Bo Yang

Optimal Operation of Integrated Energy Systems Under Uncertainties: Distributionally Robust and Stochastic Models discusses new solutions to the rapidly emerging concerns surrounding energy usage and environmental deterioration. Integrated energy systems (IESs) are acknowledged to be a promising approach to increasing the efficiency of energy utilization by exploiting complementary (alternative) energy sources and storages. IESs show favorable performance for improving the penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs) and accelerating low-carbon transition. However, as more renewables penetrate the energy system, their highly uncertain characteristics challenge the system, with significant impacts on safety and economic issues. To this end, this book provides systematic methods to address the aggravating uncertainties in IESs from two aspects: distributionally robust optimization and online operation.

Behaviour of Building Structures Subjected to Progressive Collapse gives in-depth and up-to-date quantitative and numerical analysis of building structures against progressive collapse. It does so at various levels, including bare steel joints, composite joints and sub-assemblages and frames under quasi-static loading conditions. The book provides analysis of the force transfer mechanisms of composite structures and reinforced concrete structures, along with detailed numerical models that shed light on the effects of critical parameters on progressive collapse resistances. It includes direct design methods that take into account various collapse-resisting mechanisms. The collapse of the World Trade Center in New York has spurred extensive experimental study and numerical analysis of the structural behavior of buildings under progressive collapse scenarios. Although design guidelines have been published by governments, most are missing up-to-date numerical and experimental results, quantitative accounts of force transfer mechanisms, and numerical guidelines.

This book presents some of the emerging techniques and technologies used to handle Web data management. Authors present novel software architectures and emerging technologies and then validate using experimental data and real world applications. The contents of this book are focused on four popular thematic categories of intelligent Web data management: cloud computing, social networking, monitoring and literature management. The Volume will be a valuable reference to researchers, students and practitioners in the field of Web data management, cloud computing, social networks using advanced intelligence tools.

This book presents some of the emerging techniques and technologies used to handle Web data management. Authors present novel software architectures and emerging technologies and then validate using experimental data and real world applications. The contents of this book are focused on four popular thematic categories of intelligent Web data management: cloud computing, social networking, monitoring and literature management. The Volume will be a valuable reference to researchers, students and practitioners in the field of Web data management, cloud computing, social networks using advanced intelligence tools.

This book offers a holistic picture of rogue waves in integrable systems. Rogue waves are a rare but extreme phenomenon that occur most famously in water, but also in other diverse contexts such as plasmas, optical fibers and Bose-Einstein condensates where, despite the seemingly disparate settings, a common theoretical basis exists. This book presents the physical derivations of the underlying integrable nonlinear partial differential equations, derives the explicit and compact rogue wave solutions in these integrable systems, and analyzes rogue wave patterns that arise in these solutions, for many integrable systems and in multiple physical contexts. Striking a balance between theory and experiment, the book also surveys recent experimental insights into rogue waves in water, optical fibers, plasma, and Bose-Einstein condensates. In taking integrable nonlinear wave systems as a starting point, this book will be of interest to a broad cross section of researchers and graduate students in physics and applied mathematics who encounter nonlinear waves.

Geopolymer Concrete Structures with Steel and FRP Reinforcements: Analysis and Design focuses on structural behavior, including the aspects of compression, bending strength and combined action of GPC members, with the book's content based on published studies over the last two decades. Geopolymer concrete (GPC) structural members reinforced with FRP reinforcement have some advantages in resisting forces compared to conventional concrete or steel tubular members. Among the most important are the high strength and bending stiffness, fire and impact performance and favorable, construction ability and durability. To this end, there are no significant applications of these new structural elements worldwide, partly due to the lack of the understanding of their behavior and insufficient design provisions in different design manuals. This book, therefore, seeks to highlight their characteristics and future potential.

Steel-concrete composite structures, including concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) structures and concrete-filled double skin steel tubular (CFDST) structures, have seen a significant increase in use in the modern construction industry due to their superior structural performance compared to conventional steel bare sections and reinforced concrete (RC) structures. Single Skin and Double Skin Concrete Filled Tubular Structures presents state-of-the-art in CFST and CFDST structures and their performance under various static loading conditions. The book establishes a foundation for understanding the structural performance of composite structures by discussing the behavior of CFST and CFDST structures based on experimental and finite element (FE) investigations. Besides, numerical and analytical methods for investigating the behavior of CFST and CFDST structures are presented in detail. The title offers many design examples following international design codes, including North American design guidelines ANSI-AISC 360, European design regulations Eurocode 4, and Australian design code AS 5100. The title can be used for the practical use of civil engineers and as a resource for further research.

