This handbook provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference for the field, covering all membrane proteins that impact human health and disease. It illustrates their vital importance in controlling the properties of various cells; mediating responses to sensory stimuli, such as light, soun[...]
Wax Deposition: Experimental Characterizations, Theoretical Modeling, and Field Practices covers the entire spectrum of knowledge on wax deposition. The book delivers a detailed description of the thermodynamic and transport theories for wax deposition modeling as well as a comprehensive review of l[...]
Serving as a guide to the Quality of Service (QoS) techniques, this title addresses the Internet's special challenges. It focuses on the four main areas of Internet QoS: integrated services, differentiated services, MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching), and traffic engineering.[...]
The Pocket Atlas of Pulse Diagnosis unravels the mystery of pulse diagnosis. Detailed explanations of the 28 individual pulses are presented, along with simple diagrams that vividly illustrate how the different pulses should "feel" like under the fingers at each level of palpation.[...]
The life story of Zheng He, the great Ming Dynasty Chinese naval commander who led the world's biggest fleet of ships, bringing peaceful trade to countries throughout Asia and Africa.[...]
For students and practitioners of Chinese medicine, one of the more difficult diagnostic methods to learn and master is pulse diagnosis. Successful transmission of this knowledge and skill requires the description of what is felt through palpation -- something that often evades the comprehension of [...]
The papers presented in this volume advance the state-of-the-art research on social media and Web 2.0, electronic tourism marketing, website development and evaluation, search engine marketing and optimization, IT adoption and diffusion, virtual travel communities, mobile technologies, management in[...]
This succinct book focuses on computer aided design (CAD), 3-D modeling, and engineering analysis and the ways they can be applied effectively in research and industrial sectors including aerospace, defense, automotive, and consumer products. These efficient tools, deployed for R&D in the laboratory[...]
This book is the first attempt to conceptualize China's central-local relations from the behavioral perspective. Although China does not have a federalist system of government, the author believes that, with deepening reform and openness, China's central-local relations is increasingly functioning o[...]
In 1736, the mathematician Euler invented graph theory while solving the Konigsberg seven-bridge problem. Over 200 years later, graph theory remains the skeleton content of discrete mathematics, which serves as a theoretical basis for computer science and network information science. This book intro[...]
This book covers a wide range of subjects in applying machine learning approaches for bioinformatics projects. The book succeeds on two key unique features. First, it introduces the most widely used machine learning approaches in bioinformatics and discusses, with evaluations from real case studies,[...]
This book is the first of its kind to treat high-frequency trading and technical analysis as accurate sciences. The authors reveal how to build trading algorithms of high-frequency trading and obtain stable statistical arbitrage from the financial market in detail. The authors' arguments are based o[...]