"From Tea to Coffee is a wonderful exploration of history and a life that has extended across half a century and two continents. For those who believe that East and West can never meet or can only stand in opposition to each other, this memoir offers a beautiful counterpoint." —Bennett R. Coles, award-winning author of six published books including Dark Star Rising"Cheng Wang's transformative evolution from young Communist ideologue to astute western observer is a must-read cultura...

As we navigate an increasingly complex digital landscape, ensuring human factor security and safety has never been more critical. This groundbreaking book offers an innovative perspective by leveraging behavioral computing to address challenges in human factor security across diverse scenarios.Through comprehensive coverage, the book introduces advanced methods like behavioral modeling and simulation to analyze multimodal behavioral data—spanning structure, language, and vision. Th...

This book bridges two seemingly distinct worlds—network theory and machine learning—to reveal the universal laws of scalability that underlie both. It examines how value, capacity, and performance evolve as systems expand, offering a unified framework that connects Metcalfe’s Law with neural scaling laws.By comparing network growth and model scaling, the book uncovers striking parallels: the diminishing throughput of densely connected networks mirrors the saturation of mod...

Light detection and ranging, or LiDAR, is an advanced active remote sensing technology developed in the last 30 years to measure variable distances to the Earth. This book explains the fundamental concepts of LiDAR technology and its extended spaceborne, airborne, terrestrial, mobile, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms. It addresses the challenges of massive LiDAR data intelligent processing, LiDAR software engineering, and in-depth applications. The theory and algorithms are inte...

How secure are intelligent computing networks (ICNs) when data, algorithms, and computing power intertwine? As ICNs become the backbone of modern digital ecosystems, their growing complexity introduces unprecedented risks in security and safety. Integrated Security and Safety of Intelligent Computing Networks offers a groundbreaking, coupling-aware perspective that redefines how we understand and fortify ICN infrastructures.This book goes beyond conventional security frame...

This book presents advanced solutions for integrated security and safety based on universal behavior computing. It provides a comprehensive survey of recent representative research in the field of universal behavior computing, including a review of traditional behavior analysis methods, an introduction to emerging key technologies and frameworks for building behavior models, and a discussion on further opportunities for utilizing behavior simulation in future research.This book aim...

This book offers an introduction to the topic of anti-fraud in digital finance based on the behavioral modeling paradigm. It deals with the insufficiency and low-quality of behavior data and presents a unified perspective to combine technology, scenarios, and data for better anti-fraud performance. The goal of this book is to provide a non-intrusive second security line, rather than replaced with existing solutions, for anti-fraud in digital finance. By studying common weaknesses in typica...

This title is an IGI Global Core Reference for 2019 as it is one of the best-selling reference books within the Business and Management subject area since 2017. This publication analyzes the business and psychology of fandom in companies, sports, celebrities, and virtual realities. With contributions from leading researchers from the United States, China, the United Kingdom, and more, this publication is ideal for business managers, academicians, students, professionals, and researchers. E...

Embark on a journey beneath the waves with "The Enchanted Reef at Bedtime." This bedtime story takes you to a magical underwater world, filled with mesmerizing creatures and soothing melodies. Let the ocean lullabies guide you through a dreamy adventure that will capture the imagination of both young and old. Immerse yourself in the enchantment of the underwater realm, making bedtime a magical experience for everyone.

Worldwide brand competition has been facing new challenges as emerging markets evolve upon the global stage. Despite the fact that brand building among new markets is still in its infancy, organizations face the challenge of developing strategies to maintain their growth. Brand Management in Emerging Markets: Theories and Practices provides valuable and insightful research as well as empirical studies that allow audiences to develop, implement, and maintain branding strategies. Combining t...

This book focuses on the latest developments in detonation engines for aerospace propulsion, with a focus on the rotating detonation engine (RDE). State-of-the-art research contributions are collected from international leading researchers devoted to the pursuit of controllable detonations for practical detonation propulsion. A system-level design of novel detonation engines, performance analysis, and advanced experimental and numerical methods are covered. In addition, the world’s first s...

This book highlights contemporary state of research in multi-disciplinary areas in Physics, Biomedical Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering, Life Sciences, and Healthcare. The accepted submissions to the 8th IRC Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology (IRC-SET 2022) that were presented on 6th August 2022, are published in this conference proceedings. The papers presented here were shortlisted after extensive rounds of rigorous revie...