The Age of Silver advances a "horizontal" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the Age of Silver, Ning Ma emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental ...

Over the last 15 years, the application of innovative steel concepts in the automotive industry has increased steadily. Numerical simulation technology of hot forming of high-strength steel allows engineers to modify the formability of hot forming steel metals and to optimize die design schemes. Theories, Methods and Numerical Technology of Sheet Metal Cold and Hot Forming focuses on hot and cold forming theories, numerical methods, relative simulation and experiment techniques fo...

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Planar linkages play a very important role in mechanical engineering. As the simplest closed chain mechanisms, planar four-bar linkages are widely used in mechanical engineering, civil engineering and aerospace engineering.Design of Special Planar Linkages proposes a uniform design theory for planar four-bar linkages. The merit of the method proposed in this book is that it allows engineers to directly obtain accurate results when there are such solutions for the specified...

Comprehensive, systematic review of advances in key CRISPR/Cas technologies, such as TALENS and zinc finger nucleases, double-strand break repair techniques, insertion-based genome edits, base editing, guide RNAs, gRNA/Cas9 constructs and CRISPR/Cas off targetingCovers both techniques and their practical application to particular cereal and other cropsDiscusses challenges in regulating this emerging technology

The energy demands of contemporary society mandate the urgent development and commercialisation of a ‘post-Li-ion battery’. Metal anodes are an important piece of this puzzle. This research and reference text discusses the role of metal electrodes in batteries in detail. Introducing the fundamental theoretical properties of metal anodes, the book surveys the history and prospects of the field, covering a wide range of metals, including Li, Na, K, Mg, Al, Zn, Ge, Sn, Sb and Bi. The first bo...

This book presents the proceedings from the Third International Workshop on Generalizing from Limited Resources in the Open World (GLOW) 2025 held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2025, in Montreal, Canada, during August 16-22, 2025.The 12 full papers in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. These papers focus on the academic exploration of efficient methodologies within the realm of artificial in...

Ein geheimnisvoller Meteor, dessen Erscheinen die Welt in Panik versetzte, stürzt in der Nähe von Japan in die tiefen und unsicheren Wasser des Ozeans und löst überall Angst und Neugier aus. In der exotischen Atmosphäre des indischen Subkontinents richten die berühmtesten Wissenschaftler der Welt ein Laboratorium ein. Wird es ihnen gelingen, mit den vorhandenen Steinproben die Rätsel um den Meteor zu lösen? Oder ist eine Reise von 10.000 Metern in die Tiefen des Ozeans unvermeidbar? Wieder...

Wir schreiben die Zwanziger Jahre. In der Sternwarte Michigan wird die tägliche Routine unterbrochen, als sich ein mysteriöses Objekt gigantischen Ausmaßes in beängstigender Weise der Erde nähert. Hektische Aktivität macht sich breit. Die Lage ist gespannt. Ist das Weltende nahe? Nicht nur in der Weltmetropole New York herrscht Panik. Mit unheilvollen Nachrichten wird bald die ganze Welt in Angst und Schrecken versetzt; die Börse wird manipuliert. Wissenschaftler versuchen, alle Kräfte geg...

This book provides a thorough overview of the Wisdom Web of Things (W2T), a holistic framework for computing and intelligence in an emerging hyper-world with a social-cyber-physical space. Fast-evolving Web intelligence research and development initiatives are now moving toward understanding the multifaceted nature of intelligence and incorporating it at the Web scale in a ubiquitous environment with data, connection and service explosion. The book focuses on the framework and methodology ...