Yi Li: 33 books
Reproducing Women
Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"(fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She...
Data Mashups in R
A Case Study in Real-World Data Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
How do you use R to import, manage, visualize, and analyze real-world data? With this short, hands-on tutorial, you learn how to collect online data, massage it into a reasonable form, and work with it using R facilities to interact with web servers, parse HTML and XML, and more. Rather than use canned...
Chinese in Colonial Burma
A Migrant Community in A Multiethnic State
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule. Due to the peculiar position of Burma in the British...
by Sheldon Gen, Qian Guo, Shiyuan Hao
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
China is a multiethnic country with vast territory, a land of diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China and the implementation of 'western grand development' strategy in western regions, both governments and people face great challenges in environmental protection and sustainable...
Assessment of Environmental Impact by Grocery Shopping Bags
An Eco-Functional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
This book reviews the manufacturing processes of different shopping bags used for grocery purposes, life cycle impacts, modelling of life cycle impacts, carbon and eco-footprints in different countries, consumption of shopping bags in different countries, consumer behaviour of shopping bags in various...
by Michihiro Seta, Shen-yi Li, En-yu Wang
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During the past 20 years, endometrial carcinoma has continued to increase in frequency and it is quite possible that this carcinoma will become the major gynecologic malignancy in the future. For many years, endometrial carcinoma was considered less malignant than other gynecologic malignancies, simple...
by Li Sun, Yi Yang, Serena Hao Pan
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Welcome to Beijing.
Beijing is one of the oldest and most interesting capitals in the world. A trip to Beijing is a trip to the ancient past but it is also a trip into the future. In Beijing the ancient and the modern live side-by-side with the traditional Chinese culture blending with the...
by Charles Kooperberg, James Y. Dai, Li Hsu
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Diverse methodological and statistical approaches for investigating the role of gene-environment interactions in a range of complex diseases and traits.
Findings from the Human Genome Project and from Genome-Wide Association (GWA) studies indicate that many diseases and traits manifest a more...
by Miao Li, Xiao-Dong Li, Shuang Wang;Yi Wang
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
This book introduces the current state of research on dark energy. It consists of three parts. The first part is for preliminary knowledge, including general relativity, modern cosmology, etc. The second part reviews major theoretical ideas and models of dark energy. The third part reviews some observational...
by Yi-Sui Sun, Li-Yong Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
This book provides a brief introduction to some basic but important problems in celestial mechanics, and particularly in the few-body problem, such as the permissible and forbidden region of motion, the evolution of moment of inertia of a system, and the orbital stability of asteroids in the solar...
Shu Chien
An Autobiography and Tributes at His 80th Birthday and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book celebrates Professor Shu Chien's contributions and achievements in his eight decades of learning, servicing, innovation and creation. The book is composed of tributes written by family, friends, colleagues, students, and trainees, as well as an autobiography by Professor Chien.
Professor...
by Yi Chai, Shangfu Li
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
A comprehensive exposition of the theory and techniques of fault identification and decision theory when applied to complex systems
shows how modern computer analysis and diagnostic methods might be applied to launch vehicle design, checkout, and launch
the space checkout system is a specialized...
Tu Youyou and the Discovery of Artemisinin
2015 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Nobel laureate Tu Youyou won the 2015 prize for Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy for malaria that has saved millions across the globe.
This book traces the path of discovery beginning with Chairman Mao's 1964 instruction to Chinese researchers to find a cure...
Micro-Electrode-Dot-Array Digital Microfluidic Biochips
Design Automation, Optimization, and Test Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This book provides an insightful guide to the design, testing and optimization of micro-electrode-dot-array (MEDA) digital microfluidic biochips. The authors focus on the characteristics specific for MEDA biochips, e.g., real-time sensing and advanced microfluidic operations like lamination mixing...