Wei Yen explores how differences in world views between Eastern and Western thought and culture have on management and leadership behaviors.In The Geography of Thought Richard Nisbett showed how the thought and culture of the East is rooted in Chinese Confucian ideals while that of the West goes back to the early Greeks. In From Great Wall to Wall Street, Wei Yen explores how these differences impact today’s leadership and management practices. He delves deeply in...

The United Beaks was an Avian federation officially formed about 200 million years ago with many of its states having a digitally documented history of more than 5 billion years, which had wiped out all superintelligent mammals in the universe around 2 billion years ago and again around 800 million years ago. It was an organization with 7 levels of civilizations, 29 superpowers, 62 top-level states, 3,847 autonomous states, 3 billion species and 786 quintillion people, not an amazingly lar...

During the Republican period (1912–1949) and after, many Chinese Buddhists sought inspiration from non-Chinese Buddhist traditions, showing a particular interest in esoteric teachings. What made these Buddhists dissatisfied with Chinese Buddhism, and what did they think other Buddhist traditions could offer? Which elements did they choose to follow, and which ones did they disregard? And how do their experiences recast the wider story of twentieth-century pan-Asian Buddhist reform movement...

The Glasgow Climate Pact signed on the 26th Conference of the Parties of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2021, saws representatives' determination for carbon neutrality by 2050. Meanwhile, "Net Zero by 2050: a Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector" proposed by International Energy Agency has suggested hydrogen as a decarbonization technology in various fields. As a clean, stable power with diverse sources, hydrogen provides a promising solution for energy, industry,...

This book is a valuable resource for understanding the transformative role of artificial intelligence in modern healthcare and aims to inspire continued research and collaboration across disciplines. In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a transformative technology across various fields, with medical image analysis standing out as one of its most impactful applications. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in this fast-evolving domain, bridging found...

This book is written for retinal specialists and clinicians with a special interest in retinal diseases. It presents a collection of images and brief annotations of the microstructures of both the normal and diseased eye captured on swept source optical coherence tomography.The swept-source OCT is a relatively new form of imaging and is able to capture structures and details which previous generations of OCT machines cannot. This type of imaging represents the forefront in ocular imaging. ...

New Edition: Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography (2nd Edition)This book is written for retinal specialists and clinicians with a special interest in retinal diseases. It presents a collection of images and brief annotations of the microstructures of both the normal and diseased eye captured on swept source optical coherence tomography.The swept-source OCT is a relatively new form of imaging and is able to capture structures and details which previous generations of OCT machines canno...

This book summarizes recent advances in epoxy vitrimer research, giving thorough discussion of the classification and fabrication of epoxy vitrimers and their composites. Epoxy vitrimers are reversible covalently crosslinked networks with dynamic covalent bonds, combining the excellent mechanical properties of thermosets with the re-processability of thermoplastics. The authors explore and summarize many current and potential applications of epoxy vitrimer composites across the domains of ...

This book presents the current trends in deep learning-based object detection framework with a focus on logo detection tasks. It introduces a variety of approaches, including attention mechanisms and domain adaptation for logo detection, and describes recent advancement in object detection frameworks using deep learning. We offer solutions to the major problems such as the lack of training data and the domain-shift issues.This book provides numerous ways that deep learners can use ...

As soon as winter arrives, Hedgehog is excited. He wishes he could build a snowman, skate on the ice, and sled down the hill.But his friends, Bear, Raccoon, and Chipmunk, don't want to play. They are ready to hibernate in their warm dens.So, Hedgehog puts on his hat, his coat, and his mittens and tries to find someone to have a winter adventure with him. As he skates on the frozen pond, he wonders what a falling snowflake tastes like. Then, Deer arrives and helps him build ...

Christmas is almost here, and Anna is shopping for a Christmas tree. Instead of picking the most beautiful tree, she falls in love with a lonely little Christmas tree, and it lights up her heart and her home.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Frontier Computing, held in Osaka, on July 6–10, 2025, and provides comprehensive coverage of the latest advances and trends in information technology, science, and engineering. It addresses a number of broad themes, including communication networks, business intelligence and knowledge management, Web intelligence, and related fields that inspire the development of information technology. The respective contributions...