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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, in September 2010.
The equatorial ionosphere has been under investigation since the earliest days of radio science, seeing the deployment of an ionosonde in the 1930s and an incoherent scatter radar in the 1960s. It has also been the subject of numerous sounding rocket investigations, and, of course, almost every satellite flies over the equator. Nonetheless, thanks to the ongoing renewal of instrumentation deployed near the equator, including radio, optical, and spaceborne instrumentation, it continues to be the source for both fundamental and application-oriented discoveries. Many recent discoveries together with the emergence of new experimental, theoretical, and computational methods for addressing them justify the need for this Research Topic. The goals of this Research Topic are to familiarize the community with recent findings in equatorial ionospheric research, to prompt the application of novel instruments and methods to the expansion of these findings, and to catalyze the research of different groups of investigators toward the end of analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating the findings in the broader context of global space physics and aeronomy.
Geophysical exploration methods are very expensive and invasive methods for surveys. Remote sensing methods are non-invasive and much cheaper for investigating the Earth’s surface. This book bridges this gap and aims to integrate exploration geophysics with remote sensing as a cost-effective method which is easy to implement for prospecting in different areas. It provides exploration geophysicists with the necessary information to use advanced remote sensing technology in the exploration of oil and gas, minerals, and groundwater. It describes the integration of remote sensing in each of the nine exploration methods based on over 11 case studies from different countries across the globe. Fe...
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Discusses the first decades of Peking University and its role in shaping Chinese intellectual culture.
Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis, have threatened human communities throughout recorded history. Scientists still face a long-term challenge to reveal the natural hazards' preparation process and precisely predict their occurrences. With space technology development, in the early 1980s, some satellites recorded abnormal electromagnetic emissions, plasma density irregularities, and energetic particle precipitations over active seismic fault zones, volcanic belts, or tsunamis coast. Since then, continuous efforts have been paid to the rock-rupture-processing experiment, ground-space comparative studies. Especially for earthquake science, the electromagnetic precursors might be the most promising tool for the short-term (timescale of hours, days, and weeks) earthquake prediction. In late 2004, France launched the DEMETER (Detection of Electromagnetic (EM) Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions) satellite, which successfully operated from 2004 to 2010. In Febr. 2018, China launched the first seismo-electromagnetism satellite (China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite, CSES) aimed for earthquake monitoring from space.
During the 1950s and 1960s, the heirs of Menghe medicine were key players in creating the institutional framework for contemporary Chinese medicine. Their students are now practicing all over the world, shaping Chinese medicine in Los Angeles, New York, Oxford, Mallorca, and Berlin. The history of the Menghe current is relevant to anyone interested in the development of Chinese medicine in late imperial and modern China. This book traces Chinese medical history along the currents created by generations of physicians linked to each other by a shared heritage of learning, by descent and kinship, by sentiments of native place as well as nationalist fervor, by personal rivalries and economic com...
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