Nine Deaths, One Life: From Fashion Model to High-Tech Exec, Where East Meets West is a book about surviving and excelling in three-dimensional paradoxes: navigating the tensions between Eastern and Western values, transitioning from a looks-intensive to brain-intensive industry, and enduring nine near-death experiences in the quest for a good life.The stories are down-to-earth and deeply personal, demonstrating how to live by five guiding principles: courage with wisdom c...

Comprehensive, systematic review of advances in key CRISPR/Cas technologies, such as TALENS and zinc finger nucleases, double-strand break repair techniques, insertion-based genome edits, base editing, guide RNAs, gRNA/Cas9 constructs and CRISPR/Cas off targetingCovers both techniques and their practical application to particular cereal and other cropsDiscusses challenges in regulating this emerging technology

This two-volume set of LNAI 11838 and LNAI 11839 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2019, held in Dunhuang, China, in October 2019.The 85 full papers and 56 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 492 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Conversational Bot/QA/IR**;** Knowledge graph/IE; Machine Learning for NLP; Machine Translation; NLP Appl...

This two-volume set of LNAI 11838 and LNAI 11839 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2019, held in Dunhuang, China, in October 2019.The 85 full papers and 56 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 492 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Conversational Bot/QA/IR**;** Knowledge graph/IE; Machine Learning for NLP; Machine Translation; NLP Appl...