While the Chinese urban movement has successfully transferred surplus labor from the countryside to urban industries that urgently require free and cheap labor, numerous problems have arisen as a result of the unprecedented huge-scale process. Such conditions such as overcrowding, substandard housing, lack of social services, corruption, and abuse of power have often reached crisis stage. American college students often ask: How does the government control the largest urban population in t...

Discipline is not about being harsh. It is about being reliable.In The Hard Teacher: A Discipline of Self-Mastery, Dr. Jin Wu Goh Chin Ting examines what it means to live with integrity. Self-mastery, this book argues, is built through daily decisions — not through motivation or emotion, but through steady consistency.The chapters explore simple but demanding truths: keep your word, finish what you start, control your reactions, do what needs to be done even when you do not...

You’re Healed: The Transformative Journey Within is a compassionate companion for anyone seeking peace, renewal, and emotional clarity. Blending heartfelt storytelling with practical tools, this book offers gentle guidance through life’s most challenging seasons—grief, change, self-doubt, and the search for meaning. Through relatable stories, reflective exercises, and simple mindfulness practices, readers are invited to pause, reconnect with themselves, and rediscover the strength that alr...

Despite research interest in functional data analysis in the last three decades, few books are available on the subject. Filling this gap, Analysis of Variance for Functional Data presents up-to-date hypothesis testing methods for functional data analysis. The book covers the reconstruction of functional observations, functional ANOVA, functional l

The book provides a comprehensive overview of Single-Inductor Multiple-Output Converters from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Based on the authors’ in-depth research, the volume covers not only conventional SIMO DC-DC converters but also the new generations of SIMO such as SIMO AC-DC converters, SIMO DC-AC converters (or SIMO inverters), and the latest SIMO hybrid converters.This book offers a holistic and systematic presentation of all types of SIMO converters, encomp...

This book focuses on the topology theory of mechanisms developed by the authors and provides a systematic method for the topology design of robot mechanisms.The main original theoretical contributions of this book include:A. Three basic concepts· The “geometrical constraint type of axes” is introduced as the third element of the topological structure of a mechanism. When it is combined with the other two elements, the kinematic pair and the connection of links, the ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on AI and Multimodal Services – AIMS 2025, held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2025, in Hong Kong, China, during September 27–30, 2025.The 9 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They focus on for the development, publication, discovery, orchestration, invocation, testing, delivery, certification, and management of artificial ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Computing, ICCC 2023, held in Shenzhen, China, during December 17–18, 2023.The 9 full papers in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Cognitive Computing Technologies and Infrastructure, Cognitive Computing Applications, Sensing Intelligence, Cognitive Analysis, Mobile Services, Cognitive Computing on Smart ...

This book provides essential insights into Chinese consumer behaviors in the growing and dynamic fashion market. With increasing consumer purchasing power, readily accessible global brands, heavy application of digital technology and social media, as well as growing awareness of environmental issues, the Chinese fashion industry faces great opportunities and challenges at the same time. The contributing authors provide observations and address issues related to middle class fashion consump...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Services, AIMS 2022, held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2022, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in December 2022.The 10 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions.The International Conference on AI & Mobile Services (AIMS 2022) aims at providing an international forum that is dedicated to exploring ...

'Sidney Coleman was the master teacher of quantum field theory. All of us who knew him became his students and disciples. Sidney’s legendary course remains fresh and bracing, because he chose his topics with a sure feel for the essential, and treated them with elegant economy.'Frank WilczekNobel Laureate in Physics 2004Sidney Coleman was a physicist's physicist. He is largely unknown outside of the theoretical physics community, and known only by reputation to the younger...

The Healing Chamber is an invitation to slow down, breathe, and return to yourself as you enter a sanctuary of reflection, restoration, and personal clarity. Structured around a series of symbolic rooms, the book guides readers through compassionate spaces designed to support emotional healing, self-understanding, and inner renewal. From The Doorway and The Still Room to The Release Room, The Mirror Room, and The Open Door, each room offers a place to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the...