This book is a progressive exposition on Halliday's academic thought and its origins by the renowned linguist Hu Zhuanglin, based on 30 years of research. The first part, "Chinese Origin," introduces readers to the author's gradual understanding that Halliday's academic thought mainly came from Chinese scholars such as Wang Li, Luo Changpei, and Gao Mingkai. In 1980s, Halliday and his students introduced the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics into the foreign language and linguistic...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS 2021, held in Tianjin, China, on October 23, 2021.The 16 full and 8 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. They focus on theoretical and practical aspects of network and system security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability and sustainability ...

While renewable energy is vital to ensuring a sustainable power grid, it is highly variable and unpredictable, and electricity generation from renewables is usually small and distributed compared to traditional power generation. Energy storage is attracting attention as an effective approach to addressing the variable nature of renewable energy, as its implementation can improve grid stability, reliability, and resilience. This book focuses on the fundamentals, advances, and applications o...

This book is based on China's poverty alleviation work and combines social work expertise with anti-poverty research to provide a blueprint as a reference for preventing poverty return in the post-2020 era, promoting rural governance, and effectively linking poverty eradication and rural revitalization. Through a two-year participatory cooperation, the book, taking the targeted poverty alleviation pilot project named “Warmhearted Home Delivery” in T District(Xiamen City, Fujian Province) a...

This book includes a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the 10th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging, which was held in Xi'an, China, on November 14–17, 2019. The conference was jointly organized by the China Academy of Printing Technology, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, and Shaanxi University of Science and Technology. With 9 keynote talks and 118 papers on graphic communication and packaging technologies, the conference attracted more than 300 sci...

The main focus of this monograph is urban acoustic environment of urban spatial morphology.It provides in-depth evaluation and research on the correlation between urban spatial morphology indicator and urban acoustic environment using urban spatial morphology and urban space units. Furthermore, it conducts quantitative analysis and statistic evaluation to reveal the relationship between urban planning indicators and acoustic environment. It also provides optimized strategies from three asp...

This book includes a selection of reviewed papers presented at the 2016 China Academic Conference on Printing, Packaging Engineering & Media Technology, held on November 25-27, 2016 in Xi’an, China. The conference was jointly organized by China Academy of Printing Technology, Xi’an University of Technology and Stuttgart Media University of Germany. The proceedings cover the recent outcomes on color science and technology, image processing technology, digital media technology, digital proce...

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 15th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging (CACPP 2024), held in Tianjin, China on November 14-16, 2024. The proceedings cover the latest findings in color science and technology, image processing technology, digital media technology, mechanical and electronic engineering and numerical control, materials and detection, printing and packaging technology, and so on. As such, the book is of interest to universit...

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 16th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging (CACPP 2025), held in Xi’an, China on November 13-15, 2025. The proceedings cover the recent findings in color science and technology, image processing technology, communication technology, mechanical and electronic engineering, materials and detection, printing and packaging technology, and so on. As such, the book is of interest to university researchers, R&D engin...

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 12th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging (CACPP 2021), held in Beijing, China on November 12-14, 2021. The proceedings cover the recent findings in color science and technology, image processing technology, digital media technology, mechanical and electronic engineering and numerical control, materials and detection, digital process management technology in printing and packaging, and other technologies. As...

This volume brings together a group of logic-minded philosophers and philosophically oriented logicians to address a diversity of topics on the structural analysis of non-classical logics. It mainly focuses on the construction of different types of models for various non-classical logics of current interest, including modal logics, epistemic logics, dynamic logics, and observational predicate logic. The book presents a wide range of applications of two well-known approaches in current rese...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International and First International Workshop on Human Activity Recognition and Anomaly Detection, Conjunction with IJCAI 2024, held in Jeju, South Korea, during August 3–9, 2024.The 9 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Anomaly Detection with Foundation Models and Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition.