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This book focus on innovation, main objectives are to bring the community of researchers in the fields of mechanical design together; to exchange and discuss the most recent investigations, challenging problems and new trends; and to encourage the wider implementation of the advanced design technologies and tools in the world, particularly throughout China. The theme of 2021 ICMD is "e;Interdisciplinary and Design Innovation"e; and this conference is expected to provide an excellent forum for cross-fertilization of ideas so that more general, intelligent, robust and computationally economical mechanical design methods are created for multi-disciplinary applications.

China's urbanization has stunned the world in the past two decades- but as the authors of this book explain, the growth is only set to continue. The divide between urban and rural citizens in China implicates every aspect of Chinese life, from education to pollution to healthcare. In this book, one of China's most celebrated academic urbanists and a major urban planner collaborate in laying out and analyzing the problems of China's urban-rural divide, experiences of urbanization, and what the future holds. This book is a must read, not only for the accurate summaries of China's developmental experience it includes, but also for the insights it provides into the mentalities of the government officials and private developers who are creating realities on the ground in Chinese cities.

This book examines the progress in the biotechnology sector in India towards knowledge and innovation driven Bioeconomy. The chapters of the book review different genome editing techniques and the GM crops focusing on the emerging potential in agricultural biotechnology. Chapters on Vaccines and AI in healthcare unfold huge opportunities in medical biotechnology. The book covers the advances in biotechnology towards delivering important benefits of healthcare, particularly through the pharmaceutical industry focusing on new healthcare interventions and delivering innovations. Further, it explores the major opportunities in industrial biotechnology related to bio-pharma, biorefinery, fermentation biotechnology, and growing synergies between industry-academia. Toward the end, the book also reviews the genetic regulation and the critical role of HRD. In summary, the book emphasizes on India as a strong bio-manufacturing hub for innovative, affordable and accessible products for the society and also for global markets while describing the sector wise strategies required.

This book reviews key advances and new fundamentals in genetics. The increasing importance of genetic approaches in diverse areas of biology and medical sciences constantly requires in-depth information on genetic discoveries and research strategies for advanced graduate-level students as well as current researchers. This book focuses on genetic studies of various animal model systems and their major contributions to establishing modern genetics. Information covered in this book is mostly based on original research papers that extend from classical to modern genetics and applications. The contents are organized into four parts. Part I introduces fundamental concepts and experimental strategies in classical genetics. Part II discusses molecular genetics with transposons, transgenesis, clonal analysis, and gene editing technologies. Part III emphasizes epigenetic regulation of genome organization and gene expression. Part IV integrates earlier parts with landmark genetic studies on non-coding RNAs in dosage compensation, programmed cell death, growth control related to cancer, and behavioral neurobiology.

This book comprehensively reviews various feed additives and supplements that are employed for ruminant production and health. It discusses important strategies of using additives and supplements through rumen fermentation, immunomodulation, nutrient utilization, and cellular metabolism that lead to enhanced milk production, body weight gain, feed efficiency, and reproduction. The book also presents the importance of nutritional supplements such as B-vitamins, advances in mineral nutrition, role of lesser-known trace elements, protected amino acids, slow-release nitrogen and rumen buffers on performance and health of ruminants. In addition, the book explores strategies for improving environmental stewardship of ruminant production by minimizing carbon footprint associated with greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing ruminant-derived food safety through mycotoxin binders, exogenous enzymes, probiotics, flavours, biochar, ionophores, seaweeds and natural phytogenic feed additives with an emphasis on plant secondary metabolites (tannins, saponins and essential oils, etc.). It also details information on silage additives, additives and supplements employed in successful calf rearing, transition cow management as well as to ameliorate the adversity of heat stress in ruminants. Overall, the book is valuable for veterinary and animal science researchers, animal producers, nutrition specialists, veterinarians, and livestock advisors.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (IACESD 2023) hosted under the aegis of the Group of Twenty (G20) and Civil 20 (C20) at Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India. The topics covered include resilient approaches towards environmental sustainability and combating climate, study of natural hazards and their impacts, resilient infrastructure and land-use planning strategies, climate adaptation and mitigation measures, green infrastructure, coastal protection, and urban heat island reduction. This book serves as a resource material for researchers and industry professionals interested in developing solutions for sustainable and resilient infrastructure that aims for communities with Net Zero Targets.

This book covers the most recent initiatives in the Malaysian capital market. In doing so, it discusses the Leading Entrepreneur Accelerator Platform Market (LEAP Market), and Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC).With regard to the LEAP Market, the book elaborates on its inception, value proposition, governance, performance, issues, and strengths. It also compares LEAP Market with the Main and ACE Markets, and draws the experience of the Korea New Exchange (KONEX) for LEAP Market to emulate and improve its operation, showing how KONEX provides valuable lessons for Malaysia's LEAP Market, as the former has two times more listed firms than the latter. Similarly, the book also includes discussions on the inception of SPAC, its features, volumes, risk, issues, strength, life cycle and time frame of SPAC IPO, and includes case studies of the four firms listed under SPAC IPO. Put together, the book offers a compilation of facts, analysis and insights from these new market initiatives, and provides a reference for the financial market industry, regulators, market practitioners, analysts, researchers, government authorities and universities.

