The sea-with its unknowable depths, its far-reaching horizons, and its sparkling surface-holds some in fascination, others in fear. But one thing can't be denied by either beholder of the water: it is home to an array of species we can't even begin to know the extent of. But as for the underwater creatures of the past, who have been extinct for millions of years, we can make an attempt at learning all of them. With The Secrets of Ancient Sea Monsters, you can explore the depths of waters you never knew of, and the aquatic reptiles that ruled that murky world below sea-level. These creatures couldn't be matched, and they are waiting for you to discover all there is to know about their lives

Have you ever looked to the sky and wondered what it would be like to soar through its endless expanse? There are many animals who can fly, from the largest birds to the tiniest insects. But once, hundreds of millions of years ago, pterosaurs ruled the skies. They were the greatest fliers this world has known, and they soared above the dinosaurs who ruled the land below. Read about these impressive creatures, learn how they lived, hunted, and survived, and see through breathtaking and detailed illustrations what they looked like all those millennia ago. The Secrets of Pterosaurs will show you a world in the skies you'll wish you could have witnessed firsthand.

Whip up tasty vegan versions of your favorite Chinese dishes

Now you can easily satisfy your cravings for Chinese food while maintaining a plant-based diet. The Vegan Chinese Cookbook offers a wide range of delicious recipes, including both classic plant-based dishes and vegan versions of home and restaurant favorites. You'll be inspired to start preparing mouthwatering dishes immediately with recipes that utilize simple ingredients you can easily find at your local grocery store.

• Chinese cooking techniques--Easy instructions will help you master Chinese cooking in no time, whether you need to roll-cut some eggplant, steam bean curd rolls, or fold a dumpling.
• Delectable recipes--Learn how to prepare an exciting combination of homey Chinese dishes like Silken Tofu Salad and popular takeout fare like Spring Rolls and Sesame Sauce Noodles.
• Shopping tips--Get a thorough guide to the best staples to have on hand when cooking vegan Chinese food, from rice wine and vegetarian oyster sauce to dried shiitake mushrooms and glass noodles.

Find out how simple and enjoyable it can be to prepare plant-based versions of beloved Chinese recipes.

This book is designed to provide tracing and writing practice for young learners on 75 beginner level Chinese characters. Recommended to use with Big Chinese Workbook for Little Hands, Kindergarten Level, for optimized learning. The characters cover 6 Basic Strokes, 18 Compound Stokes, Numbers and Dates, Measure Words, and Sight words, that are taught in Level K.

Big Chinese Workbook for Little Hands is a best-selling book series designed and recommended by teachers and linguistics in the US to use by young learners who live in English-speaking countries and regions. For more information, please visit www.BigChineseWorkbook.com

Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications is based on a decade of the authors' collaborative work in age-period-cohort (APC) analysis. Within a single, consistent HAPC-GLMM statistical modeling framework, the authors synthesize APC models and methods for three research designs: age-by-time period tables of population rates or proportions, repeated cross-section sample surveys, and accelerated longitudinal panel studies. The authors show how the empirical application of the models to various problems leads to many fascinating findings on how outcome variables develop along the age, period, and cohort dimensions.

The book makes two essential contributions to quantitative studies of time-related change. Through the introduction of the GLMM framework, it shows how innovative estimation methods and new model specifications can be used to tackle the model identification problem that has hampered the development and empirical application of APC analysis. The book also addresses the major criticism against APC analysis by explaining the use of new models within the GLMM framework to uncover mechanisms underlying age patterns and temporal trends.

Encompassing both methodological expositions and empirical studies, this book explores the ways in which statistical models, methods, and research designs can be used to open new possibilities for APC analysis. It compares new and existing models and methods and provides useful guidelines on how to conduct APC analysis. For empirical illustrations, the text incorporates examples from a variety of disciplines, such as sociology, demography, and epidemiology. Along with details on empirical analyses, software and programs to estimate the models are available on the book's web page.

UNCOVER THE INVISIBLE THREAT IN THE AIR-- HOW POLLUTION AFFECTS YOUR MIND, HEALTH, AND FUTURE Through Why We Feel Blue When the Air Is Grey, journey into the hidden perils of air pollution and its pervasive impact on your daily life. This eye-opening book unveils the shocking consequences of polluted air on your cognition, health, and financial decisions. Delve into a wealth of global research, exploring the tangible and intangible costs of poor air quality. Witness the struggles against smog in metropolitan cities, the subtleties of environmental challenges, and the effects of fine particulate matter on the human brain. Why We Feel Blue When the Air Is Grey uncovers the universal urgency of clean air for a brighter, healthier future. Through a captivating blend of personal narratives and compelling data, it offers insights into behavioural economics, environmental science, and public policy. Discover how polluted air is reshaping the world you thought you knew, and join the movement for a cleaner, brighter tomorrow.

Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures focuses on the research of advanced structures and anti-seismic design in civil engineering. The proceedings present the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements related to civil and structural engineering. Topics covered in the proceedings include:

- Engineering Structure and Seismic Resistance

- Structural Mechanics Analysis

- Components and Materials

- Structural Seismic Design

- 3D Printing Concrete

- Other Related Topics

The works of this proceedings will promote development of civil and structural engineering, resource sharing, flexibility and high efficiency. Thereby, promote scientific information interchange between scholars from the top universities, research centers and high-tech enterprises working all around the world.

Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications is based on a decade of the authors' collaborative work in age-period-cohort (APC) analysis. Within a single, consistent HAPC-GLMM statistical modeling framework, the authors synthesize APC models and methods for three research designs: age-by-time period tables of population rates or proportions, repeated cross-section sample surveys, and accelerated longitudinal panel studies. The authors show how the empirical application of the models to various problems leads to many fascinating findings on how outcome variables develop along the age, period, and cohort dimensions.

The book makes two essential contributions to quantitative studies of time-related change. Through the introduction of the GLMM framework, it shows how innovative estimation methods and new model specifications can be used to tackle the model identification problem that has hampered the development and empirical application of APC analysis. The book also addresses the major criticism against APC analysis by explaining the use of new models within the GLMM framework to uncover mechanisms underlying age patterns and temporal trends.

Encompassing both methodological expositions and empirical studies, this book explores the ways in which statistical models, methods, and research designs can be used to open new possibilities for APC analysis. It compares new and existing models and methods and provides useful guidelines on how to conduct APC analysis. For empirical illustrations, the text incorporates examples from a variety of disciplines, such as sociology, demography, and epidemiology. Along with details on empirical analyses, software and programs to estimate the models are available on the book's web page.

This book summarizes recent advances in epoxy vitrimer research, giving thorough discussion of the classification and fabrication of epoxy vitrimers and their composites. Epoxy vitrimers are reversible covalently crosslinked networks with dynamic covalent bonds, combining the excellent mechanical properties of thermosets with the re-processability of thermoplastics. The authors explore and summarize many current and potential applications of epoxy vitrimer composites across the domains of aerospace materials, electronic devices, machine manufacturing, and consumer products and technology. This book serves as an accessible introduction and a helpful guide to graduate students, researchers, and industry professionals in materials science and engineering with an interest in advanced polymer composites.

In this Special Issue on symmetry, we mainly discuss the application of symmetry in various structural health monitoring. For example, considering the health monitoring of a known structure, by obtaining the static or dynamic response of the structure, using different signal processing methods, including some advanced filtering methods, to remove the influence of environmental noise, and extract structural feature parameters to determine the safety of the structure. These damage diagnosis methods can also be effectively applied to various types of infrastructure and mechanical equipment. For this reason, the vibration control of various structures and the knowledge of random structure dynamics should be considered, which will promote the rapid development of the structural health monitoring. Among them, signal extraction and evaluation methods are also worthy of study. The improvement of signal acquisition instruments and acquisition methods improves the accuracy of data. A good evaluation method will help to correctly understand the performance with different types of infrastructure and mechanical equipment.

Frontiers of Civil Engineering and Disaster Prevention and Control is a compilation of selected papers from The 3rd International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Disaster Prevention and Control (CADPC 2022) and focuses on the research of architecture and disaster prevention in civil engineering. The proceedings features the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements related to construction technology and prevention and control of disaster. Subjects in this proceedings include:

• Construction Technology
• Seismicity in Civil Engineering
• High-Rise Building Construction
• Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction
• Smart Post-Disaster Rescue

These proceedings will promote development of civil engineering and risk reduction, resource sharing, flexibility and high efficiency. Moreover, promote scientific information interchange between scholars from the top universities, research centers and high-tech enterprises working all around the world.

Wind-induced Vibration of Long Span Suspension Bridges includes the author's research on these types of bridges, adopting a combination of onsite measurements, wind tunnel tests, theoretical analyses, and numerical calculations to discuss the characteristics and parameters of the wind environment at bridge sites, the buffeting response of bridges under the effect of winds on bridges in mountainous areas, the vortex response of wide-bodied flat steel box girders, chattering characteristics (i.e., noise characteristics), and the vibration characteristics of wind-vehicle-bridge systems.

This book brings audiences the enchanting melodies passing down from generation to generation in the Zhuang community, which are on the brink of extinction. Specifically, it sheds light on the origin, evolution and artistic features of Zhuang folk song in the first place, and then it shifts to their English translation based on meta-functional equivalence, through which the multi-aesthetics of Zhuang folk song have been represented. At length, forty classic Zhuang folk songs have been selected, and each could be sung bilingually in line with the stave.

This book benefits researchers and students who are interested in music translation as well as the Zhuang ethnic music, culture and literature. It also gives readers an insight into musicology, anthropology and intercultural study.

This book presents an important technique to process organic photovoltaic devices. The basics, materials aspects and manufacturing of photovoltaic devices with solution processing are explained. Solution processable organic solar cells - polymer or solution processable small molecules - have the potential to significantly reduce the costs for solar electricity and energy payback time due to the low material costs for the cells, low cost and fast fabrication processes (ambient, roll-to-roll), high material utilization etc. In addition, organic photovoltaics (OPV) also provides attractive properties like flexibility, colorful displays and transparency which could open new market opportunities. The material and device innovations lead to improved efficiency by 8% for organic photovoltaic solar cells, compared to 4% in 2005. Both academic and industry research have significant interest in the development of this technology. This book gives an overview of the booming technology, focusing on the solution process for organic solar cells and provides a state-of-the-art report of the latest developments. World class experts cover fundamental, materials, devices and manufacturing technology of OPV technology.