Fueled by its surging economic strength, China has been increasingly utilizing economic tools such as trade, foreign aid, foreign direct investment, and sanctions to pursue strategic and security interests on the world stage. This approach, known as economic statecraft, has thus far received mixed policy results and ambivalent reactions from the international community. This book presents a collection of global assessments of China's economic statecraft. The contributors to this volume ans...

This book honors the remarkable science and life of Shoucheng Zhang, a condensed matter theorist known for his work on topological insulators, the quantum Hall effect, spintronics, superconductivity, and other fields. It contains the contributions displayed at the Shoucheng Zhang Memorial Workshop held on May 2-4, 2019 at Stanford University.

This book pioneers the exploration of hybrid-energy cutting for aerospace alloys, summarizing cutting-edge research on laser-assisted, ultrasonic vibration-assisted, electrical-assisted, and hybrid-energies-assisted cutting. It also covers enhanced heat transfer in cutting processes, proposing novel technologies for achieving geometric precision and surface integrity at low costs. The book delves into multi-energy fields interaction mechanisms, material removal, tool wear, and cutting perf...

Gene flow is a natural process that occurs spontaneously and enables the evolution of life. However, with the release of genetically modified organisms, concerns have focused on introduced foreign transgenes and their dispersal in nature through gene flow. This book examines gene flow of transgenes, such as herbicide resistance genes, with the goal of understanding the factors that may affect the process of gene flow. A greater biological understanding is essential to make sound management...

何仁義是美國矽谷的軟件工程師，去中國調查原中共副主席林彪專機遇難的真相。一個偶然機會讓他認識林彪的兩個侄孫。三個業餘偵探親密合作，獲得遇難飛機駕駛艙錄音帶。一夜間，他們也變成被中國警方追捕的逃犯。在何仁義的生命受到威脅時，膽敢出面給他幫助和支持的卻是婚姻觸礁的公安局長太太。在何仁義對破案感到絕望時，一個念頭突然出現在他的腦子裡。這個念頭引出了新一輪的，更加波瀾壯闊的爭奪戰。業餘偵探們與中國公安在疾風暴雨的長江上比速度，在中原大地千里突圍和反突圍，在天空裡做迷藏。何仁義最後成功了嗎？林彪的專機是怎麼飛到蒙古的？空難的原因是什麼？請讀這本小說。 He Renyi was a Silicon Valley software engineer who went to China to find out the truth behind the airplane disaster that killed Lin Biao, Mao’s successor. A fortuitous event brought Renyi and two of Lin Bia...

This book proposes a method to solve land use problems, and has made some significant contributions to the land use analysis and optimization study fields. Firstly, three spatio-temporal logit models for land use change analysis, namely, geographically and temporally weighted logit model (GTWLM), spatio-temporal panel logit model (ST-PLM) and generalized spatio-temporal logit model (GSTLM), are proposed. GTWLM, which considers spatio-temporal non-stationarity, includes temporal data in a s...

何仁义是美国矽谷的软件工程师，去中国调查前中共副主席林彪专机遇难的真相。一个偶然机会让他认识林彪的两个侄孙。三个业余侦探亲密合作，获得遇难飞机驾驶舱录音带。一夜间，他们也变成被中国警方追捕的逃犯。在何仁义的生命受到威胁时，胆敢出面给他帮助和支持的却是婚姻触礁的公安局长太太。在何仁义对破案感到绝望时，一个念头突然出现在他的脑子里。这个念头引出了新一轮的，更加波澜壮阔的争夺战。业余侦探们与中国公安在疾风暴雨的长江上比速度，在中原大地千里突围和反突围，在天空里做迷藏。何仁义最后成功了吗？林彪的专机是怎么飞到蒙古的？空难的原因是什么？请读小说《驾驶舱录音》。 He Renyi was a Silicon Valley software engineer who went to China to find out the truth behind the airplane disaster that killed Lin Biao, Mao’s successor. A fortuitous event brought Renyi and two of Li...

Mao Zedong thought that only when Liu Shaoqi and so on were overthrown on the charge of "capitalist-roaders", there might be a chance to overturn the cases in the future, and only when they were overthrown on the charge of "traitors" could be reliable. So in 1966, Mao launched the Cultural Revolution and at the same time launched a nationwide mass campaign to "catch traitors". Zhou Enlai took the lead in criticizing Qu Qiubai as "traitor" who had twice served as general secretary of the Co...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Graph Learning in Medical Imaging, GLMI 2019, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2019 in Shenzhen, China, in October 2019.The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers focus on major trends and challenges of graph learning in medical imaging and present original work aimed to identify new cutting-edge techniques and their applications in medical ima...