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The field of Structural Genomics has produced many technological advances that transform and accelerate structure solution and analysis. Structural Genomics: General Applicationsemphasizes the benefits to the wider structural research community. It also reflects the current trend in tackling the m... More

This updated edition emphasizes the benefits of structural genomics to the wider structural research community with a diverse range of applicable methods. The book opens with an extensive section on protein production, including new methodologies for membrane and metal-binding proteins, as well as h... More

Unlike many studies of social attitudes, which are based on large scale quantitative surveys, or which focus on the attitude of elites, this book considers the views of ordinary people, and is based on in-depth, qualitative interviews. This approach results in rich, nuanced data, and is especially h... More

Turbulent drag reduction by additives has long been a hot research topic. This phenomenon is inherently associated with multifold expertise. Solutions of drag-reducing additives are usually viscoelastic fluids having complicated rheological properties. Exploring the characteristics of drag-reduced t... More

Provides the latest AISI North American specifications for cold-formed steel design Hailed by professionals around the world as the definitive text on the design of cold-formed steel, this book provides descriptions of the construction and structural behavior of cold-formed steel members and connect... More

Gendered Trajectoriesexplores why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's employment opportunities in Japan and Taiwan over the last half-century. Japan has undergone much less improvement in women's economic status than Taiwan, d... More

With contributions from experts in China, France, Italy, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Biomedical Image Understanding: * Addresses motion tracking and knowledge-based systems, two areas which are not covered extensively elsewhere in a biomedical context* Describes impo... More

A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2018, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in November 2018.The 8 full papers presented together with 9 short papers and 3 session papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The scope... More

She had met him in Jiangnan. That year, it had rained down on her and she had made a mistake in her identity. She had secretly decided to spend her life with him … Unknowingly, he had unknowingly stirred up his own destiny. She was forced to enter the palace and humiliatingly threw away the veil. Th... More

She had met him in Jiangnan. That year, it had rained down on her and she had made a mistake in her identity. She had secretly decided to spend her life with him … Unknowingly, he had unknowingly stirred up his own destiny. She was forced to enter the palace and humiliatingly threw away the veil. Th... More

She had met him in Jiangnan. That year, it had rained down on her and she had made a mistake in her identity. She had secretly decided to spend her life with him … Unknowingly, he had unknowingly stirred up his own destiny. She was forced to enter the palace and humiliatingly threw away the veil. Th... More

This open access book explores new research directions in social inequality and urban segregation.  With the goal of fostering an ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, it brings together an impressive team of international researchers to shed light on the entwined processes of inequ... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2021, held in Tainan, Taiwan, in October 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, COCOON 2021 was organized as a hybrid conference. The 56 papers presented in this volume were carefull... More

Financial Mathematics for Actuaries is a textbook for students in actuarial science, quantitative finance, financial engineering and quantitative risk management and is designed for a one-semester undergraduate course. <P><P> Covering the theories of interest rates, with applications to the evalua... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2016, held in Bozeman, MT, USA, in August 2016. The 50 full papers and 9 invited papers presented werde carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. WASA is de... More

This book focuses on the design and analysis of protocols for cooperative wireless networks, especially at the medium access control (MAC) layer and for crosslayer design between the MAC layer and the physical layer. It highlights two main points that are often neglected in other books: energy-effi... More

With the diversification of Internet services and the increase in mobile users, efficient management of network resources has become an extremely important issue in the field of wireless communication networks (WCNs). Adaptive resource management is an effective tool for improving the economic effic... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium, KSS 2016, held in Kobe, Japan, in November 2016. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions.  The papers cover topics such as: Algorithms for Big Data; Big Data and... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, ICPRAI 2020, which took place in Zhongshan, China, in October 2020. The 49 full and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the boo... More

This book aims to extend existing works on consensus of multi-agent systems systematically. The agents to be considered range from double integrators to generic linear systems. The primary goal is to explicitly characterize how agent parameters, which reflect both self-dynamics and inner coupling of... More

Written by respected experts, this book highlights the latest findings on the electromagnetic ultrasonic guided wave (UGW) imaging method. It introduces main topics as the Time of Flight (TOF) extraction method for the guided wave signal, tomography and scattering imaging methods which can be used t... More

Primary liver cancer is the third most deadly and fifth most common cancer worldwide (~500,000 deaths annually), with a sharp increase of incidence in the United States in recent years. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and cholangiocarcinoma (CC) are the major types of primary liver cancer. Risk facto... More

This book examines the alignment of residential educational aims and university educational aims in order to provide guidance for implementing university-specific residential educational aims. Grounded in a new theoretical model of residential education, Residential Education in university probes in... More