Only recently have we begun to appreciate the role of microbiome in health and disease. Environmental factors and change of life style including diet significantly shape human microbiome that in turn appears to modify gut barrier function affecting nutrient & electrolyte absorption and inflammation. Approaches that can reverse the gut dysbiosis represent as reasonable and novel strategies for restoring the balance between host and microbes.In the book, we offer summary and discussi...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, ATVA 2023, held in Singapore, in October 2023. The symposium intends to promote research in theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, verification and synthesis by providing a forum for interaction between regional and international research communities and industry in related areas. The 30 regular papers presented together with 7 tool pap...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools, and Applications, SETTA 2019, held in Shanghai, China, in November 2019.The 8 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. They present cutting-edge advancements in the field of formal methods and its interoperability with software engineering and focus on the application of formal techniques and tools for building reliable...

This book describes systematically the theory and technology of the precision forming of large, complex and thin-walled superalloy castings for aircraft engines, covering all the important basic aspects of the manufacturing process, including process design, wax pattern, ceramic molds, casting and solidification, heat treatment, repair casting and dimension precision control.The correlation of casting defects, structural characteristics and performance of castings is revealed throu...

Winter is coming and the Smurfs are busy gathering food in preparation for winter's arrival, except for Lazy Smurf, who's snoozing away on a pile of hay. At night, Lazy lies awake in bed and has trouble sleeping. He heads to the forest and tries to hibernate with the squirrels, thinking it'd help him sleep better at night, but ends up snuggling next to a grizzly bear… Copyright by Peyo 2022. The audiobook is produced by Storytel Production and published by Storyside 2022.

One day, Papa Smurf is working on an important experiment in his laboratory. A loud explosion goes off and Papa turns green - from head to toe. He tries means and ways to undo the magic but nothing works. He eventually seeks the help of an old friend, the Enchanter Homnibus, who advises him to visit a hot spring called 'Skunk Spring' where the water smells terrible… Copyright by Peyo 2022. The audiobook is produced by Storytel Production and published by Storyside 2022.

Hefty Smurf seeks the help of Handy Smurf to build a smurf machine that can exercise and compete with him. All goes well until Robot Hefty defeats Hefty Smurf at a game of tennis. It all goes downhill from there. Robot Hefty quickly gains popularity with the Smurfs as he helps them with their chores and Hefty is heartbroken to see himself replaced by a robot…. Copyright by Peyo 2022. The audiobook is produced by Storytel Production and published by Storyside 2022.

This book focuses on the synthetic and overall study of the history of literary theory, history of art or history of literary critics. Firstly, it proves itself a good combination of the history of thoughts of literature as well as thoughts of art. This book manages to break the barrier barring the two categories of literature and art apart by regarding the literature and art as the expressive form of the leading artistic spirit or aesthetic taste of one period. Secondly, the book makes it...

Machine learning fundamentally learns from the past experiences (seen data) to make predictions about future (unseen data). Predictions in nature are often uncertain. Microbiome data have unique characteristics, including high-dimensionality, over-dispersion, sparsity and zero-inflation, and heterogeneity. Thus, machine learning involving microbiome data for predicting the outcome of phenotypes is even more uncertain than learning those data from other fields. Machine Learning for Micr...

This unique book officially defines microbiome statistics as a specific new field of statistics and addresses the statistical analysis of correlation, association, interaction, and composition in microbiome research. It also defines the study of the microbiome as a hypothesis-driven experimental science and describes two microbiome research themes and six unique characteristics of microbiome data, as well as investigating challenges for statistical analysis of microbiome data using the sta...

This unique book addresses the statistical modelling and analysis of microbiome data using cutting-edge R software. It includes real-world data from the authors’ research and from the public domain, and discusses the implementation of R for data analysis step by step. The data and R computer programs are publicly available, allowing readers to replicate the model development and data analysis presented in each chapter, so that these new methods can be readily applied in their own research....

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2016, held in Singapore, Singapore, in November 2016. The main topics of JIST 2016 include among others ontology and reasoning; linked data; knowledge graph. The JIST 2016 conference consists of two keynotes, a main technical track, including (full and short papers) from the research and the in-use tracks, a Poster and Demo session, a workshop and two tutorials....