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Overall Situation of Mineral Resources in the SCO Member Countries
The SCO member countries, with superior metallogenic geological backgrounds and abundant energy resources, span the three metallogenic domains globally. They possess 42.21% of the world’s coal reserves, 44.44%...
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Mining Investment Environment of the SCO Member Countries
In recent years, the political situation in the SCO member countries has become stable, the intensity of reform and opening up has been continuously increased, and various development plans for the geological ...
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Prospects for Mining Cooperation in the SCO Countries
Over the past 20 years since its establishment, the SCO has upheld the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, carried forward the “Shanghai Spirit,” and practiced the common, comprehensive, c...
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Economic Development Overview of the SCO Member Countries
In 2022, the total GDP of the SCO 9 countries was 24.7 trillion USD, accounting for 26.3% of the global GDP (Table 1.1). All SCO 9 countries are develo** countries at different stages of industrialization, with...
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Current Status of Mining Cooperation Between China and Other SCO Member Countries
With the deep implementation of the “Belt and Road” initiative, the cooperation in geosciences and mining between China and other SCO member countries has entered the fast track. More than 100 Chinese-funded e...
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Current Status of Mining Development in the SCO Member Countries
The SCO 9 countries are expressively relevant to the global supply chain of the mineral resources industry. The production of energy resources such as oil, natural gas, coal, and uranium all account for more t...
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Biotic Stresses in Castor Plant
Ricinus communis is a kind of crop with high economic value in the world. It has been paid more and more attention because of its high economic value. In the process of growth and development, it is subjected to ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Research on Critical Illness Fundraising Methods Based on Blockchain and Smart Contracts
At present, with the development of science and medical level, more and more diseases can be cured. However, the cost of treating some diseases is high, and for many families with limited financial resources, ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Blockchain Electronic Voting System for Preventing One Vote and Multiple Investment
An anonymous online voting system based on blockchain is proposed for the problem that the voting process details are not public, citizens do not trust, and the results cannot be verified. Using the characteri...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Android Oriented Image Visualization Exploratory Search
When using traditional image search engines, smartphone users often complain about their poor user interface including poor user experience, and weak interaction. Moreover, users are unable to find a desired p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Image Authentication by Single Target Region Detection
Digital image has been widely used in people’s daily life, and image authentication technology is more and more important. This paper proposes an image authentication method based on convolutional neural nets,...
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Introduction
Renewable energy sources have been widely adopted to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the dependence on fossil fuels. The large-scale integration of renewable energy sources imposes significant challenges t...
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Conclusions and Future Work
Grid level energy storage systems are a cornerstone of future power networks and smart grid development. Being aware of challenges in different type of energy storage systems, this book focuses on proposing on...
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ORCHARD Algorithm for PEV Charging
In this chapter, we consider the PEV charging problem in a community, where the power consumption consists of the load of a PEV charging station and the other inelastic base load, as shown in Fig. 2.1. By cont...
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Optimal BESS Control in Microgrids
With the wide penetration of the renewable energy generators in power grids, the high variability of renewable source output poses significant challenges to the power grid, including voltage instability and po...
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A MPC-Based PEV Charging Scheduling
Recall that in Chap. 2, the controller of PEV charging station relies on no assumptions nor predictions of the future information. Whereas in this chapter, we study another practical scenario, where the non-ca...