Explore constitutive modeling from fundamental theory through cutting-edge AI applicationsConstitutive Models of Solid Materials: From Mechanical Principles to Engineering Applications provides researchers and engineers with comprehensive methods to predict material responses under complex loading conditions. Written by internationally recognized experts in materials mechanics and computational methods, this systematic treatment connects rigorous theoretic...

This book reviews the latest advances in the development of silicon nano-biotechnology for biological and biomedical applications, which include biosensing, bioimaging, and cancer therapy. In this book, newly developed silicon nano-biotechnology and its biomedical applications are systematically introduced. For instance, fluorescent silicon nanoparticles, serving as novel high-performance biological nanoprobes, are superbly suited to real-time and long-term bioimaging. Silicon nanowire-bas...

This book deals with hyperspectral image classification using graph neural network methods, focusing on classification model designing, graph information dissemination, and graph construction. In the book, various graph neural network based classifiers have been proposed for hyperspectral image classification to improve the classification accuracy. This book has promoted the application of graph neural network in hyperspectral image classification, providing reference for remote sensing im...

This book demonstrates the power of mathematical thinking in understanding the biological complexity that exists within the brain. It looks at the latest research on modelling of biochemical pathways within synapses, and provides a clear background for the study of mathematical models related to systems biology. Discussion then focusses on developments in computational models based on networks linked to synaptic plasticity. The models are used to understand memory formation and impairment ...

This book contains research papers focusing on recent advances throughout the world in theories and technologies of geotechnical engineering and the relevant disciplines. Topics includes: numerical modeling, earthquake engineering, geomaterial application in soil improvement and geo-environmental engineering, foundation engineering, and geo-environmental engineering.. Papers were selected from the 5th GeoChina International Conference 2018 – Civil Infrastructures Confronting Severe Weather...

An anthology of visionary new stories from Chinese and English-language writers, featuring three Hugo Award-nominated tales. If you love the mission of science fiction, the exchange between cultures, and the hopeful trajectory of technology and ideas, this collection is for you.An impressive joint project, this outstanding new anthology brings the best of Chinese and English-language science fiction in a mediation on the theme of Exploration in Space. New, emerging...

This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege a Western ideal. Rather, this collection seeks to broaden our ideas about children, childhood, and the child’s place in the global community. This collection features a wide variety of contribut...

China in the Era of Social Media discusses how social media is changing the world in an unprecedented way through speed, scope, and depth. In the last decade or so, social media in China has witnessed the most explosive growth in the world. Being the most populous nation in the world, it has the most social media users in the world as well. This book examines the current situation and unique characteristics of Chinese social media, the significance of social media in the country’s...

"Mo Yan has lived two lives, but in her second life, it was only her first time marrying someone. She had never thought that she would fall in love with someone else, much less a man from another time and place … But when she actually met him, she realized that love had come, and she had fallen in love with this man called Chu Chen Yi. She originally didn't have much to rely on in this world, but suddenly, she had a husband and children."

He had been kind enough to bring a bullied fool home, but instead of staying for the night, he stayed for the night instead. He was a child and a man, and she was lost and struggling. Just as she was beginning to accept this unusual feeling, on New Year's Eve, he suddenly disappeared from sight in the noisy street. When he saw her again, he was already the MT president.The man handed over the cheque and spoke with an aloof and noble expression. "Thank you for takin...

A veterinary student, Hallelujah Tendo is an honest person whom everybody calls “the angel of the veterinary faculty.” One day, he helps a mysterious creature with bat-like wings, but it turns out to be the super cranky demon, Lucif! Lucif has been purged from the heaven by the angel Micha, with the succubus seed implanted inside his body. Touched by Hallelujah, he is instantly turned on and from the extreme hunger, orders Hallelujah to “Put your semen...inside of me now.” Unable to grasp ...

By the trick of Baal Belial, Hallelujah is involved in a traffic accident and seriously injured. To make him keep alive, Lucif makes the deal with Micha and goes back to Heaven. The Succubus Seed disappears but Lucif can not stop thinking about affairs with Hallelujah. On the other hand, Hallelujah recovers miraculously but seems to have lost his memory about Lucif. Back in everyday life same as before, he sometimes feels that something is missing. Something important... Two other stories ...