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“A page-turning account of not only international geopolitics, sisterhood, and familial triumph, but also a portrait of humanity at its…
best.” —Deepak ChopraOn March 17, 2009, while filming a documentary on the Chinese-North Korean border, Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee were violently apprehended by North Korean soldiers, charged with trespassing and “hostile acts,” and imprisoned by Kim Jong Il’s notoriously secretive Communist state. Kept totally apart, they endured months of interrogations and a trial before North Korea’s highest court that led to a sentence of twelve years of hard labor in a North Korean prison camp.When news of the arrest reached Laura’s sister, journalist Lisa Ling, she immediately began a campaign to get Laura released. Her efforts led her from the State Department to the higher echelons of the media world and eventually to the White House. Lisa takes us deep into the drama between people in the highest levels of government, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, and eventually former President Bill Clinton, who arrived in North Korea in mid-August for a suspenseful rescue.Somewhere Inside is a timely, inspiring, and page-turning tale of survival set against the canvas of international politics. Writing with their strong, poignant voices, both sisters go beyond the headlines to reveal the unique bond that has sustained them throughout the most horrifying ordeal of their lives.“A riveting story of captivity and the enduring faith, determination, and love of two sisters.” —Booklist (starred review)“A gripping tale of family bonds and love, national pride, and precarious politics.” —Times Record News (Wichita Falls, Texas)
An NPR Best Book of 2022 An incredible, deeply reported story of identical twins Isabella and Hà, born in Viêt…
Nam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other&’s existence until they were reunited as teenagers, against all odds. &“Stirring and unforgettable—a breathtaking adoption saga like no other.&” —Robert Kolker It was 1998 in Nha Trang, Việt Nam, and Liên struggled to care for her newborn twin girls. Hà was taken in by Liên&’s sister, and she grew up in a rural village with her aunt, going to school and playing outside with the neighbors. They had sporadic electricity and frequent monsoons. Hà&’s twin sister, Loan, was adopted by a wealthy, white American family who renamed her Isabella. Isabella grew up in the suburbs of Chicago with a nonbiological sister, Olivia, also adopted from Việt Nam. Isabella and Olivia attended a predominantly white Catholic school, played soccer, and prepared for college. But when Isabella&’s adoptive mother learned of her biological twin back in Việt Nam, all of their lives changed forever. Award-winning journalist Erika Hayasaki spent years and hundreds of hours interviewing each of the birth and adoptive family members. She brings the girls&’ experiences to life on the page, told from their own perspectives, challenging conceptions about adoption and what it means to give a child a good life. Hayasaki contextualizes the sisters&’ experiences with the fascinating and often sinister history of twin studies, intercountry and transracial adoption, and the nature-versus-nurture debate, as well as the latest scholarship and conversation surrounding adoption today, especially among adoptees. For readers of All You Can Ever Know and American Baby, Somewhere Sisters is a richly textured, moving story of sisterhood and coming of age, told through the remarkable lives of young women who have redefined the meaning of family for themselves.
The Chinese Communist Party&’s complex and contradictory embrace of capitalism has played a pivotal role in shaping China&’s economic reforms…
since the late 1970s. This book explores the persistent tensions between state control and market forces in China. It shows how these tensions provide a framework to understand Xi Jinping&’s recent efforts to tighten control over the Chinese economy. The book evaluates the broader implications of these policies for China&’s economic trajectory and its global trade relationships.
The 3-volume set LNCS 15686 - 15688 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Wireless Artificial Intelligent Computing…
Systems and Applications, WASA 2025, which took place in Tokyo, Japan, during June 24-26, 2025. The 70 full papers and 34 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 282 submissions. The proceedings also contain 10 papers from the AICom2 symposium. WASA is a prestigious annual gathering that serves as a global platform for researchers, academics, and industry professionals to explore and exchange cuttingedge ideas, research findings, and innovative solutions at the dynamic intersection of wireless technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) computing systems.
This open access book examines the life and work of Koki Hirota, who served as Japan's foreign minister and prime…
minister from 1933 to 1938 - the period that saw the final Japanese diplomatic attempts at achieving a modus vivendi with China before the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It looks at the failed attempts to prevent that war from evolving into a protracted conflict. Hirota's actions and inactions during this time resulted in a death sentence at the Tokyo Trials following the end of the Second World War, making him the only civilian official to meet such a fate. Hirota is seen as a martyr-like figure in Japan, but this book counters this public image by showing how, despite initially championing a cooperative relationship with China as foreign and prime minister, he continually acquiesced to the military's demands before being swept away by the rise of populist politics that followed early Japanese success in the Second Sino-Japanese War. As the first biography of Hirota to be published in English, this book provides an in-depth account of Sino-Japanese relations and Japanese diplomacy during this critical period and examines the ultimate failure of the civilian government to check the adventurism of the Japanese army. It is relevant to historians of Japan, and to those interested in diplomatic history, and the Second World War - as well as scholars working in various areas of contemporary East Asian politics.
