Operation Golden Light (Principles of Taiyi Golden Light Practice) is a book about meditation. It is a fresh translation of a Chinese text known in the West as The Secret of the Golden Flower.This new translation focuses on the goal of returning to the essential light of Being- something achieved ironically by doing nothing. In this translation, the translator wanted to see the book through the eyes of the original author(s), avoiding much of the philosophical, psychological and re...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Multiscale Multimodal Medical Imaging, MMMI 2022, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2022 in singapore, in September 2022.The 12 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The MMMI workshop aims to advance the state of the art in multi-scale multi-modal medical imaging, including algorithm development, implementation of methodology, and experimental studies. The papers...

This double volume set LNCS 14393-14394 constitutes the proceedings from the workshops held at the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023 Workshops, which took place in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in October 2023.The 54 full papers together with 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 123 submissions from all workshops.The papers of the workshops are presenting the topica...

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, IWACIII 2023, held in Beijing, China, in November 2023.The 56 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 118 qualifies submissions. They are organized in the topical sections on intelligent information processing; intelligent optimization and decision-making; pattern recognition and computer vision; advan...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mechanism Design in Social Networks, MNet 2024, held in conjunction with IJCAI 2024, in Jeju, South Korea, on August 4, 2024.The 5 full and 3 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. They focus on providing an internationally respected forum for scientific research tackling the fundamental challenges of mechanism design in social networks.

Hello, I\'m Shalom Min, the servant of ChristThis book records the meditation of Ephesians and can be said to contain personal God\'s revelations and macroscopic and specific God\'s savior.As many of you know, Ephesians has a very deep and wide spiritual secret hidden. It is surprising that there are many recorded spirits of wisdom and revelation that I cannot reach when I look at the river of Ephesians, which has been unleashed by the masters of faith. I thought about readin...

Hello, I\'m Shalom Min, the servant of ChristThis book records the meditation of Ephesians and can be said to contain personal God\'s revelations and macroscopic and specific God\'s savior.As many of you know, Ephesians has a very deep and wide spiritual secret hidden. It is surprising that there are many recorded spirits of wisdom and revelation that I cannot reach when I look at the river of Ephesians, which has been unleashed by the masters of faith. I thought about readin...

Presents innovative approaches towards affordable, highly efficient, and reliable sustainable energy systemsWritten by leading experts on the subject, this book provides not only a basic introduction and understanding of conventional fuel cell principle, but also an updated view of the most recent developments in this field. It focuses on the new energy conversion technologies based on both electrolyte and electrolyte-free fuel cells?from advanced novel ceria-based composite electr...

The SpringerBrief introduces FasTensor, a powerful parallel data programming model developed for big data applications. This book also provides a user's guide for installing and using FasTensor. FasTensor enables users to easily express many data analysis operations, which may come from neural networks, scientific computing, or queries from traditional database management systems (DBMS). FasTensor frees users from all underlying and tedious data management tasks, such as data partitioning,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multiscale Multimodal Medical Imaging, MMMI 2019, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2019 in Shenzhen, China, in October 2019.The 13 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The MMMI workshop aims to advance the state of the art in multi-scale multi-modal medical imaging, including algorithm development, implementation of methodology, and experimental studies. The pa...

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Multimodal Learning for Clinical Decision Support, ML-CDS 2021, held in conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021, in Strasbourg, France, in October 2021. The workshop was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 10 full papers presented at ML-CDS 2021 were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissi...

This book provides an introduction to technology-driven supply chain management in the era of Industry 4.0, focusing on resilience, responsiveness, and reliability. It covers key concepts such as the integration of advanced technologies like IoT, big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain into supply chain operations. The book explores the application of these technologies in improving supply chain efficiency, enhancing decision-making, and ensuring greater adaptability to disruptio...