“li ern chen”

Revised and updated by residents and faculty of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, this edition provides concise guidelines and algorithms for diagnosis and management of surgical diseases. The books pocket size and user-friendly outline format ensure fast access to inf... More

This book is a study of the actors and institutions that shaped decision-making on privatization in the Russian oil industry between 1992 and 2006. Li-Chen analyzes the origins of privatization as a policy on a macro, industry-wide level, as well as presenting three in-depth case studies of privatiz... More

As the construction industry changes the need for the effective incorporation of environmental considerations has become widely accepted. It is now being enforced effectively in many countries. Large numbers of construction managers can find value in adopting quantitative approach to environmental m... More

The Java Embedded Server(TM) from Sun Microsystems, Inc., is a solution for linking consumer devices with services over the Internet. It is based on the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) Service Gateway Specification 1.0. Written by authors who are intimately involved with the development and ... More

In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, she argues that these plays served a mainly religious function during the Qing dynasty and that the appeal of women warrior char... More

In the early 1990s, the establishment of the Internet brought forth a revolutionary viewpoint of information storage, distribution, and processing: the World Wide Web is becoming an enormous and expanding distributed digital library. Along with the development of the Web, image indexing and retrieva... More

"A Concise yet Solid Introduction to Advanced Numerical Methods" This textbook introduces several major numerical methods for solving various partial differential equations (PDEs) in science and engineering, including elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations. It covers traditional techniques th... More

An active robot system can change its visual parameters in an intentional manner and perform its sensing actions purposefully. A general vision task thus can be performed in an efficient way by means of strategic control of the perception process. The controllable processes include 3D active sensing... More