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Metaphor familiarizes things strange with things familiar to enrich old things with things newly made familiar. Thus metaphor is an effective intercultural highway without shared thinking-way, for each culture is a specific thinking-way. This volume shows such intercultural communication.

This paper presents a novel MILP-based iteration method for intensifying heat transfer to improve energy recovery in heat exchange networks (HENs) with topology modifications. A new optimization framework has been proposed to deal with the nonlinear computational difficulties due to the combination of conventional HEN retrofit (topology modifications) with heat transfer intensification. An industrial scale case study is carried out to demonstrate the validity and soundness of the proposed approach.

More and more people are choosing herbal healing methods as a supplement or alternative to traditional medical care. This book traces the history of the oldest and most comprehensive form of internal medicine and offers information on more than 170 herbs and herb combinations. Readers will learn how to treat common aliments with Chinese herbs and how to use herbs to achieve an overall balanced state of health and well-being.Included are: - the basic theories and ideas behind Chinese herbal medicine- Chinese herbal formulas for general disorders and chronic conditions an alphabetized list of illnesses that can be treated with Chinese herbs- a glossary of common terms-and a list of reputable herb suppliers.