This Special Issue presents a range of recent technologies and innovations to help the agricultural and food industry to manage and minimize postharvest losses, enhance reliability and sustainability, and generate high-quality products that are both healthy and appealing to consumers. It focuses on three main topics of food storage and preservation technologies, food processing technologies, an…
This book mainly focuses on the processing and applications of polymer and its composites. With the fast development of the petroleum industry, polymer materials have been widely utilized in our daily lives. The various processing methods of polymers determine the final properties and performance of products. In addition, the introduction of different fillers, including inorganic fillers, metal…
Pulsed lasers are lasers with a single laser pulse width of less than 0.25 s, operating only once in every certain time interval. Commonly used pulsed lasers are nanosecond, femtosecond, and picosecond lasers. A pulsed laser produces short pulses with a short interaction time with the material, which can largely avoid impact on the thermal movement of molecules and has a minimal thermal impact …
This open access book explores China's unique path to modernization, highlighting its journey from ancient civilization to modern society. It examines China's efforts from the mid-19th century's internal and external struggles to its contemporary economic achievements. The book covers historical, social, and economic aspects, emphasizing the balance between autonomous development and global int…
Marianne Werefkin dan Para Seniman Wanita dalam Lingkarannya melacak hubungan antara seniman modernis dalam lingkaran Werefkin, termasuk Erma Bossi, Elisabeth Epstein, Natalia Goncharova, Elizaveta Kruglikova, Else Lasker-Schüler, Marta Liepiņa-Skulme, Elena Luksch-Makowsky, dan Maria Marc. Buku ini menunjukkan bahwa interaksi mereka didominasi bukan oleh ikatan nasional, tetapi oleh ide-ide …
Koleksi ini mencakup tujuh artikel dari jurnal Open Times, sebuah jendela ke dalam tren akademik kontemporer Tiongkok. Semua artikel membahas topik "petani, pekerja migran, dan tenaga kerja informal," tetapi masing-masing memiliki penekanan yang berbeda. Ini menggambarkan berbagai cara orang dari daerah pedesaan memanfaatkan sumber daya sosial lokal untuk mencari cara menghasilkan mata pencahar…
Buku akses terbuka ini mengkaji dari perspektif sekularisasi. Sejak publikasi 'Etika Protestan dan Semangat Kapitalisme' oleh Max Weber, bagaimana mewujudkan modernisasi di negara berkembang telah menjadi masalah mendesak yang perlu dibuktikan. Sekularisasi telah menjadi kekuatan endogen untuk prosedur modernisasi Tiongkok, terutama sejak tahun 1978. Namun, untuk memahami dasar sekularisasi, ti…
This open access book presents the concept of AI Cites for the first time. It includes the theoretical basis, development frontier, and different application scenarios of artificial intelligence cities. The book is accompanied by rich practical cases to conduct in-depth and detailed discussions on the proposition of artificial intelligence cities. It fills the gap between artificial intelligenc…
This open access book focuses on robot introspection, which has a direct impact on physical human–robot interaction and long-term autonomy, and which can benefit from autonomous anomaly monitoring and diagnosis, as well as anomaly recovery strategies. In robotics, the ability to reason, solve their own anomalies and proactively enrich owned knowledge is a direct way to improve autonomous beha…
For the third time in three decades world leaders reaffirmed their promise of "Education For All" when adopting Sustainable Development Goal 4 in 2015. It is the most far-reaching commitment to quality and equity in education so far, yet, there is no consensus on what the agenda means in practice. With a decade left until the 2030 deadline, Grading Goal Four calls upon the education communit…