Invisible Labour in Modern Science is about the people who are concealed, eclipsed, or anonymised in accounts of scientific research. Many scientific workers—including translators, activists, archivists, technicians, curators, and ethics review boards—are absent in publications and omitted from stories of discovery. Scientific reports are often held to ideals of transparency, yet they are the result of careful judgments about what (and what not) to reveal. Professional scientists ...

Over the last few decades there has been growing recognition of the importance of a peaceful and stable South China Sea for Indo-Pacific security and development, a recognition that has been underlain, paradoxically, by the increasingly precarious situation in this body of water that straddles critical shipping lanes from the Indian to the Pacific Ocean. This book informs its readership of the most recent developments in the South China Sea with insightful and prescient analyses from both ...

Compared with average climate changes, climate extremes which are considered as low-probability events have greater impacts on natural and social systems due to their suddenness, unpredictability and strong destructiveness. Located in the typical arid–semiarid climate transition zone, the Mongolian Plateau, dominated by herbage animal husbandry, is greatly affected by climate extremes, and its ecosystem is extremely fragile. In the context of global warming, the spatial-temporal variation ...

This first manual (of three) provides a spiritual foundation from which you, the reader, can progress and grow on your spiritual path—which no longer can be differentiated from everyday life. For most, their spiritual life and their everyday lives have merged.Originally written as a manual to accompany Li Lan's workshops, chapters include topics on how to "Claim Your Power", follow "Cosmic Etiquette" and practice "Spiritual Hygiene". She takes the seeking student one step further b...

We generate and draw stuff (energies, emotions, thought-forms, etc...) to us every day, and our physical body holds the total sum of everything we as individuals have ever experienced from any and all lifetimes.The more stuff we hold in our body, the greater chance there is for energy waves to latch on - following the Universal Law of 'Like attracts Like'. And this is then why you want to clear the body of the so-called 'negative', lower-density, vibrational energies. The less ther...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2025, held in Wuhan, China, during August 15–17, 2025.The 9 full papers were presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. This conference focuses on the deep integration of large language models with classic retrieval paradigms.

This book scrutinizes the role of Hong Kong in the expansive, and contested, vision of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).In two main parts, it first discusses the defining features of the BRI and the evolving expectations of the role of Hong Kong in the BRI from the perspectives of policy makers and the professional sectors of accountancy-finance and the law. The second part contemplates the potential opportunities for Hong Kong from the perspectives of recipient countries-Sri...

Letters from Home to WuhanBy: Compiled by Zhao Nianmin, Li Haiyan and Lan Chuanbin; Translated by Sun HongshanEver since the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is the most serious public health emergency. Then the virus spread rapidly in this country, inspiring terror in people. To ward off a greater calamity, 1,775 doctors and nurses in 12 batches from Shandong went to the epidemic-stricken Hubei at the call of duty. Brave an...

This book starts from the development status of remote sensing image intelligent interpretation and application technology. It systematically introduces the main progress of this field and its application, focusing on remote sensing image intelligent quality improvement, intelligent expansion and sample augmentation, object detection, fine-grained target recognition, semantic segmentation, multimodal remote sensing image joint intelligent interpretation as well as intelligent interpretatio...

Heterogeneous Catalysis for Sustainable EnergyExplore the state-of-the-art in heterogeneous catalysisIn Heterogeneous Catalysis for Sustainable Energy, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive and cutting-edge treatment of recent advancements in energy-related catalytic reactions and processes in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. The book includes extensive coverage of the hydrogen economy, methane activatio...

This book systemically presents the latest research on renal fibrosis, covering all the major topics in the field, including the possible mechanisms, biomarkers, and strategies for prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Due to its high prevalence, CKD represents a huge global economic and social burden. Irrespective of the initial causes, CKD progresses to end stage kidney disease (ESKD) due to renal fibrosis, which is characterized by glomerulosclerosis, tubule atrophy ...

Each time we incarnate, we receive a new body (our hardware) and we write down and agree on a new Soul Contract (our software).And by following this analogy even further, our computer's hardware is loaded with programs, each of which is designed to carry out certain functions; but over time (incarnations), we are constantly adding, updating and deleting various software programs (soul contracts items). We even add old software to new hardware, operating alongside much newer softwar...