A guide to the ancient art of Qi Gong by a modern master.Qi Gong for Total Wellness is a clear, illustrated guide to Qi Gong, the ancient self-healing art that combines breathing, posture, movement, and visualization to build vitality and improve health. Taoist master and medical doctor Baolin Wu presents, for the first time in the West, the complete nine Palaces Solar Qi Gong system. This one-thousand-year-old discipline from the White Cloud Monastery of ...

A renowned Feng Shui practitioner discusses his technique in this special guide, sharing secrets of the Taoist tradition.Today the art of Feng Shui, once shrouded in secrecy and superstition, is taking on new life as a powerful, practical method for enhancing one's career, health and personal growth. Unfortunately, these techniques, as taught in the U.S.A., tend to be filled with incomplete, incorrect and unnecessarily complex information.Now Dr. Baolin Wu,...

Following the first and second quantum revolutions, quantum information theory has expanded beyond the field of physics into numerous other interdisciplinary areas. This book provides a comprehensive philosophical exploration of quantum mechanics and quantum information.The author examines key concepts such as quantum reality, quantum entanglement, quantum information, the quantum world, quantum computing, and quantum matter, while also extending quantum mechanical theory to encomp...

Preventive Diplomacy (PD) has been recognized as a useful tool to address security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. To explore a PD mode compatible with the regional situation step by step on the basis of consensus has become the common will of the regional countries. Since the region is facing various new challenges, this requires innovation in theories and practices of PD. Focusing on the practice of preventive diplomacy, this book conducts empirical and comparative studies on the appl...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering, TASE 2025, held in Limassol, Cyprus, during July 14–16, 2025.The 20 full papers, 1 short paper, 2 invited papers were carefully selected from 66 submissions.The papers present the latest developments in formal and theoretical software engineering methods and techniques.They are grouped in topical sections on program verification; verificati...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, ATVA 2022, held in Beiging, China in October 2022. The symposium is dedicated to promoting research in theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, verification and synthesis by providing an international venue for the researchers to present new results. The 21 regular papers presented together with 5 tool papers and 1 invited paper were care...

This book reflects how the concern regarding the effects of radiation exposure in patients and health personnel involved in cardiac electrophysiology (EP) has inspired new developments in cardiac electrophysiology procedures without the use of fluoroscopy. This innovative method has become a subspecialty within electrophysioloy with several EP laboratories around the world adopting an exclusive non-fluoroscopy approach. It features guidance on how to use three dimensional (3D) navigation s...

This collection of papers comprises over ten papers published in recent years, with topics on new phenomena, new problems, new thinking, and new views in the fields of “barrier-free communication”, “new technologies and new media”, “Internet and society”, etc. They present and reflect on the new developments and new trends of current Chinese media research from different aspects, and to a certain extent outline and depict the landscape of the accelerating informatization of the Chinese soc...

One of the good friends: clownfish and sea anemoneThe relationship between clownfish and sea anemone is a typical mutualistic symbiotic relationship. They depend on each other and cooperate with each other to provide protection and food for each other.Clownfish are very small tropical fish that usually live in sea anemones near coral reefs or rocks. They have some mucus on their bodies that protects them from the anemone's sting, so they can swim freely around the anemone w...

Due to the tremendous accumulation of data for genetic markers, pharmacogenomics, the study of the functions and interactions of all genes in the overall variability of drug response, is one of the hottest areas of research in biomedical science. Statistical and Computational Pharmacogenomics presents recent developments in statistical metho

This is an open access book. 2022 2nd International Conference on Education, Information Management and Service Science (EIMSS 2022）was held on July 22–24, 2022 in Changsha, China. EIMSS 2022 is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Education, Information Management and Service Science to a common forum. The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Education, Information Management and Service Science and ...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the principles and applications of immunotherapy and radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer. It covers the basic concepts of immunotherapy, immunology, radiation physics, radiobiology, and tumor biology, as well as their clinical aspects, such as patient selection, treatment planning, delivery techniques, toxicity management, outcome evaluation, and neoadjuvant approaches. The book also discusses the current challenges and future directions i...