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. ...

A great nation has a great dream; a great country has a great dream. China’s dream is to build a society of common prosperity and a world in which all people live together in peace and harmony.This book provides predictions up to 2030 regarding the future major developments and trends of both China and the world in general from a historical and worldwide perspective. This book spells out the dreams of all mankind in the pursuit of common prosperity. It also offers China’s vision an...

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...

This book is a compilation of the selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Building And Simulation (BAS2025). The work focuses on the progress of climate neutral districts and cities, including urban energy systems, sustainable building design, urban climate and smart city simulations and community engagement and replicability of climate-neutral solutions. This book deeply filters available information to map the practical needs for development of climate neutral districts ...

A major objective of this monograph is to identify the impact of thermal environment on urban center district. It provides in-depth evaluation and research on the correlation between urban spatial morphology indicator and urban thermal environment. In addition, the distribution characteristics of thermal environment and urban morphology units sample are also evaluated intensively. Furthermore, it analyses from three aspects of urban planning, architecture and landscape respectively and inc...

This book systematizes recent research work on variable-structure control. It is self-contained, presenting necessary mathematical preliminaries so that the theoretical developments can be easily understood by a broad readership.The text begins with an introduction to the fundamental ideas of variable-structure control pertinent to their application in complex nonlinear systems. In the core of the book, the authors lay out an approach, suitable for a large class of systems, that de...

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...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2021, which took place in Melbourne, Australia, in October 2021.The 16 full papers and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: COVID-19, EEG data processing, Medical Data Analysis, Medical Record Mining (I), Medical Data Mining (II), Medical Data Processing.

Written by two leading researchers from the world-renowned Japan Atomic Energy Agency, the Nuclear Hydrogen Production Handbook is an unrivalled overview of current and future prospects for the effective production of hydrogen via nuclear energy. Combining information from scholarly analyses, industrial data, references, and other resources, this h

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the International Conference for Smart Health, ICSH 2019, held in Shenzhen, China, in July 2019.The 34 full papers and 1 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. In this book a lively exchange and collaborations between the growing international smart health research scholars and communities has been introduced, and to advance our understanding about the technical, practi...

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world's steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the ...

This two-volume set LNCS 12962 and 12963 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop, BrainLes 2021, as well as the RSNA-ASNR-MICCAI Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge, the Federated Tumor Segmentation (FeTS) Challenge, the Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation (CrossMoDA) Challenge, and the challenge on Quantification of Uncertainties in Biomedical Image Quantification (QUBIQ). These were held jointly at the 23rd Medical Image Co...