Ian McHarg’s ecological planning approach has been influential since the 20th century. However, few empirical studies have been conducted to evaluate the performance of his projects. Using the framework of landscape performance assessment, this book demonstrates the long-term benefits of a renowned McHargarian project (The Woodlands town development) through quantitative and qualitative methods. Including 44 black and white illustrations, Landscape Performance systematically documents the performance benefits of the environmental, social, and economic aspects of The Woodlands project. It delves into McHarg’s planning success in The Woodlands in comparison with adjacent Houston developments, which demonstrated urban resilience after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Lastly, it identifies the ingredients of McHarg’s ability to do real and permanent good. Yang also includes a number of appendices which provide valuable information on the methods of assessing performance in landscape development. This book would be beneficial to academics and students of landscape architecture and planning with a particular interest in Ian McHarg.

The first article, "The Effect of Two-child Policy on China's Fertility by Song Jian discusses the effect of lifetime fertility and period fertility of Chinese women. She indicated the two-child policy has significant influence on the birth of the second child, but the influence has not been strong enough to revitalize the period fertility level. In "The Mechanism of Gender Imbalance and Governance in China: Perspectives of Population Transition and Policy Adjustment" Bo Yang and Shuzhuo Li found that fertility policy adjustments improve the governance on gender imbalance; aging policy adjustments lead the governance on gender imbalance to social governance; combined with urbanization policies, the governance on gender imbalance could develop a comprehensive policy system for both rural and urban communities. Wang Jianping and Ye Jintao discuss the growth, characteristics and patterns of International Emigrants from China. They review the migration policies in leading immigrants receiving countries, discuss the scale, the flow of movements, the composition, as well as the characteristic of emigrants from China. Does family migration promote the migrants' subjective willingness of community integration? Wu Fan, and Zhou Miao indicated that migrants' subjective willingness of community integration still stays at a low level. However, family migration has a more significant impact on migrants' subjective willingness of community integration due to emotional support effect. Li Jingbo, Gao Yuan and Yuan Xin's paper "The Research on the Migrant Population's Vocational Choice -Based on the Perspective of Segmentation for the Household Registration System" pointed out that the vocational choice of urban-to-urban migrants is better than rural-to- urban migrants and inhabitant migrants after divided migrants into rural-to- urban migrants, inhabitant migrants and urban-to-urban migrants. An invisible threshold in the labour market seems restrict the vocational choice of rural-to- urban migrants. In "Current Situation and Challenges of Health Poverty Alleviation of Provinces along the Silk Road: Findings from survey in Shaanxi, Gansu and Xinjiang." Weui Yan, Yan Qi and Gao Yingxia, based on the special survey data of 2017-2018, analyze the health status, multi-dimensional poverty and the implementation of health poverty alleviation policies in Shaanxi, Gansu and Xinjiang. They indicated that multidimensional poverty generally exists in rural households in the three provinces. Health statuses of the poverty-stricken households were poor, and the incidence of multidimensional poverty is high. The health infrastructure in Xinjiang is the worst. The seventh article, "A Study on the total Population and Structure of the Elderly Who Can't take Care for themselves in China." Wang Guangzhou uses the data of 1% population census and CFPS 2010 of Peking University to indicated that in 2015, the total number of elderly people aged 60 and above who can not take care of themselves was 5.76 million, 3.05 million elderly people without spouses living independently in China, the elderly people with one surviving child who can not take care of themselves exceed 1 million. Finally, we have a paper discuss Taiwan's population decline in the urbanization process. Chun-Ya Liu, De-Piao Tang and Chih-Sung Teng explore why some urban areas have developed better over time with population gradually increasing, while others' populations have been shrinking. What are the key determinants of urban development? They pointed out that it is mainly related to "rural decline." A total of 6 among 23 counties are shrinking, and that 60 localities present a "significant population decline" Furthermore, socioeconomic factors like the growth rate of the aging population, the successful transformation of the industry, and the convenience of transportation are the mains factors impact urban development.

Ian McHarg’s ecological planning approach has been influential since the 20th century. However, few empirical studies have been conducted to evaluate the performance of his projects. Using the framework of landscape performance assessment, this book demonstrates the long-term benefits of a renowned McHargarian project (The Woodlands town development) through quantitative and qualitative methods. Including 44 black and white illustrations, Landscape Performance systematically documents the performance benefits of the environmental, social, and economic aspects of The Woodlands project. It delves into McHarg’s planning success in The Woodlands in comparison with adjacent Houston developments, which demonstrated urban resilience after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Lastly, it identifies the ingredients of McHarg’s ability to do real and permanent good. Yang also includes a number of appendices which provide valuable information on the methods of assessing performance in landscape development. This book would be beneficial to academics and students of landscape architecture and planning with a particular interest in Ian McHarg.