Nobel laureate Tu Youyou won the 2015 prize for Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy for malaria that has saved millions across the globe.This book traces the path of discovery beginning with Chairman Mao's 1964 instruction to Chinese researchers to find a cure for malaria, a disease that plagued the military and civilians alike in endemic regions. It chronicles the years of painstaking research to find effective anti-malarial drugs, and how an entry in a co...

With the proliferation of GPS devices in daily life, trajectory data that records where and when people move is now readily available on a large scale. As one of the most typical representatives, it has now become widely recognized that taxi trajectory data provides rich opportunities to enable promising smart urban services. Yet, a considerable gap still exists between the raw data available, and the extraction of actionable intelligence. This gap poses fundamental challenges on how we ca...

This proceedings volume focuses on the “AI and data driven technical and management innovation in logistics, informatics and services”. In detail the included scientific papers analyze the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of logistics, informatics, service operations and service science. The proceedings volume is documentation of LISS 2024 at Cape Town and Beijing in July 26-29, 2024. It is co-organized by Beijing Jiaotong University, Henley Business School ...

This book aims to provide new research methods, theories, and applications from various areas of management and engineering. In detail, the included scientific papers analyze and describe communication processes in the fields of logistics, informatics, service sciences, and other related areas. The variety of the papers delivers added value for both scholars and practitioners. This book is the documentation of the LISS 2022 conference.

Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the firstbook to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's "Century of Humiliation" when imperialist powers dominated China's foreign policy and economy, forcing it to join global trends that included lim...

The proceeding volume focuses on the “AI and data driven technical and management innovation in logistics, informatics and services”. In detail the included scientific papers analyze the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of logistics, informatics, service operations and service science. The proceedings volume is documentation of LISS 2023 at Beijing and Hong Kong in July 26-28, 2023. It is co-organized by Beijing Jiaotong University and The Hong Kong Polytech...

The use of contextually aware, pervasive, distributed computing, and sensor networks to bridge the gap between the physical and online worlds is the basis of mobile social networking. This book shows how applications can be built to provide mobile social networking, the research issues that need to be solved to enable this vision, and how mobile social networking can be used to provide computational intelligence that will improve daily life.With contributions from the fields of soc...