This book aims to illustrate and explain the “Cognitive Metaphorology” from experiential and cultural perspectives and highlights two prominent features of cognitive metaphor: multidimensionality and cross-sphere application. This book demonstrates that embodied experience is the shared philosophical basis of commonalities underlying the similarities in these metaphors across Chinese and English; national and cultural factors introduce variations in metaphors between the two languages. The...

This textbook provides a comprehensive foundation in the mathematics needed for data science for students and self-learners with a basic mathematical background who are interested in the principles behind computational algorithms in data science. It covers sets, functions, linear algebra, and calculus, and delves deeply into probability and statistics, which are key areas for understanding the algorithms driving modern data science applications. Readers are guided toward unlocking the secr...

This book adopts an integrative research framework that primarily combines industrial and discourse analysis to investigate the company Milkyway Image, drawing upon literature that studies film studios and the practices of film production, distribution, and reception. The history of the Hong Kong-based film production company Milkyway Image from its founding in 1996 to the present exemplifies the metamorphosis of the post-return Hong Kong film industry to an era characterised by Hong Kong’...

This textbook serves as a companion to "A Mathematical Introduction to Data Science". It uses Python programming to provide a comprehensive foundation in the mathematics needed for data science. It is designed for anyone with a basic mathematical background, including students and self-learners interested in understanding the principles behind the computational algorithms used in data science. The focus of this book is to demonstrate how programming can aid in this understanding and be use...

Human behavior is based on the thinking process of the brain, which inherently serves as a classifier. Continuously learning and categorizing various matters, the brain makes behavioral decisions based on these classifications. This innate ability for classification is crucial for understanding the concept of social class. Class itself is a form of categorization, where individuals are classified based on factors such as social status, wealth, and power. Therefore, by delving into the thou...

This book provides a brief introduction to some basic but important problems in celestial mechanics, and particularly in the few-body problem, such as the permissible and forbidden region of motion, the evolution of moment of inertia of a system, and the orbital stability of asteroids in the solar system. All these are based on some main results in the authors' research works, which are related to the qualitative method of celestial mechanics and nonlinear dynamics. Some of these works are...

This book summarizes all the important aspects of CRLs (Cullin-RING E3 Ubiquitin Ligases), while providing details of mechanistic specifics that go beyond protein ubiquitination and neddylation. Ubiquitin ligases, including the CRLs, which are activated by neddylation, play an important role in diverse biological processes and are involved in various human diseases, particularly cancer. The book covers various topics, such as CRL structure, biology, genetics, its regulation by neddylation,...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering, IScIDE 2017, held in Dalian, China, in September 2017.The 48 full papers and 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. They deal with statistics and learning; deep neural networks; faces and people; objects; classification and clustering; imaging; biomedical signal processing; and recommendation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th CCF China Blockchain Conference, CBCC 2022, held in Wuxi, China, in December 2022.The 7 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers deal with research results and development activities in all aspects of blockchain science and technology.

This book CCIS 2497 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th CCF China Blockchain Summit on Blockchain Technology and Application, CBCC 2024, held in Shanghai, China, during December 13–15, 2024.The 13 full papers and 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 151 submissions. The proceedings focused on discussing the latest developments in blockchain theory and technology, exchanging the latest application achievements of blockchain in distributed systems, cryp...

This book CCIS 2498 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th CCF China Blockchain Summit on Blockchain Technology and Application, CBCC 2024, held in Shanghai, China, during December 13–15, 2024.The 15 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 151 submissions. The proceedings focused on discussing the latest developments in blockchain theory and technology, exchanging the latest application achievements of blockchain in distributed systems, cryptography, data ele...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second CCF China Blockchain Conference, CBCC 2019, held in Chengdu, China, in October 2019.The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers deal with research results and development activities in all aspects of blockchain science and technology.