Optimal Dating Algorithms

Decision Making and Operations Research Techniques for Construction Management challenges the traditional empirical approach to problem solving and provides construction practitioners with a seasoned account to resolving day-to-day complicated issues in construction project management. With over 150,000 workers at different levels working at dispersed project sites throughout the territory, construction managers have to look for optimal solutions to minimize the costs and to maximize the efficiencies. This book provides scientific tools for practitioners to resolve some practical problems which are administered empirically at present and may lead to inconsistent results and human errors. The modern decision-making tools introduced in this book include Multi-criteria Decision-making Models, Artificial Neural Network, Genetic Algorithms, Construction Simulation, Rough Set Theory and Advanced Statistical Techniques for construction. This book will serve as a useful companion for those m

“In order to afford their readers optimal access to a text that has been poorly understood and unfairly denigrated over the years, in addition to their definitive English translation and their critical Chinese text, Ian Johnston and Wang Ping have provided us with the broadest interpretative context imaginable.” —ROGER T. AMES Peking University The Liezi is a work attributed to the Daoist Lie Yukou, who, according to the traditional account, lived during the later part of the fifth and first part of the fourth centuries BCE. This places him between the first wave of philosophers of the pre-Han “Hundred Schools” (notably Lao Zi, Confucius, Mo Di, and Deng Xi) and the second wave, from mid-fourth to the end of the third centuries BCE. Thus, he may be said to have responded to the former and prefigured the latter. The Liezi we have today is the recension by the Xuanxue (Dark Learning, third to fifth centuries CE) scholar Zhang Zhan and is accompanied by Zhang’s commentary, which is a ph

電影除了在屏幕上的再現外，還有甚麼可能性？在數碼年代，電影與人工智能的關係是甚麼？本書回顧橫跨十三年的媒體藝術展覽CINEMA 2.0，展示電影作為思考與策展的方法。此展覽項目由媒體藝術家葉旭耀及策展人范可琪共同策劃，多年來嘗試探索當代科技與媒體文化，包括監控、演算法、後人類及遊戲等各種議題。 此書不單是展覽的紀錄，更試圖重溯電影，告別固有的概念，以跨學科及媒體考古學等方式重新探索電影與科技文化的關係。書中除了珍貴的展覽文獻，亦有重要的媒體藝術家邵志飛及羅海德等撰寫專文，擴展我們對當代文化的思考，同時引領我們走進新媒體藝術的世界。 Contemplating cinema beyond its traditional screen-based form, what other possibilities are there for cinema? In the digital age, what is the relationship between cinema, artificial intelligence, and algorithms? This book reviews the 13-year media art exhibition CINEMA 2.0, which showcases cinema as a method of thinking and curating. The exhibition, co-curated by media artist Ip Yuk Yiu and media art curator Kattie Fan, has covered key issues in contemporary technology and media culture, such as surveillance, algorithms, posthumanism and games. This book serves as more than a mere documentation of the exhibitions. It attempts to retrace cinema, bidding farewell to fixed concepts and exploring the relationships be

Psychosis and Schizophrenia in Hong Kong covers some of the most serious mental health conditions that top the global disease burden and affect 3 per cent of the general population. However, most research on psychotic disorders is undertaken in the West, and few studies have been systematically carried out in Asia despite global interest in regional differences. This work offers a unique and coherent account of these disorders and their treatment in Hong Kong over the last thirty years. Chen and his research programme’s pioneering work has ranged from the impact of early intervention on outcomes and relapse prevention, to the renaming of psychosis to reduce stigma. The studies have contributed to wider international debates on the optimal management of the condition. Their investigations in semantics and cognition, as well as cognition-enhancing exercise interventions, have provided novel insights into deficits encountered in psychotic disorders and how they might be ameliorated. The

The ultimate goal of this thesis is to construct an optimal global portfolio with ETFs. We choose the iShares MSCI country index ETFs as our assets. We start with the calculation of correlation between these countries. We find out that there is potential benefit undertaking international diversification. While comparing with the former research, the potential benefit is smaller. We examine the effect of investing internationally of each country. And we can see that not all countries are benefit from international diversification. While considering international diversification, investors have to look at the characteristic of the domestic country to make decision. In the international level, we can see that the investment risk would decrease and the return would increase. And the marginal effect decreases. In our test, the return, risk and efficiency come stable after adding the 14th asset into the global portfolio. Therefore we construct our global portfolio with 13 assets. We can see

