A completamento del testo di studio sul cinese questo quaderno di esercizi è uno strumento che propone attività di preparazione e training nella pratica, con un percorso attraverso caratteri, sillabe e frasi, l'inserimento di parole adeguate, la ricerca e la correzione di errori di scrittura. Come in manuale gli esercizi si articolano in dieci lezioni e prevedono alla fine di ogni lezione la ricopiatura di caratteri negli appositi spazi dedicati. Sono stati concepiti in modo da allenare alla comprensione della fonetica, all'ascolto, alla conversazione, all'uso di parole importanti, alla lettura e alla traduzione dal cinese all'italiano.

Questo manuale, in uso fra gli studenti del corso di lingua cinese all'Università di Sassari, si articola in dieci lezioni e si concentra sull'ascolto, sul parlato, sulla lettura e la scrittura. L'obiettivo è proporre uno studio graduale ma efficace, basato sull'esperienza dell'autrice, dottore in scienze sociali all'università di Sassari, professore associato e presidente del corso di laurea in industria culturale presso l'università di Guizhou. I dialoghi e la scelta dei termini sono strutturati con riferimento ad argomenti pratici e raccontano episodi della vita di tutti i giorni e mirano a sviluppare le capacità espressive della lingua parlata. Il testo scritto aiuta la memorizzazione delle parole sviluppando le capacità espressive dello studente.

The Intelligent Systems Series encompasses theoretical studies, design methods, and real-world implementations and applications. It publishes titles in three core sub-topic areas: Intelligent Automation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Intelligent Computing.

This volume, Intelligent Vibration Control in Civil Engineering Structures, focuses on design and property tests on different intelligent control devices, some innovative control strategies and analysis examples for structures with intelligent control devices, and design and tests on intelligent controllers.

• This book’s primary focus is on the principles, methods and applications of intelligent vibration control in civil engineering
• Covers intelligent control including active and semi-active control
• Comprehensive contents including design and properties of different intelligent control devices, control strategies and dynamic analysis, intelligent controller design, numerical examples, and experimental data

Learning-Based Local Visual Representation and Indexing, reviews the state-of-the-art in visual content representation and indexing, introduces cutting-edge techniques in learning based visual representation, and discusses emerging topics in visual local representation, and introduces the most recent advances in content-based visual search techniques.

• Discusses state-of-the-art procedures in learning-based local visual representation.
• Shows how to master the basic techniques needed for building a large-scale visual search engine and indexing system
• Provides insight into how machine learning techniques can be leveraged to refine the visual recognition system, especially in the part of visual feature representation.

Contributors to this second volume of “Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China” explore some of the most contentiously debated questions and issues including liberalism, human rights, rule of law, the state, capitalism, and socialism.

This brief focuses on network planning and resource allocation by jointly considering cost and energy sustainability in wireless networks with sustainable energy. The characteristics of green energy and investigating existing energy-efficient green approaches for wireless networks with sustainable energy is covered in the first part of this brief. The book then addresses the random availability and capacity of the energy supply. The authors explore how to maximize the energy sustainability of the network and minimize the failure probability that the mesh access points (APs) could deplete their energy and put the network out of service due to the unreliable energy supply. This brief also studies network resource management issues in green wireless networks to minimize cost. It jointly considers the relay node (RN) placement and sub-carrier allocation (RNP-SA) issues in wireless networks with sustainable energy, and then formulates the problem into a mixed integer non-linear programming problem. Concise and informative, this brief is a useful resource for professionals or researchers studying wireless networks, communication networks, and energy efficiency. Advanced-level students interested in energy technology or communications engineering will also find the material valuable.

When used in low permeability or ultra-low permeability reservoirs, water injection is one of the most economical methods for ensuring maximum production rates. Water Injection For Low Permeability Reservoirs provides production and reservoir engineers with a no nonsense guide to plan, design, implement and evaluate a water injection system that will improve recovery factors. In this book, the author clearly explains the characteristics of ultra-low permeability reservoirs and linear flow theories. These topics are then applied to design and implementation. Application cases of four oilfields are included to help develop concepts while illustrating the proper workflow for ensuring waterflooding performance analysis and optimization. This book has both theoretical analysis and practical cases. The book can not only be used as the reference book for field technical personnel, but also provides technical support for the management personnel.

Concise and readable, Water Injection For Low Permeability Reservoirs provides operators with the proper workflow systems and engineering techniques for designing, planning and implementing an efficient, economical water injection system. The book provides both theoretical analysis and practical cases for designing and evaluating water injection systems and understanding key production variables involved in making detailed predictions for oil and water producing rates, water injection rates, and recovery efficiency.

• Frank discussion of the characteristics of low and ultra-low permeability reservoirs and linear flow theories
• Design and implementation of advanced waterflooding systems
• Actual cases studies from four oilfields

Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved. New concepts, approaches and techniques of systems development emerge constantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes from research as well as from practice. This conference will discuss issues pertaining to information systems development (ISD) in the inter-networked digital economy. Participants will include researchers, both experienced and novice, from industry and academia, as well as students and practitioners. Themes will include methods and approaches for ISD; ISD education; philosophical, ethical, and sociological aspects of ISD; as well as specialized tracks such as: distributed software development, ISD and knowledge management, ISD and electronic business / electronic government, ISD in public sector organizations, IOS.

'This is a very timely and original work that fills a significant gap in studies on contemporary Chinese culture. It does a compelling job in showing how and why these dramas on the small screen both dramatize and mediate the social and political transformations taking place in China today. The book will contribute significantly to Chinese media studies and cultural studies and, because many TV dramas are adapted from literary works, to debates on the changing status of Chinese literature and literary studies in an era infused with commercialism and visuality. This will be a path-breaking study'---Zhen Zhang, New York University

Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China over the past three decades, offers a wide and penetrating look at the tensions and contradictions of the post-revolutionary and pro-market period. Zhong Xueping draws attention to the multiple cultural and historical legacies that coexist and challenge each other within this dominant form of story telling. Although scholars tend to focus their attention on elite cultural trends and avant garde movements in literature and film, Zhong argues for recognizing the complexity of dianshiju's melodramatic mode and its various subgenres, in effect 'refocusing' mainstream Chinese culture

Mainstream Culture Refocused opens with an examination of television as a narrative motif in three contemporary Chinese art-house films. Zhong then turns her attention to dianshiju's most important subgenres: 'emperor dramas,' 'anti-corruption dramas,' 'youth dramas,' and 'family-marriage dramas.' The Epilogue returns to the relationship between intellectuals and the production of mainstream cultural meaning in the context of China's post-revolutionary social, economic, and cultural transformation

'Fluid Machinery and Fluid Mechanics: 4th International Symposium (4th ISFMFE)' is the proceedings of 4th International Symposium on Fluid Machinery and Fluid Engineering, held in Beijing November 24-27, 2008. It contains 69 highly informative technical papers presented at the Mei Lecture session and the technical sessions of the symposium. The Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics (CSET) organized the First, the Second and the Third International Symposium on Fluid Machinery and Fluid Engineering (1996, 2000 and 2004). The purpose of the 4th Symposium is to provide a common forum for exchange of scientific and technical information worldwide on fluid machinery and fluid engineering for scientists and engineers. The main subject of this symposium is 'Fluid Machinery for Energy Conservation'. The 'Mei Lecture' reports on the most recent developments of fluid machinery in commemoration of the late professor Mei Zuyan.The book is intended for researchers and engineers in fluid machinery and fluid engineering.Jianzhong Xu is a professor at the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.