An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for tradeThe King’s Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a commercial one. Tracing the arduous journeys of diplomatic envoys, Xin Wen presents a rich social history of long-distance travel that played out in deserts, post stations, palace...

Many of the polymers we use every day are highly flammable. Historically, a large number of home fires were caused by ignited polymeric materials until legislation was introduced requiring fire retardants to be added to these materials. Fire retardants increase the time it takes for materials to ignite, providing valuable time to prevent a fire or escape. However, it has become apparent that many of the traditional treatments used as fire retardants are harmful to human health and highly p...

The book examines the relationship between imperial examinations and literature from the perspective of restoring the cultural ecology of imperial examinations in Ming China, breaking through the paradigm of pure literature research. This book presents an important practice in adjusting the pattern of literary research. The contents of this book include five mutually independent but supportive parts: 1) the living conditions and careers of the literary attendants; 2) the educational backgr...

This two-volume set, CCIS 2315 and CCIS 2316, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Frontiers in Cyber Security, FCS 2024 held in Chongqing, China, during July 26–28, 2024.The 47 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Machine Learning and Differential Privacy; Federated Learning; Privacy-Preserving Ser...

This two-volume set, CCIS 2315 and CCIS 2316, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Frontiers in Cyber Security, FCS 2024 held in Chongqing, China, during July 26–28, 2024.The 47 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Machine Learning and Differential Privacy; Federated Learning; Privacy-Preserving Ser...

This book presents the latest developments regarding a detailed mobile agent-enabled anomaly detection and verification system for resource constrained sensor networks; a number of algorithms on multi-aspect anomaly detection in sensor networks; several algorithms on mobile agent transmission optimization in resource constrained sensor networks; an algorithm on mobile agent-enabled in situ verification of anomalous sensor nodes; a detailed Petri Net-based formal modeling and analysis of th...

This two-volume set LNICST 304-305 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 15thInternational Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2019, held in Orlando, FL, USA, in October 2019.The 38 full and 18 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on blockchains, internet of things, machine learning, everything traffic security communicating covertly, let’s talk privacy, ...

This two-volume set LNICST 304-305 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 15thInternational Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2019, held in Orlando, FL, USA, in October 2019.The 38 full and 18 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on blockchains, internet of things, machine learning, everything traffic security communicating covertly, let’s talk privacy, ...

Since the first edition of the book “Gynecologic and Obstetric Pathology” was published in July 2019, the knowledge base of gynecologic and obstetric pathology advances very rapidly, especially in the areas of ancillary testing and classification of tumors. In addition, the publication of the WHO classification of Tumors of the Female Genital tract in 2020 introduced many changes in terminology, new variants of tumors and ancillary testing schema with several older entities were reclassifi...

Endometrial cancer remains the most frequent gynaecological cancer in first world countries.This bench book on endometrial pathology distils the current literature to provide a practical text on endometrial pathology. Differential diagnosis is emphasised, and the clinical correlates of pathology are also stressed to make this a clinically useful book.Fully updated and including over 400 colour images, this book provides a valuable resource for the practising pathologist in general and comm...

This proceedings volume features reviews and original research papers that contribute to the advanced interdisciplinary studies of theories, technologies, and strategies in terahertz (THz) science and technology. Topics covered include THz sensing, detection and sources, communications, and biophysical research. The THz spectrum is crucial for applications such as body security checks, non-destructive sensing, bio-imaging, and bio-medicine. It overlaps with the characteristic fingerprints ...

Go in-depth with this comprehensive discussion of distributed energy managementDistributed Energy Management of Electrical Power Systems provides the most complete analysis of fully distributed control approaches and their applications for electric power systems available today. Authored by four respected leaders in the field, the book covers the technical aspects of control, operation management, and optimization of electric power systems.In each ...