This book revisits the concept of the transit catchment area (TCA) and examines evolving practices in TCA planning against the backdrop of expanding big and open data (BOD) in transit-oriented land use planning.In many developed countries and regions, car dependence and urban sprawl have led to undesirable outcomes. Improved transit and land use planning can help create well-connected areas where people, businesses, and employers want to be. But how can we make these transit zones ...

Presents applied theory and advanced simulation techniques for electric machines and drivesThis book combines the knowledge of experts from both academia and the software industry to present theories of multiphysics simulation by design for electrical machines, power electronics, and drives. The comprehensive design approach described within supports new applications required by technologies sustaining high drive efficiency. The highlighted framework considers the ...

This book explains the exciting field of sonomyography (SMG), which makes it possible to use continuous signals detected by ultrasound images in real time to evaluate muscle functions.After an introduction, the book discusses the methods to extract and analyse different SMG signals, including muscle thickness, penetration angle, fascicle length, contraction activity, and muscle cross-sectional areas, etc. It then describes the mono-modal applications of sonomyography: posture recogn...

This book covers some of the most popular methods in design space sampling, ensembling surrogate models, multi-fidelity surrogate model construction, surrogate model selection and validation, surrogate-based robust design optimization, and surrogate-based evolutionary optimization.Surrogate or metamodels are now frequently used in complex engineering product design to replace expensive simulations or physical experiments. They are constructed from available input parameter values a...

This volume contains 28 selected papers presented at IFTC 2024: 21st International Forum of Digital Multimedia Communication, held in Lingshui, Hainan, China, on November 28-29, 2024.The 55 full papers included in this 2-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 146 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:CCIS 2441: Affective Computing, Graphics & Image Processing for Virtual Reality, Large Language Models, Multimedia Communication, Applic...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Forum on Digital Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2023, held in Beijing, China, December 21–22, 2023.The 57 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:CCIS 2066: Image Processing, Media Computing, Metaverse and Virtual Reality, and Multimedia Communication.CCIS 2067: Quality Assessment, Source Cod...

This book presents revised selected papers from the 15th International Forum on Digital TV and Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2018, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2018.The 39 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on image processing; machine learning; quality assessment; telecommunications; video coding; video surveillance; virtual reality.

From Fragmentation to Financial Integration in Europe is a comprehensive study of the European Union financial system. It provides an overview of the issues central to securing a safer financial system for the European Union and looks at the responses to the global financial crisis, both at the macro level-the pendulum of financial integration and fragmentation-and at the micro level-the institutional reforms that are taking place to address the crisis. The emerging financial sector managemen...

This book presents revised selected papers from the 17th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2020, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2020.The 21 full papers and 16 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on image processing; machine learning; quality assessment; telecommunications; video surveillance; and virtual reality.

This study examines the links between adjustment policies and growth in a small group of developing countries- Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, India, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, and Thailand - during 1970 -93. It provides an overview of the adjustment and growth experience, examines in depth several policy issues of particular interest, and distills the principal policy lessons for the design of adjustment policies.

This volume contains 27 selected papers presented at IFTC 2024: 21st International Forum of Digital Multimedia Communication, held in Lingshui, Hainan, China, on November 28-29, 2024.The 55 full papers included in this 2-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 146 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:CCIS 2441: Affective Computing, Graphics & Image Processing for Virtual Reality, Large Language Models, Multimedia Communication, Applic...

Inter-ethnic political integration is a major theoretical and practical problem which is increasingly prominent in the political reality of multi-ethnic countries. This book is the final result of a special study on inter-ethnic political integration, emphasizing and proving the basic concepts and questions of inter-ethnic political integration, constructing a theoretical system of inter-ethnic political integration, forming a theoretical framework of inter-ethnic political integration, an...