A marriage contract, Xu An Yi became the bride of the official scenery.He said gently and estranged to her: "An An, you and I have to marry each other, when the matter is settled, we will get a divorce."She nodded, but bitterness spread in her heart.When the day came when the dust settled, Guan Jingyi would not be willing to let go."Stay with me!"Xu JinNian trembled as he pushed him away, "Bastard, let go of me! I'm going to look for the director!"His black eyes narrowed and his thin lips ...

This book introduces the basic theoretical knowledge of rock mechanics and its application in petroleum engineering. It covers the gamut of the formulas and calculations for petroleum engineers that have been compiled over decades, while others are meant to help guide the engineer through some of the more recent breakthroughs in the industry’s technology.The topics are introduced at a level that should give a good basic understanding of the subject:• Basic concepts of stres...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage, SpaCCS 2020, held in Nanjing, China, in December 2020.The 30 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions.The papers cover many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassi...

This book shows how federated machine learning allows multiple data owners to collaboratively train and use a shared prediction model while keeping all the local training data private. Traditional machine learning approaches need to combine all data at one location, typically a data center, which may very well violate the laws on user privacy and data confidentiality. Today, many parts of the world demand that technology companies treat user data carefully according to use...

The financial markets have become more and more important in modern society. The behavior of the financial markets, and its impacts on our society, relies crucially on the behavior of market participants, aka the investors of different types. Although descriptions of the financial markets on the macro level have caught great attentions of investors, regulators, and the ordinary people, how the market participants interact with each other in the financial market may provide deeper insights ...

This book focuses on the existing knowledge regarding the effect of global climate change on tea plant physiology, biochemistry, and metabolism as well as economic and societal aspects of the tea industry. Specifically, this book synthesizes recent advances in the physiological and molecular mechanisms of the responses of tea plants to various abiotic and biotic stressors including high temperature, low temperature or freezing, drought, low light, UV radiation, elevated CO2, ozone, nutrien...

This book aims to reveal the dynamic mechanism of China's economic system innovation. It measures the efficiency of China’s economic growth under the New Normal with the tools of DEA, SFA, and PCA. The book analyzes the contribution of capital, labor, and productivity to China's economic growth by Solow residual value method and the power source of China's economic development under the New Normal. In this book, it adopts the vertical integration of logical thinking, combined with the hori...

In this monograph, the graphene-based field-effect transistor (FET) biosensors are shown to be an emerging sensing platform. Divided into two parts the first set of chapters are devoted to basic knowledge of graphene, graphene FET and its biosensing. In the second part of this book the applications of graphene FET biosensors combined with various biotechnologies are presented. As well as discussing the existing technologies the authors also introduce their own ideas and concepts. Finally t...

In this book, the theory and technology of the design, construction, and operation of offshore wind farms are systematically introduced. In terms of design of offshore wind farms, the characteristics, measurement and assessment of wind resources, macro-siting, micro-siting, electrical system design, foundation structure design of offshore wind turbine units and booster stations, and technical, economic, and environmental impact analysis are introduced; In terms of construction, the transpo...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Chinese Conference on Trusted Computing and Information Security, CTCIS 2019, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2019.The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 247 submissions. The papers are centered around cryptography, systems security, trusted computing, information security, network security, information hiding.

Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy of Biological Materials facilitates a comprehensive and through understanding of the latest developments in vibrational spectroscopy. It contains explains key breakthroughs in the methodologies and techniques for infrared, near-infrared, and Raman spectroscopy. Topics include qualitative and quantitative analysis, bi

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...