Bone is a living tissue prone to develop a diverse array of inflammatory, metabolic, genetic, reactive, circulatory and neoplastic abnormalities. The Atlas of Bone Pathology describes and selectively illustrates the normal and pathologic conditions that afflict human bone, focusing heavily on tumor and tumor-like conditions of bone and their non-neoplastic mimics. Supplemented with radiographic and special study images, this extraordinary collection of high quality digital images ...

"Water Margin" is a long novel written by Shi Nai'an from the late Yuan Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty (most of the existing published editions are signed by Shi Nai'an, or Luo Guanzhong, or both). It is the first long chapter- novel written in vernacular Chinese in Chinese history.The whole book depicts the grand story of 108 heroes on Liangshan led by Song Jiang, including their elimination of treacherous officials and villains, the growth of Liangshan Marsh, their acceptance ...

Explore the interplay between corporate governance and strategic decision-making in this startling new resourceIn Understanding and Managing Strategic Governance, strategy and management experts Dr. Wei Shi and Robert E. Hoskisson deliver an insightful exploration of the influence that governance actors, like the board of directors, activist investors, institutional investors, and securities analysts, have on important strategic decisions....

Since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, Wenzhou City of China's Zhejiang Province has witnessed large-scale institutional change and rapid economic development. This book studies the institutional change and economic development in Wenzhou since China's reform and opening-up. It concludes that the most important characteristic of Wenzhou model is that the city is the first to promote industrialization and urbanization by privatization and marketization in Zhejiang. As privatizat...

Son Of Qinghua: Shi Yong Wei's 15-Year Prison Saga After Being Falsely Convicted In The U.S. Federal Legal SystemThis book is a collaborative work from Shi Yong Wei and Alexander Otis Matthews. In the book Mr. Shi wields Chinese philosophy, mathematical logic, and a formidable intellect to demonstrate how the highest arts of deception are employed against the unwary in all areas of life, from the courtroom, to games of chance, to the diamond industry. An instant classic of the Chin...

Understand the computing technology that will power a connected futureThe explosive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) in recent years has revolutionized virtually every area of technology. It has also driven a drastically increased demand for computing power, as traditional cloud computing proved insufficient in terms of bandwidth, latency, and privacy. Edge computing, in which data is processed at the edge of the network, closer to where it’s generated, has e...

This LNCS book is part of the FOLLI book series and constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Logic, Rationality, and Interaction, LORI 2025, held in Xi’an, China, in October 2025.The 14 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions.The topics addressed in this program effectively showcase the breadth and depth characteristic of the LORI conference series, including contributions on dynamic epistemic logic, non...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First China Conference on Networking, CCF ChinaNet 2023, which took place in Wenzhou, China, during September 8-10, 2023.The 13 full papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. They deal with networking technologies such as cloud computing; mobile and network security; computer engineering and networks; etc. The theme of this year's conference was “Integrating Industry, Search, and Innovation, Se...

Frozen sections are performed while a patient is undergoing surgery as a basis for making an immediate diagnosis that will impact treatment decisions. Frozen section diagnosis is often a highly demanding situation for the pathologist who must render a diagnosis quickly for the patient and surgeon.The Frozen Section Library series will provide concise, user-friendly, site specific handbooks that are well illustrated and highlight the pitfalls, artifacts and differential diagnosis is...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, ICPRAI 2020, which took place in Zhongshan, China, in October 2020.The 49 full and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: handwriting and text processing; features and classifiers; deep learning; computer vision and image processing; medical imagin...

This book covers the new topic of GPU computing with many applications involved, taken from diverse fields such as networking, seismology, fluid mechanics, nano-materials, data-mining , earthquakes ,mantle convection, visualization. It will show the public why GPU computing is important and easy to use. It will offer a reason why GPU computing is useful and how to implement codes in an everyday situation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Data Science, ICDS 2015, held in Sydney, Australia, during August 8-9, 2015.The 19 revised full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: mathematical issues in data science; big data issues and applications; data quality and data preparation; data-driven scientific research; evaluation and measurement...