Economics has always been a heated research topic and green development is rising and integrating with various fields for interdisciplinary studies. Initiated in 2017, the International Conference on Economic Management and Green Development (ICEMGD) is an annual conference aiming at bringing together researchers from the fields of economics, business management, public administration, and green development for the sharing of research methods and theoretical breakthroughs. The 7th International Conference on Economic Management and Green Development (ICEMGD 2023) was held on August 6, 2023. It was a hybrid conference including several on-site workshops and an online session. The workshops were held in London, Galat¿i, Birmingham, Sydney, and Beijing.The proceedings consist of papers accepted by ICEMGD 2023, which are carefully selected and reviewed by professional reviewers from corresponding research fields and the editing committee of the conference. The papers have a diverse range of topics situated at the intersecting fields of economic management, public administration, and green development. ICEMGD is working to provide a platform for international participants from fields like macro- and microeconomics, international economics, finance, agricultural economics, health economics, business management and marketing strategies, regional development studies, social governance, and sustainable development. This proceedings volume, together with the conference, looks forward to sparking inspiration and promoting collaborations. This book will be of interest to researchers, academics, professionals, and policymakers in the fields of economic management, public administration, and development studies.

The book ¿Applied Assistive Technologies and Informatics for Students with Disabilities¿ provides a comprehensive guide to assist students with learning disabilities in higher education via modern assistive technologies and informatics. This book will take us on a tour of the various modern assistive technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, computer vision (CV), text analytics (TA), the metaverse, human-computer interaction (HCI), digital twins (DT), and federated learning (FL), and how they support higher education students with learning disabilities.This book is intended for students with learning disabilities, scientists and researchers, lecturers and teachers, academic and corporate libraries, practitioners, and professionals who are interested in providing inclusive education to students with learning disabilities through the application of modern assistive technologies and informatics. This book is ideal for readers who are new to the subject and knowledgeable about the principles of inclusive education. In addition, it is a fantastic resource for teachers and parents assisting students with learning disabilities. This book can be a powerful tool to educate more students about learning disabilities, which can help eradicate the bullying of these students.

This book has expanded classic concept of immunology. Immunoglobulins have been widely discovered to be produced by many non-B cells. The non B cell-derived Igs display multifunction, which not only includes antibody activities and cellular biological functions under physiological conditions, but also directly participate in the pathological process of malignant tumour and immune-related diseases. This book provides new perspectives and a solid foundation for medical students, basic and clinical scientists to re-understand and broaden the physiological and pathological significance of Ig.

The book is a compilation of selected papers from the 13th International Workshop of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation (IWAMA 2023), held in Shanghai University of Engineering Science, China on 15 - 16 October, 2023. Topics focusing on novel techniques for manufacturing and automation in Industry 4.0 are now vital factors for the maintenance and improvement of the economy of a nation and the quality of life. It will help academic researchers and engineers to implement the concept, theory and methods in Industry 4.0 which has been a hot topic. These proceedings will make valuable contributions to academic researchers, engineers in the industry for the challenges in the 4th industry revolution and smart factories.

The book is based on stochastic theory of sediment motion, particularly the theory of transition intensities.It provides a complete theory and equation system of non-equilibrium transport of non-uniform suspended load. The content proposed theory reports, for the first time in literature, the general boundary condition of diffusion equations of non-equilibrium transport with transition intensities. The book also introduces the theoretical expressions of size distribution of the carrying sediment capacity, efficient bed material grade, and saturation recovery coefficientThis book describes the application of non-equilibrium transport theory and provides solutions to some long-standing unsolved controversial problems related to sediment transport. It establishes a generic mathematic model of reservoir sedimentation and river channel evolution; illustrates the same transport regulars of wash load and bed material load; demonstrates the multi-valued nature of carrying-sediment capacity and its single-valued consideration; and describes the mechanism of bed material coarsening. This book is of interest to a wide audience including students, technicians, and academics, primarily working in the field of river hydra-dynamics. In addition, this book receives attention from the research community working in fields, such as hydrogeology, hydraulic engineering, river navigation, wastewater treatment, and environmental protection

Based on the classic adverse selection model, this book sets up the cyber ¿lemons¿ market model and analyzes the basic rule of asymmetric information. This book focuses on the topics as following: Is there ¿lemons¿ in e-commerce market? What rule do the cyber ¿lemons¿ characterize? How to build the cyber ¿lemon¿ market model? What is the particularity of adverse selection in cyber markets? What is more, how to eliminate or avoid the cyber ¿lemons¿ in Chinse e-commerce market?This book aims to provide the accumulation for e-commerce research and support decision-making for management in Chinese e-commerce markets, and suggests trust management solutions to eliminate or decrease the cyber ¿lemons¿. Through this book, it helps readers understand the ideas and effective methods of trust management in the Chinse e-commerce market, while deepening the reverse selection model and theory.