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the cutting-edge multi-omics technologies that are revolutionizing research across biomedical sciences and environmental…
sustainability. It addresses the urgent need for interdisciplinary research by integrating multi-omics approaches with bioinformatics and artificial intelligence. The book explores evolution of traditional omics technologies into comprehensive multi-omics strategies that synergize data output through advanced computational tools. It covers diverse topics such as health and disease mechanisms, drug discovery innovations, COVID-19 responses, cancer treatment personalization, neuroscience insights into brain disorders, cyanobacterial natural compounds' potential for biofuel production, lichen symbiosis studies, and more. This volume integrates genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and more with bioinformatics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to address complex challenges in health and the environment. With contributions from renowned scholars worldwide, this book illuminates recent advances through illustrative figures and case studies that enhance understanding of complex pathways while bioinformatics strategies streamline research outcomes. This book is a must-read for researchers, academics, and professionals in life sciences, biomedical fields, and environmental studies, interested in advancing their knowledge of multi-omics applications. It is also beneficial for scientists involved in drug design or biotechnological innovations related to environmental sustainability.
This open access book explores the history of how banks and banking services have become part of everyday life. Taking…
welfare state Sweden as its setting, the book identifies key cultural challenges and shows how banks and finance companies made inroads into the workplace, the family, spaces of consumption and the world of social movements while also taking on tasks typically associated with state authorities. Focusing on this ‘bankification of everyday life’ reveals the historical links between the post-war welfare state and the financialised everyday culture of the late twentieth century. This book will be of interest to scholars of economic and cultural history and sociology, as well as those interested in the history of welfare states and the development of commercial surveillance.
The sixteen-volume set, CCIS 2282-2297, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2024,…
held in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2024. The 472 regular papers presented in this proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 1301 submissions. These papers primarily focus on the following areas: Theory and algorithms; Cognitive neurosciences; Human-centered computing; and Applications.
Ein Patent kann für ein Unternehmen ein sehr wichtiges Asset sein. Der Weg dorthin ist jedoch steinig. Nur Erfindungen, die…
bislang noch nirgends zu finden sind und die außerdem eine erfinderische Leistung aufweisen, werden zum Patent erteilt. Die wichtigen Kriterien zur Patenterteilung sind daher Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit. Die Begründung der erfinderischen Tätigkeit entscheidet regelmäßig in den Erteilungsverfahren vor den Patentämtern, dem Deutschen Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA) und dem Europäischen Patentamt (EPA), und bei streitigen Verfahren vor dem Bundespatentgericht (BPatG) über den Ausgang des Verfahrens. Dem Patentierungskriterium der erfinderischen Tätigkeit gebührt daher die größte Beachtung. Dieses Fachbuch gibt dem Leser das rechtliche Know-How, um in den jeweiligen Verfahren vor dem DPMA, dem EPA und dem BPatG erfolgreich die erfinderische Tätigkeit seiner Erfindung zu begründen bzw. in streitigen Verfahren einen erfolgreichen Angriff gegen ein Patent eines Dritten zu führen.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, CATA 2025, which took place in…
San Francisco, CA, USA, during March 17-18, 2025. The 19 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Algorithms and AI;M machine learning and data mining; and security and networking.
This book presents various types of aperiodic resonances in the form of a complete theoretical framework for the first time.…
It makes aperiodic resonance be a new disciplinary direction. In addition to the achievements in existing papers, the book proposes some new methods and discovers some new phenomena about different aperiodic resonances in nonlinear systems. The book includes theoretical analysis methods and their applications in three typical engineering backgrounds. It links theoretical researches on physical phenomena with different engineering problems. It aims to solve engineering problems from a new perspective based on aperiodic resonance theories.
The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is…
defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with uncertainty, promises with disappointment, and imminence with deferral. Attending to the temporalities of emerging rather than settled facts, they put the stress on the temporal tactics, social commitments, material connections, dispositional orientations, and affective circuits that emerge in the meantime even in the most desperate times.
Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing…
Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the ‘placebo effect’, the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why - apart from purchasing the Chinese antimalarial called Artemisinin - locals would try out their ‘alternatively modern’ formulas for treating a wide range of post-colonial disorders and seek their sexual enhancement medicines.
Cell surface molecules are critically important in regulating cell structure and function. Recent advances on the functional role of cell…
surface molecules, particularly glycoconjugates are presented in this book. Comprising of 22 chapters from the 2011 International Symposium on Biochemical Roles of Eukaryotic Cell Surface Macromolecules, it covers topics on the analysis of glycome, biophysical approaches to study cell surface molecules, glycoconjugate metabolism and its dysregulation, and molecular mechanisms involved in cell-cell and cell–matrix interaction.
