Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to safeguard against the next pandemic. This disease will forever punctuate modern history....

Many evidence suggested that physical activity provides benefits to people with intellectual disabilities (ID), yet adults with ID did not reach the recommended guideline for physical activity and further research of PA programme that adaptable to the need of ID was important for this special population....

This book uses the theoretical framework of information economics to analyze the translation profession. In particular, the economic concepts of asymmetric information and adverse selection are utilized....

New perspectives of cryptographic key management are introduced, considering a broader and innovative definition for cryptographic keys. The book includes coverage on key storage optimization, privacy-preserving secret sharing, distributed key management, conditional infromation release, and conditionally verifiable signature schemes....

This book described the principle of microbial systematics and the polyphasic approach used to identify a novel actinobacterium from the family Nocardioidaceae. Actinobacteria represent a significant component of the microbial population in most soils including the mangrove region....

\"This wonderfully detailed study of the renegotiation of traditional gender roles provides a cross-cultural lesson in how educated women are moving mountains as well as climbing them....

Book DescriptionThis is the first biography about Anna May Wong, a remarkable Asian American woman who became the country\'s most famous film actress of Chinese descent....

Cooperative computing is an important computing paradigm to enable different parties to work together towards a pre-defined non-trivial goal. It encompasses important technological areas like computer supported cooperative work, workflow, computer assisted design and concurrent programming....