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Life and death in Shanghai / by Cheng, Nien, 1915-2009

Empire of the Sun : a novel / by Ballard, J. G.

Subjects: “…World War, 1939-1945 China Shanghai Fiction 61046…”

Exemplary Agriculture Independent Organic Farming in Contemporary China / by Cody, Sacha

Table of Contents: “…China's Urban/Rural Dichotomy -- 3. Exemplarity -- 4. Shanghai's Independent Organic Farmers -- 5. Intellectuals -- 6. …”
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Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design Proceedings of the AHFE 2018 International Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, July 21-25, 2018, Loews Sapphire Falls Resor...

Table of Contents: “…Increasing importance of emotion in the connected society -- Shanghai Shikumen cultural and creative product design based on design thinking -- Modeling subjective temperature using physiological index -- On poster design in the subway public space in China based on the regional culture -- Verification of brain activity when watching TV commercials using optical topography -- Improved user experience with emotional design -- Applying intuitive thinking in smart home design based on semantic association -- The impact of design semantic on the user emotional image in the interface design -- Music retrieval and recommendation based on musical tempo.…”
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Grand Theater Urbanism Chinese Cities in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction: City Branding and Cultural Facilities-boosting Chinese cities -- Development of Theaters and the City in Beijing: the 1950s and After the 1980s -- To Be Cultural Capital-grand theaters in Shanghai -- Guangzhou Opera House: Building a Gated Public Space -- City Center Shifting and Cultural Facilities - Performance Space in Shenzhen -- Growing with the City: Theatrical Buildings in Chongqing -- The Henan Art Center: From Dilemma to Ambition -- The Shanxi Grand Theater: "Renaissance" of Chinese Drama Land -- A Butterfly by the Lake - Wuxi Grand Theater -- The National Taichung Theater: experimenting publicity of metropolitan urbanism -- From Colonial to Global-performance space in Hong Kong -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Land Subsidence Induced by the Engineering-Environmental Effect by Cui, Zhen-Dong

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International Symposium for Intelligent Transportation and Smart City (ITASC) 2017 Proceedings Branch of ISADS (The International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems) /

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Crisis and Disaster in Japan and New Zealand Actors, Victims and Ramifications /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- One Flood, Two 'Saviours': Takebe Ayatari's Changing Discourse on the Kanpō Floods of 1742 -- Writing Shanghai, the Atomic Bomb, and Incest: Homelessness and Stigmatized Womanhood of Hayashi Kyōko -- Resilience of Communities Affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Restoration of their Local Festivals -- Foreign Residents' Experiences of the Flyjin Phenomenon in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake -- The Anthropologist as both disaster victim and disaster researcher: Reflections and Advocacy -- Interpretation of development and representation of disasters in Japan's foreign aid narrative -- 'The confidence to know I can survive': Resilience and recovery in post-quake Christchurch -- Interpreters at the Front Line: Some reflections on the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake -- The Challenge, The Project, and The Politics: Lessons from Six Years of the UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive.…”
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International Symposium for Intelligent Transportation and Smart City (ITASC) 2019 Proceedings Branch of ISADS (The International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems) /

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Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2 Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2016 /

Table of Contents: “…Damage Detection with Symplectic Geometry Spectrum Analysis in Changing Enviroments -- 3 Compressive Sensing Strategies for Multiple Damage Detection and Localization -- 4 Structural Damage Detection Through Vibrational Feature Analysis with Missing Data -- 5 Damage Detection Optimization Using Wavelet Multiresolution Analysis and Genetic Algorithm -- 6 A Novel Acoustoelastic-based Technique for Stress Measurement in Structural Components -- 7 Non-model-based Damage Identification of Plates Using Curvature Mode Shapes -- 8 A Machine Learning Framework for Automated Functionality Monitoring of Movable Bridges -- 9 Development of an Acoustic Sensing Based Structural Health Monitoring Technique for Wind Turbine Blades -- 10 Making Structural Condition Diagnostics Robust to Environmental Variability -- 11 Damage Location by Maximum Entropy Method on a Civil Structure -- 12 Exploring Environmental and Operational Variations in SHM Data Using Heteroscedastic Gaussian Processes -- 13 Vibration Testing for Bridge Load Rating -- 14 Finite Element Model Updating of French Creek Bridge -- 15 Damage Detection of a Bridge Model After Simulated Ground Motion -- 16 Bridge Assessment Using Weigh-In-Motion and Acoustic Emision Methods -- 17 Model-based Estimation of Hydrodynamic Forces on the Bergsoysund Bridge -- 18 Operational Modal Analysis and Model Updating of Riveted Steel Bridge -- 19 Finite Element Model Updating of Portage Creek Bridge -- 20 Full-scale Measurements on the Hardanger Bridge During Strong Winds -- 21 Multi-Shaker Modal Testing and Modal Identification of Hollow-Core Floor System -- 22 Hybrid Time/Frequency Domain Identification of Real Base-Isolated Structure -- 23 The use of OMA for the Validation of the Design of the Allianz Tower in Milan -- 24 Vibration Transmission Through Non-Structural Partitions Between Building Floor Levels -- 25 Inelastic Base Shear Reconstruction from Sparse Acceleration Measurements of Buildings -- 26 Genetic Algorithm use for Internally Resonating Lattice Optimization: Case of a Beam-like Metastructure -- 27 Design of Metamaterials for Seismic Isolation -- 28 Transfer Length Probabilistic Model Updating In High Performance Concrete -- 29 Seismic Behavior of Partially Prestressed Concrete Structures -- 30 Ambient Vibration Testing of A Super Tall Building In Shanghai -- 31 Ambient Vibration Testing Of Two Highly Irregular Tall Buildings In Shanghai -- 32 Estimating Effective Viscous Damping and Restoring Force in Reinforced Concrete Buildings -- 33 Structural Assessment of a School Building in Sankhu, Nepal Damaged Due to Torsional Response During the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake.…”
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Electronics, Communications and Networks V Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet 2015) /

