Slapped by nobles forcing a marriage while his beloved weeps blood for rescue, boss Wang Feng is merely a bottom-tier Martial King. In a brutal world teeming with Great Emperors, a Martial King isn't even qualified to sit at the table. The lofty native overlords treat him as an ant to be crushed at will, wantonly trampling his limits and carving up his enterprise.With no room to retreat, he flips the table. Exhausting his wealth to activate the system, Wang Feng tears through the v...

Overview of a technique for trapping and manipulation of micro and nanoparticles with light, sound, temperature gradients, and electric fieldsOptoelectronic Tweezers for Manipulation at the Micro and Nano Scale takes readers on a journey to explore the fascinating world of Optoelectronic Tweezers (OET) and their applications in micro- and nano-scale manipulation. Starting from the evolution of nanotechnology, this book delves into the development of optica...

This book introduces new techniques for cellular image feature extraction, pattern recognition and classification. The authors use the antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) in patient serum as the subjects and the Indirect Immunofluorescence (IIF) technique as the imaging protocol to illustrate the applications of the described methods. Throughout the book, the authors provide evaluations for the proposed methods on two publicly available human epithelial (HEp-2) cell datasets: ICPR2012 dataset fr...

Soybean (Glycine max L. (Merr)) is one of the most important crops worldwide. Soybean seeds are vital for both protein meal and vegetable oil. Soybean was domesticated in China, and since last 4-5 decades it has become one of the most widely grown crops around the globe. The crop is grown on an anticipated 6% of the world’s arable land, and since the 1970s, the area in soybean production has the highest percentage increase compared to any other major crop. It is a major crop in the United ...

This book provides a comprehensive research on the financial development characteristics of the Zhuhai-Macao city cluster in the integration of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. Focusing on the positioning of Zhuhai and Macao in Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the book examines the financial cooperation path of Zhuhai to support the synergistic development of Macao's special financial markets, industries and institutions. This cooperation path use...

Micro- and Nano-Bionic Surfaces: Biomimetics, Interface Energy Field Effects, and Applications synthesizes the latest research in bio-inspired surfaces and devices for tactile and flow field perception. The book provides solutions to common problems related to flow field/tactile perception, intelligent MEMS sensors, smart materials, material removal methods, cell/particle control methods, and micro-nano robot technology. With a heavy emphasis on applications throughout, the book starts by ...

This book incorporates both practice-based information and research to underpin teachers' emotions in the teaching and learning settings of second language (L2) writing, in the Chinese tertiary educational context. It introduces and validates a new conceptual framework for evaluating the causes and effects of the emotions of L2 writing teachers and investigates their emotional experiences in the context of the classroom. Additionally, it demonstrates the mediating effect of emotion-regulat...

Wang Feng, with zero cultivation, was publicly forced by the sect's chief to surrender a treasure, denied even the right to refuse. In a world respecting only fists, lacking cultivation is the original sin, reducing one to a Good-for-Nothing manipulated by top forces. Yet, hidden in his mind is a system that appraises all things and summons ancient heroes. While mocked as useless, he secretly used the system to amass massive resources, awakening the souls of ancient family ancestors from t...

Wang Feng's summoning panel, his only lifeline, had been frozen at ninety-nine percent for three whole days, while in the shadows behind him, the killing intent of three top-tier experts was silently closing in.He had originally stepped into this ancient graveyard seeking a way to break the deadlock, but a location update error caused him and his famed generals to fall into the forbidden breeding zone, strictly off-limits to the living. The rules of survival here were extremely twi...

Wang Feng watched his Invincible Merchant Guild headquarters bathed in blood by high-level experts of rival clans. His loyal War Generals lay crippled, and his beloved, possessing a special physique, was about to be claimed as a cultivation furnace by a titan of the Demon Sky Continent. Dismissed as a Good-for-Nothing guild master who merely relied on subordinates, he lacked the right to draw his sword, swallowing bitter humiliation among the corpses.Pushed to ultimate fury by his ...

This book offers a dynamic introduction to the new developments on national security review of foreign direct investment (FDI) from the perspectives of both domestic law and international investment law. COVID-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have intensified FDI screening to an unprecedented scale, yet its purposes, scope and potential impact remain ambiguous and controversial. The book first attests the legitimacy of FDI screening by using the theory of National Security Constituti...

Bringing together work from established and emerging scholars and practitioners from around the world, this collection expands existing scholarship on cinemas of the Sinosphere by revealing forgotten and emerging aspects of film history.Organised chronologically, individual chapters cover geographic regions of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan to engage with key issues of film history and screen politics that are overlooked by the traditional canon of Chinese cinema. Tackling k...