This open access book takes the common bedding rock slopes in engineering practice of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area as the research object. The book adopts a research system of in-site investigation, equipment development, experimental exploration, theoretical construction and numerical development, with detailed information, rich content and evidence-based arguments. The relevant research achievements can lay a theoretical foundation and provide scientific basis for solving the key scie...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Computation and Systems, ICCCS 2025, held in Chengdu, China, November 22–23, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 199 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cognitive computing and Multimodal information processingPart II: Intelligent robotics

This book is the scientific summary of the authors treatment experience on oncology surgery during his 50 years of oncology surgical practice and of the author's research achievement during his 20 years of animal cancer experimentation and clinical research. The book is divided into 38 chapters in which the author demonstrates innovative concepts of cancer therapy including a new cognition of cancer etiology and pathogenesis, new concepts and methods of cancer therapy and anti-cancer metas...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing: Knowledge Graph Empowers the Digital Economy, CCKS 2022, in Qinhuangdao, China, August 24–27, 2022.The 15 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: knowledge representation and reasoning; knowledge acquisition and knowledge base construction; lin...

Immunotherapy has the potential to literally end cancer as we know it, noted Vice President Joe Biden, who came to the Johns Hopkins in late April in 2016. We are excited about cancer immunotherapy is the excellent way to help the cancer patients to live longer and to have better quality of life because Dr. Xu Ze in China has been working on oncology immunotherapy more than decades. How did Dr. Xu Ze figure out all of these new concepts and new ideas of cancer treatment, especially immunot...

This book is the scientific summary of the authors fifty years of experience in tumor surgery and more than twenty years of cancer research results and clinical validation. The book is divided into three sections and fifteen chapters. The first chapter, Pathfinder, starts from the beginning of the experimental study, which introduced how to explore the etiology and pathogenesis of cancer and learned the new revelation from these and had the new discoveries and new knowledge. In section or ...

In the half century after the Second World War, oncology has developed greatly both in the world and in China. There are three traditional major treatments: surgery, which has been used to treat tumors for more than a hundred years; radiotherapy, which has been used for ninety years; and chemotherapy, which has been used for nearly seventy years. In the 1980s, there was the rise of biological therapy and immunotherapy. The effects of oncological therapy have made a lot of progress. Many tu...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 17th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2018, which took place in Santa Clara, CA, USA, in December 2018.The purpose of WeB is to provide an open forum for e-Business researchers and practitioners world-wide, to share topical research findings, explore novel ideas, discuss success stories and lessons learned, map out major challenges, and collectively chart future directions for e-Business. The WeB 2018 theme was “The Ecosystem of e-Bu...

Ecological modelling has developed rapidly in recent decades, with the focus primarily on the restoration of lakes and wetlands. Ecological Modelling and Engineering in Lakes and Wetlands presents the progress being made in modelling for a wealth of applications. It covers the older biogeochemical models still in use today, structurally dynamic models, 3D models, biophysical models, entire watershed models, and ecotoxicological models, as well as the expansion of modeling to the Arctic and...

Against the bleak backdrop of pressing issues in today’s world, civil societies remain vibrant, animated by people’s belief that they should and can solve such issues and build a better society. Their imagination of a good society, their understanding of their engagement, and the ways they choose to act constitute the cultural aspect of civil society.Central to this cultural aspect of civil society is the “culture of democracy,” including normative values, individual interpretation...

**Working in a Chinese tea garden is hard work, but it's rewarding when it’s done with family in this 2026 Batchelder Honor Book.This day-in-the-life picture book for 5-9-year-olds engages the senses as it centers around family and working together while celebrating Chinese culture.**A young boy and his brother travel with their parents up the mountainside to their tea garden for a day of work.They delight in the animals they see, compete to see who can pick the mos...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Computation and Systems, ICCCS 2025, held in Chengdu, China, November 22–23, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 199 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cognitive computing and Multimodal information processingPart II: Intelligent robotics