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Following a routine enquiry, PC Daniel Hood has little inkling it would lead to his recruitment into an international organisation fighting terrorism. After participating in a brutal training regime designed to toughen him up, Daniel recruits, amongst others, Olga Korikova, a Russian Agent, Yuen Chun Tin, a Chemist, and Peter Sedgwick, a motorcycle cop. Initial enquiries lead them to a research establishment in Britain where a deadly substance has been developed, under duress, by Gerald Fitzpatrick. Ultimately, the team travel to the Middle East, undergoing danger and injury in a desperate race against time to foil a heinous crime against humanity.
Advancements in medical and healthcare technologies pave the way to improving treatments and diagnoses while also streamlining processes to ensure the highest quality care is given to patients. In the last few decades, revolutionary technology has radically progressed the healthcare industry by increasing life expectancy and reducing human error. Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Medicine and Healthcare provides emerging research on bioinformatics, medical ethics, and clinical science in modern applications and settings. While highlighting the challenges medical practitioners and healthcare professionals face when treating patients and striving to optimize their processes, the book shows how revolutionary technologies and methods are vastly improving how healthcare is implemented globally. This book is an important resource for medical researchers, healthcare administrators, doctors, nurses, biomedical engineers, and students looking for comprehensive research on the advancements in healthcare technologies.
This book describes and analyses the role of the public sector in the often-charged political atmosphere of post-1997 Hong Kong. It discusses critical constitutional, organisational and policy problems and examines their effects on relationships between government and the people. A concluding chapter suggests some possible means of resolving or minimising the difficulties which have been experienced.
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Through a span of thirty five years in a career as a pilot in the Air Force of a developing and sometimes turbulent country, the author has managed to piece together his life history both from the career perspective and also a glimpse into his private life. It reflects his joys and tribulations; hopes and disappointments during that span of time. The auther has written in an easy to read style punctuated with humour to make the book easy and pleasant to read. The lead in reflects the thought that went through the mind of a little country boy in a poor and under privileged surroundings. His candid description of his childhood experiences can be humorous to some. He then introduces the reader into the vagaries of a military life in a back water and developing country and his experience of some remnants from a Colonial rule. Overall the book makes light and refreshing leisure reading.
The three-volume set LNCS 13747, LNCS 13748 and LNCS 13749 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, TCC 2022, held in Chicago, IL, USA, in November 2022. The total of 60 full papers presented in this three-volume set was carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. They cover topics on post-quantum cryptography; interactive proofs; quantum cryptography; secret-sharing and applications; succinct proofs; identity-based encryption and functional encryption; attribute-based encryption and functional encryption; encryption; multi-party computation; protocols: key agreement and commitments; theory: sampling and friends; lattices; anonymity, verfiability and robustness; ORAM, OT and PIR; and theory.
With its practical, problem-solving approach, this book provides corporate counsel, international lawyers, and business people, as well as students of dispute resolution, with a realistic picture of dispute settlement practices in business transactions in China today.