This book examines the literature of Shiga Naoya, who is highly regarded in modern Japan for his unique style and methods of describing his personal experiences and emotions. Contributing new findings to the field of scholarship on Shiga, this study focuses in particular on Shiga’s nature-inspired writings and discusses how he created some vivid images of nature that became famous and still linger in Japanese people’s minds. Shiga’s remarkable sensitivity toward nature and the influences h...

This book examines new directions in home-school relations from an international perspective. Unlike other current literature that concentrates on traditional models of family-school partnerships in Western countries, it focuses on the contributions of immigrant and minority parents, especially those in Asia and South America. This book brings together international scholars who explore home-school relations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Mongolia, Sweden and ...

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, the process by which fringe areas of cities develop.Recent institutional change has helped clarify property rights over collective land, facilitating peri-urban area development. Chapters in this book explore how rural industrialization has changed the landscape and rules about land use in peri-urban areas. It looks at the role of rural in...

This book provides current state of the art along with an insight of recent research trends and open issues, challenges, and future research direction for the academician, analyzer, researcher, writers, and authors. It also provides an opportunity to exchange knowledge in the field of IoT-enabled smart systems, Industry 4.0, networking, cyber-physical system, computing paradigms, and security with various tools and methods used for industry-oriented intelligent-based IoT applications. This...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2021, which took place in Melbourne, Australia, in October 2021.The 16 full papers and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: COVID-19, EEG data processing, Medical Data Analysis, Medical Record Mining (I), Medical Data Mining (II), Medical Data Processing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop and Challenge on Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Spine Imaging, CSI 2015, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2015, in Munich, Germany, in October 2015. The 9 workshop papers and 6 challenge contributions were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. The papers cover all major aspects related to spine imaging.

This book describes breath signal processing technologies and their applications in medical sample classification and diagnosis. First, it provides a comprehensive introduction to breath signal acquisition methods, based on different kinds of chemical sensors, together with the optimized selection and fusion acquisition scheme. It then presents preprocessing techniques, such as drift removing and feature extraction methods, and uses case studies to explore the classification methods. Lastl...

The 19-volume set LNCS 16878 - 16896 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2026, which took place in Strasbourg, France, during September 27 – October 1, 2026.The 1167 full papers included in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 4601 submissions. The papers were organized in topical parts as follows:Part I, LNCS Volume 16878: Adapting Foun...

The 19-volume set LNCS 16878 - 16896 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2026, which took place in Strasbourg, France, during September 27 – October 1, 2026.The 1167 full papers included in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 4601 submissions. The papers were organized in topical parts as follows:Part I, LNCS Volume 16878: Adapting Foun...

The 19-volume set LNCS 16878 - 16896 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2026, which took place in Strasbourg, France, during September 27 – October 1, 2026.The 1167 full papers included in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 4601 submissions. The papers were organized in topical parts as follows:Part I, LNCS Volume 16878: Adapting Foun...

The 19-volume set LNCS 16878 - 16896 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2026, which took place in Strasbourg, France, during September 27 – October 1, 2026.The 1167 full papers included in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 4601 submissions. The papers were organized in topical parts as follows:Part I, LNCS Volume 16878: Adapting Foun...

Nanomaterials in Rocket Propulsion Systems covers the fundamentals of nanomaterials and examines a wide range of innovative applications, presenting the current state-of-the-art in the field. Opening with a chapter on nano-sized energetic materials, the book examines metal nanoparticles-based fuels, ballistic modifiers, stabilizers and catalysts as the components of rocket propellants. Hydrogen storage materials for rocket propulsion based on nanotubes are then discussed, as are nano-porou...