Ningen was made from rust and iron, but his ambitions are of cold steel. He dreams of recovering the lost secrets to the Sasaki Sword- a famed style of swordsmanship created by an ancient and peerless master. But time has not favored the antiquated art nor those who still practiced it, and the once proud Sasaki School of Swordsmanship is now a decrepit facility of the army, the instructors there barely more than glorified sergeants for students whom the art of the sword remains a mystery. ...

Stability of underground excavations is of great importance to an operating mine because it ensures the safety of the working people and operating equipment, and successful ore production. Due to the complex geological conditions and mine constructions, and variability and uncertainty in estimating rock mass mechanical properties, the assessment of rock mass stability for an underground mine is extremely challenging and difficult. Tackling of this difficult problem is not covered in detail...

With the rapid development of big data, three major challenges arise in the field of economics and management. The first challenge is that the traditional correlation-based methods cannot essentially reveal the true philosophy under the economic activities, modelling and inferring the causal relationship is paramount for discovering the essential effect of certain economic and management policies. The second one is that the computational burden becomes extremely high and the estimation acc...