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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Conference on Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science, FLINS 2026, and 21st International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, ISKE 2026, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, during July 15–19, 2026.The 152 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 275 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections:

Intelligent Medicine on Prediction of Pelvic Lymph Node Metastasis focuses on leveraging intelligent medical techniques to predict lymph node metastasis, using pelvic cancer as a primary case study. Combined with the actual clinical application scenarios, this book introduces deep neural network models, application systems, and carries out method concentrated on the four major links of lymph node location, partition, segmentation and metastasis prediction, aiming to provide theoretical and...

Towards Neuromorphic Machine Intelligence: Spike-Based Representation, Learning, and Applications provides readers with in-depth understanding of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), which is a burgeoning research branch of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), AI, and Machine Learning that sits at the heart of the integration between Computer Science and Neural Engineering. In recent years, neural networks have re-emerged in relation to AI, representing a well-grounded paradigm rooted in discipli...

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the RILEM Spring Convention, held in Ghent, Belgium on April 13-17, 2026. The theme of the Conference was “Innovative Construction Materials and Processes for Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure”. The volume covers the current and emerging approaches that lead to an optimized design and maintenance of constructions and systems. It includes the development of materials and structural service life models and life cycle design, i...

Tech mining is text-oriented analytics that supports decision-making in science, technology, and innovation (ST&I) policy and management in areas including competitive technical intelligence, R&D management, and research evaluation. Presenting selected papers from the 12th Global TechMining Conference (GTM2022), this book covers novel digital information sources such as optimization and integration of 360-degree view in science, economic, political, and social domains; processing methods t...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Conference on Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science, FLINS 2026, and 21st International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, ISKE 2026, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, during July 15–19, 2026.The 152 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 275 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections:

From a sociological perspective, this book explores issues related to population mobility, family pensions, and the lives of workers and peasants during the 70 years of urbanization since the founding of New China from the perspectives of population, pension security, employment structure transformation, and social insurance systems, thus exploring the deep logic behind China's successful experience. The relevant issues studied in this book are a systematic summary of the experiences and l...

Transglutaminase: Fundamentals and Applications, a new volume in the Foundations and Frontiers in Enzymology series, stands as a comprehensive resource on this increasingly important class of enzymes. Following an introduction to the field from the Editors, international experts discuss basic biology and structure – function relationships of transglutaminases, ongoing fundamental research, as well as new application areas, including food processing, material synthesis, biomedicine and dise...

In China, talent development has been one of the key areas of attention in national focus for the development of science and technology, education, and other areas over the past three decades, and it is especially emphasized in the national outline for medium- and long-term educational reform and development. Beijing is the leading city in educational reform, especially in the area of gifted education in mainland China. Over the past 35 years, through constant exploration and research, a c...

In Dreadful Desires Charlie Yi Zhang examines how the Chinese state deploys affective notions of love to regulate the population and secure China’s place in the global economy. Zhang shows how the state frames love as a set of desires that encompass heteronormative intimacy, familial and communal attachment, upward mobility, and private property ownership. These desires—as circulated in performance in the nationalistic ceremony, same-sex romantic fan fiction, the wildly popular re...

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