TD(&lambda;), and their extensions with function approximation or variance reduction are employed in this setting. For off-policy evaluation, where samples are collected under a different behavior policy, this monograph introduces gradient-based two-timescale algorithms like GTD2, TDC, and variance-reduced TDC. These algorithms are designed to minimize the mean-squared projected Bellman error (MSPBE) as the objective function. This monograph also discusses their finite-sample convergence upper bounds and sample complexity.

Stochastic Optimization Methods for Policy Evaluation in Reinforcement Learning (Foundations and Trends(r) in Optimization)

Ma, Shaocong

Mathematics

Now Publishers

The Two Lives of Cheng Maolan: From the "French Silk Road to Astronomy" to the Meanders of Mao’s China (SpringerBriefs in Astronomy)

Montmerle, Thierry

Gomas, Yves

Astronomy & Space Science

Springer

China and the International Astronomical Union: Divorce, Separation and Reconciliation (1958–1982) (Historical & Cultural Astronomy)

Foreign & International Law

This book focuses on nonlinear wave equations, which are of considerable significance from both physical and theoretical perspectives. It also presents complete results on the lower bound estimates of lifespan (including the global existence), which are established for classical solutions to the Cauchy problem of nonlinear wave equations with small initial data in all possible space dimensions and with all possible integer powers of nonlinear terms. Further, the book proposes the global iteration method, which offers a unified and straightforward approach for treating these kinds of problems. Purely based on the properties of solutions to the corresponding linear problems, the method simply applies the contraction mapping principle.

Nonlinear Wave Equations (Series in Contemporary Mathematics, 2)

Li, Tatsien

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