Homology Effects offers contributions from an international panel of researchers whose aim has been both to introduce newcomers to the field of homology effects, and to bring colleagues up to date. Topic coverage includes dosage compensation, X-inactivation, imprinting, paramutation, homology-dependent gene silencing, transvection, pairing-sensitive silencing, nuclear organization of chromosomes, DNA repair, quelling, RIP, RNAi and antisense biology, homology effects in ciliates, prion bio...

Epilogue/Joy Wu, February 2021Sometime after Dad moved back to Taiwan in 2010, he told me he was going to pen an autobiography. My immediate, knee-jerk, typical daughter reply was, "Why? Who cares?" Yes, this sounds quite disrespectful. Dad and I are similar in our manner of communication. We are both frank and to the point, often unaware of the impact of our frankness, until too late. I went on to explain to him my comment, hoping he had not been offended. "Dad what is so very spe...

Planetary health involves complex spatial–temporal interactions among agents, hosts, and earth environment. Due to rapid technical development of geomatics, including geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) in the era of big data analytics, therefore, earth data analytics has become one of the important approaches for monitoring earth surface process and measuring of the effects of environment changes on all humans and other living organisms on earth. Various methods i...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning, ICITL 2019, held in Tromsø, Norway, in December 2019.The 85 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: application and design of innovative learning software; artificial intelligence and data mining in education; augmented and virtu...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First International Symposium, SETE 2016, held in conjunction with ICWL 2016, Rome, Italy, in October 2016.The 81 revised papers, 59 full and 22 short ones, were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submission. They cover latest findings in various areas, such as emerging technologies for open access to education and learning; emerging technologies supported personalized and adaptive learning; emergi...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning, ICITL 2018, held in Portoroz, Slovenia, in August 2018.The 66 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Augmented and Virtual Reality in Education; Collaborative Learning; Design and Framework of Learning Systems; Instruction...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning, ICITL 2020, held in Porto, Portugal, in November 2020.The 65 full papers presented together with 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Augmented and Virtual Reality in Education; Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics; Emerging Issues and Trends in Educat...

The Healing Chamber is an invitation to slow down, breathe, and return to yourself as you enter a sanctuary of reflection, restoration, and personal clarity. Structured around a series of symbolic rooms, the book guides readers through compassionate spaces designed to support emotional healing, self-understanding, and inner renewal. From The Doorway and The Still Room to The Release Room, The Mirror Room, and The Open Door, each room offers a place to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the...

You’re Healed: The Transformative Journey Within is a compassionate companion for anyone seeking peace, renewal, and emotional clarity. Blending heartfelt storytelling with practical tools, this book offers gentle guidance through life’s most challenging seasons—grief, change, self-doubt, and the search for meaning. Through relatable stories, reflective exercises, and simple mindfulness practices, readers are invited to pause, reconnect with themselves, and rediscover the strength that alr...

Discipline is not about being harsh. It is about being reliable.In The Hard Teacher: A Discipline of Self-Mastery, Dr. Jin Wu Goh Chin Ting examines what it means to live with integrity. Self-mastery, this book argues, is built through daily decisions — not through motivation or emotion, but through steady consistency.The chapters explore simple but demanding truths: keep your word, finish what you start, control your reactions, do what needs to be done even when you do not...

Functional Thin Films Technology features the functional aspects of thin films, such as their application in solar selective absorbers, fiber lasers, solid oxide fuel cells, piezo-related areas, catalysts, superhydrophobicity, semiconductors, and trace pesticides detection. It highlights developments and advances in the preparation, characterization, and applications of functional micro-/nano-scaled films and coatings.This bookPresents technologies aimed at ...

This book is an up-to-date text covering topics in utilizing hydrogen bonding for constructing functional architectures and supramolecular materials. The first chapter addresses the control of photo-induced electron and energy transfer. The second chapter summarizes the formation of nano-porous materials. The following two chapters introduce self-assembled gels, many of which exhibit unique functions. Other chapters cover the advances in supramolecular liquid crystals and the versatility o...