This 15-volume set LNCS 15031-15045 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2024, held in Urumqi, China, during October 18–20, 2024.The 579 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1526 submissions. The papers cover various topics in the broad areas of pattern recognition and computer vision, including machine learning, pattern classification and cluster analysis, neural network and d...

China's venture capital market is not just the world's largest and fastest developing market, it also has the unique distinction of being engineered through heavy governmental intervention. This book breaks new ground by examining and testing established legal theories regarding the law of venture capital through the lens of the Chinese venture capital market. Using a hand-collected dataset of venture capital agreements, interviews with practitioners, and Chinese court judgements, it provi...

This book provides an in-depth understanding of doctoral students’ feedback engagement, an essential component of feedback dialogues co-constructed with their supervisors in intercultural supervision. Drawing on Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism, this mixed-methods study explores, from cognitive, affective, behavioural and socio-cultural perspectives, the perceptions and experiences of Chinese international doctoral students’ engagement with their non-Chinese supervisors’ written feedback. In ...

Should deep seabed mining (DSM) stop or proceed? The international community is now facing a difficult choice. No matter what decision is made, environmental consideration is the core of the issue. This book tackles the compelling question of how to secure the marine environmental protection in DSM from an international law perspective. It deals with two major research questions: What are the international environmental requirements of participants – the contractor, the sponsoring State an...

Why do twins look alike? How are we similar to our parents? What is the genetic code? Professor Lin He, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, shares his childhood stories and knowledge of genetics in this vividly illustrated popular science book.

Maidservant Yue-ying is not one of those beauties. Street-smart and practical, she’s content to live in the shadow of her infamous mistress—until she meets the aristocratic playboy Bai Huang.Bai Huang lives in a privileged world Yue-ying can barely imagine, yet alone share, but as they are thrown together in an attempt to solve a deadly mystery, they both start to dream of a different life.Yet Bai Huang’s position means that all she could ever be to him is his concubine—wil...

The Pink Cupcake Truck is here! From 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin.Amelia gets her first catering job at a police officer's bridal shower in conjunction with a hip restaurant called the Twisted Spoke. When Dana the waitress gets her throat slit in the restroom, suspects are challenging to narrow down. Dana has stolen many boyfriends and husbands, and she makes enemies everywhere she goes with her bad-girl shenanigans.Amelia and Detecti...

Three witches and their magical cats solve paranormal murder cases in the mystical town of Wonder Falls. From 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin.Something sinister befalls Wonder Falls—again. Cath's elderly neighbor Mrs. Kitt begins dressing like a streetwalker and behaving strangely. Mrs. Kitt dies in her own home after her heart literally explodes in her chest.As the Greenstone witches and their cats investigate another strange death, Cat...

From 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin: The 1st novella in a 4-book holiday cozy mystery series. Includes holiday drink recipes!After breaking up with hunky movie star Nick Doyle, Grammy Award-winning singer Emma Wild returns to her hometown for Christmas to get away from it all. In Hartfield, a small town in Ontario, Canada, she gets caught up in a murder case after a fan's drink is pois...

A Newbery Honor Book!A New York Times bestseller!An Al Roker's TODAY Show Book Club Pick!A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection!A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time!This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver...

'Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod has become one of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction' - Daily MailA remote shoreline. A lethal killer. As lone visitors disappear from the rural northwest of Scotland, campsites are becoming crime scenes.When forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is brought in to analyse a shallow grave on Scotland’s west coast, she is disturbed by a bundle of twigs crafted into a stickman and left...

Savannah, Georgia, 1922Becky Mackenzie is certain she knows who poisoned the judge in a pie-baking contest at an annual festival in Savannah. After a bit of snooping, she's shocked to learn her father is mixed up in all of this. Could it also be true that he has been stepping out on her mother?On top of that, there's trouble in paradise with Adam. Becky has bad luck. Even Madame Cecelia is afraid to tell her what her latest Tarot card reading means. All of ...