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1. Solid State Fermentation for Foods and Beverages

   Edited by Jian Chen, Yang Zhu

   Series: Fermented Foods and Beverages Series

   This is the first book about fermented food and beverage to focus on solid-state fermentation. The text describes the various reactors used in solid-state fermentation, including static state reactors, dynamic reactors, and other new types of reactors, and provides a detailed introduction to...

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by CRC Press
2. Disturbance Observer Based Control

   Methods and Applications

   By Shihua Li, Jun Yang, Wen-Hua Chen, Xisong Chen

   This book addresses many new developments of DOBC in both theory and application aspects. During the past 30 years, DOBC has achieved successful applications in engineering due to its powerful abilities in compensating disturbances and uncertainties. In this book, the authors conclude the major...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by CRC Press
3. Social Capital and Its Institutional Contingency

   A Study of the United States, China and Taiwan

   Edited by Nan Lin, Yang-chih Fu, Chih-jou Jay Chen

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This volume is a collection of original studies based on one of the first research programs on comparative analysis of social capital. Data are drawn from national representative samples of the United States, China and Taiwan. The three societies selected for study allow the examination of how...

   To Be Published June 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. China's Post-Reform Economy - Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth

   Edited by Richard Sanders, Chen Yang

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   China has enjoyed heroic growth rates in the last twenty five years of reform and transition, pulling more people out of poverty more quickly than at any other time in human history. Nonetheless these successes have had costs: today China is faced with increasing environmental difficulties and...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Music Emotion Recognition

   By Yi-Hsuan Yang, Homer H. Chen

   Series: Multimedia Computing, Communication and Intelligence

   Providing a complete review of existing work in music emotion developed in psychology and engineering, Music Emotion Recognition explains how to account for the subjective nature of emotion perception in the development of automatic music emotion recognition (MER) systems. Among the first...

   Published February 21st 2011 by CRC Press
6. RFID and Sensor Networks

   Architectures, Protocols, Security, and Integrations

   Edited by Yan Zhang, Laurence T. Yang, Jiming Chen

   Series: Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications

   The escalating demand for ubiquitous computing along with the complementary and flexible natures of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have sparked an increase in the integration of these two dynamic technologies. Although a variety of applications can be...

   Published November 3rd 2009 by CRC Press
7. Broadband Mobile Multimedia

   Techniques and Applications

   Edited by Yan Zhang, Shiwen Mao, Laurence T. Yang, Thomas M Chen

   Series: Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications

   Multimedia service provisioning is believed to be one of the prerequisites to guarantee the success of next-generation wireless networks. Examining the role of multimedia in state-of-the-art wireless systems and networks, Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications presents a...

   Published June 2nd 2008 by Auerbach Publications
8. Mobile Telemedicine

   A Computing and Networking Perspective

   Edited by Yang Xiao, Hui Chen

   The concept of medical treatment from a distance (in absentia care) is actually quite ancient, dating back to tribal days where smoke signals were used to warn of serious disease in a community. Nowadays, telemedicine is used to facilitate treatment in rural areas, where the nearest doctor is miles...

   Published June 2nd 2008 by Auerbach Publications