The contribution of renewable energy offshore to the total energy production is increasing, as is the interest in this topic. Innovations in Renewable Energies Offshore includes the papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore (RENEW 2024, 19-21 November, 2024, Lisbon, Portugal), and aims to contribute to the knowledge about the developments and experience obtained in concept development, design and operation of such devices. The cont...

This book constitutes the papers presented at the Evaluation Track of the 8th China Conference on Health Information Processing, CHIP 2022, held in Hangzhou, China during October 21–23, 2022.The 20 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: text mining for gene-disease association semantic; medical causal entity and relation extraction; medical decision tree extraction from unstruct...

This book includes 35 vertigo cases, which covers typical cases, difficult cases and rare cases from the department of otorhinolaryngology, neurology, emergency department, geriatrics, ophthalmology, and other disciplines. In each case, it has uniform structure, which includes summary of medical records, case study and case view.This book starts from peripheral vertigo, which is the most common vertigo disease, and belong to vestibular vertigo. It also covers non-vestibular vertigo...

As a doctor who has been treating patients for a few decades, Dr Zhong Nanshan's goal is to help people have a deeper understanding of the importance of health and their current sub-health status. In this book, Dr Zhong highlights five fundamental elements focusing on the key to a healthy life. He leads us to gain control of our health and lead a better lifestyle.As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, an increasing number of people are beginning to realise how crucial it is to have a health...

This volume is a collection of the contributions to the 15th National Conference on Nuclear Structure in China (NSC2014), held on October 25-28, 2014 in Guilin, China and hosted by Guangxi Normal University. It provides an important updated resource in the nuclear physics literature for researchers and graduate students studying nuclear structure and related topics. Recent progress made in the study of nuclear spectroscopy of high-spin states, nuclear mass and half-life, nuclear astrophysi...

Since the notorious terrorist attack of the World Trade Center in 2001, researchers and engineers have been forced to review the existing research works and standards in resisting the progressive collapse of structures. From then on, the design of structure against progressive collapse has tended toward quantitative design, rather than qualitative design. The collapse of the COVID-19 epidemic isolation hotel in Quanzhou, China, in 2020 and the vertical collapse of a 12-story apartment in F...

“This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th CCF Conference on BigData 2024, which took place in Qingdao, China, in August 2024” to “This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th CCF Conference on BigData 2024, which took place in Qingdao, China, during 9-11 August, 2024.The 26 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 219 submissions. The topics of accepted papers include Big data, Data Science, System Architecture a...

The three-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2025, held in Xuzhou, China, during October 31–November 2, 2025.The 138 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 420 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computer vision, pattern Recognition, Rendering, Image manipulation, Graphics systems and inter...

The five-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2025, held in Xuzhou, China, during October 31–November 2, 2025.

Composed by a specialist in the field, Jian Liu, with contributions from a number of scientists and optical specialists, Elliptical Mirrors: Applications in microscopy discusses the importance of the elliptical mirror; the third solution in far-field optical imaging after parabolic reflectors and lenses for which apodization factors were established in 1921 and 1959 respectively. Elliptical mirrors are a new and novel technique within the world of optics and can be applied to indu...

Advanced, recent developments in biochips and medical imagingBiochips and Medical Imaging is designed as a professional resource, covering recent biochip and medical imaging developments. Within the text, the authors encourage uniting aspects of engineering, biology, and medicine to facilitate advancements in the field of molecular diagnostics and imaging.Biochips are microchips for efficiently screening biological analytes. This book aims at prese...

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 8th China Conference on China Health Information Processing Conference 2022 held in Hangzhou, China from August 26–28, 2022.The 14 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 35 submissions. The papers in the volume are organised according to the following topical headings: healthcare natural language processing;healthcare data mining and applications