Agriculture builds upon the integration of crops and the environment, with which its yield depends strongly on a healthy soil foundation. With that in mind, the knowledge of the soil and fertilizer is crucial to maintaining an environment with optimal nutrients, water and oxygen for crop production. Soil is one of human's precious resources, the protection and nurturing of our soil is thus an integral part of sustainable development. Effective soil management is considered not only a technology, but also an art. In practice, to make use the full potential of the land, the management strategies need to take account of the differences and characteristics of the soil, plant and climate that are unique to each geographical location. Such an approach is increasingly more important nowadays because of the increasing loss of cultivable land and need of high quality agricultural products.

這本書不僅可以提高對字串比對問題的了解，也可以增加對演算法的修養。 這本書是介紹「字串比對」(String Matching) 的演算法。 假如我們有一篇有關二次世界大戰的文章，想要查詢 “希特勒” 這個名詞有沒有出現在這篇文章裡。如果有出現，那麼這串文字出現在文章何處？ ──這就是所謂字串比對的問題。 這本書介紹很多解決此問題的演算法，對於軟體工程師來說，這本書不僅可以提高對字串比對問題的了解，也可以增加對演算法的修養。

The Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan), are the only pre-Imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to-date. Dating to the turn from the 4th to the 3rd centuries BC (Late Warring States period), they contain several texts concerning basic cosmological concepts, including one manuscript (Manuscript 1) with a diagrammatic arrangement and surrounded by pictorial illustrations. As such, they constitute a unique source of information complementing and going beyond what is known from transmitted texts. This is the first in a two-volume monograph on the Zidanku manuscripts, reflecting almost four decades of research by Professor Li Ling of Peking University. While the philological study and translation of the manuscript texts is the subject of Volume Two, this first volume presents the archaeological context and history of transmission of the physical manuscripts. It records how they were taken from their original place of interment in the 1940s and taken to the United States in

Just dating at home！ 88道銷魂料理╳12道巴黎餐酒館經典佳餚 滿足你每日餐桌的優雅日常 跟著Phoebe放膽玩味，你家就是巴黎餐酒館！ 儷影雙雙也好，三五成群也好，讓美食療癒一天的疲憊，是一件多麼幸福的事；經典風味也好，另類創意也好，讓饕客從味蕾到心靈都能獲得款待，正是餐酒館存在的意義。 餐酒館，完美封裝了法國飲食文化的情調與魅力，現在你終於有機會打開潘朵拉的盒子，一睹它迷人的祕密。 一向Open mind的Phoebe，喜歡把內藏的雙子生活哲學運用到料理之中，打破慣性，驚豔味蕾，挑戰鍋中物的衝突與平衡。 這一回，她要以隱身在巴黎巷弄裡的餐酒館們為引，窺看法國的飲食文化與美食藝術，再藉由一百道發自內心的食譜──包括經典法式料理、餐酒館人氣佳餚、米其林星級美食、Phoebe獨創料理、Fusion料理等，傾吐對法國料理的衷情，歌詠它的美麗和無與倫比的幻妙滋味，教你如何在家輕鬆炮製宛如餐酒館一般的好氣氛與好料理。

