This book is a groundbreaking exploration that dares to bridge the seemingly disparate worlds of spirituality and science. It offers a transformative journey, connecting spirituality and science to empower readers in creating abundance, healing, and manifesting miracles. Through profound dialogues with divine consciousness, it unveils the powerful connection between human consciousness and the universe. Readers will explore groundbreaking ideas on the structure of the universe, the layers ...

"I thought it was hopeless to cultivate, but who would've thought that I would actually be able to obtain the heaven-defying Cultivation Methods, Dark Yellow Art?!" Yang Fan had said that even if they met each other, they wouldn't be able to resist the good fortune!I want to become powerful! I want to rebel against the heavens and the earth! I want to show off my skills! I want to make all sorts of girls!After I counterattack —Benefactor, I will repay a million times.Enemies, I will retali...

Web3 is a new frontier of internet architecture emphasizing decentralization and user control. This text for MBA students and industry professionals explores key Web3 concepts, starting from foundational principles and moving to advanced topics like blockchain, smart contracts, tokenomics, and DeFi. The book takes a clear, practical approach to demystify the tech behind NFTs and DAOs as well as the complex regulatory landscape. It confronts challenges of blockchain scalability, a barrier t...

The Chinese government set a target to reduce China’s carbon intensity by 40%-45% in 2020 at its 2005 level. To achieve this target, the government has allocated targets to provinces, cities, and large enterprises, and selected five pilot provinces and eight cities for CO2 emission trading. Such emission trading process will involve decentralization, optimization, and negotiation. The prime objective of this book is to perform academic research on simulating the negotiation process. Throug...

This open access book provides the uniaxial, triaxial, fatigue, creep, creep-fatigue loading tests in order to investigate the salt mechanical response and the related damage mechanisms defining relation between plastic deformation, dilatancy and damage. Based on the experimental results, a new creep-fatigue constitutive model for salt rock that considers creep-fatigue interaction was established by incorporating a state variable that characterizes rock hardening level on the basis of the ...

Drawing on extensive research of 153 feature films by 65 female directors, this book examines the dislocation between Chinese women’s cinema and Western feminist theories.The author explores how local feminist discourses in China shape major feminist narratives in contemporary Chinese women’s cinema and establishes “China as methodology” in Chinese cinema studies, offering interpretive paradigmsrooted in China’s history, culture and politics. The author introduces frameworks...

The concept of “fandom” has been revolutionized over the past 20 years because of various technological, cultural, and communicative advancements. Evolution of the Modern Sports Fan: Communicative Approaches explores the elements of the sports fan that have markedly changed since the turn of the century. Inherent within these investigations is the role of communication in a multitude of forms (mediated, relational, etc.) as the prototypical sports fan has most heavily shifted within this d...

Discover the Path to Becoming Your Best Self with A Transformed and Better Me: 100 ReflectionsAre you ready to embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and growth? A Transformed and Better Me: 100 Reflections is your daily guide to living with intention, resilience, and purpose. This inspirational e-book offers 100 short yet impactful articles, each paired with a timeless quote and an actionable plan to help you apply ...

As the first English-language book on Taiwan’s relations with Latin America, this book examines the major issues and theoretical debates on Taiwan’s activities in Latin America, and its relations with the US and China. Latin America has become a crucial frontline for Taiwan. Today, more than at any time since the end of WWII, Taiwan’s future as an independent state hinges on the balance of power between the United States and China. This book provides the most detailed and sophisticated ana...

This edited volume assesses governance innovation and institutional change under the fifth generation of China’s political leaders headed by Xi Jinping. The configuration of long-term policy innovation without regime change requires skilled political actors who secure strategic majorities and set up coalitions to design and launch new policies. Recalibrations or reconfigurations of the governance model respond to domestic reform pressures or external shocks in order to secure regime surviv...

This book provides engineers with a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in reflectarray antenna research and development. The authors describe, in detail, design procedures for a wide range of applications, including broadband, multi-band, multi-beam, contour-beam, beam-scanning, and conformal reflectarray antennas. They provide sufficient coverage of basic reflectarray theory to fully understand reflectarray antenna design and analysis such that the readers can pursue reflectarra...

In the field of image processing, many applications require real-time execution, particularly those in the domains of medicine, robotics and transmission, to name but a few. Recent technological developments have allowed for the integration of more complex algorithms with large data volume into embedded systems, in turn producing a series of new sophisticated electronic architectures at affordable prices. This book performs an in-depth survey on this topic. It is primarily written for thos...