This book features the latest advances and future trends in water science and technology. It also discusses the scientific popularization and quantitative resolution of a variety of mysterious properties of water and ice from the perspective of hydrogen-bond cooperativity in response to stimuli such as chemical contamination, electrification, magnetification, mechanical compression, molecular undercoordination, and thermal excitation. Anomalies include the floating of ice, the Hofmeister effect in solutions, regelation of ice, slipperiness of ice, water s tough skin, the Mpemba paradox, and...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering, IScI2017, held in Dalian, China, in September 2017.The 48 full papers and 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. biomedical signal processing;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th CCF China Blockchain Conference, CBCC 2022, held in Wuxi, China, in December 2022.The 7 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers deal with research results and development activities in all aspects of blockchain science and technology.