This book focuses on state-of-the-art sensing and automation technologies for field crops and in-house product production and provides a lot of innovative knowledge on image processing, AI algorithms and applications in agriculture, and robotics. This book provides undergraduate or graduate students with take-away knowledge for unmanned agricultural production, including but not limited to corn disease detection, wheat head detection and counting, and soil nutrient condition monitoring. Th...

This book systematically reviews the theoretical origins, methodological applications, and empirical studies of agricultural technological progress and productivity research since 1949. What is agricultural technological progress and productivity, and how is it measured? How has the contribution of agricultural technological progress in China changed since the founding of New China? What are the causes of agricultural technological progress in China? What are the problems of existing resea...

This book highlights the latest advances in the use of graphene and bio-compatible-material-decorated graphene to detect various targets (e.g. DNA, RNA, amino acids, peptides, proteins, enzymes, antigens, glucose, DA, AA, UA, ATP, NADH, gas, ions, etc.). It focuses on the specific interaction of these substances with graphene (or modified graphene) and the efficient transduction of the target recognition event into detectable signals via various techniques. Particular emphasis is given to ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, I3E 2026, held in Tampere, Finland, during September 15–17, 2026.The 31 full papers and 1 short paper included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: AI, Work, and Organizational Transformation; Human–AI Interaction, Agents, and Companions; Immersive Technologies and...

This anthology reviews the cooperation between scientists from Qingdao and scientists from Hamburg from the 1980s until about 2020. Initially, Professors Jürgen Sündermann (Hamburg University) and Wen Shengchang (Ocean University of China) were the primary drivers of this relationship, laying the groundwork for understanding the dynamics of China's marginal seas, and investigating how to build and run hydrodynamical models of the Bohai and Yellow Seas. Since 2010, this relationship has bee...

This book describes and discusses a practice-oriented approach to understanding and researching interprofessional simulation-based education and simulation. It provides empirical findings from research on this topic and is informed by practice-oriented perspectives. It identifies critical features of the simulation practice and discusses how these can be used in reforming simulation pedagogy.The book is divided into three sections. Section 1 sets the scene for understanding the pra...

The rapid evolution of 6G networks demands communication systems that go beyond data transmission toward intelligent understanding. Semantic communication (SemCom) represents a paradigm shift from transmitting bits to transmitting meaning. By integrating artificial intelligence, knowledge graphs, and reasoning capabilities, cognitive SemCom further enables networks to infer, interpret, and deliver only task-relevant information, thereby achieving higher efficiency, robustness, and explaina...

This book provides essential information on emergency management. It is composed of two parts, addressing the basic theory and related methods of emergency management, including risk management, coordination management, crisis management and disaster management. By putting the emphasis on interdisciplinary, systematic perspectives and building a bridge between basic knowledge and further research, it is well suited as an emergency management textbook and offers a valuable guide to prepare ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, ADHOCNETS 2019, held in Queenstown, New Zealand, in November 2019. The 28 full papers were selected from 64 submissions and cover a variety of network paradigms including mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, vehicular networks, underwater networks, airborne networks, underground networks, personal area networks, device-to-device (D2D) communications in 5G cellular networks, and home ...

This book introduces the core framework of Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering—an emerging STEM discipline that integrates mechanical engineering, operations research, and AI. It defines the field through three key pillars: relationships as its essence, Deep Operations Research as its logic, and a new guidelines as its outcome.As the first monograph on Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering, the book offers intuitive logic, concise algorithms, and accessible mathematical reasoning...

This book gathers invited top experts on Public-Private partnership (PPP) in China, from both theoretical and practical fields, to present the most comprehensive analyses of PPP’s practice in China up to 2017. This timely book offers researchers and practitioners a thorough understanding of the PPP’s development in China, including its definition, its modes, its features as well as its many kinds of applications into different industries including medical care, environmental protection, ed...

This is an open access book. Covering both theories and practices in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) teacher development, this book provides up-to-date discussions and recommendations on issues relating to TVET teacher development in the digital age. It caters for the needs of in-service teachers and trainers, as well as TVET leaders who want to upscale their professional learning and development in terms of vision, knowledge, expertise, and industry skills needed in the...