This book presents original, peer-reviewed select articles from the International Conference on Cognitive and Intelligent Computing (ICCIC-2023), held on December 8–9,…
2023, at Hyderabad, in India. The book focuses on the comprehensive nature of computational intelligence, cognitive computing, AI, ML, and DL in order to highlight its role in the modelling, identification, optimisation, prediction, forecasting, and control of future intelligent systems. It includes contributions from a methodological/application standpoint in understanding artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches and their capabilities in solving a wide range of problems in the real world.
TOOLympics 2023 was the third edition of a series of events to showcase competitions in the area of formal methods,…
colocated with the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2023), held in April n Paris, France. The goal is to acknowledge the achievements of the various research competitions and comparative evaluations broadly related to the field of formal methods, to explain to the audience which tools from the field of formal methods they evaluate, and to understand their commonalities and differences. The developers of the participating tools typically participate in the competitions and evaluations, choosing the right parameters for the tools, or the best workflow for the approach. A total of ten competitions joined TOOLympics in 2023 and were presented at the event: CHC-COMP, MCC, QComp, ARCH-COMP, RERS, SL-COMP, SV-COMP, Test-Comp, VerifyThis, and the VT-Long-Term Challenge. Six of these are represented in this proceedings volume as papers: ARCH-COMP, CHC-COMP, MCC, QComp, VerifyThis, and the VerifyThis Long-Term Challenge. Each of these papers was peer-reviewed in single-blind mode. The papers will be of value to researchers and practitioners who employ formal methods approaches such as model checking, program analysis, probabilistic analysis, runtime verification, SAT solving, and SMT solving.
This 2-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of International Workshops, held as parallel events of the 21st IFIP WG 12.5…
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2025, held in Limassol, Cyprus, during June 26–29, 2025. The 44 full papers and 6 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. The AIAI 2025 conference hosts several workshops that support innovative research on various specific and hot scientific domains every year. These satellite events offer a deep insight into both rapid advances and timely creative applications of AI.
This book critically examines the evolving fashion and luxury brand sector in the post-COVID-19 era, emphasizing the crucial need for…
sustainable digital marketing strategies and innovation. The book explores the dual commitment luxury brands face, balancing social and ethical responsibilities while preserving product quality, skill, and exclusivity. It explores how brands navigate internal capability development and engage in community projects to contribute positively to social causes. From the restructuring of luxury around digital communication to the transformative impact of technologies, the book dissects the challenges and opportunities. It addresses the essential resources, knowledge management, and organizational changes required for successful digital adoption, highlighting the confluence of sustainable orientation with technological and organizational shifts in the fashion and luxury sector. As luxury undergoes a paradigm shift, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of its sustainable evolution amidst the digital transformation. Chapter 24 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Digitale Identitäten sind der Schlüssel zur digitalen Souveränität – für Personen, Unternehmen und den öffentlichen Sektor. Dieser Sammelband bündelt die…
zentralen Erkenntnisse des Forschungsprogramms „Sichere Digitale Identitäten&“ und bietet eine fundierte Basis für ein skalierbares, zukunftssicheres Identitätsmanagement. Im Fokus stehen selbstbestimmte Identitäten, mit denen Nutzende digitale Nachweise sicher in Wallets verwalten können und damit die Kontrolle über ihre digitale Identität zurückgewinnen. Diese Technologie bildet das Herzstück der neuen europäischen eIDAS-Verordnung von 2024 und wird den Umgang mit digitalen Identitäten grundlegend verändern. Anhand praxisnaher Anwendungsbeispiele aus Wirtschaft und Verwaltung zeigt der Band, wie sichere digitale Identitäten erfolgreich eingesetzt werden. Er beleuchtet aktuelle technologische Entwicklungen und innovative Lösungsansätze, die Nutzerfreundlichkeit und Sicherheit effektiv verbinden. Ergänzt wird dies durch methodische Ansätze zur Gestaltung von Identitätslösungen, eine Einordnung der rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen und einen Ausblick auf die Potenziale übergreifender digitaler Ökosysteme. Dieses Buch ist ein unverzichtbarer Leitfaden für alle, die sichere digitale Identitäten für vertrauenswürdige Interaktionen erfolgreich etablieren und verwenden wollen. Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.
Communication of the new generation is upon us. It was not long ago that the idea of remote working or…
of machine learning seemed like futuristic endeavors. Yet now, the prospect of using various communication technologies to work for us has never been more feasible. We are navigating connected ecosystems and using data technologies and algorithms to keep pace with an ever-shifting business world. This volume focuses on the impact of communication in a changing world on society and business cultures. The issues that are raised by the authors of this volume range from exploring how language and technology interact in the workplace environment to considering the use of generative technologies and artificial intelligence in marketing and advertising. While the authors showcase a diversity of disciplinary and methodological approaches, they are united in their underlying belief that communication in a changing world is, by and large, a facilitator of dialogue, and is powered by interactions and expansive, cross-disciplinary conversations.