Deploying a spatial approach towards children’s everyday life in interwar Hong Kong, this book considers the context-specific development of five transnational movements: the garden city movement; imperial hygiene movement; nationalist sentiments; the Young Women's Christian Association; and the Girl Guide. Locating these transnational cultural movements in four layers of context, from the most immediate to the most global, including the context of Hong Kong, Republican China, the British ...

This book addresses the failure mechanism and design method of concrete-infilled double steel corrugated-plate composite walls with T-section (T-CDSCW). Due to the composite effect of steel and concrete and the constraining effect of intermediate bolts, CDSCWs exhibit excellent load-carrying performance and applicability to high-rise buildings. To satisfy the plan layout and structural requirements, shear walls are arranged in T-section or other sections. T-CDSCWs are studied in the book, ...

This book mainly focuses on the key technologies and important issues related to localization estimation and formation control for networked multi-agent systems. Chapter 1 introduces the concepts of multi-agent systems, fundamental issues in localization and formation, research progress both at home and abroad, and the theory of system stability. Chapters 2–8 present research results on distributed localization estimation under conditions such as random deployment, non-ideal channels, rand...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing Evaluations, CCKS 2022, which took place in Qinhuangdao, China, in August 2022.The 25 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. CCKS technology evaluation track aims to provide researchers with platforms and resources for testing knowledge and semantic computing technologies, algorithms and systems, promote the tec...

The analysis of drugs and their metabolites in biological media are now expected to routinely achieve � 20% accuracy in the ng/mL concentration level. Therefore, the availability and the selection of quality ion-pairs designating the analytes and their isotopically labeled analogs (ILAs) are important considerations in achieving the accuracy of qua

This book mainly focuses on the key technologies and important issues related to cyberattack strategy design against cyber-physical systems from the perspective of the attacker. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of cyber-physical systems, the significance of their cybersecurity, and research progress both domestically and internationally. Chapters 2–8 present research results on DoS attacks and FDI attacks under model-based, data-driven, time-varying delay, and game-based scenarios. This bo...

The introduction of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) through modern information technology will not only achieve the objective progress of the heritage of thousands of years of TCM, but also deliver novel discoveries for modern medicines.This book is an advanced monograph based on a decade's worth of research work by the authors. After a brief introduction on the four diagnosis approaches in TCM, this book delves into the three main TCM data analysis techniques: computerized tongue, puls...

This monograph describes the latest advances in discriminative learning methods for biometric recognition. Specifically, it focuses on three representative categories of methods: sparse representation-based classification, metric learning, and discriminative feature representation, together with their applications in palmprint authentication, face recognition and multi-biometrics. The ideas, algorithms, experimental evaluation and underlying rationales are also provided for a better unders...

This book introduces the applications of deep learning in various human centric visual analysis tasks, including classical ones like face detection and alignment and some newly rising tasks like fashion clothing parsing. Starting from an overview of current research in human centric visual analysis, the book then presents a tutorial of basic concepts and techniques of deep learning. In addition, the book systematically investigates the main human centric analysis tasks of different levels,...

A formidable woman warrior faced adversity, her fortunes turned unexpectedly, and she found herself recast as the most blessed "Cautious lady" in history. Determined to assert herself and make a new start, she inadvertently provoked the attention of the most "formidable" individual in court! Prime minister: Do you wish to become my bewitching princess, my dear? Cautious lady: How could I dare to refuse...

This book is devoted to analysis and design of supply chain contracts with stochastic demand. Given the extensive utilization of contracts in supply chains, the issues concerning contract analysis and design are extremely important for supply chain management (SCM), and substantial research has been developed to address those issues over the past years. Despite the abundance of classical research, new research needs to be conducted in response to new issues emerging with the recent changin...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Security and Privacy in New Computing Environments, SPNCE 2020, held in August 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 31 full papers were selected from 63 submissions and are grouped into topics on network security; system security; machine learning; authentication and access control; cloud security; cryptography; applied cryptography.