New Release Books by Ran

Metadata is essential for organizing, managing and searching for information resources and has been a keystone of resource description and discovery. This book is designed to provide information professionals, paraprofessionals and students with up-to-date, practical knowledge and complex skills centering on metadata application in digital repositories and libraries. It explores emerging user-generated metadata (e.g. social tagging) and introduces mechanisms dealing with the exploitation of social tagging to enhance information discovery and user services. Delivers practical guidance for acquiring knowledge and complex skills centering on metadata applications Draws on extensive knowledge and expertise gained from an IMLS award-winning research project and current teaching in metadata and digital libraries Brings previous experiences as an information practitioner to bear vis-à-vis creating and managing metadata

Biomethane Production from Vegetable and Water Hyacinth Waste explores the production of biomethane from vegetable waste and water hyacinth via anaerobic fermentation, focusing on effect factors, control methods and optimization. The book introduces principles and key technologies before proceeding into a deeper exploration of the fundamentals of municipal vegetable waste, such as composition, main indicators, experiment devices, and pretreatment. Processes to produce volatile fatty acids and resource recovery from anaerobic fermentation liquid and residue are described in detail. Other topics covered include the utilization of fermentation products, engineering design of a reaction tank, process parameters, and environmental and economic aspects. The practical, application-oriented approach of this book allows engineering researchers, PhD students, and industry practitioners in the field of biogas and biomethane production, biomass conversion, and waste management to immediately utilize the information it provides. Covers the fundamentals and applications of the use of food waste and water hyacinth for biomethane production through anaerobic digestion Explores core challenges of a biomethane production operation, including details on process optimization and control Includes multiple case studies grounded in current industrial practice Offers practical examples and numerical calculations for large-scale operation Provides a representative treatment of a PPP plant considered from a process systems design perspective

She had been in a secret marriage for five years, but it was only after she had been imprisoned both physically and mentally that she realized she was a joke. She met someone and decided to remarry him, but Mr. Dong had caused a ruckus at the wedding. "Who dares to marry my Ex-wife?" From then on, Mr. Dong gained another nickname: Wife-Doting Man. The best love, is you come, coincidentally, I also want to love. ***

She had loved him for eight years, married him for a year, and became the young mistress of a Wealthy Class family. She had seemed to be famous, but had been called a mistress by others. In a year, all she received was endless humiliation and looting. In the end, she became dispirited and decided to leave, but he began to be unwilling. "Lin Wanyan, do you want to leave just like that? No way, staying by my side is your punishment!" Ling Owen shook off the marriage contract and forcefully suppressed the woman in front of him...

Her boyfriend and cousin fell in love and abandoned her fiercely. She lost the game and took advantage of the booze to pounce on the CEO. Who would''ve thought that the nightmare would start from here ...

Micro democracy is a scientific, revolutionary and executable total solution to implement true democracy which maximizes social utility and social justice. Theories, system designs, action plans, roadmap are all in this book, for people to build a new world. It originated from the idea of direct democracy, and deeply optimized and reformed with the help of information technology. It achieves a perfect balance between social justice, decision-making efficiency, and quality. On this basis, a complete superstructure is established, including human rights, laws, and government. With it, people will be able to overthrow the existing political system entirely and create a governance platform that enables the self-evolution and peaceful development of civilization. In addition to theoretical analysis, this book also provides actionable implementation plans and roadmaps so that people can immediately begin to practice and create this new political system. Also, the book proposed a general quantitative model for the assessment of the democratic level of states and regimes, helping people to study the political characteristics of various countries objectively.

Tensor network is a fundamental mathematical tool with a huge range of applications in physics, such as condensed matter physics, statistic physics, high energy physics, and quantum information sciences. This open access book aims to explain the tensor network contraction approaches in a systematic way, from the basic definitions to the important applications. This book is also useful to those who apply tensor networks in areas beyond physics, such as machine learning and the big-data analysis. Tensor network originates from the numerical renormalization group approach proposed by K.G. Wilson in 1975. Through a rapid development in the last two decades, tensor network has become a powerful numerical tool that can efficiently simulate a wide range of scientific problems, with particular success in quantum many-body physics. Varieties of tensor network algorithms have been proposed for different problems. However, the connections among different algorithms are not well discussed or reviewed. To fill this gap, this book explains the fundamental concepts and basic ideas that connect and/or unify different strategies of the tensor network contraction algorithms. In addition, some of the recent progresses in dealing with tensor decomposition techniques and quantum simulations are also represented in this book to help the readers to better understand tensor network. This open access book is intended for graduated students, but can also be used as a professional book for researchers in the related fields. To understand most of the contents in the book, only basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and linear algebra is required. In order to fully understand some advanced parts, the reader will need to be familiar with notion of condensed matter physics and quantum information, that however are not necessary to understand the main parts of the book. This book is a good source for non-specialists on quantum physics to understand tensor network algorithms and the related mathematics.

In order to save her mother she had no choice but to make a sky-high price deal with the mysterious man five years later she returned as an acting newcomer but he stuck her in the car and threatened not to go anywhere near her son she eluded him but ran into him again and again later he will buckle her in the bosom the look in the eyes cold cold query once is accidental twice is coincidence ye wanqing this time how do you explain she looked up and smiled brightly this time is my step by step plan he thought she was seeking his heart is the identity of mrs gu when he willingly step into her calculation but found that she hid a terrible secret ye wanqing how do you want to die is there a reprieve your honor what do you think it is said that marriage is the tomb of love ye wanqing love born in trade died in fraud buried in gu jin yuan gu jinyuan the grave is dug still not dead come in ye wanqing → →

Life is not so interesting for 19-year-old college student Vince Silver. On the outside Vince seems like an average guy, but Vince has an interesting ability...the ability to dream. Anything that Vince thinks about the night before will be acted out in a dream. Vince takes quite a bit of pride in this ability of his, but one day the dream he had wasn''t preplanned and Vince woke up in a strange place. Confused about the situation Vince meets a young girl named Stella. Stella has been searching for her missing parents who have been taken away from the corrupted kingdom. When Vince offers her aid, he questions whether the place he''s in is a dream or not. One thing that Vince notices is that the world he is in uses magic! It seems that he lacks the ability to use magic... that is until he encounters a strange stick

Development of Volcanic Gas Reservoirs: The Theory, Key Technologies and Practice of Hydrocarbon Development introduces the geological and dynamic characteristics of development in volcanic gas reservoirs, using examples drawn from the practical experience in China of honing volcanic gas reservoir development. The book gives guidance on how to effectively develop volcanic gas reservoirs and similar complex types of gas reservoir. It introduces basic theories, key technologies and uses practical examples. It is the first book to systematically cover the theories and key technologies of volcanic gas reservoir development. As volcanic gas reservoirs constitute a new research area, the distribution and rules for development still being studied. Difficulties in well deployment and supportive development technology engender further challenges to development. However, in the past decade, research and development in the Songliao and Junggar Basins has led to marked achievements in volcanic gas reservoir development. Introduces the theory, key technologies and practice of volcanic gas reservoir development Provides links between theory and practice, highlighting key technologies for targeted development Offers guidance on complex issues in volcanic gas reservoir development Presents practical evidence from effective development and exploitation of gas reservoirs