English-language translations of traditional plays from the marionette puppet theater of Northern China.Marionette puppet theater has a rich and ancient history in China, extending back to the Han dynasty and reaching its heyday in the Qing dynasty. While this art form is nearly extinct in northern China today, a handful of troupes in Heyang County in Shaanxi Province, which claims to be the birthplace of marionette theater, continue to perform skits and scenes fro...

This book aims to provide the latest research findings, innovative research results, methods and development techniques from both theoretical and practical perspectives related to intelligent social networks and collaborative systems, intelligent networking systems, mobile collaborative systems, secure intelligent cloud systems, etc., as well as to reveal synergies among various paradigms in such a multi-disciplinary field intelligent collaborative systems.With the fast development...

This book aims to provide the latest research findings, innovative research results, methods, and development techniques from both theoretical and practical perspectives related to the emerging areas of information networking and their applications.The networks and information systems of today are evolving rapidly. There are new trends and applications in information networking such as wireless sensor networks, ad hoc networks, peer-to-peer systems, vehicular networks, opportunisti...

This book offers a broad overview of the concepts and research findings in immunometabolism. The immune system is made up of numerous different cell types, pathways, and components that must be able to respond rapidly to a pathogen or cancer, but must also remain quiescent in the absence of challenges. Immune cells rely on metabolic pathways to adapt to changing environments and stimuli. Additionally, these cells can be modified in function or fate by fluctuations in available nutrients.

This book focuses on crucial characterization methods adopted for materials, design, and performance of secondary batteries. The book is divided into eight chapters aiming to provide comprehensive and essential guidance on battery characterizations. Each chapter focuses on a specific technique: electron microscopy, focused ion beam methods, atomic force microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectra, neutron diffraction, synchrotron-radiation X-ray ...

Statistical Foundations of Data Science gives a thorough introduction to commonly used statistical models, contemporary statistical machine learning techniques and algorithms, along with their mathematical insights and statistical theories. It aims to serve as a graduate-level textbook and a research monograph on high-dimensional statistics, sparsity and covariance learning, machine learning, and statistical inference. It includes ample exercises that involve both theoreti...

This open access book invites readers to learn how to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms to perform their research in oceanography. Various examples are exhibited to guide details of how to feed the big ocean data into the AI models to analyze and achieve optimized results. The number of scholars engaged in AI oceanography research will increase exponentially in the next decade. Therefore, this book will serve as a benchmark providing insights for scholars and graduate s...

The two-volume set CCIS 2910 + 2911 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ChineseCSCW 2025, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2025.The 50 full papers and 13 short papers presented in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions.These papers were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: CSCW and Social Computing and Human-Machine-Things Fusion and H...

The two-volume set CCIS 2910 + 2911 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ChineseCSCW 2025, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2025.The 50 full papers and 13 short papers presented in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions.These papers were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: CSCW and Social Computing and Human-Machine-Things Fusion and H...

This book illustrates recent advances in developing sensitive and selective electrochemical biosensors for their whole blood application. Known to be a cutting-edge and fast-growing technology, electrochemical biosensors demonstrate their potential in laboratories, industries, and healthcare to achieve specific and direct target detection in complex media, and have become an emerging technology for guiding personalized medicine. The book first demonstrates methods and models to cover the d...

This book provides a panoramic view of the latest innovations and scholarly discourse in the dynamic and ever-evolving field of audiovisual translation (AVT), drawing on a diverse array of scholarly contributions. This book brings together the latest theoretical advances, practical strategies, and audience-centric insights, addressing the challenges posed by new technologies, global media consumption, and evolving professional landscapes. It is committed to creating a book that not only re...

The two-volume set CCIS 1712 and 1713 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st Asian Simulation Conference, AsiaSim 2022, which took place in Changsha, China, in January 2023. Due to the Covid pandemic AsiaSim 2022 has been postponed to January 2023.The 97 papers presented in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 218 submissions.The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Modeling theory and methodology; Continuous system/discrete eve...