This book offers the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the origins and development of China’s genealogy, as well as its fundamental role in eugenics, ethics, politics and culture throughout China’s history.This book is divided into two parts: chronological research and thematic research. The first part explains the definition, origin, birth, development, transformation, optimization, popularization and contemporary status of China’s genealogy, while the second addr...

The cadmium (Cd) contamination has raised increasingly global concern on food safety. The book was composed to bring comprehensive and valuable thoughts about the food safety management against heavy metal contamination. In this book, current status of cadmium contamination in agricultural soils and crops is systematically summarized. In order to reduce the risk of Cd pollution in crops, Cd pollution-safe cultivar (Cd-PSC) strategy, i.e. identifying, breeding and applying the cultivars wit...

This book introduces a unique 3D printing method that prints metal parts by ejecting metal micro-droplets: a low-cost, contactless, and environmentally friendly 3D printing technology. This book follows a deductive approach to describe the fundamentals of metal droplet-based 3D printing and reveal the relationships and unique features among multiple specific techniques used in droplet-based 3D printing. It starts with a general description of the principles and techniques involved in this ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Blockchain – ICBC 2024, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2024, held in Bangkok, Thailand, during November 16–19, 2024.The 9 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. These papers discussed the latest fundamental advances in the state-of-the-art technologies and best practices of blockchain, as well as emerging standards and research t...

This SpringerBrief presents spatio-temporal data analytics for wind energy integration using stochastic modeling and optimization methods. It explores techniques for efficiently integrating renewable energy generation into bulk power grids. The operational challenges of wind, and its variability are carefully examined. A spatio-temporal analysis approach enables the authors to develop Markov-chain-based short-term forecasts of wind farm power generation. To deal with the wind ramp dynamics...

Resonance Self-Shielding Calculation Methods in Nuclear Reactors presents the latest progress in resonance self-shielding methods for both deterministic and Mote Carlo methods, including key advances over the last decade such as high-fidelity resonance treatment, resonance interference effect and multi-group equivalence. As the demand for high-fidelity resonance self-shielding treatment is increasing due to the rapid development of advanced nuclear reactor concepts and progression in high ...

New image-processing tools and data-processing network systems have considerably increased the volume of transmitted information such as 2D and 3D images with high resolution. Thus, more complex networks and long processing times become necessary, and high image quality and transmission speeds are requested for an increasing number of applications. To satisfy these two requests, several, either numerical or optical solutions, were offered separately. Advanced Secure Optical Image Proce...

Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and how the countries have dealt with the expansion of the world, as a consequence of the world market. The other angle is the social and economic consequences of globalization for agricultural and r...

A boy with the weakest crest.A fist that should never reach the dragon.A labyrinth that will devour the capital if no one breaks it first.Kairi Elnoate is twelve years old when the world tells him exactly what he is worth.His Form Crest is the weakest kind, a dull fist-mark that barely produces power. In a kingdom where Gates decide rank, wealth, and survival, that means one thing: Kairi is not meant to stand ...

In Sephiroad, every person receives a blessing, a sacred power that determines status, talent, and future.Io Renalt receives none.Instead, he awakens as a cursed sigilist, a hated class believed to bring corruption and ruin. Branded dangerous by the Church and rejected by society, Io expects his life to end in disgrace.But when a blessing meant to save his sister begins to destroy her from within, Io discovers the truth: curses are not evil. They are the forgotten p...

The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services provides an overview of Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES), which are the nonmaterial aspects of benefits that people derive from nature. These diverse and multifaceted contributions can include experiences, capabilities, and identities, among others. The Handbook addresses how these CES are valued, how they reflect human-nonhuman relationships, and what roles they can play in improved human well-being, ecosystem management, and...

He was the greatest sword saint of his age—until betrayal sent him falling into death.He should have died at Duanku Cliff. Instead, he wakes in the frail body of Su Lin, a lowly menial disciple in Qingxiu Sect, a mountain sect already collapsing under debt, sabotage, and quiet enemies on every road.His old skill remains. His old body does not.With broken meridians, a weak chest, and no status worth naming, Su Lin must rebuild his strength from the bottom while hidin...