To overcome the problems of system theory and network theory over real field, this book uses matrices over the field F ( z ) of rational functions in multi-parameters describing coefficient matrices of systems and networks and makes systems and network description over F ( z ) and researches their structural properties: reducible condition of a class of matrices over F ( z ) and their characteristic polynomial; type-1 matrix and two basic properties; variable replacement conditions for independent parameters; structural controllability and observability of linear systems over F ( z ); separability, reducibility, controllability, observability and structural conditions of networks over F ( z ), and so on. This book involves three subjects: systems, networks and matrices over F ( z ), which is an achievement of interdisciplinary research. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Introduction (166 KB). Contents: Introduction; Matrices Over Field F ( z ) of Rational Functions in Multi-Parameters; Controllability and Observability of Linear Systems Over F ( z ); Electrical Networks Over F ( z ); Further Thought. Readership: For researchers, graduate students, and engineers in the field of electrical engineering, electronics, automation and applied mathematics (matrix theory).

The goal of this book is to study the ways in which Chinese Buddhists expressed their religious faiths and how Chinese Buddhists interacted with society at large since the Northern and Southern dynasties (386-589), through the Ming (1368-1644) and the Qing (1644-1911), up to the Republican era (1912-1949). The book aims to summarize and present the historical trajectory of the Sinification of Buddhism in a new light, revealing the symbiotic relationship between Buddhist faith and Chinese culture. The book examines cases such as repentance, vegetarianism, charity, scriptural lecture, the act of releasing captive animals, the Bodhisattva faith, and mountain worship, from multiple perspectives such as textual evidence, historical circumstances, social life, as well as the intellectual background at the time.

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