看圖秒懂，把複雜的知識變簡單！ 每個人都是獨立的個體， 別人口中所謂的「應該」標準， 不一定適用於你。 遲鈍一些，更幸福！ 日本文學大師渡邊淳一的人生指南， 讓生活變得更美好的方法與智慧。 擁有鈍感力，人生更順利！ ．修復玻璃心！面對負面評價，接納玻璃心的自己。 ．提升忍耐力！不需要對每一件事都有反應。 ．讓臉皮變厚！克服發言恐懼，就算講錯也不會怎麼樣。 如何才能夠變得鈍感，隔絕外界的刺激， 重新找回內心的寧靜，獲得踏實的幸福呢？ 鈍感力並非天賦，需要靠刻意練習才能獲得。 生動有趣的漫畫＋日常生活的案例＋化繁為簡的解說→開啟你的鈍感力 超簡單——把理論形象化，原來鈍感力這麼好懂！ 超有趣——用漫畫解讀鈍感力，讓臉皮變厚！ 超實用——幫你建立刺激的屏障，輕鬆獲得鈍感力！ 本書是一本幫你重新找回內心的寧靜的書。書中透過生動有趣的漫畫方式，指明鈍感力並非天賦，需要靠刻意練習才能獲得。同時介紹了獲得鈍感力的方法和有效路徑，以及如何幫助敏感人群遮蔽外部刺激，緩解焦慮情緒，排遣工作壓力，坦然面對流言蜚語。希望這本書提供的方法與理論，可以幫你建立和外界刺激之間的屏障，獲得鈍感力。 前言 我們生活在資訊化的時代，科技、網路不斷迭代更新，在過度的資訊刺激下，內心高敏感的人幾乎無法喘息，「社交恐慌」和「宅」這些詞顯露了心靈上的煎熬。如何讓自己變得「遲鈍」一些，隔絕外界的刺激，重新尋回內心的寧靜，獲得踏實的幸福呢？答案就是擁有「鈍感力」。 鈍感力並非我們的天賦，不過我們可以透過刻意練習來獲得，本書以7 章的篇幅，詳細講解獲得鈍感力的方法，以幫助高敏感人抵抗外部刺激、緩解焦慮情緒、排解工作壓力，進入人格心理學家所稱的「最佳激發」（optimal arousal），進而感知生命的能量，體悟生活的秩序。 過度敏感，吞噬快樂 第1 章主要介紹高敏感人的天賦與特點，以及在缺乏與外界隔離的情況下，這些特點所帶來的煩惱，包括了過度思慮所造成的內耗、缺乏與他人之間的界限感所引發的脆弱，以及討好行為和社交恐懼。 遲鈍一些，更幸福 第2 章引入鈍感力的概念，介紹擁有鈍感力的人與高敏感人之間的主要差別，並分析高敏感人容易受挫的根本原因。針對這個問題，提供重建自尊和培養逆商的方法，幫助高敏感人從挫折中走出來。 討厭我，與我無關 第3 章導入阿德勒個體心理學的概念，引導讀者學會「課題分離」，

拍拖煩，不拍拖又煩；結婚煩，不結婚又煩，戀愛問題真的會令人發癲！ 「癲人教主」是戀愛專家，40堂必修課傳授戀愛讀心術，解救情場失意的男女！ 本書獲ATV前新聞女主播及HK Romance Dating創辦人專業推介！ 透過40個都市男女的感情個案，愛情教主教你戀愛讀心術，逐一拆解問題癥結，尋找出路： ．Anita以為嫁入豪門做少奶奶一世無憂，奈何丈夫經常玩女人，家姑又對她諸多刻薄，令她悔不當初； ．Elsa的男友外表俊美，但脾氣暴躁，動輒會打她；Thomas暗戀著Elsa，Thomas待Elsa溫柔體貼，但他天生肌肉脛攣，Elsa應如何選擇？ ．Alice樣子不佳，求愛深切的她甘願包養一個印巴籍男子，有個軟飯王的男友，Alice自覺很犯賤！ ．Mary以為結婚就可以阻止花心男友尋歡，誰知婚後丈夫照樣出軌，更公然帶其他女人回家上床！ ．Janet是控制狂，她要男友時刻報到，又會突擊上男友家，若發現他不在，就會懷疑他外出搞女人！ ． Ivy寧願撇掉體貼溫柔的男友Ben，而去愛一個有婦之夫的上司，明知上司只是「食」女，Ivy仍死心塌地！ ． Lily認為拍拖時所有使費奉旨由男友全部付出，Anthony每月花光整份糧來供養Lily，Anthony決定忍痛分手！ ．中女Yvonne以為可以用錢綁著男人心，結果，遇上情場騙子Wilson，更被騙去100萬，Yvonne痛不欲生； ．David娶了內地女子瑤瑤，奈何瑤瑤當David是搖錢樹，不斷要他買名牌手袋和金器，最後更提出離婚，分掉他一身家，David激動到要跳樓自殺！ 教主除了拆解40個感情難題，每一堂戀愛課之後都有「教主心法」。只要你去實踐，戀愛路上變會愛得更聰明、更有智慧！

包含漢語拼音、美語及中文。 實用、時尚又浪漫的會話書。 1.簡單、有趣又浪漫：輕鬆愉快地學習與吸收最酷、最時尚的約會美語！ 2.最實用：國人與外國人都適合，每句包含美語、中文及漢語拼音。 3.隨附MP3：讓讀者愉快地學習並了解美國的文化與幽默。