This book is concerned with the variance-constrained optimized filtering problems and their potential applications for nonlinear time-varying dynamical systems. The distinguished features of this book are highlighted as follows.(1) A unified framework is provided for handling the variance-constrained filtering problems of nonlinear time-varying dynamical systems with incomplete information.(2) The application potentials of variance-constrained optimized filtering in network...

This two-volume set LNICST 693-694 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the19th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Pervasive Health 2025, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands during October 15–17, 2025.The 43 full papers, 10 posters, 6 position papers, and 3 workshop proposals presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. They are organized into topical sections as follows:Part I: AI Comp...

This book presents neuromorphic cognitive systems from a learning and memory-centered perspective. It illustrates how to build a system network of neurons to perform spike-based information processing, computing, and high-level cognitive tasks. It is beneficial to a wide spectrum of readers, including undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers who are interested in neuromorphic computing and neuromorphic engineering, as well as engineers and professionals in industry who are i...

These two volumes constitute the revised selected papers of the 6th International Conference, CSEI 2024, held in Haikou, China, during November 1–3, 2024.The 51 full papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 171 submissions. They cover a wide range of areas related to educational information science and technology, educational informatization and big data for education, innovative application for the deeper integration of education practice and info...

This Element aims to provide a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the issue of plagiarism in second language writing. It first outlines the importance of plagiarism as a real-world issue cutting across educational and cultural contexts and touches upon several prominent controversies over the issue. Then the Element defines and conceptualises plagiarism by critically examining the diverse extant definitions and discussing various discourses on plagiarism. Following that, it explores...

Gene flow is a natural process that occurs spontaneously and enables the evolution of life. However, with the release of genetically modified organisms, concerns have focused on introduced foreign transgenes and their dispersal in nature through gene flow. This book examines gene flow of transgenes, such as herbicide resistance genes, with the goal of understanding the factors that may affect the process of gene flow. A greater biological understanding is essential to make sound management...

The book offers a thorough review of the historical evolution of the economic theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics since the reform and opening-up, systematically analyzing the substantial achievements and significant successes China has made over the past 40 years. It covers various areas, including the basic socialist economic system, market economy theory, the theory of the primary stage of socialism, income distribution theory, macroeconomic regulation, and foreign opening-...

This book systematically discusses the workability, mechanical properties, water stability, and material design methods of ultra-high ductility magnesium phosphate cement-based composites (UHDMC) with PVA fibers, PE fibers, or hybrid fibers. The developed UHDMC possesses strain-hardening behavior, multi-cracking, and ultra-high ultimate tensile strain, which can be used in many engineering projects, such as rapid repair and strengthening of airport runways, roads, bridges, and military ins...

Remote Sensing of Aerosols, Clouds, and Precipitation compiles recent advances in aerosol, cloud, and precipitation remote sensing from new satellite observations. The book examines a wide range of measurements from microwave (both active and passive), visible, and infrared portions of the spectrum. Contributors are experts conducting state-of-the-art research in atmospheric remote sensing using space, airborne, and ground-based datasets, focusing on supporting earth observation satellite ...

Wearable Systems Based Gait Monitoring and Analysis provides a thorough overview of wearable gait monitoring techniques and their use in health analysis. The text starts with an examination of the relationship between the human body’s physical condition and gait, and then introduces and explains nine mainstream sensing mechanisms, including piezoresistive, resistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, inductive, optical, air pressure, EMG and IMU-based architectures. Gait sensor design co...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th China Intelligent Robotics Annual Conference on Intelligent Robotics, CIRAC 2025, held in Nantong, China, during September 20–22, 2025.The 12 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: UAV Technology; Robot Mechanism & Control; SLAM & Visual Navigation; Medical Robotics & Perception; Robotic Radar Percept...

This monograph introduces methods for handling filtering and control problems in nonlinear stochastic systems arising from network-induced phenomena consequent on limited communication capacity. Such phenomena include communication delay, packet dropout, signal quantization or saturation, randomly occurring nonlinearities and randomly occurring uncertainties.The text is self-contained, beginning with an introduction to nonlinear stochastic systems, network-induced phenomena and fil...