Using real-world data case studies, this innovative and accessible textbook introduces an actionable framework for conducting trustworthy data science.Most textbooks present data science as a linear analytic process involving a set of statistical and computational techniques without accounting for the challenges intrinsic to real-world applications. Veridical Data Science, by contrast, embraces the reality that most projects begin with an ambiguous domain ...

Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic of China has been a one-party state in which the Chinese Communist Party holds a monopoly of political power. Many Western students are unfamiliar with the structures, institutions, and ideologies by which the Party exercises this power. The Government of China examines those issues in depth. It also details the historical development of China's Communist government and explores recent trends, including signs that a more responsive, open sy...

This two-volume set LNICST 693-694 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the19th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Pervasive Health 2025, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands during October 15–17, 2025.The 43 full papers, 10 posters, 6 position papers, and 3 workshop proposals presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. They are organized into topical sections as follows:Part I: AI Comp...

Drug Discovery Stories: From Bench to Bedside presents a collection of cases on the development of highly successful pharmaceuticals. It delves into the realm of drug discovery, exploring the structural biology and biological functions of the sought-after targets. The book covers the identification of promising compounds, their transformation from hits to leads through meticulous optimization, and the elucidation of how key compounds interact with the target (in essence, providing invaluab...

Drug Discovery Stories, Volume Two showcases the discovery journeys of recent blockbuster drugs approved between 2023 and 2024, along with promising drug candidates. This book delves into structural biology, biological functions of targets, hit compound identification, hit-to-lead optimization, binding modes, key biological and pharmacokinetic data, and clinical results. It also covers other candidate compounds against the same targets and includes additional content based on the authors' ...

This two-volume set LNICST 693-694 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the19th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Pervasive Health 2025, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands during October 15–17, 2025.The 43 full papers, 10 posters, 6 position papers, and 3 workshop proposals included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. They are organized into topical sections as follows:Part I: AI Compa...

The book explores the fault-tolerant control (FTC) methods for unmanned flight vehicle (UFV) by considering practical safety issues in low-altitude economic environments. It provides systematic and comprehensive descriptions of practical FTC issues of UFV in low-altitude economic environments, such as highly demanded performance constraints requirements in the presence of faults and disturbances, communication constraints including limited bandwidth and time-delay among numerous UFV, compo...

One of the core roles of a practising geotechnical engineer is to analyse and design foundations. This textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students covers the analysis, design and construction of shallow and deep foundations and retaining structures as well as the stability analysis and mitigation of slopes. It progressively introduces critical state soil mechanics and plasticity theories such as plastic limit analysis and cavity expansion theories before leading into the the...

The problems of corruption, social injustice, public unrest, disparity in income and regional development, shortage of energy and resources, unemployment, aging population, inadequate social and economic safety network, pollution, etc., are poised to jeopardize political stability and cast a shadow on the moral foundation of economic reform. How to cope with these new problems is a daunting task facing the Chinese leadership and people in the twenty-first century. The new generation of lea...

Privileged Scaffolds in Drug Discovery is the most complete and up-to-date work in the area. Covering a wide range of privileged structures, it is a perfect reference for scientists involved in targeted drug development. The editors recruited epserts from several prestigious Chinese institutions to cover the areas of antiviral drugs, chalcone, pyrimidine, (benz)imidazoles, natural product-derived privileged scaffolds, N-Sulfonyl carboxamides, kinase inhibitors, antitumor molecules, antineu...

This book includes high quality research papers submitted at the 2022 “Four Session (ICFIE, ICORG, GDORS, CGHMORS) Celebration” Joint International Conference held on December 28, 2022 and the online meeting of the Fuzzy Information and Engineering Branch of the China Operations Research Society on September 17, 2022. It covers topics in the fields of certainty, stochastic uncertainty, and fuzzy uncertainty, including computer science and mathematics, operations research and control, artif...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Systems and Information Processing, ICCSIP 2022, held in Fuzhou, China, during November 18–20, 2022.The 47 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections as follows: Award; Algorithm; Application; Manipulation & Control; Hardware and Vision.