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This book describes the design and fabrication of novel nanostructures in III-nitride material systems. It introduces an inexpensive and ultra-efficient nanopatterning method - nanosphere lithography (NSL) - used to develop diversely functional nanostructures, including clover-shaped photonic cryst... More

Noon people eat lunch, midnight soul knocks on the door. The Yang World cannot enter, the Underworld's soul does not exist. The Eight Immortals Hotel only cared about matters that it couldn't explain.My name is Xia Siche, the fourth manager of the Eight Immortals Hotel, nicknamed "the fourth boss".T... More

A thousand years of war, two opposing empires, blood soaked the vast continent, hatred spanning endless time and space.Wearing red clothes, he had been infected with so many evils.A black umbrella was holding up a part of heaven and earth. The young generals whose wives and children were unknown, th... More

A thousand years of war, two opposing empires, blood soaked the vast continent, hatred spanning endless time and space.Wearing red clothes, he had been infected with so many evils.A black umbrella was holding up a part of heaven and earth. The young generals whose wives and children were unknown, th... More

Noon people eat lunch, midnight soul knocks on the door. The Yang World cannot enter, the Underworld's soul does not exist. The Eight Immortals Hotel only cared about matters that it couldn't explain.My name is Xia Siche, the fourth manager of the Eight Immortals Hotel, nicknamed "the fourth boss".T... More

A thousand years of war, two opposing empires, blood soaked the vast continent, hatred spanning endless time and space.Wearing red clothes, he had been infected with so many evils.A black umbrella was holding up a part of heaven and earth. The young generals whose wives and children were unknown, th... More

Noon people eat lunch, midnight soul knocks on the door. The Yang World cannot enter, the Underworld's soul does not exist. The Eight Immortals Hotel only cared about matters that it couldn't explain.My name is Xia Siche, the fourth manager of the Eight Immortals Hotel, nicknamed "the fourth boss".T... More

This book showcases how the latest and most advanced types of analytical modeling and empirical analysis can help to create value in the global supply chain. Focusing on practical relevance, it shares valuable management insights and addresses key issues in operations management (OM), demonstrating ... More

Infrastructure plays a key role in fostering growth and productivity and has been linked to improved earnings, health, and education levels for the poor. Yet Latin America and the Caribbean are currently faced with a dangerous combination of relatively low public and private infrastructure investm... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th CCF Conference on BigData 2022, which took place in Chengdu, China, in November 2022. The 8 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The topics of accepted papers include theories and met... More

Although the Latin American region's growth rates are at a three decade high, they have been historically disappointing in relative terms, which cannot be dissociated from the microeconomic environment in which firms operate. Policy makers may need to complement their focus on macroeconomic stabilit... More

This book provides readers with peer-reviewed research papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Green Technology and Sustainable Development (GTSD) held in Nha Trang City, Vietnam, from July 29 to 30, 2022. The book is original work of researchers from academia and industry focusing o... More

This book covers the latest progress in the field of transparent ceramics, emphasizing their processing as well as solid-state lasers. It consists of 10 chapters covering the synthesis, characterization and compaction, fundamentals of sintering, densification of transparent ceramics by different me... More

This original book offers a meaningful window into the lived experiences of children from immigrant families, providing a holistic, profound portrait of their literacy practices as situated within social, cultural, and political frames. Drawing on reports from five years of an ongoing longitudinal r... More

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica.   Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world i... More