Underground engineerings often encounter ground water during their construction and operating. Studies on coupling mechanism between pore pressure variation and rock deformation are thus essential for stability and durability analysis in underground engineerings....

Patients with complex cardiovascular problems pose a special management challenge for both the specialist and the non-specialist. To make the best treatment decisions and avoid potential problems, you need to stay on top of ever-changing standards of care....

Book DescriptionThis is the first extensive study in English or Chinese of China\'s reception of the celebrated physicist and his theory of relativity. In a series of biographical studies of Chinese physicists, Hu describes the Chinese assimilation of relativity and explains how Chinese physicists offered arguments and theories of their own....