Transglutaminase: Fundamentals and Applications, a new volume in the Foundations and Frontiers in Enzymology series, stands as a comprehensive resource on this increasingly important class of enzymes. Following an introduction…

It addresses new concepts in connection with the kinematical element method, discontinuity kinematical element method, integrated karst cave stochastic model-limit equilibrium method, improved strength reduction method, and fracture mechanics method…

"Choose wisely Tenshi. Or else you will burn us all..." Tasked with escorting the newest addition of his family's fleet of ships - the Red Comet - to the Capitol…

Zhang Shizhao was amongst the most intellectually original and influential Chinese thinkers of the early twentieth century. This book analyzes his work to challenge typical democratic views about the origins…

Due to the increasing security and reliability demand of actual industrial process control systems, the study on fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of dynamic systems has received considerable attention.

Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the Six Great Tea Mountains of Yunnan Province. In imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or…

MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South explores the initiatives that are leveraging these flexible systems to educate, train, and empower populations previously denied access to such opportunities.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2006, held in Hong Kong, China in January 2006.