In the first part of this book, three Pre-FUFP maintenance algorithms are thus proposed to efficiently maintain and update the FUFP-tree structures regardless of whether records are inserted, deleted or modified in dynamic databases....

During the last two centuries BC, the Western Han dynasty of China forged the first stable empire covering all of China and presided over a golden age that shaped much of subsequent Chinese art and culture....

This book used two-dimensional Principal Component Analysis (2DPCA) to determine total electron content (TEC) anomalous responds in the ionosphere to discuss both serious catastrophes in Taiwan, the potential causes of the analysis results were discussed with emphasis given to acoustic shock waves and caused the TEC anomalies for Xiaolin-Village Mu...

Principal component analysis (PCA) and nonlinear principal component analysis (NLPCA) are used to detect ionospheric anomalies. The ionospheric anomalies related to Haiti earthquake on 12 January 2010 are researched by PCA in Chapter 1....

Migration is a phenomenon that has been with humans since the earliest times....

Licorice, known as \\\"sweet root,\\\" is an herbal drug, which has long been used as a demulcent and elixir in Chinese medicine. It is used as an assistant drug to harmonize and to enhance the activity of other ingredients, reduce toxicity, as well as improve flavor....

Investigating human brain function can be improved by employing a multimodal functional neuroimaging approach....

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy is a nonlinear Raman imaging technique that has received great attention for biological and biomedical imaging due to its ability of real-time, nonperturbative chemical mapping of live unstained cells and tissue based on molecular vibrations....

Yarns are key building blocks to construct complicated fibrous structures for diverse applications. Nanofibre yarns are expected to uncover new opportunities for development of well-defined three-dimensional nano fibrous architectures with new or enhanced functions and better mechanical performances....

The study of symbol frequencies in randomly generated words is an issue related to various research areas of the computational sciences, such as bioinformatics, telecommunication code synchronisation, algorithm analysis, and meets its first motivations in the context of molecular biology, mainly in the analysis of genomic DNA sequences....

Chapter one, the Fractional Fourier Transforms (FRFT) is introduced.It will show the basis of the FRFT with nostationary behaviors is a chirp-like function related to sinusoid basis of Fourier Transforms....

The topic of rainfall and Typhoon-induced earthquakes has been widely researched and noted. For example (Husen et al. (2007) reported a series of 47 local earthquakes in the central Switzerland Alps that occurred three days after record rainfall during August 19-23, 2005....

Recent studies have shown that earthquake-associated total electron content (TEC) anomalies are detectable using principal component analysis (PCA) regardless of other possible causes of TEC disturbance such as TEC long term variance, solar flare and geomagnetic storm activity....

In June 2008, Justin Yifu Lin was appointed Chief Economist of the World Bank, right before the eruption of the worst global financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression....

Monetary Policy and Taiwan?s Economy questions whether the Asian crisis could have been avoided through the application of recommendations highlighted by the contributors. The conclusion reached is that in an abstract world, perhaps; but in the world in which we live, no....