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The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." A concept manifest in the twentieth-century Chinese political reality of revolution and massacre, chi suggests a narrative of desire that... More

This book will provide a comprehensive overview on human action analysis with randomized trees. It will cover both the supervised random trees and the unsupervised random trees. When there are sufficient amount of labeled data available, supervised random trees provides a fast method for space-tim... More

<p>Offshore platforms are widely used to explore, drill, produce, store and transport ocean resources, and are usually subjected to environmental loading, which can lead to deck facility failure and platform fatigue failure, inefficient operation and even crew discomfort. In order to ensure the reli... More

Dissatisfaction with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as an indicator of a country’s development or a population’s wellbeing led to the development of the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). The GPI is an aggregate index of over 20 economic, social and environmental indicators, and accounts for both t... More

This book systematically introduces readers to the operator method, which can be used in different stages of urban planning. Energy planning should ideally be accompanied by urban planning, ranging from comprehensive planning and detailed planning, to the design of individual construction projects. ... More

This book offers extensive and quality research on and original insights into China’s internal regional dynamics. It provides a focused analysis of the internal dynamics and regional economic diversity of China covering the eastern, central and western regions through case study, data analysis and r... More

The conventional belief that all regions have equally benefited from China’s remarkable development over the last three decades is subjected to criticism in this book as Hong Yu systematically analyses the issue of regional inequality during the post-1978 period using the case of Guangdong. Guangdon... More

The ancient Chinese scholars are fond of applying the Yin and Yang diagram to correlate almost everything. This book continues that tradition and uses the model to study other non-"dialectical" theories and models. The major finding qua contribution in this publication is to point out that the fou... More

​This book uses Chinese version of dialectics to present interpretations of ocean governance, international regimes, issues in the South China Sea in general and the Chinese U-shaped line in particular, through the one-dot theory.   It especially serves as a tool for non-Chinese researchers and expe... More

This book illustrates how the one-dot theory, which is a dialectical study, is well suited to describing, explaining and inferring contemporary China's past, present and future. It argues that since October 1949, the field of contemporary China studies has been dominated by modified and abandoned n... More

It has been ten years since I presented the paper entitled "A new model and theory on yield and failure of materials under the complex stress state" at the Sixth Conference on Mechanical Behaviour of Materials held at Kyoto, Japan in 1991. The proceedings edited by Jono and Inoue were published by ... More

This atlas covers most ocular inflammatory and infectious diseases of importance with clinical significance. It includes chapters on non-infectious diseases and chapters on infectious diseases. For each chapter, essential information regarding the clinical features, diagnosis, and management is desc... More

This book presents the latest knowledge and expert guidance on all aspects of inherited retinal diseases, including molecular genetics, diagnosis, clinical features, general principles of treatment, novel treatment methods, and genetic counseling. Recent years have witnessed great advances in unders... More

I was born at eight o clock sharp in the morning fortune tellers say if it s a boy it s rich or expensive if it s a girl it s terrible sure enough my childhood ke dead father married after the husband became a vegetable i put it all down to fate but there he was he is tall handsome and extremely ri... More

I was born at eight o clock sharp in the morning fortune tellers say if it s a boy it s rich or expensive if it s a girl it s terrible sure enough my childhood ke dead father married after the husband became a vegetable i put it all down to fate but there he was he is tall handsome and extremely ri... More

I was born at eight o clock sharp in the morning fortune tellers say if it s a boy it s rich or expensive if it s a girl it s terrible sure enough my childhood ke dead father married after the husband became a vegetable i put it all down to fate but there he was he is tall handsome and extremely ri... More

I was born at eight o clock sharp in the morning fortune tellers say if it s a boy it s rich or expensive if it s a girl it s terrible sure enough my childhood ke dead father married after the husband became a vegetable i put it all down to fate but there he was he is tall handsome and extremely ri... More

the strongest young master in the wealthy class was framed and married into his son-in-law... More

the strongest young master in the wealthy class was framed and married into his son-in-law... More

the strongest young master in the wealthy class was framed and married into his son-in-law... More

the strongest young master in the wealthy class was framed and married into his son-in-law... More

Strength theory deals with the yield or failure of materials under complex stress state. It is very important in mechanics of materials, strength of structures, and mechanical and civil engineering. Unified strength theory is a series of yield criteria and failure criteria other than a single streng... More

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedingsof the 15th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining andGranular Computing, RSFDGrC 2015, held in Tianjin, China in November 2015 asone of the co-located conference of the 2015 Joint Rough Set Symposium, JRS2015. The 44... More

This book offers an engaging and unique view of the governance of Chinese rural migrants in non-factory areas of manufacturing towns. By asking how authorities govern migrants as an ongoing source of cheap labor, this book demonstrates and interprets authorities’ power exercised in the form of gover... More

Xiao Yueze was originally her good friend's fiancé. Once, her good friend accidentally jumped into the sea to commit suicide because he lost his virginity in a bar, while Xiao Yueze blamed all the crimes on her.The wedding night.He was like an enraged lion, his hands tightly gripped around her neck,... More