Blood from his slit wrists mixes into the freezing seawater as Chen Guo, driven to drop out and slit his wrists by the campus bully Lan Zhuolin, steps deeper into the abyss of despair. Years of family oppression obsessed solely with grades and endless school bullying have long trampled his dignity into the mud, making even death his only escape.Just as his soul is about to be devoured by the abyss, a cruel dark baptism forcibly tears apart his battered mind. Amidst the endless ruin...

The Chinese higher education sector is an area subject to increasing attention from an international perspective. Written by authors centrally located within the education system in China, Development and Reform of Higher Education in China highlights not only the development of different aspects of higher education, but also the reform of the education system and its role in the educational and social development of the country. This book analyses recently collected data from the National...

Neurophotonics and Biomedical Spectroscopy addresses the novel state-of-the-art work in non-invasive optical spectroscopic methods that detect the onset and progression of diseases and other conditions, including pre-malignancy, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, tissue and cell response to therapeutic intervention, unintended injury and laser energy deposition. The book then highlights research in neurophotonics that investigates single and multi-photon excitation optical signatures of normal/d...

Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the firstbook to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's "Century of Humiliation" when imperialist powers dominated China's foreign policy and economy, forcing it to join global trends that included lim...

This book features interdisciplinary of agricultural engineering and precision agriculture, focusing on real-time variable-rate fertilization (VRF) based on crop phenotypic biological information. It systematically presents cutting-edge research on intelligent sensing, inversion modeling, actuator optimization, and practical system validation. Key scientific methods include hybrid neural network models (such as LFA-PSO-MLP), discrete element modeling (DEM), and deep learning-based flow det...

A major objective of this monograph is to identify the impact of thermal environment on urban center district. It provides in-depth evaluation and research on the correlation between urban spatial morphology indicator and urban thermal environment. In addition, the distribution characteristics of thermal environment and urban morphology units sample are also evaluated intensively. Furthermore, it analyses from three aspects of urban planning, architecture and landscape respectively and inc...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, ADHOCNETS 2018, held in Cairns, Australia, in September 2018. The 27 full papers were selected from 50 submissions and cover a variety of network paradigms including mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, vehicular networks, underwater networks, airborne networks, underground networks, personal area networks, device-to-device (D2D) communications in 5G cellular networks, and home netwo...

Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape provides a cultural history of queer representations in Chinese-language film and media, negotiated by locally produced knowledge, local cultural agency, and lived histories. Incorporating a wide range of materials in both English and Chinese, this interdisciplinary project investigates the processes through which Chinese tongzhi/queer imaginaries are articulated, focusing on four main themes: the Chinese fa...

Overcome challenges in building transactional guarantees on rapidly changing data by using Apache Hudi. With this practical guide, data engineers, data architects, and software architects will discover how to seamlessly build an interoperable lakehouse from disparate data sources and deliver faster insights using your query engine of choice.Authors Shiyan Xu, Prashant Wason, Bhavani Sudha Saktheeswaran, and Rebecca Bilbro provide practical examples and insights to help you unlock t...

The Three Kingdoms, a foremost Chinese historical novel, has exemplified famous enactments in military strategies:Leave one side of the net openLure the tiger out of the mountainMurder with a borrowed knifeChain the enemy with a fleet of boatsSuch stratagems are also depicted in the award-winning movie production Red Cliff, which celebrates the ingenuity of the strategist Zhuge Liang against the schemes and wiles of commander Cao C...

An Yu opens the Black Book and discovers that his companions' death records have been crossed out a full hundred times. Every alteration is accompanied by a bizarre collapse of the laws of time in reality. The old order has just perished, and the Time Hunters lurking in the shadows are already tailing him like phantoms. They do not kill; they merely erase existence.To survive, An Yu tries to piece together the true motives of the Time Hunters, only to realize that the deeper he dig...

An Yu sat in the back row, letting his classmates splash cold water onto his disabled legs while the entire class mocked the destitute transfer student with no background. No one knew that as the school bell rang, the Black Book in his pocket was recording a sacrifice spanning five hundred years. To reverse the fate of a ghost sect master who had bitterly waited for his lover, An Yu had just turned the hands of destiny in twisted time and space, forcibly erasing that doomed tragic ending a...