This book provides comprehensive coverage of the latest trends/advances in subjective and objective quality evaluation for traditional visual signals, such as 2D images and video, as well as the most recent challenges for the field of multimedia quality assessment and processing, such as mobile video and social media. Readers will learn how to ensure the highest storage/delivery/ transmission quality of visual content (including image, video, graphics, animation, etc.) from the server to t...

Reforging the Central Bank presents an insightful comparison between financial development in China — a rising global economic superpower — under the old and new normal and an all-encapsulating study of current monetary transmission mechanism and monetary policy instruments. Focusing on the 'top-level design' for Chinese financial system and the reformation of People's Bank of China (PBoC), China's central bank, Dr Deng, head of the Fixed Income Research Department at CITIC Securities, and...

Modular Multilevel ConvertersExpert discussions of cutting-edge methods used in MMC control, protection, and fault detectionIn Modular Multilevel Converters: Control, Fault Detection, and Protection, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive discussion of fault detection, protection, and tolerant control of modular multilevel converters (MMCs) under internal and external faults. Beginning with a description of th...

This book covers topics in 2 parts: 1) Review of FDA Guidance, 2) Novel Designs and Analyses. While covering basic principles of dose finding, this book details advancements made in drug development.Finding the right dose(s) is one of the most important objectives in new drug development. In Phase I clinical development, one of the objectives is to escalate test doses from low to high. The low doses should be safe, then escalate up to the maximally tolerable dose (MTD). Phase Ⅱ cli...

This is the first book of a two-volume book set which introduces software defined chips. In this book, it introduces the conceptual evolution of software defined chips from the development of integrated circuits and computing architectures. Technical principles, characteristics and key issues of software defined chips are systematically analyzed. The hardware architecture design methods are described involving architecture design primitives, hardware design spaces and agile design methods....

This book is the second volume of a two-volume book set which introduces software-defined chips. In this book, the programming model of the software-defined chips is analyzed by tracing the coevolution of modern general-purpose processors and programming models. The enhancement in hardware security and reliability of the software-defined chips are described from the perspective of dynamic and partial reconfiguration. The challenges and prospective trends of software-defined chips are also ...

This book introduces readers to environmental background investigation, pollution source intensity evaluation and risk assessment approaches used at three main types of groundwater-contaminated sites: municipal domestic waste landfills, hazardous waste landfills and oil-contaminated sites. In addition, typical contaminated sites throughout China are examined to demonstrate how these approaches can be applied for their investigation, assessment and restoration. By reading this book, readers...

This book brings together the insights from professional associations who involved in developing relevant national standards in China, domestic and international scholars who are dedicated to research in related fields, and industry practitioners who have the most hands-on experience. Synthesizing their perspectives, this book discusses the advanced technologies that can meet the requirements for energy efficiency, building performance monitoring and management, and user-centric building s...

This Open access book is a collection of interviews published by China News Service, a Beijing-based news agency, in its “West-East Talk” column. It has been divided into five sections: “Mutual Learning Among Civilizations,” “Hot Issues,” “About China,” “Sino-U.S. Relations” and “Cultural Collision”. The interviews are with more than 50 eminent scholars, scientists, politicians, authors, etc., from different parts of the world as well as China, who have an association with China and see th...

The three-volume set constitutes revised selected papers of the 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2025, held in Xi'an, China, during October 19-22, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 315 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections:Part I : Post-Quantum Cryptography; Functional Encryption; Cryptanalysis and Implementations I; Cryptanalysis a...

The three-volume set constitutes revised selected papers of the 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2025, held in Xi'an, China, during October 19-22, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 315 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections:Part I : Post-Quantum Cryptography; Functional Encryption; Cryptanalysis and Implementations I; Cryptanalysis a...

The three-volume set constitutes revised selected papers of the 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2025, held in Xi'an, China, during October 19-22, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 315 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections:Part I : Post-Quantum Cryptography; Functional Encryption; Cryptanalysis and Implementations I; Cryptanalysis a...