The tz'u, or lyric, reached its full maturity in China during the eleventh century and the first quarter of the twelfth. Until now this important poetic genre has been little known to English readers, and James J. Y. Liu's book is the first to deal systematically and critically with it....

Old Frontiersman is a senior on the frontier. Although he likes horses, he didn’t feel sad when he lost his horse, but when his lost horse returned with another horse, he became very worried. Later, when his son fell off the horse and broke his leg,......

This research examines social, school, and household factors associated with children’s school enrollment and dropout in Vietnam, paying special attention to the gender gap in schooling....

Fish are excellent swimmers with high swimming efficiency and perfect manoeuvring abilities. Designing a robotic fish with fish-like swimming behaviour in a dynamic environment is such a challenging task, that it requires a full understanding of hydrodynamics, fish propulsion mechanisms, and the approaches for mimicking the real fish swimming....

Lameness is an important welfare and costly production problem for the dairy industry. Losses due to lameness are caused by diminished milk yields, loss of reproductive efficiency and increased involuntary culling. These costs could be reduced with early detection and proper treatment of the ailment....

This is an introductory book that shows the first steps of learning how to play the viola. The book is organized with ascending level of difficulty into nine chapters; each chapter has a theme of different viola techniques or theory concepts....

Get up to speed with digital holography with this concise and straightforward introduction to modern techniques and conventions....

Jenny Liu coaches local business owners on how to tap into the power of the Internet to bring in more business, more profitably....

This book examines the relationship between the legal extension of copyright duration as an enduring means of copyright protection and the growth of the UK book publishing industry as a typical creative industry reliant on copyright....

The Knowledge Seeker is a useful system to develop various intelligent applications such as ontology-based search engine, ontology-based text classification system, ontological agent system, and semantic web system etc. The Knowledge Seeker contains four different ontological components. First, it defines the knowledge representation model ?...

Provides professionals and students with a comprehensive treatment of real-time computing and communication systems. Covers the most recent advances in real-time operating systems and communications networks. DLC: Real-time data processing....

Book DescriptionAutonomy Oriented Computing is a comprehensive reference for scientists, engineers, and other professionals concerned with this promising development in computer science....

Web Intelligence is a new direction for scientific research and development that explores the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of artificial intelligence and advanced information technology for the next generation of Web-empowered systems, services, and environments....