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"The one hundred-some stories depict the important role ghosts played in the lives of the Chinese, as well as revealing a great deal about sex, revenge, transvestism, corruption, and other topics banned by Mei's puritanical mid-Qing society". -- Reference & Research Book News.

This book unifies existing and emerging concepts concerning state estimation, fault detection, fault isolation and fault estimation on industrial systems with an emphasis on a variety of network-induced phenomena, fault diagnosis and remaining useful life for industrial equipment. It covers state estimation/monitor, fault diagnosis and remaining useful life prediction by drawing on the conventional theories of systems science, signal processing and machine learning. Features: Unifies existing and emerging concepts concerning robust filtering and fault diagnosis with an emphasis on a variety of network-induced complexities. Explains theories, techniques, and applications of state estimation as well as fault diagnosis from an engineering-oriented perspective. Provides a series of latest results in robust/stochastic filtering, multidate sample, and time-varying system. Captures diagnosis (fault detection, fault isolation and fault estimation) for time-varying multi-rate systems. Includes simulation examples in each chapter to reflect the engineering practice. This book aims at graduate students, professionals and researchers in control science and application, system analysis, artificial intelligence, and fault diagnosis.

Reliably optimizing a new treatment in humans is a critical first step in clinical evaluation since choosing a suboptimal dose or schedule may lead to failure in later trials. At the same time, if promising preclinical results do not translate into a real treatment advance, it is important to determine this quickly and terminate the clinical evaluation process to avoid wasting resources. Bayesian Designs for Phase I–II Clinical Trials describes how phase I–II designs can serve as a bridge or protective barrier between preclinical studies and large confirmatory clinical trials. It illustrates many of the severe drawbacks with conventional methods used for early-phase clinical trials and presents numerous Bayesian designs for human clinical trials of new experimental treatment regimes. Written by research leaders from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, this book shows how Bayesian designs for early-phase clinical trials can explore, refine, and optimize new experimental treatments. It emphasizes the importance of basing decisions on both efficacy and toxicity.

Born Red is an artistically wrought personal account, written very much from inside the experience, of the years 1966-1969, when the author was a young teenager at middle school. It was in the middle schools that much of the fury of the Cultural Revolution and Red Guard movement was spent, and Gao was caught up in very dramatic events, which he recounts as he understood them at the time. Gao's father was a county political official who was in and out of trouble during those years, and the intense interplay between father and son and the differing perceptions and impact of the Cultural Revolution for the two generations provide both an unusual perspective and some extraordinary moving moments. He also makes deft use of traditional mythology and proverbial wisdom to link, sometimes ironically, past and present. Gao relates in vivid fashion how students-turned-Red Guards held mass rallies against 'capitalist roader' teachers and administrators, marching them through the streets to the accompaniment of chants and jeers and driving some of them to suicide. Eventually the students divided into two factions, and school and town became armed camps. Gao tells of the exhilaration that he and his comrades experienced at their initial victories, of their deepening disillusionment as they utter defeat as the tumultuous first phase of the Cultural Revolution came to a close. The portraits of the persons to whom Gao introduces us - classmates, teachers, family members - gain weight and density as the story unfolds, so that in the end we see how they all became victims of the dynamics of a mass movement out of control.

This title provides a narrative interpretation of key themes that emerge in the history of Asian migrations to North America, highlighting how Asian immigration has shaped the evolution of ideological and legal interpretations of America as a 'nation of immigrants'.

In the post-war mid-century Robert van Gulik produced a series of stories set in Imperial China and featuring a Chinese Judge: Judge Dee. This book examines the author’s unprecedented effort in hybridising two heterogenous crime writing traditions – traditional Chinese gong’an (court-case) fiction and its Anglo-American counterpart – bringing to light how his fiction draws elements from these two traditions for plots, narrative features, visual images, and gender representation. Relying on research on various sources and literary traditions, it provides illumination of the historical contexts, centring on the cultural interaction and connectedness that occurred during the multidirectional global flows of the Judge Dee texts in both western and Chinese markets. This study contributes to current scholarship on crime fiction by questioning its predominantly Eurocentric focus and the divisive post-colonial approach often adopted in accessing works concerning foreign peoples and cultures.

Les sources lumineuses électriques ont été développées il y a environ 200 ans. D'une manière générale, ils se décomposent en trois classes : lampe à incandescence, lampes à décharge et lampe à l'état solide. La FDDL (Flat Dark Discharge Lamp), qui fait l'objet de cette thèse, appartient à la famille des lampes à décharge dans laquelle le mercure n'est pas utilisé. Ainsi, elle est considérée comme une technologie très prometteuse pour l'environnement. Son fonctionnement repose sur le principe de la lampe à décharge basse pression et celui du CRT (Cathode Ray Tube). Toutefois, son mécanisme d'allumage est nouveau par rapport aux lampes à décharge traditionnels, qui fonctionnent en régime d'arc ou en régime de luminescence. En outre, elle emploie le phosphore qui est largement appliquée dans le CRT. Il convient de souligner que la pression du gaz est inférieure à la pression du mercure dans les lampes basse pression et qu'elle est plus élevée dans le CRT ou FED (Field Emission Display). Cette pression permet de maintenir la lampe à une haute tension. C'est ainsi que les électrons, obtenus par l'ionisation des atomes dans le gaz, seront accélérés ce qui va exciter la substance fluorescente (phosphore). En tant que nouveau candidat, vert et sans mercure, pour l'application dans le domaine du rétro-éclairage, des recherches pour son optimisation doivent être envisagées. La FDDL fonctionne en dépression, en espace de décharge étroit et dans un champ électrique élevé. Dans un tel état il existe certaines caractéristiques communes avec la décharge Townsend, qui pourront nous aider à faire de simples calculs. Le canal étroit de la décharge est d'autant plus petit que l'épaisseur de la région cathode chute. Comme il n'y a pas assez de collisions qui se produisent avant que les électrons interagissent avec le phosphore de la surface anodique, Le libre parcours moyen d'excitation et d'ionisation a été utilisé pour prédire la relation entre les espèces et la pression du gaz de décharge, la distance d'espacement et de la tension appliquée. Cette étude pourrait donner quelques indications quantitatives pour l'amélioration de la lampe FDDL. Ajoutons également, des mesures sur des échantillons FDDL, remplis avec du néon, qui aident à connaître certaines caractéristiques de la lampe, y compris l'uniformité de la luminosité, la réponse de phosphore et de la distribution thermique à la surface. Le vert émit par le phosphore n'a pas de réponse aux longueurs d'ondes d'excitation 650 nm et 532 nm, mais pourrait être excité dans le violet (405 nm). Par ailleurs, nous avons examiné l'influence de différents gaz tampon à différentes pressions, se trouvant à la sortie d'émission globale. De plus, on s'est intéressé à la région fine et inexplorés entre la décharge Townsend (excitation électronique des luminophores) et la décharge luminescente (excitation par collision des électrons avec gaz tampon). A ces régions, les deux mécanismes peuvent contribuer à la production globale et le contrôle pour les effets d'éclairage dynamique.