Wineinformatics is a new data science application with a focus on understanding wine through artificial intelligence. Thousands of new wine reviews are produced monthly, which benefits the understanding of wine through wine experts for winemakers and consumers. This book systematically investigates how to process human language format reviews and mine useful knowledge from a large volume of processed data.This book presents a human language processing tool named Computational Wine ...

This edited book is written for students, postdocs and established investigators who want to enter the field of single-particle cryo-EM. This is a recently developed method to determine high-resolution structures of biological macromolecules. A major strength is the fact that cryo-EM does not require prior crystallization of protein complexes. Furthermore, it is especially well suited for larger complexes and molecular machines, although it can also be used for macromolecules as small as 4...

Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture examines the effect of globalization on the curriculum of Asian universities. As knowledge of the English language has increasingly been understood as necessary to excel in international business, a number of Asian universities have replaced the traditional study of English literature and culture with applied English or English for specified purposes. This edited collection tackles the question of how to teach English language and cultur...

In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on the basis of fragments discovered in England in 1824, was initially reconstructed as an iguana-like reptile or a heavily built, horned quadruped. However, the Bernissart skeleton changed all that. The animal was displayed in an upright posture similar to a kangaroo, and later with its tail off the ground like the dinosaur we know of today. Focu...

Depois de destruir o mundo milhares de vezes e hipotetizar utopias bizarras e tiranias tecnocráticas, a ficção científica surge com um pequeno núcleo de histórias solarpunk: explorando sustentabilidade ambiental, criticando o capitalismo predatório, imaginando possibilidades de uso de recursos renováveis e inclusão radical.Os protagonistas dessas histórias não desistem da luta para se reapropriar de espaços abandonados pelo capitalismo, mas enfrentam o conflito em nome de ...

In this campy love letter to the slasher films of the 1980s, seven friends reunite for a weekend of fun—only to be hunted down by a cold-blooded killer. But the real horror is not being able to escape who you were in high school. . . .The sleepy town of Cedar Lake is best known as the shooting location of the campy ’80s horror flick Slasher. In high school, preppy Patrick, jock Jason, cheerleader Tiffany, stoner Freddy, goth Jennifer, and nerdy Mikey had p...

Et autres récitsÀ l épée, les figures du Taiji ne faillent jamais à charmer l'assistance. Les bonds et circonvolutions impressionnants, lame au clair fendant l'air et gland rouge virevoltant, captivent l'attention des jeunes comme des aînés. L'Épée du Taiji, une partie du Taijiquan, fonde ses principes sur la détente, l'art de céder et d'utiliser la douceur pour vaincre la force. Ceux qui s'exercent au Taijiquan affectionnent l'épée du Taiji par le point de vue unique qu'elle of fie...

Features modern research and methodology on the spread of infectious diseases and showcases a broad range of multi-disciplinary and state-of-the-art techniques on geo-simulation, geo-visualization, remote sensing, metapopulation modeling, cloud computing, and pattern analysisGiven the ongoing risk of infectious diseases worldwide, it is crucial to develop appropriate analysis methods, models, and tools to assess and predict the spread of disease and evaluate the ri...