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Li Jie, the future 23rd century all-round killer, an international wanted criminal, was forced to travel to the 21st century. He was determined to unify the business world and change the situation in the future in this era. After he had teleported to the coastal city, he used the "Omnipotent Data AP... More

Li Jie, the future 23rd century all-round killer, an international wanted criminal, was forced to travel to the 21st century. He was determined to unify the business world and change the situation in the future in this era. After he had teleported to the coastal city, he used the "Omnipotent Data AP... More

Li Jie, the future 23rd century all-round killer, an international wanted criminal, was forced to travel to the 21st century. He was determined to unify the business world and change the situation in the future in this era. After he had teleported to the coastal city, he used the "Omnipotent Data AP... More

This brief offers an overview of the prevailing debates in police oversight and accountability through an analysis of policing in Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan. It places emphasis on three major controversies of oversight: professionalism, representation, and empowerment. Arguing that traditional mod... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2016, held in Beijing, China, in November/December 2016. The 21 full papers presented together with 11 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The final progra... More

The third volume of Sustainable Soil and Land Management and Climate Change presents a complete overview of plant soil interactions in a climate affected by greenhouse gas emissions and organic carbon. It presents approaches and managements strategies for the stabilization of soil organic matter. T... More

This monograph describes the latest advances in discriminative learning methods for biometric recognition. Specifically, it focuses on three representative categories of methods: sparse representation-based classification, metric learning, and discriminative feature representation, together with th... More

Educating New Americans examines what it means to be an American through the history of a refugee from Laos. Shou Cha is a community liaison for an elementary school, an evangelical preacher, a community leader, a husband, and a father. His lifetime of learning, presented mainly in his own voice, is... More

Fintech, the integration of technology into the delivery of financial services has revolutionised the world of Finance. This book introduces a new framework to study the concepts that underly Fintech while examining the driving forces and underlying logic behind Fintech-based innovation and predicti... More

Written by experts, this book is based on recent research findings in high-frequency isolated bidirectional DC-DC converters with wide voltage range. It presents advanced power control methods and new isolated bidirectional DC-DC topologies to improve the performance of isolated bidirectional conver... More

Thisbook offers a comprehensive introduction to polymer rheology with a focus onthe viscoelastic characterization of polymeric materials. It contains variousnumerical algorithms for the processing of viscoelastic data, from basicprinciples to advanced examples which are hard to find in the existing... More

First published in 1978. In spite of the wide recognition of Hong Kong’s successful growth record, little is known about the impact that rapid industrialisation has had on income distribution. The transformation of an entrepôt economy into an industrial one has been accompanied by a transition from ... More

This book is a self-contained collection of recent research findings providing a comprehensive and systematic unified framework for both analysis and synthesis for singularly perturbed systems. It paves the way for the gap between frequency-domain-transfer-function-based results and time-domain-sta... More

This book collects selected papers from the 6th Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Networking and Computers, held in Guiyang, China, on August 13 - 16, 2019. Focusing on the latest advances in information theory, communication systems, computer science, aerospace technologies, big data... More

This book collects selected papers from the 7th Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Networking and Computers held in Rizhao, China, on September, 2020.The 7th International Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Networking and Computers (ICSINC) was held in Rizhao, China, on S... More

It was the perfect plan: abandon pet rabbit Floppy in the woods and take a giant leap toward adulthood. Having a bunny that moonlights as a best friend is for babies, right? It's better to cut a pet loose, make new human friends, and not be so dependent on a floppy-eared fur ball bent on chewing ele... More

Hannibal, Missouri, founded in 1819 on the Mississippi River, has come a long way from its humble beginnings when it was home to only 30 residents. During the late 1800s, millions of feet of lumber were processed in its mills. By 1905, Hannibal had become a major rail hub, with over 50 passenger tra... More

Rethinking and Reconfiguring the Anthropomorphic Concept of Corporate Personality Some Suggestions for Personality Needs in the Light of Corporate Development in Public Companies with a Particular Focus on the United Arab Emirates.... More

This book summarizes the technical advances in recent decades and the various theories on rock excavation raised by scholars from different countries, including China and Russia. It not only focuses on rock blasting but also illustrates a number of non-blasting methods, such as mechanical excavatio... More

For kids who love A Series of Unfortunate Events and Mysterious Societies comes a new series featuring the three Cheeseman children, their father, their psychic dog, and a sock puppet named Steve who are on the run from international superspies.... More

This book explores the ways in which artists use technology to create different perceptions of time in art in order to reflect on contemporary relationships to technology. By considering the links between technology, movement and contemporary art, the book explores changing relationship between tem... More

It's the smelliest winter Brit can remember - the heating is broken, and the toilets have frozen solid! Will Brit have to crawl into the icy, pongy sewer, or can his BIG new friend help him fix the heating system in time?... More

The Legion want to build a road to transport their giant catapult. But the road will go right through Brit's barn, which is full of food for his flocks! Then the soldiers start firing at the sheep. Can Brit save his beloved animals - and their food for the winter?... More

The circus is in town and Brit can't wait to see the Dancing Bear. But the bear is miserable and doesn't want to dance, and the furious crowd chase him away. Can Brit find the bear and cheer him up before he is hunted down by horrid Drucilla and her angry mob?... More

It's harvest time and everyone is working hard gathering crops. Brit and his friends head to the orchard, where they meet the great wild boar, Gargantua! Can the Legion rescue them in time before they end up as boar food?... More