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This book presents essential methods of deformation compatibility control, and explicitly addresses the implied conditions on the methods' deformation compatibility.  Consequently, these conditions can be considered in engineering structure design, while the conditions on stable equilibrium can be t... More

Papaya (Carica papaya) is an important and widely-cultivated tropical fruit, grown in more than 60 countries of the world. Global papaya production has grown significantly over the last few years, mainly as a result of increased production in India. Papaya has become an important agricultural export... More

From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death 22 years later. Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician. For most of these years, Mao was in excellent health; thus he and the doctor had time to discuss political and personal matters. Dr. Li recorded many of these conversations in his diaries, as... More

She came from an otherworldly Apricot Forest Family and was reborn into a young girl in the 21st century. She received the teachings of Shennong. From then on, a storm surged, stunning everyone in the world.... More

She came from an otherworldly Apricot Forest Family and was reborn into a young girl in the 21st century. She received the teachings of Shennong. From then on, a storm surged, stunning everyone in the world.... More

She came from an otherworldly Apricot Forest Family and was reborn into a young girl in the 21st century. She received the teachings of Shennong. From then on, a storm surged, stunning everyone in the world.... More

She came from an otherworldly Apricot Forest Family and was reborn into a young girl in the 21st century. She received the teachings of Shennong. From then on, a storm surged, stunning everyone in the world.... More

This book argues that as colonialism brought the concept of individual, as opposed to collective, land ownership to indigenous society, along with Western surveying techniques, the changes that resulted altered the relationship of the state to its citizens, and, thereby, the structure of local socie... More

Machine Learning, a vital and core area of artificial intelligence (AI), is propelling the AI field ever further and making it one of the most compelling areas of computer science research. This textbook offers a comprehensive and unbiased introduction to almost all aspects of machine learning, from... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed revised selected papers from the Second IAPR International Workshop, PSL 2013, held in Nanjing, China, in May 2013. The 10 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. Partially supervised learning is a rapid... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First CCF International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CCF-ICAI 2018, held in Jinan, China in August, 2018. The 17 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ... More

This book describes five qualitative investment decision-making methods based on the hesitant fuzzy information. They are: (1) the investment decision-making method based on the asymmetric hesitant fuzzy sigmoid preference relations, (2) the investment decision-making method based on the hesitant fu... More

A POWERFUL MEDITATION ON GIRL POWER AND SELF CONFIDENCE: The book shows young women how to embrace their power, take risks and accomplish anything they can imagine. Through the lens of JoJo'spersonal experience, she shows readers themes such as finding your passion, keeping strong in the face of ad... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of three workshops held at the 18th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2016, in Suzhou, China, in September 2016: the Second International Workshop on Web Data Mining and Applications, WDMA 2016, the First International Workshop on Graph Analytics and Q... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings at PAKDD Workshops 2015, held in conjunction with PAKDD, the 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in May 2015. The 23 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 sub... More

The three-volume set LNAI 11439, 11440, and 11441 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2019, held in Macau, China, in April 2019. The 137 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 542 ... More

The three-volume set LNAI 11439, 11440, and 11441 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2019, held in Macau, China, in April 2019. The 137 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 542 ... More

The three-volume set LNAI 11439, 11440, and 11441 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2019, held in Macau, China, in April 2019. The 137 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 542 ... More

This portable, user-friendly Thai language guide and phrasebook is the cheapest and easiest way to learn Thai before and during your trip. If you only want one Thai language book--Essential Thai is the way to go. Part of Tuttle Publishing's Essential Phrasebooks Series, it is a great first introd... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings at PAKDD Workshops 2014, held in conjunction with the 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) held in Tainan, Taiwan, in May 2014. The 73 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submiss... More

The two-volume set LNCS 9242 + 9243 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering, IScIDE 2015, held in Suzhou, China, in June 2015.   The total of 126 papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 416... More

The two-volume set LNCS 9242 + 9243 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering, IScIDE 2015, held in Suzhou, China, in June 2015.   The total of 126 papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 416... More

Making Out in Thai is a fun, accessible and thorough Thai phrase book and guide to the Thai language as it's really spoken.Dichan long nai tua khun! Ca phop kan iik muearai?--(I'm crazy about you! When can I see you again?) Answer this correctly in Thai and you may be going on a hot date. <P><P>Inc... More

This book summarizes years of research in the field of fuzzy relational programming, with a special emphasis on geometric models. It discusses the state-of-the-art in fuzzy relational geometric problems, together with key open issues that must be resolved to achieve a more efficient application of t... More

Interior Provocations: History, Theory, and Practice of Autonomous Interiors addresses the broad cultural, historical, and theoretical implications of interiors beyond their conventionally defined architectural boundaries. With provocative contributions from leading and emerging historians, theorist... More