A historical and cultural study of how representing invisible anatomical structures has reshaped our understanding of human anatomy.In Body Maps, Lan A. Li unveils a rich history of the hidden landscapes of the human body. This compelling studyexplores the world of "invisible" anatomy, explaining how hand-drawn body maps have shaped our understanding of the human form across cultures and centuries. From the meridian charts in East Asian medicine to neuroph...

Since the early 1980s, China's rapid economic growth and social transformation have greatly altered the role of popular religion in the country. This book makes a new contribution to the research on the phenomenon by examining the role which popular religion has played in modern Chinese politics. Popular Religion in Modern China uses Nuo as an example of how a popular religion has been directly incorporated into the Chinese Community Party's (CCP) policies and how the religion functions as...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2025, held in Wuhan, China, during August 15–17, 2025.The 9 full papers were presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. This conference focuses on the deep integration of large language models with classic retrieval paradigms.

This book scrutinizes the role of Hong Kong in the expansive, and contested, vision of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).In two main parts, it first discusses the defining features of the BRI and the evolving expectations of the role of Hong Kong in the BRI from the perspectives of policy makers and the professional sectors of accountancy-finance and the law. The second part contemplates the potential opportunities for Hong Kong from the perspectives of recipient countries-Sri...

Membrane-Based Separation in Metallurgy: Principles and Applications begins with basic coverage of the basic principles of the topic and then explains how membrane technology helps in the development of new environmentally friendly and sustainable metallurgical processes. The book features the principles of metallurgical process and how widely the membrane-based technology has been applied in metallurgical industry, including the basic principles of membrane-based separation in terms of ma...

This book systemically presents the latest research on renal fibrosis, covering all the major topics in the field, including the possible mechanisms, biomarkers, and strategies for prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Due to its high prevalence, CKD represents a huge global economic and social burden. Irrespective of the initial causes, CKD progresses to end stage kidney disease (ESKD) due to renal fibrosis, which is characterized by glomerulosclerosis, tubule atrophy ...

We generate and draw stuff (energies, emotions, thought-forms, etc...) to us every day, and our physical body holds the total sum of everything we as individuals have ever experienced from any and all lifetimes.The more stuff we hold in our body, the greater chance there is for energy waves to latch on - following the Universal Law of 'Like attracts Like'. And this is then why you want to clear the body of the so-called 'negative', lower-density, vibrational energies. The less ther...

Cosmic Law states that Power (As is our Life-Force, Energies and Abundance) is there for all to use. If your power is unused—lying there, so to speak—then others may use it—without your knowledge! Unless you Claim Your Power and qualify it, by stating as above that it is yours and yours alone to use, etc…The use of your Power without your knowledge is allowed and there are lots of beings out there that work very hard at keeping you in a state of confusion, so that you won't know th...

This book starts from the development status of remote sensing image intelligent interpretation and application technology. It systematically introduces the main progress of this field and its application, focusing on remote sensing image intelligent quality improvement, intelligent expansion and sample augmentation, object detection, fine-grained target recognition, semantic segmentation, multimodal remote sensing image joint intelligent interpretation as well as intelligent interpretatio...

Invisible Labour in Modern Science is about the people who are concealed, eclipsed, or anonymised in accounts of scientific research. Many scientific workers—including translators, activists, archivists, technicians, curators, and ethics review boards—are absent in publications and omitted from stories of discovery. Scientific reports are often held to ideals of transparency, yet they are the result of careful judgments about what (and what not) to reveal. Professional scientists ...

This first manual (of three) provides a spiritual foundation from which you, the reader, can progress and grow on your spiritual path—which no longer can be differentiated from everyday life. For most, their spiritual life and their everyday lives have merged.Originally written as a manual to accompany Li Lan's workshops, chapters include topics on how to "Claim Your Power", follow "Cosmic Etiquette" and practice "Spiritual Hygiene". She takes the seeking student one step further b...

Letters from Home to WuhanBy: Compiled by Zhao Nianmin, Li Haiyan and Lan Chuanbin; Translated by Sun HongshanEver since the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is the most serious public health emergency. Then the virus spread rapidly in this country, inspiring terror in people. To ward off a greater calamity, 1,775 doctors and nurses in 12 batches from Shandong went to the epidemic-stricken Hubei at the call of duty. Brave an...