Authors: Zhang, David, Xu, Yong, Zuo, Wangmeng
Summarizes the latest studies on discriminative learning methods and their applications to biometric recognition
Covers different biometric recognition technologies, including face recognition, palmprint authentication, and multi-biometrics
Provides numerous executive procedures in addition to text presentation of the novel algorithms, technical schemes and insightful strategies
Written by one of the 2014 ISI Highly Cited Researchers and pioneers of biometrics research

In Bloodshot we trust! Project Rising Spirit – America's greatest exporter of classified weapons technology – has achieved a breakthrough: a contagious, airborne nanite dispersion prototype that can turn the population of any city into an army of indestructible soldiers. A doomsday virus capable of destroying an enemy nation from the inside out. A machine-made pathogen that can completely rewrite human physiology…and hardcode every man, woman, and child with the same cutting-edge technology that created their greatest weapon: Bloodshot. But now…Project Rising Spirit's top-secret contagion has been released onto the streets of America's greatest metropolis: New York City. As mayhem engulfs Manhattan, Bloodshot must lead the most dangerous invasion ever waged on American soil and keep a runaway pandemic from toppling armies and governments…and threatening to destroy humanity itself.

John Link n’a rien d’un tendre : ex-motard, ex-alcoolique, ex-taulard, il a pourtant laissé tomber ses mauvaises habitudes et vit reclus dans sa caravane, loin de toute tentation.
C’est l’appel inattendu de sa fille Lydia, 17 ans, qui va lui faire revoir ses plans de se tenir tranquille…
Celle-ci débarque chez lui après des années d’absence, poursuivie par des narcotrafiquants suite à un braquage qui a mal tourné.

Rock operas seem to be quite fashionable these days, but this one is just too good and interesting to dismiss it as "just another one". Just a look at the participants shows that this is an almost safe play, with musicians from VANDEN PLAS, PINK CREAM 69 and SILENT FORCE, while the characters are sung by D.C. Cooper (SILENT FORCE; also responsible for all the lyrics), Sabine Edelsbacher (EDENBRIDGE), Andy Kuntz (VANDEN PLAS), David Readman (PINK CREAM 69), plus a professional soul and an opera soprano (both, of course, female), so highest quality ensured in this department, too.

Editors: Blevins-Knabe, Belinda, Austin, Ann M Berghout (Eds.)
​Provides developmentally appropriate guided instruction for mathematics learning in early childhood
Addresses practical implications for home childcare curricula that are grounded in research
Includes a developmental framework for the fit between the home numeracy environment and mathematical development
Examines early childhood mathematical skill development across different cultures

Lengthier variations on this album were released overseas a couple of months before the American version; the Swedish edition, Love Peas: Ballad Hits, contained 19 tracks to this one's 15. But Roxette is a much bigger act in Sweden, and in Europe generally, than in America, where most of those who remember the duo will wonder how they could fill an album of only their ballad hits…

Editors: Bazett-Jones, David J., Dellaire, Graham (Eds.)
Provides a state-of-the-art review on nuclear structure and functions Highlights the relation between epigenomics and nuclear architecture
Gives an outlook on possible medical applications

What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a super-eruption 73,000 years ago?

A study of foodborne disease, focusing on seafood and environmental toxins.

Editors: Liu, Juke, Sun, Weiping, Hu, Wenzhen (Eds.)
Brings together the latest contributions from a group of top scholars working on the issue of eco-city development in China
Argues that constructing eco-cities is the only sustainable path for China’s urbanization
Presents the Chinese wisdom and practice of “making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

A study of foodborne disease, focusing on plant toxicants.