This book uncovers the mysterious social and political structures of China's "Third Front," the large state-sponsored development of inland China during the late Maoist period. This movement gave birth to a few important industrial bases such as Panzhihua and Liupanshui and had significant impact on megacities such as Lanzhou, Wuhan, and Chongqing. Yet, this is scarcely known to the West and even the younger generation of Chinese. Chen explores the ways that new industrial structures and h...

With the proliferation of GPS devices in daily life, trajectory data that records where and when people move is now readily available on a large scale. As one of the most typical representatives, it has now become widely recognized that taxi trajectory data provides rich opportunities to enable promising smart urban services. Yet, a considerable gap still exists between the raw data available, and the extraction of actionable intelligence. This gap poses fundamental challenges on how we ca...

This book provides insight into domino effects in industrial chemical sites and process industries. It is about the integration of safety and security resources to prevent and mitigate domino effects in the process industries. It explains how chemical industrial areas, comprised of various hazardous installations, are susceptible to a chain of undesired events, or domino effects, triggered by accidental events or intentional attacks and then presents solutions to prevent them.First...

Robotics: From Theory to Practice introduces robotic theories and technologies to audiences, including university students, professionals with engineering backgrounds, and even high-school students interested in building their own robots. We aim to bridge the gap between classic theories and real-world applications of robotic manipulators, which, to date, have far exceeded the domain of conventional industry.The contents are divided into three parts. The first two ...

This book addresses important advances in diverse quantization phenomena. Theory of Magnetoelectric Properties of 2D Systems develops the generalized tight-binding model in order to comprehend the rich quantization phenomena in 2D materials. The unusual effects, taken into consideration simultaneously, mainly come from the multi-orbital hybridization, the spin-orbital coupling, the intralayer and interlayer atomic interactions, the layer number, the stacking configuration, the sit...

This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Machine Learning for Cyber Security, ML4CS 2023, held in Yanuca Island, Fiji, during December 4–6, 2023.The 11 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They cover a variety of topics, including cybersecurity, AI security, machine learning security, encryption, authentication, data security and privacy, cybersecurity forensic analysis, vulnerabili...

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 ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Topology- and Graph-Informed Imaging Informatics, TGI3 2024, held in conjunction with the 27th International conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco in October 2024.The 13 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected. These papers focus on the application of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) techniques, along with other c...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Science of Cyber Security, SciSec 2023, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, during July 11–14, 2023.The 21 full papers presented together with 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in the topical sections named: ACDroid: Detecting Collusion Applications on Smart Devices; Almost Injective and Invertible Encodings for Jacobi Quartic Curves; ...

This book explores the application of a significant discussion approach, Quality Talk, to English learning in Taiwanese college classrooms. Quality Talk has been found to successfully enhance students' reading comprehension and higher-level thinking in American contexts. It offers an introduction to Quality Talk and demonstrates how it can be implemented in college level English classes. It addresses students’ three levels of English proficiency: elementary, intermediate, and advanced. The...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS 2020, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in November 2020.The 17 full and 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The selected papers are devoted to topics such as secure operating system architectures, applications programming and security testing, intrusion and attack detection, cybersecurity intelligence, access control, cryptog...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th China Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, CWSN 2019, held in Chongqing, China, in October 2019.The 27 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fundamentals on Internet of Things; applications on Internet of Things; and IntelliSense, location and tracking.