"From Tea to Coffee is a wonderful exploration of history and a life that has extended across half a century and two continents. For those who believe that East and West can never meet or can only stand in opposition to each other, this memoir offers a beautiful counterpoint." —Bennett R. Coles, award-winning author of six published books including Dark Star Rising"Cheng Wang's transformative evolution from young Communist ideologue to astute western observer is a must-read cultura...

Embark on a journey beneath the waves with "The Enchanted Reef at Bedtime." This bedtime story takes you to a magical underwater world, filled with mesmerizing creatures and soothing melodies. Let the ocean lullabies guide you through a dreamy adventure that will capture the imagination of both young and old. Immerse yourself in the enchantment of the underwater realm, making bedtime a magical experience for everyone.

This book bridges two seemingly distinct worlds—network theory and machine learning—to reveal the universal laws of scalability that underlie both. It examines how value, capacity, and performance evolve as systems expand, offering a unified framework that connects Metcalfe’s Law with neural scaling laws.By comparing network growth and model scaling, the book uncovers striking parallels: the diminishing throughput of densely connected networks mirrors the saturation of mod...

This book presents peer reviewed articles from IRC-SET 2025 held on 16August in Singapore. It highlights the contemporary state of research in multi-disciplinary areas of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Medicine, Healthcare, and Business Technology. The papers presented here were shortlisted after extensive rounds of rigorous reviews by a ...

It was a dream job – until I got hit in the head with a pickle. . . My dress-up shoes are pinching my toes. . . Mississippi Mamaw muscadine jelly biscuits for breakfast, and the fried bologna on the white wonder for lunch. . . Life can be this frightening sometimes. . . "Where are we?" she asks with anxious uncertainty. . . The queen called. . . Sir John FitzAlan drew a slow breath against the pain in his half-healed side. . . Mandy crunches on thinly packed snow with her powder blue hikin...

How secure are intelligent computing networks (ICNs) when data, algorithms, and computing power intertwine? As ICNs become the backbone of modern digital ecosystems, their growing complexity introduces unprecedented risks in security and safety. Integrated Security and Safety of Intelligent Computing Networks offers a groundbreaking, coupling-aware perspective that redefines how we understand and fortify ICN infrastructures.This book goes beyond conventional security frame...

As intelligent behavior modeling grows increasingly complex, existing models have reached a bottleneck in their ability to express behavior. This book proposed the concept—Behavioral Molecular Structure—to redefine behavior representation from a structural perspective, paving the way for an entirely new research paradigm: Computational Structural Behavior.Addressing cutting-edge applications in behavior analysis, modeling, and prediction, this book explores...

As we navigate an increasingly complex digital landscape, ensuring human factor security and safety has never been more critical. This groundbreaking book offers an innovative perspective by leveraging behavioral computing to address challenges in human factor security across diverse scenarios.Through comprehensive coverage, the book introduces advanced methods like behavioral modeling and simulation to analyze multimodal behavioral data—spanning structure, language, and vision. Th...

This book presents advanced solutions for integrated security and safety based on universal behavior computing. It provides a comprehensive survey of recent representative research in the field of universal behavior computing, including a review of traditional behavior analysis methods, an introduction to emerging key technologies and frameworks for building behavior models, and a discussion on further opportunities for utilizing behavior simulation in future research.This book aim...

Light detection and ranging, or LiDAR, is an advanced active remote sensing technology developed in the last 30 years to measure variable distances to the Earth. This book explains the fundamental concepts of LiDAR technology and its extended spaceborne, airborne, terrestrial, mobile, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms. It addresses the challenges of massive LiDAR data intelligent processing, LiDAR software engineering, and in-depth applications. The theory and algorithms are inte...

This book presents peer reviewed articles from IRC-SET 2024 held on 17August in Singapore. It highlights the contemporary state of research in multi-disciplinary areas of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Medicine, Healthcare, and Business Technology. The papers presented here were shortlisted after extensive rounds of rigorous reviews by a ...

This book presents the basic principles and the latest advances in space archaeology. Following general reviews of the state of the art of Earth observation technologies and archaeology, the book introduces the principles and methods of space archaeology, remote sensing methods for archaeological survey, and integrated archaeological survey methods including geophysics, virtual reality, web technologies, global positioning systems (GPS), geographical information systems (GIS), and big data...