Böcker av Fei Wang

This book critically examines the international, geopolitical, policy, institutional, and curricular challenges facing Canadian offshore school programs. Bringing together scholars and practitioners concerned with addressing the pedagogical, organizational, curriculum, and policy aspects of this transnational mode of schooling, it represents a ground-breaking exploration of K-12 offshore schools within the wider contexts of global geopolitics and forms of soft power.The book examines the vulnerability that arises from having to maneuver political, social, geopolitical, and economic policy simultaneously in both the host and home-licensing countries. It delves into conflicts within the context of neoliberal economic agendas, neocolonial and geopolitical interests, and social class reproduction within host countries. The book is the first scholarly space that questions how international educational initiatives are affected by emerging global threats, such as the recent Covid pandemic. Additionally, it unpacks the question of citizenship and its intersections with social class, immigration, and socio-cultural dynamics. It explores how these intersections forge new paths not only to mobility but also to new configurations of power and new spaces of politics and identity. With a range of reflexive, empirical, and theoretical contributions that cover every aspect of offshore schools, the book reassesses the trope of globalisation dominated by Eurocentric perspectives. It de-compartmentalizes diverse perspectives and insights on the internationalisation of schooling opportunities, and provides an overview of the challenges and possibilities open to offshore schools in different cultural contexts, making it the first comprehensive body of research on this type of schooling.This book will be of great value to researchers, faculty, scholars, and postgraduate students working across international and comparative education. It will be particularly useful for those interested in the intersections between education and geopolitically-situated forms of soft power.

Based on the authors' years of extensive experience, this is an authoritative overview of Wide Bandgap (WBG) device characterization. It provides essential tools to assist researchers, advanced students and practicing engineers in performing both static and dynamic characterization of WBG devices, particularly those based on using silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors. The book presents practical considerations for real applications, and includes examples of applying the described methodology.

Reconfigurable machines can accelerate many applications by adapting to their needs through hardware reconfiguration. Partial reconfiguration allows the reconfiguration of a portion of a chip while the rest of the chip is still working. Operating system for partially reconfigurable machines (OS4RC) handles the scheduling and placement of tasks. Some existing OS4RC models assume no data exchange channel between IP (Intellectual Property) circuits residing on a FPGA chip and between an IP circuit and FPGA I/O pins. Other models assume inter-IP communication channels, but they do not work well with 2-D partial reconfiguration. And frequently they are very complicated to design and expensive. To address these problems, a new chip architecture that can better support inter-IP and IP-I/O communication is proposed and a corresponding OS4RC kernel is then specified.The proposed FPGA architecture is based on an array of clusters of CLBs, with each cluster serving as a partial reconfiguration unit, and a mesh of segmented buses that provides inter-IP and IP-I/O communication channels. Features of the new architecture can reduce the kernel execution times and enable the runtime scheduling,