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  • Refusing the Affairs of the Human World - A Novel

    by Liu Yan Chang Ning ...
    A literary fantasy novel about Zhang Yaowei, a disciplined cultivator, and Jin Zhan'er, a fox spirit whose forced shared-fate bond becomes the beginning of a journey through ghosts, demons, local gods, underworld law, old hatred, forbidden arts, resurrection, and a final battle against an ancient rage. Blending xianxia atmosphere, supernatural romance, ghost-story mystery, and mythic conflict, the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • 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

    $71.99 CAD

  • 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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  • 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

    $70.99 CAD

  • 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

    $131.99 CAD

  • 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

    $100.99 CAD

  • Federated Learning

    by Qiang Yang, Yang Liu, Yong Cheng, Yan Kang, Tianjian Chen, Han Yu ...
    Series series Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    This book shows how federated machine learning allows multiple data owners to collaboratively train and use a shared prediction model while keeping all the local training data private. Traditional machine learning approaches need to combine all data at one location, typically a data center, which may very well violate the laws on user privacy and data confidentiality. Today, many parts of the ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Musings on Leadership

    Life lessons to help you thrive as a leader

    by Tor Mesoy, Yan Liu, Qian Lucy ...
    Tired of reading leadership literature with grandiose promises and complex models? Disillusioned by all the hype? Ready to glean inspiration for your leadership from the many examples all around us, in our daily lives?In Musings on Leadership we share anecdotes from daily life and reflect on what they mean for us as leaders. We have found that if our eyes and ears are open, there are great ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Withdrawal of Correspondent Banking Relationships

    A Case for Policy Action

    by Michaela Erbenova, Yan Liu, Nadim Kyriakos-Saad, Aledjandro Lopez Mejia, Jose Giancarlo Gasha, Emmanuel Mathias, Mohamed Norat, Francisca Fernando, Yasmin Almeida ...
    This paper focuses on the withdrawal of correspondent banking relationships (CBRs) in some jurisdictions post-global financial crisis. It describes existing evidence and consequences of the withdrawal of CBRs and explores drivers of this phenomenon drawing on recent surveys and select country information. While the withdrawal of CBRs has reached a critical level in some affected countries, which ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • 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

    $86.99 CAD

  • Robust Formation Control for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    by Hao Liu, Deyuan Liu, Yan Wan, Kimon Valavanis, Frank Lewis ...
    Series series Automation and Control Engineering
    This book is based on the authors’ recent research results on formation control problems, including time-varying formation, communication delays, fault-tolerant formation for multiple UAV systems with highly nonlinear and coupled, parameter uncertainties, and external disturbances.Differentiating from existing works, this book presents a robust optimal formation approach to designing distributed ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Chinese Economy

    Edited by Hongbing Ouyang, Yaqing Liu, Xiaofeng Zhao ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The original version of this book is a bilingual book for international students and overseas readers, which is included in the “Introduction to China’s S&T Innovation”, a project funded by the Hubei Provincial Public Welfare Academic Publication Special Funds in 2024.The book consists of 14 chapters. Based on the introduction of the historical foundation and natural conditions of China's economic ... Read more

    $280.99 CAD