Sophora tonkinensis Gagnep. (ST) (Fabaceae) is distributed chiefly in south-central and southeast China and Vietnam. In traditional Chinese medicine theory, the root and rhizome of ST are toxic and ...

Current structural design codes usually treat multiple hazards separately, and probabilistic backbones are rare for extreme hazard combinations, e.g., earthquake and strong wind, which may cause ...

There are various types of waves including water, sound, electromagnetic, seismic and shock etc. These waves need to be analyzed and understood for different practical applications. This book is an ...

This is a timely book that fills the gap in the study of Chinese overseas and their religions in the global context. Rich in ethnographic materials, this is the first comprehensive book that shows the ...

Career Opportunities In search of... Great Minds Since our inception in 1981, World Scientific Publishing Company (WSPC) has grown to establish ourself as one of the world's leading academic ...

The fourth edition of this book has been widely revised. It includes additional chapters and some sections are complemented with either new ones or an extension of their content. In this latest ...

This book gives an up-to-date exposition on the theory of oblique derivative problems for elliptic equations. The modern analysis of shock reflection was made possible by the theory of oblique ...

After many years, this classic two-volume treatise is now available again in an unabridged reprint. These volumes present the basic features of nuclear structure in terms of an integration of ...

The efficiency of contact search is one of the key factors related to the computational efficiency of three-dimensional sphere discontinuous deformation analysis (3D SDDA). This paper proposes an ...

This paper aims to study the effects of fish nets on the nonlinear dynamic performance of a floating offshore wind turbine integrated with a steel fish farming cage (FOWT-SFFC). Fully coupled ...