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China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2017 Proceedings: Volume I

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Greening China's Urban Governance Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges /

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 3 Environmental Planning and "Multi-planning Integration" in China -- Chapter 4 Environmental policies enter the educational sector: Different shades of green at district level -- Chapter 5 Urban water management in Beijing and Copenhagen: Sustainability, climate resilience, and the local water balance -- Chapter 6 Direct carbon emissions by urban residents and characteristics of high emitters: The case of Shanghai -- III The state's new tools of green urban governance -- Chapter 7 Digital environmental monitoring in urban China -- Chapter 8 Performance reviews, public accountability and green governance in Hangzhou -- IV Society knocking on the door -- Chapter 9 Digital media, cycles of contention, and urban governance in China - Anti-PX protests as an example of the sustainability of environmental activism -- Chapter 10 The role of social protests in environmental governance in Hangzhou -- Chapter 11Green justice approach to the environmental governance dilemma: A case study of Jiufeng Environmental Energy Project in Yuhang District, Hangzhou -- Chapter 12 Civic engagement and sustainable development in urban China: Policy lobbying by social organizations -- Epilogue: New perspectives on China's emerging green urban governance -- Contributors -- Index.…”
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Emotion management and feelings in teaching and educational leadership /

Table of Contents: “…Prelims -- Introduction -- Section I: Culture and context in the study of emotion in education -- Chapter 1: A call to study educator emotion as a contextualised phenomenon -- Chapter 2: Organising in schools: it's all about emotion -- Section II: Educational management and emotion in different cultural arenas -- Chapter 3: Exploring emotion management strategies of junior high school teachers in Shanghai, China -- Chapter 4: A female school leader and emotional management: coping in 'special measures' in a secondary school in England -- Chapter 5: A restorative approach to valuing emotion management in educational leadership: the case of Liberians and Palestinian Arabs in Israel -- Chapter 6: Emotion expression among Arab deputy-principals in Israel: the key role of the local culture -- Chapter 7: Muslim women mobilising emotionality -- Chapter 8: Factors affecting emotional management in highly complex schools: the case of two Spanish schools -- Section III: Cross-cultural understandings of educators' feelings and emotions -- Chapter 9: New principals' emotions: interactions with 'inherited' school cultures -- Chapter 10 There is always light at the end of the tunnel: emotions of a Turkish school leader in a temporary education center for Syrian children -- Chapter 11 The effects of shame in school leadership: the case of Turkish principals -- Chapter 12 Building teachers' trust in principals and colleagues: a study of critical incidents in Chilean schools -- Chapter 13 Understanding willpower and its role in leadership: a study on how educational leaders from different multicultural backgrounds perceive willpower -- Index.…”
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Handbook of digital forensics of multimedia data and devices / by Ho, Anthony T. S., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Title page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Website; Part One: Multimedia Evidence Handling; 1 Digital Forensics Laboratories in Operation; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Digital and Electronics Forensic Service, Metropolitan Police Service, UK; 1.3 Digital Forensics Team (Including Affiliated AV Team), Surrey Police, UK; 1.4 Shanghai Stars Digital Forensic Centre, Third Research Institute of China's Ministry of Public Security; 1.5 Discussions; 1.6 Summary…”
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Proceedings of International Conference on Aerospace System Science and Engineering 2018

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Fuzzy Sets Theory Preliminary Can a Washing Machine Think? / by Lin, Hao-Ran, Cao, Bing-Yuan, Liao, Yun-zhang

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China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2017 Proceedings: Volume III

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China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2017 Proceedings: Volume II

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Comparative Design of Structures Concepts and Methodologies / by Lin, Shaopei, Huang, Zhen

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