What would you do if your 13th birthday required a leap of faith?Would you take the plunge?Benji Fisher spent the first twelve years of his life growing up in a small fishing town, Topside. He's gotten used to the gang of dolphins who follow him on his surfboard and the voices he hears underwater; odd things that have, in their repetition, become part of normal everyday life.However, none of that prepares him for the recruitment speech he gets from an octopus named ...

Wind-induced Vibration of Long Span Suspension Bridges in mountainous areas includes the author's research on such bridges and adopts a combination of on-site measurements, wind tunnel tests, theoretical analyses and numerical calculations to discuss: the characteristics and parameters of the wind environment at bridge sites; the buffeting response of bridges under the effect of winds on bridges in mountainous areas; the vortex response of wide-bodied flat steel box girders; chattering cha...

This book systematically studies the feedback control and filtering problems for nonlinear plants with limited communication channels based on T-S fuzzy models. By fully considering different network-induced phenomena, such as signal quantizations, time-delays, data packet dropouts, communication protocols, cyber attacks, and so on, some significant strategies are provided for various performance analysis and different controller/filter synthesis of fuzzy systems. The event-triggered mecha...

This book explores the incorporation of plasmonic nanostructures into organic solar cells, which offers an attractive light trapping and absorption approach to enhance power conversion efficiencies. The authors review the latest advances in the field and discuss the characterization of these hybrid devices using a combination of optical and electrical probes.Transient optical spectroscopies such as transient absorption and transient photoluminescence spectroscopy offer powerful too...

This book studies the space tourism value chain from the perspective of demand research of space tourism. It echoes the progress of tourism demand research by tourism experts, avoids the shortcomings that arise when general tourism research methods are applied to space tourism research, and constructs innovative demand research ideas for space tourism. In the book, ten questions and one suggestion are put forward for space tourism demand research as the main discussion content of each chap...

This book presents a methodology for developing city-scale greenhouse gas and air pollutant emission inventories, and a synergistic analysis framework for achieving "dual attainments" based on air quality objectives. The book illustrates the pathways and strategies for cities to reach "dual attainments" using Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang, and Huzhou as typical cases. The authors emphasize that "dual attainments" requires a comprehensive approach beyond end-of-pipe control measure；moreover,deep...

Future SF is a magazine focusing on international science fiction.In this oversized issue we've collected stories from the established masters as well as some exciting up-and-comers in China, Japan, and South Korea.From machine societies to ocean depths, from interstellar migrations to genetically engineered mermaids, these tales envision very different, often dark, but always fascinating futures.Includes the following stories:Rœsin by Wu Guan (translated fr...

This book is meant to help with conquering cancer, launching a total attack, and building the scientific city of conquering cancer. The overall design and the planning and the blueprint of XZ-Cs plans of conquering cancer are the scientific thinking and the theoretical innovation, and the experimental basis of conquering cancer are the reform and development of the overall strategy of cancer treatment. It is the crystallization of my sixty years of experience in medical work and thirty yea...

In the half century after the Second World War, oncology has developed greatly both in the world and in China. There are three traditional major treatments: surgery, which has been used to treat tumors for more than a hundred years; radiotherapy, which has been used for ninety years; and chemotherapy, which has been used for nearly seventy years. In the 1980s, there was the rise of biological therapy and immunotherapy. The effects of oncological therapy have made a lot of progress. Many tu...

This book is the scientific summary of the authors fifty years of experience in tumor surgery and more than twenty years of cancer research results and clinical validation. The book is divided into three sections and fifteen chapters. The first chapter, Pathfinder, starts from the beginning of the experimental study, which introduced how to explore the etiology and pathogenesis of cancer and learned the new revelation from these and had the new discoveries and new knowledge. In section or ...

This book is meant to help with conquering cancer, launching a total attack, and building the scientific city of conquering cancer. The overall design and the planning and the blueprint of XZ-C’s plans of conquering cancer are the scientific thinking and the theoretical innovation, and the experimental basis of conquering cancer are the reform and development of the overall strategy of cancer treatment. It is the crystallization of my sixty years of experience in medical work and thirty ye...

Whenever one book was finished, both of my eyes were full of tears. It was extremely hard. Every word in these books concreted Dr. Xu Ze’s hard work and dedication to oncology and to human health. No one knows how hard it was to finish all this work. Science is endless, and only those who are not afraid of danger or difficult work or risk can reach the science peak. This book is volume 5 in this series of walking out of the new way to conquer cancer. This book summarizes Dr. Xu Ze’s thirty...