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Bin Liang

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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

This groundbreaking book examines the changing Chinese legal system since 1978. In addition to historical analyses of changes at the economic, political-legal, and social levels, Liang gives special attention to crime and punishment functions of the legal system, and the current judicial system based on field research, i.e., court observations in both Beijing and Chengdu. The court system has been in a process of systemization, both internally and externally, seeking more power and relativ...

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Bin Liang, Jianhong Liu

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China Understandings Today

Few social issues have received more public attention and scholarly debate than the death penalty. While the abolitionist movement has made a successful stride in recent decades, a small number of countries remain committed to the death penalty and impose it with a relatively high frequency. In this regard, the People’s Republic of China no doubt leads the world in both numbers of death sentences and executions. Despite being the largest user of the death penalty, China has never conducted...

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Yang Wang, Zhidong Li, Bin Liang, Hongda Tian, Ting Guo, Fang Chen

This book presents, for the first time, data analytics for smart infrastructures. The authors draw on over a decade’s experience working with industry and demonstrating the capabilities of data analytics for infrastructure and asset management.The volume gives data-driven solutions to cover critical capabilities for infrastructure and asset management across three domains: 1) situation awareness 2) predictive analytics and 3) decision support. The reader will gain from various data...

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Hong Lu, Terance D. Miethe, Bin Liang

In the context of global efforts to control the production, distribution and use of narcotic drugs, China's treatment of the problem provides an important means of understanding the social, political, and economic limits of national and international policies to regulate drug practices. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, China was known for its national addiction to opium, but its drug-eradication campaigns from the 1950s to the 1970s achieved unprecedented success that ultim...

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Canbin Liang, Bin Zhou

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Weizhen Jia

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Physics and Astronomy (R0)

This book, the first in a three-volume set, explains general relativity using the mathematical tool of differential geometry. The book consists of ten chapters, the first five of which introduce differential geometry, which is widely applicable even outside the field of relativity. Chapter 6 analyzes special relativity using geometric language. In turn, the last four chapters introduce readers to the fundamentals of general relativity. Intended for beginners, this volume includes numerous ...

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Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science

The three-volume set LNCS 16507, 16508 and 16509 constitutes the refereed proceedings from the 42nd Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2025, held in Hong Kong, China, during July 14–18, 2025.The 124 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 402 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Colors, Painting and Layout; Graphics and VR/AR; Medical Imaging and Robotics; Segmentation and U...

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Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science

The three-volume set LNCS 16507, 16508 and 16509 constitutes the refereed proceedings from the 42nd Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2025, held in Hong Kong, China, during July 14–18, 2025.The 124 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 402 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Colors, Painting and Layout; Graphics and VR/AR; Medical Imaging and Robotics; Segmentation and U...

Water Security: Big Data-Driven Risk Identification, Assessment and Control of Emerging Contaminants contains the latest information on big data-driven risk detection and analysis, risk assessment and environmental health effect, intelligent risk control technologies, and global control strategy of emerging contaminants. First, this book highlights advances and challenges throughout the detection of emerging chemical contaminants (e.g., antimicrobials, microplastics) by sensors or mass spe...

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Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science

The three-volume set LNCS 16507, 16508 and 16509 constitutes the refereed proceedings from the 42nd Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2025, held in Hong Kong, China, during July 14–18, 2025.The 124 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 402 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Colors, Painting and Layout; Graphics and VR/AR; Medical Imaging and Robotics; Segmentation and U...

Featuring experts from Europe, Australia, Japan, China, and the United States, this collection of essays follows changes in the theory and policy of China's death penalty from the Mao era (1949–1979) through the Deng era (1980–1997) up to the present day. Using empirical data, such as capital offender and offense profiles, temporal and regional variations in capital punishment, and the impact of social media on public opinion and reform, contributors relay both the character of China's dea...

The biological importance of selenium has been firmly established by scientists for its intricate roles in various biochemical and physiological mechanisms related to animal and human health. To evaluate different facets of selenium in today’s complex environment and to provide a worldwide platform for multi-disciplinary selenium researchers, the 6th International Conference on Selenium in the Environment and Human Health was held from 27 to 30 October 2019 in Yangling/Xi’an, China.

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Medicine (R0)

This book addresses key issues of controversy in radiation oncology for each disease site, with expert commentaries from leading authorities in the field. It identifies areas of confusion arising from discrepant data in the literature regarding certain clinical scenarios for different diseases and presents high-level evidence on each issue with a view to fostering best practice. Controversies in Radiation Oncology will serve as a very useful resource for busy radiation oncology ph...