The emergence of data science, in recent decades, has magnified the need for efficient methodology for analyzing data and highlighted the importance of statistical inference. Despite the tremendous progress that has been made, statistical science is still a young discipline and continues to have several different and competing paths in its approaches and its foundations. While the emergence of competing approaches is a natural progression of any scientific discipline, differences in the fo...

This volume brings together cutting-edge research from emerging and senior scholars alike representing a variety of disciplines that bears on human preferences for fairness, equity and justice. Despite predictions derived from evolutionary and economic theories that individuals will behave in the service of maximizing their own utility and survival, humans not only behave cooperatively, but in many instances, truly altruistically, giving to unrelated others at a cost to themselves. Humans ...

The ability to monitor analytes within physiological, environmental, and industrial scenarios is of prime importance in many scenarios. Chemists have striven to mimic nature’s ability to produce robust chemosensors with the capacity to detect molecules and signal their presence. The covalent coupling interaction between boronic acids and saccharides has been exploited to monitor saccharides. The boronic acid–and Lewis acid base interaction is also suitable for the capture and recognition o...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Big Scientific Data Management, BigSDM 2018, held in Beijing, Greece, in November/December 2018.The 24 full papers presented together with 7 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. The topics involved application cases in the big scientific data management, paradigms for enhancing scientific discovery through big data, data management challenges posed by big scient...

This book covers up-to-date evidence of Rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) for diagnosis of rare disease and used combined with metagenomic sequencing technique in clinical scenarios. ROSE has becoming an efficient interventional diagnostics tool and important reference for lung diseases differentiation, increasing the adequacy rate, diagnostic yield and accuracy of the interventional pulmonary procedures.ROSE has its value in the field of evaluating sampling adequacy for further immu...

Ruling Meng, the author, is an exceptional scientist from Texas Center for Superconductivity at University of Houston. This autobiography describes her colorful life in detail, with high-temperature superconductivity research as the through line from beginning to end. The book is divided in two parts. The first illustrates the fierce competition in high-temperature superconducting material research during the 80s and 90s, when many scientists worldwide were racing to find the hotte...

Based on the design theory and development experience of Beidou navigation satellite system (BDS), this book highlights the space segment and the related satellite technologies as well as satellite-ground integration design from the perspective of engineering. The satellite navigation technology in this book is divided into uplink and reception technology, broadcasting link technology, inter-satellite link technology, time-frequency system technology, navigation signal generation and asses...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications, NCAA 2024, held in Guilin, China, during July 5–7, 2024.The 89 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 227 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Neural network (NN) theory, NN-based control systems, neuro-system integration and engineering applications;...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spatial Data and Intelligence, SpatialDI 2023, held in Nanchang, China, in April 13–15, 2023.The 18 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: traffic management; visualization analysis; spatial big data analysis; spatiotemporal data mining; spatiotemporal data storage; and metaverse.

This book seeks to trace the notarial history of China from 1902 to 1979. While working on this trailblazing effort, the author taps into a rich variety of artifacts, especially the notarial documents, archived records, manuals and journals from private collection or originally issued by China’s judicial authorities during different periods. No similar book has been published so far. Many of these items are taken from old publications and notarial documents that the author purchased from g...

"You want me to help you?" The man nibbled at her earlobeIn order to reclaim the family business that had gathered the blood and sweat of her parents, she had fought among all sorts of men. He offered to make a deal. Despite knowing that this was a deal that would crush her to pieces, she had unhesitatingly become his secret lover.He fell in love with her body, but she was attracted to him, lost her heart, in the whirlpool of love deeper and deeper.As time passed, w...

"You want me to help you?" The man nibbled at her earlobeIn order to take back her parents' efforts, she had fought among all sorts of men. He had purposely offered her an olive branch for her to carry. Despite knowing that it was a business deal, she had unhesitatingly become his lover.