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 [...]
A unique book giving a comprehensive coverage of Subset Simulation - a robust tool for general applications The book starts with the basic theory in uncertainty propagation using Monte Carlo methods and the generation of random variables and stochastic processes for some common distributions enco[...]
The term "Wrought iron" includes the concepts of hammered and notched cast iron. For many people, it's become a synonym for a type of art that's tied to the past - or even an extinct art form. In actual fact, this point of view is very wrong, as the blacksmith's art has enjoyed renewed interest in r[...]
The main purpose of developing stability theory is to examine dynamic responses of a system to disturbances as the time approaches infinity. It has been and still is the object of intense investigations due to its intrinsic interest and its relevance to all practical systems in engineering, finance,[...]
Provides coverage of the major theories and technologies involved in the lifecycle of 3D video content delivery Presenting the technologies used in end-to-end 3D video communication systems, this reference covers 3D graphics and video coding, content creation and display, and communications and n[...]