Learn how to capture the beauty and freshness of this exquisite style of painting using step-by-step demonstrations and evocative and inspirational pictures.Cheng Yan captures all the freshness and spontaneity of Chinese brush painting in this beautiful, inspiring guide. Using step-by-step photographs and his own evocative pictures, he teaches all the techniques needed to paint animals, birds, fish and insects. Learn how to create atmosphere in landscapes and trans...

Senior investigators internationally have here collaborated to produce an international reference work. Each contributor provides critical and thought provoking concepts and ideas based on the latest developments in their field. The result is a must read and timely reference work for investigators who are interested in how spermatogenesis is currently understood and which are the most promising avenues for future research; an Introduction sets the context for the chapter and points out the...

This book bridges the gap of basic research in male reproductive biology and its relationship to clinical studies. Bringing together a group of senior investigators with decades of experience in research and clinical investigation and keen interest in collaboration between the two areas, this book provides a balanced treatment of technical and basic research insights and cutting-edge findings, while introducing new ideas for clinical applications of this research.Section I is devot...

Often, we meet the person we want to live with for the rest of our lives before we have learnt how to love. In order to realise her dream of music, a young girl, Rebecca Murray, who came to the city to work hard, was cheated for renting an apartment and became acquainted with her landlord Victor Lloyd. The opening plot of the novel is very attractive, sleeping Rebecca met "lothario" into the room, and drunken "lothario" was pulled down the stairs, sleeping in the hallway, it looks very fun...

Often, we meet the person we want to live with for the rest of our lives before we have learnt how to love. In order to realise her dream of music, a young girl, Rebecca Murray, who came to the city to work hard, was cheated for renting an apartment and became acquainted with her landlord Victor Lloyd. The opening plot of the novel is very attractive, sleeping Rebecca met “lothario” into the room, and drunken "lothario" was pulled down the stairs, sleeping in the hallway, it looks very fun...

This book comprehensively and systematically explores the basic theory of industrial culture, putting forward its system structure, expounding its evolution history, unearthing its functional value, and analyzing industrial soft power, industrial spirit, national resources, national industrial images, and industrial culture as an industry. With an aim to reveal the complex relationship between industrial culture and economic development, it has provided new concepts, visions, and paths for...

The rapid advancements in materials science are transforming the biomedical engineering and medical fields, leading to innovations like polymers, nanoparticles, biomaterials, and metal ions that hold great promise for drug delivery, tissue engineering, and diagnostic imaging. These materials offer groundbreaking potential but raise important concerns about their toxicity and biocompatibility, which must be addressed to ensure their safe integration into medical applications. Understanding ...

This book mainly focuses on two topics:• The early warning system of the metro structural safety, which includes the monitoring system and inspection system;• The treatment technology for the tunnel disease.In the discussion of the early warning system, several advanced sensing technologies were introduced, which could easily and rapidly detect the potential diseases of the tunnel lining structure. Meanwhile, in the discussion of the treatment technology for the str...

A girl remembers her grandfather fondly in this heartwarming, comforting picture book about coping with loss.The memories of a beloved grandpa bring sadness but also solace to the young girl in this glowing and nourishing book. We see the close and lively relationship they shared and all the ways she has been enriched by knowing him—the ways he will always be there for her. This book is just right for starting necessary conversations about grief, and for paying tri...

Grandmother’s purse is filled with the magic of memories and the joy of her Chinese culture in this warm and lively read-aloud, illustrated in dreamy pastels.A young girl is just where she wants to be, next to her grandma in the back seat of the car as her family heads out on a day trip. She knows there are always delightful surprises inside Ama’s purse. Sure enough, out come all sorts of special items, one after another as the trip continues: a compact that frees ...

There has been a surging interest in developing systems for analyzing big graphs generated by real applications, such as online social networks and knowledge graphs. This book aims to help readers get familiar with the computation models of various graph processing systems with minimal time investment.This book is organized into three parts, addressing three popular computation models for big graph analytics: think-like-a-vertex, think-likea- graph, and think-like-a-matrix. While v...

This book provides energy efficiency quantitative analysis and optimal methods for discrete manufacturing systems from the perspective of global optimization. In order to analyze and optimize energy efficiency for discrete manufacturing systems, it uses real-time access to energy consumption information and models of the energy consumption, and constructs an energy efficiency quantitative index system. Based on the rough set and analytic hierarchy process, it also proposes a principal comp...