Neurophotonics and Biomedical Spectroscopy addresses the novel state-of-the-art work in non-invasive optical spectroscopic methods that detect the onset and progression of diseases and other conditions, including pre-malignancy, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, tissue and cell response to therapeutic intervention, unintended injury and laser energy deposition. The book then highlights research in neurophotonics that investigates single and multi-photon excitation optical signatures of normal/d...

The use of light for probing and imaging biomedical media is promising for the development of safe, noninvasive, and inexpensive clinical imaging modalities with diagnostic ability. The advent of ultrafast lasers has enabled applications of nonlinear optical processes, which allow deeper imaging in biological tissues with higher spatial resolution. This book provides an overview of emerging novel optical imaging techniques, Gaussian beam optics, light scattering, nonlinear optics, and nonl...

Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape provides a cultural history of queer representations in Chinese-language film and media, negotiated by locally produced knowledge, local cultural agency, and lived histories. Incorporating a wide range of materials in both English and Chinese, this interdisciplinary project investigates the processes through which Chinese tongzhi/queer imaginaries are articulated, focusing on four main themes: the Chinese fa...

Overcome challenges in building transactional guarantees on rapidly changing data by using Apache Hudi. With this practical guide, data engineers, data architects, and software architects will discover how to seamlessly build an interoperable lakehouse from disparate data sources and deliver faster insights using your query engine of choice.Authors Shiyan Xu, Prashant Wason, Bhavani Sudha Saktheeswaran, and Rebecca Bilbro provide practical examples and insights to help you unlock t...

The Three Kingdoms, a foremost Chinese historical novel, has exemplified famous enactments in military strategies:Leave one side of the net openLure the tiger out of the mountainMurder with a borrowed knifeChain the enemy with a fleet of boatsSuch stratagems are also depicted in the award-winning movie production Red Cliff, which celebrates the ingenuity of the strategist Zhuge Liang against the schemes and wiles of commander Cao C...

The subject of this book is the fast-developing area of research known as metamaterials/metasurfaces and some of their engineering applications. This book comprehensively presents the state of the art of metamaterials/metasurfaces from theory to applications. The theoretical side includes electrodynamics of left-handed medium, generalized Snell's law, digital coding metamaterials/metasurfaces, group theory of metamaterials, information metamaterials and metasurfaces, etc. On the applicatio...

This is the first book devoted to mobility management, covering the important principles, technologies and applications of mobility management based on years of academic research and industry experiences. The content is organized according to the reference models proposed by the authors, and emphasizes on technical principles rather than protocol details; a systematic and comprehensive introduction is presented yet without losing focuses; the existing technologies in cellular system, mobil...

An Yu opens the Black Book and discovers that his companions' death records have been crossed out a full hundred times. Every alteration is accompanied by a bizarre collapse of the laws of time in reality. The old order has just perished, and the Time Hunters lurking in the shadows are already tailing him like phantoms. They do not kill; they merely erase existence.To survive, An Yu tries to piece together the true motives of the Time Hunters, only to realize that the deeper he dig...

An Yu sat in the back row, letting his classmates splash cold water onto his disabled legs while the entire class mocked the destitute transfer student with no background. No one knew that as the school bell rang, the Black Book in his pocket was recording a sacrifice spanning five hundred years. To reverse the fate of a ghost sect master who had bitterly waited for his lover, An Yu had just turned the hands of destiny in twisted time and space, forcibly erasing that doomed tragic ending a...

Blood from his slit wrists mixes into the freezing seawater as Chen Guo, driven to drop out and slit his wrists by the campus bully Lan Zhuolin, steps deeper into the abyss of despair. Years of family oppression obsessed solely with grades and endless school bullying have long trampled his dignity into the mud, making even death his only escape.Just as his soul is about to be devoured by the abyss, a cruel dark baptism forcibly tears apart his battered mind. Amidst the endless ruin...

The Time Emporium trades lifetimes, memories and chances to change fate.Every visitor comes for a wish.Every wish comes with a price.When a grieving young man strikes a deal to bring back someone he lost,he uncovers the shop’s buried truth.The merchant who sells time is trapped by time himself.No bargain can break the eternal rule: nothing is for nothing.

As the last grain of sand slipped through the black hourglass in the antique shop, Adam, clutching the bloodied dagger that had pierced his lover's chest, purchased a one-way ticket twenty thousand years into the past.He tried to alter history caught between a brutal queen and a vampire count, hoping to rescue his deceased lover from a clan-annihilation crisis, only to find his temporal flow completely misaligned with the era; even a single warning about the future would bring a de...