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  • Healing with Poisons

    Potent Medicines in Medieval China

    by Yan Liu ...
    **Winner of the 2023 William H. Welch Medal, sponsored by the American Association for the History of MedicineA revealing study of risky cures in classical Chinese pharmacy**At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics ... Read more

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  • 传承中文 Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners

    Stories about Us

    by Yan Liu, Jingjing Ji, Grace Wu, Min-Min Liang ...
    Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners aims to serve as a stepping-stone for Chinese heritage language learners’ future Chinese learning, inspiring them to reflect on their identities, learn Chinese American history, and embrace their cultural heritage.The book starts with talking about individuals and families and then expands to the Chinese and Asian American communities in the U.S. and ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Empirical Likelihood and Quantile Methods for Time Series

    Efficiency, Robustness, Optimality, and Prediction

    by Yan Liu, Fumiya Akashi, Masanobu Taniguchi ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book integrates the fundamentals of asymptotic theory of statistical inference for time series under nonstandard settings, e.g., infinite variance processes, not only from the point of view of efficiency but also from that of robustness and optimality by minimizing prediction error. This is the first book to consider the generalized empirical likelihood applied to time series models in ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Practical Applications of Bayesian Reliability

    by Yan Liu, Athula I. Abeyratne ...
    Series series Quality and Reliability Engineering Series
    Demonstrates how to solve reliability problems using practical applications of Bayesian modelsThis self-contained reference provides fundamental knowledge of Bayesian reliability and utilizes numerous examples to show how Bayesian models can solve real life reliability problems. It teaches engineers and scientists exactly what Bayesian analysis is, what its benefits are, and how they can apply the ... Read more

    $105.00 USD

  • Modelling Urban Development with Geographical Information Systems and Cellular Automata

    by Yan Liu ...
    Urban development and migration from rural to urban areas are impacting prime agricultural land and natural landscapes, particularly in the less developed countries. These phenomena will persist and require serious study by those monitoring global environmental change. To address this need, various models have been devised to analyze urbanization a ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Woven Arch Bridge

    Histories of Constructional Thoughts

    by LIU Yan ...
    Series series China Perspectives
    This book focuses on the woven arch bridge, an arch-shaped structure that is one of the most extraordinary timber building traditions of the world. The woven arch bridge exists widely in different cultures and its specific nature is conceptualized by the author as a kind of “universal uniqueness,” challenging widespread viewpoints on its origin and genealogy.Taking this argument as its main thread ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Law’s Impunity

    Responsibility and the Modern Private Military Company

    by Professor Hin-Yan Liu ...
    Series series Studies in International Law
    When faced with those who act with impunity, we seek the protection of law. We rely upon the legal system for justice, from international human rights law that establishes common standards of protection, to international criminal law that spearheads efforts to end impunity for the most heinous atrocities. While legal processes are perceived to combat impunity, and despite the ready availability of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Holographic Duality in Condensed Matter Physics

    by Jan Zaanen, Yan Liu, Ya-Wen Sun, Koenraad Schalm ...
    A pioneering treatise presenting how the new mathematical techniques of holographic duality unify seemingly unrelated fields of physics. This innovative development morphs quantum field theory, general relativity and the renormalisation group into a single computational framework and this book is the first to bring together a wide range of research in this rapidly developing field. Set within the ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval

    by Tie-Yan Liu ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Due to the fast growth of the Web and the difficulties in finding desired information, efficient and effective information retrieval systems have become more important than ever, and the search engine has become an essential tool for many people.The ranker, a central component in every search engine, is responsible for the matching between processed queries and indexed documents. Because of its ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science and Engineering in China

    Proceedings of IFToMM CCMMS 2024, Volume 2

    Edited by Yan Chen, Lujiang Liu, Xinjun Liu, Haitao Liu, Ming Li, Tao Sun ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book collects selected papers of the 24th IFToMM China International Conference on Mechanism and Machine Science and Engineering (CCMMS 2024). CCMMS was initiated in 1982, and it is the most important forum held in China for exchange of research ideas, presentation of technical and scientific achievements, and discussion of future directions in the field of mechanism and machine science. The ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • Proceedings of the Vortex Workshop

    VW2023, December 11-13, San Diego, USA

    Edited by Yiqian Wang, Chaoqun Liu, Yan Li ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Written by the leading experts in the field, this book results from Vortex Workshop 2023 which took place in San Diego, the USA, on December 11–13.Vortex is ubiquitous in the universe such as tornado, hurricane, airplane tip vortex, and even star vortex in Galaxy. Vortices are also building blocks, muscles, and sinews of turbulent flows. A vortex is intuitively recognized as a rotational/swirling ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

  • Representation Learning for Natural Language Processing

    Edited by Zhiyuan Liu, Yankai Lin, Maosong Sun ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book provides an overview of the recent advances in representation learning theory, algorithms, and applications for natural language processing (NLP), ranging from word embeddings to pre-trained language models. It is divided into four parts. Part I presents the representation learning techniques for multiple language entries, including words, sentences and documents, as well as pre-training ... Read more

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