The book features original papers from International Conference on Cryptology & Network Security with Machine Learning (ICCNSML 2023), organized by PSIT, Kanpur, India during 27¿29 October 2023. This conference proceeding provides the understanding of core concepts of Cryptology and Network Security with ML in data communication. The book covers research papers in public key cryptography, elliptic curve cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, lattice based cryptography, non-commutative ring-based cryptography, cryptocurrency, authentication, key agreement, Hash functions, block/stream ciphers, polynomial-based cryptography, code-based cryptography, NTRU cryptosystems, security and privacy in machine learning, blockchain, IoT security, wireless security protocols, cryptanalysis, number theory, quantum computing, cryptographic aspects of network security, complexity theory, and cryptography with machine learning.

This book presents the select proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Recent Advancements of Mechanical Engineering (ICRAME 2022), which was held during 4th to 6th February 2021 at National Institute of Technology Silchar. The book entails the recent developments in different fields of mechanical engineering. The topics covered in this book include thermal engineering, design engineering, production and industrial engineering and surface engineering. The book will be useful for researchers and professionals working in the various fields of mechanical engineering.

The book includes a thorough examination of the many types of algorithms for recommender systems, as well as a comparative analysis of them. It addresses the problem of dealing with the large amounts of data generated by the recommender system. The book also includes two case studies on recommender system applications in healthcare monitoring and military surveillance. It demonstrates how to create attack-resistant and trust-centric recommender systems for sensitive data applications. This book provides a solid foundation for designing recommender systems for use in healthcare and defense.

This edited volume is focused on genomic study of tea crop. This book includes 20 chapters that cover the most relevant and hot topics in tea plant genetics and genomics. A first set of chapters includes its global economic and healthy importance, the botany and taxonomy, main quality and functional components. A second group of chapters deals with genetics, breeding and includes genetic resources, commercial breeding, genetic transformation techniques, as well as the use of marker assisted selection (QTL, GWAS). This will be followed by a set of chapters on omics, including the genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics, organelle genome, small RNA and DNA methylation. Two chapters are devoted to biotic and abiotic stresses, continued by two others more chapters focused on the SNP array, and databases for molecular design breeding. Finally, a chapter deals with future perspectives in the omics era for tea breeding.The tea plant is a cross-pollinated, self-incompatible, high heterozygosity, very large genome (~3.2 Gb) which have greatly hindered research and breeding in this crop. In the recent years, modern genetic and genomic tools have contributed to the development of significant valuable resources for the tea genetic improvement.This book is of interest to teachers, tea researchers, tea breeders and tea lovers. Also, the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, forestry, horticulture, beverage plant sciences

This book argues that digital marketing should benefit from emerging technologies to result in sustainable competitive values for businesses in both the digital and physical worlds. It not only explores digital marketing fundamentals, analysis, strategy, practices, and implementation but also explains the applications and relationships of marketing technologies (martechs) with digital marketing; as well as offers several real cases of practicing marketing technologies. It carefully describes how modern businesses offer their value propositions both digitally and physically applying emerging technologies specifically marketing technologies (martechs) and how consumers are using these new technologies particularly artificial intelligence (ChatGPT/ OpenAI). It investigates why consumers are so intrigued and interested in digital relationships, interaction, and shopping experiences. It critically examines and argues that digital marketing has become popular among businesses as they areattempting to serve their customers better by taking advantage of using digital marketing technologies (marketchs).

T¿his three-volume set constitues selected papers presented at the 18th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2023, held in Sepang, Malaysia, in December 2023. The 106 full papers and 36 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 305 submissions. They focus on a wide range of computer science topics, especially AI, data science, and engineering, and technology-based education, by addressing frontier technical and business issues essential to the applications of data science in both higher education and advancing e-Society.

This book first traces the evolution of Chinese culture, which has a triple structure. It traces back to the economic basis of the formation of Chinese culture and analyzes the pattern of the formation of Chinese civilization. The book goes deep into the level of cultural genes, explores the origin of Chinese culture, and discusses the construction of contemporary Chinese culture in combination with the general trend of historical process.Shengqian Chen is a professor and doctoral supervisor of the Department of Archaeology and Museum at the School of History, Renmin University of China. Born in Jiayu, Hubei in 1972. In 1993, he graduated from the School of Archaeology, Jilin University with a bachelor's degree. In 1996, he graduated from the Department of Archaeology of Peking University with a master's degree. In 1998, he went to the Southern Methodist University of the United States to study for a doctor's degree under Dr. Fred Wendorf, former president of Society for American Archaeology , and Dr. Lewis R. Binford, the leader of "New Archaeology". In 2004, he received a doctor's degree. His main research fields include archaeological theory, prehistoric archaeology, stone tools analysis, etc. His works include Prehistoric Modernization, Thinking Archaeology, Learning Archaeology, Human Questioning, etc., and his translations include In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archaeological Record , Archaeology: Key Concepts, Thinking Small: Global Perspectives on Microlithization, etc.